Naval Air Station Lemoore (Operations): network infrastructure documentation and recommendations

This thesis is a consolidated documentation of Naval Air Station Lemoore's (Operations) networking infrastructure. Altennatives regarding the age of the equipment in use at NAS Lemoore and considerations that may be given to reorganizing the acquisition, accounting, and maintenance of its information technology are also provided. The findings of this thesis are the result of literature review, user interviews, process evaluations and observations, and unitinghttp://archive.org/details/navalairstationl1094531487NANAU.S. Navy (U.S.N.) author

Technological innovation and change in the university

It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, difficulties arise when one attempts to proceed from the mere declaration to actually planning activities and putting them into effect. This research, the result of collaboration between teachers and researchers of the Educational Science and Engineering Faculties of the University of Florence, focuses on certain theoretical concepts and reference apparatus, bringing international literature to bear on the specific case of Italy

Technological innovation and change in the university

It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, difficulties arise when one attempts to proceed from the mere declaration to actually planning activities and putting them into effect. This research, the result of collaboration between teachers and researchers of the Educational Science and Engineering Faculties of the University of Florence, focuses on certain theoretical concepts and reference apparatus, bringing international literature to bear on the specific case of Italy. [english version]It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, difficulties arise when one attempts to proceed from the mere declaration to actually planning activities and putting them into effect. This research, the result of collaboration between teachers and researchers of the Educational Science and Engineering Faculties of the University of Florence, focuses on certain theoretical concepts and reference apparatus, bringing international literature to bear on the specific case of Italy. [english version

Millipyde: A Cross-Platform Python Framework for Transparent GPU Acceleration

The prevalence of general-purpose GPU computing continues to grow and tackle a wider variety of problems that benefit from GPU-acceleration. This acceleration often suffers from a high barrier to entry, however, due to the complexity of software tools that closely map to the underlying GPU hardware, the fast-changing landscape of GPU environments, and the fragmentation of tools and languages that only support specific platforms. Because of this, new solutions will continue to be needed to make GPGPU acceleration more accessible to the developers that can benefit from it. AMD’s new cross-platform development ecosystem ROCm provides promise for developing applications and solutions that work across systems running both AMD and non-AMD GPU computing hardware. This thesis presents Millipyde, a framework for GPU acceleration in Python using AMD’s ROCm. Millipyde includes two new types, the gpuarray and gpuimage, as well as three new constructs for building GPU-accelerated applications – the Operation, Pipeline, and Generator. Using these tools, Millipyde hopes to make it easier for engineers and researchers to write GPU-accelerated code in Python. Millipyde also has the potential to schedule work across many GPUs in complex multi-device environments. These capabilities will be demonstrated in a sample application of augmenting images on-device for machine learning applications. Our results showed that Millipyde is capable of making individual image-related transformations up to around 200 times faster than their CPU-only equivalents. Constructs such as the Millipyde’s Pipeline was also able to additionally improve performance in certain situations, and it performed best when it was allowed to transparently schedule work across multiple devices

Internet-based collaborative geographic information system

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-131).by Nadine Sami Alameh.M.S.M.C.P

Envisioning the "Sharing City": Governance Strategies for the Sharing Economy

Recent developments around the sharing economy bring to the fore questions of governability and broader societal Benefit - and subsequently the need to explore effective means of public governance, from nurturing, on the one hand, to restriction, on the other. As sharing is a predominately urban phenomenon in modern societies, cities around the globe have become both locus of action and central actor in the debates over the nature and organization of the sharing economy. However, cities vary substantially in the interpretation of potential opportunities and challenges, as well as in their governance responses. Building on a qualitative comparative analysis of 16 leading global cities, our findings reveal four framings of the sharing economy: "societal endangerment", "societal enhancement", "market disruption", and "ecological Transition". Such framings go hand in hand with patterned governance responses: although there is considerable heterogeneity in the combination of public governance strategies, we find specific configurations of framings and public governance strategies. Our work reflects the political and ethical debates on various economic, social, and moral issues related to the sharing economy, and contrib-utes to a better understanding of the field-level institutional Arrangements-a prerequisite for examining moral behavior of sharing economy organizations

End-to-end mobility for the internet using ILNP

This work was partially funded by the Government of Thailand through a PhD scholarship for Dr Phoomikiattisak.As the use of mobile devices and methods of wireless connectivity continue to increase, seamless mobility becomes more desirable and important. The current IETF Mobile IP standard relies on additional network entities for mobility management, can have poor performance, and has seen little deployment in real networks. We present a host-based mobility solution with a true end-to-end architecture using the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP). We show how the TCP code in the Linux kernel can be extended allowing legacy TCP applications that use the standard C sockets API to operate over ILNP without requiring changes or recompilation. Our direct testbed performance comparison shows that ILNP provides better host mobility support than Mobile IPv6 in terms of session continuity, packet loss, and handoff delay for TCP.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Gestão de ligações baseada em IEEE 802.21

Mestrado em Engenharia de Computadores e TelemáticaAvanços recentes nas telecomunicações conduziram a uma combinação de várias interfaces de acesso à rede num único dispositivo. Os programas de gestão de ligações atuais lidam com as diferentes tecnologias individualmente, e baseiam a seleção da rede de acesso em parâmetros tais como a potência de sinal, ou taxa de transmissão máxima. Nem sempre estes mecanismos refletem a performance real de uma rede, levando a uma experiência de acesso fraca. Neste trabalho é implementada uma framework de gestão de ligações inovadora, baseada na norma IEEE 802.21. Esta norma disponibiliza mecanismos que facilitam e otimizam handovers entre diferentes tecnologias e a seleção de ligações através da troca de informações entre as entidades da rede e o terminal, incluindo informação de QoS, desempenho ou outras características. Além disso, a norma permite a gestão de dispositivos independentemente da tecnologia, através de uma interface uniformizada ao nível da camada de ligação de dados. Em virtude da extensão desta interface com mecanismos multi-camada, a nova framework possibilita a configuração asbtrata das interfaces de rede, incluindo a associação, configurações de segurança e endereçamento IP. O acesso a informação da rede capacita ainda os gestores de ligações para a realização de melhores decisões, tendo em conta o estado da rede e os requisitos das aplicações do terminal. Esta framework é integrada com as ferramentas e applets de configuração de rede do sistema operativo GNU/Linux, através da substituição transparente da aplicação NetworkManager. Em comparação, a nova framework apresenta overhead insignificante, uma quantidade de código inferior e melhor consumo de bateria, além de mecanismos otimizados para ligação oportunística.Recent advances in telecommunications have lead to the combination of various network access interfaces in a single device. Current network management software handles different technologies individually, and base connection decisions on parameters such as signal strength, or maximum throughput. Often, these network attributes do not reflect the real network perfomance, leading to poor network experience. In this work, a novel network management framework is implemented, based on the IEEE 802.21 standard. This standard provides mechanisms to facilitate and optimize inter-technology handovers and network selection through information exchanges between network and terminal entities, including QoS and other network capability and performance information. Moreover, it enables media independent device management via a common link layer interface. By extending this interface with cross-layer mechanisms, the new framework allows abstract configuration of the network interfaces, including network association, security setup procedures and IP address configuration. The access to network information will additionally empower network managers to perform better decisions that take network state and terminal application requirements into account. This framework is integrated with the existing configuration tools and applets from the GNU/Linux Operating System, by seamlessly replacing the existing NetworkManager application. In doing so, the new framework shows insignificant overhead, a reduced code base and better battery consumption, on top of optimized procedures for opportunistic network attachment

An Investigation of the Appropriateness of Computer-Based Instruction to the Royal Australian Air Force CISCON Mustering

Currently, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) uses traditional methods of training for all of its personnel, including the newly formed Communications and Information Systems Controllers (CISCON) mustering. The formation of this mustering and the concurrent formation on every RAAF base of a Base Information Systems Centre (BISC) brought to light training needs that were not being met. Using many different forms of stimulation to activate learning, computer-based instruction (CBI), in particular multimedia, represents an alternative method of presenting training.This research investigated the applicability of CBI to the RAAF by matching its features with the training needs of the CISCONs and demonstrated the application of multimedia design principles to a specific CISCON course. An analysis of BISC training needs suggested that CBI will operate as effectively as it has in similar studies thoroughly documented in the literature. This thesis has also demonstrated in a practical way the importance of considering the many multimedia design principles when designing CBI using an existing training course. This thesis directly supports the use of CBI to train CISCON working at the BISCs and further suggests that the RAAF should consider CBI for all of its future training