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Traffic at the Edge of Chaos
We use a very simple description of human driving behavior to simulate
traffic. The regime of maximum vehicle flow in a closed system shows
near-critical behavior, and as a result a sharp decrease of the predictability
of travel time. Since Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMSs) tend to drive
larger parts of the transportation system towards this regime of maximum flow,
we argue that in consequence the traffic system as a whole will be driven
closer to criticality, thus making predictions much harder. A simulation of a
simplified transportation network supports our argument.Comment: Postscript version including most of the figures available from
http://studguppy.tsasa.lanl.gov/research_team/. Paper has been published in
Brooks RA, Maes P, Artifical Life IV: ..., MIT Press, 199
Improving Mobile Video Streaming with Mobility Prediction and Prefetching in Integrated Cellular-WiFi Networks
We present and evaluate a procedure that utilizes mobility and throughput
prediction to prefetch video streaming data in integrated cellular and WiFi
networks. The effective integration of such heterogeneous wireless technologies
will be significant for supporting high performance and energy efficient video
streaming in ubiquitous networking environments. Our evaluation is based on
trace-driven simulation considering empirical measurements and shows how
various system parameters influence the performance, in terms of the number of
paused video frames and the energy consumption; these parameters include the
number of video streams, the mobile, WiFi, and ADSL backhaul throughput, and
the number of WiFi hotspots. Also, we assess the procedure's robustness to time
and throughput variability. Finally, we present our initial prototype that
implements the proposed approach.Comment: 7 pages, 15 figure
Predicting Fraud in Mobile Phone Usage Using Artificial Neural Networks
Mobile phone usage involves the use of wireless communication devices that can be carried
anywhere, as they require no physical connection to any external wires to work. However, mobile
technology is not without its own problems. Fraud is prevalent in both fixed and mobile networks of all
technologies. Frauds have plagued the telecommunication industries, financial institutions and other
organizations for a long time. The aim of this research work and research publication is to apply 3
different neural network models (Fuzzy, Radial Basis and the Feedforward) to the prediction of fraud in
real-life data of phone usage and also analyze and evaluate their performances with respect to their
predicting capability. From the analysis and model predictability experiment carried out in this scientific
research work, it was discovered that the fuzzy network model had the minimum error generated in its
fraud predicting capability. Thus, its performance in terms of the error generated in this fraud prediction
experiment showed that its NMSE (Normalized mean squared error) for the fraud predicted was
1.98264609. The mean absolute error (M AE = 15.00987244) for its fraud prediction was also the least;
this showed that the fuzzy model fraud predictability was much better than the other two models
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