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The Muslim Identity and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Kashmir -
This paper examines the role of religion in the formation and assertion of political identity in Kashmir. The issue has been highlighted by the rise of Islamic militancy in the 1990s. Four aspects are examined: the meaning of Islam for the people of Kashmir; the role of Islam in the formation of Kashmiri political identity; the secularization of this political identity; and the implications for the politics of fundamentalism. The paper concludes that despite the sharpening of their Muslim identity, the logic of Kashmiri politics continues to be governed by the demand for autonomy - a question which remains largely non-communal. The basic issue for the people still remains the right of the political community to determine its own political future.
SDN based Network Function Parallelism in Cloud
Network function virtualization (NFV) based service function chaining (SFC)
allows the provisioning of various security and traffic engineering
applications in a cloud network. Inefficient deployment of network functions
can lead to security violations and performance overhead. In an OpenFlow
enabled cloud, the key problem with current mechanisms is that several packet
field match and flow rule action sets associated with the network functions are
non-overlapping and can be parallelized for performance enhancement. We
introduce Network Function Parallelism (NFP) SFC-NFP for OpenFlow network. Our
solution utilizes network function parallelism over the OpenFlow rules to
improve SFC performance in the cloud network. We have utilized the DPDK
platform with an OpenFlow switch (OVS) for experimental analysis. Our solution
achieves a 1.40-1.90x reduction in latency for SFC in an OpenStack cloud
network managed by the SDN framework.Comment: 5 page
Resistivity noise in crystalline magnetic nanowires and its implications to domain formation and kinetics
We have investigated the time-dependent fluctuations in electrical
resistance, or noise, in high quality crystalline magnetic nanowires within
nanoporous templates. The noise increases exponentially with increasing
temperature and magnetic field, and has been analyzed in terms of domain wall
depinning within the Neel-Brown framework. The frequency-dependence of noise
also indicates a crossover from nondiffusive kinetics to long-range diffusion
at higher temperatures, as well as a strong collective depinning, which need to
be considered when implementing these nanowires in magnetoelectronic devices.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
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