Carnal encounters and producing socialist Yugoslavia: voluntary youth labour actions on the newsreel screen

This article explores the role that the newsreel genre played in the production of socialist Yugoslav territory, understood as reshaping the body of the socius. We analyse news reports concerning voluntary youth labour actions, which were one of the most important features of Yugoslav socialist society and which featured heavily in Yugoslav official newsreels. We argue that the newsreel provided a specific liminal space in between the ‘real’/non-cinematic and ‘screened’/cinematic experience, where we locate occurrences of carnal encounters between the body on the cinematic screen and the body of the audience. In this regard, we discuss two characteristic types of frame which were present in the newsreel reports on labour actions: the somatic frame and the machinic-labour frame

Self-organizing home networking based on cognitive radio

The increasing complexity of the future wireless networks leads to the requirement for self-organization. This is true especially in home networking where users are typically not networking professionals and cannot be expected to perform complex optimization and management tasks. In this context, cognitive radio concept combining cross-layer optimization and learning mechanisms is a promising solution. We demonstrate a cognitive home networking prototype, which addresses practical problems users face with the present-day wireless networks at home. The prototype shows how nodes using IEEE 802.11 radios and WARP boards operate under the Cognitive Resource Manager (CRM). The nodes achieve the desired performance by handling network dynamics and controlling parameters taking independent or cooperative decisions and operating in different layers of the protocol stack. This is done using multiple control loops which are supported by the CRM architecture. We demonstrate the use of machine learning for online estimation of network activity patterns to enable more efficient Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) using Hidden Semi-Markov Models (HSMM). The demonstration showcases dynamic spectrum allocation and policy-based behavioral changes in a home environment, where several multimedia streams and data communication flows are competing against each other and against external, also primary, interferers