Do Sensor Networks need Mobile MAC Protocols?

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Efficient Mobile Data Collection with Mobile Collect

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FACTEUR GYROMAGNÉTIQUE DE L'ÉTAT 12+ DES ISOTOPES DE PLOMB DE MASSE 198, 196 ET 194

Un état isomérique 12+, interprété comme un état à deux quasi-particules (νi 13/2)-2, a été mis en évidence dans les isotopes de plomb déficients en neutrons. Il possède une période de quelques centaines de ns, qui se prête à la mesure du moment magnétique par la méthode des distributions angulaires différentielles perturbées (TDPAD). Ces mesures ont été réalisées, afin de confirmer la configuration de l'état et d'étudier l'effet du nombre de nucléons sur les phénomènes de polarisation du coeur. Le tableau indique les valeurs expérimentales du facteur g et de la période du niveau 12+ des isotopes de masse A = 198, 196, 194. Une analyse multidimensionnelle des informations (Eγ, t) permet d'étudier simultanément ces trois noyaux, formés par la réaction naturelle W(16O, 4n)Pb. Les facteurs g sont reportés sur la figure, ainsi que les valeurs obtenues par ailleurs pour l'état 12+ du 206Pb [1], 200Pb [2] et l'état 13+/2 du 205Pb [3]. [MATH]. La constance de g en fonction de A suggère que les effets observés dans le 206Pb se retrouvent dans les isotopes plus légers, et notamment que la configuration (νi 13/2)-2 demeure largement dominante. L'écart notable à la valeur de Schmidt (g = - 0,294) peut s'expliquer par un important effet de polarisation du coeur. Un calcul, utilisant le formalisme de Arima et Horie, et une interaction résiduelle delta de surface (SDI) sont effectués pour rendre compte de ces résultats

Status of the REX-ISOLDE project

The radioactive beam experiment REX-ISOLDE, a pilot experiment testing a new concept of post acceleration of radioactive ions at ISOLDE/CERN is in progress. Singly charged radioactive ions delivered by the online mass separator ISOLDE are accumulated in a Penning trap (REX trap), charge bred in an electron beam ion source (EBIS), separated from the residual gas in a mass separator and then accelerated in a linac with output energies between 0.8 and 2.2 MeV /u. The REX trap is in operation, a first test beam was already injected. The design phase of the EBIS is finished and the construction has been started. The superconducting magnet is delivered. The linac consists of a radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator, an interdigital IH-structure and 3 seven gap resonators to vary the final energy. (12 refs)

REX-ISOLDE: post-accelerated radioactive BEAMS at CERN-ISOLDE

The ISOLDE RIB-facility at CERN has today been producing a vast range of radioactive beams since more than 30 years. The low-energy beams of ISOLDE will be complemented by a post-accelerator, REX-ISOLDE, currently being assembled. In order to convert the pseudo-DC, singly-charged beam from the ISOLDE mass separators into a cooled and bunched beam at higher charge states a novel scheme of trapping, cooling and charge-state breeding has been devised, using a linear Penning trap and an Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS). This allows for subsequent acceleration by a short, cost-effective LINAC consisting of an RFQ, an IH-structure and three seven-gap resonators, reaching 0.8 - 2.2 MeV/u. The installation of REX-ISOLDE is well underway and the first post-accelerated radioactive beams are expected to be obtained during late 2000

Tools and methods for evaluation of overlay networks

Overlay networks is a popular method to deploy new functionality which does not currently exist in the Internet. Such networks often use the peer-to-peer principle where users are both servers as well as clients at the same time. We evaluate how overlay networks performs in a mix of strong and weak peers. The overlay system of study in this thesis is Bamboo, which is based on a distributed hash table (DHT). For the performance evaluation we use both simulations in NS-2 and emulations in the testbed PlanetLab. One of our contributions is an NS-2 implementation of the Bamboo DHT. To simulate nodes joining and leaving, NS-2 is modified to be aware of the identity of overlay nodes. To control experiments on PlanetLab we designed Vendetta. Vendetta is both a tool to visualize network events and a tool to control the individual peer-to-peer nodes on the physical machines. PlanetLab does not support bandwidth limitations which is needed to emulate weak nodes. Therefore we designed a lightweight connectivity tool called Dtour. Both the NS-2 and PlanetLab experiments indicate that a system like Bamboo can handle as much as 50% weak nodes and still serve requests. Although, the lookup latency and the number of successful lookups suffer with the increased network dynamics