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cs.NI2015★ 48 cited

Modelling and Verifying the AODV Routing Protocol

Rob van Glabbeek, Peter Höfner, Marius Portmann +1

This paper presents a formal specification of the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol using AWN (Algebra for Wireless Networks), a recent process algebra which…

cs.NI2015★ 53 cited

Automated Analysis of AODV using UPPAAL

Ansgar Fehnker, Rob van Glabbeek, Peter Höfner +3

This paper describes an automated, formal and rigorous analysis of the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, a popular protocol used in wireless mesh networks.…

cs.LO2015★ 77 cited

A Process Algebra for Wireless Mesh Networks

Ansgar Fehnker, Rob van Glabbeek, Peter Höfner +3

We propose a process algebra for wireless mesh networks that combines novel treatments of local broadcast, conditional unicast and data structures. In this framework, we model the…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 35 cited

The Pan-Pacific Planet Search. IV. Two super-Jupiters in a 3:5 resonance orbiting the giant star HD33844

Robert A. Wittenmyer, John Asher Johnson, R. P. Butler +9

We report the discovery of two giant planets orbiting the K giant HD 33844 based on radial velocity data from three independent campaigns. The planets move on nearly circular orbit…

cs.NI2015★ 4 cited

Modelling and Analysis of AODV in UPPAAL

Ansgar Fehnker, Rob van Glabbeek, Peter Höfner +3

This paper describes work in progress towards an automated formal and rigorous analysis of the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, a popular protocol used in…

cs.IT2015★ 161 cited

Secrecy Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Challenges and Opportunities

Xiaoming Chen, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) enables more sustainable and resilient communications owing to the fact that it avoids frequent battery charging and replacement. How…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 34 cited

Planck cold clumps in the Orionis complex: I. Discovery of an extremely young Class 0 protostellar object and a proto-brown dwarf candidate in a bright rimmed clump PGCC G192.32-11.88

Tie Liu, Qizhou Zhang, Kee-Tae Kim +37

We are performing a series of observations with ground-based telescopes toward Planck Galactic cold clumps (PGCCs) in the Orionis complex in order to systematically investigate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 126 cited

A multiferroic on the brink: uncovering the nuances of strain-induced transitions in BiFeO

Daniel Sando, Bin Xu, Laurent Bellaiche +1

Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO) is one of the very few known single-phase multiferroic materials. While the bulk compound is rhombohedral (R), the discovery of an epitaxial strain-indu…

cs.SI2015★ 18 cited

Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia

Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie, Tiberio Caetano +1

The cumulative effect of collective online participation has an important and adverse impact on individual privacy. As an online system evolves over time, new digital traces of ind…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 45 cited

Three planets orbiting Wolf 1061

D. J. Wright, R. A. Wittenmyer, C. G. Tinney +2

We use archival HARPS spectra to detect three planets orbiting the M3 dwarf Wolf1061 (GJ 628). We detect a 1.36 Mearth minimum-mass planet with an orbital period P = 4.888d (Wolf10…

quant-ph2015★ 23 cited

The Quantum Car

Robert Malaney

I explore the use of quantum information as a security enabler for the future driverless vehicle. Specifically, I investigate the role combined classical and quantum information ca…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 43 cited

Two New Long-Period Giant Planets from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search and Two Stars with Long-Period Radial Velocity Signals Related to Stellar Activity Cycles

Michael Endl, Erik J. Brugamyer, William D. Cochran +16

We report the detection of two new long-period giant planets orbiting the stars HD 95872 and HD 162004 (psi1 Draconis B) by the McDonald Observatory planet search. The planet HD 95…

eess.SY2015★ 4 cited

Cooperative Estimation for Synchronization of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems Using Relative Information

Jingbo Wu, Valery Ugrinovskii, Frank Allgöwer

In this paper, we present a distributed estimation setup where local agents estimate their states from relative measurements received from their neighbours. In the case of heteroge…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 3 cited

An improved model of an actively contracting lymphatic vessel composed of several lymphangions: pumping characteristics

C. D. Bertram, C. Macaskill, J. E. Moore

Using essentially our 2011 numerical model of a multi-lymphangion segment of a collecting lymphatic vessel, but augmented by inclusion of a refractory period and definition of a mi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 22 cited

Unusual shock-excited OH maser emission in a young Planetary Nebula

Hai-Hua Qiao, Andrew J. Walsh, Jose F. Gomez +9

We report on OH maser emission toward G336.644-0.695 (IRAS 16333-4807), which is a H2O maser-emitting Planetary Nebula (PN). We have detected 1612, 1667 and 1720 MHz OH masers at t…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 23 cited

Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448

Radosław Poleski, Wei Zhu, Grant W. Christie +83

The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was int…

cs.CY2015★ 1 cited

Unveiling Contextual Similarity of Things via Mining Human-Thing Interactions in the Internet of Things

Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu +2

With recent advances in radio-frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensor networks, and Web services, physical things are becoming an integral part of the emerging ubiquitous…

math.NA2015★ 1 cited

Needlet approximation for isotropic random fields on the sphere

Quoc T. Le Gia, Ian H. Sloan, Yu Guang Wang +1

In this paper we establish a multiscale approximation for random fields on the sphere using spherical needlets --- a class of spherical wavelets. We prove that the semidiscrete nee…

math-ph2015★ 16 cited

Dynamics for QCD on an infinite lattice

Hendrik Grundling, Gerd Rudolph

We prove the existence of the dynamics automorphism group for Hamiltonian QCD on an infinite lattice in R^3, and this is done in a C*-algebraic context. The existence of ground sta…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 24 cited

The far-infrared behaviour of Herbig Ae/Be discs: Herschel PACS photometry

N. Pascual, B. Montesinos, G. Meeus +3

Herbig Ae/Be objects are pre-main sequence stars surrounded by gas- and dust-rich circumstellar discs. These objects are in the throes of star and planet formation, and their chara…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 47 cited

The Carina Nebula and Gum 31 molecular complex: I. Molecular gas distribution, column densities and dust temperatures

David Rebolledo, Michael Burton, Anne Green +6

We report high resolution observations of the CO and CO molecular lines in the Carina Nebula and the Gum 31 region obtained with the…

cs.IT2015

Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Wireless Powered Communication Networks

Qingqing Wu, Meixia Tao, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng +2

This paper considers a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple users harvest energy from a dedicated power station and then communicate with an information re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 26 cited

Do micromagnets expose spin qubits to charge and Johnson noise?

Allen Kha, Robert Joynt, Dimitrie Culcer

An ideal quantum dot spin qubit architecture requires a local magnetic field for one-qubit rotations. Such an inhomogeneous magnetic field, which could be implemented via a microma…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 24 cited

Physical properties of the planetary systems WASP-45 and WASP-46 from simultaneous multi-band photometry

S. Ciceri, L. Mancini, J. Southworth +45

Accurate measurements of the physical characteristics of a large number of exoplanets are useful to strongly constrain theoretical models of planet formation and evolution, which l…