Improving TCP Performance over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using an Adaptive Backoff Response Approach Tamer F. Ghanem‚ Wail S. Elkilani‚ Mohiy M. Hadhoud Department of Information Technology‚ Faculty of Computers and Information‚ Minufya University tamerfg@hotmail.com‚ welkilani @gawab.com‚ mmhadhoud@yahoo.com Abstract- Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) suffers decreasing both the congestion window (CWND) and slow start threshold (SSThr). Then it retransmits the first unacknowledged packet and
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I introduce myself and accept the training manual she offers. The organization is a university‚ and the programme I’m being trained on‚ CROSSFIRE‚ is the main student database. Nicola explains [loudly] that she will log me in and ‘we’ll go from there’. I wonder whether her heightened volume is due to nerves. Having organised two chairs I’m somewhat dismayed when she takes the driver’s seat. “But I need to know how to log on
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I’m going to have sex with the statue of John Harvard.” The speech was funny and the crowd laughed but Nicolas Cage having sex with the statue of John Harvard has absolutely nothing to do with the next step in these students lives. A commencement speech is supposed to be a bit humorous in order to attract the attention of the audience but also the speaker
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understanding‚ using‚ and reflecting on written texts‚ in order to achieve one’s goals‚ to develop one’s knowledge and potential‚ and to participate in society. Reading literacy is currently being studied by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) which is an internationally standardised assessment tool that was developed by the OECD and given to 15-year-olds in schools. Now that this study has been carried out‚ have the results been satisfactory? But‚ the most important question is: What is
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materials can now be replaced by a single 3D printer. 3D printers are mainly used for small repair parts such as screws and nuts‚ however‚ there seems to be no limit when it comes to the size of the print. Italian inventor and engineer Enrico Dini of Pisa developed a 3D printer called ’D-Shape‘ with which he printed an entire house within a week. His next printing job: a moon base. Printing in three-dimensional space will revolu- tionise the process of production‚ according to Neil Gershenfeld‚ Head
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The crusades had a wide range of impacts on international society‚ during and after the wars. These impacts can be categorised as effects on; the Catholic church‚ politics‚ intellectual and material development‚ economy‚ feudalism‚ and also the territories under the constant changing of hands. The crusades contributed to the thriving of the churches economy. As such the power of the Pope and his church increased which in event naturally fostered the authority and influence of the Popes by providing
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older members at Hickory Chapel Missionary Baptist Church that died on the twenty-first of this month. This was my first time conducting a funeral. I was given instructions and coached through the service. The Pastor/Mentor observed how I embraced the pulpit and followed the instructions provided by the family of the deceased. I also had to perform the graveside committal and benediction. The Mentor prayed. Afterward‚ I was led to go to the family and embrace them and give short encouraging words along
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Write a literature review on the relationship between inequality and a social problem. This essay is going to give an overview of the book The Spirit Level (Wilkinson and Pickett) outline the arguments and main findings as well as critically analysing the sources and methods used. With using one specific chapter from the book‚ (mental health) this essay will again identify and analyse the findings and methods of research used comparing other sources of research and the reliability of the findings
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Abraham Lincoln‚ George Washington‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ and Thomas Jefferson. If I were to reconstruct Mt. Rushmore with faces of my choosing‚ I would choose to put 4 of my favorite people in the whole world: Nicolas Cage‚ Ryan Seacrest‚ Ivan Doroschuk‚ and Alana “Honey Boo-Boo” Thompson. Nicolas Cage is one of my role models because he is a severely underappreciated actor. His talent levels are off the charts‚ yet people just can’t seem to recognize his unbelievable skills as both an actor‚ and as
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that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos‚ you gave as good as you got. And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him/her that all the photons that ever bounced off your face‚ all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile‚ by the touch of your hair‚ hundreds of trillions of particles
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