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Papers by Junaid Khan
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems
An accurate model of building interiors with detailed annotations is critical to protecting the f... more An accurate model of building interiors with detailed annotations is critical to protecting the first responders' safety and building occupants during emergency operations. In collaboration with the City of Memphis, we collected extensive LiDAR and image data for the city's buildings. We apply machine learning techniques to detect and classify objects of interest for first responders and create a comprehensive 3D indoor space database with annotated safety-related objects. This paper documents the challenges we encountered in data collection and processing, and it presents a complete 3D mapping and labeling system for the environments inside and adjacent to buildings. Moreover, we use a case study to illustrate our process and show preliminary evaluation results.
The theory of “subalgebra basis” analogous to standard basis (the generalization of Gröbner bases... more The theory of “subalgebra basis” analogous to standard basis (the generalization of Gröbner bases to monomial ordering which are not necessarily well ordering [1].) for ideals in polynomial rings over a field is developed. We call these bases “SASBI Basis” for “Subalgebra Analogue to Standard Basis for Ideals”. The case of global orderings, here they are called “SAGBI Basis” for “Subalgebra Analogue to Gröbner Basis for Ideals”, is treated in [6]. Sasbi bases may be infinite. In this paper we consider subalgebras admitting a finite Sasbi basis and give algorithms to compute them. The algorithms have been implemented as a library for the computer algebra system SINGULAR [2].
VLSI Standard Cell Placement is a hard optimization prob-lem, which is further complicated with n... more VLSI Standard Cell Placement is a hard optimization prob-lem, which is further complicated with new issues such as power dissipation and performance. In this work, a fast hybrid algorithm is designed to address this problem. The algorithm employs Simulated Evolution (SE), an iterative search heuristic that comprises three steps: evaluation, se-lection and allocation. Solution quality is a strong function of the allocation procedure which is both time consuming and difficult. In this work a force directed approach in the allocation step of SE is used to both accelerate and improve the solution quality. Due to the imprecise nature of design information at the placement stage, objectives to be opti-mized are expressed in the fuzzy domain. The search evolves towards a vector of fuzzy goals. The proposed heuristic is compared with a previously presented SE approach. It ex-hibits significant improvement in terms of runtime for the same quality of solution. 1.
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AIMS Mathematics
In this paper, we develop a theory for Standard bases of $ K −subalgebrasin-subalgebras in −subalgebrasin K[[t_{1}, t_{2}, ... more In this paper, we develop a theory for Standard bases of $ K −subalgebrasin-subalgebras in −subalgebrasin K[[t_{1}, t_{2}, \ldots, t_{m}]] [x_{1}, x_{2}, ..., x_{n}] $ over a field $ K $ with respect to a monomial ordering which is local on $ t $ variables and we call them Subalgebra Standard bases. We give an algorithm to compute subalgebra homogeneous normal form and an algorithm to compute weak subalgebra normal form which we use to develop an algorithm to construct Subalgebra Standard bases. Throughout this paper, we assume that subalgebras are finitely generated.
2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to p... more Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to provide storage and communication. At the edge, nodes can connect with each other directly to get content locally whenever possible. As the topology of the network directly influences the nodes' connectivity, there has been some work to compute the graph centrality of each node within the topology of the edge network. The centrality is then used to distinguish nodes at the edge of the network. We argue that, for a network with caches, graph centrality is not an appropriate metric. Indeed, a node with low connectivity (and thereby low centrality) that caches a lot of content may provide a very valuable role in the network. To capture this, we introduce a popularity-weighted contentbased centrality (P-CBC) metric which takes into account how well a node is connected to the content the network is delivering, rather than to the other nodes in the network. To illustrate the validity of considering content-based centrality, we use this new metric for a collaborative caching algorithm. We compare the performance of the proposed collaborative caching with typical centrality based, non-centrality based, and non-collaborative caching mechanisms. Our simulation implements P-CBC on three random instances of large scale realistic network topology comprising 2, 896 nodes with three content replication levels. Results shows that P-CBC outperforms benchmark caching schemes and yields a roughly 3x improvement for the average cache hit rate. Index Terms-Information/Content Centric Networking, Content Caching, Fog Networking, Content Offload.
IEEE Access
Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the... more Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the overall project cost and budget overhead. Thus, there is a need to amplify the existing model in GSD context to reduce the risks associated with cost overhead. Motivated by this, the current work aims at amplifying the existing algorithmic model with GSD cost drivers to get efficient estimates in the context of GSD. To achieve the targeted research objective, current state-of-the-art cost estimation techniques and GSD models are reported. Furthermore, the current study has proposed a conceptual framework to amplify the algorithmic COCOMO-II model in the GSD domain to accommodate additional cost drivers empirically validated by a systematic review and industrial practitioners. The main phases of amplification include identifying cost drivers, categorizing cost drivers, forming metrics, assignment of values, and finally altering the base model equation. Moreover, the proposed conceptual model's effectiveness is validated through expert judgment, case studies, and Magnitude of Relative Estimates (MRE). The obtained estimates are efficient, quantified, and cover additional GSD aspects than the existing models; hence we could overcome the GSD project's overall risk by implementing the model. Finally, the results indicate that the model needs further calibration and validation. INDEX TERMS Global software development, cost estimation, COCOMO-II, cost overhead.
IEEE Access
Software organization always aims at developing a quality software product using the estimated de... more Software organization always aims at developing a quality software product using the estimated development resources, effort, and time. Global Software Development (GSD) has emerged as an essential tool to ensure optimal utilization of resources, which is performed in globally distributed settings in various geographical locations. Global software engineering focuses on reducing the cost, increasing the development speed, and accessing skilled developers worldwide. Estimating the required amount of resources and effort in the distributed development environment remains a challenging task. Thus, there is a need to focus on cost estimation models in the GSD context. We nevertheless acknowledge that several cost estimation techniques have been reported. However, to the best of our knowledge, the existing cost estimation techniques/models lack considering the additional cost drivers required to compute the accurate cost estimation in the GSD context. Motivated by this, the current work aims at identifying the other cost drivers that affect the cost estimation in the context of GSD. To achieve the targeted objectives, current stateof-the-art related to existing cost estimation techniques of GSD is reported. We adopted SLR and Empirical approach to address the formulated research questions. The current study also identifies the missing factors that would help the practitioners improve the cost estimation models. The results indicate that previously conducted work ignores the additional elements necessary for the cost estimation in the GSD context. Moreover, the current work proposes a conceptual cost estimation model tailored to fit the GSD context. INDEX TERMS Global software development, distributed development, cost estimation, systematic review.
IEEE Access, 2021
Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the... more Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the overall project cost and budget overhead. Thus, there is a need to amplify the existing model in GSD context to reduce the risks associated with cost overhead. Motivated by this, the current work aims at amplifying the existing algorithmic model with GSD cost drivers to get efficient estimates in the context of GSD. To achieve the targeted research objective, current state-of-the-art cost estimation techniques and GSD models are reported. Furthermore, the current study has proposed a conceptual framework to amplify the algorithmic COCOMO-II model in the GSD domain to accommodate additional cost drivers empirically validated by a systematic review and industrial practitioners. The main phases of amplification include identifying cost drivers, categorizing cost drivers, forming metrics, assignment of values, and finally altering the base model equation. Moreover, the proposed conceptual m...
2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2018
Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to p... more Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to provide storage and communication. At the edge, nodes can connect with each other directly to get content locally whenever possible. As the topology of the network directly influences the nodes’ connectivity, there has been some work to compute the graph centrality of each node within the topology of the edge network. The centrality is then used to distinguish nodes at the edge of the network. We argue that, for a network with caches, graph centrality is not an appropriate metric. Indeed, a node with low connectivity (and thereby low centrality) that caches a lot of content may provide a very valuable role in the network. To capture this, we introduce a popularity-weighted content-based centrality (P-CBC) metric which takes into account how well a node is connected to the content the network is delivering, rather than to the other nodes in the network. To illustrate the validity of consid...
La nefrotoxicidad es uno de los efectos secundarios mas importantes limitaciones terapeuticas de ... more La nefrotoxicidad es uno de los efectos secundarios mas importantes limitaciones terapeuticas de los antibioticos aminoglucosidos, especialmente gentamicina. La nefrotoxicidad inducida por gentamicina implica generacion de radicales libres, la reduccion en el mecanismo de defensa antioxidante y la disfuncion renal. Una serie de extractos de hierbas crudas tienen potencial para mejorar la nefrotoxicidad inducida por gentamicina debido a la presencia de varios compuestos antioxidantes. Por lo tanto, el objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar la actividad protectora del extracto acuoso semillas de T. ammi contra la nefrotoxicidad inducida por gentamicina en conejos albinos. Los resultados mostraron que la gentamicina causo graves alteraciones en los parametros bioquimicos sericos y los marcadores de rinon, junto con alteraciones severas en los tejidos renales. Sin embargo, el extracto de T. ammi, cuando se administra junto con la gentamicina, invierte la gravedad de la nefrotoxicidad...
Progesterone receptor (PR) is an essential pharmacological target for contraception, female repro... more Progesterone receptor (PR) is an essential pharmacological target for contraception, female reproductive disorders as well as for hormone-dependent breast and uterine cancers. Human PR is expressed as two major isoforms PRA and PRB which behave as distinct transcriptional factors. PRA vs PRB expression is often altered under pathological conditions notably breast cancer through unknown mechanisms. In this thesis we demonstrate that down-regulations of PRB and PRA proteins are negatively controlled by key phosphorylation events involving distinct MAP kinase signaling. PRA is selectively stabilized by p38 MAPK whereas p42/44 MAPK specifically controls PRB stability leading to unbalanced PRA/PRB ratios in a ligand sensitive manner. In cancer cells, elevated extracellular stimuli such as epidermal growth factors or pro-inflammatory cytokines that preferentially activate p42/44 or p38 MAPK respectively may result in opposite variations in PRA/PRB expression ratio. These results may expla...
All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users t... more All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users to content directly, rather than connecting clients to servers. Surprisingly, however, although content caching is an integral of any information-Centric Network, limited work has been reported on information-centric management of caches in the context of an ICN. Indeed, approaches to cache management in networks of caches have focused on network connectivity rather than proximity to content. We introduce the Network-oriented Information-centric Centrality for Efficiency (NICE) as a new metric for cache management in information-centric networks. We propose a method to compute information-centric centrality that scales with the number of caches in a network rather than the number of content objects, which is many orders of magnitude larger. Furthermore, it can be pre-processed offline and ahead of time. We apply the NICE metric to a content replacement policy in caches, and show that a co...
The work on the theory of Groebner bases for ideals in a polynomial ring with countably infinite ... more The work on the theory of Groebner bases for ideals in a polynomial ring with countably infinite indeterminates over a field [5] has created impetus to develop the theory of Sagbi bases [6] and Sagbi Groebner bases [3] in the same polynomial ring. This paper demonstrates the construction of Sagbi basis and Sagbi Groebner basis using the technique of constructing these bases in a polynomial ring with finite indeterminates.
2017 29th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 29)
Mobile users in an urban environment access content on the internet from different locations. It ... more Mobile users in an urban environment access content on the internet from different locations. It is challenging for the current service providers to cope with the increasing content demand from a large number of collocated mobile users. In-network caching to offload content at nodes closer to users alleviate the issue, though efficient cache management is required to find out who should cache what, when and where in an urban environment, given nodes limited computing, communication and caching resources. To address this, we first define a novel relation between content popularity and availability in the network and investigate a node's eligibility to cache content based on its urban reachability. We then allow nodes to self-organize into mobile fogs to increase the distributed cache and maximize content availability in a cost-effective manner. However, to cater rational nodes, we propose a coalition game for the nodes to offer a maximum "virtual cache" assuming a monetary reward is paid to them by the service/content provider. Nodes are allowed to merge into different spatio-temporal coalitions in order to increase the distributed cache size at the network edge. Results obtained through simulations using realistic urban mobility trace validate the performance of our caching system showing a ratio of 60 − 85% of cache hits compared to the 30 − 40% obtained by the existing schemes and 10% in case of no coalition.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking
All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users t... more All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users to content directly, rather than connecting clients to servers. Surprisingly, however, although content caching is an integral of any information-Centric Network, limited work has been reported on information-centric management of caches in the context of an ICN. Indeed, approaches to cache management in networks of caches have focused on network connectivity rather than proximity to content. We introduce the Network-oriented Information-centric Centrality for Efficiency (NICE) as a new metric for cache management in information-centric networks. We propose a method to compute information-centric centrality that scales with the number of caches in a network rather than the number of content objects, which is many orders of magnitude larger. Furthermore, it can be pre-processed offline and ahead of time. We apply the NICE metric to a content replacement policy in caches, and show that a content replacement based on NICE exhibits better performances than LRU and other policies based on topology-oriented definitions of centrality.
NOMS 2020 - 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Using local caches is becoming a necessity to alleviate bandwidth pressure on cellular links, and... more Using local caches is becoming a necessity to alleviate bandwidth pressure on cellular links, and a number of caching approaches advocate caching popular content at nodes with high centrality, which quantifies how well connected nodes are. These approaches have been shown to outperform caching policies unrelated to node connectivity. However, caching content at highly connected nodes places poorly connected nodes with low centrality at a disadvantage: in addition to their poor connectivity, popular content is placed far from them at the more central nodes. We propose reversing the way in which node connectivity is used for the placement of content in caching networks, and introduce a Low-Centrality High-Popularity (LoCHiP) caching algorithm that populates poorly connected nodes with popular content. We conduct a thorough evaluation of LoCHiP against other centrality-based caching policies and traditional caching methods using hit rate, and hop-count to content as performance metrics. The results show that LoCHiP outperforms significantly the other methods.
Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking
Routing solutions for NDN VANET that use location information can be inadequate when such informa... more Routing solutions for NDN VANET that use location information can be inadequate when such information is unavailable or when the vehicles' locations change very fast. In this paper, we propose CCLF, a novel forwarding strategy to address this challenge. In addition to leveraging vehicle location information, CCLF takes into account content-based connectivity information, i.e., Interest satisfaction ratio for each name prefix, in its forwarding decisions. By keeping track of content connectivity and giving higher priority to vehicles with better content connectivity to forward Interests, CCLF not only reduces Interest flooding when location information is unknown or inaccurate, but also increases data fetching rate. CCS CONCEPTS • Networks → Routing protocols; Mobile ad hoc networks.
2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops
Information-Centric Fog Computing enables a multitude of nodes near the end-users to provide stor... more Information-Centric Fog Computing enables a multitude of nodes near the end-users to provide storage, communication, and computing, rather than in the cloud. In a fog network, nodes connect with each other directly to get content locally whenever possible. As the topology of the network directly influences the nodes' connectivity, there has been some work to compute the graph centrality of each node within that network topology. The centrality is then used to distinguish nodes in the fog network, or to prioritize some nodes over others to participate in the caching fog. We argue that, for an Information-Centric Fog Computing approach, graph centrality is not an appropriate metric. Indeed, a node with low connectivity that caches a lot of content may provide a very valuable role in the network. To capture this, we introduce a content-based centrality (CBC) metric which takes into account how well a node is connected to the content the network is delivering, rather than to the other nodes in the network. To illustrate the validity of considering content-based centrality, we use this new metric for a collaborative caching algorithm. We compare the performance of the proposed collaborative caching with typical centrality based, noncentrality based, and non-collaborative caching mechanisms. Our simulation implements CBC on three instances of large scale realistic network topology comprising 2, 896 nodes with three content replication levels. Results shows that CBC outperforms benchmark caching schemes and yields a roughly 3x improvement for the average cache hit rate.
Journal of Immunological Sciences
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems
An accurate model of building interiors with detailed annotations is critical to protecting the f... more An accurate model of building interiors with detailed annotations is critical to protecting the first responders' safety and building occupants during emergency operations. In collaboration with the City of Memphis, we collected extensive LiDAR and image data for the city's buildings. We apply machine learning techniques to detect and classify objects of interest for first responders and create a comprehensive 3D indoor space database with annotated safety-related objects. This paper documents the challenges we encountered in data collection and processing, and it presents a complete 3D mapping and labeling system for the environments inside and adjacent to buildings. Moreover, we use a case study to illustrate our process and show preliminary evaluation results.
The theory of “subalgebra basis” analogous to standard basis (the generalization of Gröbner bases... more The theory of “subalgebra basis” analogous to standard basis (the generalization of Gröbner bases to monomial ordering which are not necessarily well ordering [1].) for ideals in polynomial rings over a field is developed. We call these bases “SASBI Basis” for “Subalgebra Analogue to Standard Basis for Ideals”. The case of global orderings, here they are called “SAGBI Basis” for “Subalgebra Analogue to Gröbner Basis for Ideals”, is treated in [6]. Sasbi bases may be infinite. In this paper we consider subalgebras admitting a finite Sasbi basis and give algorithms to compute them. The algorithms have been implemented as a library for the computer algebra system SINGULAR [2].
VLSI Standard Cell Placement is a hard optimization prob-lem, which is further complicated with n... more VLSI Standard Cell Placement is a hard optimization prob-lem, which is further complicated with new issues such as power dissipation and performance. In this work, a fast hybrid algorithm is designed to address this problem. The algorithm employs Simulated Evolution (SE), an iterative search heuristic that comprises three steps: evaluation, se-lection and allocation. Solution quality is a strong function of the allocation procedure which is both time consuming and difficult. In this work a force directed approach in the allocation step of SE is used to both accelerate and improve the solution quality. Due to the imprecise nature of design information at the placement stage, objectives to be opti-mized are expressed in the fuzzy domain. The search evolves towards a vector of fuzzy goals. The proposed heuristic is compared with a previously presented SE approach. It ex-hibits significant improvement in terms of runtime for the same quality of solution. 1.
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AIMS Mathematics
In this paper, we develop a theory for Standard bases of $ K −subalgebrasin-subalgebras in −subalgebrasin K[[t_{1}, t_{2}, ... more In this paper, we develop a theory for Standard bases of $ K −subalgebrasin-subalgebras in −subalgebrasin K[[t_{1}, t_{2}, \ldots, t_{m}]] [x_{1}, x_{2}, ..., x_{n}] $ over a field $ K $ with respect to a monomial ordering which is local on $ t $ variables and we call them Subalgebra Standard bases. We give an algorithm to compute subalgebra homogeneous normal form and an algorithm to compute weak subalgebra normal form which we use to develop an algorithm to construct Subalgebra Standard bases. Throughout this paper, we assume that subalgebras are finitely generated.
2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to p... more Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to provide storage and communication. At the edge, nodes can connect with each other directly to get content locally whenever possible. As the topology of the network directly influences the nodes' connectivity, there has been some work to compute the graph centrality of each node within the topology of the edge network. The centrality is then used to distinguish nodes at the edge of the network. We argue that, for a network with caches, graph centrality is not an appropriate metric. Indeed, a node with low connectivity (and thereby low centrality) that caches a lot of content may provide a very valuable role in the network. To capture this, we introduce a popularity-weighted contentbased centrality (P-CBC) metric which takes into account how well a node is connected to the content the network is delivering, rather than to the other nodes in the network. To illustrate the validity of considering content-based centrality, we use this new metric for a collaborative caching algorithm. We compare the performance of the proposed collaborative caching with typical centrality based, non-centrality based, and non-collaborative caching mechanisms. Our simulation implements P-CBC on three random instances of large scale realistic network topology comprising 2, 896 nodes with three content replication levels. Results shows that P-CBC outperforms benchmark caching schemes and yields a roughly 3x improvement for the average cache hit rate. Index Terms-Information/Content Centric Networking, Content Caching, Fog Networking, Content Offload.
IEEE Access
Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the... more Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the overall project cost and budget overhead. Thus, there is a need to amplify the existing model in GSD context to reduce the risks associated with cost overhead. Motivated by this, the current work aims at amplifying the existing algorithmic model with GSD cost drivers to get efficient estimates in the context of GSD. To achieve the targeted research objective, current state-of-the-art cost estimation techniques and GSD models are reported. Furthermore, the current study has proposed a conceptual framework to amplify the algorithmic COCOMO-II model in the GSD domain to accommodate additional cost drivers empirically validated by a systematic review and industrial practitioners. The main phases of amplification include identifying cost drivers, categorizing cost drivers, forming metrics, assignment of values, and finally altering the base model equation. Moreover, the proposed conceptual model's effectiveness is validated through expert judgment, case studies, and Magnitude of Relative Estimates (MRE). The obtained estimates are efficient, quantified, and cover additional GSD aspects than the existing models; hence we could overcome the GSD project's overall risk by implementing the model. Finally, the results indicate that the model needs further calibration and validation. INDEX TERMS Global software development, cost estimation, COCOMO-II, cost overhead.
IEEE Access
Software organization always aims at developing a quality software product using the estimated de... more Software organization always aims at developing a quality software product using the estimated development resources, effort, and time. Global Software Development (GSD) has emerged as an essential tool to ensure optimal utilization of resources, which is performed in globally distributed settings in various geographical locations. Global software engineering focuses on reducing the cost, increasing the development speed, and accessing skilled developers worldwide. Estimating the required amount of resources and effort in the distributed development environment remains a challenging task. Thus, there is a need to focus on cost estimation models in the GSD context. We nevertheless acknowledge that several cost estimation techniques have been reported. However, to the best of our knowledge, the existing cost estimation techniques/models lack considering the additional cost drivers required to compute the accurate cost estimation in the GSD context. Motivated by this, the current work aims at identifying the other cost drivers that affect the cost estimation in the context of GSD. To achieve the targeted objectives, current stateof-the-art related to existing cost estimation techniques of GSD is reported. We adopted SLR and Empirical approach to address the formulated research questions. The current study also identifies the missing factors that would help the practitioners improve the cost estimation models. The results indicate that previously conducted work ignores the additional elements necessary for the cost estimation in the GSD context. Moreover, the current work proposes a conceptual cost estimation model tailored to fit the GSD context. INDEX TERMS Global software development, distributed development, cost estimation, systematic review.
IEEE Access, 2021
Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the... more Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect the overall project cost and budget overhead. Thus, there is a need to amplify the existing model in GSD context to reduce the risks associated with cost overhead. Motivated by this, the current work aims at amplifying the existing algorithmic model with GSD cost drivers to get efficient estimates in the context of GSD. To achieve the targeted research objective, current state-of-the-art cost estimation techniques and GSD models are reported. Furthermore, the current study has proposed a conceptual framework to amplify the algorithmic COCOMO-II model in the GSD domain to accommodate additional cost drivers empirically validated by a systematic review and industrial practitioners. The main phases of amplification include identifying cost drivers, categorizing cost drivers, forming metrics, assignment of values, and finally altering the base model equation. Moreover, the proposed conceptual m...
2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2018
Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to p... more Information-centric networks enables a multitude of nodes, in particular near the end-users, to provide storage and communication. At the edge, nodes can connect with each other directly to get content locally whenever possible. As the topology of the network directly influences the nodes’ connectivity, there has been some work to compute the graph centrality of each node within the topology of the edge network. The centrality is then used to distinguish nodes at the edge of the network. We argue that, for a network with caches, graph centrality is not an appropriate metric. Indeed, a node with low connectivity (and thereby low centrality) that caches a lot of content may provide a very valuable role in the network. To capture this, we introduce a popularity-weighted content-based centrality (P-CBC) metric which takes into account how well a node is connected to the content the network is delivering, rather than to the other nodes in the network. To illustrate the validity of consid...
La nefrotoxicidad es uno de los efectos secundarios mas importantes limitaciones terapeuticas de ... more La nefrotoxicidad es uno de los efectos secundarios mas importantes limitaciones terapeuticas de los antibioticos aminoglucosidos, especialmente gentamicina. La nefrotoxicidad inducida por gentamicina implica generacion de radicales libres, la reduccion en el mecanismo de defensa antioxidante y la disfuncion renal. Una serie de extractos de hierbas crudas tienen potencial para mejorar la nefrotoxicidad inducida por gentamicina debido a la presencia de varios compuestos antioxidantes. Por lo tanto, el objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar la actividad protectora del extracto acuoso semillas de T. ammi contra la nefrotoxicidad inducida por gentamicina en conejos albinos. Los resultados mostraron que la gentamicina causo graves alteraciones en los parametros bioquimicos sericos y los marcadores de rinon, junto con alteraciones severas en los tejidos renales. Sin embargo, el extracto de T. ammi, cuando se administra junto con la gentamicina, invierte la gravedad de la nefrotoxicidad...
Progesterone receptor (PR) is an essential pharmacological target for contraception, female repro... more Progesterone receptor (PR) is an essential pharmacological target for contraception, female reproductive disorders as well as for hormone-dependent breast and uterine cancers. Human PR is expressed as two major isoforms PRA and PRB which behave as distinct transcriptional factors. PRA vs PRB expression is often altered under pathological conditions notably breast cancer through unknown mechanisms. In this thesis we demonstrate that down-regulations of PRB and PRA proteins are negatively controlled by key phosphorylation events involving distinct MAP kinase signaling. PRA is selectively stabilized by p38 MAPK whereas p42/44 MAPK specifically controls PRB stability leading to unbalanced PRA/PRB ratios in a ligand sensitive manner. In cancer cells, elevated extracellular stimuli such as epidermal growth factors or pro-inflammatory cytokines that preferentially activate p42/44 or p38 MAPK respectively may result in opposite variations in PRA/PRB expression ratio. These results may expla...
All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users t... more All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users to content directly, rather than connecting clients to servers. Surprisingly, however, although content caching is an integral of any information-Centric Network, limited work has been reported on information-centric management of caches in the context of an ICN. Indeed, approaches to cache management in networks of caches have focused on network connectivity rather than proximity to content. We introduce the Network-oriented Information-centric Centrality for Efficiency (NICE) as a new metric for cache management in information-centric networks. We propose a method to compute information-centric centrality that scales with the number of caches in a network rather than the number of content objects, which is many orders of magnitude larger. Furthermore, it can be pre-processed offline and ahead of time. We apply the NICE metric to a content replacement policy in caches, and show that a co...
The work on the theory of Groebner bases for ideals in a polynomial ring with countably infinite ... more The work on the theory of Groebner bases for ideals in a polynomial ring with countably infinite indeterminates over a field [5] has created impetus to develop the theory of Sagbi bases [6] and Sagbi Groebner bases [3] in the same polynomial ring. This paper demonstrates the construction of Sagbi basis and Sagbi Groebner basis using the technique of constructing these bases in a polynomial ring with finite indeterminates.
2017 29th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 29)
Mobile users in an urban environment access content on the internet from different locations. It ... more Mobile users in an urban environment access content on the internet from different locations. It is challenging for the current service providers to cope with the increasing content demand from a large number of collocated mobile users. In-network caching to offload content at nodes closer to users alleviate the issue, though efficient cache management is required to find out who should cache what, when and where in an urban environment, given nodes limited computing, communication and caching resources. To address this, we first define a novel relation between content popularity and availability in the network and investigate a node's eligibility to cache content based on its urban reachability. We then allow nodes to self-organize into mobile fogs to increase the distributed cache and maximize content availability in a cost-effective manner. However, to cater rational nodes, we propose a coalition game for the nodes to offer a maximum "virtual cache" assuming a monetary reward is paid to them by the service/content provider. Nodes are allowed to merge into different spatio-temporal coalitions in order to increase the distributed cache size at the network edge. Results obtained through simulations using realistic urban mobility trace validate the performance of our caching system showing a ratio of 60 − 85% of cache hits compared to the 30 − 40% obtained by the existing schemes and 10% in case of no coalition.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking
All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users t... more All Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures proposed to date aim at connecting users to content directly, rather than connecting clients to servers. Surprisingly, however, although content caching is an integral of any information-Centric Network, limited work has been reported on information-centric management of caches in the context of an ICN. Indeed, approaches to cache management in networks of caches have focused on network connectivity rather than proximity to content. We introduce the Network-oriented Information-centric Centrality for Efficiency (NICE) as a new metric for cache management in information-centric networks. We propose a method to compute information-centric centrality that scales with the number of caches in a network rather than the number of content objects, which is many orders of magnitude larger. Furthermore, it can be pre-processed offline and ahead of time. We apply the NICE metric to a content replacement policy in caches, and show that a content replacement based on NICE exhibits better performances than LRU and other policies based on topology-oriented definitions of centrality.
NOMS 2020 - 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Using local caches is becoming a necessity to alleviate bandwidth pressure on cellular links, and... more Using local caches is becoming a necessity to alleviate bandwidth pressure on cellular links, and a number of caching approaches advocate caching popular content at nodes with high centrality, which quantifies how well connected nodes are. These approaches have been shown to outperform caching policies unrelated to node connectivity. However, caching content at highly connected nodes places poorly connected nodes with low centrality at a disadvantage: in addition to their poor connectivity, popular content is placed far from them at the more central nodes. We propose reversing the way in which node connectivity is used for the placement of content in caching networks, and introduce a Low-Centrality High-Popularity (LoCHiP) caching algorithm that populates poorly connected nodes with popular content. We conduct a thorough evaluation of LoCHiP against other centrality-based caching policies and traditional caching methods using hit rate, and hop-count to content as performance metrics. The results show that LoCHiP outperforms significantly the other methods.
Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking
Routing solutions for NDN VANET that use location information can be inadequate when such informa... more Routing solutions for NDN VANET that use location information can be inadequate when such information is unavailable or when the vehicles' locations change very fast. In this paper, we propose CCLF, a novel forwarding strategy to address this challenge. In addition to leveraging vehicle location information, CCLF takes into account content-based connectivity information, i.e., Interest satisfaction ratio for each name prefix, in its forwarding decisions. By keeping track of content connectivity and giving higher priority to vehicles with better content connectivity to forward Interests, CCLF not only reduces Interest flooding when location information is unknown or inaccurate, but also increases data fetching rate. CCS CONCEPTS • Networks → Routing protocols; Mobile ad hoc networks.
2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops
Information-Centric Fog Computing enables a multitude of nodes near the end-users to provide stor... more Information-Centric Fog Computing enables a multitude of nodes near the end-users to provide storage, communication, and computing, rather than in the cloud. In a fog network, nodes connect with each other directly to get content locally whenever possible. As the topology of the network directly influences the nodes' connectivity, there has been some work to compute the graph centrality of each node within that network topology. The centrality is then used to distinguish nodes in the fog network, or to prioritize some nodes over others to participate in the caching fog. We argue that, for an Information-Centric Fog Computing approach, graph centrality is not an appropriate metric. Indeed, a node with low connectivity that caches a lot of content may provide a very valuable role in the network. To capture this, we introduce a content-based centrality (CBC) metric which takes into account how well a node is connected to the content the network is delivering, rather than to the other nodes in the network. To illustrate the validity of considering content-based centrality, we use this new metric for a collaborative caching algorithm. We compare the performance of the proposed collaborative caching with typical centrality based, noncentrality based, and non-collaborative caching mechanisms. Our simulation implements CBC on three instances of large scale realistic network topology comprising 2, 896 nodes with three content replication levels. Results shows that CBC outperforms benchmark caching schemes and yields a roughly 3x improvement for the average cache hit rate.
Journal of Immunological Sciences