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iLounge and Odoyo in partnership with Versio Mobile are giving away one-hundred (100) iPhone 4/4S cases. There will be twenty-five (25) winners receiving an Odoyo Metalsmith Plaza Case (retail value $34.99), twenty-five (25) winners receiving an Odoyo Palette Origin Case (retail value $29.99), twenty-five (25) winners receiving an Odoyo Digi Camo Urban Case (retail value $29.99), and twenty-five (25) winners receiving an Odoyo Tartan Dundee Case (retail value $29.99).
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YELTSIN RESIGNS: THE OVERVIEW; Yeltsin Resigns, Naming Putin as Acting President To Run in March Election
Published: January 1, 2000
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For the last decade, Mr. Yeltsin has dominated the Russian political stage like an erratic, lumbering bear, emerging from periodic bouts of poor health, purported drinking and lethargy with surprise moves calculated to confound his opponents and dazzle his political allies.
A master of drama and of the political moment, Mr. Yeltsin was among the first senior Soviet leaders to turn against Communist rule and to quit the Communist Party. Expelled from the Soviet leadership by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Mr. Yeltsin fought back to become the first elected leader of Russia and to preside over the dissolution of the Soviet Union. His resistance to an attempted Communist coup from atop an armored vehicle became one of the icons of the fall of Communism.
He shares major credit for the fact that Russians today have opportunities to speak out, to travel abroad, to publish and to practice their religion, in ways that were outlawed under the Communists.
But as critics have often noted, Mr. Yeltsin proved better at grand gestures and political intrigues than in governing the country. His rule has been marked by rising poverty, corruption and a slow erosion of the meaning of such concepts as democracy and a free market economy.
Under his watch, Russia's economy has seen the rise of a group of well-connected businessmen -- known here as the ''oligarchs'' -- who have grown fabulously rich through the sell-off of state-owned oil fields, factories and other property. And although the Russian media are now free, they are heavily controlled by business interests -- including some closely linked to the Kremlin -- that have used their television stations and newspapers to doctor the news and promote their political clans.
In a personal aside, which he himself noted was uncharacteristic, Mr. Yeltsin apologized today for his failures. ''I want to apologize for our unfulfilled dreams,'' he said. ''What we thought was easy has proved painfully difficult. I would like to apologize for having failed to justify the hopes of the people who believed that we would be able to make a leap from the gloomy and stagnant totalitarian past to a bright, prosperous and civilized future at just one go.
''I myself believed in this,'' he went on. ''We haven't managed to make this leap, and I was naive in thinking we would.''
Mr. Yeltsin rose to power through a bitter struggle with Mr. Gorbachev, pitting his personal popularity and his status as the first democratically elected leader of Russia against Mr. Gorbachev's leadership of a crumbling Soviet empire. The struggle culminated eight years ago, when Mr. Yeltsin joined the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus formally to dissolve the Soviet Union. Mr. Gorbachev stepped down three weeks later, and Mr. Yeltsin entered the Kremlin.
He also walked onto the world stage, where he has lobbied, harangued and bullied Western leaders as they learned to cope with Russia's new and turbulent democracy.
Mr. Yeltsin's blustering, sometimes peculiar political style has often led his opponents to count him out. But each time, he has proved them wrong -- in the late 1980's when he rallied liberal democratic forces after being dismissed from the top ranks of the Gorbachev-ruled Communist Party; in the 1996 elections when he won with a come-from-behind victory over the Communist leader Gennadi A. Zyuganov; in a failed impeachment drive last May, and now, in a four-month campaign run from the Kremlin to put a Yeltsin stamp of approval on Russia's next president.
Just last summer, Mr. Yeltsin's chances of controlling his succession looked weak. Beset by a wave of international scandals -- including reports that members of his family had accepted kickbacks from a Swiss construction company -- the Kremlin was losing the initiative to a powerful new political alliance, which united behind former Prime Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov and Mayor Yuri M. Luzhkov of Moscow.
Days after Islamic rebels from the breakaway region of Chechnya staged an armed invasion of a neighboring Russian region, Mr. Yeltsin seized the movement to pick his sixth prime minister and heir apparent, Mr. Putin, who was then a member of the Kremlin administration and head of Russia's domestic intelligence service.
That move, followed by a full-scale war against the Chechen rebels now moving into its fourth month, dramatically altered Russia's political landscape. In August, Mr. Putin was a political nonentity, with no party, no popular support and the backing of a deeply distrusted president.
Four months later, as his popularity ratings top 50 percent, Mr. Putin is Russia's latest rising star, hailed at home as the architect of an uncompromising war that many Russians have welcomed as a belated, if brutal attempt to restore the battered authority of the Russian state.
Mr. Putin, who came to politics in the mid-1980's through the St. Petersburg branch of Russia's liberal democratic movement, showed in parliamentary elections on Dec. 19 that his personal popularity could be translated into political pull.
The surprisingly strong showing of two pro-government parties, both brand-new creations concocted by Kremlin strategists and blessed by Mr. Putin, broke the eight-year-long stalemate in Parliament, dominated until now by a Communist-led anti-Yeltsin opposition.
The parliamentary elections confirmed the Kremlin's expectations in Mr. Putin, and according to political experts, provided Mr. Yeltsin with the assurances he needed to let go of power.
But Mr. Putin's rise, carefully curried by Kremlin image-makers, is also traced to a shift in the national mood, as voters, tired of the uncertainties and corruption associated with Mr. Yeltsin's tenure, cast about for a strong leader, an image that the dour-faced Mr. Putin seems to fit.
By abruptly moving up the elections three months ahead of their June date, Mr. Yeltsin has succeeded in throwing Mr. Putin's opponents off balance, several politicians said in televised interviews today.
''I think that today there are no other equal contenders for this post,'' said Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, a former prime minister and onetime favorite successor, who, like many other political leaders, has already signed onto the Putin bandwagon.
''Yeltsin, by his step, signaled that we have to consolidate and the society city will consolidate behind Putin,'' Mr. Chernomyrdin said.
Photos: Boris N. Yeltsin leaving the Kremlin yesterday after announcing his resignation and his appointment of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, front left, as acting president. Below, Mr. Yeltsin read a statement from atop an armored personnel carrier as he helped stop a coup in Moscow in August 1991. (Itar-Tass via Associated Press); (Associated Press)(pg. A11); With a Russian New Year's tree in the background, Boris N. Yeltsin announced in a special broadcast on Russian television yesterday that he had resigned as president six months before the end of his term. (Associated Press)(pg. A18)


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Koog aan de Zaan grew at the West bank of the Zaan river after dams were made to control the water.
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Lymphatic System Crossword Puzzle Game
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- Clicking "hint" reveals a letter without awarding points.
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- Fill more answers in less time for higher score.
Lymphatic System Crossword Puzzle Game DescriptionThe words are all organs of the lymphatic system.
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- Immune system fluis that helps collect unwanted materials for removal from the body
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- Stimulate immune response
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Pasta Of The Angels
12 ounces baby shrimp, cooked
1/2 cup green onions, chopped
1/2 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced
1/4 cup red bell pepper, sliced
1/4 cup marinated artichoke hearts, chopped
1/4 cup asparagus, chopped
1 cube butter
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 cup whipping cream
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons fresh thyme, minced
2 tablespoons flour
In a skillet, melt butter. Stir in the garlic and saute for 1 minute. Then add the remaining vegetables and saute until crisp tender. Pour in the wine and sprinkle with the flour, salt, and pepper. Simmer for 1 minute and add the whipping cream. Cook until thickened, about 3 minutes. Add shrimp and toss with pasta. Serve with Parmesan cheese.
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Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are rare malignancies for which the ideal staging method remains controversial. Ki-67 is a cell proliferation marker that has been shown to have some utility in predicting prognosis in neuroendocrine tumors. We sought to test the predictive ability of Ki-67 staining for disease recurrence and overall survival in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
The medical records of patients who underwent pancreatic resection for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors at a tertiary referral hospital from 1994–2009 were reviewed. The pathologic specimens of all were stained for Ki-67 and recorded as percentage of cells staining positive per high-powered field. The 10-year disease-free and overall survival was analyzed.
One hundred forty patients were identified. Gender and age were not associated with increased risk of disease recurrence. Patients with tumors larger than 4cm or with Ki-67 staining >9% were more likely to have disease recurrence (p=0.0454, 0.047, respectively) and have decreased overall survival (p<0.0001, 0.0007, respectively).
Increasing tumor size and increasing Ki-67 staining both correlate with increased risk of disease recurrence and decreased overall survival. Designing a staging system that incorporates both of these clinical variables will enable better identification of patients at risk for recurrent pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm.
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are a rare group of neoplasms arising from the endocrine pancreas and incidence is on the rise [1]. Because of their relative rarity, classification of these tumors has been inconsistent. Some groups have attempted to apply the TNM (Tumor, Node, Metastasis) classification schema which is applied to the more virulent pancreatic adenocarcinoma [2], while others have attempted to classify them based on mitotic rate and necrosis, as is done in other endocrine tumors [3]. Still others have created a prognostic scale based on size, grade, node status and resection margins for prediction of prognosis [4].
Ki-67 is a cell-surface antigen with expression found in all proliferating cells. Grading neuroendocrine tumors by Ki-67 proliferation index has recently been added to the American Joint Committee on Cancer's (AJCC) carcinoid staging system [5]. Studies have shown percent Ki-67 expression correlates with malignant potential [6] and prognosis in PNETs [7]. Despite this, the widespread use of Ki-67 has not been implemented in the PNET staging guidelines by the AJCC and only considered in the earliest stage (stage I) by the World Health Organization's classification [8]. Recently, some groups have advocated for changing the staging from a tumor, node and metastasis (TNM) model to a tumor, grade and metastasis (TGM) model, with grades of well and poorly differentiated PNETs [9]. However, it is still unclear how Ki-67 proliferation index should fit into the staging of PNETs.
We sought to define the prognostic ability provided by Ki-67 staining in PNETs and compare that to other known prognostic factors.
The medical records of patients with PNETs treated surgically at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine from 1994–2009 were retrospectively reviewed. Any patient with insufficient clinical follow up or whose pathologic specimen did not allow for Ki-67 staining (too little tissue remaining) was excluded. Demographic data was collected, including gender, ethnicity, age at operation, location of tumor (proximal vs distal), type of operation (enucleation, Whipple procedure, distal pancreatectomy, total pancreatectomy) and longitudinal outcome was assessed. Results are reported as means (standard error of the mean). We then examined the surgical specimen. Information about tumor size, grade, margin and the number of lymph nodes (collected and with metastatic disease) from each patient was collected. Standard hematoxylin and eosin staining was performed as well as immunohistochemical staining for Ki-67 on all patients. The Ki-67 proliferation index was graded by two pathologists (DC and TL) as the percentage of tumor cells per high powered field staining positive for Ki-67. Comparisons between groups were made using student t-tests on GraphPad Prism 5 (GraphPad Software, Inc., La Jolla, CA). We defined the date of disease recurrence by the first date of any radiographic evidence of local recurrence or metastatic disease. Disease-free survival (DFS) was defined as the time from operation to first recurrence. Those alive and free of disease were censored at last contact. Overall survival was determined primarily from the medical records and supplemented in a few cases by the Social Security Death Index. Overall survival (OS) was defined as the time from operation to time of death. Patients alive were censored at the date of last clinical contact. Univariate Cox proportional hazard models were fitted to identify factors significantly related to OS or DFS. To assess whether any of these factors is an independent predictor of survival, multivariate Cox models were constructed via a backward selection procedure (using p-value of 0.25 for entering an explanatory variable and p-value of 0.05 for variable removal), while considering all factors showing p < 0.2 in the univariate analyses. All statistical tests were 2-sided and p-values < 0.05 were considered significant. All the analyses were performed with SAS version 9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC).
From 4/1/1994 to 4/1/2009, 156 patients were treated surgically for PNETs. Complete medical records and tissue samples were available in 140. Sixteen (11.4%) patients were found to have stage IV disease at the time of operation and were excluded from primary analysis. Patient demographics can be found in table 1. Twenty-nine (20.7%) patients experienced recurrence of disease. Nineteen (13.6%) patients had known Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type I Syndrome and 22 (15.7%) presented with symptoms consistent with functional endocrine tumor (flushing, hypoglycemia, dizziness). Mean time (+/− standard error of mean) to recurrence was 3.7+/−0.5 years. Overall 5- year and 10-year survival was 85.7% and 59.3% for patients without disease recurrence and 76% and 16.7% for patients in whom disease recurred, respectively. Average survival after disease recurrence was 2.34 +/− 0.4 years.
The location of the tumor was not predictive of disease recurrence, as recurrence was seen in 25.7% of proximal lesions and 25.5% of distal lesions. (p=0.80). Age and gender were also not found to be predictive of disease recurrence (p=0.0606, 0.4776, respectively) or decreased overall survival (p=0.0901, 0.4580, respectively). The MEN status of patients was also not predictive of disease recurrence or overall survival (p=0.483, 0.393, respectively).
Tumor size was associated with disease recurrence, with mean sizes of 2.21 +/− 1.7 cm and 3.73 +/− 2.2 cm in patients without and with disease recurrence, respectively (p=0.0002). When stratified by the size of the tumor (grouped by tumors < 2 cm, 2–4 cm and > 4 cm), tumor size was associated with increased risk of recurrence and decreased overall survival (p=0.0196, <0.005, respectively). Figure 1 demonstrates disease free and overall survival by tumor size.
The degree of tumor differentiation was not consistently reported on the pathology reports at our institution. This variable was present in 83 (59.3%) pathology reports (it was not a standard of reporting at our institution until recently). However, in those patients in whom it was reported, differentiation significantly predicted disease recurrence. Patients with moderately to poorly differentiated tumors were 6.23 times as likely to have disease recurrence as those with well-differentiated tumors (95% CI 1.88–20.63). Figure 2 demonstrates a Kaplan Meier survival curve stratified by tumor differentiation.
The degree of Ki-67 proliferation in specimens was strongly correlated with both disease free and overall survival. Patients with a proliferation index > 9% were 6.9 times as likely to have recurrent disease as those with a Ki-67 index < 9% (95% CI 3.0–15.7) and 8.5 times as likely to have disease recurrence when compared to patients with a Ki-67 index < 5% (95% CI 3.4–21.4). Representative pathologic staining of each group can be seen in Figure 3. Figures 4a and 4b show disease free survival by two different stratification groupings, one suggested by the AJCC grading guidelines (<2%, 2–20% and > 20%, p<0.01) for non-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and one optimized to separate out low, intermediate and high risk patients (<5%, 5–9% and >9%, p<0.0001), respectively. Five-year disease-free survival for low, moderate and high risk Ki-67 staining is 92%, 75% and 52% by AJCC stratification and 95%, 80% and 42%, respectively, by our optimized stratification. Ten-year disease-free survival is 80%, 70% and 52% by AJCC stratification and 92%, 75% and 52% by our stratification for low, moderate and high risk levels of Ki-67 present.
The amount of Ki-67 present in the resected tumor also predicts overall survival. Both the AJCC and our proposed stratification systems identified the three groups with statistical significance (See figures 5A, 5B). Five- and 10-year overall survival by AJCC stratification was 90% and 85% for low risk, 88% and 70% for moderate risk and 57% and 0% for high risk Ki-67 proliferation index. Using our stratification system, we found similar results, with overall survival rates of 90% and 88% for low risk, 90% and 80% for moderate risk and 61 and 20% for high risk 5- and 10- year survival, respectively. Figure 5 demonstrates overall survival by Ki-67 staining stratification.
The presence of lymph node disease was predictive of disease recurrence. Only 27.6% of patients without disease recurrence had nodal disease, compared to 66.7% of patients with recurrent disease (p < 0.005), and the odds ratio of having disease recurrence if nodal disease was present was 5.25 (95% CI 1.89–14.59). Table 2 shows the relationship between the lymph node status and the incidence of disease recurrence when compared to both tumor size and Ki-67 staining.
Since the WHO classification of PNETs is the only classification system currently including Ki-67 in the staging criteria, we staged our patients by the WHO classification and plotted the disease free and overall survival. This is illustrated in Figure 6. As with tumor differentiation, the lymphovascular and perineural invasion data was limited. Table 3 illustrates the different clinical data associated with disease recurrence and poor outcomes.
Multivariate analysis showed tumor size is independently associated with overall survival (p-value= 0.0085). No other single clinical variables were statistically significant for overall survival and no clinical variables were statistically significant for disease free survival. There was no correlation between tumor size, tumor differentiation or Ki-67 proliferation index.
The incidence of neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas is on the rise. This may be due in large part to increased recognition of the disease. Many small tumors are identified incidentally because of increased utilization of cross sectional imaging. The likelihood of finding small non-functional PNETs is likely rising at a faster rate than that of functional PNETs. It may be that many of these small tumors in elderly individuals might never become symptomatic. Identifying risk factors and creating a prognostic staging system that accurately predicts those patients at elevated risk for disease progression, recurrence and death would allow for improved long-term monitoring and selective, surgical and adjuvant therapies. Evidence is mounting that biochemical markers like Ki-67, MIB-1 [10], and others add in identifying patients at risk for disease progression recurrence. We are hopeful that molecular characterization of tumors will help direct therapy to a greater extent. Adding molecular characterization to the staging schema will likely prove an objective, reproducible event that could potentially be used as a surrogate for lymph node status when few nodes are obtained at the time of a resection. Further study would be required to determine if Ki-67 staining in combination with other molecular markers on preoperative biopsy could eventually guide treatment planning by helping to define the extent of resection needed (enucleation as opposed to a formal resection), particularly in patients with small, minimally-Ki-67 positive tumors. Finally, Ki67 staining might prove useful in determining which patients should undergo adjuvant investigational therapies [11].
Tumor size, positive lymph nodes and Ki-67 staining were found to be predictive of disease recurrence and poor overall survival. We found that defining low, intermediate and high risk groups by Ki-67 proliferation indices of < 5%, 5–9% and > 9% optimizes the ability to distinguish between patients who are at risk of having recurrent disease and those who are not. In patients with disease recurrence, Ki-67 expression was elevated in patients with large tumors or positive lymph nodes, suggesting elevated expression can be found in both locally advancing malignancy as well as metastatic tumors.
When ANOVA was performed to check for the relationship between these three factors, it was found that patients with nodal metastases were more likely to have larger tumors (p=0.04), but we did not identify a strong correlation between Ki-67 proliferation index and nodal metastases, suggesting each serves as an independent prognostic factor for potential disease recurrence.
Multivariate analysis identified tumor size as the only independent predictor of overall survival and no variable was individually predictive of disease recurrence. This illustrates the importance of including each factor in the staging of PNETs, rather than relying on any one predictor of disease recurrence.
There were several limitations to our study. First and foremost was the retrospective nature of the data collection. The medical records were not complete in all categories, making it impossible to analyze all the known predictors of disease recurrence and survival. For example perineural and lymphovascular invasion were not included in the analysis. The disease is relatively rare, and the patients have slow disease progression making it likely that we are underpowered to observe all the important correlations between the analyzed factors. Our patient population might not be representative of all centers caring for patients with PNETs, as we see a disproportionally high number of patients with MEN. While there did not seem to be a difference in disease recurrence in patients with and without MEN, the biology and multifocality of their tumors is likely different from that of spontaneous PNETs.
In summary, we found that the percentage of Ki-67 positive cells in PNETs predicts disease recurrence and overall survival. We are strongly in favor of further investigations into this and other molecular markers in guiding the management of this disease. Inclusion of Ki67 in future grading schemes will allow for a more objective and reproducible staging schema and might be an important element in deciding the future management of patients with PNETs.
This work was funded by the Washington University Surgical Oncology Training Grant (NIH-5T32CA00962122), the Doug Phillips Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research and the Siteman Cancer Center Support Grant (NIH-2P30CA09184209).
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This work was presented in part at the 6th Academic Surgical Congress February, 2011
Nicholas A. Hamilton, Department of Surgery, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
Ta-Chiang Liu, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
Antonino Cavatiao, Department of Surgery, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
Kareem Mawad, Department of Surgery, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
Ling Chen, Biostatistics Core, Siteman Cancer Center, Saint Louis, MO.
Steven S. Strasberg, Department of Surgery, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
David C. Linehan, Department of Surgery, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
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A network management architecture is disclosed having a network backbone and one or more macro service areas. Each macro service area includes one or more basic service areas, which each include an access point and a plurality of associated clients. A management system is employed for connecting the access points to the network backbone. The management system regulates access of the clients to the network so as to control a desired network parameter, which can relate to throughput, quality of service, or any other desired network parameter.
1. A method of network management comprising:
providing a central controller for controlling network access of a first access point having a respective first plurality of associated clients and a second access point having a second plurality of associated clients;
monitoring packet angle-of-arrival information to determine a location for the first plurality of clients and the second plurality of clients;
determining a first client selected from the first plurality of associated clients and a second client selected from the second plurality of associated clients that can use a channel concurrently;
controlling the direction of an adaptive antenna array associated with one of the group consisting of the first access point and the second access point to allow simultaneous access between the first client and the second client based on their respective location determined during the monitoring packet angle of arrival information; and
scheduling a time slot with the first access point for the first client and with the second access point for the second client;
wherein the first client and second client use the same time slot and same channel concurrently; and
wherein the controlling the direction uses one of the group consisting of adaptive beam forming and adaptive null forming to compute an orthogonal antenna array pattern.
2. The method of
monitoring a plurality of network parameters that influence parameters between the first plurality of clients and the first access point and the second plurality of clients and the second access point; and
wherein the step of monitoring network parameters comprises monitoring one of the group consisting of time division, buffering, bandwidth, frequency, space and throughput.
3. The method of
monitoring network packet collision history; and
adjusting client access to specific time slots based on the packet collision history.
4. The method of
5. A method of network management comprising:
providing a central controller for controlling network access of a first access point having a respective first plurality of associated clients and a second access point having a second plurality of associated clients;
determining a first client selected from the first plurality of associated clients and a second client selected from the second plurality of associated clients that can use a channel concurrently;
scheduling a time slot with the first access point for the first client and with the second access point for the second client;
instructing the first access point to transmit a signal in a desired direction;
detecting the signal using the second access point;
reporting to a main controller received signal strength and direction of arrival detected by the second access point; and
determining a network access topology to reduce multipath interference between the first plurality of clients and the second plurality of clients;
wherein the first client and second client use the same time slot and same channel concurrently.
6. The method of
monitoring a plurality of network parameters that influence parameters between the first plurality of clients and the first access point and the second plurality of clients and the second access point; and
wherein the step of monitoring network parameters comprises monitoring one of the group consisting of time division, buffering, bandwidth, frequency, space and throughput.
7. The method of
monitoring network packet collision history; and
adjusting client access to specific time slots based on the packet collision history.
This is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 09/835,648, filed Apr. 16, 2001 now abandoned.
The present invention is directed to the field of network management. The invention has particular applicability to the improvement of a desired performance metric in a wireless communication network. A typical wireless network includes a plurality of wireless clients such as laptop computers and cellular phones that exchange data packets with a network backbone via a radio card. These clients gain access to the network backbone by way of an access point (AP), such as a wireless base station, connected to the network by a hardwired connection or a fixed Ethernet connection.
The advantage of a wireless network is that clients are mobile units that can vary in position (such as with wireless laptop computers) or can even be in motion while in use (such as with cellular telephone service.) However, these wireless clients have only a finite range wherein the base station may be accessed. Beyond that range, a client cannot maintain a connection to the base station. Consequently, in order to cover a large area, a number of such access points are required so as to maintain service to the clients. At any given time, an AP serves a number of clients in a unit called a Basic Service Set (BSS) and the region served is called a Basic Service Area (BSA).
As mobile clients vary in position, each BSA has an ever changing topology of wireless connections. However, due to regulatory frequency allocations, there is not enough available spectrum to insure that each client can gain access to the network at the same time. A number of schemes are known to permit clients to share access through an AP within a BSA. However, it may happen that multiple BSA's can be on the same channel, producing interference from "packet collisions" that break the network, resulting in "packet drops". Other reductions in quality-of-service (QoS) can occur such as packet delay and packet jitter, which can also lead to packet drops.
In order to reduce interference from packet collisions in a wireless network, access can be controlled using a distributed coordination function (DCF), which relies on "carrier sense, multiple access collision avoidance" (CSMA/CA). With DCF control, each AP and client radio listens to the air and waits a random amount of time for the air to clear. If the air is then clear, the radio transmits a packet. In this manner, network access is regulated through statistics. This technique is found to statistically provide a modest reduction in packet collisions, though not altogether preventing collisions. The principle drawback is that only one BSA can be on the air at a time, since frequency bandwidth is restricted by FCC regulations. Consequently, the network throughput of BSA's sharing the air is fixed and is divided by the number of radios on the common channel. As the number of AP's and clients sharing the air is increased, access is further diluted, resulting in increased packet collisions and a significant waste of bandwidth.
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This adaptive directional antenna 20 can be used in a point coordination function control (PCF) to perform time division, multiple access (TDMA) rather than CSMA/CA. In fact, adaptive antennas are better used by PCF, which offers improvement in QoS. With PCF, every client 24 is assigned a time slot by the AP in a predetermined manner in which the AP queries the clients, and receives a packet or transmits a packet. PCF is superior DCF in that access can be regulated and prioritized to reduce packet drop outs from packet collisions and other QoS problems resulting from queuing issues, such as packet delays and packet jitter. PCF control works especially well for real-time communications such as voice traffic.
However, PCF control creates complications in a wireless network where multiple BSA's share the same channel. AP's work independently, with no communication between each other. Consequently, interference can still occur between radios in different BSA's, especially if they lie along the same line of sight.
In view of the difficulties and drawbacks associated with previous network architectures, there is therefore a need for a network management system that reduces interference between BSA's in a PCF-controlled network.
There is also a need for a network management system that improves quality of service factors.
There is also a need for a network management system that increases network throughput.
These needs and others are satisfied by the present invention in which a network includes a network backbone and one or more macro service areas. Each macro service area includes one or more basic service areas, which each include an access point and a plurality of associated clients. A management system is employed for connecting the access points to the network backbone. The management system regulates access of the clients to the network so as to control a desired network parameter, which can relate to throughput, quality of service, or any other desired network parameter.
As will be realized, the invention is capable of other and different embodiments and its several details are capable of modifications in various respects, all without departing from the invention. Accordingly, the drawing and description are to be regarded as illustrative and not restrictive.
As shown in detail in the figures, a wireless network is disclosed having a centralized control for managing traffic of client data packets through the network. In this way, optimized network operation is maintained, to improve throughput and/or another performance metric such as the factors related to improving quality of service.
As shown in
In order to coordinate and prioritize network traffic from a number of clients in different BSA'S, the algorithm of the management system 120 operates with a goal function to optimize a desired network metric. As shown in
Preferably, the algorithm functions to control a particular desired network parameter. Specifically, the algorithm preferably operates with a goal function or metric that seeks to approach an extremum of a network parameter. For example, in a DCF network, using an omni-directional antenna, it would be sufficient to use temporal access techniques to manage time. The algorithm may optionally direct the AP's 110 a, 110 b to control access of clients to the channel so as to maximize network throughput. In such a case, the goal function is the network throughput in bits per second and the algorithm seeks the assignment of clients to appropriate time slots in such a manner that the throughput is maximized. In operation the algorithm would determine the clients that can be on the air at the same time by observing previous network packet collision history and adjust the client to specific time slots. As shown in
It may also be desirable to manage time and space in a PCF network using an adaptive antenna. A wireless network of four AP's each having a throughput of 10 Mbps each AP could be simultaneously accessing clients by managing space via an adaptive antenna, with respective client time division multiple accesses on each AP selected to avoid simultaneous access between potentially interfering clients.
In another case, the algorithm would use packet angle-of-arrival information to determine which particular clients could access the channel at the same time using an adaptive antenna array and beam/null forming methods. (Beam/null forming is the computation of orthogonal (non-interfering) antenna array patterns which can be used by the AP to place more than one client on the same time slot of the same channel at the same time on the same frequency.) The goal function could be the maximizing of network throughput or minimization of packet jitter. As shown in
Current wireless network trends indicate increasing demands for "real-time" wireless service, e.g. cellular telephone voice communications. Thus, the algorithm of the present invention may operate with a metric that seeks to improve one or more quality of service parameters. For example, queuing between multiple AP's may result in packet delays. This can result in packet drop out in a real-time voice message. Also, packet jitter may occur if packets arrive too soon or too late. The present management algorithm may be tailored to a metric that seeks to minimize packet jitter and packet delay by granting priority access to real time packets, resulting in the timely sequential arrival of those packets, thereby improving network QoS.
The present algorithm of the network management system 120 could be realized by a number of implementations. For example, an associative neural net could be used, or a root mean square error program could be used. Also, a number of artificial intelligence schemes could be employed. Some exemplary implementations are given as follows. In one example, we assume a simple case where AP's are on a regular grid, AP's are oriented on a regular grid, preferably employing TDMA operation. Using an antenna system whereby it is possible to service a particular area around a given AP, consider the positional topological arrangements for covering the total service area given the requirements that it is desired that more than one client be serviced at a time from each AP at any time slot. This means that by monitoring the positions for a given placement of AP's and clients for a desired type of antenna technology, there will be a finite number of topological arrangements that can be constructed that permit, on average, the AP's in the network to allow network access more than one client per TDMA time slot. These distinct topological arrangements could be preprogrammed into the main management program if the AP's are oriented and placed on a regular grid. Access to the network can then be regulated for each topology to improve network performance, e.g. maximize network throughput.
In a real system where the RF channel is less than ideal and there are significant amounts of multipath, some topological arrangements would be unusuable. This cannot be determined from the geometrical information provided by the placement grid and the AP orientations. However, this could be derived from direct measurement or by trial and error as the network is in operation. In the latter case the main controller could conduct a network calibration routine. During this phase the main controller could instruct a particular AP to transmit in a particular direction while all other AP's "listen" (or detect the signal). The listening AP's would record the received signal strength and direction of arrival of the signal and report them to the main controller. This process would be repeated until all AP's and the paths between them were calibrated. This could also be done for the associated clients within the network. They also could be constructed to both transmit and listen and report their information back to the main controller. After this process the main controller could fairly accurately determine the allowable topological configurations. Well known algorithms such as "MUSIC" or "ESPRIT" could be used to calculate the "angles of arrival" (AOA's). As shown in
The above mentioned calibration process could also be used on a system where the AP's were neither oriented nor placed in positions known to the main controller. The calibration procedure could indicate relative directions which along with the relative received signal strength and path delays could provide a reasonably accurate picture of the actual placement of the AP's. This could be accomplished by Joint Angle and Delay Estimation (JADE).
Over a period of time, the configuration of the network would change and some topological arrangements would no longer be viable. In this case the main controller would have to modify the management routine and select a modified set of topologies to assign the various TDMA time slots. The information coming into the main controller could consist of several items, in particular, orientation of clients being serviced relative to the AP to which it is associated, priority of traffic flowing to and from the clients, the level of performance provided to the client, including:
By knowing the topological configurations used while servicing a particular client the main controller could try other configurations that would possibly eliminate the new multipath interference caused by having certain clients on the air at the same time.
The present MSA management system 120 can be implemented in several ways, two implementations are contemplated hereinbelow. In a first preferred embodiment, the management system 120 is an enhanced Ethernet switch. In the second preferred embodiment, a particular AP is designated as the MSA controller 120 for a specifically assigned group of BSA's. A general switch architecture of the first preferred embodiment is shown in
For such an arrangement it is possible to accomplish complete control over the AP's connected to the switch 120. For purposes of clarity, it is useful to assume that all the BSA's in this MSA are on the same frequency. As shown in
Referring now to
By controlling the network as discussed above, many possibilities arise that can significantly increase network performance. In the above, we have discussed the ability of the MSA controller to control at what time and for how long and at what rate the AP's can be serviced. This level of control significantly improves the QoS when coupled with RSVP/SBM and 802.1p/Q. However, it is also possible to control frequency and space if more complicated network architectures are admitted, particularly if adaptive directional antenna control is provided at the AP's. This would be especially useful when all BSA's within a given MSA must be on the same frequency. In this case, "spatial domain multiple access" (SDMA) would be possible and would permit more than one AP access to the channel at a time. This could have a dramatic impact on network throughput and hence QoS.
As described hereinabove, the present invention solves many problems associated with previous type systems. However, it will be appreciated that various changes in the details, materials and arrangements of parts which have been herein described and illustrated in order to explain the nature of the invention may be made by those skilled in the area within the principle and scope of the invention will be expressed in the appended claims.
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Nancy Juarez, 17, of Marshalltown proudly displays her temporary driver's license at the Iowa DOT office Thursday in Marshalltown. / Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Joe Crookham of Oskaloosa sheds light on immigration issues. / Christopher Gannon/The Register
OSKALOOSA, Ia. — At first glance, Joe Crookham might be one of the last guys you would expect to launch a passionate crusade on behalf of driver's licenses for young, undocumented immigrants.
The president of Musco Lighting in Oskaloosa has built a sterling conservative Republican pedigree and routinely contributes thousands of dollars to Republican candidates, including $100,000 to Gov. Terry Branstad's 2010 campaign.
Crookham's favorite photo displayed in his office shows him standing in the White House's Lincoln Bedroom next to former First Lady Laura Bush, with the fifth and final handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address displayed between them.
Yet this also is a guy who waves off political labels in favor of what sounds like a shrewd practicality and sense of measured justice in keeping with family lineage; at 73 he's third in line in a family with four generations of Iowa attorneys.
He and his wife, Jeanie, the marketing brains for Musco, have met the likes of Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Queen Elizabeth II of England.
This is a global guy whose international firm — about 1,200 employees doing business in more than 50 countries, with full-time operations in more than a dozen — literally sheds light for a living. You want patriotic immigrant imagery? Musco temporarily relit the Statue of Liberty last year in the blackout aftermath of superstorm Sandy.
So in the case of the controversy over young immigrants granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — whipsawing news headlines in recent weeks in which the Iowa Department of Transportation stopped issuing IDs and licenses to DACA holders Dec. 26, only to resume doing so Wednesday — Crookham aimed to cut through the politics and illuminate essential truths.
"I get disappointed by a nation of immigrants that doesn't put the time, energy and resources into an immigration policy," Crookham said last week from his office that commands a panoramic view of Oskaloosa's town square. "This is the only world these (DACA) kids know."
Crookham says that he was among a team of eight — including three immigration attorneys and close friend Tommy Franks, the retired Army general who led the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of 9/11 — who lobbied the governor and other politicians hard on the driver's license issue in the last month.
There was the usual grassroots uproar from pro-immigrant, non-governmental organizations in Iowa and across the nation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCIS) released more explicit guidelines Jan. 18 clarifying that, yes, DACA immigrants should be considered lawfully present in the country. There was talk of a state law to fix the situation, with Branstad's support for such a legislative move, as well as a request for the DOT to review its stance.
But there also was Crookham behind the scenes, evoking the tradition of former Gov. Bob Ray's embrace of southeast Asian refugees in the late-1970s.
I discussed with Crookham how immigration might divide the Republican party in 2013 — the visions of Marco Rubio versus Steve King in the wake of a presidential election that showed the impact of an increasingly racially diverse electorate.
But he's focused on the human, apolitical argument.
"These are very normal, young people who we really, really need in this state," he says.
By the standards of the DACA approval process these are model citizens in just about every measurable way, Crookham points out. They must be committed to their education and law-abiding to even qualify.
"Under what political doctrine do you say we don't want a person like that?"
When Crookham weighs the issue with not his heart but his legal mind, he arrives at a similar answer: After letting the issue languish for so long, including a decade in which the Dream Act stalled in Congress as a political punching bag, the statute of limitations has run out, he says, on America's right to deport these so-called "Dreamers."
Denying them licenses became "essentially a profiling action on the part of the state."
Crookham's personal connection to the issue began with Karen Ventura and her younger brother, Jaime Rivera.
Ventura, 23, now lives in Perry where she's a part-time tutor and translator. Her husband, Alex, works a maintenance job. They're raising sons Alex Jr., 6, and Kris, 4.
Ventura was 9 and Jaime was 7 when the siblings first came to Oskaloosa with their mother from Guatemala. Their mother sought political asylum after Ventura's father had been gunned down in the street for supporting a progressive presidential candidate.
When all of her Iowa friends began getting school driving permits at age 14, Ventura lied and said that her mother wouldn't let her drive — just one of many examples of how the Dreamers have been held back through no fault of their own. "Joe has been a savior for those kids, I can tell you that," said Scottie Moore, a social studies teacher at Oskaloosa High School who first introduced Jaime to Crookham.
The Musco president, a board member at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, ended up providing scholarships for both siblings to enroll in the private school.
Ventura first met Crookham in person when he picked her up in an airplane in Perry and flew her and her brother to Minnesota to consult with an immigration attorney. Their mother, meanwhile, was spending thousands of dollars in a legal odyssey to try to resolve her own immigration status; but ultimately she was arrested at work in August 2010 and deported.
Ventura persevered and was ecstatic last year when her Social Security card arrived Christmas Eve. But then she was crushed when turned away from a DOT station later that week.
"The first person I called was Joe," she said.
Ventura will complete her associate's degree in May, and her bachelor's program overlaps it and starts Monday.
That's the thing about these Dreamers: They have not only dreams but also ambitious, specific plans. Another DACA Iowan, Nancy Juarez of Marshalltown, 17, was brought here from Mexico at age 8 on what she was told was a "vacation." She graduated from high school earlier this month, interviewed Friday for a department store cashier's job and plans to enroll in cosmetology school in the fall.
Her eventual salon job will fund her next degree in psychology .
Marshalltown is her home, Juarez says. She can't imagine moving back to Mexico.
She, Ventura and Rivera are among an estimated 5,000 young Iowa immigrants who may be eligible for DACA. Card-holders flocked last week to DOT stations to obtain their IDs or licenses.
Crookham received a phone call Wednesday to give him advance word on what was about to be announced. He in turn phoned Ventura — who this time responded with a happy scream in his ear, not sobs.
Friday, Ventura passed her driving test in Ankeny and finally received her license.
Kyle Munson can be reached at 515-284-8124 or email@example.com. See more of his columns, blog posts and video at DesMoinesRegister.com/munson. Connect with him on Facebook (Kyle Munson's Iowa) and Twitter (@KyleMunson).


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One more tidbit. This card has an AF of $25 and NO rewards. We're not in a position to kick (
and ground & pound)Chase to the curb because it my wife's oldest TL.
You don't carry balances anyway so no worries, right?
Correct! I have been a member of a local CU here in Hawaii since October of last year. I've been thinking about apping for Visa or MC with them, but I don't need any more credit. If my major CCs or other lines start disappearing with BoA, Chase, CITI, FIA or Amex, then I would app with my CU.
plasticman wrote:
Fused, I cannot believe that regardless of a possible increase in the cost of money for Chase, that they are in effect saying, we need to raise the rates we charge to our best customers from 4.99 + prime to 12.99 + prime.
This speaks volumes to Chase's interest in their long term credit card issusance business. Especially when there are plenty of other banks an CU's who would love to have you as a valued member.Message Edited by plasticman on 08-06-2009 08:29 PMMessage Edited by plasticman on 08-06-2009 08:31 PM
What's strange is JP Morgan Chase is much more sound than BoA and CITI. I figured they wouldn't be acting like Amex as soon as they have. Oh well. Its all good.
08-06-2009 09:01 PM - edited 08-06-2009 09:02 PM
JP Morgan Chase made record billions last quarter, however, this was made on the back of their trading business etc. not on credit cards. They are one of the last big brokerages standing. Wallstreet loves them for this very reason.
I suspect they really do not care much about their credit card business (unless someone wants to pay through the nose for the "privilege" to have a card from them) , especially with the latest CC defaults mirroring the unemployment rate.
Purely a business decision to focus the company in a different direction..IMHO
fused wrote:
Well, mabye now they are. The question is who will be hated the most next month.
I don't forget. I still think AMEX are haters. More that one can hold that accolade at once!
If I took that stance on ratejacks, I would have had to close 4 cards by now. Getting emotional and closing your cards because of that doesn't do anything to help you and can only hurt in the long run.
plasticman wrote:
fused wrote:
One more tidbit. This card has an AF of $25 and NO rewards. We're not in a position to kick (
and ground & pound)Chase to the curb because it my wife's oldest TL.
That does it , I will not even wait till overnight to decide what I will do. The moment I get my notification Chase will be my next call to close the account myself.
Too bad it is your oldest trade line...I know emotionally closing it will feel good..In your case it would be an obvoius bad business decision.Message Edited by plasticman on 08-06-2009 08:07 PM
08-07-2009 08:27 AM - edited 08-07-2009 08:28 AM
Fortunately my credit profile will allow me to be emotional if I choose. That said..I firmly believe 12.99 +prime with an AF of $25 per year is not close to the norm for a bank"s or credit union's best customers. Thereby making my business decision to close my Chase account an easy one.
In my business if you are not competitive with your prices you will not have a business.
I am of the opinion(rightly or wrongly) JP Morgan Chase is charging these rates because they just do not care if they issue credit cards unless one is willing to pay for the "privilege" to have a card at those ridiculous rates. Moreover, I will chose to do business with someone else who wants my business.
I have 7 other cards with 7 different banks and credit unions who, heretofore, have not notified me of even the smallest rate increase. However, I fully expect to see some...but based on the prime rate remaining at 3.25% for sometime to come I am convinced those possible increases will be no where near 12.99+prime Chase wants to charge based on my credit profile.
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Re: Garden Club Meeting - January 2013
Happy New Year!!!
Still sitting in the garden watching over my seedlings, but an auto refi is beckoning to me beyond the gate (NFCU $250 cash back offer). 2012 was VERY good to me credit-wise with the countless lessons learned from MyFICO smarties, lots of hard work on my part, and doses of pixie dust and prayers. I went from a credit score in the mid-500s in January to a peak score of 721 and:
Built a new home, closed: 10/25
Partner's: $3,000
Amazon Visa: $6,500
Lowe's: $5,000
Cap 1: $750
Cap 1, Sparks: $750
Woman Within: $600
Target: (still at $200, 10 years later...)
My score has dropped with UTIL and I'm STILL waiting on that 0%BT from NFCU (from my keyboard to God's ears) to help out some with that. Also still waiting to see if I have to sue my former landlady to get my deposit back that needs to go toward a CC. Mortgage hasn't reported yet, so hoping for a boost with that one. Once my score climbs back a bit, I may answer the siren call of the auto refi. Until then, I will sit firmly planted in the garden, enjoying the view.
BTW, who knew rewards cards were SO AWESOME??? I had no idea what I was missing out on with sucky credit scores! I get money back for paying my bills, how sweet is that?
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