Nicholls State University

About: Nicholls State University is a education organization based out in Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & The Internet. The organization has 456 authors who have published 795 publications receiving 20031 citations.

An incremental approach to the development of reusable general-purpose discrete-event simulator components

Abstract: In this paper, we discuss an incremental approach to the development of reusable components for general-purpose, discrete-event simulation using Ada as the implementation language. The goal of this paper is to illustrate how a well-designed simple model can be extended in small increments to a more general system. We show that the use of Ada is a key element in this style of software engineering. The design of the system is object-based, and the components developed are reused in each successive step of the design and implementation.

Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Caring for Dying Patients and Their Families

Abstract: Summary: Learn the results of a research study comparing the attitudes of Level I, Level II and Level III baccalaureate nursing students towards caring for dying patients and their families.

Hybrid Scheduling for Quality of Service Guarantee of Multimedia Data Flows in Software Defined Networks

Abstract: Supporting diverse Quality of Service (QoS) performance for heterogeneous data flows generated by multimedia applications has been a challenging issue that is not fully addressed in the Internet. Software Defined Network, which decouples data forwarding and network control, offers a promising approach to QoS guarantee of multimedia flows in the future Internet. However, the currently available QoS mechanisms proposed for SDN have not fully considered the diversity in performance requirements of multimedia data flows. In order to tackle this challenge, we propose a hybrid scheduling scheme in this paper to combine priority queueing with Packet General Processor Sharing (PGPS) algorithm to provide QoS guarantee for multimedia applications in SDN. We apply network calculus to develop modeling and analysis techniques to evaluate the QoS performance of the proposed scheduling scheme. Both analytical and numerical results obtained in this paper show that the proposed scheme can provide QoS guarantee for meeting diverse requirements of multimedia applications.