In most of the research for the wavelength allocation in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks, the connection setting delay time is not considered. However, the entire bandwidth increases because of an increase in the transmission capacity of one wavelength. Therefore, the connection setting delay time should be considered because the data transmission time is shortened relatively. In this paper we propose a new connection setting method considering connection setting delay. The performance evaluation via simulations shows that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional forward and backward reservation methods.

In this paper a campus information providing system (CIPS) for cellular phones is proposed. By using this system, the search time to find the necessary information in the campus is reduced. A user can access the system using the cellular phone terminal and by clicking the links or by inserting a keyword in the form they can get easily the campus information. The system has four agents which deals with Web information required by users, Net News, the student's login state, campus navigation and the filtering of the received campus information for cellular phone terminal. Therefore the proposed system can provide different media informations to a cellular phone. By using the proposed system, the users are able to get the information anywhere and anytime. The system performance was evaluated using a questionnaire. From the questionnaire results, we found that the system was able to show the required information. However the system operation should be improved and the information content should be shown better.

This paper discusses the role of microprogramming in operating system design and shows several things: (1) advantages of the efficiency which may be gained from microcoded operating system primitives, (2) selecting the most appropriste primitives for implementation, and (3) an analysis of the tradeoffs among software, firmware, and hardware. The authors propose a practical approach of enhancing computer architecture level, from a view point of functional hierarchy of operating systems. In order to prove the advantages of this approach, we have designed and implemented an experimental abstract machine for an operating system nucleus. This research is an experimental design, and evaluation on its operating system nucleus machine,called HEART. HEART is a set of primitive and universal functions, and works as a nucleus of a multiprogrammed operating system. The research results of our approach are the followings: First, to clarify the properties of operating system nucleus, taking functional hierarchy of operating system into consideration. Second, to show the design of operating system nucleus based on novel concepts. Third, to confirm the possibility of implimenting operating system nucleus machine. Finally, we give a performance evaluation on microcoded HEART and the effectiveness of enhancing computer architecture level based on the properties of operating systems.