Nineteen-ninety-six was a glorious season for the Carolina Panthers. They went 12-4, won all their home games at Ericsson Stadium, and in just the second season of their existence, beat the San Francisco 49ers twice and knocked the defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys out of the playoffs. The Panthers' unprecedented playoff run was eventually derailed by the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship game, but not before Carolina had already established themselves as part of the NFL's elite. Nineteen-ninety-six was the year the Panthers made a name for themselves nationwide. It was the...

"Lost on the Road to Nowhere" is a family-friendly adventure, recommended for anyone ages 8 and up. In this fast-paced story, four children are stranded all alone in the North Carolina wilderness. They face an untold number of miles of deserted road between them and the medical help they desperately need to find for their parents, who have been badly injured in a wreck on Christmas Eve. As the three brothers and their baby sister climb out of that wrecked car, leave their trapped parents behind and begin an unforgettable journey, they must rely on one another more than they ever have before....

Resource allocation and power optimization is a new challenge in multimedia services in cellular communication systems. To provide a better end-user experience, the fourth generation (4G) standard Long Term Evolution/Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE/LTE-Advanced) has been developed for high-bandwidth mobile access to accommodate today's data-heavy applications. LTE/LTE-Advanced has adopted discontinuous reception (DRX) to extend the user equipment's battery lifetime, thereby further supporting various services and large amounts of data transmissions.
By introducing the basics of...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communication, WWIC 2014, held in Paris, France, during May 27-28, 2014. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on wireless and wired networks; resource management and next generation services; next generation services, network architecture and applications.