An MLS combustion cylinder head gasket includes a relatively thick soft metal stopper having a square nosed aperture edge adapted to face a flame front in a cylinder head bore. The transform coding is effective because the prediction error samples are correlated in the frequency domain. The delay timer determination module uses a stagger and interval parameter where these parameters are calculated from a set of system parameters, including a number of processors available to support data streams, CPUnum, a size for the smallest data buffer within all of the network devices, MemReceiverMin, and the maximum bit data transfer rate, BRmax, supported. A photodetector generates a voltage proportional to the amount of light impinging on its photosensitive surface, which depends upon whether or not a spot is present. This allocation is then enforced for the local flow by the end-host.