A lightweight cell switching and traffic offloading scheme for energy optimization in ultra-dense heterogeneous networks

One of the major capacity boosters for 5G networks is the deployment of ultra-dense heterogeneous networks (UDHNs). However, this deployment results in a tremendous increase in the energy consumption of the network due to the large number of base stations (BSs) involved. In addition to enhanced capacity, 5G networks must also be energy efficient for it to be economically viable and environmentally friendly. Dynamic cell switching is a very common way of reducing the total energy consumption of the network, but most of the proposed methods are computationally demanding, which makes them unsuitable for application in ultra-dense network deployment with massive number of BSs. To tackle this problem, we propose a lightweight cell switching scheme also known as Threshold-based Hybrid cEll swItching Scheme (THESIS) for energy optimization in UDHNs. The developed approach combines the benefits of clustering and exhaustive search (ES) algorithm to produce a solution whose optimality is close to that of the ES (which is guaranteed to be optimal), but is computationally more efficient than ES and as such can be applied for cell switching in real networks even when their dimension is large. The performance evaluation shows that THESIS significantly reduces the energy consumption of the UDHN and can reduce the complexity of finding a near-optimal solution from exponential to polynomial complexity.     

高压下L-丝氨酸的拉曼光谱研究

压力可以引起蛋白折叠与变性。作为蛋白质的基本构成单位，氨基酸在高压下的变化近来年备受关注。在常见的20种氨基酸中，学者们利用高压拉曼技术已研究了多种氨基酸在高压下的变化，研究的最高压力达到30 GPa。为了探究L-丝氨酸(C₃H₇NO₃)在极高压力下的结构变化情况，采用原位高压拉曼技术在常温下对L-丝氨酸晶体进行研究，最高压力达到22.6 GPa。研究发现，当压力达到2.7 GPa时，在102 cm-1处出现新峰，在1 123 cm-1(NH₃反对称摇摆振动)处的特征峰出现劈裂；当压力达到5.4 GPa时，L-丝氨酸晶体在574 cm-1处出现新峰，同时原来164 cm-1处峰消失；当压力达到6.0 GPa时，位于226，456，770和2 968 cm-1(CH₂伸缩振动)等处出现新峰，877 cm-1处的CC伸缩振动峰发生劈裂，产生894 cm-1新峰；当压力达到7.9 GPa时，在145，151和2 946 cm-1等出现新峰，同时原在CO₂摇摆振动峰的肩峰531 cm-1消失；当压力达到11.0 GPa时，位于249 cm-1处的振动峰开始劈叉，在241 cm-1处形成新峰，位于2 956 cm-1(CH₂伸缩振动)同时原位于391和431 cm-1处的峰消失；当压力达到17.5 GPa时，在200 cm-1处出现新峰。通过进一步分析L-丝氨酸的拉曼波数随压力的变化，发现很多拉曼峰在1.37，2.2，5.3，7.46和11.0 GPa以及15.5 GPa等压力点处都出现了拐点。其结果表明：L-丝氨酸在0.1～22.6 GPa之间共发生7处结构相变，分别位于压力区间0.1~1.37，2.2~2.7，5.3，6.0，7.46~7.9，10.1~11.0和15.5~17.5 GPa之间。而且，在6.0 GPa新的相变点在之前文献中未论述过。由于L-丝氨酸晶体在6.0 GPa时CC伸缩振动峰发生劈裂，这现象可能是由于压力引起L-丝氨酸晶体分子发生重排导致的，同时L-丝氨酸晶体分子重排导致氢键发生重排，使得L-丝氨酸晶体出现新的CH₂伸缩振动峰。L-丝氨酸晶体在10.1~11.0 GPa之间的拉曼光谱变化主要集中在低波数段，该波数段的拉曼振动模式主要与晶体晶格振动等低能量振动有关。同时在高波数段出现新的CH₂峰，由此可推测在10.1~11.0 GPa之间，L-丝氨酸晶体的晶格振动发生变化，产生了新的氢键，从而导致了L-丝氨酸晶体结构的改变。L-丝氨酸晶体在15.5~17.5 GPa之间，由于没有发现直接证据证明其发生结构相变，只是在拉曼波数随压力变化中，发现其在17.5 GPa时出现拐点，因此推测L-丝氨酸晶体在15.5~17.5 GPa之间可能发生结构相变。     

一种刺松藻来源的硫酸阿拉伯聚糖的制备及特征结构表征

刺松藻(Codium fragile)经水提-醇沉获得粗多糖, 进一步将刺松藻粗多糖(CFP) 通过Q-Sepharose Fast Flow(QFF) 阴离子交换柱纯化得到6个多糖组分CFP1CFP6, 其中, 在CFP6中发现纯度较高的阿拉伯聚糖. 采用高效凝胶渗透色谱与十八角激光散射仪联用法和1-苯基-3-甲基-5-吡唑啉酮(PMP)柱前衍生高效液相色谱法对CFP6的分子量及单糖组成进行了分析. 结果表明, CFP6是一种分子量为79290的多糖, 由阿拉伯糖(Ara)和半乳糖(Gal)组成, 二者摩尔比为14.8:1.0. 通过多维核磁共振波谱、 液相色谱-质谱联用及二级质谱等方法对CFP6的糖苷键连接方式及其寡糖序列结构进行表征, 进一步阐明了该复杂多糖的特征结构. 经判断, CFP6主链由Ara组成, 通过 β-(1→3)糖苷键连接, 在Ara的C2位存在分支结构, 硫酸基位于Ara的C4或C2位.     

Elastic consequences of a single plastic event: Towards a realistic account of structural disorder and shear wave propagation in models of flowing amorphous solids

Shear transformations (i.e., localized rearrangements of particles resulting in the shear deformation of a small region of the sample) are the building blocks of mesoscale models for the flow of disordered solids. In order to compute the time-dependent response of the solid material to such a shear transformation, with a proper account of elastic heterogeneity and shear wave propagation, we propose and implement a very simple Finite-Element (FE)-based method. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of a binary Lennard–Jones glass are used as a benchmark for comparison, and information about the microscopic viscosity and the local elastic constants is directly extracted from the MD system and used as input in FE. We find very good agreement between FE and MD regarding the temporal evolution of the disorder-averaged displacement field induced by a shear transformation, which turns out to coincide with the response of a uniform elastic medium. However, fluctuations are relatively large, and their magnitude is satisfactorily captured by the FE simulations of an elastically heterogeneous system. Besides, accounting for elastic anisotropy on the mesoscale is not crucial in this respect.The proposed method thus paves the way for models of the rheology of amorphous solids which are both computationally efficient and realistic, in that structural disorder and inertial effects are accounted for.     

A new nonlinear optical silicate carbonate K2Ca[Si2O5](CO3) with a hybrid structure of kalsilite and soda-like layered fragments

Single crystals of a new silicate carbonate, K₂Ca[Si₂O₅](CO₃), have been synthesized in a multi-components hydrothermal solution with a pH value close to neutral and a high concentration of a carbonate mineralizer. The new compound has an axial structure (s.g. P6₃22) with unit cell parameters a = 5.04789 (15), c = 17.8668 (6) Å. Pseudosymmetry of the structure corresponds to s.g. P6₃/mmc which is broken only by one oxygen position. The structure consists of two layered fragments: one of the type of the mineral kalsilite (KAlSiO₄) and the other of the high-temperature soda-like α-Na₂CO₃, Ca substituting for Na. The electro-neutral layer K₂[Si₂O₅] (denoted K) as well as the layer Ca(CO₃) (denoted S) may separately correspond to individual structures. In K₂Ca[Si₂O₅](CO₃) the S-K layers are connected together via Ca-O interactions between Ca atoms from the carbonate layer and apical O atoms from the silicate one, and also via K-O interlayer interactions. A hypothetical acentric structure, sp.gr. P-62c, is predicted on the basis of the order-disorder theory. It presents another symmetrical option for the arrangement of K-layers relative to S-layers. The K,Ca-silicate-carbonate powder produces a moderate SHG signal that is two times larger that of the α-quartz powder standard and close to other silicates with acentric structures and low electronic polarizability.     

Phase stability and temperature effect in ScX (X=S,Se and Te) compounds

Based on first-principles calculations, the structural stability and temperature effect in ScX (X=S, Se and Te) compounds are studied with three typical structures of B1 (NaCl-type), hcp (NiAs-type) and β-hcp (inverse Li₂O₂-type). Their dynamic stability has been verified using phonon mode analysis and molecular dynamics simulations. From the total energy calculations, we find that the most stable ground state structures are B1 for ScS, and hcp for ScSe and ScTe, respectively. Moreover, structural stabilities at finite temperature are studied with the combination of phonon dependent dynamics analysis and first-principles calculations, which reveals a phase transition from hcp to B1 in ScSe around 230 K and a phase transition from hcp to β-hcp in ScTe around 460 K, in accordance with experimental findings. The energy barrier and pathway along the phase transformation from hcp to β-hcp ScTe are also calculated and analyzed by the solid-state nudged elastic band method.     

HL-2M偏滤器结构动力学分析

 用有限元软件分析了动载荷作用下的偏滤器结构动力学响应。通过对动力学和静力学计算结果的对比，确定载荷的动态放大因子。计算结果表明，所设计的偏滤器结构在瞬态电磁力载荷作用下能满足设计准则的要求。