A QoS preference-based algorithm for service composition in service-oriented network

Quality of service (QoS) based provisioning for service-oriented network applications has been actively discussed because of user's specific requirements. An order relation vector model is proposed in this paper, which can be used to represent and calculate user's preference information effectively. User's preference order of QoS attributes is a possible approach to formulate user's specific QoS requirements in the context. In order to apply the preference order to actual application, a QoS attribute matrix is introduced to manage QoS attribute value; at the same time, a feasible method of defuzzifying and normalizing is also introduced to deal with the original QoS attribute matrix; user's preference order and the normalized QoS attribute matrix are used to calculate user's QoS attribute weight vector, which can be regarded as an evaluation criterion reflecting user's different QoS preference degrees. Finally, a service composition model and algorithm is proposed in this paper. The numerical examples indicate that the model delivers user's QoS preference reliably and the experiment shows that the algorithm is efficient.     

OFDM水声通信系统中基于中继选择的资源分配算法

针对水声通信中继系统中系统容量和中继选择问题,本文提出了一种基于中继选择的资源分配算法。首先将每条中继链路的信道增益等效为虚拟直传链路的信道增益,然后在等功率分配的前提下,根据信道信息最佳原则,提出了一种中继选择及资源分配的多用户迭代算法,以实现对每个用户的传输链路进行选择和子载波分配,最后通过线性迭代注水算法进行功率分配。仿真结果表明,所提算法在保证目标速率的前提下,提升了系统容量。     

A robust photometric calibration framework for projector-camera display system

A novel photometric calibration framework is presented for a projector-camera （ProCam） display system, which is currently under booming development. Firstly, a piecewise bilinear model and five 5-ary color coding images are used to construct the homography between the image planes of a projector and a camera. Secondly, a photometric model is proposed to describe the data flow of the ProCam display system for displaying color images on colored surface in a general way. An efficient self-calibration algorithm is correspondingly put forward to recover the model parameters. Aiming to adapt this algorithm to different types of ProCam display system robustly, a 3× 7 masking coupling matrix and a patches image with 1024 color samples are adopted to fit the complex channel interference function of the display system. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate the validity and superiority of this calibration algorithm for the ProCam display system.     

Partner selection method in cooperative spatial modulation (CSM) system

In this work, to achieve higher capacity, spatial modulation (SM) is utilized in a cooperative scheme in two different models of Cooperative SM, where SM is applied either at the source or the selected partner through an antenna array. A theoretical model of SM capacity is defined based on closed form lower and upper bound of the SM capacity. Based on the theoretical analysis of the channel capacity in both CSM systems the simplest and easier to implement selection criteria have been suggested to select a single partner to maximize CSM capacity. The CSM system in which SM is applied through the partner’s antenna array is providing significant enhancement over the other CSM model and cooperative multiple-input-multiple-output (CO-MIMO) networks based on multiple partners. Moreover, the system with a single randomly selected partner equipped with four antennas, behaves similarly as the best configuration of CO-MIMO based on the cooperation of four partners with the computational complexity linearly increases with the number of available partners to help. All of the theoretical findings are verified through simulation studies.     

Development of a noise sources classification system based on new method for feature selection

Feature selection of noise sources is important for noise sources detection and classification. In this paper, a new rough set based feature selection method has been given. Based on the method, a noise sources automatic classification system (NSACS) has been designed and validated. The key idea of the method is that most effective features can distinguish the most number of samples belonging to different classes of noise sources, if they are used for classification. This new approach has been applied into the system NSACS to select relevant features for artificial datasets and real-world datasets and the results have shown that this approach can correctly select all the relevant features of artificial datasets and at the same time it can drastically reduce the number of features. From the experiments, it can be found that to consider all the five datasets, the number of classification features after selection drops to 35% and the accurate classification rate increases about 14%. For the underwater noise sources dataset the number of features drops to 1/5 and the accurate classification rate increases about 6% after feature selection.     

基于短信息服务的通用型数据监控系统的研制及应用

短信息服务(Short Message Service, SMS)广泛被应用于移动设备间收发文本信息,具有低成本、使用方便、网络覆盖广和可靠性高等诸多优点,在工业设备远程监控领域具有广阔的应用空间。数据监控系统通常针对某一个或者一类设备而设计,其通用性和可移植性通常较差,对一般用户而言,开发门槛和成本较高。文中讲述了采用VC6.0和Access数据库实现基于SMS的通用型远程数据记录和实时监控系统,通过恰当的数据结构设计和模块化编程,屏蔽了硬件差别,大大降低了用户的开发成本和开发难度,快速实现手持设备对一般工业设备的实时数据监控。     

A robust method for detecting nuclear materials when the underlying model is inexact

This paper is concerned with the detection and identification of nuclides from weak and poorly resolved gamma-ray energy spectra when the underlying model is not known exactly. The algorithm proposed and tested here pairs an exciting and relatively new model selection algorithm with the method of total least squares. Gamma-ray counts are modeled as Poisson processes where the average part is taken to be the model and the difference between the observed gamma-ray counts and the model is considered random noise. Physics provides a template for the model, but we add uncertainty to this template to simulate real life conditions. Unlike most model selection algorithms whose utilities are demonstrated asymptotically, our method emphasizes selection when data is fixed and finite (after all, detector data is undoubtedly finite). Simulation examples provided here demonstrate the proposed algorithm performs well.     

A maximum-efficiency-first multi-path route selection strategy for optical burst switching networks

In this paper, the impact of a path selection on other existing paths in optical burst switching (OBS) networks is studied by analyzing the contention among different traffic streams and the interaction between the route selection and traffic load balance. The results show that there exists a mutual reinforcement interaction among the traffic load of a path, the path burst loss ratio and the contention ability of the path when burst loss ratio based multi-path selection strategies are adopted, which may increase the unbalance of traffic and lead to severe congestion further. A maximum-efficiency-first multi-path selection strategy, which considers the performance of the burst flows and the impact of a path selection on existing OBS paths at the same time by a combined metric of route efficiency, is proposed to maximize the utility of the burst flows and minimize the increment of lost throughput on the path. The performance of the proposed multi-path selection strategy is evaluated through simulation. The results show that the presented strategy obviously outperforms the least burst loss ratio strategy and shortest path first strategy in terms of the burst loss ratio in the practical unbalanced background traffic, especially when the network is heavily loaded.     

一种鲁棒性强的OFDM 水声通信系统*

为了在不同衰落水声信道下实现正交频分复用水声通信,该文提出了一种鲁棒性强的正交频分复用水声通信方案,方案包括编码调制、信道估计和多普勒估计等内容。为了使该系统更稳健,整个信道编码分为两个步骤。首先,循环冗余校验编码器和里德-所罗门编码器用于编码整个数据包,然后循环冗余校验编码器和Turbo 编码器用于编码每个数据帧,其中比特交织编码调制技术用来对抗信道的时变特性。为了得到水声信道估计,使用线性最小均方误差估计器来处理导频数据得到信道估计值。多普勒估计包括帧的多普勒估计和符号的多普勒估计。实验结果表明该系统在不同的衰落信道下都能实现正确的跟踪和译码,系统的鲁棒性能优越。此外,该系统算法计算简单,易于实现,具有良好的工程应用价值。     

一种高光谱图像波段选择的快速混合搜索算法

由于高光谱图像的高数据维和大数据量,现有的波段选择方法大多不能同时具有良好的效果和较短的计算时间。提出了一种用于高光谱图像波段选择的新方法——快速混合搜索算法。该算法将全局搜索和局部寻优有机的结合起来,能够在较短的时间内获得最佳的波段组合,用于高光谱图像的目标分类识别。快速混合搜索算法克服了传统搜索方法在高光谱图像波段选择中的缺陷,能够在提高所选波段性能的同时节省大量的运算时间。分别利用200波段和126波段的AVIRIS对其数据进行了仿真实验。实验结果表明,快速混合搜索算法在所选波段性能和计算耗时方面都获得了令人满意的效果。     

一种混沌扩频序列的产生方法及其优选算法

提出一种基于组合映射模型产生混沌扩频序列的方法. 根据扩频序列的特性要求和多址干扰性能指标,给出了一种混沌扩频序列的优选算法;将得到的优选序列应用于直扩码分多址系统,在不同信道条件下进行仿真,并与优选的Logistic混沌扩频序列进行性能比较,结果表明本方法产生的混沌扩频序列具有和Logistic混沌扩频序列相近的良好性能,而且保密性更好. 关键词： 码分多址 优选算法 多径信道 误码率     

An adaptive reservation scheme for optical network

In this paper, the various Optical Burst Switching (OBS) reservation schemes have been examined in order to reduce data loss caused by either channel scheduling or resources. A novel multi-service OBS edge node with synchronized bandwidth reservation mechanism (SRM) has been proposed, which enables high-speed network transport nodes to dynamically reserve bandwidth needed for active data burst flows. The performance of the proposed mechanism is evaluated by means of NS-2 simulation. The results show that the packet delay is kept within the constraint for each traffic flow and the performance metrics such as burst loss rate, throughput and fairness are remarkably improved.     

Route selection for interference minimization to primary users in cognitive radio ad hoc networks: A cross layer approach

An opportunistic routing problem in a cognitive radio ad hoc network is investigated with an aim to minimize the interference to primary users (PUs) and under the constraint of a minimum end-to-end data rate for secondary users (SUs). Both amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) relaying techniques are considered for message forwarding by SU nodes in the network. Unlike popular transmit power control based solutions for interference management in cognitive radio networks, we adopt a cross layer approach. The optimization problem is formulated as a joint power control, channel assignment and route selection problem. Next, closed form expression for transmission power is derived and corresponding channel selection scheme and routing metric are designed based on this solution. The proposed route selection schemes are shown to depend not only on gains of the interference channels between SUs and PUs but also on the values of the spectrum sensing parameters at the SU nodes in the network. Two distributed routing schemes are proposed based on our analysis; (i) optimal_DF and (ii) suboptimal_AF. The routing schemes could be implemented using existing table driven as well as on demand routing protocols. Extensive simulation results are provided to evaluate performance of our proposed schemes in random multihop networks. Results show significant reduction in PUs’ average interference experience and impressive performance as opportunistic routing schemes can be achieved by our schemes compared to traditional shortest path based routing schemes. Performance improvement is also reported over prominent recent schemes.     

RMSECV曲线筛选光谱波段算法

提出了一种利用偏最小二乘回归系数矩阵筛选光谱波段的算法。该算法利用偏最小二乘回归系数作为筛选光谱波长的依据,参考(root-mean-squares error of cross-validation,RMSECV)曲线,使初选波长数大大降低。在此基础上通过循环选择将无效信息光谱波长剔除,同时增强了所建模型的预测精确性。通过生产过程的Raman光谱数据验证,该算法比传统的利用回归系数筛选波长的算法更好地提高了模型的精确性,同时降低了模型的复杂程度,是一种高效实用的算法。     

Screening chemical libraries for nucleic-acid-binding drugs by in vitro selection: A test case with lividomycin

Summary Screening new drugs is a costly and time-consuming process. Identifying new targets for existing therapeutics is often a particularly effective avenue for drug development. We have investigated whether in vitro selection can be used for target acquisition. Aminoglycoside antibiotics are known to bind to and inactivate functional natural nucleic acids, such as ribosomal RNA. As an example of how new targets for aminoglycosides could be identified, a lividomycin aptamer was iteratively isolated from a random sequence pool. The consensus sequence of this and other anti-aminoglycoside aptamers was used as the basis for a comprehensive search of natural sequence databases. Surprisingly, a high degree of similarity was found between aptamers and genomic sequences from a variety of organisms. While many of the similarities found are in regions of unknown or nonessential function, some of the sequences are found in critical genes in pathogenic organisms.     

Entropic criterion for model selection

Model or variable selection is usually achieved through ranking models according to the increasing order of preference. One of methods is applying Kullback–Leibler distance or relative entropy as a selection criterion. Yet that will raise two questions, why use this criterion and are there any other criteria. Besides, conventional approaches require a reference prior, which is usually difficult to get. Following the logic of inductive inference proposed by Caticha [Relative entropy and inductive inference, in: G. Erickson, Y. Zhai (Eds.), Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 707, 2004 (available from arXiv.org/abs/physics/0311093)], we show relative entropy to be a unique criterion, which requires no prior information and can be applied to different fields. We examine this criterion by considering a physical problem, simple fluids, and results are promising.     

Polymorph selection of magnesium under different pressures: A simulation study

Molecular dynamics simulations were used to investigate the influence of pressure on the structural properties and dynamics of magnesium(Mg)during rapid solidification.The dynamics analysis revealed that,with an increase in pressure,the dynamics of Mg melt slowed down sharply and the dynamical heterogeneities increased,leading to a denser structure.Atom-level structural analysis using the cluster-type index method suggested that the predominant structure transformed from hexagonal closed-packed to face-centered cubic with increasing pressure from 0 GPa to 5 GPa,and then transformed to the A15 complex crystal structure as the pressure increased above 10 GPa.In addition,the nature of polymorph selection was investigated by analyzing the phonon dispersion of Mg under different pressures.These findings provide a novel insight into polymorphic transitions of Mg under pressure and guide the selection of Mg polymorphs for practical applications.