异构无线网络的端到端重配置技术研究

E2R（端到端重配置）技术利用SDR（软件无线电）提供的重配置能力,结合先进的资源管理机制和灵活的空中接口实现技术,实现对异构环境的灵活适应和对异构无线资源的有效利用。本文论述了E2R技术的产生背景和基本概念,对重配置研究中的关键技术（体系结构、资源管理和空中接口实现）进行了系统总结,最后就重配置未来研究的重点提出了一些看法。     

On Sensor Network Reconfiguration for Downtime-Free System Migration

Many state-of-the-art wireless sensor networks have been equipped with reprogramming modules, e.g., those for software/firmware updates. System migration tasks such as software reprogramming, however, will interrupt normal sensing and data processing operations of a sensor node. Although such tasks are occasionally invoked, the long time of such tasks may disable the network from detecting critical events, posing a severe threat to many sensitive applications. In this paper, we present the first formal study on the problem of downtime-free migration. We demonstrate that the downtime can be effectively eliminated, by partitioning the sensors into subsets, and let them perform migration tasks successively with the rest still performing normal services. We then present a series of effective algorithms, and further extend our solution to a practical distributed and localized implementation. The performance of these algorithms have been evaluated through extensive simulations, and the results demonstrate that our algorithms achieve good balance between the sensing quality and system migration time.

Virtual topology transition sequence problem on WDM networks with dedicated protection

Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology has emerged as a promising technology for backbone networks. The set of all-optical communication channels (lightpaths) in the optical layer defines the virtual topology for the upper layer applications. Since the traffic demand of upper layer applications fluctuates from time to time, it is required to reconfigure the underlying virtual topology in the optical layer accordingly. However, the reconfiguration for the virtual topology is reluctantly disruptive to the network since some lightpaths should be torn down and some traffic has to be buffered or rerouted during the reconfiguration process. Therefore, it needs to have an efficient transition method to shift the current virtual topology to the new one so as to minimize the effect of the reconfiguration on the upper layer traffic. In this article, the WDM virtual topology transition sequence problem (WVTTSP) which minimizes the average weighted delay (AWD) is studied. Since the WVTTSP is NP-hard, a heuristic solution model is proposed to solve it. Simulation results show that the proposed least weighted distance first (LWDF) method can find the best result and the time spent by it is less than 4 s for a middle-sized network with 100 links and with 30 wavelengths per link.

Locally reconfigurable p-cycle networks for dual-failure restoration

p-Cycle reconfiguration methods (for instance complete, incremental, or dynamic-repair) based on the first event adaptive restoration model provide a promising approach for improving the dual-failure restorability characteristics of static p-cycle methods based on the static preplanned restoration model. However, if the reconfiguration process triggered by the first failure is not completed before a second failure occurs, p-cycle reconfiguration methods fail to achieve 100% dual-failure restorability and reduce to the static p-cycle methods which do not take advantage of the spare capacity to be reconfigured. In this study, we propose to use a new restoration model designated as first event locally adaptive restoration model with a coordinated re-restoration effort. This model is aimed to limit the reconfiguration scope to a local p-cycle where the spare capacity is only reconfigured on its straddling links for reducing the reconfiguration overhead (i.e., the average number of reconfigured links during the reconfiguration time.) According to this model, a two-phase locally reconfigurable p-cycle method is proposed. Only the straddling links of the local p-cycle affected by the first failure are reconfigured in the first phase. The second phase is not initialized until the second failure really occurs in the affected local p-cycle. The second phase is to enable the dual-failure restorations with a coordinated re-restoration effort for the first failed link from its original end nodes for any damage that the second failure causes to previously deployed restoration paths. The objective of the proposed method is to maximize the dual-failure restorability within a limited reconfiguration scope. We evaluate the correlation between the normalized spare capacity cost and the dual-failure restorability. The results show that the proposed local reconfiguration heuristic method improves the average dual-failure restorability of the 9n17s and Cost 230 networks by 45.1% and 20.1%, respectively, relative to the static p-cycles method and achieves closely the optimal value obtained using integer linear programming (ILP). Additionally, the spare capacity cost of the proposed local reconfiguration method is smaller than that of previous p-cycle reconfiguration methods in the two test networks.

技术生态位视角下技术变迁过程的仿真分析:一个基于不同模式的对比研究

为解释不同技术变迁模式的作用原理,基于技术生态位理论,采用NetLogo软件进行智能体仿真实验。研究结果表明:技术外干扰的作用与强度是技术能否借助转变模式实现变迁的关键;技术变迁的去结盟与再结盟模式将导致生态位网络呈现区域高连通性,但主导技术出现空白阶段的情况;技术替代模式的技术变迁利于新技术通过生态位的积累与扩展建立市场权力,并逐步淘汰体制技术;技术变迁的重组模式是以成功的技术创新为前提,推动突破性创新涌现并彻底实现技术变革的方式。研究不仅从理论拓展和研究方法两个方面为技术生态位理论做出了贡献,而且所得结论亦从管理实践的角度,为管理者制定行之有效的技术变迁策略提供了有益借鉴。     

动态可重构技术浅述

动态可重构技术可以利用可重配置硬件的灵活性,使可重配置硬件不同时刻完成不同的功能.分析表明,通过对可重配置硬件的复用进而扩大硬件的等效规模,可以节省硬件资源的面积、输入/输出管脚和系统的功耗等.研究了动态可重构技术包含的内容,讨论了动态可重构系统设计过程中需要考虑的问题并描述了其发展趋势.     

光网络选路和波长分配研究

文章在叙述了光网络中选路和波长分配(RWA)要解决的基本问题后,对有关方面的近年研究作了综述,主要包括:虚拓扑重构、业务量疏导的RWA、多播RWA、抗毁网络的RWA.抗毁问题涉及WDM网络的抗毁选路、区分可靠性、网状网的快速恢复、多故障下的抗毁.     

Towards Mobile Ubiquitous Service Environment

In this article we present a perspective on future vision of mobile communications and services which is referred to as Mobile Ubiquitous Service Environment (MUSE). Based on analysis of wireless communications and services, we exploit a conceptual model for MUSE via a top-down approach. The conceptual model consists of three major elements: Terminal Service Environment (TSE), Network Service Environment (NSE) and User Identity (UID). The concept of Always the Best Experience (ABE) is addressed as the hinge in design and development such that the user-centric services could be provided automatically and intelligently in the future diverse wireless world Based on these, we further discuss the issues on design and implementation of architecture of future wireless communication system. Requirements for architecture brought by the new features of MUSE are listed. Moreover, we also address several tradeoffs that should be taken into consideration in design. Finally, the deployment challenges for MUSE, such as reflectiveness of system, security and privacy, as well as peer-to-peer AAA are predicted.Ji Yang received PhD degree on Circuit and System, Bachelor degree on Telecommunication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2002 and 1993 respectively. Currently, he is an associate professor of BUPT, chief technical supervisor of Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, and vice manager of MTlab of Sino-Germany Software Institute. He leads the research on service and application in Future Forum in China. He also made much contribution to the China Communication Standardization Association (CCSA), including the vision of future Mobile Ubiquitous Service Environment, architecture of future B3G mobile terminal, etc. His research interests include architecture design for mobile ubiquitous networks, theory of self-organization, etc.Zhang Ping is now the professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and director of Wireless Technology Innovation (WTI) Institute, BUPT. He has also served on the senior member of C3G Group, China MOST 863 future mobile communication FuTURE project, vice-chairman of China FuTURE Forum, and member of Vision Committee of World Wireless Research Forum(WWRF), he was vice chair of WWRF in 2005. He is also invited as the consultants for many domestic and oversea communication companies. He is very active on the international research activity on Beyond 3G area. He also participated in several European projects such as E2R and MOCCA. Until now, he has published 6 books, around 400 publications in journals and conferences in the area of telecommunications. His main research interests are theory and applications in wireless communication area. He was awarded by government, city of Beijing and Ministry of Information Industry several times for his great contribution to the industry and research activity in China.Hu Zheng is a PH.D candidate in mobile communications engineering in Wireless Technology Innovation Institute (WTI) at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). He received B.S degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2002, majoring in computer communications engineering. He currently works on serivce aspects of mobile ubiquitous communication system with focus on design and performance evaluation of interaction protocols and services in self-organized service environment.Wang Xu received the B.Tech. degree in electronic engineering from Beijing Polytechnic University (now named as Beijing University of Technology), Beijing, China, in 2002. Now he is working for his Ph.D. degree in Wireless Technology Innovation (WTI) Institute, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). His current interests include wireless communications in personal area, ad hoc networks and peer-to-peer system.Li Yinong received the BS degree major in Telecommunication Engineering in 1993 from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the MS degree and PhD degree major in Telecommunication and Electronic System in 1995 and 2003 from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is currently a lecture of STE (School of Telecommunication Engineering) of BUPT. His main research interests include service modeling, service composition approach, and intelligent service. In BUPT, he has given several lectures to both graduate and undergraduate students such as Information Theory, Speech Recognition, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.     

The Erlangen Slot Machine: A Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA-based Computer

Computer architects have been studying the dynamically reconfigurable computer (Schaumont, Verbauwhede, Keutzer, and Sarrafzadeh, “A Quick Safari through the Reconfiguration Jungle,” in Proc. of the 38th Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas, pp. 127–177, 2001) for a number of years. New capabilities such as on-demand computing power, self-adaptiveness and self-optimization capabilities by restructuring the hardware on the fly at run-time is seen as a driving technology factor for current research initiatives such as autonomic (Kephart and Chess, Computer, 36:41–52, 2003; IBM Autonomic Computing Initiative, (http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/)) and organic computing (Müller-Schloer, von der Malsburg, and Würtz, Inform.-Spektrum, 27:332–336, 2004; The Organic Computing Page, (http://www.organic-computing.org)). Much research work is currently devoted to models for partial hardware module relocation (SPP1148 Reconfigurable Computing Priority Program, (http://www12.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/spprr/)) and dynamically reconfigurable hardware reconfiguration on e.g., FPGA-based platforms. However, there are many physical restrictions and technical problems limiting the scope or applicability of these approaches. This led us to the development of a new FPGA-based reconfigurable computer called the Erlangen Slot Machine. The architecture overcomes many architectural constraints of existing platforms and allows a user to partially reconfigure hardware modules arranged in so-called slots. The uniqueness of this computer stems from (a) a new slot-oriented hardware architecture, (b) a set of novel inter-module communication paradigms, and (c) concepts for dynamic and partial reconfiguration management.

ATM网络中基于VP的资源管理

介绍了 ATM (异步转移模式 )网络中基于虚通道进行资源管理的方案 ,讨论了 VPC (虚通道连接 )拓扑和 VPC容量分配问题 ,详细讨论了全局重新配置方案 ,及与其它三种管理方案的性能进行比较分析