Target tracking using Interactive Multiple Model for Wireless Sensor Network

Target tracking in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) environment is a challenging research problem. Interactive Multiple Model (IMM) is a popular scheme for accurate target tracking. The existing target tracking scheme used in WSN employs Kalman Filter (KF) which fails to track the target accurately due to non availability of target data at regular intervals and missing of packets. Though existing KF based tracking in WSN scheme detects the target, it fails to identify the target. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes a IMM based Target Tracking in WSN named ITTWSN that uses multiple models (velocity and acceleration) to handle both maneuvering and non maneuvering targets and multiple sensors to detect and identify the targets. The performance of the proposed ITTWSN is compared with the KF scheme and it is found that the accuracy of the proposed ITTWSN is better than the existing KF based approach.     

交互式综合型机顶盒研究与分析

机顶盒是三网合一中有线有电视用户通过 ＨＦＣ网接收数字电视进行交互式业务的必设备。本文讨论了交互式综合型机顶盒的关键技术,涉及的主要标准,研究了它的硬软件体系结构,指出具有模拟电视和数字电视接收及交互式功能支持的机顶盒将是发展的必然结果。     

基于IMS的多媒体彩像业务的设计和实现

多媒体彩像(MRT)业务是一种采用多种媒体作为振铃音的增值业务。该文结合IP多媒体子系统(IMS)网络体系结构和MRT业务属性，提出了一种利用多媒体彩像业务平台(MRTSP)来实现MRT业务的方案，包括系统设计和基于会话发起协议(SIP)的信令流程，分析了相关特点并进行了总结。     

基于IMS的早期媒体类业务

通过对基于IP 多媒体子系统(IMS)网络的多媒体彩铃业务与多媒体彩像业务在业务协作方面的分析,指出现有早期媒体类业务解决方案中存在的问题,提出一种基于early-session的扩展方式,可以在同一个IMS呼叫实例中支持多个早期媒体类业务,并给出IMS终端的呼叫模型。     

Process-context aware matchmaking for web service composition

Web service composition can help software developer design more powerful and flexible applications according to requirements of enterprise. But during compositing, how to discover suitable web services is a critical problem in design and implementing application-oriented web service technologies. The traditional keyword-based matchmaking approach is difficult to help developer to find suitable service. Current researches find that to attaching semantics to each registered service can help improve the precision of matchmaking. The improvement can help developer find more suitable service for business process. This paper proposes a novel approach of semantics-based matchmaking, which is named process-context aware matchmaking. The process-context aware matchmaking discovers the suitable service during web service composite modeling. During matchmaking, the approach utilizes not only semantics of technical process but also that of business process of a registered service, thus further improving the precision of matchmaking. We integrate the process-context aware matchmaking with business-process-driven web service composition in an integrated development environment based on Eclipse. The performance evaluation shows that performance overhead of this novel approach is acceptable.     

Designing flexible service systems: application to machine tools

Service system design process is complex in nature and involves many stakeholders. The process becomes more critical in the context of machine tools due to market competition, complexity of services, competency requirements and cost constraints. The objective of this paper is to propose a generic approach for the design of a service system for machine tools which can support a variety of business models along with meeting customers’ demand for flexibility. The proposed approach makes use of fundamental service design steps and offers flexibility to the customers to choose the services, service mechanisms, service levels and service frequencies as per their requirements considering the economic aspects, and thus underlines the involvement and participation of customers in the service design process. It also facilitates service designers to visualize the roles of stakeholders involved in the service process and highlights the importance of customer involvement for customer service assurance and better service experience. Application of the approach is discussed through a case study conducted in association with a leading Indian machine tool manufacturing group.     

A user centric service-oriented modeling approach

With rapid development of service-oriented architecture and cloud computing, web services have been widely employed on the Internet. Quality of Service (QoS) is a very important criterion for service consumers to measure and select services. The selection of web services with respect to non-functional QoS criteria can be considered as a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem when multiple consumers need to share a number of services. This paper describes a new user centric service-oriented modeling approach which is featured by integrating fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Service Component Architecture (SCA) to facilitate web service selection and composition and to effectively satisfy a group of service consumers’ subjective requirements and preferences in the dynamic environment. The main contribution of this method is able to translate a group of users’ fuzzy requirements to services as well as model different levels of hardware and software as services to meet the requirements. We also design a simulated environment that includes 8*8 LED matrix on a circuit board that corresponds to an office with different appliances to demonstrate the dynamic service selection and binding. The simulation is used to assess the computational efficiency of the fuzzy TOPSIS method and the effectiveness of the proposed system.     

RPR保护方式研究

弹性分组环(RPR)是未来城域网的重要发展方向,是业界第一次基于分组业务优化城域网体系结构。本文对RPR的关键技术之一--保护倒换机制进行了分析和研究,并提出了一种基于业务的保护方式。其主要思想在于根据不同的业务特点采用不同的保护方式,从而更好地满足不同业务的要求。     

The challenge of conceptual modeling for product–service systems: status-quo and perspectives for reference models and modeling languages

Confronted with decreasing margins and a rising customer demand for integrated solutions, manufacturing companies integrate complementary services into their portfolio. Offering value bundles (consisting of services and physical goods) takes place in integrated product–service systems, spanning the coordinated design and delivery of services and physical goods for customers. Conceptual Modeling is an established approach to support and guide such efforts. Using a framework for the design and delivery of value bundles as an analytical lens, this study evaluates the current support of reference models and modeling languages for setting up conceptual models for an integrated design and delivery of value bundles. Consecutively, designing modeling languages and reference models to fit the requirements of conceptual models in product–service systems are presented as upcoming challenges in Service Research. To guide further research, first steps are proposed by exemplarily integrating reference models and modeling languages stemming from the service and manufacturing domains.     

Inter-domain service management of broadband virtual private networks

The emergence of an open market for telecommunication services provides a wide range of opportunities for the provision of value-added services by providers other than public network operators. One service already available today is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that provides dispersed corporate sites with wide-area data communication capabilities using public network services. The introduction of Broadband ISDN allows for the provision of VPN services in a more integrated fashion. However, any effective VPN service must be able to deal with the technological and organizational heterogeneities that are present when providing a high level of service functionality over an arbitrary number of administrative and technological domains. This paper presents a management service for a VPN service that addresses some multi-domain and network heterogeneity issues. It outlines how a design based on the ITU-T's Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) Recommendation was developed and how working prototypes were implemented over real broadband networks.     

Measurement,modeling and enhancement of BitTorrent-based VoD system

BitTorrent is one of the most popular Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications for file sharing over the Internet. Video files take up a large proportion of space among the BitTorrent shared files. Recently, BitTorrent has attracted researchers’ interests, as an alternative method of providing video on demand (VoD) service. In this paper, we concentrate on enabling BitTorrent to support VoD service in existing swarms while maintaining the download efficiency of file-sharing users. We first examine the content properties of the BitTorrent system to explore the demands and challenges of VoD service in BitTorrent swarms. The efficiency of BitTorrent for various piece selection policies is then compared through measurement on PlanetLab. We also use an optimization mathematical model to analyze the hybrid BitTorrent system in which downloading peers and streaming peers coexist. Both measurement results and model analysis indicate the problem of system efficiency decline in the BitTorrent-based VoD systems, in comparison with the original BitTorrent file-sharing system. Our proposed approach, unlike existing strategies that are limited to changing the piece selection policy to allow BitTorrent to support streaming services, modifies both piece and peer selection policies to provide a “streaming while downloading” service in the BitTorrent system with downloading peers. For the peer selection policy, a CAP (Closest-Ahead Peers) method is applied to make better use of the peers’ upload bandwidths. For the piece selection policy, a sliding window-based hybrid method that combines the rarest-first policy with the sequential policy is proposed. To demonstrate the performance of our proposed approach, an evaluation is made using various metrics on PlanetLab. The results show that our proposed method has higher throughput and better streaming continuity than the sequential policy and BiToS.     

基于本体的服务网络平台及其构建方法

在基于语义关系的大规模Web服务组织结构：服务网络模型的基础上,构建了服务网络系统平台。提供了对Web服务和服务关系的描述,使得Web服务的自动化处理成为可能。设计了可动态优化的服务网络系统内核,实现了服务网络的数据存储、网络优化和关系挖掘;设计和实现了系统创建维护工具、系统服务增长工具、可视化工具等一整套核心工具;给出了服务关系构成建的基本方法和流程,完善了网络结构。最后,一些基于服务网络的应用证明了该系统的有效性和广泛适用性。     

Conceptual design of a user-centric smart product-service system using self-organizing map

As an emerging IT-driven business paradigm, smart product-service system (Smart PSS), which offers not only the smart, connected product (SCP) but also its generated service as a solution bundle, has become a vital research topic. Many research efforts have been devoted to constructing the conceptual design framework by considering SCPs and services simultaneously. However, the following critical issues in Smart PSS conceptual design have not been well addressed: how to improve the solution of Smart PSS in the conceptual design stage to meet user emotional requirements. Aiming to fill the gap, this work proposes a conceptual design method for Smart PSS from the perspective of analyzing user-generated emotions/feelings. Specifically, the relevant traditional products are identified, and their public review data is used to analyze user emotions/feelings in user-product interaction. Interactive emotion board as a new design tool is presented to organize the user-generated emotions/feelings, associated design elements, and the potential design points of the initial solution. And the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is utilized to evaluate the improved solution. To ensure the efficiency of the analysis process, the self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm is utilized in the process of clustering product samples and Kansei words. A case study of smart electric bicycle service system (SEBSS) design is used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method. Based on the case study, the proposed approach appears effective in helping with Smart PSS conceptual design.     

An experimental analysis of Joost peer-to-peer VoD service

Despite strong interest in peer-to-peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) services, existing studies mostly focus on peer-to-peer or overlay protocol design based on simulations under various topological constraints. We believe experimental studies on a real-life P2P VoD system will provide valuable information to ISPs, network administrators, and content owners. In this paper we present a comprehensive analytical and experimental study on Joost, one of the first commercial P2P VoD systems used for distributing various forms of video over the Internet. Our extensive experiments prove that Joost is a server-assisted peer-to-peer VoD system. With several envisioned typical scenarios we have further investigated the peer management in terms of time pattern, bandwidth consumption and locality considerations. Our major findings include: (1) the current Joost system is capable of providing high-quality VoD service through the use of an overlay network deployed with a set of centralized content servers; (2) inter-continental links are often used regardless of the number of local users, which may pose a high burden on the network providers; (3) easily reachable, high-capacity nodes are selected as main relaying nodes, similar to super nodes in Skype, to facilitate the traversal of symmetric NATs and firewalls. We also provide insights on the potential ways to construct more efficient P2P VoD systems (e.g. considering topological locality-awareness, using adaptive/layered video).     

Extracting intermediate-level design knowledge for speculating digital–physical hybrid alternate reality experiences

Multimedia Tools and Applications - This paper reports a process to derive intermediate-level knowledge as a service design and analysis framework for designing digital services to offer alternate...