多层卫星网络路由协议研究

多层卫星网络是卫星星座发展的一种理想组网模式,组网的关键技术在于路由协议的选取和设计。本文介绍了多层卫星网络的概况,按照不同的标准对现有多层卫星网络路由协议进行了分类,详细分析了现有的几类典型的路由协议,指出了存在的问题,并对以后的研究方向作了展望。     

Virtual segment: Store–carry–forward relay-based support for wide-area non-real-time data exchange

We have proposed the concept of the virtual segment (VS), in which a global communication service is provided by combining a store–carry–forward scheme using vehicles with broadband wireless/wired network infrastructures along roads connected to the Internet. The VS can be a practical framework for non-real-time, asynchronous message transfer (especially for large messages) in a cost-effective manner. In this study, a critical implementation design issue, the message forward scheduling, in the VS approach is discussed and investigated through computer simulation by our developed VS simulator that has reflected the results of the field experiment for realistic performance evaluation.     

Adaptive PSODV algorithm for OPF with non-smooth cost functions and statistical analysis

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization with differentially perturbed velocity hybrid algorithm with adaptive acceleration coefficient (APSO-DV) for solving the optimal power flow problem with non-smooth and non-convex generator fuel cost characteristics. The APSO-DV employs differentially perturbed velocity with adaptive acceleration coefficient for updating the positions of particles for the particle swarm optimization. The feasibility of the proposed approach was tested on IEEE 30-bus and IEEE 118-bus systems with three different objective functions. Several cases were investigated to test and validate the robustness of the proposed method in finding the optimal solution. The effectiveness of the proposed approach was tested including contingency also. Simulation results demonstrate that the APSO-DV provides superior results compared to classical DE, PSO, PSO-DV and other methods recently reported in the literature. An innovative statistical analysis based on central tendency measures and dispersion measures was carried out on the bus voltage profiles and voltage stability indices.     

Architectural design and FPGA implementation of radix-4 CORDIC processor

A new scaled radix-4 CORDIC architecture that incorporates pipelining and parallelism is presented. The latency of the architecture is n/2 clock cycles and throughput rate is one valid result per n/2 clocks for n bit precision. A 16 bit radix-4 CORDIC architecture is implemented on the available FPGA platform. The corresponding latency of the architecture is eight clock cycles and throughput rate is one valid result per eight clock cycles. The entire scaled architecture operates at 56.96 MHz of clock rate with a power consumption of 380 mW. The speed can be enhanced with the upgraded version of FPGA device. A speed-area optimized processor is obtained through this architecture and is suitable for real time applications.     

MANET与Internet互连环境中基于多指标的网关优选方案

针对MANET与Internet多网关互连时,网关负载不平衡、分组时延大等问题,提出基于移动节点到网关的跳数、网关负载和路径质量的多指标网关优选方案.以数据包队列长度表示网关负载,以网关公告间隔的变化和网关请求/应答时间表示路径质量.移动节点利用这三个指标,按照简单加性加权算法计算备选网关的效用函数,选择效用值最高的网关作为其接入网关.仿真试验结果表明,应用该方案实现了网关间的负载平衡,分组递交率高、平均分组延迟小,优于单纯以跳数和负载为指标的网关选择方案.     

基于CAN与无线射频技术的煤矿监控系统设计

为了将CAN总线的现场控制优势和射频技术的智能无线识别优势结合到一起,设计了一种基于CAN总线和射频技术的煤矿监控系统。射频芯片选用Intel R1000,可支持EPCGEN2 915MHz RFID标准,处理器选用Samsung公司ARM92410芯片作为主控制器。     

量子密码研究与进展

量子密码解决了传统密码技术存在的问题,是近年来国际学术界的一个研究热点。本文论述了传统密码技术存在的问题,阐述了量子密码的基本原理,介绍了主要的量子密码协议：BB84协议、B92协议和E91协议等,并研究了量子密码通信的研究现状及其进展。量子密码必将会在网络安全通信中得到广泛的应用。     

Influence of personality and individual abilities on the sense of presence experienced in anxiety triggering virtual environments

In the literature, there are few studies of the human factors involved in the engagement of presence. The present study aims to investigate the influence of five user characteristics – test anxiety, spatial intelligence, verbal intelligence, personality and computer experience – on the sense of presence. This is the first study to investigate the influence of spatial intelligence on the sense of presence, and the first to use an immersive virtual reality system to investigate the relationship between users’ personality characteristics and presence. The results show a greater sense of presence in test anxiety environments than in a neutral environment. Moreover, high test anxiety students feel more presence than their non-test anxiety counterparts. Spatial intelligence and introversion also influence the sense of presence experienced by high test anxiety students exposed to anxiety triggering virtual environments. These results may help to identify new groups of patients likely to benefit from virtual reality exposure therapy.     

Network interfaces for programmable NICs and multicore platforms

The availability of multicore processors and programmable NICs, such as TOEs (TCP/IP Offloading Engines), provides new opportunities for designing efficient network interfaces to cope with the gap between the improvement rates of link bandwidths and microprocessor performance. This gap poses important challenges related with the high computational requirements associated to the traffic volumes and wider functionality that the network interface has to support. This way, taking into account the rate of link bandwidth improvement and the ever changing and increasing application demands, efficient network interface architectures require scalability and flexibility. An opportunity to reach these goals comes from the exploitation of the parallelism in the communication path by distributing the protocol processing work across processors which are available in the computer, i.e. multicore microprocessors and programmable NICs.Thus, after a brief review of the different solutions that have been previously proposed for speeding up network interfaces, this paper analyzes the onloading and offloading alternatives. Both strategies try to release host CPU cycles by taking advantage of the communication workload execution in other processors present in the node. Nevertheless, whereas onloading uses another general-purpose processor, either included in a chip multiprocessor (CMP) or in a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP), offloading takes advantage of processors in programmable network interface cards (NICs). From our experiments, implemented by using a full-system simulator, we provide a fair and more complete comparison between onloading and offloading. Thus, it is shown that the relative improvement on peak throughput offered by offloading and onloading depends on the rate of application workload to communication overhead, the message sizes, and on the characteristics of the system architecture, more specifically the bandwidth of the buses and the way the NIC is connected to the system processor and memory. In our implementations, offloading provides lower latencies than onloading, although the CPU utilization and interrupts are lower for onloading. Taking into account the conclusions of our experimental results, we propose a hybrid network interface that can take advantage of both, programmable NICs and multicore processors.     

Multiresolution HVS and statistically based image coding scheme

In this paper a novel multiresolution human visual system and statistically based image coding scheme is presented. It decorrelates the input image into a number of subbands using a lifting based wavelet transform. The codec employs a novel statistical encoding algorithm to code the coefficients in the detail subbands. Perceptual weights are applied to regulate the threshold value of each detail subband that is required in the statistical encoding process. The baseband coefficients are losslessly coded. An extension of the codec to the progressive transmission of images is also developed. To evaluate the performance of the coding scheme, it was applied to a number of test images and its performance with and without perceptual weights is evaluated. The results indicate significant improvement in both subjective and objective quality of the reconstructed images when perceptual weights are employed. The performance of the proposed technique was also compared to JPEG and JPEG2000. The results show that the proposed coding scheme outperforms both coding standards at low compression ratios, while offering satisfactory performance at higher compression ratios.