Foveation-Based Error Resilience and Unequal Error Protection over Mobile Networks

By exploiting new human-machine interface techniques, such as visual eyetrackers, it should be possible to develop more efficient visual multimedia services associated with low bandwidth, dynamic channel adaptation and robust visual data transmission. In this paper, we introduce foveation-based error resilience and unequal error protection techniques over highly error-prone mobile networks. Each frame is spatially divided into foveated and background layers according to perceptual importance. Perceptual importance is determined either through an eye tracker or by manually selecting a region of interest. We attempt to improve reconstructed visual quality by maintaining the high visual source throughput of the foveated layer using foveation-based error resilience and error correction using a combination of turbo codes and ARQ (automatic reQuest). In order to alleviate the degradation of visual quality, a foveation based bitstream partitioning is developed. In an effort to increase the source throughput of the foveated layer, we develop unequal delay-constrained ARQ (automatic reQuest) and rate compatible punctured turbo codes where the punctual pattern of RCPC (rate compatible punctured convolutional) codes in H.223 Annex C is used. In the simulation, the visual quality is significantly increased in the area of interest using foveation-based error resilience and unequal error protection; (as much as 3 dB FPSNR (foveal peak signal to noise ratio) improvement) at 40% packet error rate. Over real-fading statistics measured in the downtown area of Austin, Texas, the visual quality is increased up to 1.5 dB in PSNR and 1.8 dB in FPSNR at a channel SNR of 5 dB.     

Surfactant behavior and its influence on the viscosity of associative thickeners solutions, thickened latex dispersions, and waterborne latex coatings

Surfactants, varying in their chemical composition and hydrophobic behavior, are used in the formulation of a waterborne coating. These differences influence their aggregation in micellar structures, their interaction with associative thickeners, and in particular, the synergies present in their competitive adsorptions on the disperse phases in a waterborne coating. Adsorption of HEUR thickeners on latexes and the ability of surfactants to displace them from those surfaces is an important variable in the dispersion’s viscosity. With large particle latexes, viscosity increases arise primarily from the network built through the interaction of HEURs with surfactants in the aqueous phase. Fluorescence is used to verify the mechanism by which surfactants enhance associative thickener viscosities. That is best achieved with nonionic surfactants, because of their synergies with large hydrophobe HEURs at low concentration. With decreasing latex particle size the adsorbed species is an important contributor to the dispersion’s viscosity through its contribution to the latex’s effective volume fraction increase and when the size of the adsorbed HEUR is matched to the separation distances of the latex at 0.25 volume fraction. Achieving controlled shear-thinning behavior in small particle size latex paints with the economic constraints on the amount of HEUR required to obtain 90 KU viscosities are discussed. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, October 30–November 1, 2002, in New Orleans, LA. Polymer and Coatings Dept., Fargo, ND 58103.     

疲劳/蠕变复合作用下聚苯乙烯的交互损伤研究

探讨了在疲劳／蠕变复合作用下聚苯乙烯的损伤交互作用，结果表明，在疲劳／蠕变复合作用下聚苯乙烯存在疲劳和蠕变的交互损伤，其断裂寿命比纯疲劳或纯蠕变的断裂寿命低；断裂机制是疲劳循环载荷松动和活化了分子链或链段，从而促进蠕变运动和断裂，并且，疲劳／蠕变的交互损伤程度与温度密切相关。     

高坝洲电站碾压混凝土纵向围堰拆除爆破设计与实践

介绍了高坝洲电站碾压混凝土下游纵向围堰现场爆破试验成果,在分析爆破试验效果的基础上进行碾压混凝土围堰拆除爆破设计,详细分析了拆除爆破实施效果及主要影响因素.     

山西引黄工程南干线7# 隧洞衬砌外水压力研究

本文采用综合修正系数取代规范建议的单一折减系数,用渗流场分析方法确定作用在引黄入晋南干线7#隧洞衬砌上的外水压力。由己知钻孔水位及泉水位反演出各地层的渗透张量及地表入渗强度求得初始渗流场。衬砌外水压力分析中考虑了衬砌混凝土的渗透性以及排水、灌浆等工程措施的影响。根据分析结果,提出了系统排水孔布置的建议,得出了在相应的排水减压措施下衬砌厚度由原设计35cm减至25cm,这一建议已被采用,取得了巨大经济效益。     

数据的VV&C研究

数据的可信性是建模与仿真领域中一个重要的问题。该文首先介绍了数据校核、验证与证明 (VV&C)的基本概念。然后确定了数据VV&C评估的主要策略 :过程模型以及支持数据质量的元数据模板等几方面内容。接着对数据的VV&C和建模与仿真的VV&A的关系作了简要比较。最后举出了一个综合环境评估和检查工具的例子。     

铁通资源管理系统的设计和实现

在分析铁路通信资源结构的基础上,利用地理信息系统技术、数据库技术和客户/服务器(C/S)模式,为铁通(ChinaTietong)各级分公司和运营部门提供一套较为完善的资源管理信息系统。文中分析了铁通资源的结构与资源之间的关联,介绍了系统功能、物理结构及体系结构,详细分析了数据库设计、地理信息系统和系统安全性所采用的关键技术。这套系统的应用对铁通网络管理的现代化将起到重要的推动作用。     

光突发交换中的冲突解决协议

文章介绍了适合于在当前技术条件下的新交换技术-光突发交换，并对光突发交换中的各种冲突解决协议进行了阐述和对比．     

潜油电泵易损零部件失效分析方法

通过对大庆油田近5 a潜油电泵易损零部件的数据统计,应用可靠性分析理论和方法研究了易损零部件的失效规律,得出4大部件的故障率占整个机组系统的91.7%,其可靠度由小到大的次序为电机、保护器、电泵和分离器。在这4大部件中,可靠度较低的零件主要有泵轴、叶导轮、扶正轴承、胶囊和保护器轴,其中泵轴、叶导轮、扶正轴承的主要失效模式是磨损,连接螺栓的主要失效模式是断裂失效。     

移动式数据挖掘平台模型

本文提出了一种移动式网络海量数据挖掘平台，给出了数据挖掘任务的形式化描述，详细讨论了平台的体系结构、工作原理与流程。该平台克服了传统网络计算模式的缺陷，支持对异质、分散数据源和知识源的挖掘和检索，具有开放性、可伸缩性、灵活性、可扩展性、健壮性。