Privacy Protected Spatial Query Processing for Advanced Location Based Services

Due to the popularity of mobile devices (e.g., cell phones, PDAs, etc.), location-based services have become more and more prevalent in recent years. However, users have to reveal their location information to access location-based services with existing service infrastructures. It is possible that adversaries could collect the location information, which in turn invades user’s privacy. There are existing solutions for query processing on spatial networks and mobile user privacy protection in Euclidean space. However there is no solution for solving queries on spatial networks with privacy protection. Therefore, we aim to provide network distance spatial query solutions which can preserve user privacy by utilizing K-anonymity mechanisms. In this paper, we propose an effective location cloaking mechanism based on spatial networks and two novel query algorithms, PSNN and PSRQ, for answering nearest neighbor queries and range queries on spatial networks without revealing private information of the query initiator. We demonstrate the appeal of our technique using extensive simulation results.     

高功率CO2激光作用下硅镜热畸变的动态过程研究

以光学干涉方法,实验研究了在CO2激光束入射在硅镜上,硅镜热畸变的动态过程。在变形之初,硅镜镜面的位移量变化迅速。对于一面70mm,厚8mm的硅镜,吸收激光功率140W,作用时间4s时最大挠变形0.76μm.这对于高功率短波长激光器而言是不可忽略的。     

β-bit serial/parallel multipliers

A generalized -bit least-significant-digit (LSD) first, serial/parallel multiplier architecture is presented with 1n wheren is the operand size. The multiplier processes both the serial input operand and the double precision product -bits per clock cycle in an LSD first, synchronous fashion. The complete two's complement double precision product requires 2n/ clock cycles. This generalized architecture creates a continuum of multipliers between traditional bit-serial/parallel multipliers (=1) and fully-parallel multipliers (=n). -bit serial/parallel multipliers allow anoptimized integrated circuit arithmetic to be designed based on a particular application's area, power, throughput, latency, and numerical precision constraints.This project was pratically funded by the UCSD-NSF I/UCR Center on Ultra-High Speed Intergrated Circuits and Systems.     

Thiocyanate‐Free Ru(II) Sensitizers with a 4,4′‐Dicarboxyvinyl‐2,2′‐bipyridine Anchor for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

A new class of thiocyanate‐free Ru(II) sensitizers with 4,4′‐dicarboxyvinyl‐2,2′‐bipyridine anchor and two trans‐oriented pyrid‐2‐yl pyrazolate (or triazolate) functional chromophores is synthesized, characterized, and evaluated in dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Despite their enhanced red response and absorptivity when compared to the parent sensitizer TFRS‐2 that possesses standard 4,4′‐dicarboxyl‐2,2′‐bipyridine anchor and shows the best conversion efficiency of η = 9.82%, the newly synthesized carboxyvinyl‐pyrazolate sensitizers, TFRS‐11 – TFRS‐13 , exhibit inferior performance characteristics in terms of short‐circuit current density (J_SC), open‐circuit voltage (V_OC), and power conversion efficiency (η), the latter being recorded to be in the range 5.60–7.62%. The reduction in device efficiencies is attributed to a combination of poor packing of these sensitizers on the TiO₂ surface and less positive ground‐state oxidation potentials, which, respectively, increase charge recombination with I₃^? in electrolytes and impede the regeneration of sensitizers by I^? anions. The latter obstacle can be circumvented in part by the replacement of the pyrazolates with triazolates, forming the TFRS‐14 sensitizer, which exhibits an improved J_SC, V_OC, and η of 16.4 mAcm^?2, 0.77 V, and 9.02%, respectively.     

Application of Internet of Things Micropower Smart Switch in Temperature Monitoring

This study uses the smart phone with the Android system to construct a cloud-side smart switch system in the client-server architecture with the Android open platform system, using microprocessors (MCU 16F690) as the thermostat controller and combined with Raspberry Pi. The computing technology extends the control of the constant temperature from the local to the cloud, allowing the user to view the temperature status recorded by the cloud server using the smart phone application (App) or web browser. It can even remotely control the heating power of the smart switch for the heating device in the Internet control environment and use the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control and the pulse-width modulation (PWM) technology to achieve intelligent constant temperature control. The proposed control system uses the expert PID control as the core to calculate the duty cycle of the PWM signal to control the power output of the smart switch for the constant temperature water tank. The experiment results verify the effectiveness of the proposed system.     

A 400-MHz random-cycle dual-port interleaved DRAM (D/sup 2/RAM) with standard CMOS Process

This paper describes a standard CMOS process based on embedded DRAM macro with dual-port interleaved DRAM architecture (D/sup 2/RAM), which is suitable for the leading edge CMOS LSIs with both high-speed and large-scale memories on a chip. This macro exploits three key technologies: fully sense-signal-loss compensating technology based on the whole detailed noise element breakdowns, the novel striped trench capacitor (STC) cell, and the write-before-sensing (WBS) circuit by decoded write-bus. A 400-MHz random cycle access has been verified for D/sup 2/RAM fabricated by a 0.15-/spl mu/m standard CMOS process.     

Solution‐Processible Blue‐Light‐Emitting Polymers Based on Alkoxy‐Substituted Poly(spirobifluorene)

Alkoxy‐substituted poly(spirobifluorene)s and their copolymers with a triphenylamine derivative have been synthesized by Ni(0)‐mediated polymerization. The polymers were well soluble in common organic solvents. Pure blue‐light emissions without the long wavelength emission of poly(fluorene)s have been observed in the fluorescence spectra of polymer thin films. The light emitting diodes with a device configuration of ITO/PEDT:PSS(30 nm)/polymer(60 nm)/LiF(1 nm)/Al(100 nm) have been fabricated. The electroluminescence spectra showed the blue emissions without the long wavelength emission as observed in the fluorescence spectra. The relatively poor electroluminescence quantum yield of the homopolymer (0.017% @ 20 mA/cm²) with color coordinates of (0.16, 0.07) has been improved by the introduction of triphenylamine moiety, and the copolymer with triphenylamine derivative exhibited an electroluminescence quantum yield of 0.15 % at 20 mA/cm² with color coordinates of (0.16, 0.08). Moreover, the introduction of polar side chains to the spirobifluorene moiety enhanced the device performance and led to the quantum yields of 0.6 to 0.7 % at 20 mA/cm², although there was some expense of color purities.     

Behavior of the partial correlation coefficients of a least squareslattice filter in the presence of a nonstationary chirp input

This paper studies the performance of the a posteriori recursive least squares lattice filter in the presence of a nonstationary chirp signal. The forward and backward partial correlation (PARCOR) coefficients for a Wiener-Hopf optimal filter are shown to be complex conjugates for the general case of a nonstationary input with constant power. Such an optimal filter is compared to a minimum mean square error based least squares lattice adaptive filter. Expressions are found for the behavior of the first stage of the adaptive filter based on the least squares algorithm. For the general nth stage, the PARCOR coefficients of the previous stages are assumed to have attained Wiener-Hopf optimal steady state. The PARCOR coefficients of such a least squares adaptive filter are compared with the optimal coefficients for such a nonstationary input. The optimal lattice fitter is seen to track a chirp input without any error, and the tracking lag in such an adaptive filter is due to the least squares update procedure. The expression for the least squares based PARCOR coefficients are found to contain two terms: a decaying convergence term due to the weighted estimation procedure and a tracking component that asymptotically approaches the optimal coefficient value. The rate of convergence is seen to depend inversely on the forgetting factor. The tracking lag of the filter is derived as a function of the rate of nonstationarity and the forgetting factor. It is shown that for a given chirp rate there is a threshold adaptation constant below which the total tracking error is negligible. For forgetting factors above this threshold, the error increases nonlinearly. Further, this threshold forgetting factor decreases with increasing chirp rate. Simulations are presented to validate the analysis     

基于ATC51的新型数控直流电源设计

针对目前的电源普遍存在输出恒定、精度较差的问题,设计了一种基于单片机的新型数控直流电源。主要分为电源模块,单片机控制模块,数码管、按键模块和PWM波输出驱动模块这4部分。首先通过键盘输入预期的电压值,单片机根据输入值输出不同占空比的PWM波,控制可控稳压芯片LM317的输出,输出结果在数码管上显示。在整个系统中,由专门的电源稳压模块提供稳定电压以减小误差。输出电压范围为0.00～15.00 V,电流范围0～1 A,误差不超过5%,具有使用灵活、精度高、工作稳定,成本低的优点,适宜推广使用。     

A novel PHINES flash memory cell with low power program/erase, small pitch, two-bits-per-cell for data storage applications

A novel programming by hot-hole injection nitride electron storage (PHINES) Flash memory technology is developed. The memory bit size of 0.046 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ is fabricated based on 0.13-/spl mu/m technology. PHINES cell uses a nitride trapping storage cell structure. Fowler-Nordheim (FN) injection is performed to raise V/sub t/ in erase while programming is done by lowering a local V/sub t/ through band-to-band tunneling-induced hot hole (BTBT HH) injection. Two-bits-per-cell feasibility, low-power and high-speed program/erase, good endurance and data retentivity make it a promising candidate for Flash EEPROM technology in gigabit era applications.