Evaluation of a chemical munition dumpsite in the Baltic Sea based on geophysical and chemical investigations

This paper discusses the results of geophysical and chemical investigations carried out in a chemical munition dumpsite in the southern Baltic Sea, east of the island of Bornholm. After WW2 over 32,000 tons of chemical war material was dumped here including shells and bombs as well as small drums and containers. The geophysical investigations combined very-high-resolution seismics and gradiometric measurements. The results indicate the presence of a large number of objects buried just below the seafloor. The size of the objects and their distribution, with a marked increase in density towards the center of the dumpsite, suggests that we are dealing with dumped war material. Sediment and near-bottom water samples, taken within the dumpsite and in the surrounding area, were analysed for the presence of various chemical warfare agents (CWA) including Adamsite, Clark, sulphur mustard, tabun, chlorobenzene and arsine oil. The results indicate a widespread contamination that reaches far beyond the dumpsite boundary. CWA degradation products were found in most of the sediment samples. The contamination was mostly related to arsenic containing compounds; only one sample indicated the presence of sulfur mustard. Although the correlation between detected objects and CWA concentrations is not always straightforward, the overall results suggest that a lot of the dumped war material is leaking and that over the years the contamination has reached the seafloor sediments.     

Relaxed multiple routing configurations: IP fast reroute for single and correlated failures

Multi-topology routing is an increasingly popular IP network management concept that allows transport of different traffic types over disjoint network paths. The concept is of particular interest for implementation of IP fast reroute (IP FRR). The authors have previously proposed an IP FRR scheme based on multi-topology routing called Multiple Routing Configurations (MRC). MRC supports guaranteed, instantaneous recovery from any single link or node failure in biconnected networks as well as from many combined failures, provided sufficient bandwidth on the surviving links. Furthermore, in MRC different failures result in routing over different network topologies, which gives a good control of the traffic distribution in the networks after a failure     

Compact 2.5 Gb/s Burst‐Mode Receiver with Optimum APD Gain for XG‐PON1 and GPON Applications

This letter presents a compact 2.5 Gb/s burst‐mode receiver using the first reported monolithic amplifier IC developed with 0.25 …m SiGe BiCMOS technology. With optimum avalanche photodiode gain, the receiver module can obtain a fast response, high sensitivity and wide dynamic range, satisfying the overhead timing and various power specifications for a 2.5 Gb/s next‐generation passive optical network (PON), as well as a legacy 1.25 Gb/s PON in the upstream.     

针对微控制器应用的MIPS32 M4K内核影子寄存器

RISC架构为微控制器领域带来了许多优势,例如与CISC架构相比,它对程序编译器更加友好,而且在硅面积方面也非常经济。     

Angular MST‐Based Topology Control for Multi‐hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

This letter presents an angular minimum spanning tree (AMST) algorithm for topology control in multi‐hop wireless ad hoc networks. The AMST algorithm builds up an MST for every angular sector of a given degree around each node to determine optimal transmission power for connecting to its neighbors. We demonstrate that AMST preserves both local and network‐wide connectivity. It also improves robustness to link failure and mitigates transmission power waste.     

Cumulated interference power and bit‐error‐rates in mobile packet radio

In this paper we determine the probability distribution function of cumulated instantaneous interference power in a mobile radio network, when the positions of interfering stations are distributed according to a one‐ or two‐dimensional Poisson point process, truncated at a finite horizon. The influences of Rice and Rayleigh fading, lognormal shadowing, near far effect and capture are taken into account. From the resulting distribution the probability of successful transmission and corresponding bit‐error‐rates are derived. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.