An adaptive task-level fault-tolerant approach to Grid

A strong failure recovery mechanism handling diverse failures in heterogeneous and dynamic Grid is so important to ensure the complete execution of long-running applications. Although there have been various efforts made to address this issue, existing solutions either focus on employing only one single fault-tolerant technique without considering the diversity of failures, or propose some frameworks which cannot deal with various kinds of failures adaptively in Grid. In this paper, an adaptive task-level, fault-tolerant approach to Grid is proposed. This approach aims at handling quite a complete set of failures arising in Grid environment by integrating basic fault-tolerant approaches. Moreover, this paper puts forward that resource consumption (not received enough attention) is also an important evaluation metric for any fault-tolerant approach. The corresponding evaluation models based on mean execution time and resource consumption are constructed to evaluate any fault-tolerant approach. Based on the models, we also demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and illustrate the performance gains achieved via simulations. The experiments based on a real Grid have been made and the results show that our approach can achieve better performance and consume less resource.     

Dynamically modulated intensity interrogation scheme using waveguide coupled surface plasmon resonance sensors

An electro-optically modulated intensity interrogation method based on tunable waveguide coupled surface plasmon resonance sensors has been proposed. It has been theoretically and experimentally demonstrated that the proposed scheme can enable sensitive measurement of measurand variations. By modulating the refractive index in the waveguide layer, this interrogation method yields modulated signal whose amplitude is related to measurand's refractive index. This amplitude modulated signal offers a higher signal to noise ratio and eliminates additive noise in the sensor system. A preliminary investigation using saline buffers with different NaCl concentrations shows a resolution of 2.3 × 10^?6 refractive index unit by our approach. Resolution can be controlled by the amplitude of the applied modulation voltage and can be further enhanced by optimizing the device structure or improving the electro-optical (E-O) coefficient of the E-O material. This approach is simple, stable, and promising for low-cost or multi-channel SPR biosensor applications.     

Real-time removal of ocular artifacts from EEG based on independent component analysis and manifold learning

Frequent occurrence of ocular artifacts leads to serious problems in interpreting and analyzing the electroencephalogram (EEG). In the present paper, a novel and robust technique is proposed to eliminate ocular artifacts from EEG signals in real time. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is used to decompose EEG signals. The features of topography and power spectral density of those components are extracted. Moreover, we introduce manifold learning algorithm, a recently popular dimensionality reduction technique, to reduce the dimensionality of initial features, and then those new features are fed to a classifier to identify ocular artifacts components. A k-nearest neighbor classifier is adopted to classify components because classification results show that manifold learning with the nearest neighbor algorithm works best. Finally, the artifact removal method proposed here is evaluated by the comparisons of EEG data before and after artifact removal. The results indicate that the method proposed could remove ocular artifacts effectively from EEG signals with little distortion of the underlying brain signals and be satisfied the real-time application.     

IEEE 802.11e动态队列分派算法

基于跨层优化和不平等保护的思想,提出一种新的IEEE 802.11e动态队列分派算法。利用AC［1］和AC［0］队列优化视频传输;根据队列状态动态计算队列优先级,并将它与视频帧优先级相匹配;综合考虑视频帧的优先级、不同队列的拥塞状况为视频帧动态分派队列。仿真实验表明,该算法能有效降低视频的传输失真。     

基于P2P方式的视频点播模型

提出了一种P2P方式的视频点播模型,兼有网状与树状的特点,具有很高的稳健型与组织性。有效提高了视频点播的利用率。     

一种具有PVR功能的嵌入式机顶盒设计与实现

该文实现了一个具有个人视频录像(PVR)功能的机顶盒。该机顶盒具有边看边录、手动录像、文件管理等功能。具有较好的商业应用价值。     

PetaLinux操作系统在MicroBlaze系统中的移植

随着性能的逐渐提高以及成本的不断降低,FPGA在嵌入式领域的应用日益广泛。本文介绍了PetaLinux操作系统的特点和目录结构,并分析了基于MLD的BSP自动生成技术,最后总结了PetaLinux操作系统移植的具体方法。这对设计基于MicroBlaze处理器的嵌入式系统具有重要指导意义。     

Windows2003 Server双网卡多站点内外网访问解决方案

Windows2003 Server操作系统自带IIS Server以性能稳定,吞吐量高被很多单位选作WEB Server,本文讨论在高校校园网环境下,一台Windows2003 Server配置成多站点,双网卡,来解决内外网访问服务器的方案。     

Robust exponential stability conditions for retarded systems with Lipschitz nonlinear stochastic perturbations

This paper investigates robust mean‐square exponential stability of a class of uncertain stochastic state‐delayed systems with Lipschitz nonlinear stochastic perturbation. Based on Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) method and free‐weighting matrix technique, some new delay‐dependent stability conditions are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). In order to reduce the conservatism, (1) the delay is divided into several segments, i.e. the delay decomposition method is applied; (2) cross terms estimation is avoided; (3) some information of the cross terms relationships which has not been involved in Reference (IET Control Theory Appl. 2008; 2(11):966–973) is considered. Moreover, from the mathematical point of view, the results obtained by free‐weighting matrix technique can be equivalently re‐formulated by simpler ones without involving any additional free matrix variables. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by numerical examples. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.