An overview of multi-antenna technologies for space-ground integrated networks

Multi-antenna technologies have already achieved a series of great successes in the development of information networks. For future space-ground integrated networks (SGINs), the traditional various kinds of separated information networks will converge to a whole fully connected information network to provide more flexible and reliable services on a world scale. Regarding their great successes in existing systems, multiantenna technologies will be of critical importance for the realization of SGINs and multi-antenna technologies are definitely one of the most important enabling technologies for future converged SGINs. In this article, a comprehensive overview on multi-antenna technologies is given. We first investigate multi-antenna technologies from a theoretical viewpoint. It is shown that we can understand multi-antenna technologies in a general and unified point of view. This fact has two-fold meanings. First, the research on multi-antennas can help us understand the relationships between different technologies e.g., OFDMA, CDMA, etc. On the other hand, multi-antenna technologies are easy to integrate into various information systems. Following that, we discuss in depth the potentials and challenges of the multi-antenna technologies on different platforms and in different applications case by case. More specifically, we investigate spaceborne multi-antenna technologies, airborne multi-antenna technologies, shipborne multi-antenna technologies, etc. Moreover, the combinations of multiantenna technologies with other advanced wireless technologies e.g., physical layer network coding, cooperative communication, etc., are also elaborated.     

A low-complexity sensor fusion algorithm based on a fiber-optic gyroscope aided camera pose estimation system

Visual tracking, as a popular computer vision technique, has a wide range of applications, such as camera pose estimation. Conventional methods for it are mostly based on vision only, which are complex for image processing due to the use of only one sensor. This paper proposes a novel sensor fusion algorithm fusing the data from the camera and the fiber-optic gyroscope. In this system, the camera acquires images and detects the object directly at the beginning of each tracking stage; while the relative motion between the camera and the object measured by the fiber-optic gyroscope can track the object coordinate so that it can improve the effectiveness of visual tracking. Therefore, the sensor fusion algorithm presented based on the tracking system can overcome the drawbacks of the two sensors and take advantage of the sensor fusion to track the object accurately. In addition, the computational complexity of our proposed algorithm is obviously lower compared with the existing approaches(86% reducing for a 0.5 min visual tracking). Experiment results show that this visual tracking system reduces the tracking error by 6.15% comparing with the conventional vision-only tracking scheme(edge detection), and our proposed sensor fusion algorithm can achieve a long-term tracking with the help of bias drift suppression calibration.     

基于改进亚像素边缘提取的一种异性纤维检测方法

为了提高异性纤维检测的时效、精确性,降低误检率,论文提出一种基于改进的亚像素边缘检测技术上的异性纤维检测方法,首先以多结构元素的改进的形态学算子对采集的图像进行像素级边缘提取,然后利用三邻域的非极大值抑制方法抑制初步提取时膨胀的边缘以及去除误检测的小范围棉花边缘,最后使用基于Zernike矩的亚像素边缘检测方法进行亚像素级细化检测。通过实验验证,文中的方法对各种常见噪声都具有抗噪滤噪能力强、计算速度快等优点,能够快速准确地识别高速棉流中的异性纤维,满足生产中异性纤维拣出的性能需求。     

A secure and high-performance multi-controller architecture for software-defined networking

Controllers play a critical role in software-defined networking (SDN). However, existing single-controller SDN architectures are vulnerable to single-point failures, where a controller’s capacity can be saturated by flooded flow requests. In addition, due to the complicated interactions between applications and controllers, the flow setup latency is relatively large. To address the above security and performance issues of current SDN controllers, we propose distributed rule store (DRS), a new multi-controller architecture for SDNs. In DRS, the controller caches the flow rules calculated by applications, and distributes these rules to multiple controller instances. Each controller instance holds only a subset of all rules, and periodically checks the consistency of flow rules with each other. Requests from switches are distributed among multiple controllers, in order to mitigate controller capacity saturation attack. At the same time, when rules at one controller are maliciously modified, they can be detected and recovered in time. We implement DRS based on Floodlight and evaluate it with extensive emulation. The results show that DRS can effectively maintain a consistently distributed rule store, and at the same time can achieve a shorter flow setup time and a higher processing throughput, compared with ONOS and Floodlight.     

Tree-based data retrieval algorithm for multi-item request with deadline in wireless networks

The data retrieval problem in wireless communication has attracted increasing attentions in many applications such as electronic information sharing and e-business. However, most existing studies do not consider how to retrieve the requested data items in their deadlines. In this paper, we discuss the so-called deadline-based multi-item data retrieval problem, which aims at finding an access pattern for retrieving requested data items in certain deadlines such that the access latency and data miss rate are minimized. We propose two algorithms, named EDFS and UR, to deal with the above problem. The EDFS algorithm gives priority to retrieve the requested data item with the least deadline, while the UR algorithm introduces the urgent rate that is computed by the broadcast time and deadline of requested data item for further reducing the access latency and data miss ratio. Moreover, we design a tree-based data retrieval algorithm that finds the longest downloading sequence of data items in one broadcast cycle and is applied to EDFS and UR for finding data retrieval sequence of requested data items. The efficiency of our proposed schemes has been validated by the extensive experiments.     

A social tag clustering method based on common co-occurrence group similarity

Social tagging systems are widely applied in Web 2.0. Many users use these systems to create, organize, manage, and share Internet resources freely. However, many ambiguous and uncontrolled tags produced by social tagging systems not only worsen users’ experience, but also restrict resources’ retrieval efficiency. Tag clustering can aggregate tags with similar semantics together, and help mitigate the above problems. In this paper, we first present a common co-occurrence group similarity based approach, which employs the ternary relation among users, resources, and tags to measure the semantic relevance between tags. Then we propose a spectral clustering method to address the high dimensionality and sparsity of the annotating data. Finally, experimental results show that the proposed method is useful and efficient.     

阶梯状抽水试验水文地质参数确定

针对传统阶梯状抽水试验参数计算过程中,通常只选择抽水阶段的部分试验数据等问题,应用Theis公式及叠加原理,利用抽水试验所有降深数据(抽水和水位恢复阶段全部资料)求解水文地质参数,利用承压含水层抽水试验数据计算得出导水系数、储水系数,利用潜水含水层抽水试验数据计算得出渗透系数和给水度,此外在低效率抽水井中利用抽水试验数据计算得出井损系数和井流量指数。计算过程中,利用Excel计算并绘制计算水位降深和观测水位降深的拟合曲线,计算过程简单快捷。整个抽水试验过程中,不必再分别提出抽水、水位恢复期的计算公式,可以避免人为选择单个水位降深数据对参数求解带来的影响。     

喀麦隆曼维莱水电站枢纽布置设计

介绍了曼维莱水电站枢纽布置设计及优化过程,在合同方案基础上,根据最新的补充勘测资料及多方案研究对比,对坝线选择、引水发电系统方案选择和厂区枢纽布置及优化设计工作做了详细的介绍,可供同类工程参考。