Design differentiated service multicast with selfish agents

Differentiated service (DiffServ) is a mechanism to provide the quality-of-service (QoS) with a certain performance guarantee. In this paper, we study how to design DiffServ multicast when every relay link is an independent selfish agent. We assume that each link e/sub i/ is associated with a (privately known) cost coefficient c/sub i/ such that the cost of e/sub i/ to provide a transmission service with bandwidth demand x is c/sub i//spl middot/x. Further, we assume that there is a fixed source node s and a set R of receivers, each of which requires from s data with a minimum bandwidth demand. The DiffServ multicast problem is to compute a link-weighted tree rooted at s and spanning R such that the receivers' demands are met. This generalizes the traditional link-weighted Steiner tree problem. We first show that a previous approximation algorithm does not directly induce a strategyproof mechanism. We then give a new polynomial time algorithm to construct a DiffServ multicast tree whose total cost is no more than eight times the optimal total cost when the cost coefficient of each link is known. Based on this tree, we design a truthful mechanism for DiffServ multicast, i.e., we give a polynomial-time computable payment scheme to compensate all chosen relay links such that each link maximizes its profit when it declares its cost coefficient truthfully.     

Deposition of GaN thin film on ZnO/Si by DIBD method

The GaNis a semiconductor material witha widefor-bidden band(Eg=3.36eV).It has many unique advan-tages such as high electron drift velocity,small dielectricconstant,goodthermal conduction et al.It is a favorablematerial for making electric devices with hi…     

Organic light-emitting devices based on new rare earth complex Tb（p-CIBA）3phen

A new rare earth complex Tb（p-CIBA）3phen was synthesized and introduced into organic tight emitting devices （OLEDs） as emitting material. The Tb（p-CIBA）3phen was doped into PVK to improve the filmforming and hole-transporting property. Two kinds of devices were fabricated. The device structure is as the following. Single-layer device： ITO/PVK： Tb （p-CIBA） 3 phen /LiF/Al; double-layer device： ITO/PVK： Tb（p-CIBA）3phen/AIQ/LiF/AI. The performances of both devices were investigated carefully. We found that the emission of PVK was completely restrained,and only the green emission was observed from the electroluminescence. The full width at half maximum （FWHM） was less than 10 nm. The highest EL brighthess of the single-layer device is 25.4 cd/cm^2 at a fixed bias of 18 V,and the highest EL brightness of the double-layer device reaches 234.8 cd/cm^2 at a voltage of 20 V.     

卫星帧中继网络环境下的组播传输方法

1 引言 虽然帧中继技术具有上述种种局限性,但凭借其自身优点仍在通信领域广泛应用.帧中继技术在保持了分组交换技术灵活性的同时,缩短了传输时延,提高了传输速度,而且组网简单,可以与不同入网速率的用户通信,一个端口可以实现多个PVC的连接,同时易于加密,广泛应用于银行、证券等金融及大型企业,政府部门总部与各地分支机构的局域网之间的互连.     

Engineered Elastomer Substrates for Guided Assembly of Complex 3D Mesostructures by Spatially Nonuniform Compressive Buckling

Approaches capable of creating 3D mesostructures in advanced materials (device‐grade semiconductors, electroactive polymers, etc.) are of increasing interest in modern materials research. A versatile set of approaches exploits transformation of planar precursors into 3D architectures through the action of compressive forces associated with release of prestrain in a supporting elastomer substrate. Although a diverse set of 3D structures can be realized in nearly any class of material in this way, all previously reported demonstrations lack the ability to vary the degree of compression imparted to different regions of the 2D precursor, thus constraining the diversity of 3D geometries. This paper presents a set of ideas in materials and mechanics in which elastomeric substrates with engineered distributions of thickness yield desired strain distributions for targeted control over resultant 3D mesostructures geometries. This approach is compatible with a broad range of advanced functional materials from device‐grade semiconductors to commercially available thin films, over length scales from tens of micrometers to several millimeters. A wide range of 3D structures can be produced in this way, some of which have direct relevance to applications in tunable optics and stretchable electronics.     

云平台架构下台间及台内节目内容分享体系的设计与实现

本文分析云平台架构下联盟台之间和台内单位之间内容分享的设计缘由,提出基于内容联盟模式的内容分享体系设计思路.     

DCT域网格编码量化及其在图像量化中的应用

本文提出了在离散余弦变换(DCT)域内作网格编码量化(TCQ)的新方法.该方法不仅利用了信号间的时间相关性,而且也利用了信号变换域内的相关性,该方法首先用一维或二维DCT变换减小变换域内的相关性,然后利用卷集编码和信号空间扩展来增大量化信号间的欧氏距离,并用维持比算法寻找最优量化序列.仿真结果表明,基于二维DCT的TCQ方法在相对大的灰度率下,比传统的TCQ方法好2dB左右,与此同时,TCQ又比最优标量量化好2dB左右.该方法还具有编码计算复杂度适中,解码简单以及对误差扩散不敏感的优点.     

Bubble Architectures for Locally Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials

Soft acoustic metamaterials that embed soft materials in a host media have promising applications in aqueous environments. However, the preparation of soft metamaterials under water and realization of low‐frequency soft acoustic metamaterials remains a challenge. By combining 3D printing technology and surface hydrophobic properties, this work presents a general approach to construct 3D soft acoustic metamaterials using bubbles as resonator units. Low‐frequency broadband locally resonant metamaterials can be realized using patterned bubbles with bandgaps that are orders of magnitude wider than other locally resonant metamaterials. In addition, a water‐to‐air ultratransmission metasurface is prepared by patterning a layer of bubbles beneath the water surface, which allows for the ultratransmission of sound across an air–water interface. This strategy opens up promising avenues for many applications based on locally resonant metamaterials such as deep subwavelength acoustic superlenses or negative‐refraction metamaterials.     

Extending Anisotropic Perfectly Matched Layer Absorbing Boundary Condition to Biaxial Media

The absorbing boundary condition required for an anisotropic perfectly matched layer for materials that exhibit a uniaxial and biaxial permittivity tensor is investigated. These materials are used in optical and millimeter wave devices and other particular situations such as in the construction of modern aircraft and automobiles. The derivation presented in this paper may be not suitable for all the arbitrary orientations but for many common situations. The effectiveness of the condition is also illustrated with examples by the finite-difference and finite-element method.     

A Queuing Theory-Enabled Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for a Wired-Wireless Converged Network

Multi-sink wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being increasingly deployed in an ever-widening range of application scenarios, especially as they are reliable and exhibit low power consumption. Providing a backhaul for WSN traffic has become an important issue because the sensor data must usually be sent to the Internet or the core network. Passive optical networks (PONs) represent one next-generation access network technology which is appropriate for such a backhaul, however existing research appears to have concentrated on either WSN performance or PON performance, without considering the overall performance of both networks converged together. This paper proposes a new architecture which converges multi-sink WSNs and PONs, then provides a novel queuing-theory analysis of the converged network performance. Results from this analytical model are then used to motivate a new a DBA algorithm which optimizes grant size allocation. Numerical results show that this algorithm outperforms existing proposals when minimizing the system queue length in the converged network, while providing shorter end-to-end packet delay and higher throughput. We believe that this first resource allocation algorithm which considers the performance of both networks as one converged unit.