SAFE: A Source Deduplication Framework for Efficient Cloud Backup Services

Due to the relatively low bandwidth of WAN that supports cloud backup services and the increasing amount of backed-up data stored at service providers, the deduplication scheme used in the cloud backup environment must remove the redundant data for backup operations to reduce backup times and storage costs and for restore operations to reduce restore times. In this paper, we propose SAFE, a source deduplication framework for efficient cloud backup and restore operations. SAFE consists of three salient features, (1) Hybrid Deduplication, combining the global file-level and local chunk-level deduplication to achieve an optimal tradeoff between the deduplication efficiency and overhead to achieve a short backup time; (2) Semantic-aware Elimination, exploiting file semantics to narrow the search space for the redundant data in hybrid deduplication process to reduce the deduplication overhead; and (3) Unmodified Data Removal, removing the files and data chunks that are kept intact from data transmission for some restore operations. Through extensive experiments driven by real-world datasets, the SAFE framework is shown to maintain a much higher deduplication efficiency/overhead ratio than existing solutions, shortening the backup time by an average of 38.7 %, and reduce the restore time by a ratio of up to 9.7 : 1.     

Ba_5(Nb_(1-x)Sb_x)_4O_(15)微波介电陶瓷的低温烧结

添加质量分数为1%的H3BO3为助烧剂。研究了Ba5(Nb1–xSbx)4O15(0≤x≤0.2)陶瓷的烧结特性、显微结构和微波介电性能。结果表明:当x≤0.15时,该类陶瓷可在900℃附近烧结,并伴有少量BaSb2O6和BaB2O4相;随着x从0增加到0.2,εr和τf均有较大幅度下降;Q.f先升后降。在900℃烧成温度下,x为0.15的陶瓷获得较好的微波介电性能:εr为29.21,Q.f为13 266 GHz,τf为11×10–6℃–1,并能与Ag电极很好相容,基本满足LTCC工艺的要求。     

纳米二氧化锰的超电容特性研究

利用化学混合法制备了非晶二氧化锰/导电碳黑复合材料,比表面积达168.40m2/g,一次粒子粒径达100nm以下,显示出良好的电容特性,单电极比容可达410F/g。以活性炭作负极组装成电容器,工作电位窗达1.6V,比容量可达35F/g以上,且电容器经500次充放电循环后容量衰减不到5%。     

一种被动式时间同步算法的研究与设计

随着网络技术的不断发展，许多网络应用对网络中各个节点的时钟同步有着很高的要求。详细讨论了被动式同步算法的思想，提出了基于被动式同步算法的延时误差调节方案。方案有效降低了授时误差，同时改善了客户时钟的频率性能。     

液晶光阀的双稳态特性研究

测量了TB3639型液晶光阀在电压驱动下的光谱特性及其光学双稳态特性,并讨论其产生光学双稳态特性的非线性效应物理机制,分析了液晶光阀的光学双稳态特性不明显的原因.分析结果表明,扭曲角对液晶光阀的光学双稳态特性影响较大,由于TN型液晶光阀的扭曲角只有90°,导致其双稳态特性不是很明显,TB3639型液晶光阀在某一电压范围内存在光学双稳态特性.     

通孔氧化铝模板的制备和光学特性

采用阳极氧化法,制备了二维有序纳米通孔氧化铝模板.研究了工艺参数对通孔有序性、孔径、模板厚度等的影响,测量了通孔氧化铝模板的光透过、光吸收和光发射等光学特性.结果表明,在波长360 nm附近通孔氧化铝模板的光透过谱线和光吸收谱线发生突变,波长大于360 nm时,光透过增强;波长小于360 nm时,光吸收增强.通孔氧化铝模板的光致发光强度和峰位与激发光波长有关,光致发光谱范围在340～600 nm.     

GaN基MSM结构紫外探测器光响应特性

在求解一维电流连续性方程和传输方程的同时考虑表面态陷阱的作用,获得了GaN基MSM结构紫外探测器在稳态光照下的电流随电压变化的解析解,从而导出了其光响应特性主要参数,并解释了电流和响应度随偏压变化的原因和光增益现象.将该模型应用于具体器件,实验测得饱和临界偏压约6 V,稳态电流6×10-8A,响应率0.085 7 A/W,与理论计算较吻合.     

Feasibility study of the application of voltage contrast to printed circuit board

Voltage contrast (VC) has been a powerful tool for the failure analysis of integrated circuits and multichip module. As the packing density of printed circuit board (PCB) is increasing, conventional failure analysis methods to detect open or short circuit in PCBs are no longer adequate, and voltage contrast method could be a method for this purpose. However, unlike the cases of integrated circuits and multichip module, there are many areas in PCB that will produce serious charging effect when examine under the scanning electron microscope. One of the areas is the presence of solder mask on PCB.This work examines the feasibility of using voltage contrast for PCB failure analysis. Specially designed PCB is used for experimentation, and it is found that positive bias on one track and zero bias on another copper track provide a better image contrast as compared to negative and zero biases on the tracks. Also, the variation of the image contrast with different spacing between inter copper tracks has studied. It is found that the variation depends on the presence of solder mask and its location. The variation can be very different for negative bias case as compared to the positive bias case.Finite element analysis is also performed to explain the experimental observations. All the observations can be well explained by the charging effect of the solder masks. The charging effect of solder mask is indeed very significant in affecting the image contrast, and it could reduce the contrast to almost zero in some cases.     

Feedback Reduction for Multiuser OFDM Systems

Feedback reduction in multiuser orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems has become an important issue due to the excessive amount of feedback required to use opportunistic scheduling, particularly when the number of users and carriers is large. In this paper, we propose a novel feedback-reduction scheme for efficient downlink scheduling. In the proposed scheme, each user determines the amount of feedback based on the so-called feedback efficiency in a distributed manner. The key idea is to give more of an opportunity for feedback to users who are more often scheduled. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can substantially decrease the feedback load while achieving almost the same scheduling performance as in the case of full feedback. In addition, the proposed scheme offers unique advantages over existing ones. First, it is not tailored to a specific scheduling policy; thus, it has adaptability to the change of the underlying scheduling policy. Second, the total feedback load can be maintained below a target level, regardless of the number of users in the system.      

Self‐Crosslink Method for a Straightforward Synthesis of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol)‐Based Aerogel Assisted by Carbon Nanotube

As a new concept, a self‐crosslink mechanism for hydrothermal synthesis of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) aerogel, assisted by multiwall carbon nanotubes, is reported. PVA, working as a low‐cost and commercially available raw material, exempts the complicated synthesis process and reserves its nontoxic nature since no organic crosslinkers are used in the synthesis process. The crosslink density and many other properties of the products can be easily tuned by simply altering the concentration of PVA precursors, which is considered to be another feature of our method. Dehydration between hydroxyl groups occurs in the hydrothermal process, leading to a reverse wettability of the products from hydrophilic to hydrophobic, thus their absorbing capacity for several organic solvents, such as bean oil and crude oil, is investigated. The absorbate has 10–52 times the original weight of the aerogel. As exhibited by the cytotoxic tests, the product has neglectable toxicity, suitable for application in environmental bioengineering. Furthermore, the product can be used as a facile substrate for transformation into conductive aerogel by in situ hybridizing with polypyrrole, showing a conductivity of 0.16 S m^?1. As it is rich in hydroxyl groups, the aerogels are believed to be further functionalized by the reactions related to the hydroxyl group.