A call admission and rate control scheme for multimedia support over IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Quality of service (QoS) support for multimedia services in the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN is an important issue for such WLANs to become a viable wireless access to the Internet. In this paper, we endeavor to propose a practical scheme to achieve this goal without changing the channel access mechanism. To this end, a novel call admission and rate control (CARC) scheme is proposed. The key idea of this scheme is to regulate the arriving traffic of the WLAN such that the network can work at an optimal point. We first show that the channel busyness ratio is a good indicator of the network status in the sense that it is easy to obtain and can accurately and timely represent channel utilization. Then we propose two algorithms based on the channel busyness ratio. The call admission control algorithm is used to regulate the admission of real-time or streaming traffic and the rate control algorithm to control the transmission rate of best effort traffic. As a result, the real-time or streaming traffic is supported with statistical QoS guarantees and the best effort traffic can fully utilize the residual channel capacity left by the real-time and streaming traffic. In addition, the rate control algorithm itself provides a solution that could be used above the media access mechanism to approach the maximal theoretical channel utilization. A comprehensive simulation study in ns-2 has verified the performance of our proposed CARC scheme, showing that the original 802.11 DCF protocol can statically support strict QoS requirements, such as those required by voice over IP or streaming video, and at the same time, achieve a high channel utilization. Hongqiang Zhai received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in July 1999 and January 2002 respectively. He worked as a research intern in Bell Labs Research China from June 2001 to December 2001, and in Microsoft Research Asia from January 2002 to July 2002. Currently he is pursuing the PhD degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida. He is a student member of IEEE. Xiang Chen received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 2005. He is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Motorola Labs, Arlington Heights, IL. His research interests include resource management, medium access control, and quality of service (QoS) in wireless networks. He is a Member of Tau Beta Pi and a student member of IEEE. Yuguang Fang received a Ph.D degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in January 1994, and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in May 1997. From June 1997 to July 1998, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. From July 1998 to May 2000, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. In May 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida where he got the early promotion with tenure in August 2003 and has been an Associate Professor since then. He has published over one hundred (100) papers in refereed professional journals and conferences. He received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002. He is currently serving as an Editor for many journals including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and ACM Wireless Networks. He is also actively participating in conference organization such as the Program Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2005, Program Co-Chair for the Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium in IEEE Globecom’2004 and the Program Vice Chair for 2000 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’2000).     

复合材料空心飞轮多环套装整体变形及应力简化精细分析

采用多环过盈装配是解决复合材料飞轮径向强度过低的有效途径之一。本文作者采用平面应力简化模型,提出了计及过盈配合后变形导致实际过盈量增大计算飞轮套装后的初终应力分布的方法;提出了基于叠加原理计算多环过盈装配旋转飞轮应力的方法;提出了保证飞轮旋转时配合界面不脱离的相关临界转速的概念和计算方法。算例分析表明:过盈配合后的变形对初终应力的影响不能忽略;过盈量和套装环数与飞轮的初终应力和相关临界转速有密切的关系。     

普通稠油油藏启动压力梯度求解方法与应用

利用微观尺度管流模型,结合普通稠油流变特征,提出了在考虑稠油流变性条件下微观启动压力梯度计算方法.对渤海渤中18块不同渗透率岩心进行室内驱替实验,通过对实验数据的回归分析,得到不同粘度普通稠油油藏启动压力梯度与地层平均渗透率关系,并绘制了启动压力梯度的图版.将研究结果应用于普通稠油油藏,给出了利用启动压力梯度确定极限泄油半径及合理井距的理论计算方法.     

基于Agilent-VEE平台的测试系统设计与应用

美国安捷伦公司(原惠普公司)的Agilent-VEE，NI公司的Lab VIEW和Lab Windows／CVI开发软件等是国际上公认的优秀的虚拟仪器开发平台软件，人们对以应用后两者开发测试系统比较了解，但对VEE在测试系统中的应用少有介绍。本文介绍基于Agilent-VEE平台和GPIB总线的实用测试系统的组成、特点及仪器控制方式。     

微桥法镍膜的弹性模量和残余应力测量

利用MEMS技术制作了不同尺寸的镍(Ni)膜微桥结构样品。采用纳米压痕仪XP系统测量了微桥载荷与位移的关系,并结合微桥力学理论模型得到了两种不同尺寸的Ni膜的弹性模量和残余应力。结果表明,两种不同尺寸的Ni膜的弹性模量结果一致,为190 GPa左右,但是残余应力变化较大。与采用纳米压痕仪直接测得的带有硅(Si)基底的Ni膜弹性模量186.8 7.5 GPa相比较,两者符合较好。     

低温脂肪酶产生菌的筛选、鉴定及其部分酶学性质

从南极乔治王岛冻土来源的76株低温细菌中筛选到13株低温脂肪酶产生菌，对其中的BTsl0022菌株进行鉴定。通过生理生化特征、16s rDNA基因序列的同源性和系统发育分析发现，菌株RTsl0022属于假单胞菌属(Pseudomonas)，但与已定名的假单胞菌有一定的差异，与未定名的Pseudomonas sp．PsB的亲缘关系最接近，故将其暂定名为Pseudomonas sp．BTsl0022。对该菌脂肪酶的酶学性质初步研究表明，酶的最适作用温度为24℃，对热敏感，60℃处理30min仅残留25％酶活性，酶的适宜作用pH范围在7．0～9．0，最适pH为8．0。     

温州市龙湾段标准堤工程软土地基变形原位观测

温州市龙湾段标准堤地基土中普遍存在一层海积淤泥,其强度低,压缩性高,承载力低,不能满足标准堤填筑及水闸运行的要求。采用预压法进行地基处理,取得的地基沉降、水平位移、孔隙水压力等现场观测资料,总结分析了该段海积淤泥地基的变形规律和特点。并提供了有关的原型观测数据,其沉降曲线规律性较好。     

DST在塔河油田碳酸岩油藏的应用

塔河油田碳酸岩油藏是定容体油藏,若发育的裂缝、溶洞延伸不远,定容体的规模较小,则无开采价值,因此有必要判断钻遇的储集体规模大小.小定容体最显著的特征就是天然能量消耗和地层压力下降明显,DST测试是判断定容体油藏的好方法.由于常规测试受岩性、裂缝产状、泥浆侵入、含液性、地层各向异性等因素的不确定影响,使得常规测试储层响应特征具有多重性,只能初步判断裂缝溶洞的发育带,因此可以利用DST测试技术了解显示层段产液性质和产能,判断油气水层.     

共面波导(CPW)馈电单极子天线的设计与研究

给出一种工作于900MHz的共面波导(CPW)馈电单极子天线的设计。该单极子天线以共面波导的中心导带为辐射单极子，以中心导带两边的金属导体作反射板，结构简单紧凑。但是由于天线与共面波导之间缺少有效的隔离，造成天线性能受共面波导尺寸的影响较严重。本文通过模拟计算和实验测量详细分析了共面波导尺寸的变化对天线性能的影响，给出了结合共面波导尺寸设计的工作在900MHz的单极子天线结构数据。     

Performance of Indoor Infrared Wireless CDMA Systems with Angle Diversity

Indoor infrared communication systems is one of the possible ways of offering data rates in excess of 100 Mbit/s without the need for wiring. Multiple users can share an infrared channel by code division-multiple access (CDMA) techniques. However, the CDMA system performance is limited by both background noise and co-channel interference. In this paper we study the use of angle diversity for mitigating the effects of the noise and interference. The system considered uses on-off shift keying modulation with multibeam transmitters and imaging receivers. The overall system performance for different diversity combining techniques is evaluated and compared to a system without diversity. Numerical results for a 2-user CDMA system indicate that signal to noise and interference ratio (SNIR) improvement (over systems with no diversity) of 5 dB is obtained for at least 50% of an ensemble of 10000 sample evaluations. The generalized selection combining (GSC)--a new diversity technique yet to be implemented for infrared systems--offers the best performance even with its reduced complexity.