An effective back‐off selection technique for reliable beacon reception in VANETs

In safety‐critical scenarios, reliable reception of beacons transmitted by a subject vehicle is critical to avoid vehicle collision. According to the employed contention window sizes in IEEE 802.11p, beacons are transmitted with a small contention window size. As a result, multiple vehicles contend for the shared channel access by selecting the same back‐off slot. This is a perfect recipe for synchronous collisions wherein reliable beacon delivery cannot be guaranteed for any vehicle. We consider the problem of selecting the back‐off slots from the current contention window to provide reliable delivery of beacons transmitted by a subject vehicle to its neighbors. Given a safety scenario, we propose a Pseudo‐Random Number Generator (PRNG)‐inspired back‐off selection (PBS) technique. The proposed technique works on the hypothesis that synchronous collisions of beacons transmitted by a subject vehicle can be reduced if all its neighbors select different back‐off slots (ie, not the back‐off slot selected by the subject vehicle). The discrete‐event simulations demonstrate that PBS can increase the overall message reception from a subject vehicle, in comparison with the uniform random probability back‐off selection in IEEE 802.11p.     

Frequency selective millimeter‐wave channel estimation based on subspace enhancement algorithms

In millimeter wave (mmW) communication systems, hybrid architecture, including the analog‐digital precoder and combiner matrices, is employed to take advantage of the multistream transceiver. In practice, mmW channel is assumed to be frequency‐selective, since the signal bandwidth is larger than the coherence bandwidth. Hence, orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing signaling can be remedial. So far, most of the previous works on the frequency‐selective channel estimation have focused on the single measurement vector (SMV) form, whereas finding and exploiting the proper multimeasurement vector (MMV) model can improve upon the estimation procedure based on compressive sensing (CS) concepts. In fact, the estimation procedure based on the MMV model has a faster convergence speed than the SMV method specially, when the training frames are small. In this paper, we first extract the MMV model of the channel. In this model, the rank‐deficiency occurs as the number of training frames is less or equal to the sparsity level. Thus, the conventional estimation methods fail to provide the desirable performance. To overcome this issue, we propose two rank‐aware algorithms based on the enhancement of the observed signal subspace. The first algorithm assumes to know the sparsity level, while the second faces to the lack of knowledge about the sparsity level. The simulation results corroborate the fact that the proposed methods outperform the conventional CS algorithms such as Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit.     

Ad hoc网络中一种基于身份的组密钥协商协议

移动Ad hoc网络是一种资源有限的移动多跳无线网络。在网络中构建组密钥协商协议时应尽可能地减少资源开销。文中在基于身份的网络安全环境下,设计了一种基于环状结构的组密钥协商协议。该协议采用椭圆曲线上的双线性配对,仅通过单轮通信完成组密钥协商。经过分析,该协议具有等献性,已知密钥安全,无密钥控制等安全属性,适用于Ad hoc网络。     

Performance improvement of TCP in ad hoc networks by mitigating channel contention

In ad hoc networks, the spatial reuse property limits the number of packets which can be spatially transmitted over a path. In standard Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), however, a TCP sender keeps transmitting packets without taking into account this property. This causes heavy contention for the wireless channel, resulting in the performance degradation of TCP flows. Hence, two techniques have been proposed independently in order to reduce the contention. First, a TCP sender utilizes a congestion window limit (CWL), by considering the spatial reuse property. This prevents the TCP sender from transmitting more than CWL number of packets at one time. Second, a delayed ack (DA) strategy is exploited in order to mitigate the contention between the TCP ACK and DATA packets. Recently, although TCP‐DAA (Dynamic Adaptive Acknowledgment) attempts to utilize a CWL‐based DA strategy, TCP‐DAA overlooks a dynamic correlation between these two techniques. This paper, therefore, reveals the dynamic correlation and also proposes a protocol which not only reduces the frequency of the TCP ACK transmissions but also determines a CWL value dynamically, according to network conditions. Simulation studies show that our protocol performs the best in various scenarios, as compared to TCP‐DAA and standard TCP (such as TCP‐NewReno). Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

QoS‐aware routing and power control algorithm for multimedia service over multi‐hop mobile ad hoc network

This paper presents a QoS (quality of service) aware routing and power control algorithm consuming low transmission power for multimedia service over mobile ad hoc network. Generally, multimedia services need stringent QoS over the network. However, it is not easy to guarantee the QoS over mobile ad hoc network since its network resources are very limited and time‐varying. Furthermore, only a limited amount of power is available at mobile nodes, which makes the problem more challenging. We propose an effective routing and power control algorithm for multimedia services that satisfies end‐to‐end delay constraint with low transmission power consumption. The proposed algorithm supports the required bandwidth by controlling each link channel quality over route in a tolerable range. In addition, a simple but effective route maintenance mechanism is implemented to avoid link failures that may significantly degrade streaming video quality. Finally, performance comparison with existing algorithms is presented in respect to traditional routing performance metrics, and an achievable video quality comparison is provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm for multimedia services over mobile ad hoc network. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于DHT的光OFDM系统PAPR抑制算法

针对光OFDM系统存在高峰均功率比(PAPR),提出了一种基于离散哈特利变换(DHT)的选择映射抑制算法。采用快速哈特利逆变换(IFHT)代替传统的快速傅立叶逆变换(IFFT)和Hermi t i an对称算法,并结合非对称限幅法产生满足光OFDM系统要求的正、实值信号送入光纤信道。     

一种基于用频计划的监测设备部署优化方法

提出了一种基于用频计划的监测设备部署优化方法,根据实际的用频计划提取出包含监测区域、时间和频段的监测要求,结合监测设备的监测能力,运用改进的多目标遗传算法,快速有效地部署监测设备,制定监测计划,提高了对监测要求在时域、空域和频域的监测覆盖率,达到了监测设备部署优化的目的,并通过仿真验证了该算法的可行性和有效性。     

自组网中的表驱动与源驱动路由协议算法分析

先介绍了表驱动与源驱动路由协议的原理，然后具体分析了这两类路由协议中几种典型的路由算法。最后，总结比较了两类路由协议并展望了未来发展方向。     

基于数据传输网络的无人机协同系统设计

介绍了使用数据传输网络的方式实现的无人机协同系统。与传统的点对点测控系统相比,该系统在体系模型、成员类型和网络运行过程等方面有所不同。分析了该系统体系运行中的关键点,包括任务规划、网络管理、自组织以及移动环境中网络冲突。最后指出,为适应逐步增加的用户数量,后续发展将关注网络传输容量的增加和减少入网接入时间。     

频率选择表面谐振特性在玻璃钢结构吸波材料中的应用研究

研究了频率选择表面(FSS)的谐振特性对玻璃钢(FRP)结构吸波材料吸波特性的补偿提高作用。为了提高FRP在8~11 GHz频段内的吸波特性,利用有限元法仿真设计了圆环孔径型以及双方环贴片型两种不同图形样式的FSS,并用自由空间法对其谐振特性进行了测试,最后利用FSS谐振特性对FRP在8~11 GHz频段内的吸波特性进行了补偿优化。结果表明,利用FSS在对应频段内的谐振特性,能够将FRP在8~11 GHz频段内的反射率全频段降至–10 dB以下,从而大幅度提高了FRP的雷达吸波特性。这为玻璃钢结构吸波材料的隐身化研究开辟了一条新的途径。