Efficient multicast search under delay and bandwidth constraints

The issue of a multicast search for a group of users is discussed in this study. Given the condition that the search is over only after all the users in the group are found, this problem is called the Conference Call Search (CCS) problem. The goal is to design efficient CCS strategies under delay and bandwidth constraints. While the problem of tracking a single user has been addressed by many studies, to the best of our knowledge, this study is one of the first attempts to reduce the search cost for multiple users. Moreover, as oppose to the single user tracking, for which one can always reduce the expected search delay by increasing the expected search cost, for a multicast search the dependency between the delay and the search cost is more complicated, as demonstrated in this study. We identify the key factors affecting the search efficiency, and the dependency between them and the search delay. Our analysis shows that under tight bandwidth constraints, the CCS problem is NP-hard. We therefore propose a search method that is not optimal, but has a low computational complexity. In addition, the proposed strategy yields a low search delay as well as a low search cost. The performance of the proposed search strategy is superior to the implementation of an optimal single user search on a group of users. Amotz Bar-Noy received the B.Sc. degree in 1981 in Mathematics and Computer Science and the Ph.D. degree in 1987 in Computer Science, both from the Hebrew University, Israel. From October 1987 to September 1989 he was a post-doc fellow in Stanford University, California. From October 1989 to August 1996 he was a Research Staff Member with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York. From February 1995 to September 2001 he was an associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering-Systems department of Tel Aviv University, Israel. From September 1999 to December 2001 he was with AT research labs in New Jersey. Since February 2002 he is a Professor with the Computer and Information Science Department of Brooklyn College - CUNY, Brooklyn New York. Zohar Naor received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2000. Since 2003 he is with the University of Haifa, Israel. His areas of interests include wireless networks, resource management of computer networks, mobility, search strategies, and multiple access protocols.     

从RC5到RC6

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On the effects of the packet size distribution on the packet loss process

Real-time multimedia applications have to use forward error correction (FEC) anderror concealment techniques to cope with losses in today’s best-effort Internet. The efficiency of these solutions is known however to depend on the correlation between losses in the media stream. In this paper we investigate how the packet size distribution affects the packet loss process, that is, the distribution of the number of lost packets in a block, the related FEC performance and the average loss run length. We present mathematical models for the loss process of the MMPP+M/D/1/K and the MMPP+M/M/1/K queues; we validate the models via simulations, and compare the results to simulation results with an MPEG-4 coded video trace. We conclude that the deterministic packet size distribution (PSD) not only results in lower stationary loss probability than the exponential one, but also gives a less correlated loss process, both at a particular average link load and at a particular stationary loss probability as seen by the media stream.Our results show that for applications that can only measure the packet loss probability, the effects of the PSD on FEC performance are higher in access networks, where a single multimedia stream might affect the multiplexing behavior. Our results show that the effects of the PSD on FEC performance are higher in access networks, where a single multimedia stream might affect the multiplexing behavior and thus can improve the queuing performance by decreasing the variance of its PSD.     

分类挖掘技术在高校人事管理中的应用

探讨分类挖掘技术在高校实际工作中的应用方式与应用领域。以高校人事管理为模型，应用数据挖掘中决策树算法，对高校人力资源数据源中的信息进行分析，发现其中有价值的数据模式，寻找其中存在的关系和规则，对高校人才规划提供比较客观的决策支持。     

浅谈亚欧海底光缆S2段远供电源(PFE)及其维护管理

以亚欧海底光缆S2段为例,介绍亚欧海底光缆远供电源(PFE)的供电方式,以及其在正常运行时和故障维修时的维护管理方法。探讨在实际维护中如何贯彻落实及灵活运用系统联合维护文档,总结适合中国国情的远供电源维护经验,确保亚欧海底光缆远供电源安全稳定运行。     

周宁水电站工程项目管理实践

福建周宁水电站工程由闽东水电开发有限公司负责项目管理。该项目严格按照《招投标法》进行工程和设备的招标,进行了多项设计优化,注重工程质量和安全文明生产,积极开展达标投产工作,实现了进度快、质量优、投资省、效益好的管理目标。     

沙漠地区高精度地震资料处理技术

受静校正及各种类型干扰的影响,西部沙漠地区地震资料的高精度处理较东部地区有更大的难度。对准噶尔盆地中部Ⅱ区、Ⅲ区、Ⅳ区、顺托果勒等区块地震资料在振幅恢复、静校正、去除各类噪音、高精度速度分析及叠前、叠后子波处理等方面进行了大量的试验与研究,形成了较为系统的高精度地震资料处理技术,在西部不同区块地震资料处理中取得了较好的应用效果。     

设计管理信息系统的提出及其面临的问题

从管理和设计的两个方面出发，通过对现代企业产品设计管理信息系统的探讨，阐明了设计管理信息系统的概念和结构；并对其实施的条件及面临的困难进行了系统的分析。     

移动网络中的独立式安全管理系统

本文提出一种适用于移动网络的安全管理系统,由于访问网络能够独立地对漫游用户进行认证,所以称该系统为独立式安全管理(ISM).基于ISM设计一种漫游用户的认证协议,通过对协议的比较分析可以看出,相对于其它安全管理系统,ISM的突出优点是安全责任划分清晰、认证效率高.     

DEA评价方法在超稠油生产经营中的应用探讨

超稠油的生产工艺非常复杂，影响油井效益的因素相对较多，因此对油井的评价就要评价各类有限资源投入的利用效果，查明积极因素和消极因素及其对经济指标的影响程度，促进经营管理的改善，寻求有效利用有限人力、物力、财力等资源的途径，实现资源的优化配置。本文通过使用DEA模型可对单井效益进行评价，对单井效益进行排队，对规模效益进行分类，对生产各投入因素进行投影分析，研究弱DEA、非DEA有效的原因，寻求对油井优化成本、提高效益的改进方案。