A routing framework for providing robustness to node failures in mobile ad hoc networks

Nodes in a mobile ad hoc network are often vulnerable to failures. The failures could be either due to fading effects, battery drainage, or as a result of compromised nodes that do not participate in network operations. Intermittent node failures can disrupt routing functionalities. As such, it is important to provide redundancy in terms of providing multiple node-disjoint paths from a source to a destination. In line with this objective, we first propose a modified version of the widely studied ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol to facilitate the discovery of multiple node-disjoint paths from a source to a destination. We find that very few of such paths can be found. Furthermore, as distances between sources and destinations increase, bottlenecks inevitably occur and thus, the possibility of finding multiple paths is considerably reduced. We conclude that it is necessary to place what we call reliable nodes (in terms of both being robust to failure and being secure) in the network to support efficient routing operations. We propose a deployment strategy that determines the positions and the trajectories of these reliable nodes such that we can achieve a framework for reliably routing information. We define a notion of a reliable path which is made up of multiple segments, each of which either entirely consists of reliable nodes, or contains a preset number of multiple paths between the end points of the segment. We show that the probability of establishing a reliable path between a random source and destination pair increases tremendously even with a small number of reliable nodes when we use our algorithm to appropriately position these reliable nodes.     

CDMA位置服务系统的本地定位平台建设

移动位置业务是移动通信网络的一项特色增值业务．将成为今后几年的业务增长亮点之一。中国联通总部的增值业务部于2002年采用集中设置方案，进行了CDMA位置服务系统一期工程的建设。本地定位平台建立于中国联通CDMA位置服务系统基础之上．其功能由以下的一项或多项组合而成：门户功能、中间件功能、GIS系统的的功能和对本地的CP进行管理和计费的功能。     

基于DVB/MPEG-2的卫星Internet技术

Internet的快速发展，使他已陷入了自身难以克服的困境，这种困境主要来自于骨干网、接入网、服务器三种瓶颈。而卫星通信与Internet的结合能有效地解决目前的这种困境。本文介绍了基于DVB／MPEG-2的卫星Internet原理、结构、应用及其关键技术，并引入了2种现有成熟的Internet接入技术：VSAT接入方式和VSAT与CATV结合接入方式。     

移动运营商渠道管理模式及存在问题分析

渠道作为营销体系中的重要一环，对移动运营商的发展起着举足轻重的作用。随着国内移动市场竞争的加剧，营销渠道的竞争将成为移动运营商间竞争的焦点。目前，国内两大移动运营商在渠道管理上存在诸多问题，从而影响了其市场拓展。分析了移动选营商渠道管理存在的三个较为突出的问题，并提出了可行的解决方法，从而为移动运营商的渠道管理工作提供思路。     

纺织信息的网上检索方法

主要介绍在网上检索纺织信息的几种方法和处理技术，为人们检索纺织信息提供了方便快捷的途径。     

Brokers and bricoleurs: entrepreneurship in Wales' online music scene

 The power of some new entrants to the music industry derives from their position as brokers in computer-mediated environments. Brokers act instrumentally to exploit their position within a network which, in turn, depends on their ability to build and sustain links (and, in computer-mediated environments, hyperlinks). Bricolage in computer-mediated entrepreneurship refers to the intuitive manipulation of resources in order to achieve (perhaps tacit) goals. Without careful stewardship of the new intellectual wealth thus created, bricolage may profit neither the individual nor the wider community. Accepted 14 March 2002     

石油化工企业"管控一体化"的实现

结合APC，OPT技术和计算机信息网络技术，实现“管控一体化”，能够有效增强石油化工企业的市场竞争能力。在APC和OPT基础上，实施计算机辅助生产管理，提高内部计算机信息网络使用效率，发展电子商务，是“管控一体化”技术应用的有效方法。     

Using Automated Negotiation for Grid Services

The popularity of grid services has widened their application to numerous domains and increased the utilization of computational resources. In order to create more incentives for the resources owners to lease their resources and prevent users from wasting the resources, the introduction of a market-oriented grid is inevitable. However, the issues for the negotiation between service provider and consumer over the supply and demand of resources can be complex, with highly interdependent issues. In this research, a simulated automated negotiation mechanism including a co-evolutionary mechanism and a modified game theory approach is proposed, to assist them in reaching an agreement over the conflicting issues. In the proposed architecture, the co-evolution process is able to reduce the multiple dimensional search space into a two-dimension search space and identify the appropriate negotiation strategies for the negotiating agents to form a payoff matrix which can be used for the game theory related stage of their interaction. The multiple stage negotiation process is introduced to improve the negotiation result. In this paper, an application which requires a large amount of computational resources to process the data generated from mobile devises is used to demonstrate that the proposed system is able to resolve the conflicts and obtain a valid solution.     

An efficient reliable broadcasting protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks

The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) has recently been recognized as an attractive network architecture for wireless communication. Reliable broadcast is an important operation in MANET (e.g., giving orders, searching routes, and notifying important signals). However, using a naive flooding to achieve reliable broadcasting may be very costly, causing a lot of contention, collision, and congestion, to which we refer as the broadcast storm problem. This paper proposes an efficient reliable broadcasting protocol by taking care of the potential broadcast storm problem that could occur in the medium-access level. Existing protocols are either unreliable, or reliable but based on a too costly approach. Our protocol differs from existing protocols by adopting a low-cost broadcast, which does not guarantee reliability, as a basic operation. The reliability is ensured by additional acknowledgement and handshaking. Simulation results do justify the efficiency of the proposed protocol.     

日本移动通信频率选择技术动向

本文介绍日本在移动通信中频率选择的技术动向以及开展移动通信频率资源的几项措施。