Variability in stepping direction explains the veering behavior of blind walkers.

Walking without vision results in veering, an inability to maintain a straight path that has important consequences for blind pedestrians. In this study, the authors addressed whether the source of veering in the absence of visual and auditory feedback is better attributed to errors in perceptual encoding or undetected motor error. Three experiments had the following results: No significant differences in the shapes of veering trajectories were found between blind and blindfolded participants; accuracy in detecting curved walking paths was not correlated with simple measures of veering behavior; and explicit perceptual cues to initial walking direction did not reduce veering. The authors present a model that accounts for the major characteristics of participants' veering behavior by postulating 3 independent sources of undetected motor error: initial orientation, consistent biases in step direction, and, most important, variable error in individual steps. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Content Driven Mobile Internet

The development of future mobile networks will be driven, in large part, by content and web based services. In this paper, we examine several performance, scalability and architectural challenges faced by future mobile web applications and how advanced mobile content delivery techniques can address these challenges. We review existing content delivery using a taxonomy that consists of three categories: network scaling, end system acceleration, and content and protocol optimization. While wireline content delivery focuses on network and server scalability, mobile content delivery will likely benefit most from optimizing radio link usage. We also present our ongoing work in this area, which extends the functionality of edge caching to the terminal, uses user interest correlation information to maintain low terminal power consumption and adds a new dimension to radio resource management. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Steady-state and transient photoconductivity in hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride films

Amorphous SiN_x:H films were prepared by the rf glow-discharge decomposition of ammonia/silane gas mixture with varying nitrogen content. The steady-state photoconductivity and its dependence on light intensity have been investigated in a-SiN_x:H as a function of temperature between 100 and 420 K. The electron drift mobility of a set of SiN_x:H samples has been determined from their steady-state photoconductivity and response time measurements. The results suggest that electron drift mobility of the samples was nearly unchanged for a low nitrogen content. Two samples containing lowest nitrogen showed higher photoconductivity than that of unalloyed sample within a temperature range including the room temperature.     

Influence of deposition parameters on hole mobility in polymorphous silicon

Time-of-flight transient photoconductivity measurements reveal a monotonic increase with the deposition pressure in the hole mobility in polymorphous silicon for samples deposited under hydrogen dilution. With helium dilution, a maximum mobility that matches the highest value from H-dilution samples is measured at the intermediate pressure of 1.4 Torr. The deposition rate of those samples is twice the rate for the H-dilution ones. For the samples with the best hole mobilities, the valence-band tail is comparable to the one of standard hydrogenated amorphous silicon.     

一种可靠多播认证方案及其C语言实现

传统的认证技术对于多播认证并不适用,因为多播认证有它自身的特殊要求。论文介绍了两种针对多播认证特点的解决方案,并结合两种方案的特点阐述了一种改进的适合可靠多播的认证方案,最后给出了C语言的实现。     

用射频化学气相沉积法制备p型微晶金刚石薄膜

利用射频化学气相沉积法，通过硼的掺杂，在石英玻璃衬底上生长出Ｐ型微晶金刚石薄膜，范德堡法的测试表明，我们得到的薄膜最小电阻率为４×１０－２Ω．ｃｍ，最大空穴迁移率为５０ｃｍ／Ｖ．ｓ；从电阻率与温度关系近似计算出杂质激活能     

OPNET环境下的PIM—SM组播路由协议仿真

IPv6组播技术作为下一代互联网的核心技术之一,相对于IPv4组播技术具有更大的优越性。文章首先对PIM-SM组播协议在IPv6上实现PIM-SM涉及的问题进行了论述,然后在OPNET网络仿真模型中实现了对IPv6和IPv4混合网络场景的配置,进行组播的仿真实验比较单播与组播网络的性能,系统地分析了PIM-SM协议在OPNET中的实现。     

双轴应变下GaN有效质量的计算及其对迁移率的影响

通过计算双轴应变下氮化镓的电子能带结构,给出了GaN有效质量与应变的变化关系。在弛豫时间近似的条件下,这种关系决定了双轴应变AlGaN/GaN中二维电子气(2DEG)的迁移率的改变。在其他物理参量不变的情况下,这种二维电子气迁移率将随着张应变的增加而增加,并随着压应变的增加而减小。计算结果表明,张应变对2DEG迁移率的影响要比压应变大。此外,GaN有效质量的变化在低温时对迁移率的作用更明显。而在低温低浓度的条件下,迁移率却对有效质量的依赖很小。     

基于IPv6组播的M-FHM IPv6切换技术

由于快速分层切换技术FHMIPv6将FMIPv6和HMIPv6切换技术结合起来,因此,在层次移动管理模型中部署快速切换时具有两种技术所具有的优点,可使切换延时进一步减少。文中通过对FHMIPv6的研究发现,其切换过程中DAD重复地址检测过程严重影响了切换性能,因此提出了基于IPv6组播的M-FHMIPv6切换技术。理论分析证明,M-FHMIPv6能有效减少DAD检测过程和各种信息交互的延迟。通过NS2实验仿真进一步说明:改进的M-FHMIPv6方案能减少切换延迟,平滑切换过程。     

基于跨层快速邻居感知的OLSR协议

提出了一种基于跨层快速邻居感知的OLSR协议——FS-OLSR,协议在采用hello消息进行链路感知和邻居探测的基础上,结合链路层反馈的信息对网络层邻居表进行更新,以增强节点的邻居感知能力;并将邻居节点的新鲜度作为MPR计算的依据,以提高拓扑消息中广播邻居节点的新鲜度,使之更加适合于快速移动场景。仿真结果表明,在快速移动场景中,FS-OLSR能够在增加少量路由开销的情况下,显著降低丢包率。