A Novel Segmentation and Feedback Model for Resolving Contention in Optical Burst Switching

A novel segmentation and feedback model (SFM) applied to resolve contention is proposed. Simulation and performance analyses show that the SFM effectively avoids contentions in optical burst switching (OBS). The long delay time of deflection routing and the immature technology of wavelength converters and optical buffers are not deployed in the SFM. The SFM does not only realize fast switching but also allows preemption by higher priority bursts.     

Analysis and Optimization of the Energy Efficiency in the 802.11 DCF

This paper introduces an analytical model to investigate the energy efficiency of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordinated function (DCF). This model not only accounts for the number of contending nodes, the contention window, but also the packet size, and the channel condition. Based on this model, we identify the tradeoff in choosing optimum parameters to optimize the energy efficiency of DCF in the error-prone environment. The effects of contention window and packet size on the energy efficiency are examined and compared for both DCF basic scheme and DCF with four-way handshaking. The maximum energy efficiency can be obtained by combining both the optimal packet size and optimal contention window. To validate our analysis, we have done extensive simulations in ns-2, and simulation results seem to match well with the presented analytical results. The Ohio Board of Regents Doctoral Enhancements Funds and the National Science Foundation under Grant CCR 0113361 have supported this work. Xiaodong Wang received his B.S. degree in communication engineering from Beijing Information Technical Institute of China in 1995, and his M.S. degree in electric engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics of China in 1998. He joined China Telecom in 1998 where he worked on communication protocols for telecommunication. From June 2000 to July 2002, he worked on GSM base station software development at Bell-labs China, Beijing, China. Currently he is a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at University of Cincinnati. His research activities include wireless MAC protocols, energy saving for wireless sensor networks. He is a student member of the IEEE. Jun Yin received the BS degree in automatic control from Dalian Railway Institute of China in 1997, and the MS degree in flight control from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics of China in 2001. Since 2001 she has been a Ph.D. student in the OBR Research Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include performance evaluation of 802.11 MAC protocol, wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks. She is a student member of the IEEE. Dharma P.Agrawal IEEE Fellow, 1987; ACM Fellow, 1998; AAAS Fellow, 2003 Dr. Agrawal is the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, OH. He has been a faculty member at Wayne State University, (1977–1982) and North Carolina State University (1982–1998). He has been a consultant to the General Dynamics Land Systems Division, Battelle, Inc., and the U. S. Army. He has held visiting appointment at AIRMICS, Atlanta, GA, and the AT&T Advanced Communications Laboratory, Whippany, NJ. He has published a number of papers in the areas of Parallel System Architecture, Multi computer Networks, Routing Techniques, Parallelism Detection and Scheduling Techniques, Reliability of Real-Time Distributed Systems, Modeling of C-MOS Circuits, and Computer Arithmetic. His recent research interest includes energy efficient routing, information retrieval, and secured communication in ad hoc and sensor networks, effective handoff handling and multicasting in integrated wireless networks, interference analysis in piconets and routing in scatternet, use of smart directional antennas (multibeam) for enhanced QoS, Scheduling of periodic real-time applications and automatic load balancing in heterogeneous workstation environment. He has four approved patents and three patent filings in the area of wireless cellular networks.     

SCHEDULING PARALLEL PROGRAM TASKS WITH NON-NEGLIGIBLE INTERTASK COMMUNICATIONS ON TO NUMA MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of scheduling parallel tasks onto non-uniform memory access (NUMA) shared-memory multiprocessor systems by considering non-negligible intertask communications and communication contentions. Communication contentions arise from the communication medium having insufficient capacity to serve all transmissions, thereby causing significant contention delays. Therefore, a new scheduling algorithm, herein referred to as the Extended Critical Path (ECP) algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm schedules parallel tasks by considering non-negligible intertask communications and the contentions among shared communication resources. Moreover, it ensures performance within a factor of two of the optimum for general directed acyclic task graphs (DATGs). Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the ECP algorithm over the scheduling algorithms presented in previous literature.     

基于IEEE 80211e EDCA的下行信道动态无竞争接入机制*

为了改善无线局域网络服务质量,IEEE工作组形成了增补标准IEEE 802.11e,但是其增强的接入机制仍然不能完全满足IPTV、视频点播等类似场景的应用。为此提出了针对这一类应用场景的一种新的简单易行的下行信道动态无竞争接入机制,该机制基于MAC层队列长度信息动态调整下行信道接入参数,能有效地保护下行流媒体数据的传输,通过仿真结果验证了该机制有效并且实用。     

无线体域网高能效竞争接入机制研究

低能耗是无线体域网WBAN通信最重要的指标.构建了IEEE 802.15.6无线体域网CSMA/CA竞争接入的功耗模型,分析了用户优先级、MAC帧负荷尺寸和数据到达量对信道接入能耗的影响,提出了一种通过数据汇聚传输提高能量效率的增强型信道接入方法.仿真结果表明,在低业务量及混合业务场景下,所提方法能够显著减少信道接入的能量消耗.     

基于竞争窗口递减因子自适应调整退避算法

包括IEEE802.11、802.15.4标准在内的许多无线网络协议都采用二进制指数退避机制管理数据的重发。在动态分布式的网络环境中,二进制指数退避算法固定的竞争窗口递减方式难以适应动态变化的网络规模。针对这一问题,提出了一种改进的回退机制,该机制通过引入竞争窗口递减因子,自适应地调整无线节点的等待时间,以实现网络吞吐量的最大化。同时,在算法实现上提出一种启发式算法以跟踪网络中竞争节点数量的改变。在IEEE 802.11DCF协议中以相同的物理层参数进行仿真,结果表明改进算法提高了网络吞吐量,降低了分组平均接入时延。     

Communication contention in APN list scheduling algorithm

Task scheduling is an essential aspect of parallel process system. This NP-hard problem assumes fully connected homogeneous processors and ignores contention on the communication links. However, as arbitrary processor network (APN), communication contention has a strong influence on the execution time of a parallel application. This paper investigates the incorporation of contention awareness into task scheduling. The innovation is the idea of dynamically scheduling edges to links, for which we use the earliest finish communication time search algorithm based on shortest-path search method. The other novel idea proposed in this paper is scheduling priority based on recursive rank computation on heterogeneous arbitrary processor network. In the end, to reduce time complexity of algorithm, a parallel algorithm is proposed and speedup O(PPE) is achieved. The comparison study, based on both randomly generated graphs and the graphs of some real applications, shows that our scheduling algorithm significantly surpasses classic and static communication contention awareness algorithm, especially for high data transmission rate parallel application. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 90715029 and 60603053), the Cultivation Fund of the Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Project, Ministry of Edacation of China, and the Key Project of Science & Technology of Hunan Province (Grant No. 2006GK2006)     

Low-contention data structures

We consider the problem of minimizing contention in static (read-only) dictionary data structures, where contention is measured with respect to a fixed query distribution by the maximum expected number of probes to any given cell. The query distribution is known by the algorithm that constructs the data structure but not by the algorithm that queries it. Assume that the dictionary has n$n$ items. When all queries in the dictionary are equiprobable, and all queries not in the dictionary are equiprobable, we show how to construct a data structure in O(n)$O\left(n\right)$ space where queries require O(1)$O\left(1\right)$ probes and the contention is O(1/n)$O(1/n)$. Asymptotically, all of these quantities are optimal. For arbitrary   query distributions, we construct a data structure in O(n)$O\left(n\right)$ space where each query requires O(logn/loglogn)$O(logn/loglogn)$ probes and the contention is O(logn/(nloglogn))$O(logn/(nloglogn))$. The lack of knowledge of the query distribution by the query algorithm prevents perfect load leveling in this case: for a large class of algorithms, we present a lower bound, based on VC-dimension, that shows that for a wide range of data structure problems, achieving contention even within a polylogarithmic factor of optimal requires a cell-probe complexity of Ω(loglogn)$\Omega (loglogn)$.     

一种TCP友好的无线多跳网络拥塞控制算法

为了改进流媒体在无线多跳网络中的传输质量,提出一种TCP友好的拥塞控制算法.该算法考虑了MAC层的信道竞争,节点通过标记数据包来通知数据流它的竞争状态,数据流基于所估计的竞争状态来控制传输速率.仿真结果表明所提出的算法能更有效地利用带宽,与已存在的算法相比,有较高的吞吐量和较好的平滑性.     

光分组交换中的波长变换器配置研究

首先对波长变换器的功能及分类进行详细的论述,然后,对波长变换器的配置进行分析,总结出两种波长变换器配置方法,即独占式配置方法和共享式配置方法.针对独占式配置方法,本文使用仿真实验的方法研究了在不同类型的波长变换器下交换节点丢包性能的差异.本文还对独占式配置方法和共享式配置方法进行对比研究.