A call admission and rate control scheme for multimedia support over IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Quality of service (QoS) support for multimedia services in the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN is an important issue for such WLANs to become a viable wireless access to the Internet. In this paper, we endeavor to propose a practical scheme to achieve this goal without changing the channel access mechanism. To this end, a novel call admission and rate control (CARC) scheme is proposed. The key idea of this scheme is to regulate the arriving traffic of the WLAN such that the network can work at an optimal point. We first show that the channel busyness ratio is a good indicator of the network status in the sense that it is easy to obtain and can accurately and timely represent channel utilization. Then we propose two algorithms based on the channel busyness ratio. The call admission control algorithm is used to regulate the admission of real-time or streaming traffic and the rate control algorithm to control the transmission rate of best effort traffic. As a result, the real-time or streaming traffic is supported with statistical QoS guarantees and the best effort traffic can fully utilize the residual channel capacity left by the real-time and streaming traffic. In addition, the rate control algorithm itself provides a solution that could be used above the media access mechanism to approach the maximal theoretical channel utilization. A comprehensive simulation study in ns-2 has verified the performance of our proposed CARC scheme, showing that the original 802.11 DCF protocol can statically support strict QoS requirements, such as those required by voice over IP or streaming video, and at the same time, achieve a high channel utilization. Hongqiang Zhai received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in July 1999 and January 2002 respectively. He worked as a research intern in Bell Labs Research China from June 2001 to December 2001, and in Microsoft Research Asia from January 2002 to July 2002. Currently he is pursuing the PhD degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida. He is a student member of IEEE. Xiang Chen received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 2005. He is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Motorola Labs, Arlington Heights, IL. His research interests include resource management, medium access control, and quality of service (QoS) in wireless networks. He is a Member of Tau Beta Pi and a student member of IEEE. Yuguang Fang received a Ph.D degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in January 1994, and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in May 1997. From June 1997 to July 1998, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. From July 1998 to May 2000, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. In May 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida where he got the early promotion with tenure in August 2003 and has been an Associate Professor since then. He has published over one hundred (100) papers in refereed professional journals and conferences. He received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002. He is currently serving as an Editor for many journals including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and ACM Wireless Networks. He is also actively participating in conference organization such as the Program Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2005, Program Co-Chair for the Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium in IEEE Globecom’2004 and the Program Vice Chair for 2000 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’2000).     

Extending boosting for large scale spoken language understanding

We propose three methods for extending the Boosting family of classifiers motivated by the real-life problems we have encountered. First, we propose a semisupervised learning method for exploiting the unlabeled data in Boosting. We then present a novel classification model adaptation method. The goal of adaptation is optimizing an existing model for a new target application, which is similar to the previous one but may have different classes or class distributions. Finally, we present an efficient and effective cost-sensitive classification method that extends Boosting to allow for weighted classes. We evaluated these methods for call classification in the AT&;T VoiceTone^® spoken language understanding system. Our results indicate that it is possible to obtain the same classification performance by using 30% less labeled data when the unlabeled data is utilized through semisupervised learning. Using model adaptation we can achieve the same classification accuracy using less than half of the labeled data from the new application. Finally, we present significant improvements in the “important” (i.e., higher weighted) classes without a significant loss in overall performance using the proposed cost-sensitive classification method.     

S1240一次呼叫转移命令不成功故障的排除

对S1240交换机一次呼叫转移命令不成功故障排除的过程进行了分析。     

利用C#Web Service应用程序的开发

通过一个Windows客户端/服务器程序,对数据库Web服务的调用进行了实例介绍。     

基于呼叫中心的客户关系管理系统服务流程优化研究

针对钢铁企业物流公司客户关系管理现状,及其客户服务请求处理流程中的不足,提出了基于呼叫中心的钢铁企业最优化客服请求处理流程及其技术实现,给出了平台功能设计,探讨了平台实现的关键技术。该系统充分满足客户满意度以及服务请求处理的及时性,快速性,确切性,可操作性等方面要求。     

Web Service性能测试的两种测试脚本设计方法

Web Service接口技术越来越广泛地应用到信息系统之中,Web Service接口的性能测试需求也越来越多。给出使用LoadRunner和SOAP UI工具进行Web Service接口性能测试的两种测试脚本设计方法,即Service Call方式的测试脚本设计方法和SOAP方式的测试脚本设计方法。     

UML模型和Java代码之间的一致性检测方法

针对代码与模型之间的不一致性问题,提出了一种基于UML模型和Java代码之间的一致性检测方法.首先,对UML类图和时序图进行形式化描述,并提出时序调用图(SD-CG)这一概念,在此基础上完成类的关联关系到关联属性的转换以及UML时序图到时序调用图SD-CG的转换;其次,通过方法调用图CG来表达类方法之间的调用关系,从而反映代码动态行为,由此通过对Java源代码的词法分析与语法分析,可获得类的信息及方法调用图CG;然后设计了UML模型与Java源代码间一致性检测算法,包括对类间静态信息以及时序调用图SD-CG与方法调用图CG间的一致性检测;最后,通过开发UML模型与Java源代码一致性检测工具,验证了所提出的方法是可行有效的.     

Test frame updating in CPM testing of Prolog programs

Category Partition Method (CPM) is a general approach to specification-based program testing, where test frame reduction and refinement are two important issues. Test frame reduction is necessary since too many test frames may be produced, and test frame refinement is important since during CPM testing new information about test frame generation may be achieved and considered incrementally. Besides the information provided by testers or users, implementation related knowledge offers alternative information for reducing and refining CPM test frames. This paper explores the idea by proposing a call patterns semantics based test frame updating method for Prolog programs, in which a call patterns analysis is used to collect information about the way in which procedures are used in a program. The updated test frames will be represented as constraints. The effect of our test frame updating is two-fold. On one hand, it removes “uncared” data from the original set of test frames; on the other hand, it refines the test frames to which we should pay more attention. The first effect makes the input domain on which a procedure must be tested a subset of the procedure’s input domain, and the latter makes testers stand more chance to find out the faults that are more likely to show their presence in the use of the program under consideration. Our test frame updating method preserves the effectiveness of CPM testing with respect to the detection of faults we care. The test case generation from the updated set of test frames is also discussed. In order to show the applicability of our method an approximation call patterns semantics is proposed, and the test frame updating on the semantics is illustrated by an example.

Implementation of call admission control scheme in next generation mobile communication networks using particle swarm optimization and fuzzy logic systems

In the present and next generation wireless networks, cellular system remains the major method of telecommunication infrastructure. Since the characteristic of the resource constraint, call admission control is required to address the limited resource problem in wireless network. The call dropping probability and call blocking probability are the major performance metrics for quality of service (QoS) in wireless network. Many call admission control mechanisms have been proposed in the literature to decrease connection dropping probability for handoffs and new call blocking probability in cellular communications. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive call admission control and bandwidth reservation scheme using fuzzy logic control concept to reduce the forced termination probability of multimedia handoffs. Meanwhile, we adopt particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique to adjust the parameters of the membership functions in the proposed fuzzy logic systems. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve satisfactory performance when performance metrics are measured in terms of the forced termination probability for the handoffs, the call blocking probability for the new connections and bandwidth utilization.     

一种提高无线网络语音通话数量的方法

语音通话(Voice over IP)已经成为无线局域网中的一种重要的应用,并且近年来得到了越来越广泛的关注.分析了无线局域网所能支持的语音通话的最大数量,并在网络仿真器NS2上建立了IEEE 802.11语音通话的仿真模型根据仿真分析结果,提出一种自适应传输间隔接入控制方法,提高了IEEE 802.11无线局域网支持语音通话的数量.在自适应传输间隔接入控制方法中,基站(Base Station)通过监测网络冲突概率,自适应的改变网络中语音通话的传输间隔,使网络始终工作在非饱和状态.仿真实验结果表明,提出的白适应传输间隔接入控制方法不仅能够保证IEEE 802.11无线局域网中语音通话的质量,还可以增加网络所能支持语音通话的数量.