Vehicular networks enable seamless connectivity for exchanging emergency and infotainment content.However,retrieving infotainment data from remote servers often introduces high delays,degrading the Quality of Service(...Vehicular networks enable seamless connectivity for exchanging emergency and infotainment content.However,retrieving infotainment data from remote servers often introduces high delays,degrading the Quality of Service(QoS).To overcome this,caching frequently requested content at fog-enabled Road Side Units(RSUs)reduces communication latency.Yet,the limited caching capacity of RSUs makes it impractical to store all contents with varying sizes and popularity.This research proposes an efficient content caching algorithm that adapts to dynamic vehicular demands on highways to maximize request satisfaction.The scheme is evaluated against Intelligent Content Caching(ICC)and Random Caching(RC).The obtained results show that our proposed scheme entertains more contentrequesting vehicles as compared to ICC and RC,with 33%and 41%more downloaded data in 28%and 35%less amount of time from ICC and RC schemes,respectively.展开更多
This study introduces the Smart Exponential-Threshold-Linear with Double Deep Q-learning Network(SETL-DDQN)and an extended Gumbel distribution method,designed to optimize the Contention Window(CW)in IEEE 802.11 networ...This study introduces the Smart Exponential-Threshold-Linear with Double Deep Q-learning Network(SETL-DDQN)and an extended Gumbel distribution method,designed to optimize the Contention Window(CW)in IEEE 802.11 networks.Unlike conventional Deep Reinforcement Learning(DRL)-based approaches for CW size adjustment,which often suffer from overestimation bias and limited exploration diversity,leading to suboptimal throughput and collision performance.Our framework integrates the Gumbel distribution and extreme value theory to systematically enhance action selection under varying network conditions.First,SETL adopts a DDQN architecture(SETL-DDQN)to improve Q-value estimation accuracy and enhance training stability.Second,we incorporate a Gumbel distribution-driven exploration mechanism,forming SETL-DDQN(Gumbel),which employs the extreme value theory to promote diverse action selection,replacing the conventional-greedy exploration that undergoes early convergence to suboptimal solutions.Both models are evaluated through extensive simulations in static and time-varying IEEE 802.11 network scenarios.The results demonstrate that our approach consistently achieves higher throughput,lower collision rates,and improved adaptability,even under abrupt fluctuations in traffic load and network conditions.In particular,the Gumbel-based mechanism enhances the balance between exploration and exploitation,facilitating faster adaptation to varying congestion levels.These findings position Gumbel-enhanced DRL as an effective and robust solution for CW optimization in wireless networks,offering notable gains in efficiency and reliability over existing methods.展开更多
As a typical in-memory computing hardware design, nonvolatile ternary content-addressable memories(TCAMs) enable the logic operation and data storage for high throughout in parallel big data processing. However,TCAM c...As a typical in-memory computing hardware design, nonvolatile ternary content-addressable memories(TCAMs) enable the logic operation and data storage for high throughout in parallel big data processing. However,TCAM cells based on conventional silicon-based devices suffer from structural complexity and large footprintlimitations. Here, we demonstrate an ultrafast nonvolatile TCAM cell based on the MoTe2/hBN/multilayergraphene (MLG) van der Waals heterostructure using a top-gated partial floating-gate field-effect transistor(PFGFET) architecture. Based on its ambipolar transport properties, the carrier type in the source/drain andcentral channel regions of the MoTe2 channel can be efficiently tuned by the control gate and top gate, respectively,enabling the reconfigurable operation of the device in either memory or FET mode. When working inthe memory mode, it achieves an ultrafast 60 ns programming/erase speed with a current on-off ratio of ∼105,excellent retention capability, and robust endurance. When serving as a reconfigurable transistor, unipolar p-typeand n-type FETs are obtained by adopting ultrafast 60 ns control-gate voltage pulses with different polarities.The monolithic integration of memory and logic within a single device enables the content-addressable memory(CAM) functionality. Finally, by integrating two PFGFETs in parallel, a TCAM cell with a high current ratioof ∼10^(5) between the match and mismatch states is achieved without requiring additional peripheral circuitry.These results provide a promising route for the design of high-performance TCAM devices for future in-memorycomputing applications.展开更多
The amino acid composition and the biased auto-correlation function are considered as features, BP neural network algorithm is used to synthesize these features. The prediction accuracy of this method is verified by u...The amino acid composition and the biased auto-correlation function are considered as features, BP neural network algorithm is used to synthesize these features. The prediction accuracy of this method is verified by using the independent non-homologous protein database. It is shown that the average absolute errors for resubstitution test are 0.070 and 0.068 with the standard deviations 0.049 and 0.047 for the prediction of the content of α-helix and β-sheet respectively. For cross-validation test, the average absolute errors are 0.075 and 0.070 with the standard deviations 0.050 and 0.049 for the prediction of the content of α-helix and β-sheet respectively. Compared with the other methods currently available, the BP neural network method combined with the amino acid composition and the biased auto-correlation function features can effectively improve the prediction accuracy.展开更多
Leaf population chlorophyll content in a population of crops, if obtained in a timely manner, served as a key indicator for growth management and diseases diagnosis. In this paper, a three-layer multilayer perceptron ...Leaf population chlorophyll content in a population of crops, if obtained in a timely manner, served as a key indicator for growth management and diseases diagnosis. In this paper, a three-layer multilayer perceptron （MLP） artificial neural network （ANN） based prediction system was presented for predicting the leaf population chlorophyll content from the cotton plant images. As the training of this prediction system relied heavily on how well those leaf green pixels were separated from background noises in cotton plant images, a global thresholding algorithm and an omnidirectional scan noise filtering coupled with the hue histogram statistic method were designed for leaf green pixel extraction. With the obtained leaf green pixels, the system training was carried out by applying a back propagation algorithm. The proposed system was tested to predict the chlorophyll content from the cotton plant images. The results using the proposed system were in sound agreement with those obtained by the destructive method. The average prediction relative error for the chlorophyll density （μg cm^-2） in the 17 testing images was 8.41%.展开更多
The hybrid method composed of clustering and predicting stages is proposed to predict the endpoint phos- phorus content of molten steel in BOF （Basic Oxygen Furnace）. At the clustering stage, the weighted K-means is...The hybrid method composed of clustering and predicting stages is proposed to predict the endpoint phos- phorus content of molten steel in BOF （Basic Oxygen Furnace）. At the clustering stage, the weighted K-means is performed to generate some clusters with homogeneous data. The weights of factors influencing the target are calcu- lated using EWM （Entropy Weight Method）. At the predicting stage, one GMDH （Group Method of Data Handling） polynomial neural network is built for each cluster. And the predictive results from all the GMDH polynomial neural networks are integrated into a whole to be the result for the hybrid method. The hybrid method, GMDH polnomial neural network and BP neural network are employed for a comparison. The results show that the proposed hybrid method is effective in predicting the endpoint phosphorus content of molten steel in BOF. Furthermore, the hybrid method outperforms BP neural network and GMDH polynomial neural network.展开更多
In order to alleviate capacity constraints on the fronthaul and decrease the transmit latency, a hierarchical content caching paradigm is applied in the fog radio access networks(F-RANs). In particular, a specific clu...In order to alleviate capacity constraints on the fronthaul and decrease the transmit latency, a hierarchical content caching paradigm is applied in the fog radio access networks(F-RANs). In particular, a specific cluster of remote radio heads is formed through a common centralized cloud at the baseband unit pool, while the local content is directly delivered at fog access points with edge cache and distributed radio signal processing capability. Focusing on a downlink F-RAN, the explicit expressions of ergodic rate for the hierarchical paradigm is derived. Meanwhile, both the waiting delay and latency ratio for users requiring a single content are exploited. According to the evaluation results of ergodic rate on waiting delay, the transmit latency can be effectively reduced through improving the capacity of both fronthaul and radio access links. Moreover, to fully explore the potential of hierarchical content caching, the transmit latency for users requiring multiple content objects is optimized as well in three content transmission cases with different radio access links. The simulation results verify the accuracy of the analysis, further show the latency decreases significantly due to the hierarchical paradigm.展开更多
Considering the fact that free calcium oxide content is an important parameter to evaluate the quality of cement clinker, it is very significant to predict the change of free calcium oxide content through adjusting th...Considering the fact that free calcium oxide content is an important parameter to evaluate the quality of cement clinker, it is very significant to predict the change of free calcium oxide content through adjusting the parameters of processing technique. In fact, the making process of cement clinker is very complex. Therefore, it is very difficult to describe this relationship using the conventional mathematical methods. Using several models, i e, linear regression model, nonlinear regression model, Back Propagation neural network model, and Radial Basis Function （RBF） neural network model, we investigated the possibility to predict the free calcium oxide content according to selected parameters of the production process. The results indicate that RBF neural network model can predict the free lime content with the highest precision （1.3%） among all the models.展开更多
This paper proposes a content addres sable storage optimization method, VDeskCAS, for desktop virtualization storage based disaster backup storage system. The method implements a blocklevel storage optimization, by em...This paper proposes a content addres sable storage optimization method, VDeskCAS, for desktop virtualization storage based disaster backup storage system. The method implements a blocklevel storage optimization, by employing the algorithms of chunking image file into blocks, the blockffmger calculation and the block dedup li cation. A File system in Use Space （FUSE） based storage process for VDeskCAS is also introduced which optimizes current direct storage to suit our content addressable storage. An interface level modification makes our system easy to extend. Experiments on virtual desktop image files and normal files verify the effectiveness of our method and above 60% storage volume decrease is a chieved for Red Hat Enterprise Linux image files. Key words： disaster backup; desktop virtualization; storage optimization; content addressable storage展开更多
Dephosphorization is essential content in the steelmaking process,and the process after the converter has no dephosphorization function.Therefore,phosphorus must be removed to the required level in the converter proce...Dephosphorization is essential content in the steelmaking process,and the process after the converter has no dephosphorization function.Therefore,phosphorus must be removed to the required level in the converter process.In order to better control the end-point phosphorus content of basic oxygen furnace(BOF),a prediction model of end-point phosphorus content for BOF based on monotone-constrained backpropagation(BP)neural network was established.Through the theoretical analysis of the dephosphorization process,ten factors that affect the end-point phosphorus content were determined as the input variables of the model.The correlations between influencing factors and end-point phosphorus content were determined as the constraint condition of the model.200 sets of data were used to verify the accuracy of the model,and the hit ratios in the range of±0.005%and±0.003%are 94%and 74%,respectively.The fit coefficient of determination of the predicted value and the actual value is 0.8456,and the root-mean-square error is 0.0030;the predictive accuracy is better than that of ordinary BP neural network,and this model has good interpretability.It can provide useful reference for real production and also provide a new approach for metallurgical predictive modeling.展开更多
A genetic algorithm based on the nested intervals chaos search (NICGA) hasbeen given. Because the nested intervals chaos search is introduced into the NICGA to initialize thepopulation and to lead the evolution of the...A genetic algorithm based on the nested intervals chaos search (NICGA) hasbeen given. Because the nested intervals chaos search is introduced into the NICGA to initialize thepopulation and to lead the evolution of the population, the NICGA has the advantages of decreasingthe population size, enhancing the local search ability, and improving the computational efficiencyand optimization precision. In a multi4ayer feed forward neural network model for predicting thesilicon content in hot metal, the NICGA was used to optimize the connection weights and thresholdvalues of the neural network to improve the prediction precision. The application results show thatthe precision of predicting the silicon content has been increased.展开更多
Based on the skills of initializing weight distribution, adding an impulse in a neural network and expanding the ideal of plural weights, an artificial neural network model with three connection weights between one an...Based on the skills of initializing weight distribution, adding an impulse in a neural network and expanding the ideal of plural weights, an artificial neural network model with three connection weights between one and another neural unit was established to predict silicon content of blast furnace hot metal. After the neural network was trained in the off-line state on the basis of a large number of practical data of a commercial blast furnace and making many learning patterns, satisfactory testing and simulating results of the model were obtained.展开更多
Massive content delivery will become one of the most prominent tasks of future B5G/6G communication.However,various multimedia applications possess huge differences in terms of object oriented(i.e.,machine or user)and...Massive content delivery will become one of the most prominent tasks of future B5G/6G communication.However,various multimedia applications possess huge differences in terms of object oriented(i.e.,machine or user)and corresponding quality evaluation metric,which will significantly impact the design of encoding or decoding within content delivery strategy.To get over this dilemma,we firstly integrate the digital twin into the edge networks to accurately and timely capture Quality-of-Decision(QoD)or Quality-of-Experience(QoE)for the guidance of content delivery.Then,in terms of machinecentric communication,a QoD-driven compression mechanism is designed for video analytics via temporally lightweight frame classification and spatially uneven quality assignment,which can achieve a balance among decision-making,delivered content,and encoding latency.Finally,in terms of user-centric communication,by fully leveraging haptic physical properties and semantic correlations of heterogeneous streams,we develop a QoE-driven video enhancement scheme to supply high data fidelity.Numerical results demonstrate the remarkable performance improvement of massive content delivery.展开更多
The emergence of self-driving technologies implies that a future vehicle will likely become an entertainment center that demands personalized multimedia contents with very high quality. The surge of vehicular content ...The emergence of self-driving technologies implies that a future vehicle will likely become an entertainment center that demands personalized multimedia contents with very high quality. The surge of vehicular content demand brings significant challenges for the fifth generation(5G) cellular communication network. To cope with the challenge of massive content delivery, previous studies suggested that the 5G mobile edge network should be designed to integrate communication, computing, and cache(3C) resources to enable advanced functionalities such as proactive content delivery and in-network caching. However, the fundamental benefits achievable by computing and caching in mobile communications networks are not yet properly understood. This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework to characterize the tradeoff among computing, cache, and communication resources required by the mobile edge network to fulfill the task of content delivery. Analytical and numerical results are obtained to characterize the 3C resource tradeoff curve. These results reveal key insights into the fundamental benefits of computing and caching in vehicular mobile content delivery networks.展开更多
In-network caching and Interest packets aggregation are two important features of Content-Centric Networking(CCN).CCN routers can directly respond to the Interest request by Content Store(CS)and aggregate the same Int...In-network caching and Interest packets aggregation are two important features of Content-Centric Networking(CCN).CCN routers can directly respond to the Interest request by Content Store(CS)and aggregate the same Interest packets by Pending Interest Table(PIT).In this way,most popular content requests will not reach the origin content server.Thus,content providers will be unaware of the actual usages of their contents in network.This new network paradigm presents content providers with unprecedented challenge.It will bring a great impact on existing mature business model of content providers,such as advertising revenue model based on hits amount.To leverage the advantages of CCN and the realistic business needs of content providers,we explore the hits-based content provisioning mechanism in CCN.The proposed approaches can avoid the unprecedented impact on content providers' existing business model and promote content providers to embrace the real deployment of CCN network.展开更多
Recently the content centric networks(CCNs) have been advocated as a new solution to design future networks. In the CCNs, content and its interest are delivered over the content store and pending interest table, respe...Recently the content centric networks(CCNs) have been advocated as a new solution to design future networks. In the CCNs, content and its interest are delivered over the content store and pending interest table, respectively, where both have limited capacities. Therefore, how to design the corresponding algorithms to efficiently deliver content and inertest over them becomes an important issue. In this paper, based on the analysis of content distribution, status of content store, and pending interest, we propose a novel caching algorithm with which the resources of content store and pending interest table can be efficiently used. Simulation results prove that the proposal can outperform the conventional methods.展开更多
Named Data Networking(NDN)improves the data delivery efficiency by caching contents in routers. To prevent corrupted and faked contents be spread in the network,NDN routers should verify the digital signature of each ...Named Data Networking(NDN)improves the data delivery efficiency by caching contents in routers. To prevent corrupted and faked contents be spread in the network,NDN routers should verify the digital signature of each published content. Since the verification scheme in NDN applies the asymmetric encryption algorithm to sign contents,the content verification overhead is too high to satisfy wire-speed packet forwarding. In this paper, we propose two schemes to improve the verification performance of NDN routers to prevent content poisoning. The first content verification scheme, called "user-assisted",leads to the best performance, but can be bypassed if the clients and the content producer collude. A second scheme, named ``RouterCooperation ‘', prevents the aforementioned collusion attack by making edge routers verify the contents independently without the assistance of users and the core routers no longer verify the contents. The Router-Cooperation verification scheme reduces the computing complexity of cryptographic operation by replacing the asymmetric encryption algorithm with symmetric encryption algorithm.The simulation results demonstrate that this Router-Cooperation scheme can speed up18.85 times of the original content verification scheme with merely extra 80 Bytes transmission overhead.展开更多
The evolution of smart mobile devices has significantly impacted the way we generate and share contents and introduced a huge volume of Internet traffic.To address this issue and take advantage of the short-range comm...The evolution of smart mobile devices has significantly impacted the way we generate and share contents and introduced a huge volume of Internet traffic.To address this issue and take advantage of the short-range communication capabilities of smart mobile devices,the decentralized content sharing approach has emerged as a suitable and promising alternative.Decentralized content sharing uses a peer-to-peer network among colocated smart mobile device users to fulfil content requests.Several articles have been published to date to address its different aspects including group management,interest extraction,message forwarding,participation incentive,and content replication.This survey paper summarizes and critically analyzes recent advancements in decentralized content sharing and highlights potential research issues that need further consideration.展开更多
Visible and near infrared spectroscopy is a non-destructive,green,and rapid technology that can be utilized to estimate the components of interest without conditioning it,as compared with classical analytical methods....Visible and near infrared spectroscopy is a non-destructive,green,and rapid technology that can be utilized to estimate the components of interest without conditioning it,as compared with classical analytical methods.The objective of this paper is to compare the performance of artificial neural network(ANN)(a nonlinear model)and principal component regression(PCR)(a linear model)based on visible and shortwave near infrared(VIS-SWNIR)(400-1000 nm)spectra in the non-destructive soluble solids content measurement of an apple.First,we used multiplicative scattering correction to pre-process the spectral data.Second,PCR was applied to estimate the optimal number of input variables.Third,the input variables with an optimal amount were used as the inputs of both multiple linear regression and ANN models.The initial weights and the number of hidden neurons were adjusted to optimize the performance of ANN.Findings suggest that the predictive performance of ANN with two hidden neurons outperforms that of PCR.展开更多
Tourism-led economic growth and tourism-driven urbanization have attracted increasing attention by provinces and regions in China with abundant tourism resources.Due to low data availability,the current tourism litera...Tourism-led economic growth and tourism-driven urbanization have attracted increasing attention by provinces and regions in China with abundant tourism resources.Due to low data availability,the current tourism literature lacks empirical evidence of the tourism network in lessdeveloped mountainous regions where the development of transport infrastructure is more variable.This paper aims to provide such evidence using Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China as a case study.Using User Generated Content(UGC)data,this study constructs a tourism network in Guangxi.By integrating social network analysis with spatial interaction modelling,we compared the impact of two different transport infrastructures,highway and high-speed railway,on tourist flows,particularly in less-developed mountainous regions.It was found that the product of node centrality and flow could best describe the significant pushing and pulling forces on the flow of tourists.The tourism by high-speed railway was sensitive to the position of trip destination on the whole tourism network but self-drive tourism was more sensitive to travelling time.The increase of high-speed railway density is crucial to promote local tourism-led economic development,however,large-scale karst landforms in the study area present a significant obstacle to the construction of high-speed railways.展开更多
基金supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University(IMSIU)(grant number IMSIU-DDRSP2504).
文摘Vehicular networks enable seamless connectivity for exchanging emergency and infotainment content.However,retrieving infotainment data from remote servers often introduces high delays,degrading the Quality of Service(QoS).To overcome this,caching frequently requested content at fog-enabled Road Side Units(RSUs)reduces communication latency.Yet,the limited caching capacity of RSUs makes it impractical to store all contents with varying sizes and popularity.This research proposes an efficient content caching algorithm that adapts to dynamic vehicular demands on highways to maximize request satisfaction.The scheme is evaluated against Intelligent Content Caching(ICC)and Random Caching(RC).The obtained results show that our proposed scheme entertains more contentrequesting vehicles as compared to ICC and RC,with 33%and 41%more downloaded data in 28%and 35%less amount of time from ICC and RC schemes,respectively.
文摘This study introduces the Smart Exponential-Threshold-Linear with Double Deep Q-learning Network(SETL-DDQN)and an extended Gumbel distribution method,designed to optimize the Contention Window(CW)in IEEE 802.11 networks.Unlike conventional Deep Reinforcement Learning(DRL)-based approaches for CW size adjustment,which often suffer from overestimation bias and limited exploration diversity,leading to suboptimal throughput and collision performance.Our framework integrates the Gumbel distribution and extreme value theory to systematically enhance action selection under varying network conditions.First,SETL adopts a DDQN architecture(SETL-DDQN)to improve Q-value estimation accuracy and enhance training stability.Second,we incorporate a Gumbel distribution-driven exploration mechanism,forming SETL-DDQN(Gumbel),which employs the extreme value theory to promote diverse action selection,replacing the conventional-greedy exploration that undergoes early convergence to suboptimal solutions.Both models are evaluated through extensive simulations in static and time-varying IEEE 802.11 network scenarios.The results demonstrate that our approach consistently achieves higher throughput,lower collision rates,and improved adaptability,even under abrupt fluctuations in traffic load and network conditions.In particular,the Gumbel-based mechanism enhances the balance between exploration and exploitation,facilitating faster adaptation to varying congestion levels.These findings position Gumbel-enhanced DRL as an effective and robust solution for CW optimization in wireless networks,offering notable gains in efficiency and reliability over existing methods.
基金supported by the National Key Research&Development Projects of China(Grant No.2022YFA1204100)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62488201)+1 种基金CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-003)the Innovation Program of Quantum Science and Technology(2021ZD0302700)。
文摘As a typical in-memory computing hardware design, nonvolatile ternary content-addressable memories(TCAMs) enable the logic operation and data storage for high throughout in parallel big data processing. However,TCAM cells based on conventional silicon-based devices suffer from structural complexity and large footprintlimitations. Here, we demonstrate an ultrafast nonvolatile TCAM cell based on the MoTe2/hBN/multilayergraphene (MLG) van der Waals heterostructure using a top-gated partial floating-gate field-effect transistor(PFGFET) architecture. Based on its ambipolar transport properties, the carrier type in the source/drain andcentral channel regions of the MoTe2 channel can be efficiently tuned by the control gate and top gate, respectively,enabling the reconfigurable operation of the device in either memory or FET mode. When working inthe memory mode, it achieves an ultrafast 60 ns programming/erase speed with a current on-off ratio of ∼105,excellent retention capability, and robust endurance. When serving as a reconfigurable transistor, unipolar p-typeand n-type FETs are obtained by adopting ultrafast 60 ns control-gate voltage pulses with different polarities.The monolithic integration of memory and logic within a single device enables the content-addressable memory(CAM) functionality. Finally, by integrating two PFGFETs in parallel, a TCAM cell with a high current ratioof ∼10^(5) between the match and mismatch states is achieved without requiring additional peripheral circuitry.These results provide a promising route for the design of high-performance TCAM devices for future in-memorycomputing applications.
文摘The amino acid composition and the biased auto-correlation function are considered as features, BP neural network algorithm is used to synthesize these features. The prediction accuracy of this method is verified by using the independent non-homologous protein database. It is shown that the average absolute errors for resubstitution test are 0.070 and 0.068 with the standard deviations 0.049 and 0.047 for the prediction of the content of α-helix and β-sheet respectively. For cross-validation test, the average absolute errors are 0.075 and 0.070 with the standard deviations 0.050 and 0.049 for the prediction of the content of α-helix and β-sheet respectively. Compared with the other methods currently available, the BP neural network method combined with the amino acid composition and the biased auto-correlation function features can effectively improve the prediction accuracy.
基金supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and the Minzu University of China(CUN0246)
文摘Leaf population chlorophyll content in a population of crops, if obtained in a timely manner, served as a key indicator for growth management and diseases diagnosis. In this paper, a three-layer multilayer perceptron （MLP） artificial neural network （ANN） based prediction system was presented for predicting the leaf population chlorophyll content from the cotton plant images. As the training of this prediction system relied heavily on how well those leaf green pixels were separated from background noises in cotton plant images, a global thresholding algorithm and an omnidirectional scan noise filtering coupled with the hue histogram statistic method were designed for leaf green pixel extraction. With the obtained leaf green pixels, the system training was carried out by applying a back propagation algorithm. The proposed system was tested to predict the chlorophyll content from the cotton plant images. The results using the proposed system were in sound agreement with those obtained by the destructive method. The average prediction relative error for the chlorophyll density （μg cm^-2） in the 17 testing images was 8.41%.
基金Sponsored by National Key Technology Research and Development in 11th Five Years Plan of China(2006BAE03A07)Fundamental Research Funds for Central University of China(FRF-AS-09-006B)
文摘The hybrid method composed of clustering and predicting stages is proposed to predict the endpoint phos- phorus content of molten steel in BOF （Basic Oxygen Furnace）. At the clustering stage, the weighted K-means is performed to generate some clusters with homogeneous data. The weights of factors influencing the target are calcu- lated using EWM （Entropy Weight Method）. At the predicting stage, one GMDH （Group Method of Data Handling） polynomial neural network is built for each cluster. And the predictive results from all the GMDH polynomial neural networks are integrated into a whole to be the result for the hybrid method. The hybrid method, GMDH polnomial neural network and BP neural network are employed for a comparison. The results show that the proposed hybrid method is effective in predicting the endpoint phosphorus content of molten steel in BOF. Furthermore, the hybrid method outperforms BP neural network and GMDH polynomial neural network.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61361166005)the State Major Science and Technology Special Projects (Grant No.2016ZX03001020006)the National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals
文摘In order to alleviate capacity constraints on the fronthaul and decrease the transmit latency, a hierarchical content caching paradigm is applied in the fog radio access networks(F-RANs). In particular, a specific cluster of remote radio heads is formed through a common centralized cloud at the baseband unit pool, while the local content is directly delivered at fog access points with edge cache and distributed radio signal processing capability. Focusing on a downlink F-RAN, the explicit expressions of ergodic rate for the hierarchical paradigm is derived. Meanwhile, both the waiting delay and latency ratio for users requiring a single content are exploited. According to the evaluation results of ergodic rate on waiting delay, the transmit latency can be effectively reduced through improving the capacity of both fronthaul and radio access links. Moreover, to fully explore the potential of hierarchical content caching, the transmit latency for users requiring multiple content objects is optimized as well in three content transmission cases with different radio access links. The simulation results verify the accuracy of the analysis, further show the latency decreases significantly due to the hierarchical paradigm.
基金NSFC (No. 60808024)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Wuhan University of Technology)
文摘Considering the fact that free calcium oxide content is an important parameter to evaluate the quality of cement clinker, it is very significant to predict the change of free calcium oxide content through adjusting the parameters of processing technique. In fact, the making process of cement clinker is very complex. Therefore, it is very difficult to describe this relationship using the conventional mathematical methods. Using several models, i e, linear regression model, nonlinear regression model, Back Propagation neural network model, and Radial Basis Function （RBF） neural network model, we investigated the possibility to predict the free calcium oxide content according to selected parameters of the production process. The results indicate that RBF neural network model can predict the free lime content with the highest precision （1.3%） among all the models.
基金the Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China，the National Natural Science Foundation of China，the Beijing Natural Science Foundation，the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities，the Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment
文摘This paper proposes a content addres sable storage optimization method, VDeskCAS, for desktop virtualization storage based disaster backup storage system. The method implements a blocklevel storage optimization, by employing the algorithms of chunking image file into blocks, the blockffmger calculation and the block dedup li cation. A File system in Use Space （FUSE） based storage process for VDeskCAS is also introduced which optimizes current direct storage to suit our content addressable storage. An interface level modification makes our system easy to extend. Experiments on virtual desktop image files and normal files verify the effectiveness of our method and above 60% storage volume decrease is a chieved for Red Hat Enterprise Linux image files. Key words： disaster backup; desktop virtualization; storage optimization; content addressable storage
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51974023)Key R&D Program Projects in Jiangxi Province(20171ACE50020).
文摘Dephosphorization is essential content in the steelmaking process,and the process after the converter has no dephosphorization function.Therefore,phosphorus must be removed to the required level in the converter process.In order to better control the end-point phosphorus content of basic oxygen furnace(BOF),a prediction model of end-point phosphorus content for BOF based on monotone-constrained backpropagation(BP)neural network was established.Through the theoretical analysis of the dephosphorization process,ten factors that affect the end-point phosphorus content were determined as the input variables of the model.The correlations between influencing factors and end-point phosphorus content were determined as the constraint condition of the model.200 sets of data were used to verify the accuracy of the model,and the hit ratios in the range of±0.005%and±0.003%are 94%and 74%,respectively.The fit coefficient of determination of the predicted value and the actual value is 0.8456,and the root-mean-square error is 0.0030;the predictive accuracy is better than that of ordinary BP neural network,and this model has good interpretability.It can provide useful reference for real production and also provide a new approach for metallurgical predictive modeling.
文摘A genetic algorithm based on the nested intervals chaos search (NICGA) hasbeen given. Because the nested intervals chaos search is introduced into the NICGA to initialize thepopulation and to lead the evolution of the population, the NICGA has the advantages of decreasingthe population size, enhancing the local search ability, and improving the computational efficiencyand optimization precision. In a multi4ayer feed forward neural network model for predicting thesilicon content in hot metal, the NICGA was used to optimize the connection weights and thresholdvalues of the neural network to improve the prediction precision. The application results show thatthe precision of predicting the silicon content has been increased.
文摘Based on the skills of initializing weight distribution, adding an impulse in a neural network and expanding the ideal of plural weights, an artificial neural network model with three connection weights between one and another neural unit was established to predict silicon content of blast furnace hot metal. After the neural network was trained in the off-line state on the basis of a large number of practical data of a commercial blast furnace and making many learning patterns, satisfactory testing and simulating results of the model were obtained.
基金partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No.62231017 and No.62071254)the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions。
文摘Massive content delivery will become one of the most prominent tasks of future B5G/6G communication.However,various multimedia applications possess huge differences in terms of object oriented(i.e.,machine or user)and corresponding quality evaluation metric,which will significantly impact the design of encoding or decoding within content delivery strategy.To get over this dilemma,we firstly integrate the digital twin into the edge networks to accurately and timely capture Quality-of-Decision(QoD)or Quality-of-Experience(QoE)for the guidance of content delivery.Then,in terms of machinecentric communication,a QoD-driven compression mechanism is designed for video analytics via temporally lightweight frame classification and spatially uneven quality assignment,which can achieve a balance among decision-making,delivered content,and encoding latency.Finally,in terms of user-centric communication,by fully leveraging haptic physical properties and semantic correlations of heterogeneous streams,we develop a QoE-driven video enhancement scheme to supply high data fidelity.Numerical results demonstrate the remarkable performance improvement of massive content delivery.
基金the support from the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61571378)
文摘The emergence of self-driving technologies implies that a future vehicle will likely become an entertainment center that demands personalized multimedia contents with very high quality. The surge of vehicular content demand brings significant challenges for the fifth generation(5G) cellular communication network. To cope with the challenge of massive content delivery, previous studies suggested that the 5G mobile edge network should be designed to integrate communication, computing, and cache(3C) resources to enable advanced functionalities such as proactive content delivery and in-network caching. However, the fundamental benefits achievable by computing and caching in mobile communications networks are not yet properly understood. This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework to characterize the tradeoff among computing, cache, and communication resources required by the mobile edge network to fulfill the task of content delivery. Analytical and numerical results are obtained to characterize the 3C resource tradeoff curve. These results reveal key insights into the fundamental benefits of computing and caching in vehicular mobile content delivery networks.
基金This work was supported by National Key Basic Research Program of China （973 Program） under Grant No. 2012CB315802 National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61171102 and No. 61132001 Prospective Research on Future Networks of Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation institute under Grant No. BY2013095-4-01. Beijing Nova Program under Grant No.2008B50 and Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project under Grant No.YETP0478.
文摘In-network caching and Interest packets aggregation are two important features of Content-Centric Networking(CCN).CCN routers can directly respond to the Interest request by Content Store(CS)and aggregate the same Interest packets by Pending Interest Table(PIT).In this way,most popular content requests will not reach the origin content server.Thus,content providers will be unaware of the actual usages of their contents in network.This new network paradigm presents content providers with unprecedented challenge.It will bring a great impact on existing mature business model of content providers,such as advertising revenue model based on hits amount.To leverage the advantages of CCN and the realistic business needs of content providers,we explore the hits-based content provisioning mechanism in CCN.The proposed approaches can avoid the unprecedented impact on content providers' existing business model and promote content providers to embrace the real deployment of CCN network.
基金supported in part by the fundamental key research project of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission under grant 12JC1404201the Ministry of Education Research Fund-China Mobile(2012) MCM20121032
文摘Recently the content centric networks(CCNs) have been advocated as a new solution to design future networks. In the CCNs, content and its interest are delivered over the content store and pending interest table, respectively, where both have limited capacities. Therefore, how to design the corresponding algorithms to efficiently deliver content and inertest over them becomes an important issue. In this paper, based on the analysis of content distribution, status of content store, and pending interest, we propose a novel caching algorithm with which the resources of content store and pending interest table can be efficiently used. Simulation results prove that the proposal can outperform the conventional methods.
基金financially supported by Shenzhen Key Fundamental Research Projects(Grant No.:JCYJ20170306091556329).
文摘Named Data Networking(NDN)improves the data delivery efficiency by caching contents in routers. To prevent corrupted and faked contents be spread in the network,NDN routers should verify the digital signature of each published content. Since the verification scheme in NDN applies the asymmetric encryption algorithm to sign contents,the content verification overhead is too high to satisfy wire-speed packet forwarding. In this paper, we propose two schemes to improve the verification performance of NDN routers to prevent content poisoning. The first content verification scheme, called "user-assisted",leads to the best performance, but can be bypassed if the clients and the content producer collude. A second scheme, named ``RouterCooperation ‘', prevents the aforementioned collusion attack by making edge routers verify the contents independently without the assistance of users and the core routers no longer verify the contents. The Router-Cooperation verification scheme reduces the computing complexity of cryptographic operation by replacing the asymmetric encryption algorithm with symmetric encryption algorithm.The simulation results demonstrate that this Router-Cooperation scheme can speed up18.85 times of the original content verification scheme with merely extra 80 Bytes transmission overhead.
文摘The evolution of smart mobile devices has significantly impacted the way we generate and share contents and introduced a huge volume of Internet traffic.To address this issue and take advantage of the short-range communication capabilities of smart mobile devices,the decentralized content sharing approach has emerged as a suitable and promising alternative.Decentralized content sharing uses a peer-to-peer network among colocated smart mobile device users to fulfil content requests.Several articles have been published to date to address its different aspects including group management,interest extraction,message forwarding,participation incentive,and content replication.This survey paper summarizes and critically analyzes recent advancements in decentralized content sharing and highlights potential research issues that need further consideration.
基金Project(No.UTM.J.10.01/13.14/1/127/1 Jld 3(48))supported by the Zamalah Scholarship from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
文摘Visible and near infrared spectroscopy is a non-destructive,green,and rapid technology that can be utilized to estimate the components of interest without conditioning it,as compared with classical analytical methods.The objective of this paper is to compare the performance of artificial neural network(ANN)(a nonlinear model)and principal component regression(PCR)(a linear model)based on visible and shortwave near infrared(VIS-SWNIR)(400-1000 nm)spectra in the non-destructive soluble solids content measurement of an apple.First,we used multiplicative scattering correction to pre-process the spectral data.Second,PCR was applied to estimate the optimal number of input variables.Third,the input variables with an optimal amount were used as the inputs of both multiple linear regression and ANN models.The initial weights and the number of hidden neurons were adjusted to optimize the performance of ANN.Findings suggest that the predictive performance of ANN with two hidden neurons outperforms that of PCR.
基金funded by the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.2020GXNSFAA159065)the Opening Fund of Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf under Ministry of Education(Nanning Normal University)+1 种基金Guangxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Intelligent Simulation(Nanning Normal University)(Grant No.GTEU-KLOP-K1701)the seventh batch of distinguished experts in Guangxi and National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41867071)。
文摘Tourism-led economic growth and tourism-driven urbanization have attracted increasing attention by provinces and regions in China with abundant tourism resources.Due to low data availability,the current tourism literature lacks empirical evidence of the tourism network in lessdeveloped mountainous regions where the development of transport infrastructure is more variable.This paper aims to provide such evidence using Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China as a case study.Using User Generated Content(UGC)data,this study constructs a tourism network in Guangxi.By integrating social network analysis with spatial interaction modelling,we compared the impact of two different transport infrastructures,highway and high-speed railway,on tourist flows,particularly in less-developed mountainous regions.It was found that the product of node centrality and flow could best describe the significant pushing and pulling forces on the flow of tourists.The tourism by high-speed railway was sensitive to the position of trip destination on the whole tourism network but self-drive tourism was more sensitive to travelling time.The increase of high-speed railway density is crucial to promote local tourism-led economic development,however,large-scale karst landforms in the study area present a significant obstacle to the construction of high-speed railways.
