In 2021,12 fraudulent cases were identified in the Chinese carbon market.As a critical component of this emerging market,China’s carbon-credit scheme in the automotive sector faces several shortcomings,including info...In 2021,12 fraudulent cases were identified in the Chinese carbon market.As a critical component of this emerging market,China’s carbon-credit scheme in the automotive sector faces several shortcomings,including informational opacity and operational inefficiency,which affect market functionality and fairness.This study develops an information system that integrates blockchain technology and the Internet of Things to manage a carbon-credit scheme.Specifically,we attached carbon credits to each vehicle with radio frequency identification electronic tags and a chained data structure to ensure the traceability and reliability of information flow.We use the distributed ledger technology and establish five distinct types of smart contracts for decentralized operations to ensure that all procedures of the Chinese carboncredit scheme are standardized and under public scrutiny.The proposed infrastructure has the potential to significantly enhance the transparency and efficiency of China’s carbon-credit schemes.展开更多
To evaluate the quality and accuracy of websites written to the public on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) and assess their readability level.METHODSGoogle™, Bing™, and Yahoo™...To evaluate the quality and accuracy of websites written to the public on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) and assess their readability level.METHODSGoogle™, Bing™, and Yahoo™ search engines were searched independently by three researchers in December 2014. Only English-language websites were selected on the basis of predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Researchers independently evaluated the quality of each website by using the DISCERN and the HONcode instruments. The readability levels were calculated using two formulas; the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Index, and the Coleman-Liau Readability Index. The agreement between the evaluators was calculated using Cohen kappa coefficient.RESULTSEighty-four websites were finally identified. Scores varied from a minimum DISCERN score of 18 to a maximum of 68 [mean ± SD, 42.2 ± 10.7; median = 41.5, interquartile range, interquartile range (IQR) = 15.8] and a minimum score of HONcode of 0.14 and a maximum of 0.95 (mean ± SD, 0.16 ± 0.19; median = 0.45, IQR = 0.29). Most of these websites were reviewed in 2014 and 2015 (n = 51). The creators of these websites were: universities and research centers (n = 25, 30%), foundations and associations (n = 15, 18%), commercial and pharmaceutical companies (n = 25, 30%), charities and volunteer work (n = 9, 10%), and non-university educational bodies (n = 10, 12%). The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability score (mean ± SD) was 11.9 ± 2.4 and the Coleman-Liau Readability Index score was 12.6 ± 1.5. Significant correlation was found between the two readability scores (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.509, P = 0.001). The overall agreement between evaluators measured by Cohen kappa coefficient was in the range of 0.804-0.876; rated as 'Good'.CONCLUSIONThe DISCERN and the HONcode scores of websites varied and the readability levels of most websites were above the public readability level. The study highlights the areas that need further improvement and development in patient education online materials about IBD.展开更多
了解Microsoft Internet Explorer8．0Beta2的真实情况，看看微软是如何通过域名高亮、Activex控件以及数据执行保护支持来增强IntemetExplorer的安全性的。当你读到这篇文章的时候，微软应该已经发行Microsoft Internet Explorer（IE）...了解Microsoft Internet Explorer8．0Beta2的真实情况，看看微软是如何通过域名高亮、Activex控件以及数据执行保护支持来增强IntemetExplorer的安全性的。当你读到这篇文章的时候，微软应该已经发行Microsoft Internet Explorer（IE）8.0Beta2了，这是该公司即将推出的浏览器的第二个主要的外部预发行版本。Beta2包括一些面向最终用户的功能，这与主要面向开发人员的Betal形成鲜明的对照。但是这个发行版的一大新闻是它的安全性方面的功能接近最终版本的样子，而这正是微软计划为这个产品所做的安全性改进。下面是你需要了解的IE8.0的安全性功能。展开更多
In the process of education and teaching, the relationship between teachers and students is the most important one, which includes their position, role and treatment, mutual support and interdependence. In the era of ...In the process of education and teaching, the relationship between teachers and students is the most important one, which includes their position, role and treatment, mutual support and interdependence. In the era of scarce educational resources, teachers are the owners of knowledge. However, when the emergence of the Internet puts a huge amount of knowledge in front of people, what is scarce in education is no longer the amount of knowledge, but the selection, carding, promotion and internalization of knowledge. The traditional teaching method is transforming into learner centered individualized teaching and learning. In the process of teaching and learning, the proportion and focus of knowledge transfer and knowledge internalization have also changed. Under the new environment, teachers need to change the habits of teaching and learning for thousands of years, and carry out teaching in innovative mode through new technical means, so as to achieve higher results. However, in the new technology environment, if there is no complete teaching logic and the organic connection and cooperation between man and machine, classroom teaching will not present an orderly and efficient situation. If there is no good teaching design and the new educational technology is used freely, the teaching effect may not be as good as the traditional blackboard teaching mode.展开更多
Due to the overwhelming characteristics of the Internet of Things(IoT)and its adoption in approximately every aspect of our lives,the concept of individual devices’privacy has gained prominent attention from both cus...Due to the overwhelming characteristics of the Internet of Things(IoT)and its adoption in approximately every aspect of our lives,the concept of individual devices’privacy has gained prominent attention from both customers,i.e.,people,and industries as wearable devices collect sensitive information about patients(both admitted and outdoor)in smart healthcare infrastructures.In addition to privacy,outliers or noise are among the crucial issues,which are directly correlated with IoT infrastructures,as most member devices are resource-limited and could generate or transmit false data that is required to be refined before processing,i.e.,transmitting.Therefore,the development of privacy-preserving information fusion techniques is highly encouraged,especially those designed for smart IoT-enabled domains.In this paper,we are going to present an effective hybrid approach that can refine raw data values captured by the respectivemember device before transmission while preserving its privacy through the utilization of the differential privacy technique in IoT infrastructures.Sliding window,i.e.,δi based dynamic programming methodology,is implemented at the device level to ensure precise and accurate detection of outliers or noisy data,and refine it prior to activation of the respective transmission activity.Additionally,an appropriate privacy budget has been selected,which is enough to ensure the privacy of every individualmodule,i.e.,a wearable device such as a smartwatch attached to the patient’s body.In contrast,the end module,i.e.,the server in this case,can extract important information with approximately the maximum level of accuracy.Moreover,refined data has been processed by adding an appropriate nose through the Laplace mechanism to make it useless or meaningless for the adversary modules in the IoT.The proposed hybrid approach is trusted from both the device’s privacy and the integrity of the transmitted information perspectives.Simulation and analytical results have proved that the proposed privacy-preserving information fusion technique for wearable devices is an ideal solution for resource-constrained infrastructures such as IoT and the Internet ofMedical Things,where both device privacy and information integrity are important.Finally,the proposed hybrid approach is proven against well-known intruder attacks,especially those related to the privacy of the respective device in IoT infrastructures.展开更多
Background: Patients and public are increasingly relying on Internet for health information. Health care providers are using internet for dissemination of health information. However, health information available on i...Background: Patients and public are increasingly relying on Internet for health information. Health care providers are using internet for dissemination of health information. However, health information available on internet is not well regulated, and information quality varies greatly. Malaria is the leading cause of death and disease in many developing countries and has serious health burden around the world. The Internet could become a major resource for malaria education and information in Africa. This may potentially save millions of lives. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of malaria health and treatment information available on the internet provided by the Nigerian context. Methods: Two key terms (malaria & treatment) were entered into three search engines: Google, Yahoo! and Bing. In order to retrieve articles as if the searches were conducted in Nigeria, the Local Area Network (LAN) settings were changed to a Nigerian proxy server, with a local Internet Protocol address. Three raters evaluated the quality of information using the DISCERN [9] instrument criteria. Kendall’s concordance coefficient (W) was calculated to determine the level of agreement among the three raters. Results: Thirty-eight websites evaluated, and the highest inter-rater average score was attributed to the Patient.co.uk website, followed by Wikipedia web site and Malaria Site. The “Home Remedies for You” website received the lowest score. Most evaluated websites were .com domains. The highest average score was given to .co.uk domains while .int had the lowest score. Conclusions: Improving the quality of malaria-related health information could lead to empowering communities, engaging and assisting them to strengthen their health and social information sharing and support.展开更多
Based on survey data from 832 maize growers of four major maize production regions in China,on-farm maize losses were assessed and the effects of Internet access to agricultural information on the losses were evaluate...Based on survey data from 832 maize growers of four major maize production regions in China,on-farm maize losses were assessed and the effects of Internet access to agricultural information on the losses were evaluated.The results showed that on average 4.5%,4.0%and 3.7%of maize was lost in the harvest,drying and storage stages,respectively.This indicated that at the farm level,19 Mt of maize is lost annually in China,and these losses have considerable economic,resource and environmental impacts.Additionally,Internet-based access to agricultural information was found to be positively related to reduced maize losses.Compared with farmers who do not access agricultural information from the Internet,farmers with Internet-based access to agricultural information experienced 3.2%,1.5%and 3.6%lower losses in the maize harvest,drying,and storage stages,respectively.Therefore,enhancing farmers access to agricultural information could increase the maize supply by 7.89 Mt and enhance the utilization of 1.02 Mha of farmland.Additionally,0.39 Mt of fertilizer could be saved,and the carbon emission and water usage could be reduced.It is recommended that the government accelerate the removal of barriers to farmers using the Internet to access agricultural information.展开更多
In the Satellite-integrated Internet of Things(S-IoT),data freshness in the time-sensitive scenarios could not be guaranteed over the timevarying topology with current distribution strategies aiming to reduce the tran...In the Satellite-integrated Internet of Things(S-IoT),data freshness in the time-sensitive scenarios could not be guaranteed over the timevarying topology with current distribution strategies aiming to reduce the transmission delay.To address this problem,in this paper,we propose an age-optimal caching distribution mechanism for the high-timeliness data collection in S-IoT by adopting a freshness metric,as called age of information(AoI)through the caching-based single-source multidestinations(SSMDs)transmission,namely Multi-AoI,with a well-designed cross-slot directed graph(CSG).With the proposed CSG,we make optimizations on the locations of cache nodes by solving a nonlinear integer programming problem on minimizing Multi-AoI.In particular,we put up forward three specific algorithms respectively for improving the Multi-AoI,i.e.,the minimum queuing delay algorithm(MQDA)based on node deviation from average level,the minimum propagation delay algorithm(MPDA)based on the node propagation delay reduction,and a delay balanced algorithm(DBA)based on node deviation from average level and propagation delay reduction.The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism can effectively improve the freshness of information compared with the random selection algorithm.展开更多
The Internet of things(IoT)has become a key infrastructure providing up-to-date and fresh information for policy analysis and decision-making of upper-layer applications.However,there are limited sensing and communica...The Internet of things(IoT)has become a key infrastructure providing up-to-date and fresh information for policy analysis and decision-making of upper-layer applications.However,there are limited sensing and communication resources in IoT devices,which significantly affects the timeliness and freshness of the updated status.This work proposes two schemes,namely,the generation rate control and service rate reservation schemes,to improve the overall information freshness of multiple status update streams at the receiver.Specifically,using the recently proposed Age of Information(AoI)as the metric for evaluating information freshness,we characterized the overall information freshness,i.e.,the overall average AoI at the receiver for both schemes,by considering the urgency difference of status update and streams.Both schemes for status updates and streams,respectively,were formulated as two optimization problems.We proved that both problems are convex and the optimal generation and service rates for different streams are found by the standard convex optimization algorithm.Moreover,we proposed both approximate optimal generation and approximate optimal service rate for fast deployment in heavy and light load cases.Numerical results verify the theoretical findings and accuracy of the proposed approximate solutions,guiding the design and deployment of IoT.展开更多
As an ingenious convergence between the Internet of Things and social networks,the Social Internet of Things(SIoT)can provide effective and intelligent information services and has become one of the main platforms for...As an ingenious convergence between the Internet of Things and social networks,the Social Internet of Things(SIoT)can provide effective and intelligent information services and has become one of the main platforms for people to spread and share information.Nevertheless,SIoT is characterized by high openness and autonomy,multiple kinds of information can spread rapidly,freely and cooperatively in SIoT,which makes it challenging to accurately reveal the characteristics of the information diffusion process and effectively control its diffusion.To this end,with the aim of exploring multi-information cooperative diffusion processes in SIoT,we first develop a dynamics model for multi-information cooperative diffusion based on the system dynamics theory in this paper.Subsequently,the characteristics and laws of the dynamical evolution process of multi-information cooperative diffusion are theoretically investigated,and the diffusion trend is predicted.On this basis,to further control the multi-information cooperative diffusion process efficiently,we propose two control strategies for information diffusion with control objectives,develop an optimal control system for the multi-information cooperative diffusion process,and propose the corresponding optimal control method.The optimal solution distribution of the control strategy satisfying the control system constraints and the control budget constraints is solved using the optimal control theory.Finally,extensive simulation experiments based on real dataset from Twitter validate the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed model,strategy and method.展开更多
近日微软终于推了Internet Explorer 7.0（以下简称IE7）浏览器的正式版。该版本增加了很多实用功能，在稳定性、兼容性、用户界面和安全性方面有显著改善．并提供了简洁的用户界面和重新设计的动态保护机制．同时改进了开发平台的兼容...近日微软终于推了Internet Explorer 7.0（以下简称IE7）浏览器的正式版。该版本增加了很多实用功能，在稳定性、兼容性、用户界面和安全性方面有显著改善．并提供了简洁的用户界面和重新设计的动态保护机制．同时改进了开发平台的兼容性，你是否也想体验—下IE7的全新魅力呢？那就跟我们一起来吧！展开更多
基金Financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(under grants numbers:72271249 and 72432005)from Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(under grant number:2023B1515040001)are highly appreciated.
文摘In 2021,12 fraudulent cases were identified in the Chinese carbon market.As a critical component of this emerging market,China’s carbon-credit scheme in the automotive sector faces several shortcomings,including informational opacity and operational inefficiency,which affect market functionality and fairness.This study develops an information system that integrates blockchain technology and the Internet of Things to manage a carbon-credit scheme.Specifically,we attached carbon credits to each vehicle with radio frequency identification electronic tags and a chained data structure to ensure the traceability and reliability of information flow.We use the distributed ledger technology and establish five distinct types of smart contracts for decentralized operations to ensure that all procedures of the Chinese carboncredit scheme are standardized and under public scrutiny.The proposed infrastructure has the potential to significantly enhance the transparency and efficiency of China’s carbon-credit schemes.
基金Supportedby the College of Medicine Research Center,Deanship of Scientific Research,King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
文摘To evaluate the quality and accuracy of websites written to the public on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) and assess their readability level.METHODSGoogle™, Bing™, and Yahoo™ search engines were searched independently by three researchers in December 2014. Only English-language websites were selected on the basis of predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Researchers independently evaluated the quality of each website by using the DISCERN and the HONcode instruments. The readability levels were calculated using two formulas; the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Index, and the Coleman-Liau Readability Index. The agreement between the evaluators was calculated using Cohen kappa coefficient.RESULTSEighty-four websites were finally identified. Scores varied from a minimum DISCERN score of 18 to a maximum of 68 [mean ± SD, 42.2 ± 10.7; median = 41.5, interquartile range, interquartile range (IQR) = 15.8] and a minimum score of HONcode of 0.14 and a maximum of 0.95 (mean ± SD, 0.16 ± 0.19; median = 0.45, IQR = 0.29). Most of these websites were reviewed in 2014 and 2015 (n = 51). The creators of these websites were: universities and research centers (n = 25, 30%), foundations and associations (n = 15, 18%), commercial and pharmaceutical companies (n = 25, 30%), charities and volunteer work (n = 9, 10%), and non-university educational bodies (n = 10, 12%). The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability score (mean ± SD) was 11.9 ± 2.4 and the Coleman-Liau Readability Index score was 12.6 ± 1.5. Significant correlation was found between the two readability scores (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.509, P = 0.001). The overall agreement between evaluators measured by Cohen kappa coefficient was in the range of 0.804-0.876; rated as 'Good'.CONCLUSIONThe DISCERN and the HONcode scores of websites varied and the readability levels of most websites were above the public readability level. The study highlights the areas that need further improvement and development in patient education online materials about IBD.
文摘了解Microsoft Internet Explorer8．0Beta2的真实情况，看看微软是如何通过域名高亮、Activex控件以及数据执行保护支持来增强IntemetExplorer的安全性的。当你读到这篇文章的时候，微软应该已经发行Microsoft Internet Explorer（IE）8.0Beta2了，这是该公司即将推出的浏览器的第二个主要的外部预发行版本。Beta2包括一些面向最终用户的功能，这与主要面向开发人员的Betal形成鲜明的对照。但是这个发行版的一大新闻是它的安全性方面的功能接近最终版本的样子，而这正是微软计划为这个产品所做的安全性改进。下面是你需要了解的IE8.0的安全性功能。
文摘In the process of education and teaching, the relationship between teachers and students is the most important one, which includes their position, role and treatment, mutual support and interdependence. In the era of scarce educational resources, teachers are the owners of knowledge. However, when the emergence of the Internet puts a huge amount of knowledge in front of people, what is scarce in education is no longer the amount of knowledge, but the selection, carding, promotion and internalization of knowledge. The traditional teaching method is transforming into learner centered individualized teaching and learning. In the process of teaching and learning, the proportion and focus of knowledge transfer and knowledge internalization have also changed. Under the new environment, teachers need to change the habits of teaching and learning for thousands of years, and carry out teaching in innovative mode through new technical means, so as to achieve higher results. However, in the new technology environment, if there is no complete teaching logic and the organic connection and cooperation between man and machine, classroom teaching will not present an orderly and efficient situation. If there is no good teaching design and the new educational technology is used freely, the teaching effect may not be as good as the traditional blackboard teaching mode.
基金Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia under the Research GrantLRGS/1/2019/UKM-UKM/5/2 and Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University for financing this researcher through Supporting Project Number(PNURSP2024R235),Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Due to the overwhelming characteristics of the Internet of Things(IoT)and its adoption in approximately every aspect of our lives,the concept of individual devices’privacy has gained prominent attention from both customers,i.e.,people,and industries as wearable devices collect sensitive information about patients(both admitted and outdoor)in smart healthcare infrastructures.In addition to privacy,outliers or noise are among the crucial issues,which are directly correlated with IoT infrastructures,as most member devices are resource-limited and could generate or transmit false data that is required to be refined before processing,i.e.,transmitting.Therefore,the development of privacy-preserving information fusion techniques is highly encouraged,especially those designed for smart IoT-enabled domains.In this paper,we are going to present an effective hybrid approach that can refine raw data values captured by the respectivemember device before transmission while preserving its privacy through the utilization of the differential privacy technique in IoT infrastructures.Sliding window,i.e.,δi based dynamic programming methodology,is implemented at the device level to ensure precise and accurate detection of outliers or noisy data,and refine it prior to activation of the respective transmission activity.Additionally,an appropriate privacy budget has been selected,which is enough to ensure the privacy of every individualmodule,i.e.,a wearable device such as a smartwatch attached to the patient’s body.In contrast,the end module,i.e.,the server in this case,can extract important information with approximately the maximum level of accuracy.Moreover,refined data has been processed by adding an appropriate nose through the Laplace mechanism to make it useless or meaningless for the adversary modules in the IoT.The proposed hybrid approach is trusted from both the device’s privacy and the integrity of the transmitted information perspectives.Simulation and analytical results have proved that the proposed privacy-preserving information fusion technique for wearable devices is an ideal solution for resource-constrained infrastructures such as IoT and the Internet ofMedical Things,where both device privacy and information integrity are important.Finally,the proposed hybrid approach is proven against well-known intruder attacks,especially those related to the privacy of the respective device in IoT infrastructures.
文摘Background: Patients and public are increasingly relying on Internet for health information. Health care providers are using internet for dissemination of health information. However, health information available on internet is not well regulated, and information quality varies greatly. Malaria is the leading cause of death and disease in many developing countries and has serious health burden around the world. The Internet could become a major resource for malaria education and information in Africa. This may potentially save millions of lives. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of malaria health and treatment information available on the internet provided by the Nigerian context. Methods: Two key terms (malaria & treatment) were entered into three search engines: Google, Yahoo! and Bing. In order to retrieve articles as if the searches were conducted in Nigeria, the Local Area Network (LAN) settings were changed to a Nigerian proxy server, with a local Internet Protocol address. Three raters evaluated the quality of information using the DISCERN [9] instrument criteria. Kendall’s concordance coefficient (W) was calculated to determine the level of agreement among the three raters. Results: Thirty-eight websites evaluated, and the highest inter-rater average score was attributed to the Patient.co.uk website, followed by Wikipedia web site and Malaria Site. The “Home Remedies for You” website received the lowest score. Most evaluated websites were .com domains. The highest average score was given to .co.uk domains while .int had the lowest score. Conclusions: Improving the quality of malaria-related health information could lead to empowering communities, engaging and assisting them to strengthen their health and social information sharing and support.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(72241009,72241010,and 72403236)the National Social Science Foundation of China(22&ZD087)the Major Projects on Philosophy and Social Sciences of The Ministry of Education of China(23JZD023).
文摘Based on survey data from 832 maize growers of four major maize production regions in China,on-farm maize losses were assessed and the effects of Internet access to agricultural information on the losses were evaluated.The results showed that on average 4.5%,4.0%and 3.7%of maize was lost in the harvest,drying and storage stages,respectively.This indicated that at the farm level,19 Mt of maize is lost annually in China,and these losses have considerable economic,resource and environmental impacts.Additionally,Internet-based access to agricultural information was found to be positively related to reduced maize losses.Compared with farmers who do not access agricultural information from the Internet,farmers with Internet-based access to agricultural information experienced 3.2%,1.5%and 3.6%lower losses in the maize harvest,drying,and storage stages,respectively.Therefore,enhancing farmers access to agricultural information could increase the maize supply by 7.89 Mt and enhance the utilization of 1.02 Mha of farmland.Additionally,0.39 Mt of fertilizer could be saved,and the carbon emission and water usage could be reduced.It is recommended that the government accelerate the removal of barriers to farmers using the Internet to access agricultural information.
基金supports from the Major Key Project of PCL (PCL2021A031)Shenzhen Science Technology Program (GXWD20201230155427003-20200824093323001)
文摘In the Satellite-integrated Internet of Things(S-IoT),data freshness in the time-sensitive scenarios could not be guaranteed over the timevarying topology with current distribution strategies aiming to reduce the transmission delay.To address this problem,in this paper,we propose an age-optimal caching distribution mechanism for the high-timeliness data collection in S-IoT by adopting a freshness metric,as called age of information(AoI)through the caching-based single-source multidestinations(SSMDs)transmission,namely Multi-AoI,with a well-designed cross-slot directed graph(CSG).With the proposed CSG,we make optimizations on the locations of cache nodes by solving a nonlinear integer programming problem on minimizing Multi-AoI.In particular,we put up forward three specific algorithms respectively for improving the Multi-AoI,i.e.,the minimum queuing delay algorithm(MQDA)based on node deviation from average level,the minimum propagation delay algorithm(MPDA)based on the node propagation delay reduction,and a delay balanced algorithm(DBA)based on node deviation from average level and propagation delay reduction.The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism can effectively improve the freshness of information compared with the random selection algorithm.
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61901066,Grant 61971077sponsored by Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing,China under Grant cstc2019jcyjmsxmX0575,Grant cstc2021jcyj-msxmX0458+2 种基金in part by the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Plan of Chongqing for Returned Overseas Scholars under Grant cx2021092supported by the open research fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University(No.2021D13,No.2022D06)the Industrial Internet innovation and development project(No.TC200A00M).
文摘The Internet of things(IoT)has become a key infrastructure providing up-to-date and fresh information for policy analysis and decision-making of upper-layer applications.However,there are limited sensing and communication resources in IoT devices,which significantly affects the timeliness and freshness of the updated status.This work proposes two schemes,namely,the generation rate control and service rate reservation schemes,to improve the overall information freshness of multiple status update streams at the receiver.Specifically,using the recently proposed Age of Information(AoI)as the metric for evaluating information freshness,we characterized the overall information freshness,i.e.,the overall average AoI at the receiver for both schemes,by considering the urgency difference of status update and streams.Both schemes for status updates and streams,respectively,were formulated as two optimization problems.We proved that both problems are convex and the optimal generation and service rates for different streams are found by the standard convex optimization algorithm.Moreover,we proposed both approximate optimal generation and approximate optimal service rate for fast deployment in heavy and light load cases.Numerical results verify the theoretical findings and accuracy of the proposed approximate solutions,guiding the design and deployment of IoT.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62102240,62071283)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2020M683421)the Key R&D Program of Shaanxi Province(Grant No.2020ZDLGY10-05).
文摘As an ingenious convergence between the Internet of Things and social networks,the Social Internet of Things(SIoT)can provide effective and intelligent information services and has become one of the main platforms for people to spread and share information.Nevertheless,SIoT is characterized by high openness and autonomy,multiple kinds of information can spread rapidly,freely and cooperatively in SIoT,which makes it challenging to accurately reveal the characteristics of the information diffusion process and effectively control its diffusion.To this end,with the aim of exploring multi-information cooperative diffusion processes in SIoT,we first develop a dynamics model for multi-information cooperative diffusion based on the system dynamics theory in this paper.Subsequently,the characteristics and laws of the dynamical evolution process of multi-information cooperative diffusion are theoretically investigated,and the diffusion trend is predicted.On this basis,to further control the multi-information cooperative diffusion process efficiently,we propose two control strategies for information diffusion with control objectives,develop an optimal control system for the multi-information cooperative diffusion process,and propose the corresponding optimal control method.The optimal solution distribution of the control strategy satisfying the control system constraints and the control budget constraints is solved using the optimal control theory.Finally,extensive simulation experiments based on real dataset from Twitter validate the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed model,strategy and method.
文摘近日微软终于推了Internet Explorer 7.0（以下简称IE7）浏览器的正式版。该版本增加了很多实用功能，在稳定性、兼容性、用户界面和安全性方面有显著改善．并提供了简洁的用户界面和重新设计的动态保护机制．同时改进了开发平台的兼容性，你是否也想体验—下IE7的全新魅力呢？那就跟我们一起来吧！
