With the rapid development of 5G technology,the proportion of video traffic on the Internet is increasing,bringing pressure on the network infrastructure.Edge computing technology provides a feasible solution for opti...With the rapid development of 5G technology,the proportion of video traffic on the Internet is increasing,bringing pressure on the network infrastructure.Edge computing technology provides a feasible solution for optimizing video content distribution.However,the limited edge node cache capacity and dynamic user requests make edge caching more complex.Therefore,we propose a recommendation-driven edge Caching network architecture for the Full life cycle of video streaming(FlyCache)designed to improve users’Quality of Experience(QoE)and reduce backhaul traffic consumption.FlyCache implements intelligent caching management across three key stages:before-playback,during-playback,and after-playback.Specifically,we introduce a cache placement policy for the before-playback stage,a dynamic prefetching and cache admission policy for the during-playback stage,and a progressive cache eviction policy for the after-playback stage.To validate the effectiveness of FlyCache,we developed a user behavior-driven edge caching simulation framework incorporating recommendation mechanisms.Experiments conducted on the MovieLens and synthetic datasets demonstrate that FlyCache outperforms other caching strategies in terms of byte hit rate,backhaul traffic,and delayed startup rate.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
Traditional digitizers for signal readout of PET detectors are based on commercial analog-to-digital converters(ADC).However,the cost and power consumption of an entire electronic readout system based on digitizers fo...Traditional digitizers for signal readout of PET detectors are based on commercial analog-to-digital converters(ADC).However,the cost and power consumption of an entire electronic readout system based on digitizers for a PET scanner are high.To address this problem,a soft-core ADC based on a field-programmable gate array(FPGA)was proposed.An FPGA-based ADC(FPGA-ADC)combines low loss and high performance.To achieve good performance,the FPGA-ADC requires three calibrations:time-to-digital converter(TDC)length calibration,TDC alignment calibration,and TDC-to-ADC calibration.A prototype front-end electronics based on FPGA-ADC was built to evaluate the performance of time-of-flight positron emission tomography(TOF PET)detectors.Each PET detector consists of a LYSO crystal single-ended coupled to a silicon photomultiplier(SiPM).The experimental results show that the full-width at half-maximum(FWHM)energy resolution for 511 keV gamma photons after saturation correction of the SiPM was 12.3%.The FWHM coincidence timing resolution(CTR)of the TOF PET detector with the readout of the front-end electronic prototype is 385.2 ps.FPGA-ADCbased front-end electronics are very promising for multichannel,low-cost,highly integrated,and power-efficient readout electronic systems for radiation detector applications.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)[Grant No.62072469].
文摘With the rapid development of 5G technology,the proportion of video traffic on the Internet is increasing,bringing pressure on the network infrastructure.Edge computing technology provides a feasible solution for optimizing video content distribution.However,the limited edge node cache capacity and dynamic user requests make edge caching more complex.Therefore,we propose a recommendation-driven edge Caching network architecture for the Full life cycle of video streaming(FlyCache)designed to improve users’Quality of Experience(QoE)and reduce backhaul traffic consumption.FlyCache implements intelligent caching management across three key stages:before-playback,during-playback,and after-playback.Specifically,we introduce a cache placement policy for the before-playback stage,a dynamic prefetching and cache admission policy for the during-playback stage,and a progressive cache eviction policy for the after-playback stage.To validate the effectiveness of FlyCache,we developed a user behavior-driven edge caching simulation framework incorporating recommendation mechanisms.Experiments conducted on the MovieLens and synthetic datasets demonstrate that FlyCache outperforms other caching strategies in terms of byte hit rate,backhaul traffic,and delayed startup rate.
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supported by the Key R&D Program of Shandong Province(No.2023SFGC0101)Shandong Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program(Overseas)(No.2023HWYQ-047)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2022QA039)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.U2106202).
文摘Traditional digitizers for signal readout of PET detectors are based on commercial analog-to-digital converters(ADC).However,the cost and power consumption of an entire electronic readout system based on digitizers for a PET scanner are high.To address this problem,a soft-core ADC based on a field-programmable gate array(FPGA)was proposed.An FPGA-based ADC(FPGA-ADC)combines low loss and high performance.To achieve good performance,the FPGA-ADC requires three calibrations:time-to-digital converter(TDC)length calibration,TDC alignment calibration,and TDC-to-ADC calibration.A prototype front-end electronics based on FPGA-ADC was built to evaluate the performance of time-of-flight positron emission tomography(TOF PET)detectors.Each PET detector consists of a LYSO crystal single-ended coupled to a silicon photomultiplier(SiPM).The experimental results show that the full-width at half-maximum(FWHM)energy resolution for 511 keV gamma photons after saturation correction of the SiPM was 12.3%.The FWHM coincidence timing resolution(CTR)of the TOF PET detector with the readout of the front-end electronic prototype is 385.2 ps.FPGA-ADCbased front-end electronics are very promising for multichannel,low-cost,highly integrated,and power-efficient readout electronic systems for radiation detector applications.
