An Encode-and CRT-Based Scalability Scheme for Optimizing Transmission in Blockchain

Blockchain technology has witnessed a burgeoning integration into diverse realms of economic and societal development.Nevertheless,scalability challenges,characterized by diminished broadcast efficiency,heightened communication overhead,and escalated storage costs,have significantly constrained the broad-scale application of blockchain.This paper introduces a novel Encode-and CRT-based Scalability Scheme(ECSS),meticulously refined to enhance both block broadcasting and storage.Primarily,ECSS categorizes nodes into distinct domains,thereby reducing the network diameter and augmenting transmission efficiency.Secondly,ECSS streamlines block transmission through a compact block protocol and robust RS coding,which not only reduces the size of broadcasted blocks but also ensures transmission reliability.Finally,ECSS utilizes the Chinese remainder theorem,designating the block body as the compression target and mapping it to multiple modules to achieve efficient storage,thereby alleviating the storage burdens on nodes.To evaluate ECSS’s performance,we established an experimental platformand conducted comprehensive assessments.Empirical results demonstrate that ECSS attains superior network scalability and stability,reducing communication overhead by an impressive 72% and total storage costs by a substantial 63.6%.

Secure Transmission Scheme for Blocks in Blockchain-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication Systems

In blockchain-based unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)communication systems,the length of a block affects the performance of the blockchain.The transmission performance of blocks in the form of finite character segments is also affected by the block length.Therefore,it is crucial to balance the transmission performance and blockchain performance of blockchain communication systems,especially in wireless environments involving UAVs.This paper investigates a secure transmission scheme for blocks in blockchain-based UAV communication systems to prevent the information contained in blocks from being completely eavesdropped during transmission.In our scheme,using a friendly jamming UAV to emit jamming signals diminishes the quality of the eavesdropping channel,thus enhancing the communication security performance of the source UAV.Under the constraints of maneuverability and transmission power of the UAV,the joint design of UAV trajectories,transmission power,and block length are proposed to maximize the average minimum secrecy rate(AMSR).Since the optimization problem is non-convex and difficult to solve directly,we first decompose the optimization problem into subproblems of trajectory optimization,transmission power optimization,and block length optimization.Then,based on firstorder approximation techniques,these subproblems are reformulated as convex optimization problems.Finally,we utilize an alternating iteration algorithm based on the successive convex approximation(SCA)technique to solve these subproblems iteratively.The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme can achieve secure transmission for blocks while maintaining the performance of the blockchain.

Blocking Effects of Spleen Vaccine on Vertical Transmission of Classical Swine Fever Virus in Sows

[ Objective] To investigate the blocking effects of spleen vaccine on vertical transmission of classical swine fever virus （CSFV） in sows. [ Method] Sows infected by CSFV were selected from three large-scale pig farms and they were randomly divided into group Ⅰ, group Ⅱ and control group. The sows in the group Ⅰ were vaccinated with CSF spleen vaccine at a 1.5 times normal dose per pig; those in the group Ⅱ were vaccinated with CSF spleen vaccine at a 2.0 times normal dose per pig; and those in the control group were vaccinated with cell vaccine at a 4.0 times normal- dose per pig. The CSF antigens of piglets were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay （ELISA）. [ Result] The antigen positive rate of piglets in the experimental group （18.5%） was significantly lower than that in the control group （48.1% ）. No significant difference was found be- tween the group Ⅰ and the group Ⅱ. [ Condmion] CSF spleen vaccine has good blocking effects on vertical transmission of CSFV in sows.

Effects of information transmission delay and channel blocking on synchronization in scale-free Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal networks

In this paper,we investigate the evolution of spatiotemporal patterns and synchronization transitions in dependence on the information transmission delay and ion channel blocking in scale-free neuronal networks.As the underlying model of neuronal dynamics,we use the Hodgkin-Huxley equations incorporating channel blocking and intrinsic noise.It is shown that delays play a significant yet subtle role in shaping the dynamics of neuronal networks.In particular,regions of irregular and regular propagating excitatory fronts related to the synchronization transitions appear intermittently as the delay increases.Moreover,the fraction of working sodium and potassium ion channels can also have a significant impact on the spatiotemporal dynamics of neuronal networks.As the fraction of blocked sodium channels increases,the frequency of excitatory events decreases,which in turn manifests as an increase in the neuronal synchrony that,however,is dysfunctional due to the virtual absence of large-amplitude excitations.Expectedly,we also show that larger coupling strengths improve synchronization irrespective of the information transmission delay and channel blocking.The presented results are also robust against the variation of the network size,thus providing insights that could facilitate understanding of the joint impact of ion channel blocking and information transmission delay on the spatiotemporal dynamics of neuronal networks.

Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Transmission-Blocking Immunity to Malaria: Deciphering Molecular Mechanisms in Mosquitoes

The worldwide decline over the last decade in the number of clinical cases of malaria does not mean an end to the universal problem of malaria pathogenesis in those afflicted by infection. Resistance to drugs, higher risk of disease relapse and failure to maintain effective memory of the pathogen in the absence of persistent exposure result in the repeated failure of anti-malarialtreatments. The artificial blocking of transmission of the Plasmodium parasite between hosts from human to Anopheles mosquito, and vice versa, is crucial to restricting the spread of disease. However, a limited knowledge of the molecular mechanisms in operation for transmission of malaria has impeded progress towards a transmission-blocking vaccine. This review highlights the role of anti-malarial immune responses to antigen-specific targets for designing effective vaccines against the sexual stages of Plasmodium that occur within the invertebrate vector. In particular, artificial induction of gametocyte and ookinete apoptosis as a novel means to prevent gamete fertilization and oocyte development, respectively, is highlighted. This and other recent insights into our understanding of the molecular regulation of transmission-blocking immunity are discussed and future prospects considered.

Reflection and transmission properties of double submerged rectangular blocks

An analytic method is used to study the reflection and transmission coefficients of the double submerged rectangular blocks （DSRBs） in oblique waves. The scattering potentials are obtained by means of the eigenfunction expansion method, and expressions for the reflection and transmission coefficients are determined. The boundary element method is employed to verify the correctness of the present analytical method. The DSRBs have better performance than the single submerged rectangular block （SSRB） in certain cases. The reflection and transmission properties of the DSRBs are investigated for some specific cases, and the influences of the geometric parameters are also presented.

Spatial-Modulated Physical-Layer Network Coding Based on Block Markov Superposition Transmission for Maritime Relay Communications

As an alternative to satellite communications,multi-hop relay networks can be deployed for maritime long-distance communications.Distinct from terrestrial environment,marine radio signals are affected by many factors,e.g.,weather conditions,evaporation ducting,and ship rocking caused by waves.To ensure the data transmission reliability,the block Markov superposition transmission(BMST)codes,which are easily configurable and have predictable performance,are applied in this study.Meanwhile,the physical-layer network coding(PNC)scheme with spatial modulation(SM)is adopted to improve the spectrum utilization.For the BMST-SMPNC system,we propose an iterative algorithm,which utilizes the channel observations and the a priori information from BMST decoder,to compute the soft information corresponding to the XORed bits constructed by the relay node.The results indicate that the proposed scheme outperforms the convolutional coded SM-PNC over fast-fading Rician channels.Especially,the performance can be easily improved in high spatial correlation maritime channel by increasing the memory m.

Generalized Block Markov Superposition Transmission over Free-Space Optical Links

In free-space optical(FSO) communications, the performance of the communication systems is severely degraded by atmospheric turbulence. Channel coding and diversity techniques are commonly used to combat channel fading induced by atmospheric turbulence. In this paper, we present the generalized block Markov superposition transmission(GBMST) of repetition codes to improve time diversity. In the GBMST scheme, information sub-blocks are transmitted in the block Markov superposition manner, with possibly different transmission memories. Based on analyzing an equivalent system, a lower bound on the bit-error-rate(BER) of the proposed scheme is presented. Simulation results demonstrate that, under a wide range of turbulence conditions, the proposed scheme improves diversity gain with only a slight reduction of transmission rate. In particular, with encoding memory sequence(0, 0, 8) and transmission rate 1/3, a diversity order of eleven is achieved under moderate turbulence conditions. Numerical results also show that, the GBMST systems with appropriate settings can approach the derived lower bound, implying that full diversity is achievable.

Closed Loop Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Downlink Transmission

In order to improve the poor performance of Space-Time Block Coding (STBC) in a downlink correlated fading environment, a closed loop scheme is proposed. With the known channel fading statistics fed from the receiver, eigenbeamforming is utilized to improve the performance of STBC at the transmitter. The new system achieves the array and diversity gain simultaneously. Because reduced dimension processing is adopted, the proposed system has a relative simple structure compared with the traditional beamforming system. The validity of the scheme is verified in several situations by simulation experiments.

Spatially Coupled Codes via Bidirectional Block Markov Superposition Transmission

In this paper,we present a new class of spatially coupled codes obtained by using both non-recursive and recursive block-oriented superposition.The resulting codes are termed as bidirectional block Markov superposition transmission(BiBMST)codes.Firstly,we perform an iterative decoding threshold analysis according to protograph-based extrinsic information transfer(PEXIT)charts for the BiBMST codes over the binary erasure channels(BECs).Secondly,we derive the generator and parity-check matrices of the BiBMST codes.Thirdly,extensive numerical results are presented to show the advantages of the proposed BiBMST codes.Particularly,our numerical results show that,under the constraint of an equal decoding latency,the BiBMST codes perform better than the recursive BMST(rBMST)codes.However,the simulation results show that,in finite-length regime,negligible performance gain is obtained by increasing the encoding memory.We solve this limitation by introducing partial superposition,and the resulting codes are termed as partially-connected BiBMST(PC-BiBMST)code.Analytical results have confirmed the advantages of the PC-BiBMST codes over the original BiBMST codes.We also present extensive simulation results to show the performance advantages of the PC-BiBMST codes over the spatially coupled low-density parity-check(SC-LDPC)codes,spatially coupled generalized LDPC(SC-GLDPC)codes,and the original BiBMST codes in the finite-length regime.

Cause analysis and solutions of water blocking damage in cracked/non-cracked tight sandstone gas reservoirs

After hydraulic fracturing treatment,a reduction in permeability caused by the invasion of fracturing fluids is an inevitable problem,which is called water blocking damage.Therefore,it is important to mitigate and eliminate water blocking damage to improve the flow capacities of formation fluids and flowback rates of the fracturing fluid.However,the steady-state core flow method cannot quickly and accurately evaluate the effects of chemical agents in enhancing the fluid flow capacities in tight reservoirs.This paper introduces a time-saving and accurate method,pressure transmission test(PTT),which can quickly and quantitatively evaluate the liquid flow capacities and gas-drive flowback rates of a new nanoemulsion.Furthermore,scanning electron microscopy(SEM)was used to analyze the damage mechanism of different fluids and the adsorption of chemical agents on the rock surface.Parallel core flow experiments were used to evaluate the effects of the nanoemulsion on enhancing flowback rates in heterogeneous tight reservoirs.Experimental results show that the water blocking damage mechanisms differ in matrices and fractures.The main channels for gas channeling are fractures in cracked cores and pores in non-cracked cores.Cracked cores suffer less damage from water blocking than non-cracked cores,but have a lower potential to reduce water saturation.The PTT and SEM results show that the permeability reduction in tight sandstones caused by invasion of external fluids can be list as guar gum fracturing fluid>slickwater>brine.Parallel core flow experiments show that for low-permeability heterogenous s andstone reservoirs with a certain permeability ratio,the nanoemulsion can not only reduce reverse gas channeling degree,but also increase the flowback rate of the fracturing fluid.The nanoemulsion system provides a new solution to mitigate and eliminate water blocking damage caused by fracturing fluids in tight sandstone gas reservoirs.

Unequal error protection system for robust video transmission

With the development of multimedia communication services, robust video transmission over wireless environment poses many challenges. A new UEP_BTC_STBC_OFDM system is proposed to provide unequal error protection for the source coded video stream in dispersive fading channel. The scheme concatenates the Block Turbo Code （BTC） with the Space-Time Block Code （STBC） for an OFDM system. With the proposed system, both the good error correcting capability of BTC and the concurrent large diversity gain characteristic of STBC can be achieved simultaneously with low encoding and decoding complexity. Furthermore, by combining with the data partition of H. 264 and different BTC codes, this system can guarantee high QoS control of video transmission. Simulation result shows that the proposed system outoerforms other reported schemes and has good performance of video transmission.

混合级联特高压直流输电系统逆变站保护功能及闭锁策略设计

针对混合级联特高压直流输电系统的逆变站,基于其一次拓扑结构,按照保护无死区、故障易定位的原则,结合测量互感器的安装位置,提出了保护的分区建议和配置方案。根据逆变站故障发生的位置及严重程度,以快速切除故障、减少停运范围为目标,提出包括LCC(电网换相换流器)闭锁、单MMC(模块化多电平换流器)闭锁、MMC整体闭锁、顺序极闭锁和分步极闭锁的分级闭锁策略。以白鹤滩-江苏混合级联特高压直流输电工程实际的控制保护装置和按照工程成套参数建立的RTDS(实时仿真系统)模型组建了实时闭环仿真系统,通过仿真验证了所提保护方案和闭锁策略的可行性和有效性。

富马酸丙酚替诺福韦对高病毒载量慢性乙型肝炎病毒感染母婴阻断的分析

目的对比富马酸丙酚替诺福韦(TAF)、富马酸替诺福韦二吡呋酯(TDF)用于慢性乙肝病毒(HBV)感染的高病毒载量母婴阻断有效性及安全性。方法前瞻性选取高病毒载量孕妇116例,分为TAF组(56例)和TDF组(60例),在第24~28孕周开始服药,两组均分别在24~28孕周、32~36孕周及分娩时检测HBV DNA、HBsAg和HBeAg,新生儿分别在出生时、7月龄时检测HBV DNA、HBsAg和HBeAg。结果分娩时两组孕妇血清HBV DNA降至2.0×10~5 IU/mL以下的病例数,TAF组占92.9%,TDF组占95%;TAF组57例新生儿(1例为双胞胎),出生时HBsAg阳性4例,占7.01%,HBV DNA阳性1例,占1.75%,TDF组60例新生儿,出生时HBsAg阳性2例,占3.33%,HBV DNA均阴性。两组新生儿7月龄时HBsAg、HBV DNA均阴性,均产生抗HBs,阻断成功率100%,两组孕妇均未见明显不良反应,新生儿出生时、28、48、96周均未见明显生长发育障碍。结论TAF用于慢性HBV感染的高病毒载量的母婴阻断有效且安全。

一种可实现双向故障闭锁的双极Y型模块化多电平直流变换器

直流电网互联通常采用隔离型高压大功率直流变换器,但其存在体积大、成本高及传输效率较低等问题。该文提出一种双极Y型模块化多电平DC/DC变换器,其避免使用中间变压器,实现直流功率双向传输,并且可以有效闭锁双向直流故障。首先分析了变换器拓扑结构及故障闭锁工作原理,并根据桥臂内电势等效原理建立了数学模型。基于变换器臂间、相间能量平衡约束,在闭环控制的基础上引入桥臂电流补偿控制,提升变换器暂态性能。最后,在Matlab/Simulink搭建了采用模块化多电平DC/DC变换器(modularmultilevelDC/DCconverter,DC-MMC)的直流输电系统仿真模型,通过对端口电流、桥臂电流及桥臂电容电压等动态指标的分析,验证了所提DC-MMC双向功率传输控制及双向故障闭锁能力的可行性和有效性。

海上风电柔性直流输电换流变差动保护的适应性分析

海上风电柔性直流输电系统的故障特性有别于常规电力系统,因此常规继电保护方案应用于海上风电柔性直流输电系统时可能存在适应性不足的风险。分析了海上风电柔性直流输电系统故障情形下,不对称的电气量引发的谐波分量以及故障穿越过程中的负序抑制、限流措施对差动保护的影响。推导了计及序分量的差动保护灵敏度计算式并进行适应性分析,指出故障情形下的奇次谐波容易对差动保护产生影响,负序抑制及限流措施也将导致差动保护灵敏度下降。结合实际示范工程的仿真系统进行了大量仿真计算,结果表明,常规差动保护方案的灵敏性、可靠性均存在下降的问题。

HBV高载量孕妇孕期抗病毒治疗结合标准阻断措施阻断母婴传播效果

目的:探究乙型肝炎病毒(HBV)高载量孕妇孕期HBV-DNA水平和乙型肝炎病毒e抗原(HBeAg)阳性情况,分析孕期抗病毒治疗结合标准阻断措施对HBV高载量孕妇母婴传播阻断效果。方法:回顾性收集2021年1月-2023年1月本院住院分娩的120例HBV高载量孕妇临床资料,分析孕妇妊娠期、分娩前HBV-DNA水平和HBeAg阳性率,多因素logistic回归分析HBeAg状态影响因素,分析孕期抗病毒治疗对新生儿乙肝母婴传播阻断效果及母婴安全性。结果:120例HBV高载量孕妇中,孕期接受抗病毒治疗93例(治疗组),抗病毒药物分别为替诺福韦占56.6%、拉米夫定占20.8%;未接受治疗27例(未治疗组)。妊娠期,抗病毒治疗组和未治疗组HBV-DNA载量、HBeAg阳性率无差异(P>0.05);分娩前,抗病毒治疗组HBV-DNA载量≥10^(6)IU/ml占比(7.5%)低于未治疗组(92.6%)(P<0.05),而两组HBeAg阳性率(90.3%、92.6%)无差异(P>0.05)。多因素logistic分析,年龄低、HBVDNA载量高影响HBeAg状态的独立危险因素(P<0.05)。新生儿乙肝母婴传播阻断率抗病毒治疗组(100.0%)高于未治疗组(2例,92.6%)(P<0.05)。两组新生儿体质量、早产、剖宫产、妊娠合并症、产时并发症比较无差异(P>0.05)。结论:HBV高载量孕妇HBV-DNA水平较高,HBeAg阳性率与孕妇年龄低、HBV-DNA载量高有关;孕期抗病毒治疗可降低孕妇分娩前HBV-DNA水平,结合标准阻断措施后可提高HBV母婴传播阻断率,且安全性较好。

背靠背直流输电故障闭锁后过电压分析和优化

背靠背直流输电系统某些靠近接地点端发生直流母线接地故障时,系统闭锁后会出现过电压现象。本文分析其原因为故障点与接地点形成短路回路,引起阀短路保护先于极区接地保护动作。此类故障情况下,阀短路保护动作后执行立刻闭锁,在闭锁过程中造成直流系统过电压;而单独的直流母线接地故障执行正常闭锁,或者单独的阀短路故障执行立刻闭锁,均不会出现闭锁后的过电压现象。本文引入接地点电流作为辅助判据,提出两种优化方法。当发生相同的靠近接地点端直流母线接地故障时,控制系统有选择性地执行不同闭锁方式,可有效避免闭锁后出现直流系统过电压,有利于电力系统故障的可靠隔离,降低系统一次设备运行风险。

围产期乙肝病毒母婴传播阻断的研究进展

乙型肝炎病毒(hepatitis B virus,HBV)是一种常见的全球血液传播病原体,其导致的部分慢性乙肝患者可发展为肝硬化和肝癌,甚至导致死亡[1]。据统计,全世界约有640万名五岁以下儿童患有慢性HBV感染,中国是世界上HBV感染负担最大的国家,2019年中国约2.96亿人感染HBV,每年150万新增感染,其中,围产期母婴传播是HBV传播的主要途径之一,新生儿乙肝感染的风险为95%[2]。目前,我国育龄期妇女HBsAg的阳性率为5%~6%,HBsAg阳性孕妇的新生儿是HBV感染的高危人群[3]。阻断母婴传播是预防HBV的源头,母婴阻断主要是通过一定的医疗技术手段,阻止母体HBV传播给婴幼儿的方式。研究表明,母婴阻断对于新生儿乙肝预防和人类生命健康具有重要意义[4]。本文对围产期HBV母婴传播阻断进行综述。

精密位移传递的直径三点轴承内外径高精度检测

基于V形块角分线特性,结合光栅精密位移测量技术,通过精密位移传递方式实现了轴承内外径的检测.此方法通过测量直径三点空间距离进行内外径检测,计算时不存在数据拟合误差,且对不同曲率轴承可实现快速装夹,测量效率及精度高.先通过建立坐标系推导了基于该测量方法的位移传递数学模型,为精度分析提供理论基础;然后分析了轴承夹具装调误差、杠杆传感器装调误差、轴承最大直径寻迹误差及位移台轴系正交性误差对测量精度的影响;并根据提出的V形块角分线多点对准法实现了轴承夹具的高精度装调;最后搭建实验平台,进行了高精度环规内径测量实验.实际检测结果表明,基于该测量方法搭建的系统对直径分别为75.0004和24.9994 mm环规测量的准确度分别为0.68和0.69μm,满足精密轴承内外径检测的需求.