Generalized Distributed Multicell Architecture:Group Cell

In order to make full use of advanced technologies for future mobile communications systems such as Space Time Code (STC), Joint Transmission (JT) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), and to meet the requirements of high-bit-rate multimedia services, new network topologies should be studied. Generalized distributed multicell architecture can take full advantage of multi-antenna technologies and solve the problem of frequent handover caused by higher carrier frequencies. Group handover, the handover policy based on the architecture, can eliminate the cell edge effect. Furthermore, by applying the concept of group handover to 3G mobile communication systems, the Fast Cell Group Selection (FCGS) scheme can effectively improve the data rate for cell edge users.

Dynamic Frontier-Led Swarming:Multi-Robot Repeated Coverage in Dynamic Environments

A common assumption of coverage path planning research is a static environment.Such environments require only a single visit to each area to achieve coverage.However,some real-world environments are characterised by the presence of unexpected,dynamic obstacles.They require areas to be revisited periodically to maintain an accurate coverage map,as well as reactive obstacle avoidance.This paper proposes a novel swarmbased control algorithm for multi-robot exploration and repeated coverage in environments with unknown,dynamic obstacles.The algorithm combines two elements:frontier-led swarming for driving exploration by a group of robots,and pheromone-based stigmergy for controlling repeated coverage while avoiding obstacles.We tested the performance of our approach on heterogeneous and homogeneous groups of mobile robots in different environments.We measure both repeated coverage performance and obstacle avoidance ability.Through a series of comparison experiments,we demonstrate that our proposed strategy has superior performance to recently presented multi-robot repeated coverage methodologies.

A Learning Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Odor Source Localization

This paper is concerned with the problem of odor source localization using multi-robot system. A learning particle swarm optimization algorithm, which can coordinate a multi-robot system to locate the odor source, is proposed. First, in order to develop the proposed algorithm, a source probability map for a robot is built and updated by using concentration magnitude information, wind information, and swarm information. Based on the source probability map, the new position of the robot can be generated. Second, a distributed coordination architecture, by which the proposed algorithm can run on the multi-robot system, is designed. Specifically, the proposed algorithm is used on the group level to generate a new position for the robot. A consensus algorithm is then adopted on the robot level in order to control the robot to move from the current position to the new position. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is illustrated for the odor source localization problem.

Parallel Extraction of Marine Targets Applying OIDA Architecture

Computing resources are one of the key factors restricting the extraction of marine targets by using deep learning.In order to increase computing speed and shorten the computing time,parallel distributed architecture is adopted to extract marine targets.The advantages of two distributed architectures,Parameter Server and Ring-allreduce architecture,are combined to design a parallel distributed architecture suitable for deep learning–Optimal Interleaved Distributed Architecture(OIDA).Three marine target extraction methods including OTD_StErf,OTD_Loglogistic and OTD_Sgmloglog are used to test OIDA,and a total of 18 experiments in 3categories are carried out.The results show that OIDA architecture can meet the timeliness requirements of marine target extraction.The average speed of target parallel extraction with single-machine 8-core CPU is 5.75 times faster than that of single-machine single-core CPU,and the average speed with 5-machine 40-core CPU is 20.75 times faster.

Survey on autonomous task scheduling technology for Earth observation satellites

How to make use of limited onboard resources for complex and heavy space tasks has attracted much attention.With the continuous improvement on satellite payload capacity and the increasing complexity of observation requirements,the importance of satellite autonomous task scheduling research has gradually increased.This article first gives the problem description and mathematical model for the satellite autonomous task scheduling and then follows the steps of"satellite autonomous task scheduling,centralized autonomous collaborative task scheduling architecture,distributed autonomous collaborative task scheduling architecture,solution algorithm".Finally,facing the complex and changeable environment situation,this article proposes the future direction of satellite autonomous task scheduling.

Cross Layer QoS Aware Scheduling based on Loss-Based Proportional Fairness with Multihop CRN

As huge users are involved,there is a difficulty in spectrum allocation and scheduling in Cognitive Radio Networks(CRNs).Collision increases when there is no allocation of spectrum and these results in huge drop rate and network performance degradation.To solve these problems and allocate appropriate spectrum,a novel method is introduced termed as Quality of Service(QoS)Improvement Proper Scheduling(QIPS).The major contribution of the work is to design a new cross layer QoS Aware Scheduling based on Loss-based Proportional Fairness with Multihop(QoSAS-LBPFM).In Medium Access Control(MAC)multi-channel network environment mobile nodes practice concurrent broadcast between several channels.Acquiring the advantage of introduced cross layer design,the real-time channel conditions offered by Cognitive Radio(CR)function allows adaptive sub channel choice for every broadcast.To optimize the resources of network,the LBPFM adaptively plans the radio resources for allocating to diverse services without lessening the quality of service.Results obtained from simulation proved that QoSAS-LBPFM provides enhanced QoS guaranteed performance against other existing QIPS algorithm.

Distribution Patterns of Remaining Hydrocarbons Controlled by Reservoir Architecture of Distributary Channel with Different Channel Style: S2 Formation of Songliao Basin, China

1 Introduction Reservoir architecture analysis of distributary channel of Daqing oilfield has drawn consistent interest among development geologists and petroleum engineers over the last decade(Lv et al.,1999;Zhou et al.,2008;Zhang et

Optimized in-band control channel with channel selection scheduling and network coding in distributed cognitive radio networks

This article proposes an optimized in-band control channel scheme with channel selection scheduling algorithm and network coding based transmission paradigm in the distributed cognitive radio network （CRN）. As well known, control channel plays an important role for establishment of wireless transmission. In order to improve spectrum efficiency in CRN, control channel is preferred to be deployed without dedicated spectrum allocation, i.e. the in-band way. In this study, the time slot division and dynamic channel selection scheduling algorithm is proposed to realize the in-band control channel with improved spectrum efficiency in the distributed CRN. Furthermore, to adapt to dynamic behavior of the primary users, network coding technology is employed to optimize the overhead of control information transmission so that the control information can be efficiently and reliably transmitted. The performance of the proposed in-band control channel scheme is verified by the extensive simulation results.

A Programming Language Approach to Internet-Based Virtual Computing Environment

There is an increasing need to build scalable distributed systems over the Internet infrastructure. However the development of distributed scalable applications suffers from lack of a wide accepted virtual computing environment. Users have to take great efforts on the management and sharing of the involved resources over Internet, whose characteristics are intrinsic growth, autonomy and diversity. To deal with this challenge, Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment （iVCE） is proposed and developed to serve as a platform for distributed scalable applications over the open infrastructure, whose kernel mechanisms are on-demand aggregation and autonomic collaboration of resources. In this paper, we present a programming language for iVCE named Owlet. Owlet conforms with the conceptual model of iVCE, and exposes the iVCE to application developers. As an interaction language based on peer-to-peer content-based publish/subscribe scheme, Owlet abstracts the Internet as an environment for the roles to interact, and uses roles to build a relatively stable view of resources for the on-demand resource aggregation. It provides language constructs to use 1） distributed event driven rules to describe interaction protocols among different roles, 2） conversations to correlate events and rules into a common context, and 3） resource pooling to do fault tolerance and load balancing among networked nodes. We have implemented an Owlet compiler and its runtime environment according to the architecture of iVCE, and built several Owlet applications, including a peer-to-peer file sharing application. Experimental results show that, with iVCE, the separation of resource aggregation logic and business logic significantly eases the process of building scalable distributed applications.

FDGLib: A Communication Library for Efficient Large-Scale Graph Processing in FPGA-Accelerated Data Centers

With the rapid growth of real-world graphs,the size of which can easily exceed the on-chip(board)storage capacity of an accelerator,processing large-scale graphs on a single Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA)becomes difficult.The multi-FPGA acceleration is of great necessity and importance.Many cloud providers(e.g.,Amazon,Microsoft,and Baidu)now expose FPGAs to users in their data centers,providing opportunities to accelerate large-scale graph processing.In this paper,we present a communication library,called FDGLib,which can easily scale out any existing single FPGA-based graph accelerator to a distributed version in a data center,with minimal hardware engineering efforts.FDGLib provides six APIs that can be easily used and integrated into any FPGA-based graph accelerator with only a few lines of code modifications.Considering the torus-based FPGA interconnection in data centers,FDGLib also improves communication efficiency using simple yet effective torus-friendly graph partition and placement schemes.We interface FDGLib into AccuGraph,a state-of-the-art graph accelerator.Our results on a 32-node Microsoft Catapult-like data center show that the distributed AccuGraph can be 2.32x and 4.77x faster than a state-of-the-art distributed FPGA-based graph accelerator ForeGraph and a distributed CPU-based graph system Gemini,with better scalability.

Usability Issues of Grid System Software

This paper addresses the problem why grid technology has not spread as fast as the Web technology of the 1990＇s. In the past 10 years, considerable efforts have been put into grid computing. Much progress has been made and more importantly, fundamental challenges and essential issues of this field are emerging. This paper focuses on the area of grid system software research, and argues that usability of grid system software must be enhanced. It identifies four usability issues, drawing from international grid research experiences. It also presents advances by the Vega Grid team in addressing these challenges.