T-Shaped Transmission Line Fault Location Based on Phase-Angle Jump Checking

In order to effectively solve the dead-zone and low-precision of T-shaped transmission line fault location,a new T-shaped transmission line fault location algorithm based on phase-angle jump checking is proposed in this paper.Firstly,the 3-terminal synchronous fundamental positive sequence voltage and current phasors are extracted and substituted into the fault branch distance function to realize the selection of fault branch when the fault occurs;Secondly,use the condition of the fundamental positive sequence voltage phasor at the fault point is equal to calculate all roots(including real root and virtual roots);Finally,the phase-angle jump check function is used for checking calculation,and then the only real root can be determined as the actual fault distance,thereby achieving the purpose of high-precision fault location.MATLAB simulation results show that the proposed new algorithm is feasible and effective with high fault location accuracy and good versatility.

An Efficient Smooth Quantile Boost Algorithm for Binary Classification

In this paper, we propose a Smooth Quantile Boost Classification (SQBC) algorithm for binary classification problem. The SQBC algorithm directly uses a smooth function to approximate the “check function” of the quantile regression. Compared to other boost-based classification algorithms, the proposed algorithm is more accurate, flexible and robust to noisy predictors. Furthermore, the SQBC algorithm also can work well in high dimensional space. Extensive numerical experiments show that our proposed method has better performance on randomly simulations and real data.

AMCheX: Accurate Analysis of Missing-Check Bugs for Linux Kernel

The Linux kernel adopts a large number of security checks to prevent security-sensitive operations from being executed under unsafe conditions.If a security-sensitive operation is unchecked,a missing-check issue arises.Missing check is a class of severe bugs in software programs especially in operating system kernels,which may cause a variety of security issues,such as out-of-bound accesses,permission bypasses,and privilege escalations.Due to the lack of security specifications,how to automatically identify security-sensitive operations and their required security checks in the Linux kernel becomes a challenge for missing-check analysis.In this paper,we present an accurate missing-check analysis method for Linux kernel,which can automatically infer possible security-sensitive operations.Particularly,we first automatically identify all possible security check functions of Linux.Then according to their callsites,a two-direction analysis method is leveraged to identify possible security-sensitive operations.A missing-check bug is reported when the security-sensitive operation is not protected by its corresponding security check.We have implemented our method as a tool,named AMCheX,on top of the LLVM(Low Level Virtual Machine)framework and evaluated it on the Linux kernel.AMCheX reported 12 new missing-check bugs which can cause security issues.Five of them have been confirmed by Linux maintainers.

A Limited Deflection Routing Algorithm Based on Burst Loss Threshold in OBS Networks

The deflection routing protocol is an effective contention resolution in Optical Burst Switching network, However, it can worsen loss performance of non-deflected burst on the deflection route. To improve the burst loss performance, a limited deflection routing scheme based on burst loss threshold is proposed to prevent injudicious deflection routing. By using threshold check function, it restrainedly allows the deflected burst to preemptive network resource, consequently, improve the QoS performance of non-deflected burst. Simulation results show that the scheme can efficiently prevent deflected burst contending with non-deflected burst on deflection route, and effectively improve the burst loss performance of entire networks.