The fast deployment and penetration of 4G has cultivated human behaviors on mobile data consumption, leading to explosive growth in mobile traffic and stimulating new requirements on the capabilities of mobile network...The fast deployment and penetration of 4G has cultivated human behaviors on mobile data consumption, leading to explosive growth in mobile traffic and stimulating new requirements on the capabilities of mobile networks. To meet the requirements of mobile networks toward year 2020, the next genera- tion of mobile networks (termed as IMT-2020, or 5G) is designed to support 100 Mbps-1 Gbps user-experienced data rate, 1 ms radio transmission latency, and 1 million connec- tions per square kilometer. Recalling the vision and requirements of 5G targeting for commer- cial launch in 2020, this article overviews the key features of 5G and compares with those of 4G, and reports the world first field trials conducted to validate the key performance of 5G radio interface in 3.SGHz band. The trial results show that a 1 ms transmission latency and 1 Gbps data rate are achievable.展开更多
Hardware neural networks controlled rotational actuators and application to an insect type micro robot are reported in this paper. Millimeter size rotational actuators are fabricated by combining MEMS (Micro Electro ...Hardware neural networks controlled rotational actuators and application to an insect type micro robot are reported in this paper. Millimeter size rotational actuators are fabricated by combining MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) technology and shape memory alloy based artificial muscle wires. The actuator is composed of a pair of disk rotators and each rotor is suspended by four artificial muscle wires that are connected to the silicon frame. The rotational motion is generated by flowing the electrical current to each wire successively. Two actuators of different sizes are fabricated. The large actuator shows the displacement of 0.5 mm at the cycle time of 4 s. The small actuator shows 0.3 mm at 2 s. For controlling the actuator, the hardware neural networks are used. The hardware neural networks are composed of electrical circuits imitating cell bodies, excitatory synapses and inhibitory synapses. Four signal ports are extracted from four pairs of excitatory and inhibitory neurons and they are connected to the actuator. The small actuator is applied to the robot and built in the mid body of the robot. The shaft of the actuator is connected to the link mechanisms that transform the rotational motion to the locomotion. The appearance dimensions of the robot are 4.0, 2.7, 2.5 mm width, length and height. The robot performs forward and backward foot step like insects. The speed is 26.4 mm·min^-1 and the stepping width is 0.88 mm. Also, the robot changes the direction by external trigger pulses.展开更多
Long Term Evolution(LTE) and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX are competing access network technologies adopted in 4G wireless networks in recent years.LTE complies with3 GPP standards whereas 802.16 WiMAX is regulated by the Instit...Long Term Evolution(LTE) and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX are competing access network technologies adopted in 4G wireless networks in recent years.LTE complies with3 GPP standards whereas 802.16 WiMAX is regulated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE).Although WiMAX is already operating commercially in Taiwan,the system is limited to an independent new system that is incompatible with the current 3G system.Hence,the cost of implementing the WiMAX system is relatively high,this being an impediment to its rapid uptake and widespread use.On the other hand,LTE conforms to 3GPP that is supported by telecommunication manufacturers and operators and is,moreover,backward compatible with 3G/UMTS cellular systems.The LTE specifications define how user equipment(UE) connects and communicates with evolved Node B(eNB) base stations.The enhanced version,LTE-Advanced,adds a new entity called the relay node(RN) to widen service coverage,although this change has resulted in a more complex architecture.Mobility management and data forwarding are essential components in wireless mobile networking.This paper focuses on the efficient handover procedure in LTE-Advanced networks,and proposes a Smart Forwarding mechanism to improve the handover performance.Simulation studies show that the proposed Smart Forwarding scheme employs a better operational transmission path that effectively reduces handover latency and signal overhead.展开更多
This paper investigates the social-aware cooperation(SAC) among mobile terminals(MTs), motivated by the fact that modern smart devices have much improved context awareness. Aware of the social ties, the cooperative ne...This paper investigates the social-aware cooperation(SAC) among mobile terminals(MTs), motivated by the fact that modern smart devices have much improved context awareness. Aware of the social ties, the cooperative network contains two layers of property: social and physical. In order to observe how the social awareness benefit the cooperation performance, we first formulate the social ties between MTs into parameters that can describe the cooperative behaviors by taking the mobility feature into account, defined as the conviction-approval-suspicion(CAS) model. Limited by the processing capability, partner selection is of great practical significance. To this end, the social-aware partner selection strategy is analyzed, and a significant superiority is observed compared to social-unaware selection. By analyzing the cooperative throughput, an explicit relationship between the degrees-of-freedom gain and the social-physical property is finally derived. Simulation results validate the theoretical analysis.展开更多
This paper investigates the dynamic evolution with limited learning information on a small-world network.In the system, the information among the interaction players is not very lucid, and the players are not allowed ...This paper investigates the dynamic evolution with limited learning information on a small-world network.In the system, the information among the interaction players is not very lucid, and the players are not allowed to inspectthe profit collected by its neighbors, thus the focal player cannot choose randomly a neighbor or the wealthiest one andcompare its payoff to copy its strategy.It is assumed that the information acquainted by the player declines in theform of the exponential with the geographical distance between the players, and a parameter V is introduced to denotethe inspect-ability about the players.It is found that under the hospitable conditions, cooperation increases with therandomness and is inhibited by the large connectivity for the prisoner's dilemma; however, cooperation is maximal atthe moderate rewiring probability and is chaos with the connectivity for the snowdrift game.For the two games, theacuminous sight is in favor of the cooperation under the hospitable conditions; whereas, the myopic eyes are advantageousto cooperation and cooperation increases with the randomness under the hostile condition.展开更多
This paper presents a universal platform "uSensing" to support smartphones to communicate with sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).Since phones have different CPU processers and operating systems...This paper presents a universal platform "uSensing" to support smartphones to communicate with sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).Since phones have different CPU processers and operating systems,it is a challenge to merge these heterogeneities and develop such a universal platform.In this paper,we design both hardware and software to support the "universal" feature of uSensing:1) "uSD" card:an IEEE 802.15.4 physical communication card with SD interface;2) "uSinkWare":a WSNs middleware running on smartphones.Integrated with uSD card and uSinkWare,phones become mobile data sinks to access into WSNs and parse messages from sensor nodes.We demonstrate the proposed uSensing platform in a commercial smartphone to connect with our WSNs testbed,and validate that the smartphone has the same WSNs functions as commercial fixed sink.Additionally,we evaluate the performance of uSensing platform through measuring phone's CPU load and power consumption,and analyze the performance of these metrics theoretically.The results suggest that the phone-based mobile sink has enough capability to serve as a mobile sink of WSNs and can work up to twenty hours due to low power consumption.展开更多
Weblogs, writing logs on the web, have been popularly used as an instructional tool to facilitate, reading and writing instructions in ESL (English as a Second Language)/EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classro...Weblogs, writing logs on the web, have been popularly used as an instructional tool to facilitate, reading and writing instructions in ESL (English as a Second Language)/EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms. This study employed weblogs to support the writing process of Thai EFL students and provided an opportunity for them to participate in a Thai-Japanese weblog exchange project. The results showed that student bloggers: (1) enjoyed blogging due to their perceived reading and writing incentives, the exchange of cultural knowledge, and networking; and (2) employed the writing process to complete their written assignments. Findings suggest that weblogs can foster EFL learners' motivation, development of reading and writing skills, and development of cultural knowledge, and facilitate their writing process via cyberspace.展开更多
Multibody musculoskeletal modeling of human gait has been proved helpful in investigating the pathology of musculoskeletal disorders.However,conventional inverse dynamics methods rely on external force sensors and can...Multibody musculoskeletal modeling of human gait has been proved helpful in investigating the pathology of musculoskeletal disorders.However,conventional inverse dynamics methods rely on external force sensors and cannot capture the nonlinear muscle behaviors.Meanwhile,the forward dynamics approach is computationally demanding and only suited for relatively simple tasks.This study proposed an integrated simulation methodology to fulfill the requirements of estimating foot-ground reaction force,tendon elasticity,and muscle recruitment optimization.A hybrid motion capture system,which combines the marker-based infrared device and markerless tracking through deep convolutional neural networks,was developed to track lower limb movements.The foot-ground reaction forces were determined by a contact model for soft materials,and its parameters were estimated using a two-step optimization method.The muscle recruitment problem was first resolved via a static optimization algorithm,and the obtained muscle activations were used as initial values for further simulation.A torque tracking procedure was then performed by minimizing the errors of joint torques calculated by musculotendon equilibrium equations and inverse dynamics.The proposed approach was validated against the electromyography measurements of a healthy subject during gait.The simulation framework provides a robust way of predicting joint torques,musculotendon forces,and muscle activations,which can be beneficial for understanding the biomechanics of normal and pathological gait.展开更多
The reverse construction and analysis of the networks of molecular interactions are essential for understanding their functions within cells. In this paper, a logic network model is constructed to investigate the comp...The reverse construction and analysis of the networks of molecular interactions are essential for understanding their functions within cells. In this paper, a logic network model is constructed to investigate the complicated regulation mechanism of shoot genes of Arabidopsis Thaliana in response to stimuli. The dynamics of the complicated logic network is analyzed, discussed, and simulated. The simulation results show that the logic network of the active genes of shoot eventually evolves into eleven attractors under the stimuli, including five 1-periodic and six 2-periodic attractors. Our work provides valuable reference and guidance for biologists to understand and explain Arabidopsis' response to external stimuli by experiments.展开更多
基金supported in part by national Key Project (2016ZX03001021)
文摘The fast deployment and penetration of 4G has cultivated human behaviors on mobile data consumption, leading to explosive growth in mobile traffic and stimulating new requirements on the capabilities of mobile networks. To meet the requirements of mobile networks toward year 2020, the next genera- tion of mobile networks (termed as IMT-2020, or 5G) is designed to support 100 Mbps-1 Gbps user-experienced data rate, 1 ms radio transmission latency, and 1 million connec- tions per square kilometer. Recalling the vision and requirements of 5G targeting for commer- cial launch in 2020, this article overviews the key features of 5G and compares with those of 4G, and reports the world first field trials conducted to validate the key performance of 5G radio interface in 3.SGHz band. The trial results show that a 1 ms transmission latency and 1 Gbps data rate are achievable.
文摘Hardware neural networks controlled rotational actuators and application to an insect type micro robot are reported in this paper. Millimeter size rotational actuators are fabricated by combining MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) technology and shape memory alloy based artificial muscle wires. The actuator is composed of a pair of disk rotators and each rotor is suspended by four artificial muscle wires that are connected to the silicon frame. The rotational motion is generated by flowing the electrical current to each wire successively. Two actuators of different sizes are fabricated. The large actuator shows the displacement of 0.5 mm at the cycle time of 4 s. The small actuator shows 0.3 mm at 2 s. For controlling the actuator, the hardware neural networks are used. The hardware neural networks are composed of electrical circuits imitating cell bodies, excitatory synapses and inhibitory synapses. Four signal ports are extracted from four pairs of excitatory and inhibitory neurons and they are connected to the actuator. The small actuator is applied to the robot and built in the mid body of the robot. The shaft of the actuator is connected to the link mechanisms that transform the rotational motion to the locomotion. The appearance dimensions of the robot are 4.0, 2.7, 2.5 mm width, length and height. The robot performs forward and backward foot step like insects. The speed is 26.4 mm·min^-1 and the stepping width is 0.88 mm. Also, the robot changes the direction by external trigger pulses.
基金supported in part by the National Science Council,Taiwan,"R.O.C.",under grant no.NSC 101-2221-E-164-019 and NSC 101-2221-E-164-020
文摘Long Term Evolution(LTE) and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX are competing access network technologies adopted in 4G wireless networks in recent years.LTE complies with3 GPP standards whereas 802.16 WiMAX is regulated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE).Although WiMAX is already operating commercially in Taiwan,the system is limited to an independent new system that is incompatible with the current 3G system.Hence,the cost of implementing the WiMAX system is relatively high,this being an impediment to its rapid uptake and widespread use.On the other hand,LTE conforms to 3GPP that is supported by telecommunication manufacturers and operators and is,moreover,backward compatible with 3G/UMTS cellular systems.The LTE specifications define how user equipment(UE) connects and communicates with evolved Node B(eNB) base stations.The enhanced version,LTE-Advanced,adds a new entity called the relay node(RN) to widen service coverage,although this change has resulted in a more complex architecture.Mobility management and data forwarding are essential components in wireless mobile networking.This paper focuses on the efficient handover procedure in LTE-Advanced networks,and proposes a Smart Forwarding mechanism to improve the handover performance.Simulation studies show that the proposed Smart Forwarding scheme employs a better operational transmission path that effectively reduces handover latency and signal overhead.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2013CB329001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61132002, 61201186)
文摘This paper investigates the social-aware cooperation(SAC) among mobile terminals(MTs), motivated by the fact that modern smart devices have much improved context awareness. Aware of the social ties, the cooperative network contains two layers of property: social and physical. In order to observe how the social awareness benefit the cooperation performance, we first formulate the social ties between MTs into parameters that can describe the cooperative behaviors by taking the mobility feature into account, defined as the conviction-approval-suspicion(CAS) model. Limited by the processing capability, partner selection is of great practical significance. To this end, the social-aware partner selection strategy is analyzed, and a significant superiority is observed compared to social-unaware selection. By analyzing the cooperative throughput, an explicit relationship between the degrees-of-freedom gain and the social-physical property is finally derived. Simulation results validate the theoretical analysis.
基金Supported by Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10974146
文摘This paper investigates the dynamic evolution with limited learning information on a small-world network.In the system, the information among the interaction players is not very lucid, and the players are not allowed to inspectthe profit collected by its neighbors, thus the focal player cannot choose randomly a neighbor or the wealthiest one andcompare its payoff to copy its strategy.It is assumed that the information acquainted by the player declines in theform of the exponential with the geographical distance between the players, and a parameter V is introduced to denotethe inspect-ability about the players.It is found that under the hospitable conditions, cooperation increases with therandomness and is inhibited by the large connectivity for the prisoner's dilemma; however, cooperation is maximal atthe moderate rewiring probability and is chaos with the connectivity for the snowdrift game.For the two games, theacuminous sight is in favor of the cooperation under the hospitable conditions; whereas, the myopic eyes are advantageousto cooperation and cooperation increases with the randomness under the hostile condition.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60932005China and Europe Government Cooperation Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology under Grant No.2010DFA11680the Tsinghua Sci-Tech Project under Grant No.2011THZ0
文摘This paper presents a universal platform "uSensing" to support smartphones to communicate with sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).Since phones have different CPU processers and operating systems,it is a challenge to merge these heterogeneities and develop such a universal platform.In this paper,we design both hardware and software to support the "universal" feature of uSensing:1) "uSD" card:an IEEE 802.15.4 physical communication card with SD interface;2) "uSinkWare":a WSNs middleware running on smartphones.Integrated with uSD card and uSinkWare,phones become mobile data sinks to access into WSNs and parse messages from sensor nodes.We demonstrate the proposed uSensing platform in a commercial smartphone to connect with our WSNs testbed,and validate that the smartphone has the same WSNs functions as commercial fixed sink.Additionally,we evaluate the performance of uSensing platform through measuring phone's CPU load and power consumption,and analyze the performance of these metrics theoretically.The results suggest that the phone-based mobile sink has enough capability to serve as a mobile sink of WSNs and can work up to twenty hours due to low power consumption.
文摘Weblogs, writing logs on the web, have been popularly used as an instructional tool to facilitate, reading and writing instructions in ESL (English as a Second Language)/EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms. This study employed weblogs to support the writing process of Thai EFL students and provided an opportunity for them to participate in a Thai-Japanese weblog exchange project. The results showed that student bloggers: (1) enjoyed blogging due to their perceived reading and writing incentives, the exchange of cultural knowledge, and networking; and (2) employed the writing process to complete their written assignments. Findings suggest that weblogs can foster EFL learners' motivation, development of reading and writing skills, and development of cultural knowledge, and facilitate their writing process via cyberspace.
基金the National Natural Science Foundations of China(Grant Nos.12102035 and 12125201)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2020TQ0042)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.L212008).
文摘Multibody musculoskeletal modeling of human gait has been proved helpful in investigating the pathology of musculoskeletal disorders.However,conventional inverse dynamics methods rely on external force sensors and cannot capture the nonlinear muscle behaviors.Meanwhile,the forward dynamics approach is computationally demanding and only suited for relatively simple tasks.This study proposed an integrated simulation methodology to fulfill the requirements of estimating foot-ground reaction force,tendon elasticity,and muscle recruitment optimization.A hybrid motion capture system,which combines the marker-based infrared device and markerless tracking through deep convolutional neural networks,was developed to track lower limb movements.The foot-ground reaction forces were determined by a contact model for soft materials,and its parameters were estimated using a two-step optimization method.The muscle recruitment problem was first resolved via a static optimization algorithm,and the obtained muscle activations were used as initial values for further simulation.A torque tracking procedure was then performed by minimizing the errors of joint torques calculated by musculotendon equilibrium equations and inverse dynamics.The proposed approach was validated against the electromyography measurements of a healthy subject during gait.The simulation framework provides a robust way of predicting joint torques,musculotendon forces,and muscle activations,which can be beneficial for understanding the biomechanics of normal and pathological gait.
基金This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60874036 and 60503002.
文摘The reverse construction and analysis of the networks of molecular interactions are essential for understanding their functions within cells. In this paper, a logic network model is constructed to investigate the complicated regulation mechanism of shoot genes of Arabidopsis Thaliana in response to stimuli. The dynamics of the complicated logic network is analyzed, discussed, and simulated. The simulation results show that the logic network of the active genes of shoot eventually evolves into eleven attractors under the stimuli, including five 1-periodic and six 2-periodic attractors. Our work provides valuable reference and guidance for biologists to understand and explain Arabidopsis' response to external stimuli by experiments.