A novel method to fabricate composition- (IO) films using a positive sacrificial ZnO and topology-controlled ZnO/TiO2 inverse opals IO template has been developed. This method includes a two-step process, preparatio...A novel method to fabricate composition- (IO) films using a positive sacrificial ZnO and topology-controlled ZnO/TiO2 inverse opals IO template has been developed. This method includes a two-step process, preparation of ZnO IO by a simple electrochemical deposition using a self-assembly polystyrene colloidal crystal template and preparation of ZnO/TiO2 IO by a liquid phase deposition (LPD) process at room temperature. The composition and topology of ZnO/TiO2 IO can be easily controlled by changing the duration of the LPD. After 20 min LPD process, a ZnO/TiO2 composite IO with non-close-packed face-centered cubic air sphere array was obtained. Prolonging the duration to 60 min, a pure TiO2 IO (TIO-LPD60) with obviously thickened walls was formed. The formation mechanism for the compositional and topological variation was discussed. A preliminary study on UV photocatalytic property of the samples for degradation of methylene blue reveals that the composition and topology significantly influenced the photocatalytic activity of the IO film. The ZnO/TiO2 composite IO demonstrates a higher degree of activity than both pure ZnO and pure TiO2 IO, although they have a similar IO wall thickness. Moreover, with increasing IO wall thickness from -52 nm to -90 nm, TIO-LPD60 exhibits the highest level of photocatalytic performance.展开更多
To accurately describe the evolving features of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and to improve the performance of such networks, an evolving topology model with local-area preference is proposed. The aim of the model,...To accurately describe the evolving features of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and to improve the performance of such networks, an evolving topology model with local-area preference is proposed. The aim of the model, which is analyzed by the mean field theory, is to optimize network structures based on users' behaviors in MANETs. The analysis results indicate that the network generated by this evolving model is a kind of scale-free network. This evolving model can improve the fault-tolerance performance of networks by balancing the connectivity and two factors, i.e., the remaining energy and the distance to nodes. The simulation results show that the evolving topology model has superior performance in reducing the traffic load and the energy consumption, prolonging network lifetime and improving the scalability of networks. It is an available approach for establishing and analyzing actual MANETs.展开更多
Network calculus provides new tools for performance analysis of networks, but analyzing networks with complex topologies is a challenging research issue using statistical network calculus. A service model is proposed ...Network calculus provides new tools for performance analysis of networks, but analyzing networks with complex topologies is a challenging research issue using statistical network calculus. A service model is proposed to characterize a service process of network with complex topologies. To obtain closed-form expression of statistical end-to-end performance bounds for a wide range of traffic source models, the traffic model and service model are expanded according to error function. Based on the proposed models, the explicit end-to-end delay bound of Fractional Brownian Motion(FBM) traffic is derived, the factors that affect the delay bound are analyzed, and a comparison between theoretical and simulation results is performed. The results illustrate that the proposed models not only fit the network behaviors well, but also facilitate the network performance analysis.展开更多
A distributed local adaptive transmit power assignment (LA-TPA) strategy was proposed to construct a topology with better performance according to the environment and application scenario and prolong the network lifet...A distributed local adaptive transmit power assignment (LA-TPA) strategy was proposed to construct a topology with better performance according to the environment and application scenario and prolong the network lifetime.It takes the path loss exponent and the energy control coefficient into consideration with the aim to accentuate the minimum covering district of each node more accurately and precisely according to various network application scenarios.Besides,a self-healing scheme that enhances the robustness of the network was provided.It makes the topology tolerate more dead nodes than existing algorithms.Simulation was done under OMNeT++ platform and the results show that the LA-TPA strategy is more effective in constructing a well-performance network topology based on various application scenarios and can prolong the network lifetime significantly.展开更多
This paper proposes a novel complex network with assortative property based on multi-center networks. The average path length and clustering coefficient of the network are calculated, and the impact on the network top...This paper proposes a novel complex network with assortative property based on multi-center networks. The average path length and clustering coefficient of the network are calculated, and the impact on the network topology is investigated. A simple dynamic system established on the proposed network is used to analyze how the assortative property of the network affects synchronization.展开更多
In this paper, the trajectory control of multi-agent dynamical systems with exogenous disturbances is studied. Suppose multiple agents composing of a scale-free network topology, the performance of rejecting disturban...In this paper, the trajectory control of multi-agent dynamical systems with exogenous disturbances is studied. Suppose multiple agents composing of a scale-free network topology, the performance of rejecting disturbances for the low degree node and high degree node is analyzed. Firstly, the consensus of multi-agent systems without disturbances is studied by designing a pinning control strategy on a part of agents, where this pinning control can bring multiple agents' states to an expected consensus track. Then, the influence of the disturbances is considered by developing disturbance observers, and disturbance observers based control (DOBC) are developed for disturbances generated by an exogenous system to estimate the disturbances. Asymptotical consensus of the multi-agent systems with disturbances under the composite controller can be achieved for scale-free network topology. Finally, by analyzing examples of multi-agent systems with scale-free network topology and exogenous disturbances, the verities of the results are proved. Under the DOBC with the designed parameters, the trajectory convergence of multi-agent systems is researched by pinning two class of the nodes. We have found that it has more stronger robustness to exogenous disturbances for the high degree node pinned than that of the low degree node pinned.展开更多
After presenting weaknesses of several classic routing protocols applied in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) by a qualitative comparison, this paper proposes a novel self-adaptive routing protocol, named ARPP. Wit...After presenting weaknesses of several classic routing protocols applied in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) by a qualitative comparison, this paper proposes a novel self-adaptive routing protocol, named ARPP. With respect to the specific characteristics of VANETs, the proposed routing protocol adopts a dynamic topology establishment and time-varying control message sending mechanism. A direction-based forwarding strategy and a specific warning solution enhance the routing performance in ARPP. Simulation results show that the ARPP protocol outperforms the classic AODV in urban vehicle environment.展开更多
Communication network has communication capacity and connection reliability of the links. They canbe independently defined and can be used separately, and when the reliability of a communication network isanalyzed fro...Communication network has communication capacity and connection reliability of the links. They canbe independently defined and can be used separately, and when the reliability of a communication network isanalyzed from a macroscopical angle of view, it is more objective to express the performance index of a commu-nication network as a whole. The reliability index weighted capacity is just obtained by integrating these two pa-rameters. It is necessary to further study the algorithm to calculate the reliability index of the communicationnetwork with a complicated topologic structure and a whole algebraic algorithm is therefore proposed for calcula-tion of the reliability index weighted capacity of a communication network with a topologic structure. The wholecomputational procedure of the algorithm is illustrated with a typical example.展开更多
Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3A 5 2 crystal. It is fo...Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3A 5 2 crystal. It is found that enhancement of power factor and reduction of thermal conductivity can be realized at the same time through magnetic field although magnetoresistivity is greatly increased. ZT can be highly enhanced from 0.17 to 1.1 by more than six times around 350 K under a perpendicular magnetic field of 7 T. The huge enhancement of ZT by magnetic field arises from the linear Dirac band with large Fermi velocity and the large electric thermal conductivity in CdsA 5 2. Our work paves a new way to greatly enhance the thermoelectric performance in the quantum topological materials.展开更多
A new wave of networks labeled Peer-to-Peer(P2P) networks attracts more researchers and rapidly becomes one of the most popular applications.In order to matching P2 P logical overlay network with physical topology,the...A new wave of networks labeled Peer-to-Peer(P2P) networks attracts more researchers and rapidly becomes one of the most popular applications.In order to matching P2 P logical overlay network with physical topology,the position-based topology has been proposed.The proposed topology not only focuses on non-functional characteristics such as scalability,reliability,fault-tolerance,selforganization,decentralization and fairness,but also functional characteristics are addressed as well.The experimental results show that the hybrid complex topology achieves better characteristics than other complex networks' models like small-world and scale-free models;since most of the real-life networks are both scale-free and small-world networks,it may perform well in mimicking the reality.Meanwhile,it reveals that the authors improve average distance,diameter and clustering coefficient versus Chord and CAN topologies.Finally,the authors show that the proposed topology is the most robust model,against failures and attacks for nodes and edges,versus small-world and scale-free networks.展开更多
The ability to fine-tune band gap and band inversion in topological materials is highly desirable for the development of novel functional devices. Here we propose that the electronic properties of free-standing nanome...The ability to fine-tune band gap and band inversion in topological materials is highly desirable for the development of novel functional devices. Here we propose that the electronic properties of free-standing nanomernbranes of the topological crystalline insulators (TCI) SnTe and Pb1-xSnx(Se,Te) are highly tunable by engineering elastic strain and membrane thickness, resulting in tunable band gap and giant piezoconductivity. Membrane thickness governs the hybridization of topological electronic states on opposite surfaces, while elastic strain can further modulate the hybridization strength by controlling the penetration length of surface states. We propose a frequency-resolved infrared photodetector using force-concentration induced inhomogeneous elastic strain in TCI nanomembranes with spatially varying width. The predicted tunable band gap accompanied by strong spin-textured electronic states will open new avenues for fabricating piezoresistive devices, infrared detectors and energy-efficient electronic and spintronic devices based on TCI nanomembrane.展开更多
Topological nodal line(DNL) semimetals, a closed loop of the inverted bands in its bulk phases, result in the almost flat drumhead-like non-trivial surface states(DNSSs) with an unusually high electronic density n...Topological nodal line(DNL) semimetals, a closed loop of the inverted bands in its bulk phases, result in the almost flat drumhead-like non-trivial surface states(DNSSs) with an unusually high electronic density near the Fermi level. High catalytic active sites generally associated with high electronic densities around the Fermi level, high carrier mobility and a close-to-zero free energy of the adsorbed state of hydrogen(?G_(H*)≈0) are prerequisite to design alternative of precious platinum for catalyzing electrochemical hydrogen production from water. By combining these two aspects, it is natural to consider if the DNLs are a good candidate for the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) or not because its DNSSs provide a robust platform to activate chemical reactions. Here, through first-principles calculations we reported a new DNL TiSi-type family, exhibiting a closed Dirac nodal line due to the linear band crossings in k_y=0 plane.The hydrogen adsorbed state on the surface yields ?G_(H*) to be almost zero and the topological charge carries participate in HER. The results highlight a new routine to design topological quantum catalyst utilizing the topological DNL-induced surface bands as active sites, rather than edge sites-, vacancy-,dopant-, strain-, or heterostructure-created active sites.展开更多
Generalized hypercubes (denoted by Q(d1,d2,... ,dn)) is an important network topology for parallel processing computer systems. Some methods of forming big cycle from small cycles and links have been developed. Ba...Generalized hypercubes (denoted by Q(d1,d2,... ,dn)) is an important network topology for parallel processing computer systems. Some methods of forming big cycle from small cycles and links have been developed. Basing on which, we has proved that in generalized hypercubes, every edge can be contained on a cycle of every length from 3 to IV(G)I inclusive and all kinds of length cycles have been constructed. The edgepanciclieity and node-pancilicity of generalized hypercubes can be applied in the topology design of computer networks to improve the network performance.展开更多
文摘A novel method to fabricate composition- (IO) films using a positive sacrificial ZnO and topology-controlled ZnO/TiO2 inverse opals IO template has been developed. This method includes a two-step process, preparation of ZnO IO by a simple electrochemical deposition using a self-assembly polystyrene colloidal crystal template and preparation of ZnO/TiO2 IO by a liquid phase deposition (LPD) process at room temperature. The composition and topology of ZnO/TiO2 IO can be easily controlled by changing the duration of the LPD. After 20 min LPD process, a ZnO/TiO2 composite IO with non-close-packed face-centered cubic air sphere array was obtained. Prolonging the duration to 60 min, a pure TiO2 IO (TIO-LPD60) with obviously thickened walls was formed. The formation mechanism for the compositional and topological variation was discussed. A preliminary study on UV photocatalytic property of the samples for degradation of methylene blue reveals that the composition and topology significantly influenced the photocatalytic activity of the IO film. The ZnO/TiO2 composite IO demonstrates a higher degree of activity than both pure ZnO and pure TiO2 IO, although they have a similar IO wall thickness. Moreover, with increasing IO wall thickness from -52 nm to -90 nm, TIO-LPD60 exhibits the highest level of photocatalytic performance.
基金supported by National Science and Technology Major Project under Grant No. 2012ZX03004001the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60971083
文摘To accurately describe the evolving features of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and to improve the performance of such networks, an evolving topology model with local-area preference is proposed. The aim of the model, which is analyzed by the mean field theory, is to optimize network structures based on users' behaviors in MANETs. The analysis results indicate that the network generated by this evolving model is a kind of scale-free network. This evolving model can improve the fault-tolerance performance of networks by balancing the connectivity and two factors, i.e., the remaining energy and the distance to nodes. The simulation results show that the evolving topology model has superior performance in reducing the traffic load and the energy consumption, prolonging network lifetime and improving the scalability of networks. It is an available approach for establishing and analyzing actual MANETs.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Major Research Plan of China (No. 90718003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60973027), and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2007AA01Z401 ).
文摘Network calculus provides new tools for performance analysis of networks, but analyzing networks with complex topologies is a challenging research issue using statistical network calculus. A service model is proposed to characterize a service process of network with complex topologies. To obtain closed-form expression of statistical end-to-end performance bounds for a wide range of traffic source models, the traffic model and service model are expanded according to error function. Based on the proposed models, the explicit end-to-end delay bound of Fractional Brownian Motion(FBM) traffic is derived, the factors that affect the delay bound are analyzed, and a comparison between theoretical and simulation results is performed. The results illustrate that the proposed models not only fit the network behaviors well, but also facilitate the network performance analysis.
基金Projects(61101104,61100213) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(NY211050) supported by Fund of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,China
文摘A distributed local adaptive transmit power assignment (LA-TPA) strategy was proposed to construct a topology with better performance according to the environment and application scenario and prolong the network lifetime.It takes the path loss exponent and the energy control coefficient into consideration with the aim to accentuate the minimum covering district of each node more accurately and precisely according to various network application scenarios.Besides,a self-healing scheme that enhances the robustness of the network was provided.It makes the topology tolerate more dead nodes than existing algorithms.Simulation was done under OMNeT++ platform and the results show that the LA-TPA strategy is more effective in constructing a well-performance network topology based on various application scenarios and can prolong the network lifetime significantly.
基金The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Under Grant Nos. 10672093, 10372054t and 70431002
文摘This paper proposes a novel complex network with assortative property based on multi-center networks. The average path length and clustering coefficient of the network are calculated, and the impact on the network topology is investigated. A simple dynamic system established on the proposed network is used to analyze how the assortative property of the network affects synchronization.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.60774016,60875039,60904022the Science Foundation of Education Office of Shandong Province of China under Grant No.J08LJ01Internal Visiting Scholar Object for Excellence Youth Teacher of the College of Shandong Province of China
文摘In this paper, the trajectory control of multi-agent dynamical systems with exogenous disturbances is studied. Suppose multiple agents composing of a scale-free network topology, the performance of rejecting disturbances for the low degree node and high degree node is analyzed. Firstly, the consensus of multi-agent systems without disturbances is studied by designing a pinning control strategy on a part of agents, where this pinning control can bring multiple agents' states to an expected consensus track. Then, the influence of the disturbances is considered by developing disturbance observers, and disturbance observers based control (DOBC) are developed for disturbances generated by an exogenous system to estimate the disturbances. Asymptotical consensus of the multi-agent systems with disturbances under the composite controller can be achieved for scale-free network topology. Finally, by analyzing examples of multi-agent systems with scale-free network topology and exogenous disturbances, the verities of the results are proved. Under the DOBC with the designed parameters, the trajectory convergence of multi-agent systems is researched by pinning two class of the nodes. We have found that it has more stronger robustness to exogenous disturbances for the high degree node pinned than that of the low degree node pinned.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61070182, No. 60873192, No. 61170225)
文摘After presenting weaknesses of several classic routing protocols applied in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) by a qualitative comparison, this paper proposes a novel self-adaptive routing protocol, named ARPP. With respect to the specific characteristics of VANETs, the proposed routing protocol adopts a dynamic topology establishment and time-varying control message sending mechanism. A direction-based forwarding strategy and a specific warning solution enhance the routing performance in ARPP. Simulation results show that the ARPP protocol outperforms the classic AODV in urban vehicle environment.
基金Sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai) (Grant No. HIT(WH). 2002. 7)
文摘Communication network has communication capacity and connection reliability of the links. They canbe independently defined and can be used separately, and when the reliability of a communication network isanalyzed from a macroscopical angle of view, it is more objective to express the performance index of a commu-nication network as a whole. The reliability index weighted capacity is just obtained by integrating these two pa-rameters. It is necessary to further study the algorithm to calculate the reliability index of the communicationnetwork with a complicated topologic structure and a whole algebraic algorithm is therefore proposed for calcula-tion of the reliability index weighted capacity of a communication network with a topologic structure. The wholecomputational procedure of the algorithm is illustrated with a typical example.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology China(2017YFA0303001,2016YFA0300201 and 2017YFA0204904)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11534010,11774325 and21603210)+4 种基金the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences CAS(QYZDY-SSW-SLH021)Hefei Science Center CAS(2016HSCIU001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesSupercomputing Center at USTC for providing the computing resourcespartially performed on the Superconducting Magnet and PPMS-16T Facilities,High Magnetic Field Laboratory of CAS
文摘Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3A 5 2 crystal. It is found that enhancement of power factor and reduction of thermal conductivity can be realized at the same time through magnetic field although magnetoresistivity is greatly increased. ZT can be highly enhanced from 0.17 to 1.1 by more than six times around 350 K under a perpendicular magnetic field of 7 T. The huge enhancement of ZT by magnetic field arises from the linear Dirac band with large Fermi velocity and the large electric thermal conductivity in CdsA 5 2. Our work paves a new way to greatly enhance the thermoelectric performance in the quantum topological materials.
文摘A new wave of networks labeled Peer-to-Peer(P2P) networks attracts more researchers and rapidly becomes one of the most popular applications.In order to matching P2 P logical overlay network with physical topology,the position-based topology has been proposed.The proposed topology not only focuses on non-functional characteristics such as scalability,reliability,fault-tolerance,selforganization,decentralization and fairness,but also functional characteristics are addressed as well.The experimental results show that the hybrid complex topology achieves better characteristics than other complex networks' models like small-world and scale-free models;since most of the real-life networks are both scale-free and small-world networks,it may perform well in mimicking the reality.Meanwhile,it reveals that the authors improve average distance,diameter and clustering coefficient versus Chord and CAN topologies.Finally,the authors show that the proposed topology is the most robust model,against failures and attacks for nodes and edges,versus small-world and scale-free networks.
文摘The ability to fine-tune band gap and band inversion in topological materials is highly desirable for the development of novel functional devices. Here we propose that the electronic properties of free-standing nanomernbranes of the topological crystalline insulators (TCI) SnTe and Pb1-xSnx(Se,Te) are highly tunable by engineering elastic strain and membrane thickness, resulting in tunable band gap and giant piezoconductivity. Membrane thickness governs the hybridization of topological electronic states on opposite surfaces, while elastic strain can further modulate the hybridization strength by controlling the penetration length of surface states. We propose a frequency-resolved infrared photodetector using force-concentration induced inhomogeneous elastic strain in TCI nanomembranes with spatially varying width. The predicted tunable band gap accompanied by strong spin-textured electronic states will open new avenues for fabricating piezoresistive devices, infrared detectors and energy-efficient electronic and spintronic devices based on TCI nanomembrane.
基金supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (51725103)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51671193 and 51474202)+1 种基金the Science Challenging Project (TZ2016004)All calculations have been performed on the high-performance computational cluster in Shenyang National University Science and Technology Park and the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou (TH-2 system) with special program for applied research of the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund (the second phase) (U1501501)
文摘Topological nodal line(DNL) semimetals, a closed loop of the inverted bands in its bulk phases, result in the almost flat drumhead-like non-trivial surface states(DNSSs) with an unusually high electronic density near the Fermi level. High catalytic active sites generally associated with high electronic densities around the Fermi level, high carrier mobility and a close-to-zero free energy of the adsorbed state of hydrogen(?G_(H*)≈0) are prerequisite to design alternative of precious platinum for catalyzing electrochemical hydrogen production from water. By combining these two aspects, it is natural to consider if the DNLs are a good candidate for the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) or not because its DNSSs provide a robust platform to activate chemical reactions. Here, through first-principles calculations we reported a new DNL TiSi-type family, exhibiting a closed Dirac nodal line due to the linear band crossings in k_y=0 plane.The hydrogen adsorbed state on the surface yields ?G_(H*) to be almost zero and the topological charge carries participate in HER. The results highlight a new routine to design topological quantum catalyst utilizing the topological DNL-induced surface bands as active sites, rather than edge sites-, vacancy-,dopant-, strain-, or heterostructure-created active sites.
基金This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (10671081)
文摘Generalized hypercubes (denoted by Q(d1,d2,... ,dn)) is an important network topology for parallel processing computer systems. Some methods of forming big cycle from small cycles and links have been developed. Basing on which, we has proved that in generalized hypercubes, every edge can be contained on a cycle of every length from 3 to IV(G)I inclusive and all kinds of length cycles have been constructed. The edgepanciclieity and node-pancilicity of generalized hypercubes can be applied in the topology design of computer networks to improve the network performance.