Sponge:An Oversubscription Strategy Supporting Performance Interference Management in Cloud

Resource oversubscription optimizes the utilization of the computing resources. Many well-known virtual machine monitors(VMMs)such as Xen and KVM,adopt this approach to help maximize the yield of the cloud datacenters That is,with proper resource oversubscription strategies,more virtual machines(VMs) can be supported by limited resources. However performance interference among VMs hosting in the same physical machines(PMs) exists in cloud environment,and probably aggravated by resource oversubscription strategies,which aims to put more VMs into the same PM. In this paper,we present a resource oversubscription strategy called Sponge targeting cloud platforms Sponge mitigates the issue of performance interference among the oversubscribed co-hosting VMs. Sponge also provides a VM association strategy for each PM to handle with its besteffort. We performed our evaluation on a virtua datacenter simulated by Xen. Our evaluation results show that Sponge improves the resources utilization and manages to make each VM mee its performance requirement even hosting with other VMs in the same PM.

MapReduce Scheduler by Characterizing Performance Interference

Recently, virtualization has become more and more important in the cloud computing to support efficient flexible resource provisioning. However, performance interference among virtual machines(VMs) has become a challenge which may affect the effectiveness of resource provisioning. In a virtual cluster which runs the Map Reduce applications, the performance interference can also affect the performance of the Map and Reduce tasks and thus cause a performance degradation of the Map Reduce job. Accordingly, this paper presents a Map Reduce scheduling framework to mitigate this performance degradation caused by the performance interference. The framework includes a performance interference prediction module and an interference aware scheduling algorithm. To verify its effectiveness, we have done a set of experiments on a 24-node virtual Map Reduce cluster. The experiments illustrate that the proposed framework can achieve a performance improvement in the virtualized environment compared with other Map Reduce schedulers.

Anti-penetration performance of high entropy alloy–ceramic gradient composites

A high-entropy alloy–ceramic gradient composite of TiC–TiB_2/75vol% Al_(0.3) CoCrFe Ni was successfully prepared by combustion synthesis under an ultra-high gravity field, which is a low-cost method with high efficiency. The ceramic particles were gradient distributed in the Al_(0.3) CoCrFe Ni matrix, and the hardness of the composite material gradually decreased along the thickness direction. The anti-penetration performance of the gradient composites was simulated using the ANSYS/LS-DYNA explicit simulation program. The results demonstrate that the distribution of the ceramic particles strongly affected the mechanical properties and the anti-penetration performance of the composites. With the same total ceramic volume fraction, the gradient composites exhibit better anti-penetration performance than the corresponding ceramic–metal interlayer composites. The more uneven the ceramic distribution, the greater the elastic modulus and yield stress of the surface layer and, thus, the better the anti-penetration performance.

Preparation technology and anti-corrosion performances of black ceramic coatings formed by micro-arc oxidation on aluminum alloys

In order to prepare ornamental and anti-corrosive coating on aluminum alloys, preparation technology of black micro-arc ceramic coatings on Al alloys in silicate based electrolyte was studied. The influence of content of Na2WO4 and combination additive in solution on the performance of black ceramic coatings was studied; the anticorrosion performances of black ceramic coatings were evaluated through whole-immersion test and electrochemical method in 3.5% NaCl solution at different pH value; SEM and XRD were used to analyze the surface morphology and phase constitutes of the black ceramic coatings. Experimental results indicated that, without combination additives, with the increasing of Na2WO4 content in the electrolyte, ceramic coating became darker and thicker, but the color was not black; after adding combination additive, the coating turned to be black; the black ceramic coating was multi-hole form in surface. There was a small quantity of tungsten existing in the black ceramic coating beside α-Al2O3 phase and β-Al2O3 phase. And aluminum alloy with black ceramic coating exhibited excellent anti-corrosion property in acid, basic and neutral 3.5% NaCl solution.

Anti-interference ultra-wideband system based on spreading and interleaving

To suppress the interference in the ultra-wideband （AI-UWB） system is a challenging problem. An anti-interference multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing ultra-wideband （AI-UWB） system, based on spreading and interleaving is addressed. It will exploit the frequency diversity across the subcarriers and provide the robustness to narrow-band interference, by spreading the coded bit streams within each sub-band and interleaving across all sub-bands. Simulating results show that the spreading and interleaving provide about 5 dB to 10 dB advantages over the conventional multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing ultra-wideband system in signal-to-interference ratio. Spreading and interleaving is an effective cure for enhancing the robustness to narrowband interference.

Anti-Noise Performance of the FT Continuous Zoom Analysis Method for Discrete Spectrum

As a discrete spectrum correction method, the Fourier transform （FT） continuous zoom analysis method is widely used in vibration signal analysis, but little effort had been made on this method＇s anti-noise performance. It is widely believed that the analysis accuracy of the method can be substantially improved by increasing the zoom multiple, however, with the zoom multiple increases, the frequency estimation accuracy may decline sometimes in practices. Aiming at the problems above, this paper analyzes the sources of frequency estimation error when a harmonic signal mixed with and without noise is processed using the FT continuous zoom analysis. According to the characteristics that the local maximum of the zoom spectrum may be wrongly selected when the signal is corrupted with noise, the number of wrongly selected spectrum lines is deduced under different signal-to-noise ratio and local zoom multiple, and then the maximum frequency estimation error is given accordingly. The validity of the presented analysis is confirmed by simulations results. The frequency estimation accuracy of this method will not improve any more under the influence of noise, and there is a best zoom multiple, when the zoom multiple is larger than the best zoom multiple; the maximum frequency estimation error will fluctuate back and forth. The best zoom multiple curves under different signal-to-noise ratios given provide a theoretical basis for the choice of the appropriate zoom multiples of the FT continuous zoom analysis method in engineering applications.

Performance Analysis of RFID Framed Slotted Aloha Anti-Collision Protocol

In this paper, we develop a novel mathematical model to estimate the probability distribution function of the number of tags discovered after a certain number of interrogation rounds. In addition, the pdfs of the number of rounds needed to discover all the tags are also calculated. The estimation of such pdfs will be helpful in estimating the number of interrogation rounds and the optimal parameter configuration of the RFID system which in turn will be helpful in estimating the time needed to discover all tags. Our results show that the proposed model accurately predicts the tags detection probability. We then use the proposed model to optimally configure the reader parameters (i.e. the frame size and the number of interrogation rounds).

STUDY ON FREQUENCY CODING ANTI-INTERFERENCE SYSTEM FOR DATA TRANSMISSION IN SHALLOW WATER ACOUSTIC CHANNELS

Achieving reliable underwater communication in shallow water acoustic channels is a difficult task because of the random time varying nature of multipath propagation, severe amplitude fluctuation, and spatial variability of the channel conditions. This paper describes a new signal processing technique frequency coding and decoding by means of real time measurement of signal width, jamming and suppressing multipath interference and using redundant coder. The application of the technique to the model ZTY 1 status monitor for underwater system of seabed is introduced in this paper. The main principle, the technique specifications and the key techniques of the system are discussed here. Theoretical estimations and experimental results proved that the performance of the system is excellent. The method can be used for some other related low data rate data transmission detecting in shallow water acoustic channel.

Influence of graphene on the anti-corrosion performance of epoxy-based coatings

In this work, graphene-modified epoxy-based anti-corrosion coatings were prepared and the influence of graphene on the anti-corrosion performance of the epoxy-based coatings was investigated with water contact angle test ,chemical solution immersion test, and electrochemical test. The water contact angle and chemical solution resistance of the epoxy-based coatings were improved with an increase in graphene content from 0 to 0.4%. These results prove that addition of graphene can significantly improve the hydrophobicity and impermeability of epoxy- based coatings. However, when the graphene content was increased to 0.5%, the performance of the epoxy-based coatings decreased because of graphene aggregation. Tafel polarization results show that graphene addition can significantly reduce the corrosion current density and corrosion potential of epoxy-based coatings, which enhance their anti-corrosion performance.

Design of Small Stone Asphalt Mixture based on Anti-skidding Performance

Small stone asphalt mixture（SSAM） was designed by Bailey method and coarse aggregate voids-filling method.The optimum asphalt content was determined by Marshal test.Surface texture depth for SSAM with different voidage,and the BPN of SSAM and SMA before after wet track abrasion were measured.The experimental results indicate that the surface texture depth increases with the decreasing of asphalt aggregate ratio.The SSAM with the optimal asphalt content has a good skid resistance.BPN of asphalt mixture decreases with the increasing of wearing time,but the extent of reduction is different.The reduction rate of BPN for SSAM is smaller than that of SMA,indicating that SSAM has a good skid resistance attenuation capacity.Finally,the other properties of SSAM are also evaluated,showing that the splitting strength and modulus and SSAM are higher than those of SMA,and the other properties of SSAM,such as high-temperature performance and water stability can also satisfy the technical requirements.

A New Method for Anti-Noise FM Interference

Noise Frequency Modulated (NFM) interference causes a disaster to almost all types of Radar systems. The echo signal and the interference are overlapped and because of strong energy of the NFM interference noth-ing could be detected except the interference in the Radar receiver system. Up to now no good method against NFM has been declared, conventional methods are based on the passive Radar to track the interfer-ence source which are not applicable under most conditions. Here a novel anti-noise FM method is proposed to suppress the NFM interference, the method multiply the mixed signal two times by different reference signals. The principle and some key factors of the new method are analyzed in detail and some rules for pa-rameters designing are given. What’s more, results show that the method can eradicate NFM effectively.

PREDICTION OF RIME ICE ACCRETION AND RESULTING EFFECT ON AIRFOIL PERFORMANCE

The roughness effect based on the wall function method is introduced into the numerical simulation of the rime ice accretion and the resulting effect on the aerodynamic performance of the airfoil. Incorporating the two-phase model of air/super-cooled droplets in the Eulerian coordinate system, this paper presents the simulation of the rime ice accretion on the NACA 0012 airfoil. The predicted rime ice shape is compared with those results of measurements and simulations by other icing codes. Also the resulting effects of rime ice on airfoil aerodynamic performance are discussed. Results indicate that the rime ice accretion leads to the loss of the maximum lift coefficient by 26%, the decrease of the stall angle by about 3° and the considerable increase of the drag coefficient.

On Broadband Adaptive Beamforming in the Presence of Correlated Interferences

A novel approach of unitarily interpolated array MVDR （UIA-MVDR） is proposed, aiming at avoiding the signal cancellation caused by broadband signal-correlated interferences. UIA-MVDR belongs to the classic approaches of spectral averaging. However, it is distinguished from the conventional interpolated array MVDR （IA-MVDR） by two points： 1） It imposes a unitary constraint on the transform matrices. 2） It only optimizes the worst-case performance of array manifold approximation. As a result, the restriction on the order of Bessel function expansion is released, so that very accurate approximation can be achieved even in the case of small or middle arrays. Compared with many related approaches, UIA-MVDR destroys the correlation more completely and then achieves better performance. Its excellent performance in both correlated and uncorrelated broadband interferences suppression is confirmed via a n umber of numerical examples.

Flexible and ultrathin dopamine modified MXene and cellulose nanofiber composite films with alternating multilayer structure for superior electromagnetic interference shielding performance

With the development of modern electronics,especially the next generation of wearable electromagnetic interference(EMI)shielding materials requires flexibility,ultrathin,lightweight and robustness to protect electronic devices from radiation pollution.In this work,the flexible and ultrathin dopamine modified MXene@cellulose nanofiber(DM@CNF)composite films with alternate multilayer structure have been developed by a facile vacuum filtration induced self-assembly approach.The multilayered DM@CNF composite films exhibit improved mechanical properties compared with the homogeneous DM/CNF film.By adjusting the layer number,the multilayered DM3@CNF2 composite film exhibits a tensile strength of 48.14 MPa and a toughness of 5.28 MJ·m^(–3) with a thickness about 19μm.Interestingly that,the DM@CNF film with annealing treatment achieves significant improvement in conductivity(up to 17264 S·m^(–1))and EMI properties(SE of 41.90 dB and SSE/t of 10169 dB·cm^(2)·g–1),which still maintains relatively high mechanical properties.It is highlighted that the ultrathin multilayered DM@CNF film exhibits superior EMI shielding performance compared with most of the metal-based,carbon-based and MXene-based shielding materials reported in the literature.These results will offer an appealing strategy to develop the ultrathin and flexible MXene-based materials with excellent EMI shielding performance for the next generation intelligent protection devices.

Preparation of High Performance Non-dispersible Concrete

A new-type underwater non-dispersible concrete admixture NDA was prepared,its function mechanism was analyzed,and C40 high performance non-dispersible underwater concrete was manufactured by applying NDA.The results indicate that NDA has a suitable workability,low strength loss,and excellent anti-dispersion;the fresh non-dispersible underwater concrete with NDA has high anti-dispersion,excellent workability such as self-compacting and not bleeding;hardened non-dispersible underwater concrete with NDA has a high strength,high durability such as high anti-abrasion,impermeability and anticorrosion.

Heterogeneous performance analysis of the new model of CFAR detectors for partially-correlated χ~2-targets

To mitigate the deleterious effects of clutter and jammer, modern radars have adopted adaptive processing techniques such as constant false alarm rate(CFAR) detectors which are widely used to prevent clutter and noise interference from saturating the radar’s display and preventing targets from being obscured.This paper concerns with the detection analysis of the novel version of CFAR schemes(cell-averaging generalized trimmed-mean,CATM) in the presence of additional outlying targets other than the target under research. The spurious targets as well as the tested one are assumed to be fluctuating in accordance with the χ~2-model with two-degrees of freedom. In this situation, the processor performance is enclosed by the swerling models(SWI and SWII). Between these bounds, there is an important class of target fluctuation which is known as moderately fluctuating targets. The detection of this class has many practical applications. Structure of the CATM detector is described briefly. Detection performances for optimal, CAM, CA, trimmed-mean(TM) and ordered-statistic(OS) CFAR strategies have been analyzed and compared for desired probability of false alarm and determined size of the reference window. False alarm rate performance of these processors has been evaluated for different strengths of interfering signal and the effect of correlation among the target returns on the detection and false alarm performances has also been studied. Our numerical results show that, with a proper choice of trimming parameters,the novel model CAM presents an ideal detection performance outweighing that of the Neyman-Pearson detector on condition that the tested target obeys the SWII model in its fluctuation. Although the new models CAS and CAM can be treated as special cases of the CATM algorithm, their multi-target performance is modest even it has an enhancement relative to that of the classical CAcheme. Additionally, they fail to maintain the false alarm rate constant when the operating environment is of type target multiplicity. Moreover, the non-coherent integration of M pulses ameliorates the processor performance either it operates in homogeneous or multi-target environment.

Error Outage Probabilities of Dual-Hop Relay Channels in a Poisson Interference Field

In the promising cooperative communication systems,network performance is mainly affected by interference instead of noise.In this paper,we consider the performance degraded by the Poisson filed interference in the dual-hop relay channels.We focus on the discussions of error outage probability (EOP) performance with a selective-decode-and-forward (SDF),amplify-and-forward (AF),or fixed-decode-and-forward (DF) cooperation protocol.Finally,the simulation results present the performance with different cooperation protocols with interference in a Poisson field.

Lubricating Performance of Rapeseed Oil Under Electromagnetic Field

Considering electromagnetic effect when investigating tribological properties of rapeseed oil is benefical not only to the improvement of green lubrication, but also to the development of tribology theories and practices. In the present paper, the tribological properties of rapeseed oil under different intensity of electromagnetic field and normal loads were evaluated on a modified tribo-tester. The results indicated that the electromagnetic field could improve the anti-wear and friction-reducing property of the rapeseed oil. Furthermore, the influencing mechanisms were discussed from the perspective of electromagnetism according to the analytical results of SEM, EDS and XPS techniques.

Reproductive and Growth Performance of Rabbit Fed Different Inclusion Levels of African Yam Bean (<i>Sphenostylis stenocarpa</i>)

A feeding trial was conducted to determine the effect of dietary inclusion of Processed African Yam Bean (AYB) at 0%, 10%, 20% and 30% levels respectively, on the growth and reproductive performance of Rabbits. The AYB inclusion was to ascertain the best (%) level that would give better performance in rabbits. Complete randomized design was used to allot twenty (20) grower rabbits of both sexes into four treatments in three replicate with each group having three does and two bucks. Each of the treatment diets formulated at different growth stages was fed to the rabbits. The rabbits were kept in hutches inside the rabbit house and given feed and water ad libitum. Growth and reproductive parameters were measured. The proximate analysis and anti-nutritional factor of processed AYB showed that it contained values of 26.88%, 92.97%, 5.26%, 61.89%, 7.04%, 3.79% and 2.17% for Crude protein, Dry matter, Crude fibre, Nitrogen-free extract, Moisture content, Ash content and Ether extract respectively while the anti-nutritional factor contained 0.11%, 14.02 mg/g, 0.19 mg/g, 0.21 mg/g, 0.14 mg/g, 0.21 mg/g, 0.13 mg/g and 0.01 mg/g of Tannin, Alkaloid, Oxalate, Phytate, Saponin, Flavonoids, Trypsin inhibitor and Lectin. From this study, the rabbit group on 10% AYB inclusion significantly (p 0.05) affected by the diets. The results of this experiment concluded that AYB can be included in the diet of rabbits with 10% inclusion giving a better reproductive performance and growth rate without any negative effect.

Inhibition of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1a Non-Structural Proteins by Small Interference RNA in Human Hepatoma Cell Lines

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and associated liver diseases are still challenging and represent a significant health care burden around the world. Although, the treatment strategies have been improved by the development of novel direct-acting antivirals, but such therapeutic options are still expensive and beyond the financial range of the most infected individuals in developing or even in resource replete countries. It demands an urgent need to search novel and improved alternate treatment strategies to treat the infection. The present study was aimed to develop an in vitro stable cell culture system, persistently expressing HCV genotype 1a non-structural genes and to characterize the inhibitory effects of synthetic siRNAs (short interference RNA) directed against the most conserved regions of nonstructural genes in an in vitro cell culture model. The continuous expression of nonstructural genes for more than 30 days post transfection was detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Western blot analysis in stable human hepatoma cell line (Huh-7). The gene expression studies revealed significantly reduced gene expression of HCV nonstructural genes (i.e., NS2, NS4A and NS5A) both at mRNA and protein levels when treated against genome specific synthetic siRNAs in stable cell lines (51%, 47% and 54% respectively, p < 0.05). Similarly, a vivid decrease in HCV viral titer was exhibited by synthetic siRNAs in an in vitro viral replicate cell culture model (58%, 48% and 50%, respectively, p < 0.05) determined by quantitative Real-Time PCR (qPCR). Our data indicate that siRNA mediated gene silencing may be considered a promising alternate treatment strategy against HCV in combination with other effective therapeutic regimens in future.