Opportunities exist for using Mauritius as a platform for investing in Africa. Not only [has] the quantity of Chinese foreign direct investment into Africa increased, but also the quality.
This paper presents a novel algorithm for the gateway placement problem in Backbone Wireless Mesh Networks (BWMNs). Different from existing algorithms, the new algorithm incrementally identifies gateways and assigns m...This paper presents a novel algorithm for the gateway placement problem in Backbone Wireless Mesh Networks (BWMNs). Different from existing algorithms, the new algorithm incrementally identifies gateways and assigns mesh routers to identified gateways. The new algorithm can guarantee to find a feasible gateway placement satisfying Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints, including delay constraint, relay load constraint and gateway capacity constraint. Experimental results show that its performance is as good as that of the best of existing algorithms for the gateway placement problem. But, the new algorithm can be used for BWMNs that do not form one connected component, and it is easy to implement and use.展开更多
The umbrella term"neurodege ne rative disorders"(NDDs) refers to several conditions characterized by a progressive loss of structure and function of cells belonging to the nervous system.Such diseases affect...The umbrella term"neurodege ne rative disorders"(NDDs) refers to several conditions characterized by a progressive loss of structure and function of cells belonging to the nervous system.Such diseases affect more than 50million people worldwide.Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by sundry factors and pathophysiological mechanisms that a re challenging to be fully profiled.Many of these rely on cell signaling pathways to preserve homeostasis,involving second messengers such as cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)and cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate(cGMP).Their ability to control the duration and amplitude of the signaling cascade is given by the presence of several common and uncommon effectors.Protein kinases A and G (PKA and PKG),phosphodiesterases (PDEs),and scaffold proteins are among them.展开更多
Through a variety of folk customs and festivals,Guangxi makes full use of the national Intangible Cultural Heritage(ICH)to develop local folk tourism.Bordered by the Beibu Gulf in the south and the Southwest in the we...Through a variety of folk customs and festivals,Guangxi makes full use of the national Intangible Cultural Heritage(ICH)to develop local folk tourism.Bordered by the Beibu Gulf in the south and the Southwest in the west,Guangxi is an important gateway for China's opening up to the outside world.As the only ethnic minority autonomous region with advantages along the coast,along the river and along the border.展开更多
This ancient city has a history going back over 2,000 years.It has witnessed the fusion of multiple ethnic cultures including the Miao,Dong,and Han,and hosts a number of cultural heritage sites.THE old town of Zhenyua...This ancient city has a history going back over 2,000 years.It has witnessed the fusion of multiple ethnic cultures including the Miao,Dong,and Han,and hosts a number of cultural heritage sites.THE old town of Zhenyuan is located in Zhenyuan County,Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.Covering an area of just around three square kilometers,it sits on the banks of the Wuyang River and is surrounded by mountains.Zhenyuan has been a county for more than 2,281 years and was the prefectural capital during the Yuan(1271-1368)and Qing(1644-1911)dynasties.It is a multicultural region,with Miao,Dong,and other ethnic minorities making up nearly half of the population.展开更多
Long Range Wide Area Network(LoRaWAN)has been developed to meet the requirements for the enormous device-to-device communication of Inter-net of Things(IoT)networks,which consist of a large number of participating dev...Long Range Wide Area Network(LoRaWAN)has been developed to meet the requirements for the enormous device-to-device communication of Inter-net of Things(IoT)networks,which consist of a large number of participating devices spread over large coverage areas with low data rates and low power con-sumption.It supports communications in both directions,uplink,and downlink directions.However,the downlink communication in the current LoRaWAN raises the bottleneck issue at gateways due to the used gateway selection algo-rithm.This paper proposes a novel gateway selection algorithm based on the duty cycle time-off values for the existing gateways,Duty Cycle Gateway Selection(DCGS),to direct acknowledgment packets as downlink traffic towards the most suitable gateway.Thus,the proposed system avoids subsequent retransmission of previously sent traffic that leads to excessive traffic overloading the network.The proposed system avoids exhausting a gateway duty cycle with downlink traffic by distributing the downlink traffic among available gateways based on the duty cycle time off.DCGS is evaluated using FloRa and INET frameworks in the well-known network simulator OMNeT++.The result shows the superior perfor-mance of the proposed approach over the existing Signal-to-Noise ratio(SNR)based selection mechanism.It clearly indicates that the DCGS maintains a better confirmed packet delivery rate while reducing number of retransmissions,colli-sions,and power consumption.展开更多
The Internet of Things(IoT)inspires industries to deploy a massive number of connected devices to provide smart and ubiquitous services to influence our daily life.Edge computing leverages sufficient computation and s...The Internet of Things(IoT)inspires industries to deploy a massive number of connected devices to provide smart and ubiquitous services to influence our daily life.Edge computing leverages sufficient computation and storage at the edge of the network to enable deploying complex functions closer to the environment using Internet-connected devices.According to the purpose of the environment including privacy level,domain functionality,network scale and service quality,various environment-specific services can be provided through heterogeneous applications with sensors and actuators based on edge computing.However,for providing user-friendly service scenarios based on the transparent access to heterogeneous devices in edge computing,a consistent interface shall be provided to deliver services from edge computing to clients.In this paper,we propose transparent computing based on virtual resources to access heterogeneous IoT devices without considering the underlying network configuration at the edge of the networks.For supporting transparent access to different edge computing environments through a consistent interface,the virtual resource of edge gateway is proposed to bridge the Internet and devices which are deployed on the edge of the network.The proposed edge gateway exposes the services of the Internet of Things devices to the Internet using virtual resources that represent the resources of physical devices.The virtual resources provide a consistent interface to enable clients to access devices in edge computing without considering underlying protocols.The virtual resource is generated by the resource directory in the edge gateway through the registration of a device.Based on the device registration,the device information is stored in the gateway to link virtual resources and devices for translating messages according to the destination protocols and identifying physical devices that are represented by virtual resources.Moreover,through collaboration with the service provider,the function of device discovery and monitoring is provided to clients.展开更多
In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks(MANET),Quality of Service(QoS)is an important factor that must be analysed for the showing the better performance.The Node Quality-based Clustering Algorithm using Fuzzy-Fruit Fly Optimiza-ti...In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks(MANET),Quality of Service(QoS)is an important factor that must be analysed for the showing the better performance.The Node Quality-based Clustering Algorithm using Fuzzy-Fruit Fly Optimiza-tion for Cluster Head and Gateway Selection(NQCAFFFOCHGS)has the best network performance because it uses the Improved Weighted Clustering Algo-rithm(IWCA)to cluster the network and the FFO algorithm,which uses fuzzy-based network metrics to select the best CH and entryway.However,the major drawback of the fuzzy system was to appropriately select the membership func-tions.Also,the network metrics related to the path or link connectivity were not considered to effectively choose the CH and gateway.When learning fuzzy sets,this algorithm employs a new Continuous Action-set Learning Automata(CALA)approach that correctly modifies and chooses the fuzzy membership functions.Despite the fact that it extends the network’s lifespan,it does not assist in the detection of defective nodes in the routing route.Because of this,a new Fault Tolerance(NQCAEFFFOCHGS-FT)mechanism based on the Distributed Connectivity Restoration(DCR)mechanism is proposed,which allows the net-work to self-heal as a consequence of the algorithm’s self-healing capacity.Because of the way this method is designed,node failures may be utilised to rebuild the network topology via the use of cascaded node moves.Founded on the fractional network information and topologic overhead related with each node,the DCR is suggested as an alternative to the DCR.When compared to the NQCAFFFOCHGS algorithm,the recreation results display that the proposed NQCAEFFFOCHGS-FT algorithm improves network performance in terms of end-to-end delay,energy consumption,Packet Loss Ratio(PLR),Normalized Routing Overhead(NRO),and Balanced Load Index(BLI).展开更多
Nowadays,wireless sensor networks play a vital role in our day to day life.Wireless communication is preferred for many sensing applications due its convenience,flexibility and effectiveness.The sensors to sense the en...Nowadays,wireless sensor networks play a vital role in our day to day life.Wireless communication is preferred for many sensing applications due its convenience,flexibility and effectiveness.The sensors to sense the environmental factor are versatile and send sensed data to central station wirelessly.The cluster based protocols are provided an optimal solution for enhancing the lifetime of the sensor networks.In this paper,modified K-means++algorithm is used to form the cluster and cluster head in an efficient way and the Advanced Energy-Efficient Cluster head selection Algorithm(AEECA)is used to calculate the weighted fac-tor of the transmission path and effective data collection using gateway node.The experimental results show the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing routing algorithms.展开更多
Throughout the use of the small battery-operated sensor nodes encou-rage us to develop an energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks(WSNs).The development of an energy-efficient routing protocol is...Throughout the use of the small battery-operated sensor nodes encou-rage us to develop an energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks(WSNs).The development of an energy-efficient routing protocol is a mainly adopted technique to enhance the lifetime of WSN.Many routing protocols are available,but the issue is still alive.Clustering is one of the most important techniques in the existing routing protocols.In the clustering-based model,the important thing is the selection of the cluster heads.In this paper,we have proposed a scheme that uses the bubble sort algorithm for cluster head selection by considering the remaining energy and the distance of the nodes in each cluster.Initially,the bubble sort algorithm chose the two nodes with the maximum remaining energy in the cluster and chose a cluster head with a small distance.The proposed scheme performs hierarchal routing and direct routing with some energy thresholds.The simulation will be performed in MATLAB to justify its performance and results and compared with the ECHERP model to justify its performance.Moreover,the simulations will be performed in two scenarios,gate-way-based and without gateway to achieve more energy-efficient results.展开更多
At the 6th EU–AU Summit in February 2022,the European Exter nal Action Ser vice an nounced the EU–Africa: Global Gateway Investment Package, speeding up the implementation of the Global Gateway strategy in Africa. T...At the 6th EU–AU Summit in February 2022,the European Exter nal Action Ser vice an nounced the EU–Africa: Global Gateway Investment Package, speeding up the implementation of the Global Gateway strategy in Africa. The strategy seeks to counter the Belt and Road Initiative, consolidate Europe–Africa cooperation, repair Europe–Africa relations,and promote European values. However, advancing the Global Gateway strategy in Africa is constrained by geopolitical and value considerations, heavy historical burdens, unrealistic investment packages, and the uncertain sources of investment funds, thereby affecting African countries’ acceptance of the investment package.Therefore, advancing investment and cooperation in Africa based on the principle of noninterference in internal affairs and mutual benefit, rather than treating Africa as an arena for big power rivalries, will truly benefit, and be welcomed by, African countries.展开更多
A mong the eight major steps China announced at the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation,the cancelation of all restrictions on foreign investment a...A mong the eight major steps China announced at the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation,the cancelation of all restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector is the most striking measure,or at least one of the most eye-catching.展开更多
Improving urban gateway landscape environment helps establish positive images of a city, and helps newcomers form proper recognition of the city. Landscape design of the west gateway in Yulin City was taken for exampl...Improving urban gateway landscape environment helps establish positive images of a city, and helps newcomers form proper recognition of the city. Landscape design of the west gateway in Yulin City was taken for example, its natural ecological environment, historical and humanistic environment and modern man-made environment were investigated, and also macro elements analyzed, such as overall urban planning, historical and cultural background of the city, regional environment features. It was to build the west gateway of Yulin City into a landscape transition area for experiencing culture and history of the city, and appreciating characteristic images of this region, and to improve natural ecological conditions of the local area, realize the sustainable development of regional environment.展开更多
文摘Opportunities exist for using Mauritius as a platform for investing in Africa. Not only [has] the quantity of Chinese foreign direct investment into Africa increased, but also the quality.
文摘This paper presents a novel algorithm for the gateway placement problem in Backbone Wireless Mesh Networks (BWMNs). Different from existing algorithms, the new algorithm incrementally identifies gateways and assigns mesh routers to identified gateways. The new algorithm can guarantee to find a feasible gateway placement satisfying Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints, including delay constraint, relay load constraint and gateway capacity constraint. Experimental results show that its performance is as good as that of the best of existing algorithms for the gateway placement problem. But, the new algorithm can be used for BWMNs that do not form one connected component, and it is easy to implement and use.
文摘The umbrella term"neurodege ne rative disorders"(NDDs) refers to several conditions characterized by a progressive loss of structure and function of cells belonging to the nervous system.Such diseases affect more than 50million people worldwide.Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by sundry factors and pathophysiological mechanisms that a re challenging to be fully profiled.Many of these rely on cell signaling pathways to preserve homeostasis,involving second messengers such as cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)and cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate(cGMP).Their ability to control the duration and amplitude of the signaling cascade is given by the presence of several common and uncommon effectors.Protein kinases A and G (PKA and PKG),phosphodiesterases (PDEs),and scaffold proteins are among them.
文摘Through a variety of folk customs and festivals,Guangxi makes full use of the national Intangible Cultural Heritage(ICH)to develop local folk tourism.Bordered by the Beibu Gulf in the south and the Southwest in the west,Guangxi is an important gateway for China's opening up to the outside world.As the only ethnic minority autonomous region with advantages along the coast,along the river and along the border.
文摘This ancient city has a history going back over 2,000 years.It has witnessed the fusion of multiple ethnic cultures including the Miao,Dong,and Han,and hosts a number of cultural heritage sites.THE old town of Zhenyuan is located in Zhenyuan County,Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.Covering an area of just around three square kilometers,it sits on the banks of the Wuyang River and is surrounded by mountains.Zhenyuan has been a county for more than 2,281 years and was the prefectural capital during the Yuan(1271-1368)and Qing(1644-1911)dynasties.It is a multicultural region,with Miao,Dong,and other ethnic minorities making up nearly half of the population.
基金supporting this work by Grant Code:(22UQU4331076DSR01).
文摘Long Range Wide Area Network(LoRaWAN)has been developed to meet the requirements for the enormous device-to-device communication of Inter-net of Things(IoT)networks,which consist of a large number of participating devices spread over large coverage areas with low data rates and low power con-sumption.It supports communications in both directions,uplink,and downlink directions.However,the downlink communication in the current LoRaWAN raises the bottleneck issue at gateways due to the used gateway selection algo-rithm.This paper proposes a novel gateway selection algorithm based on the duty cycle time-off values for the existing gateways,Duty Cycle Gateway Selection(DCGS),to direct acknowledgment packets as downlink traffic towards the most suitable gateway.Thus,the proposed system avoids subsequent retransmission of previously sent traffic that leads to excessive traffic overloading the network.The proposed system avoids exhausting a gateway duty cycle with downlink traffic by distributing the downlink traffic among available gateways based on the duty cycle time off.DCGS is evaluated using FloRa and INET frameworks in the well-known network simulator OMNeT++.The result shows the superior perfor-mance of the proposed approach over the existing Signal-to-Noise ratio(SNR)based selection mechanism.It clearly indicates that the DCGS maintains a better confirmed packet delivery rate while reducing number of retransmissions,colli-sions,and power consumption.
基金This work was supported by the Institute of Information&communications Technology Planning&Evaluation(IITP)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(2020-0-00048,Development of 5G-IoT Trustworthy AI-Data Commons Framework).
文摘The Internet of Things(IoT)inspires industries to deploy a massive number of connected devices to provide smart and ubiquitous services to influence our daily life.Edge computing leverages sufficient computation and storage at the edge of the network to enable deploying complex functions closer to the environment using Internet-connected devices.According to the purpose of the environment including privacy level,domain functionality,network scale and service quality,various environment-specific services can be provided through heterogeneous applications with sensors and actuators based on edge computing.However,for providing user-friendly service scenarios based on the transparent access to heterogeneous devices in edge computing,a consistent interface shall be provided to deliver services from edge computing to clients.In this paper,we propose transparent computing based on virtual resources to access heterogeneous IoT devices without considering the underlying network configuration at the edge of the networks.For supporting transparent access to different edge computing environments through a consistent interface,the virtual resource of edge gateway is proposed to bridge the Internet and devices which are deployed on the edge of the network.The proposed edge gateway exposes the services of the Internet of Things devices to the Internet using virtual resources that represent the resources of physical devices.The virtual resources provide a consistent interface to enable clients to access devices in edge computing without considering underlying protocols.The virtual resource is generated by the resource directory in the edge gateway through the registration of a device.Based on the device registration,the device information is stored in the gateway to link virtual resources and devices for translating messages according to the destination protocols and identifying physical devices that are represented by virtual resources.Moreover,through collaboration with the service provider,the function of device discovery and monitoring is provided to clients.
文摘In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks(MANET),Quality of Service(QoS)is an important factor that must be analysed for the showing the better performance.The Node Quality-based Clustering Algorithm using Fuzzy-Fruit Fly Optimiza-tion for Cluster Head and Gateway Selection(NQCAFFFOCHGS)has the best network performance because it uses the Improved Weighted Clustering Algo-rithm(IWCA)to cluster the network and the FFO algorithm,which uses fuzzy-based network metrics to select the best CH and entryway.However,the major drawback of the fuzzy system was to appropriately select the membership func-tions.Also,the network metrics related to the path or link connectivity were not considered to effectively choose the CH and gateway.When learning fuzzy sets,this algorithm employs a new Continuous Action-set Learning Automata(CALA)approach that correctly modifies and chooses the fuzzy membership functions.Despite the fact that it extends the network’s lifespan,it does not assist in the detection of defective nodes in the routing route.Because of this,a new Fault Tolerance(NQCAEFFFOCHGS-FT)mechanism based on the Distributed Connectivity Restoration(DCR)mechanism is proposed,which allows the net-work to self-heal as a consequence of the algorithm’s self-healing capacity.Because of the way this method is designed,node failures may be utilised to rebuild the network topology via the use of cascaded node moves.Founded on the fractional network information and topologic overhead related with each node,the DCR is suggested as an alternative to the DCR.When compared to the NQCAFFFOCHGS algorithm,the recreation results display that the proposed NQCAEFFFOCHGS-FT algorithm improves network performance in terms of end-to-end delay,energy consumption,Packet Loss Ratio(PLR),Normalized Routing Overhead(NRO),and Balanced Load Index(BLI).
基金fund received from Department of Science and Technology,Govt.of India,grant no.DST/CERI/MI/SG/2017/080(AU)(G).
文摘Nowadays,wireless sensor networks play a vital role in our day to day life.Wireless communication is preferred for many sensing applications due its convenience,flexibility and effectiveness.The sensors to sense the environmental factor are versatile and send sensed data to central station wirelessly.The cluster based protocols are provided an optimal solution for enhancing the lifetime of the sensor networks.In this paper,modified K-means++algorithm is used to form the cluster and cluster head in an efficient way and the Advanced Energy-Efficient Cluster head selection Algorithm(AEECA)is used to calculate the weighted fac-tor of the transmission path and effective data collection using gateway node.The experimental results show the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing routing algorithms.
文摘Throughout the use of the small battery-operated sensor nodes encou-rage us to develop an energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks(WSNs).The development of an energy-efficient routing protocol is a mainly adopted technique to enhance the lifetime of WSN.Many routing protocols are available,but the issue is still alive.Clustering is one of the most important techniques in the existing routing protocols.In the clustering-based model,the important thing is the selection of the cluster heads.In this paper,we have proposed a scheme that uses the bubble sort algorithm for cluster head selection by considering the remaining energy and the distance of the nodes in each cluster.Initially,the bubble sort algorithm chose the two nodes with the maximum remaining energy in the cluster and chose a cluster head with a small distance.The proposed scheme performs hierarchal routing and direct routing with some energy thresholds.The simulation will be performed in MATLAB to justify its performance and results and compared with the ECHERP model to justify its performance.Moreover,the simulations will be performed in two scenarios,gate-way-based and without gateway to achieve more energy-efficient results.
文摘At the 6th EU–AU Summit in February 2022,the European Exter nal Action Ser vice an nounced the EU–Africa: Global Gateway Investment Package, speeding up the implementation of the Global Gateway strategy in Africa. The strategy seeks to counter the Belt and Road Initiative, consolidate Europe–Africa cooperation, repair Europe–Africa relations,and promote European values. However, advancing the Global Gateway strategy in Africa is constrained by geopolitical and value considerations, heavy historical burdens, unrealistic investment packages, and the uncertain sources of investment funds, thereby affecting African countries’ acceptance of the investment package.Therefore, advancing investment and cooperation in Africa based on the principle of noninterference in internal affairs and mutual benefit, rather than treating Africa as an arena for big power rivalries, will truly benefit, and be welcomed by, African countries.
文摘A mong the eight major steps China announced at the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation,the cancelation of all restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector is the most striking measure,or at least one of the most eye-catching.
文摘Improving urban gateway landscape environment helps establish positive images of a city, and helps newcomers form proper recognition of the city. Landscape design of the west gateway in Yulin City was taken for example, its natural ecological environment, historical and humanistic environment and modern man-made environment were investigated, and also macro elements analyzed, such as overall urban planning, historical and cultural background of the city, regional environment features. It was to build the west gateway of Yulin City into a landscape transition area for experiencing culture and history of the city, and appreciating characteristic images of this region, and to improve natural ecological conditions of the local area, realize the sustainable development of regional environment.
