Architecture of Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing Standard

The Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing (IGRS) standard is set to enable intelligent grouping, resource sharing and services collaboration among information devices. An IGRS system adopts open architecture, that is, the devices abide by the IGRS standard are interoperable with devices following other standards such as Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). The IGRS supports multiple application frameworks and special applications. Developers can use an IGRS media application framework with various media format standards, such as AVS and MPEG-2, to develop multimedia applications. Applied among computers, consumer electronics, and communication devices, the IGRS standard can realize resource sharing and services collaboration in a certain range of wired or wireless network domain.

KEY OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN JPEG-LS IP CORE DESIGN

This paper presents the key optimization techniques for an efficient accelerator implementation in an image encoder IP core design for real-time Joint Photographic Experts Group Lossless(JPEG-LS) encoding.Pipeline architecture and accelerator elements have been utilized to enhance the throughput capability.Improved parameters mapping schemes and resource sharing have been adopted for the purpose of low complexity and small chip die area.Module-level and fine-grained gating measures have been used to achieve a low-power implementation.It has been proved that these hardware-oriented optimization techniques make the encoder meet the requirements of the IP core implementation.The proposed optimization techniques have been verified in the implementation of the JPEG-LS encoder IP,and then validated in a real wireless endoscope system.

A P2P Reference Model

P2P is a complex system.Many researches on P2P architecture have been done.These researches have provided valuable references for the standardization of P2P technology.However,the standardization can not be achieved because there are still some problems in existing studies.This paper proposes a 5-layer reference model which clearly defines the functionalities of each layer,and distinctly describes the interface and the relationship between layers.This model is able to clearly show the internal structure of P2P system and the working process of data flow in P2P system.Validation shows that this model is general and rational.

The U.S. Men＇s Shaving Cream Market： A Competitive Profile

Porter identifies high market share with cost leadership strategy which is based on the idea of competing on a price lower than that of the competition. However, in most consumer markets a business should serve the middle class by competing in the mid-price segment, offering quality better than that of the competition at a somewhat higher price. It is this path that can lead to market share leadership： a strategy that can be both profitable and sustainable. The U.S. men＇s shaving cream market consists of two major product-market segments： gel and foam. We test the hypothesis that the best-selling brand is very likely to be a member of the mid-price segment with a price tag that is higher than that of the nearest competition. This study is based on annual U.S. sales data for 2008 and 2007 from discount retail stores, food stores, and drug stores. We performed two separate analyses for 2008 and 2007, using cluster analysis as the main analytic tool. The results were remarkably consistent between the two years. In the gel segment--by far the most important--the price-quality segmentation analysis supported our hypothesis. An interesting finding is that, for both the gel and foam segments, we found the rank order correlation of brand unit price between 2007 and 2008 as highly significant. This means that in this market management considers the price of a brand as a strategic rather than a tactical variable. Although, technically the results for the foam segment were negative, this does not necessarily contradict our hypothesis. Finally, we discovered six strategic groups in the industry and have tried to articulate what their competitive strategy is.

New SRLG-diverse path selection algorithm in survivable GMPLS networks

In conventional shared risk link group （SRLG）-diverse path selection （CSPS） algorithm in survivable GMPLS networks, SRLG is taken into account when selecting the backup paths, while the primary path selection method is the sarne as the algorithms without SRLG constraint. A problem of CSPS algorithm is that, after a primary path is selected, the success probability to select an SRLG-diverse backup path for it is low. If SRLG is taken into account when computing the primary path, then the probability to successfully select an SRLG-diverse backup path will be much increased. Based on this idea, an active SRLG-diverse path selection （ASPS） algorithm is proposed. To actively avoid selecting those SRLG links, when computing the primary path, a link that share risk with more links is assigned a larger link cost. To improve the resource utilization ratio, it is permitted that the bandwidth resources are shared among backup paths. What is more, differentiated reliability （DiR） requirements of different customers are considered in ASPS algorithm. The simulation results show that, compared with CSPS algorithm, ASPS algorithm not only increases successful protection probability but also improves resource utilization ratio.