Intelligent transportation system (ITS) is proposed as the most effective way to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. However, the future of ITS for large scale transportation infrastructures deployment highl...Intelligent transportation system (ITS) is proposed as the most effective way to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. However, the future of ITS for large scale transportation infrastructures deployment highly depends on the security level of vehicular communication systems (VCS). Security applications in VCS are fulfilled through secured group broadcast. Therefore, secure key management schemes are considered as a critical research topic for network security. In this paper, we propose a framework for providing secure key management within heterogeneous network. The seeurity managers (SMs) play a key role in the framework by retrieving the vehicle departnre infi^rmation, encapsulating block to transport keys and then executing rekeying to vehicles within the same security domain. The first part of this framework is a novel Group Key Management (GKM) scheme basing on leaving probability (LP) of vehicles to depart current VCS region. Vehicle's LP factor is introduced into GKM scheme to achieve a more effieient rekeying scheme and less rekeying costs. The second component of the framework using the blockchain concept to simplify the distributed key management in heterogeneous VCS domains. Extensive simulations and analysis are provided to show the effectiveness and effieiency of the proposed framework: Our GKM results demonstrate that probability-based BR reduees rekeying eost compared to the benchmark scheme, while the blockchain deereases the time eost of key transmission over heterogeneous net-works.展开更多
Fifth-generation(5G)cellular networks offer high transmission rates in dense urban environments.However,a massive deployment of small cells will be required to provide wide-area coverage,which leads to an increase in ...Fifth-generation(5G)cellular networks offer high transmission rates in dense urban environments.However,a massive deployment of small cells will be required to provide wide-area coverage,which leads to an increase in the number of handovers(HOs).Mobility management is an important issue that requires considerable attention in heterogeneous networks,where 5G ultra-dense small cells coexist with current fourth-generation(4G)networks.Although mobility robustness optimization(MRO)and load balancing optimization(LBO)functions have been introduced in the 3GPP standard to address HO problems,non-robust and nonoptimal algorithms for selecting appropriate HO control parameters(HCPs)still exist,and an optimal solution is subjected to compromise between LBO and MRO functions.Thus,HO decision algorithms become inefficient.This paper proposes a conflict resolution technique to address the contradiction between MRO and LBO functions.The proposed technique exploits received signal reference power(RSRP),cell load and user speed to adapt HO margin(HM)and time to trigger(TTT).Estimated HM and TTT depend on a weighting function and HO type which is represented by user status during mobility.The proposed technique is validated with other existing algorithms from the literature.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed technique outperforms existing algorithms overall performance metrics.The proposed technique reduces the overall average HO ping-pong probability,HO failure rate and interruption time by more than 90%,46%and 58%,respectively,compared with the other schemes overall speed scenarios and simulation time.展开更多
In mobile cloud computing(MCC) systems,both the mobile access network and the cloud computing network are heterogeneous,implying the diverse configurations of hardware,software,architecture,resource,etc.In such hetero...In mobile cloud computing(MCC) systems,both the mobile access network and the cloud computing network are heterogeneous,implying the diverse configurations of hardware,software,architecture,resource,etc.In such heterogeneous mobile cloud(HMC) networks,both radio and cloud resources could become the system bottleneck,thus designing the schemes that separately and independently manage the resources may severely hinder the system performance.In this paper,we aim to design the network as the integration of the mobile access part and the cloud computing part,utilizing the inherent heterogeneity to meet the diverse quality of service(QoS)requirements of tenants.Furthermore,we propose a novel cross-network radio and cloud resource management scheme for HMC networks,which is QoS-aware,with the objective of maximizing the tenant revenue while satisfying the QoS requirements.The proposed scheme is formulated as a restless bandits problem,whose "indexability" feature guarantees the low complexity with scalable and distributed characteristics.Extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the significant performance improvement of the proposed scheme compared to the existing ones.展开更多
Now the top management team and managerial discretion play an important role in driving the firms’development.This paper built a theoretical model to explore the effect of top management team heterogeneity on firm pe...Now the top management team and managerial discretion play an important role in driving the firms’development.This paper built a theoretical model to explore the effect of top management team heterogeneity on firm performance,and analyze the moderating role of managerial discretion.Based on the data of 167 listed firms from Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2019,this paper constructs a multiple regression model and tested the hypothesis.The empirical results show that gender heterogeneity,tenure heterogeneity and education level heterogeneity have a negative effect on firms performance.At the same time managerial discretion can partially moderates the relationship between the heterogeneity of top management team and firm performance,in which capital intensity and the firm size play a negative moderating role,and duality play a positive moderating role.According to the research results,this paper also puts forward corresponding suggestions to improve the firm performance.展开更多
The traffic with tidal phenomenon in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks(HWNs)has radically increased the complexity of radio resource management and its performance analysis.In this paper,a Simplified Dynamic Hierarchy R...The traffic with tidal phenomenon in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks(HWNs)has radically increased the complexity of radio resource management and its performance analysis.In this paper,a Simplified Dynamic Hierarchy Resource Management(SDHRM)algorithm exploiting the resources dynamically and intelligently is proposed with the consideration of tidal traffic.In network-level resource allocation,the proposed algorithm first adopts wavelet neural network to forecast the traffic of each sub-area and then allocates the resources to those sub-areas to maximise the network utility.In connection-level network selection,based on the above resource allocation and the pre-defined QoS requirement,three typical network selection policies are provided to assign traffic flow to the most appropriate network.Furthermore,based on multidimensional Markov model,we analyse the performance of SDHRM in HWNs with heavy tailed traffic.Numerical results show that our theoretical values coincide with the simulation results and the SDHRM can improve the resource utilization.展开更多
Two-tier heterogeneous networks(HetNets),where the current cellular networks,i.e.,macrocells,are overlapped with a large number of randomly distributed femtocells,can potentially bring significant benefits to spectral...Two-tier heterogeneous networks(HetNets),where the current cellular networks,i.e.,macrocells,are overlapped with a large number of randomly distributed femtocells,can potentially bring significant benefits to spectral utilization and system capacity.The interference management and access control for open and closed femtocells in two-tier HetNets were focused.The contributions consist of two parts.Firstly,in order to reduce the uplink interference caused by MUEs(macrocell user equipments) at closed femtocells,an incentive mechanism to implement interference mitigation was proposed.It encourages femtocells that work with closed-subscriber-group(CSG) to allow the interfering MUEs access in but only via uplink,which can reduce the interference significantly and also benefit the marco-tier.The interference issue was then studied in open-subscriber-group(OSG) femtocells from the perspective of handover and mobility prediction.Inbound handover provides an alternative solution for open femtocells when interference turns up,while this accompanies with PCI(physical cell identity) confusion during inbound handover.To reduce the PCI confusion,a dynamic PCI allocation scheme was proposed,by which the high handin femtocells have the dedicated PCI while the others share the reuse PCIs.A Markov chain based mobility prediction algorithm was designed to decide whether the femtocell status is with high handover requests.Numerical analysis reveals that the UL interference is managed well for the CSG femtocell and the PCI confusion issue is mitigated greatly in OSG femtocell compared to the conventional approaches.展开更多
Heterogeneous wireless sensor network( HWSN) is composed of different functional nodes and is widely applied. With the deployment in hostile environment,the secure problem of HWSN is of great importance; moreover,it b...Heterogeneous wireless sensor network( HWSN) is composed of different functional nodes and is widely applied. With the deployment in hostile environment,the secure problem of HWSN is of great importance; moreover,it becomes complex due to the mutual characteristics of sensor nodes in HWSN. In order to enhance the network security,an asymmetric key pre-distributed management scheme for HWSN is proposed combining with authentication process to further ensure the network security; meanwhile,an effective authentication method for newly added nodes is presented. Simulation result indicates that the proposed scheme can improve the network security while reducing the storage space requirement efficiently.展开更多
Dual connectivity(DC)is regarded as a promising technology to increase users’throughput,provide radio link robustness,and improve load-balancing among base stations(BSs).However,since the introduction of DC makes the...Dual connectivity(DC)is regarded as a promising technology to increase users’throughput,provide radio link robustness,and improve load-balancing among base stations(BSs).However,since the introduction of DC makes the mobility of network more complex and diversified,especially the mobility management of heterogeneous networks(HetNets)based on DC faces great challenges.Taking event-A3-based measurement report as the trigger condition for handover(HO),this paper compares and evaluates the influences of HO of master nodes(MNs)and secondary nodes(SNs)on link reliability in different bearing modes.Particularly,hybrid automatic repeat request(HARQ),throughput,channel quality indicators(CQIs),and data packets queuing time are taken as link reliability analysis indicators.Besides,we study how DC utilizes the traffic split ratio between MNs and SNs to maximize the superiority of throughput.Simulation results show that DC can effectively reduce the impact of HO on the number of HARQ and increase the throughput of users.When the data traffic is tilted to the secondary nodes,the superiority of throughput is more obvious.展开更多
文摘Intelligent transportation system (ITS) is proposed as the most effective way to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. However, the future of ITS for large scale transportation infrastructures deployment highly depends on the security level of vehicular communication systems (VCS). Security applications in VCS are fulfilled through secured group broadcast. Therefore, secure key management schemes are considered as a critical research topic for network security. In this paper, we propose a framework for providing secure key management within heterogeneous network. The seeurity managers (SMs) play a key role in the framework by retrieving the vehicle departnre infi^rmation, encapsulating block to transport keys and then executing rekeying to vehicles within the same security domain. The first part of this framework is a novel Group Key Management (GKM) scheme basing on leaving probability (LP) of vehicles to depart current VCS region. Vehicle's LP factor is introduced into GKM scheme to achieve a more effieient rekeying scheme and less rekeying costs. The second component of the framework using the blockchain concept to simplify the distributed key management in heterogeneous VCS domains. Extensive simulations and analysis are provided to show the effectiveness and effieiency of the proposed framework: Our GKM results demonstrate that probability-based BR reduees rekeying eost compared to the benchmark scheme, while the blockchain deereases the time eost of key transmission over heterogeneous net-works.
基金The research leading to these results has received funding from The Research Council(TRC)of the Sultanate of Oman under the Block Funding Program with agreement no.TRC/BFP/ASU/01/2019,and it was also supported in part by the Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia(USIM),Malaysia.
文摘Fifth-generation(5G)cellular networks offer high transmission rates in dense urban environments.However,a massive deployment of small cells will be required to provide wide-area coverage,which leads to an increase in the number of handovers(HOs).Mobility management is an important issue that requires considerable attention in heterogeneous networks,where 5G ultra-dense small cells coexist with current fourth-generation(4G)networks.Although mobility robustness optimization(MRO)and load balancing optimization(LBO)functions have been introduced in the 3GPP standard to address HO problems,non-robust and nonoptimal algorithms for selecting appropriate HO control parameters(HCPs)still exist,and an optimal solution is subjected to compromise between LBO and MRO functions.Thus,HO decision algorithms become inefficient.This paper proposes a conflict resolution technique to address the contradiction between MRO and LBO functions.The proposed technique exploits received signal reference power(RSRP),cell load and user speed to adapt HO margin(HM)and time to trigger(TTT).Estimated HM and TTT depend on a weighting function and HO type which is represented by user status during mobility.The proposed technique is validated with other existing algorithms from the literature.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed technique outperforms existing algorithms overall performance metrics.The proposed technique reduces the overall average HO ping-pong probability,HO failure rate and interruption time by more than 90%,46%and 58%,respectively,compared with the other schemes overall speed scenarios and simulation time.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61101113,61372089 and 61201198 the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant 4132007,4132015 and 4132019 the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant 20111103120017
文摘In mobile cloud computing(MCC) systems,both the mobile access network and the cloud computing network are heterogeneous,implying the diverse configurations of hardware,software,architecture,resource,etc.In such heterogeneous mobile cloud(HMC) networks,both radio and cloud resources could become the system bottleneck,thus designing the schemes that separately and independently manage the resources may severely hinder the system performance.In this paper,we aim to design the network as the integration of the mobile access part and the cloud computing part,utilizing the inherent heterogeneity to meet the diverse quality of service(QoS)requirements of tenants.Furthermore,we propose a novel cross-network radio and cloud resource management scheme for HMC networks,which is QoS-aware,with the objective of maximizing the tenant revenue while satisfying the QoS requirements.The proposed scheme is formulated as a restless bandits problem,whose "indexability" feature guarantees the low complexity with scalable and distributed characteristics.Extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the significant performance improvement of the proposed scheme compared to the existing ones.
基金This work was supported by MOE(Ministry of Education in China)Project of Humanities and Social Sciences(No.20YJC630022)Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation(No.ZR2017MG033)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.HIT.HSS.201875).
文摘Now the top management team and managerial discretion play an important role in driving the firms’development.This paper built a theoretical model to explore the effect of top management team heterogeneity on firm performance,and analyze the moderating role of managerial discretion.Based on the data of 167 listed firms from Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2019,this paper constructs a multiple regression model and tested the hypothesis.The empirical results show that gender heterogeneity,tenure heterogeneity and education level heterogeneity have a negative effect on firms performance.At the same time managerial discretion can partially moderates the relationship between the heterogeneity of top management team and firm performance,in which capital intensity and the firm size play a negative moderating role,and duality play a positive moderating role.According to the research results,this paper also puts forward corresponding suggestions to improve the firm performance.
基金ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work was supported by the National Na- tural Science Foundation of China under Gra- nts No. 61172079, 61231008, No. 61201141, No. 61301176 the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under Grant No. 2009CB320404+2 种基金 the 111 Project under Gr- ant No. B08038 the National Science and Tec- hnology Major Project under Grant No. 2012- ZX03002009-003, No. 2012ZX03004002-003 and the Shaanxi Province Science and Techno- logy Research and Development Program un- der Grant No. 2011KJXX-40.
文摘The traffic with tidal phenomenon in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks(HWNs)has radically increased the complexity of radio resource management and its performance analysis.In this paper,a Simplified Dynamic Hierarchy Resource Management(SDHRM)algorithm exploiting the resources dynamically and intelligently is proposed with the consideration of tidal traffic.In network-level resource allocation,the proposed algorithm first adopts wavelet neural network to forecast the traffic of each sub-area and then allocates the resources to those sub-areas to maximise the network utility.In connection-level network selection,based on the above resource allocation and the pre-defined QoS requirement,three typical network selection policies are provided to assign traffic flow to the most appropriate network.Furthermore,based on multidimensional Markov model,we analyse the performance of SDHRM in HWNs with heavy tailed traffic.Numerical results show that our theoretical values coincide with the simulation results and the SDHRM can improve the resource utilization.
基金Project(2012AA01A301-01)supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of ChinaProjects(61301148,61272061)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China+3 种基金Projects(20120161120019,2013016111002)supported by the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of ChinaProjects(14JJ7023,10JJ5069)supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,ChinaProject(ISN12-05)supported by State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks Open Foundation,ChinaProject(531107040276)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China
文摘Two-tier heterogeneous networks(HetNets),where the current cellular networks,i.e.,macrocells,are overlapped with a large number of randomly distributed femtocells,can potentially bring significant benefits to spectral utilization and system capacity.The interference management and access control for open and closed femtocells in two-tier HetNets were focused.The contributions consist of two parts.Firstly,in order to reduce the uplink interference caused by MUEs(macrocell user equipments) at closed femtocells,an incentive mechanism to implement interference mitigation was proposed.It encourages femtocells that work with closed-subscriber-group(CSG) to allow the interfering MUEs access in but only via uplink,which can reduce the interference significantly and also benefit the marco-tier.The interference issue was then studied in open-subscriber-group(OSG) femtocells from the perspective of handover and mobility prediction.Inbound handover provides an alternative solution for open femtocells when interference turns up,while this accompanies with PCI(physical cell identity) confusion during inbound handover.To reduce the PCI confusion,a dynamic PCI allocation scheme was proposed,by which the high handin femtocells have the dedicated PCI while the others share the reuse PCIs.A Markov chain based mobility prediction algorithm was designed to decide whether the femtocell status is with high handover requests.Numerical analysis reveals that the UL interference is managed well for the CSG femtocell and the PCI confusion issue is mitigated greatly in OSG femtocell compared to the conventional approaches.
基金Support by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2012AA120802)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61771186)+2 种基金Postdoctoral Research Project of Heilongjiang Province(No.LBH-Q15121)University Nursing Program for Young Scholars with Creative Talents in Heilongjiang Province(No.UNPYSCT-2017125)Postgraduate Innovation Research Project of Heilongjiang University(No.YJSCX2018-051HLJU)
文摘Heterogeneous wireless sensor network( HWSN) is composed of different functional nodes and is widely applied. With the deployment in hostile environment,the secure problem of HWSN is of great importance; moreover,it becomes complex due to the mutual characteristics of sensor nodes in HWSN. In order to enhance the network security,an asymmetric key pre-distributed management scheme for HWSN is proposed combining with authentication process to further ensure the network security; meanwhile,an effective authentication method for newly added nodes is presented. Simulation result indicates that the proposed scheme can improve the network security while reducing the storage space requirement efficiently.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62161035 and 61861034)Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation(No.2022MS06022)。
文摘Dual connectivity(DC)is regarded as a promising technology to increase users’throughput,provide radio link robustness,and improve load-balancing among base stations(BSs).However,since the introduction of DC makes the mobility of network more complex and diversified,especially the mobility management of heterogeneous networks(HetNets)based on DC faces great challenges.Taking event-A3-based measurement report as the trigger condition for handover(HO),this paper compares and evaluates the influences of HO of master nodes(MNs)and secondary nodes(SNs)on link reliability in different bearing modes.Particularly,hybrid automatic repeat request(HARQ),throughput,channel quality indicators(CQIs),and data packets queuing time are taken as link reliability analysis indicators.Besides,we study how DC utilizes the traffic split ratio between MNs and SNs to maximize the superiority of throughput.Simulation results show that DC can effectively reduce the impact of HO on the number of HARQ and increase the throughput of users.When the data traffic is tilted to the secondary nodes,the superiority of throughput is more obvious.