Performance deterioration modeling and optimal preventive maintenance strategy under scheduled servicing subject to mission time

Servicing is applied periodically in practice with the aim of restoring the system state and prolonging the lifetime. It is generally seen as an imperfect maintenance action which has a chief influence on the maintenance strategy. In order to model the maintenance effect of servicing, this study analyzes the deterioration characteristics of system under scheduled servicing. And then the deterioration model is established from the failure mechanism by compound Poisson process. On the basis of the system damage value and failure mechanism, the failure rate refresh factor is proposed to describe the maintenance effect of servicing. A maintenance strategy is developed which combines the benefits of scheduled servicing and preventive maintenance. Then the optimization model is given to determine the optimal servicing period and preventive maintenance time, with an objective to minimize the system expected life-cycle cost per unit time and a constraint on system survival probability for the duration of mission time. Subject to mission time, it can control the ability of accomplishing the mission at any time so as to ensure the high dependability. An example of water pump rotor relating to scheduled servicing is introduced to illustrate the failure rate refresh factor and the proposed maintenance strategy. Compared with traditional methods, the numerical results show that the failure rate refresh factor can describe the maintenance effect of servicing more intuitively and objectively. It also demonstrates that this maintenance strategy can prolong the lifetime, reduce the total lifetime maintenance cost and guarantee the dependability of system.

Intelligent Identification over Power Big Data:Opportunities,Solutions,and Challenges

The emergence of power dispatching automation systems has greatly improved the efficiency of power industry operations and promoted the rapid development of the power industry.However,with the convergence and increase in power data flow,the data dispatching network and the main station dispatching automation system have encountered substantial pressure.Therefore,themethod of online data resolution and rapid problemidentification of dispatching automation systems has been widely investigated.In this paper,we performa comprehensive review of automated dispatching of massive dispatching data from the perspective of intelligent identification,discuss unresolved research issues and outline future directions in this area.In particular,we divide intelligent identification over power big data into data acquisition and storage processes,anomaly detection and fault discrimination processes,and fault tracing for dispatching operations during communication.A detailed survey of the solutions to the challenges in intelligent identification over power big data is then presented.Moreover,opportunities and future directions are outlined.

Service Scheduling Based on Edge Computing for Power Distribution IoT

With the growing amounts of multi-micro grids,electric vehicles,smart home,smart cities connected to the Power Distribution Internet of Things(PD-IoT)system,greater computing resource and communication bandwidth are required for power distribution.It probably leads to extreme service delay and data congestion when a large number of data and business occur in emergence.This paper presents a service scheduling method based on edge computing to balance the business load of PD-IoT.The architecture,components and functional requirements of the PD-IoT with edge computing platform are proposed.Then,the structure of the service scheduling system is presented.Further,a novel load balancing strategy and ant colony algorithm are investigated in the service scheduling method.The validity of the method is evaluated by simulation tests.Results indicate that the mean load balancing ratio is reduced by 99.16%and the optimized offloading links can be acquired within 1.8 iterations.Computing load of the nodes in edge computing platform can be effectively balanced through the service scheduling.

Bilateral Collaborative Optimization for Cloud Manufacturing Service

Manufacturing service composition of the supply side and scheduling of the demand side are two important components of Cloud Manufacturing,which directly affect the quality of Cloud Manufacturing services.However,the previous studies on the two components are carried out independently and thus ignoring the internal relations and mutual constraints.Considering the two components on both sides of the supply and the demand of Cloud Manufacturing services at the same time,a Bilateral Collaborative Optimization Model of Cloud Manufacturing(BCOM-CMfg)is constructed in this paper.In BCOM-CMfg,to solve the manufacturing service scheduling problem on the supply side,a new efficient manufacturing service scheduling strategy is proposed.Then,as the input of the service composition problem on the demand side,the scheduling strategy is used to build the BCOM-CMfg.Furthermore,the Cooperation Level(CPL)between services is added as an evaluation index in BCOM-CMfg,which reveals the importance of the relationship between services.To improve the quality of manufacturing services more comprehensively.Finally,a Self-adaptive Multi-objective Pigeon-inspired Optimization algorithm(S-MOPIO)is proposed to solve the BCOM-CMfg.Simulation results show that the BCOM-CMfg model has advantages in reliability and cost and S-MOPIO can solve BCOM-CMfg effectively.

Research on logistics domain-oriented cloud resource management model and architecture

To address the challenges posed by resource shortage or surplus to enterprises productivity,Internet platforms have been widely used,which can balance shortage and surplus in broader environments. However,the existing resource management models lack openness,sharing ability and scalability,which make it difficult for many heterogeneous resources to co-exist in the same system. It is also difficult to resolve the conflicts between distributed self-management and centralized scheduling in the system. This paper analyzes the characteristics of resources in the distributed environment and proposes a new resource management architecture by considering the resource aggregation capacity of cloud computing. The architecture includes a universal resource scheduling optimization model which has been applied successfully in double-district multi-ship-scheduling multi-container-yard empty containers transporting of international shipping logistics. Applications in all these domains prove that this new resource management architecture is feasible and can achieve the expected effect.

Packet Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Services in Broadband WMAN

Packet scheduling algorithm is the key technology to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS) and balance the fairness between users in broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN). Based on the research of Proportional Fairness (PF) algorithm and Modified Largest Weighted Delay First (M-LWDF) algorithm, a new packet scheduling algorithm for real-time services in broadband WMAN, called Enhanced M-LWDF (EM-LWDF), was proposed. The algorithm phases in new information to measure the load of service queues and updates the state parameters in real-time way, which remarkably improves system performance.Simulation results show that comparing with M-LWDF algorithm, the proposed algorithm is advantageous in performances of queuing delay and fairness while guaranteeing system throughput.

Load Feedback-Based Resource Scheduling and Dynamic Migration-Based Data Locality for Virtual Hadoop Clusters in OpenStack-Based Clouds

With cloud computing technology becoming more mature, it is essential to combine the big data processing tool Hadoop with the Infrastructure as a Service（Iaa S） cloud platform. In this study, we first propose a new Dynamic Hadoop Cluster on Iaa S（DHCI） architecture, which includes four key modules： monitoring,scheduling, Virtual Machine（VM） management, and VM migration modules. The load of both physical hosts and VMs is collected by the monitoring module and can be used to design resource scheduling and data locality solutions. Second, we present a simple load feedback-based resource scheduling scheme. The resource allocation can be avoided on overburdened physical hosts or the strong scalability of virtual cluster can be achieved by fluctuating the number of VMs. To improve the flexibility, we adopt the separated deployment of the computation and storage VMs in the DHCI architecture, which negatively impacts the data locality. Third, we reuse the method of VM migration and propose a dynamic migration-based data locality scheme using parallel computing entropy. We migrate the computation nodes to different host（s） or rack（s） where the corresponding storage nodes are deployed to satisfy the requirement of data locality. We evaluate our solutions in a realistic scenario based on Open Stack.Substantial experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our solutions that contribute to balance the workload and performance improvement, even under heavy-loaded cloud system conditions.