Many forest fires occur across the globe each year, which destroy life and property, and strongly impact ecosystems. In recent years, wildland fires and altered fire disturbance regimes have become a significant manag...
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(纸本)9780819469502
Many forest fires occur across the globe each year, which destroy life and property, and strongly impact ecosystems. In recent years, wildland fires and altered fire disturbance regimes have become a significant management and science problem affecting ecosystems and wildland/urban interface cross the United States and global. In this paper, we discuss the estimation of 504 probability models for forecasting fire risk for 14 fuel types, 12 months, one day/week/month in advance, which use 19 years of historical fire data in addition to meteorological and vegetation variables. MODIS land products are utilized as a major data source, and a logistical binary regression was adopted to solve fire forecast probability. In order to better modeling the change of fire risk along withthe transition of seasons, some spatial and temporal stratification strategies were applied. In order to explore the possibilities of real time prediction, the Matlab distributing computing toolbox was used to accelerate the prediction. Finally, this study give an evaluation and validation of predict based on the ground truth collected. Validating results indicate these fire risk models have achieved nearly 70% accuracy of prediction and as well MODIS data are potential data source to implement near real-time fire risk prediction.
Recently, as speeds of computer processors and networks are rapidly increasing, a lot of researches are actively progressing to develop efficient and lightweight parallelcomputing platforms using heterogeneous and ne...
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Recently, as speeds of computer processors and networks are rapidly increasing, a lot of researches are actively progressing to develop efficient and lightweight parallelcomputing platforms using heterogeneous and networked computers. According to this technical trend, this paper designs and implements a message passing library called JMPI(Java Message Passing Interface) which complies with MP], the MPI standard specification for Java language. this library provides some graphic user interface tools to enable parallelcomputing environments to be configured very simply by their administrators and JMPI applications to be executed very conveniently. Especially, it is implemented as two versions based on two typical distributed system communication mechanisms, Socket and RMI. According to these communication mechanisms, the performance of each message passing system is evaluated by measuring its processing speed with respect to the increasing number of computers by executing three well-known applications. Experimental results show that the most efficient processing speedup can be obtained by increasing the number of the computers in consideration of network traffics generated by applications.
Aggregator nodes commonly have the ability to read, corrupt or disrupt the flow of information produced by a wireless sensor network (WSN). Despite this fact, existing aggregator node election schemes do not address a...
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Aggregator nodes commonly have the ability to read, corrupt or disrupt the flow of information produced by a wireless sensor network (WSN). Despite this fact, existing aggregator node election schemes do not address an adversary that strives to influence the election process towards candidate nodes that it controls. We discuss the requirements that need to be fulfilled by a non-manipulable aggregator node election protocol. We conclude that these requirements can be satisfied by a distributed random number generator function in which no node is able to determine the output of the function. We provide and compare three protocols that instantiate such function.
Advances in cooperative communications and directional antenna design so far have taken place in parallel, if not in isolation from each other. To explore the role they may play in the next generation of wireless netw...
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Advances in cooperative communications and directional antenna design so far have taken place in parallel, if not in isolation from each other. To explore the role they may play in the next generation of wireless networks, it is important to design and evaluate protocols that can provide co-opdirectionality, the capability of tapping into the combined potential of both cooperation and transmission directionality. Inspired by the protocols presented in [1] and [2], we propose a novel co-opdirectional MAC that fully leverages both cooperation diversity and transmission directionality1. Special attention has been paid to the protocol design so that the new MAC would not only inherit the advantages of two previous protocols, but also avoid their weaknesses in the wireless ad hoc environment. the protocol thus delivers a superior performance, as our extensive simulations confirm. To the best knowledge of the authors, this paper represents the first effort to deal withthe challenges of integrating cooperation and directional capabilities at the MAC layer.
the goal of this work is to analyze the feasibility of a peer-to-peer file sharing technique in mobile cellular environments, taking into account key characteristics and peculiarities of the UMTS radio access network ...
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the goal of this work is to analyze the feasibility of a peer-to-peer file sharing technique in mobile cellular environments, taking into account key characteristics and peculiarities of the UMTS radio access network (UTRAN). the concept is referred here to as mobile-to-mobile (m2m). Our research efforts explore the performance benefits of m2m file sharing applications in UMTS networks in terms of releasing overall downlink capacity. In our concept the users that are interested in downloading a popular file form a mobile cooperative community and using the fact that traffic load of multimedia services is asymmetrically distributed between uplink and downlink, contribute their own currently not used uplink capacity for providing the packets of the content to other users within the group in multicast mode on the uplink carrier frequencies. As a result a major part of the traffic is shifted away from the downlink, making the released downlink capacity available for providing better quality of service (QoS) for real-time services. Two alternative scenarios of serving user requests (m2m and conventional UMTS mode) have been analyzed. the results indicate a dramatic increase in service probability and overall throughput gain of up to 85 % in a UMTS network, supported by the m2m data transmission mode. Furthermore, results show that by a well-designed m2m routing policy and proper utilization of uplink resources substantial reduction of the expected file download time can be achieved.
this paper outlines how the Mobile Message Passing Interface (MMPI) may be used for parallel computation. MMPI allows parallel programming of mobile devices over a Bluetooth network. this paper gives an overview of th...
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(纸本)0769526381
this paper outlines how the Mobile Message Passing Interface (MMPI) may be used for parallel computation. MMPI allows parallel programming of mobile devices over a Bluetooth network. this paper gives an overview of the MMPI library, and demonstrates that mobile devices are capable of parallel computation. An example of Matrix Multiplication O(n(3)) is used to show this.
this paper discusses iterative algorithms for reconstruction of 2D images. the formulation of the distributed algorithm and its properties are described. the details of the distributed implementation of the ART (Algeb...
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(纸本)0769526381
this paper discusses iterative algorithms for reconstruction of 2D images. the formulation of the distributed algorithm and its properties are described. the details of the distributed implementation of the ART (Algebraic Reconstruction Technique) are presented. parallel implementation in a parallel system based on dynamically configurable clusters is proposed.
the Java language first came to public attention in 1995. Within a year, it was being speculated that Java may be a good language for parallel and distributedcomputing. Its core features, including being objected ori...
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(纸本)0769526381
the Java language first came to public attention in 1995. Within a year, it was being speculated that Java may be a good language for parallel and distributedcomputing. Its core features, including being objected oriented and platform independence, as well as having built-in network support and threads, has encouraged this view. Today, Java is being used in almost every type of computer-based system, ranging from sensor networks to high performance computing platforms, and from enterprise applications through to complex ***. In this paper the key features that make Java a good language for parallel and distributedcomputing are first discussed. Two Java-based middleware systems, namely MPJ Express, an MPI-like Java messaging system, and Tycho, a wide-area asynchronous messaging framework with an integrated virtual registry are then discussed. the paper concludes by highlighting the advantages of using Java as middleware to support distributed applications.
the centralised management of distributedcomputing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resources and middleware components to provi...
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(纸本)0769526381
the centralised management of distributedcomputing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resources and middleware components to provide an accurate operational picture for use by administrative or management staff. the detection and presentation of real-time information pertaining to the performance and availability of computing resources is a difficult yet critical activity. this architecture is intended to enhance the service monitoring experience of a Grid operations team. We have designed and implemented an extensible agent-based architecture capable of detecting and aggregating status information using low-level sensors, functionality tests and existing information systems. To date it has been successfully deployed across eighteen Grid-Ireland sites.
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