Variational quantum algorithm (VQA), which is comprised of a classical optimizer and a parameterized quantum circuit, emerges as one of the most promising approaches for harvesting the power of quantum computers in th...
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(纸本)9781450386104
Variational quantum algorithm (VQA), which is comprised of a classical optimizer and a parameterized quantum circuit, emerges as one of the most promising approaches for harvesting the power of quantum computers in the noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) era. However, the deployment of VQAs on contemporary NISQ devices often faces considerable system and time-dependant noise and prohibitively slow training speeds. On the other hand, the expensive supporting resources and infrastructure make quantum computers extremely keen on high utilization. In this paper, we propose a virtualized way of building up a quantum backend for variational quantum algorithms: rather than relying on a single physical device which tends to introduce ever-changing device-specific noise with less reliable performance as time-since-calibration grows, we propose to constitute a quantum ensemble, which dynamically distributes quantum tasks asynchronously across a set of physical devices, and adjusts the ensemble configuration with respect to machine status. In addition to reduced machine-dependant noise, the ensemble can provide significant speedups for VQA training. With this idea, we build a novel VQA training framework called EQC - a distributed gradient-based processor-performance-aware optimization system - that comprises: (i) a system architecture for asynchronous parallel VQA cooperative training;(ii) an analytical model for assessing the quality of a circuit output concerning its architecture, transpilation, and runtime conditions;(iii) a weighting mechanism to adjust the quantum ensemble's computational contribution according to the systems' current performance. Evaluations comprising 500K times' circuit evaluations across 10 IBMQ NISQ devices using a VQE and a QAOA applications demonstrate that EQC can attain error rates very close to the most performant device of the ensemble, while boosting the training speed by 10.5x on average (up to 86x and at least 5.2x). EQC is available at
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology is viewed as a significant component of both the fifth-generation (5G) communication networks and edge computing. In this paper, through reviewing the state-of-the-art ...
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(纸本)9781728190747
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology is viewed as a significant component of both the fifth-generation (5G) communication networks and edge computing. In this paper, through reviewing the state-of-the-art work on applying NFV to edge computing, we identify that an urgent research challenge is to provide the proactive failure recovery mechanism for the stateful NFV. To realize such proactive failure recovery, we propose a prediction-based algorithm for redeploying the stateful NFV instances in real-time when network failures occur. The proposed algorithm is based on relax and rounding technique. The theoretical performance guarantee is also analyzed rigorously. Simulation results show that the proposed failure recovery algorithm outperforms the reactive-manner baselines significantly in terms of redeployment latency.
Nowadays, most of the current research on object detection is to improve the whole framework, in order to improve the accuracy of detection, but another problem of object detection is the detection speed. The more com...
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(纸本)9798350396386
Nowadays, most of the current research on object detection is to improve the whole framework, in order to improve the accuracy of detection, but another problem of object detection is the detection speed. The more complex the architecture, the slower the speed. This time, we implemented a Single Shot Multibox Detector(SSD) using GPU with *** have improved the object detection speed of SSD, which is one of the most regularly used object detection frameworks. The most time-consuming part, the VGG16 network, is rephrased by using cuDNN, which is made faster by about 9%. The second time-consuming part is post-processing, where non-maximum-suppression (NMS) is performed. We accelerated NMS by implementing our new algorithms that are suitable for GPUs, which is about 52% faster than the original PyTorch version [11]. We also ported those parts that were originally executed on the CPU to the GPU. In total, our GPU-accelerated SSD can detect objects 22.5% faster than the original version. We demonstrate that using GPUs to accelerate existing frameworks is a viable approach.
In order to realize the mutual promotion between the energy management system and the traditional monitoring system under the development of active distribution network and ensure the high flexibility and reliability ...
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There is an ever-increasing amount of devices getting connected to the internet, and so is the volume of data that needs to be processed - the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a good example of this. Stream processing was ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783030856656;9783030856649
There is an ever-increasing amount of devices getting connected to the internet, and so is the volume of data that needs to be processed - the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a good example of this. Stream processing was created for the sole purpose of dealing with high volumes of data, and it has proven itself time and time again as a successful approach. However, there is still a necessity to further improve scalability and performance on this type of system. This work presents SDD4STREAMING, a solution aimed at solving these specific issues of stream processing engines. Although current engines already implement scalability solutions, time has shown those are not enough and that further improvements are needed. SDD4STREAMING employs an extension of a system to improve resource usage, so that applications use the resources they need to process data in a timely manner, thus increasing performance and helping other applications that are running in parallel in the same system.
We propose a lightweight and adaptive distributed compressed sensing (DCS) with multi-sensor collaboration based on multiagent deep reinforcement learning (LADICS-MARL). To efficiently acquire data generated by sensor...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665404242
We propose a lightweight and adaptive distributed compressed sensing (DCS) with multi-sensor collaboration based on multiagent deep reinforcement learning (LADICS-MARL). To efficiently acquire data generated by sensor nodes deployed over a wide area and for long periods, we previously proposed a lightweight and adaptive compressed sensing method based on deep learning for edge devices, called LACSLE that changes the compression ratio in real-time according to the data between one sender and one receiver using pre-trained deep learning model. LADICS-MARL is an extension for multiple senders and one receiver and supports DCS through which multiple compressed data are simultaneously reconstructed. Multiple sensor nodes cooperate based on multiagent reinforcement learning to estimate the optimal compression ratio for all senders according to each corresponding data, as well as the transmitted compressed data from other sensor nodes. In addition, a gateway optimizes the combination of groups where some compressed data are reconstructed simultaneously. A performance evaluation using acceleration data from multiple sensor terminals acquired on a bridge suggests that the multiagent-based LADICS-MARL can reconstruct original data from less compressed data compared to the single-agent-based LACSLE under the threshold of reconstruct error.
Electric vehicles (EVs) are thriving to alleviate environmental issues. Conventional two-stage onboard charger (OBC) in EV only contains one large-power DC/DC converter to connect the whole battery pack to the inverte...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665486699
Electric vehicles (EVs) are thriving to alleviate environmental issues. Conventional two-stage onboard charger (OBC) in EV only contains one large-power DC/DC converter to connect the whole battery pack to the inverter. It requires dozens of battery cells to connect in parallel and then in series for charging. parallel connection causes circulating current among batteries, increasing the loss and safety risk and decreasing the battery life. Aimed at diminishing the circulating current by reducing parallel connections of battery cells, a distributed OBC architecture is proposed in this paper. It contains a bi-directional inverter and numerous paralleled bi-directional low-power DC/DC converters. The batteries are divided into multiple clusters with less paralleled cells to interface with those DC/DC converters, respectively. Furthermore, a novel virtual synchronous machine (VSM) control is proposed for the distributed OBC, enabling the OBC to provide inertia and frequency regulation to the grid and to serve as an emergency power supply in island mode. Compared to the conventional OBC, the distributed OBC under the proposed VSM control achieves higher fault tolerance, better power allocation, less circulating current among batteries, and less current impact on the batteries. Those priorities are finally verified by simulation results.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing an increasingly important role in our daily life. Since the size of DNNs is continuously growing up, it is highly important to train them effectively by distributing computation...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783030856656;9783030856649
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing an increasingly important role in our daily life. Since the size of DNNs is continuously growing up, it is highly important to train them effectively by distributing computation on multiple connected devices. The efficiency of training depends on the quality of chosen parallelization strategy. Being able to find a good parallelization strategy for a DNN in a reasonable amount of time is not trivial. Previous research demonstrated the possibility to systematically generate good parallelization strategies. However, systematic partitioning still suffers from either a heavy preprocessing or poor quality of parallelization. In this paper, we take a purely symbolic analysis approach by leveraging the features of DNNs like dense tensor balanced computation. We propose the Flex-Edge Recursive Graph and the Double Recursive Algorithm, successfully limiting our parallelization strategy generation to a linear complexity with a good quality of parallelization strategy. The experiments show that our solution significantly reduces the parallelization strategy generation time from hours to seconds while maintaining the parallelization quality.
The impact of virtual collaborations and digital transformation has led to a significant increase in the use of V oIP technologies. VoIP, which works on a hierarchical client-server architecture in order to adapt to t...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350351859
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350351866
The impact of virtual collaborations and digital transformation has led to a significant increase in the use of V oIP technologies. VoIP, which works on a hierarchical client-server architecture in order to adapt to the old circuit-switched technology, has gradually started to use a P2P architecture over time in parallel with the developments in this architecture. The lack of “peer admission” and “control in call flow” features in pure P2P architecture has resulted in vulnerabilities against some attacks, such as modifying, termination, eavesdropping, and SPIT. Although various studies have been conducted to mitigate these vulnerabilities in P2P systems on other platforms, the literature on P2P VoIP is limited. Studies using distributed blockchains were limited to authentication and could not eliminate the system's centralization by keeping SIP servers in their architecture. In this study, we proposed a P2P VoIP system and assessed the feasibility of managing user data via distributed blockchain technology. Our findings reveals that this approach can enhance security and decentralization in P2P V oIP. Furthermore, a thorough performance and security evaluation is conducted on the blockchain type, consensus algorithm, and several blockchain architectures that will be used to manage this data, offering a promising outlook for the future of P2P VoIP.
Although the holy grail to store and manipulate data in Edge infrastructures is yet to be found, state-of-the-art approaches demonstrated the relevance of replication strategies that bring content closer to consumers:...
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