Microservice architectures are increasingly used to modularize IoT applications and deploy them in distributed and heterogeneous edge computing environments. Over time, these microservice-based IoT applications are su...
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This study presents a novel approach to activate a narrowband transparency line within a reflecting broadband window in all-dielectric metasurfaces, in analogy to the electromagnetically-induced transparency effect, b...
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Sharding is an effective technique to improve the scalability of blockchain. It splits nodes into multiple groups so that they can process transactions in parallel. To achieve higher parallelism and concurrency at lar...
Sharding is an effective technique to improve the scalability of blockchain. It splits nodes into multiple groups so that they can process transactions in parallel. To achieve higher parallelism and concurrency at large scales, it is desirable to maintain a large number of small shards. However, simply configuring small shards easily results in a higher fraction of malicious nodes inside shards, causing shard corruption and compromising system security. Existing sharding techniques hence demand large shards, at the expense of limited concurrency. To address this limitation, we propose CoChain: a blockchain sharding system that can securely configure small shards for enhanced concurrency. CoChain allows some shards to be corrupted. For security, each shard is monitored by multiple other shards. The latter reach a cross-shard Consensus on the Consensus results of their monitored shard. Once a corrupted shard is found, its subsequent consensus will be taken over by another shard, hence recovering the system. Via Consensus on Consensus, CoChain allows the existence of shards with more fraction of malicious nodes (<2/3) while securing the system, thus reducing the shard size safely. We implement CoChain based on Harmony and conduct extensive experiments. Compared with Harmony, CoChain achieves 35x throughput gain with 6,000+ nodes.
DC microgrids have promising applications in renewable integration due to their better energy efficiency when connecting DC components. However, they might be unstable since many loads in a DC microgrid are regulated ...
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In this paper, the problem of using several controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to localize a target UAV in real time is investigated. In the considered model, the controlled UAV consists of one active UAV and ...
In this paper, the problem of using several controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to localize a target UAV in real time is investigated. In the considered model, the controlled UAV consists of one active UAV and four passive UAVs. Each passive UAV receives signals transmitted from the active UAV and reflected by the target UAV, and then estimates the distance from the active UAV to the target UAV and then from the target UAV to the passive UAV. Each passive UAV then transmits this distance information to a base station (BS), which estimates the location of the target UAV. Since the target UAV will change its location according to its performed task, each controlled UAV must optimize its trajectory to continuously localize the target UAV. This trajectory design problem is formulated as an optimization problem whose goal is to jointly optimize the trajectories of active and passive UAVs so as to maximize the target UAV positioning accuracy. To solve this problem, a Z function decomposition based reinforcement learning (ZD-RL) method is proposed. Compared to value function decomposition based RL (VD-RL), the proposed method can find the probability distribution of the sum of future rewards to accurately estimate the expected value of the sum of future rewards, thus finding better trajectories for controlled UAVs and improving target UAV positioning accuracy. Simulation results show that the proposed ZD-RL method can reduce the positioning errors by up to 58.3% and 84.8%, compared to VD-RL and independent DRL methods, respectively.
The importance of proper data normalization for deep neural networks is well known. However, in continuous-time state-space model estimation, it has been observed that improper normalization of either the hidden state...
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In this paper, the problem of joint communication and sensing is studied in the context of terahertz (THz) vehicular networks. In the studied model, a set of service provider vehicles (SPVs) provide either communicati...
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Designing an observer of an unknown quantum density operator is difficult because the operator must be Hermitian positive semidefinite with unit trace. In this paper, we derive a closed-form solution for projecting an...
Designing an observer of an unknown quantum density operator is difficult because the operator must be Hermitian positive semidefinite with unit trace. In this paper, we derive a closed-form solution for projecting an arbitrary matrix onto the set of valid density operators. This allows us to design linear quantum state observers and retract the observer’s state back to this set while retaining the exponential convergence rate of the linear observer. The derived closed-form projection can be used alongside any quantum state estimation technique to produce a valid state estimate without increasing the state estimation error.
In this paper, a novel bilateral teleoperation control is designed specifically for manipulation in contact environment. Firstly, serval interaction conditions (e.g., free motion and rigid interaction) are defined and...
In this paper, a novel bilateral teleoperation control is designed specifically for manipulation in contact environment. Firstly, serval interaction conditions (e.g., free motion and rigid interaction) are defined and unified into one equation as the designed unified interactive model, which can also be utilized as a control objective. Based on this model, a remote hybrid motion/force controller is designed for remote robot, which achieves the good position and force tracking, and ensures the precise and safe contact force that helps reduce the workload of operator. Subsequently, the contact force is reconstructed in the local side by estimating and transmitting the non-power environment coefficient from remote side, which provides the operator with accurate force feedback. Since the coefficient replaces the direct transmission of force signal in the communication channel, the traditional power-cycle problem is essentially avoided, which guarantees the stability of teleoperation system under communication time delays. Comparative experiments are implemented to verify the effectiveness of proposed method for teleoperated manipulation.
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