Charging of large-scale electric vehicles will have a significantimpact on the grid sothat their charging schedule needs tobe optimized. The traditional centralized scheduling method requires high performance in infor...
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Charging of large-scale electric vehicles will have a significantimpact on the grid sothat their charging schedule needs tobe optimized. The traditional centralized scheduling method requires high performance in information exchange and computing. Based on the analysis of the features of electric vehicle charging load and the research of cloud computing, we propose a cloud computing based schedule platform for optimal charging of electric vehicles. In addition, the function and implementation of the three basic modules of the platform(the data collection module, the cloud computing center and the control center) are exposed. The platform performs well in optimal scheduling for electric vehicles. In addition, the platform can alsomake full use of the computing resource and reduce the communication congestion.
Twitter data is increasingly used to make predictions about real-world events. However recently, several studies directly or indirectly questioned proposed Twitter prediction procedures. In this paper, we conduct a li...
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Twitter data is increasingly used to make predictions about real-world events. However recently, several studies directly or indirectly questioned proposed Twitter prediction procedures. In this paper, we conduct a literature review to investigate the research processes adopted by previous Twitter prediction studies in detail. We first identify the actors involved, and then we study how they influence the different phases of the research process. We found that in Twitter prediction research up to four actors perform several sampling, filtering, classification and assessment decisions throughout the development of prediction models. If these decisions and the reasons behind them are not sufficiently documented, the developed prediction methods cannot be reproduced in future research and consequently their validity and reliability are hard to assess.
This paper presents hashing based approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms that allow fast and accurate image retrieval in huge remote sensing data archives. Hashing methods aim at mapping high-dimensional image...
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This paper presents hashing based approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms that allow fast and accurate image retrieval in huge remote sensing data archives. Hashing methods aim at mapping high-dimensional image feature vectors into short binary codes based on hashing functions. Then, the image retrieval is accomplished according to Hamming distances of image hash codes. In particular, in this paper two hashing methods are adopted for RS image retrieval problems. The former aims at defining hash functions in the kernel space by using only unlabeled images. The latter leverages on the semantic similarity given in terms of annotated images to define much distinctive hash functions in the kernel space. The effectiveness of both methods is analyzed in terms of RS image retrieval accuracy as well as retrieval time. Experiments carried out on an archive of aerial images show that the presented hashing methods are one hundred times faster than those that exploit an exact nearest neighbor search while keeping a high retrieval accuracy.
There is an increasing interest in reducing the size of semiconductor devices to sub 20 nm scale for technical requirements, like low power consumption and high switching speed. Electronic devices based on nano Schott...
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(纸本)9781479956234
There is an increasing interest in reducing the size of semiconductor devices to sub 20 nm scale for technical requirements, like low power consumption and high switching speed. Electronic devices based on nano Schottky junctions have the potential to address these issues. This is because nano metal-semiconductor contacts are expected to have narrower barriers compared to conventional Schottky diodes. Nano Schottky junctions have been investigated experimentally using gold (Au) coated AFM tips in contact with different silicon (Si) substrates. For nano-tips with an apex radius around 7 nm, the current-voltage (I-V) curves on low n-dope Si substrates have showed a reversed rectification diode behavior compared to the high n-dope Si samples. We have used a new theoretical model to study the electric field enhancement at the nano metal-semiconductor interface, and thus the enhancement of the tunneling current. We have found out that the tunneling current at the reverse bias is dominant on low dope substrates and very small on high dope substrates. This accounts for the reversed I-V rectification behavior on low dope Si Schottky contacts. The calculated I-V curves showed good agreement with the experimental results for both types of Si samples.
Localization is a fundamental operation in wireless networks. Location determination is normally accomplished using the Global Positioning System (GPS) for outdoor applications. For indoor localization, GPS does not w...
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Localization is a fundamental operation in wireless networks. Location determination is normally accomplished using the Global Positioning System (GPS) for outdoor applications. For indoor localization, GPS does not work due to the lack of the line of sight to satellites. High-precision indoor localization is critical to many personal and business applications. WiFi-based indoor localization was proposed to be a practical method to locate WiFi-enabled devices due to the popularity of WiFi networks. However, it suffers from large localization errors. Our experimental results indicate that this scheme consistently leads to an average error around 3 meters. The existence of different locations with similar WiFi signal strength is the reason behind the large errors. To improve the localization precision, a hybrid indoor localization scheme, HILL, is proposed in this paper. Inspired by the fact that a large number of WiFi-enabled mobile devices have been deployed, HILL uses 3 phases to improve the precision of WiFi-based localization. First of all, it measures the distances between each pair of peer devices through acoustic ranging. Secondly, the Classical Metric Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) method is applied to the collected distances, which results in a graph consistent with the distances. Finally, the graph generated by MDS is embedded onto the graph corresponding to WiFi-based localization in order to achieve high localization precision. Our experimental results indicate that the average localization error of HILL is about 1 meter.
A two-way pricing mechanism is incorporated into the Stackelberg game to mitigate the co-tier interference by controlling the uplink transmit power. Specifically, by employing the pricing mechanism, leader femto base ...
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A two-way pricing mechanism is incorporated into the Stackelberg game to mitigate the co-tier interference by controlling the uplink transmit power. Specifically, by employing the pricing mechanism, leader femto base station (FBS) can get reward from follower femtocell user equipments (FUEs) and vice versa. All FBSs are assumed to operate under the co-channel mode, i.e., all FBSs use the same frequency band and every FBS is operated in the closed subscriber group (CSG) access mode. By assigning the maximum tolerable co-tier interference, the leader FBS protects itself by pricing the interference from follower FUEs. On the contrary, follower FUEs control the transmit power based on the pricing strategy of the leader. For different interference constraints, simulation results obtained by Matlab show that leader and followers can always compromise on a Stackel-berg equilibrium (SE) point where both leader and followers achieve the maximal utility. Hence, the proposed Stackelberg game with two-way pricing mechanism power control scheme provides a viable solution to mitigate co-tier interference in femtocell networks.
This paper presents the design of an automatic assessing system for dance learners. By exploiting the Microsoft Kinect to acquire 3-D motion data of the learners, the proposed system extracts features and performs mat...
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In this paper, a novel method is proposed to design FIR filters with minimum orders. The original design problem is formally expressed as an l 0 -norm optimization problem. An iterative procedure is developed to solve...
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In this paper, a novel method is proposed to design FIR filters with minimum orders. The original design problem is formally expressed as an l 0 -norm optimization problem. An iterative procedure is developed to solve this problem. Although, for a set of given specifications, the proposed method is not guaranteed to find the optimal solution, one can greedily decrease the filter order until the specifications cannot be further satisfied. Simulation results demonstrate that the greedy search needs a limited number of iterations, and the overall computational complexity is not too high. Compared to the classical estimation methods, the proposed method can be utilized for general design specifications. The performance of the proposed design method can be verified by a large number of simulations.
In this paper, both effective bandwidth extension and distributed issues are investigated to improve the energy efficiency for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication systems. A Fu...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479938414
In this paper, both effective bandwidth extension and distributed issues are investigated to improve the energy efficiency for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication systems. A Fuzzy based energy efficient bandwidth expansion (FBEEBE) scheme is proposed to fast infer the bandwidth extension factors (BEFs) for users based on fuzzy inference systems. The proposed fuzzy inference system can infer the BEFs from the two inputs of SNR and bandwidth requirement of users. Simulation results show that the proposed FBEEBE can improve the energy efficiency comparing to that of same bandwidth extension (SBE) scheme.
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