In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), spectrum sensing is key to opportunistic spectrum access while preventing any unacceptable interference to primary users' communications. Although cognitive radios function as s...
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(纸本)9781605587387
In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), spectrum sensing is key to opportunistic spectrum access while preventing any unacceptable interference to primary users' communications. Although cognitive radios function as spectrum sensors and move around, most, if not all, of existing approaches assume stationary spectrum sensors, thus providing inaccurate sensing results. As part of our effort to solve/alleviate this problem, we consider the impact of sensor mobility on spectrum sensing performance in a joint optimization framework for sensor cooperation and sensing scheduling. We show that sensor mobility increases spatio-temporal diversity in received primary signal strengths, and thus, improves the sensing performance. This is intuitively plausible, but have not been tested previously. Based on this observation, we propose a sensing strategy that minimizes the sensing overhead by finding an optimal combination of the number of sensors to cooperate and the number of times spectrum sensing must be scheduled. This result provides a useful insight to understand the spectrum sensing and its coupling with sensor mobility. Copyright 2009 ACM.
With the growth of Utility Grids and various Grid market infrastructures, the need for efficient and cost effective scheduling algorithms is also increasing rapidly, particularly in the area of meta-scheduling. In the...
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This paper presents a new approach to hyperspectral signature analysis, called spectral derivative feature coding (SDFC). It is derived from texture features used in texture classification to dictate gradient changes ...
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While mobile nodes (MNs) undergo handovers across inter-wireless access networks, their contexts must be propagated for seamless re-establishment of on-going application sessions, including IP header compression, secu...
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While mobile nodes (MNs) undergo handovers across inter-wireless access networks, their contexts must be propagated for seamless re-establishment of on-going application sessions, including IP header compression, secure mobile IP, authentication, authorization, and accounting services, to name a few. Routing contexts via an overlay network either on-demand or based on prediction of an MNs' mobility, introduces a new challenging requirement of context management. This paper proposes a context router (CXR) that manages contexts in an overlay network. A CXR is responsible for (1) monitoring of MNs' cross-handover, (2) analysis of MNs' movement patterns, and (3) context routing ahead of each MN's arrival at an AP or a network. The predictive routing of contexts is performed based on statistical learning of (dis)similarities between the patterns obtained from vector distance measurements. The proposed CXR has been evaluated on a prototypical implementation based on an MN mobility model in an emulated access network. Our evaluation results show that the prediction mechanisms applied on the CXR outperform a Kalman-filter-based method with respect to both prediction accuracy and computation performance.
A noise adaptive Cusum-based algorithm for determining the arrival times of contrast at each spatial location in a 2D time sequence of angiographic images is presented. We employ a new group-wise registration algorith...
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(纸本)9781424451463
A noise adaptive Cusum-based algorithm for determining the arrival times of contrast at each spatial location in a 2D time sequence of angiographic images is presented. We employ a new group-wise registration algorithm to remove the effect of patient motions during the acquisition process. By using the registered image the proposed arrival time provides accurate results without relying on a priori knowledge of the shape of the time series at each location or even on the time series at each location having the same shape under translation.
Electric vehicles operate inefficiently with a naive battery management system that charges or discharges battery cells in a pack based solely on application load demands. The battery pack's operation-time and lif...
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Electric vehicles operate inefficiently with a naive battery management system that charges or discharges battery cells in a pack based solely on application load demands. The battery pack's operation-time and lifetime can be extended significantly by effectively scheduling (the cyber part) battery charge, discharge, and rest activities, based on the battery characteristics (the physical part). We propose a set of policies for scheduling battery-cell activities, called the weighted-k round-robin (kRR) scheduling framework. This framework dynamically adapts battery-cell activities to load demands and the condition of individual cells, thereby extending the battery pack's operation-time and making them robust to anomalous voltage-imbalances. The framework comprises two key components. First, an adaptive filter estimates the upcoming load demand. Then, based on the estimated load demand, the kRR scheduler determines the number of parallel-connected cells to be discharged simultaneously. The scheduler also effectively partitions the cells in the pack, allowing the cells to be simultaneously charged and discharged in coordination with the battery reconfiguration system we developed earlier [17]. Besides the kRR scheduling framework, we characterize the discharge and recovery efficiency of a Lithium-ion battery cell. The kRR scheduling framework is shown to outperform three alternative scheduling mechanisms with respect to the operation-time by 7-56%, and improve the tolerance of voltage-imbalance by up to 50%.
Electric vehicles powered with large-scale battery packs are gaining popularity as gasoline price soars. Large-scale battery packs usually consist of an estimated 12,000 battery cells connected in series and parallel,...
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Electric vehicles powered with large-scale battery packs are gaining popularity as gasoline price soars. Large-scale battery packs usually consist of an estimated 12,000 battery cells connected in series and parallel, which are susceptible to battery-cell failures. Unfortunately, current battery-management systems are unable to handle the inevitable battery-cell failures very well. To address this problem, we propose a dynamic reconfiguration framework that monitors, reconfigures, and controls large-scale battery packs online. The framework is built upon a syntactic bypassing mechanism that provides a set of rules for changing the battery-pack configuration, and a semantic bypassing mechanism by which the battery-cell connectivity is reconfigured to recover from a battery-cell failure. In particular, the semantic bypassing mechanism is dictated by constant-voltage-keeping and dynamic-voltage-allowing policies. The former policy is effective in preventing unavoidable voltage drops during the battery discharge, while the latter policy is effective in supplying different amounts of power to meet a wide-range of application requirements. Our experimental evaluation has shown the proposed framework to enable the battery packs to be 9 times as fault-tolerant as a legacy scheme.
Endoscopic argon plasma coagulation and bipolar electrocautery are currently preferred treatments for chronic radiation proctitis, but ulcerations and strictures frequently occur. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has bee...
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The discovery of biomarkers and the underlying causes of diseases are enabled through the analysis of biological samples and data stored in biobanks. Biological samples and their associated data are expensive to colle...
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