Grid environments enable users to share nondedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to automatically recover from failures and ...
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Grid environments enable users to share nondedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to automatically recover from failures and dynamically adapt to grid environments with changing resource availabilities, improving fault-tolerance and performance. The key components of the application-centric approach are a global per-application execution history and an autonomic component that tracks the performance of a job on a grid resource against predictions based on the application execution history, to guide rescheduling decisions. Performance models of unmodified applications built using their execution history are used to predict failure as well as poor performance. A prototype of the proposed approach, an autonomic virtual application manager (AVAM), has been implemented in the context of the In-VIGO grid environment and its effectiveness has been evaluated for applications that generate CPU-intensive jobs with relatively short execution times (ranging from tens of seconds to less than an hour) on resources with highly variable loads - a workload generated by typical educational usage scenarios of In-VIGO-like grid environments. A memory-based learning algorithm is used to build the performance models for CPU-intensive applications that are used to predict the need for rescheduling. Results show that In-VIGO jobs managed by the AVAM consistently meet their execution deadlines under varying load conditions and gracefully recover from unexpected failures
X-ray luggage inspection systems play an important role in ensuring air travelers’ security. However, the false alarm rate of commercial systems can be as high as 20% due to less than perfect image processing algorit...
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X-ray luggage inspection systems play an important role in ensuring air travelers’ security. However, the false alarm rate of commercial systems can be as high as 20% due to less than perfect image processing algorithms. In an effort to reduce the false alarm rate, this paper proposes a combinational scheme to fuse, de-noise and enhance dual-energy X-ray images for better object classification and threat detection. The fusion step is based on the wavelet transform. Fused images generally reveal more detail information; however, background noise often gets amplified during the fusion process. This paper applies a backgroundsubtraction- based noise reduction technique which is very efficient in removing background noise from fused X-ray images. The de-noised image is then processed using a new enhancement technique to reconstruct the final image. The final image not only contains complementary information from both source images, but is also background-noise-free and contrastenhanced, therefore easier to segment automatically or be interpreted by screeners, thus reducing the false alarm rate in X-ray luggage inspection.
In this paper, we propose discrete-time and continuous-time consensus update schemes motivated by the discrete-time and continuous-time Kalman filters. With certainty information encoded into each agent, the proposed ...
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In this paper, we propose discrete-time and continuous-time consensus update schemes motivated by the discrete-time and continuous-time Kalman filters. With certainty information encoded into each agent, the proposed consensus schemes explicitly account for relative confidence/reliability of information states from each agent in the team. We show mild sufficient conditions under which consensus can be achieved using the proposed consensus schemes in the presence of switching interaction topologies.
Considering the typically large use of NoCs as a solution to alleviate complexity of the current SoCs, designing an efficient NoC is an important key issue. This paper proposes a simple, low-cost and low-energy switch...
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Considering the typically large use of NoCs as a solution to alleviate complexity of the current SoCs, designing an efficient NoC is an important key issue. This paper proposes a simple, low-cost and low-energy switch architecture for the NoCs using mesochronous clocking scheme for on-chip communication. Switches are designed in Verilog HDL. Experimental results show that the 4-ports instances of our proposed architecture are more efficient to be used as a basic element for constructing the NoCs.
Low probability of intercept (LPI) performance of a time-hopping (TH) ultra-wideband (UWB) system is investigated. The detection probability with the use of one single detector to detect the presence of TH UWB signals...
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(纸本)0780388542
Low probability of intercept (LPI) performance of a time-hopping (TH) ultra-wideband (UWB) system is investigated. The detection probability with the use of one single detector to detect the presence of TH UWB signals is derived. Another detection method, which uses multiple energy detectors, is also analyzed considering both chip and frame asynchronization and the time shift in the pulse position modulation (PPM). These two methods, one with single detector and the other with multiple detectors, are compared in terms of the detection probabilities
In this paper, the performance of wireless communication systems with antenna arrays and multiple interferers in correlated Nakagami fading channels is investigated. Closed-form expressions of the probability density ...
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(纸本)0780389387
In this paper, the performance of wireless communication systems with antenna arrays and multiple interferers in correlated Nakagami fading channels is investigated. Closed-form expressions of the probability density function (PDF) of signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SNIR), taking account of fading correlations and mutual coupling, are derived and both maximal ratio combining (MRC) and optimal combining (OC) are considered in the derivation. The expressions for the outage probabilities are then derived. Since fading correlations and mutual coupling are closely related to array geometry, performance for both linear and circular arrays are analyzed and numerical results are shown to illustrate the effects of array geometry, angular spread, fading, and so on.
The reverse link capacity of a direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system in a multicell environment with both perfect and imperfect beamforming has been studied recently. In a practical implementa...
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The reverse link capacity of a direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system in a multicell environment with both perfect and imperfect beamforming has been studied recently. In a practical implementation, the design of the antenna array may be constrained by the available space or the number of antennas. We investigate the maximum reverse link capacity of CDMA systems using different types of arrays, including linear, circular and rectangular arrays, with a fixed size. The CDMA capacity for different types of arrays with a fixed number of antennas is also examined. The capability of antenna arrays to combat the impairments of beamforming, such as arrival angle estimation errors and angular spreads, is closely related to their geometries. The impact of array geometry on system performance considering beamforming impairments is also examined and illustrated through numerical results.
The recent advances in learning control theory are reviewed. First insight is provided into the concept and principle associated with learning control under a repeatable control environment. Then a briefing is given t...
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The recent advances in learning control theory are reviewed. First insight is provided into the concept and principle associated with learning control under a repeatable control environment. Then a briefing is given to the two main streams of learning control-iterative learning control and repetitive control. Subsequently we survey several hot topics in the field of learning control. New trends in learning control using Lyapunov methods are also sketched, followed by remarks on future directions.
We have designed a thin, multiplexed infrared imaging system that uses a diffractive element for generating shift-encoded images in each aperture. We present preliminary experimental results that demonstrate imager pe...
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