The degradation of end-to-end quality of service (QoS) on mobile users is becoming a common issue for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure-based networks in crowded areas. This research tackles the issue by employing an SDN framework on an integrated wireless/wired environment. Thereby, we present the development and implementation of a system that performs user management by analyzing the network load from the OpenFlow statistics, as well as the wireless information collected from the associated users. In order to analyse the behaviour of the proposed user migration algorithm, we evaluate the system under scenarios with different traffic load and user session duration. From the experiments, we observed that in several cases wireless users get a considerable QoS improvement at the application layer (up to 30% improvement in throughput and up to 20% in delay in our simulations) once the system is activated. Based on the results, we present an analysis on how and when user migration in multi-access point IEEE 802.11 networks can be most effective. 相似文献
In this paper, we present a pipeline architecture specifically designed to process and compress DNA microarray images. Many of the pixilated image generation methods produce one row of the image at a time. This property is fully exploited by the proposed pipeline that takes in one row of the produced image at each clock pulse and performs the necessary image processing steps on it. This will remove the present need for sluggish software routines that are considered a major bottleneck in the microarray technology. Moreover, two different structures are proposed for compressing DNA microarray images. The proposed architecture is proved to be highly modular, scalable, and suited for a standard cell VLSI implementation. 相似文献
Investigation of structural development of acrylic fibers during the early stages of the wet-spinning process has great importance
both in carbon fiber and textile industries. The simultaneous effects of increasing polymer concentration, jet-stretching
and hot-drawing on porosity, morphology, and mechanical properties of wet-spun poly(acrylonitrile) fibers were studied. The
detailed microstructure of the voids was characterized by electron microscopy, porosimetry, and thermoporometry. The effects
of jet-stretching/hot-drawing on the overall porosity of the fibers were negligible below a threshold polymer concentration.
Increasing polymer concentration from 10 to 20 vol.% reduced the total porosity. Hot-drawing was more effective in reducing
the overall porosity of the fibers in comparison with jet-stretching. Stretching and drawing replaced the macrovoids by dense
ligaments but did not change the volume fraction of nanovoids, however, shifted nanovoids size distribution toward smaller
values. In general, Young’s modulus and elongation at break increased by decreasing overall porosity, however, they depended
also on the distribution of voids size and chain orientation along the fiber axis. Strength–diameter correlation showed a
good agreement with the Griffith’s theory. 相似文献
The on-chip inductive impact on signal integrity has been a problem for designs in deep-submicrometer technologies. The inductive impact increases the clock skew, max timing, and noise of bus signals. In this letter, circuit simulations using silicon-validated macromodels show that there is a significant inductive impact on the signal max timing (/spl sim/ 10% pushout versus RC delay) and noise (/spl sim/2/spl times/RC noise). In nanometer technologies, process variations have become a concern. Results show that device and interconnect process variations add /spl sim/ 3% to the RLC max-timing impact. However, their impact on the RLC signal noise is not appreciable. Finally, inductive impact in 65- and 45-nm technologies is investigated, which indicates that the inductance impact will not diminish as technology scales. 相似文献
In this paper, new floating immittance function simulators employing second-generation current controlled conveyors are proposed.
The first four of the presented circuits employ only a single grounded capacitor as passive component and can realize either
a negative or a positive floating inductor or capacitor. The last two of the proposed circuits do not employ passive components
and can realize either negative or positive floating resistances. All of the proposed circuits do not require passive element
matching. As an application, a third-order butterworth filter is realized using the proposed positive floating inductance
simulator. SPICE simulation results and large signal behavior of the filter are included. 相似文献
Recent research based on traffic measurements shows that Internet traffic flows have a fractal nature (i.e., self-similarity
property), which causes an underestimation of network engineering parameters when using the conventional Poisson model. Preliminary
field measurements demonstrate that packet data traffic in wireless communications also exhibits self-similarity. In this
paper, we investigate the queuing behavior of self-similar traffic flows for data applications in a packet-switching single-server
wireless network. The traffic is generated by an on–off source with heavy-tailed on periods and exponentially distributed
off periods. We extend previous analysis of a relation among the asymptotic distribution of loss probability, traffic specifications,
and transmission rate for a wireline system to a wireless system, taking into account wireless propagation channel characteristics.
We also investigate the multiplexing of heavy-tailed traffic flows with a finite buffer for the downlink transmission of a
wireless network. Computer simulation results demonstrate that assumptions made in the theoretical analysis are reasonable
and the derived relationships are accurate. 相似文献
The high average power laser program is developing an inertial fusion energy demonstration power reactor with a solid first wall chamber. The first wall (FW) will be subject to high energy density radiation and high doses of high energy helium implantation. Tungsten has been identified as the candidate material for a FW armor. The fundamental concern is long term thermo-mechanical survivability of the armor against the effects of high temperature pulsed operation and exfoliation due to the retention of implanted helium. Even if a solid tungsten armor coating would survive the high temperature cyclic operation with minimal failure, the high helium implantation and retention would result in unacceptable material loss rates. Micro-engineered materials, such as castellated structures, plasma sprayed nano-porous coatings and refractory foams are suggested as a first wall armor material to address these fundamental concerns. A micro-engineered FW armor would have to be designed with specific geometric features that tolerate high cyclic heating loads and recycle most of the implanted helium without any significant failure. Micro-engineered materials are briefly reviewed. In particular, plasma-sprayed nano-porous tungsten and tungsten foams are assessed for their potential to accommodate inertial fusion specific loads. Tests show that nano-porous plasma spray coatings can be manufactured with high permeability to helium gas, while retaining relatively high thermal conductivities. Tungsten foams where shown to be able to overcome thermo-mechanical loads by cell rotation and deformation. Helium implantation tests have shown, that pulsed implantation and heating releases significant levels of implanted helium. Helium implantation and release from tungsten was modeled using an expanded kinetic rate theory, to include the effects of pulsed implantations and thermal cycles. Although, significant challenges remain micro-engineered materials are shown to constitute potential candidate FW armor materials. 相似文献
Software-defined networks (SDNs), as an emerging paradigm by separating the control plane from the data plane, increases flexibility and network utilization and reduces redundancy and operational cost. Traffic management of software-defined networks can be defined as network traffic monitoring and analyzing measures to improve network performance and quality of service metrics. Traffic management as an effective instrument for optimizing network traffic can offer the appropriate services according to network situation. Due to the inherent characteristics of SDN, special techniques are required to analyze, predict, and adapt the network traffic in order to achieve an efficient traffic management mechanism. This paper surveys traffic management techniques of SDN in four distinct categories including, routing, load balancing, congestion control, and flow control to cover the impressible issues. Moreover, the differences between SDN and traditional networks are analyzed in terms of traffic management necessities across the various groups to further determine the dimensions affecting research in this area. Furthermore, the available algorithms in each group and their role in traffic management are reviewed as well as the research challenges and future trends.