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Cycle time optimization by timing driven placement with simultaneous netlist transformations
We present new concepts to integrate logic synthesis and physical design. Our methodology uses general Boolean transformations as known from technology-independent synthesis, and a recursive bi-partitioning placement algorithm. In each partitioning step, the precision of the layout data increases. This allows effective guidance of the logic synthesis operations for cycle time optimization. An additional advantage of our approach is that no complicated layout corrections are needed when the netlist is changed
Energy Efficiency and Quality of Services in Virtualized Cloud Radio Access Network
Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is being widely studied for soft and green fifth generation of Long Term Evolution - Advanced (LTE-A). The recent technology advancement in network virtualization function (NFV) and software defined radio (SDR) has enabled virtualization of Baseband Units (BBU) and sharing of underlying general purpose processing (GPP) infrastructure. Also, new innovations in optical transport network (OTN) such as Dark Fiber provides low latency and high bandwidth channels that can support C-RAN for more than forty-kilometer radius. All these advancements make C-RAN feasible and practical. Several virtualization strategies and architectures are proposed for C-RAN and it has been established that C-RAN offers higher energy efficiency and better resource utilization than the current decentralized radio access network (D-RAN). This project studies proposed resource utilization strategy and device a method to calculate power utilization. Then proposes and analyzes a new resource management and virtual BBU placement strategy for C-RAN based on demand prediction and inter-BBU communication load. The new approach is compared with existing state of art strategies with same input scenarios and load. The trade-offs between energy efficiency and quality of services is discussed. The project concludes with comparison between different strategies based on complexity of the system, performance in terms of service availability and optimization efficiency in different scenarios
Optimization of Battery Energy Storage to Improve Power System Oscillation Damping
A placement problem for multiple Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) units
is formulated towards power system transient voltage stability enhancement in
this paper. The problem is solved by the Cross-Entropy (CE) optimization
method. A simulation-based approach is adopted to incorporate higher-order
dynamics and nonlinearities of generators and loads. The objective is to
maximize the voltage stability index, which is setup based on certain
grid-codes. Formulations of the optimization problem are then discussed.
Finally, the proposed approach is implemented in MATLAB/DIgSILENT and tested on
the New England 39-Bus system. Results indicate that installing BESS units at
the optimized location can alleviate transient voltage instability issue
compared with the original system with no BESS. The CE placement algorithm is
also compared with the classic PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) method, and
its superiority is demonstrated in terms of a faster convergence rate with
matched solution qualities.Comment: This paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Sustainable
Energy and now still in online-publication phase, IEEE Transactions on
Sustainable Energy. 201
JIGSAW-GEO (1.0): locally orthogonal staggered unstructured grid generation for general circulation modelling on the sphere
An algorithm for the generation of non-uniform, locally-orthogonal staggered
unstructured spheroidal grids is described. This technique is designed to
generate very high-quality staggered Voronoi/Delaunay meshes appropriate for
general circulation modelling on the sphere, including applications to
atmospheric simulation, ocean-modelling and numerical weather prediction. Using
a recently developed Frontal-Delaunay refinement technique, a method for the
construction of high-quality unstructured spheroidal Delaunay triangulations is
introduced. A locally-orthogonal polygonal grid, derived from the associated
Voronoi diagram, is computed as the staggered dual. It is shown that use of the
Frontal-Delaunay refinement technique allows for the generation of very
high-quality unstructured triangulations, satisfying a-priori bounds on element
size and shape. Grid-quality is further improved through the application of
hill-climbing type optimisation techniques. Overall, the algorithm is shown to
produce grids with very high element quality and smooth grading
characteristics, while imposing relatively low computational expense. A
selection of uniform and non-uniform spheroidal grids appropriate for
high-resolution, multi-scale general circulation modelling are presented. These
grids are shown to satisfy the geometric constraints associated with
contemporary unstructured C-grid type finite-volume models, including the Model
for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS-O). The use of user-defined mesh-spacing
functions to generate smoothly graded, non-uniform grids for multi-resolution
type studies is discussed in detail.Comment: Final revisions, as per: Engwirda, D.: JIGSAW-GEO (1.0): locally
orthogonal staggered unstructured grid generation for general circulation
modelling on the sphere, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2117-2140,
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2117-2017, 201
Performance evaluation of WMN-GA for different mutation and crossover rates considering number of covered users parameter
Node placement problems have been long investigated in the optimization field due to numerous applications in location science and classification. Facility location problems are showing their usefulness to communication networks, and more especially from Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) field. Recently, such problems are showing their usefulness to communication networks, where facilities could be servers or routers offering connectivity services to clients. In this paper, we deal with the effect of mutation and crossover operators in GA for node placement problem. We evaluate the performance of the proposed system using different selection operators and different distributions of router nodes considering number of covered users parameter. The simulation results show that for Linear and Exponential ranking methods, the system has a good performance for all rates of crossover and mutation.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
Joint Service Placement and Request Routing in Multi-cell Mobile Edge Computing Networks
The proliferation of innovative mobile services such as augmented reality,
networked gaming, and autonomous driving has spurred a growing need for
low-latency access to computing resources that cannot be met solely by existing
centralized cloud systems. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to be an
effective solution to meet the demand for low-latency services by enabling the
execution of computing tasks at the network-periphery, in proximity to
end-users. While a number of recent studies have addressed the problem of
determining the execution of service tasks and the routing of user requests to
corresponding edge servers, the focus has primarily been on the efficient
utilization of computing resources, neglecting the fact that non-trivial
amounts of data need to be stored to enable service execution, and that many
emerging services exhibit asymmetric bandwidth requirements. To fill this gap,
we study the joint optimization of service placement and request routing in
MEC-enabled multi-cell networks with multidimensional
(storage-computation-communication) constraints. We show that this problem
generalizes several problems in literature and propose an algorithm that
achieves close-to-optimal performance using randomized rounding. Evaluation
results demonstrate that our approach can effectively utilize the available
resources to maximize the number of requests served by low-latency edge cloud
servers.Comment: IEEE Infocom 201
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