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Data is the Fuel of Organizations: Opportunities and Challenges in Afghanistan
In this paper, the author at first briefly outlines the value of data in
organizations and the opportunities and challenges in Afghanistan. Then the
author takes the Kankor (National University Entrance Exam) data, particularly
names of participants, locations, high schools and higher education
institutions into account and explains how these data, that organizations in
Afghanistan do not use for anything, can be useful in several cases and areas.
The application of these data is shown through cases such as Auto filling
missing values, identifying names of people, locations, and institutions from
unstructured text, generating fake data to benchmark the database and web
application performance and appearance, comparing and matching high school data
with Kankor data, producing the top-n male and female names very common in
Afghanistan or province-wise, and the data mining application in education and
higher education institutions.Comment: This paper consists of 14 pages, and it includes 7 figure
Sparse l1 Regularisation of Matrix Valued Models for Acoustic Source Characterisation
We present a strategy for the recovery of a sparse solution of a common
problem in acoustic engineering, which is the reconstruction of sound source
levels and locations applying microphone array measurements. The considered
task bears similarities to the basis pursuit formalism but also relies on
additional model assumptions that are challenging from a mathematical point of
view. Our approach reformulates the original task as a convex optimisation
model. The sought solution shall be a matrix with a certain desired structure.
We enforce this structure through additional constraints. By combining popular
splitting algorithms and matrix differential theory in a novel framework we
obtain a numerically efficient strategy. Besides a thorough theoretical
consideration we also provide an experimental setup that certifies the
usability of our strategy. Finally, we also address practical issues, such as
the handling of inaccuracies in the measurement and corruption of the given
data. We provide a post processing step that is capable of yielding an almost
perfect solution in such circumstances.Comment: 30 pages, 15 Figure
Handover Necessity Estimation for 4G Heterogeneous Networks
One of the most challenges of 4G network is to have a unified network of
heterogeneous wireless networks. To achieve seamless mobility in such a diverse
environment, vertical hand off is still a challenging problem. In many
situations handover failures and unnecessary handoffs are triggered causing
degradation of services, reduction in throughput and increase the blocking
probability and packet loss. In this paper a new vertical handoff decision
algorithm handover necessity estimation (HNE), is proposed to minimize the
number of handover failure and unnecessary handover in heterogeneous wireless
networks. we have proposed a multi criteria vertical handoff decision algorithm
based on two parts: traveling time estimation and time threshold calculation.
Our proposed methods are compared against two other methods: (a) the fixed RSS
threshold based method, in which handovers between the cellular network and the
WLAN are initiated when the RSS from the WLAN reaches a fixed threshold, and
(b) the hysteresis based method, in which a hysteresis is introduced to prevent
the ping-pong effect. Simulation results show that, this method reduced the
number of handover failures and unnecessary handovers up to 80% and 70%,
respectively
Is Physician Education Effective in Promoting Antibiotic Stewardship?
Reviews current research on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the amount of antibiotics physicians inappropriately prescribe. Recommends combining active education strategies that include physicians, patients, and communities
The Proposed Sticks Standard
This is version 1.0 of the Sticks Standard. Software has been written to interface this standard to plotters, a graphic Sticks editor, a Stick compactor and several
simulators. The Standard appears adequate to describe cells for chip assemblers as well as Stick diagram editing and compaction systems. However, this version of the
Sticks Standard cannot efficiently describe large chips because it lacks an array facility. This deficiency will be corrected in the next release of the Sticks Standard:
This document consists of four parts: Sticks definition, Sticks Standard design considerations, the specification of the Sticks Standard, and an example of the Standard in use
Sensor and Sink Placement, Scheduling and Routing Algorithms for Connected Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
A sensor is a small electronic device which has the ability to sense, compute
and communicate either with other sensors or directly with a base station
(sink). In a wireless sensor network (WSN), the sensors monitor a region and
transmit the collected data packets through routes to the sinks. In this study,
we propose a mixed--integer linear programming (MILP) model to maximize the
number of time periods that a WSN carries out the desired tasks with limited
energy and budget. Our sink and sensor placement, scheduling, routing with
connected coverage () model is the first in the literature that combines
the decisions for the locations of sinks and sensors, activity schedules of the
deployed sensors, and data flow routes from each active sensor to its assigned
sink for connected coverage of the network over a finite planning horizon. The
problem is NP--hard and difficult to solve even for small instances. Assuming
that the sink locations are known, we develop heuristics which construct a
feasible solution of the problem by gradually satisfying the constraints. Then,
we introduce search heuristics to determine the locations of the sinks to
maximize the network lifetime. Computational experiments reveal that our
heuristic methods can find near optimal solutions in an acceptable amount of
time compared to the commercial solver CPLEX 12.7.0.Comment: 30 pages, 1 figure, 7 table
Trajectory Optimization for Completion Time Minimization in UAV-Enabled Multicasting
This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicasting
system, where a UAV is dispatched to disseminate a common file to a number of
geographically distributed ground terminals (GTs). Our objective is to design
the UAV trajectory to minimize its mission completion time, while ensuring that
each GT is able to successfully recover the file with a high probability
required. We consider the use of practical random linear network coding (RLNC)
for UAV multicasting, so that each GT is able to recover the file as long as it
receives a sufficiently large number of coded packets. However, the formulated
UAV trajectory optimization problem is non-convex and difficult to be directly
solved. To tackle this issue, we first derive an analytical lower bound for the
success probability of each GT's file recovery. Based on this result, we then
reformulate the problem into a more tractable form, where the UAV trajectory
only needs to be designed to meet a set of constraints each on the minimum
connection time with a GT, during which their distance is below a designed
threshold. We show that the optimal UAV trajectory only needs to constitute
connected line segments, thus it can be obtained by determining first the
optimal set of waypoints and then UAV speed along the lines connecting the
waypoints. We propose practical schemes for the waypoints design based on a
novel concept of virtual base station (VBS) placement and by applying convex
optimization techniques. Furthermore, for given set of waypoints, we obtain the
optimal UAV speed over the resulting path efficiently by solving a linear
programming (LP) problem. Numerical results show that the proposed UAV-enabled
multicasting with optimized trajectory design achieves significant performance
gains as compared to benchmark schemes.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted for possible journal
publication
Reverse logistics and space allocation for recovery management in new urban settlements
This paper presents the authors’ vision about the planning foundation for the new residential areas from the large cities outskirts, in a sustainable development framework. One considers the great generation potential of the high and very high income population in case of the used products with remained reuse value, or new and undesired products, available in the residential places. We propose a space allocation model with a hexagonal hierarchical structure for the centralized return centers in a reverse logistics. The space allocation model for the recovery centers implementation takes into consideration: the recovery habits, environmental care and sustainable development education, “moral” compensations, centralized recovery centers facilities, walking willingness of the average inhabitant of the considered area, decision makings involvement at the local Public Authority level, and local community. One reveals the importance of the data collecting stage for the potential and availability of the exhausted products (having reuse value) in a specific area with high and very high income populationreverse logistics; centralized return centres; recovery potential; space allocation
Behavior of Wireless Body-to-Body Networks Routing Strategies for Public Protection and Disaster Relief
Critical and public safety operations require real-time data transfer from
the incident area(s) to the distant operations command center going through the
evacuation and medical support areas. Any delay in communication may cause
significant loss. In some cases, it is anticipated that the existing
communication infrastructures can be damaged or out-of-service. It is thus
required to deploy tactical ad-hoc networks to cover the operation zones.
Routing data over the deployed network is a significant challenge with
consideration to the operations conditions. In this paper we evaluate the
performance of mutli-hop routing protocols while using different wireless
technologies in an urban critical and emergency scenario. Using a realistic
mobility model, Mobile Ad hoc, geographic based and data-centric routing
protocols are evaluated with different communication technologies (i.e. WiFi
IEEE 802.11; WSN IEEE 802.15.4; WBAN IEEE 802.15.6). It is concluded that, WiFi
IEEE 802.11 is the best wireless technology with consideration to the packet
reception rate and the energy consumption. Whereas, in terms of delay, WBAN
IEEE 802.15.6 is the most efficient. With regards to the routing protocols,
assuming that the location information is available, geographical based routing
protocol with WiFi IEEE 802.11 performed much better compared to the others
routing protocols. In case where the location information is unavailable,
gradient based routing protocol with WBAN IEEE 802.15.6 seems the best
combination.Comment: WiMob, Oct 2015, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate
Cooperative Interference Mitigation and Handover Management for Heterogeneous Cloud Small Cell Networks
Heterogeneous small cell network has attracted much attention to satisfy
users' explosive data traffic requirements. Heterogeneous cloud small cell
network (HCSNet), which combines cloud computing and heterogeneous small cell
network, will likely play an important role in 5G mobile communication
networks. However, with massive deployment of small cells, co-channel
interference and handover management are two important problems in HCSNet,
especially for cell edge users. In this article, we examine the problems of
cooperative interference mitigation and handover management in HCSNet. A
network architecture is described to combine cloud radio access network with
small cells. An effective coordinated multi-point (CoMP) clustering scheme
using affinity propagation is adopted to mitigate cell edge users'
interference. A low complexity handover management scheme is presented, and its
signaling procedure is analyzed in HCSNet. Numerical results show that the
proposed network architecture, CoMP clustering scheme and handover management
scheme can significantly increase the capacity of HCSNet while maintaining
users' quality of service.Comment: to appear in IEEE Wireless Communication
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