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Development of a ship weather routing system for energy efficient shipping
In this paper, a new ship weather routing system is developed towards enhancing energy efficiency. The routes searching is essentially regarded as an optimisation process with two objectives, which are respectively ETA (estimated arrival time) and fuel consumption. When ship characteristics, loading conditions, ship speed, and sea conditions (wave, wind and currents) are imported to this system, together with departure and final points and departure time, a set of minimum fuel consumption routes under different ETA can be achieved. In this way, an optimal and safe enough route can be decided according to shipping schedule. A combination of global and local optimisation strategy is used in weather routing optimisation. Finally, an Aframax Oil Tanker is taken as a case study to prove the validity of this ship weather routing decision system
Jointly Optimal Routing and Caching for Arbitrary Network Topologies
We study a problem of fundamental importance to ICNs, namely, minimizing
routing costs by jointly optimizing caching and routing decisions over an
arbitrary network topology. We consider both source routing and hop-by-hop
routing settings. The respective offline problems are NP-hard. Nevertheless, we
show that there exist polynomial time approximation algorithms producing
solutions within a constant approximation from the optimal. We also produce
distributed, adaptive algorithms with the same approximation guarantees. We
simulate our adaptive algorithms over a broad array of different topologies.
Our algorithms reduce routing costs by several orders of magnitude compared to
prior art, including algorithms optimizing caching under fixed routing.Comment: This is the extended version of the paper "Jointly Optimal Routing
and Caching for Arbitrary Network Topologies", appearing in the 4th ACM
Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2017), Berlin, Sep. 26-28,
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Risk Minimizing Evacuation Strategies under Uncertainty
This paper presents results on the simulation of the evacuation of the city of Padang with approximately 1,000,000 inhabitants. The model used is MATSim (www.matsim.org). Three different strategies were applied: shortest path solution, user optimum, system optimum, together with a constraint that moves should reduce risk whenever possible. The introduction of the risk minimization increases the overall required safe egress time (RSET). The differences between the RSET for the three risk minimizing strategies are small. Further quantities used for the assessment of the evacuation are the formation of congestion and the individual RSETs (in comparison with the available SET).BMBF, 03G0666E, Verbundprojekt FW: Last-mile Evacuation; Vorhaben: Evakuierungsanalyse und Verkehrsoptimierung, Evakuierungsplan einer Stadt - Sonderprogramm GEOTECHNOLOGIENBMBF, 03NAPAI4, Transport und Verkehr: Verbundprojekt ADVEST: Adaptive Verkehrssteuerung; Teilprojekt Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrssteuerung in Megacitie
Content Delivery Latency of Caching Strategies for Information-Centric IoT
In-network caching is a central aspect of Information-Centric Networking
(ICN). It enables the rapid distribution of content across the network,
alleviating strain on content producers and reducing content delivery
latencies. ICN has emerged as a promising candidate for use in the Internet of
Things (IoT). However, IoT devices operate under severe constraints, most
notably limited memory. This means that nodes cannot indiscriminately cache all
content; instead, there is a need for a caching strategy that decides what
content to cache. Furthermore, many applications in the IoT space are
timesensitive; therefore, finding a caching strategy that minimises the latency
between content request and delivery is desirable. In this paper, we evaluate a
number of ICN caching strategies in regards to latency and hop count reduction
using IoT devices in a physical testbed. We find that the topology of the
network, and thus the routing algorithm used to generate forwarding
information, has a significant impact on the performance of a given caching
strategy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that focuses on
latency effects in ICN-IoT caching while using real IoT hardware, and the first
to explicitly discuss the link between routing algorithm, network topology, and
caching effects.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, journal pape
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