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Link-based formalism for time evolution of adaptive networks
Network topology and nodal dynamics are two fundamental stones of adaptive
networks. Detailed and accurate knowledge of these two ingredients is crucial
for understanding the evolution and mechanism of adaptive networks. In this
paper, by adopting the framework of the adaptive SIS model proposed by Gross et
al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 208701 (2006)] and carefully utilizing the
information of degree correlation of the network, we propose a link-based
formalism for describing the system dynamics with high accuracy and subtle
details. Several specific degree correlation measures are introduced to reveal
the coevolution of network topology and system dynamics.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
GreenDelivery: Proactive Content Caching and Push with Energy-Harvesting-based Small Cells
The explosive growth of mobile multimedia traffic calls for scalable wireless
access with high quality of service and low energy cost. Motivated by the
emerging energy harvesting communications, and the trend of caching multimedia
contents at the access edge and user terminals, we propose a paradigm-shift
framework, namely GreenDelivery, enabling efficient content delivery with
energy harvesting based small cells. To resolve the two-dimensional randomness
of energy harvesting and content request arrivals, proactive caching and push
are jointly optimized, with respect to the content popularity distribution and
battery states. We thus develop a novel way of understanding the interplay
between content and energy over time and space. Case studies are provided to
show the substantial reduction of macro BS activities, and thus the related
energy consumption from the power grid is reduced. Research issues of the
proposed GreenDelivery framework are also discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted by IEEE Communications Magazin
Numerical evaluation of a two loop diagram in the cutoff regularization
The sunset diagram of theory is evaluated numerically in
cutoff scheme and a nonzero finite term (in accordance with dimensional
regularization (DR) result) is found in contrast to published calculations.
This finding dramatically reduces the critical couplings for symmetry breaking
in the two loop effective potential discussed in our previous work.Comment: 6 pages, revtex, to appear in Comm. Theor. Phy
Spatio-temporal Edge Service Placement: A Bandit Learning Approach
Shared edge computing platforms deployed at the radio access network are
expected to significantly improve quality of service delivered by Application
Service Providers (ASPs) in a flexible and economic way. However, placing edge
service in every possible edge site by an ASP is practically infeasible due to
the ASP's prohibitive budget requirement. In this paper, we investigate the
edge service placement problem of an ASP under a limited budget, where the ASP
dynamically rents computing/storage resources in edge sites to host its
applications in close proximity to end users. Since the benefit of placing edge
service in a specific site is usually unknown to the ASP a priori, optimal
placement decisions must be made while learning this benefit. We pose this
problem as a novel combinatorial contextual bandit learning problem. It is
"combinatorial" because only a limited number of edge sites can be rented to
provide the edge service given the ASP's budget. It is "contextual" because we
utilize user context information to enable finer-grained learning and decision
making. To solve this problem and optimize the edge computing performance, we
propose SEEN, a Spatial-temporal Edge sErvice placemeNt algorithm. Furthermore,
SEEN is extended to scenarios with overlapping service coverage by
incorporating a disjunctively constrained knapsack problem. In both cases, we
prove that our algorithm achieves a sublinear regret bound when it is compared
to an oracle algorithm that knows the exact benefit information. Simulations
are carried out on a real-world dataset, whose results show that SEEN
significantly outperforms benchmark solutions
Revisiting the distance, environment and supernova properties of SNR G57.2+0.8 that hosts SGR 1935+2154
We have performed a multi-wavelength study of supernova remnant (SNR)
G57.2+0.8 and its environment. The SNR hosts the magnetar SGR 1935+2154, which
emitted an extremely bright ms-duration radio burst on 2020 Apr 28 (The
Chime/Frb Collaboration et al. 2020; Bochenek et al. 2020). We used the 12CO
and 13CO J=1-0 data from the Milky Way Image Scroll Painting (MWISP) CO line
survey to search for molecular gas associated with G57.2+0.8, in order to
constrain the physical parameters (e.g., the distance) of the SNR and its
magnetar. We report that SNR G57.2+0.8 is likely impacting the molecular clouds
(MCs) at the local standard of rest (LSR) velocity V_{LSR} ~ 30 km/s and
excites a weak 1720 MHz OH maser with a peak flux density of 47 mJy/beam. The
chance coincidence of a random OH spot falling in the SNR is <12%, and the
OH-CO correspondence chance is 7% at the maser spot. This combines to give < 1%
false probability of the OH maser, suggesting a real maser detection. The LSR
velocity of the MCs places the SNR and magnetar at a kinematic distance of
d=6.6 +/- 0.7 kpc. The nondetection of thermal X-ray emission from the SNR and
the relatively dense environment suggests G57.2+0.8 be an evolved SNR with an
age (d/6.6 kpc) yr. The explosion energy of G57.2+0.8 is
lower than erg,
which is not very energetic even assuming a high ambient density = 10
cm. This reinforces the opinion that magnetars do not necessarily result
from very energetic supernova explosions.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
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