A Fair Bulk Data Transmission Protocol in Grid Environments

In this paper, we propose FHSTCP (Fair High-Speed TCP) as an improvement of HSTCP, which adds a fair factor to eliminate the difference of congestion window caused by different RTT and adopts block-pacing to reduce the burstiness. Simulation results show that FHSTCP can alleviate the RTT unfairness meanwhile keeping advantages of HSTCP. Document type: Part of book or chapter of boo

Aerobic Oxidation of Cyclohexane Effectively Catalyzed by Simply Synthesized Silica-Supported Cobalt Ferrite Magnetic Nanocrystal

Silica-supported magnetic cobalt ferrite complex oxides, CoFe2O4/SiO2, with different loading of 5, 10, 20, and 50% were simply prepared by a sol–gel autocombustion method using colloidal aqueous silica solution as a cheap silica source. The as-prepared samples were well characterized by X-ray diffractometry (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometry (FT-IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and N2 physisorption. Metals contents of the samples were also determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Their catalytic performances were evaluated on cyclohexane oxidation using oxygen as oxidant in the absence of solvents and reductants. The supported catalysts have shown high catalytic activities for cyclohexane oxidation. Especially, when 5% loading of CoFe2O4/SiO2 was employed, 4181 turnover number and 95.4% selectivity for cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol were obtained under 1.6 MPa of initial oxygen pressure at 418 K after 6.0 h of reaction. The sample of 50% of CoFe2O4/SiO2 has strong magnetism and can be magnetically separated easily. This sample was employed as catalyst to optimize the reaction conditions. The catalyst showed prominent reusability, and no obvious loss in activity was observed when reused in six consecutive runs