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Locate QCD Critical End Point in a Continuum Model Study
With a modified chemical potential dependent effective model for the gluon
propagator, we try to locate the critical end point (CEP) of strongly
interacting matter in the framework of Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSE). Beyond
the chiral limit, we find that Nambu solution and Wigner solution could coexist
in some area. Using the CornwallJackiw-Tomboulis (CJT) effective action, we
show that these two phases are connected by a first order phase transition. We
then locate CEP as the end point of the first order phase transition line.
Meanwhile, based on CJT effective action, we give a direct calculation for the
chiral susceptibility and thereby study the crossover.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures; Version published in JHE
Quantitative global well-posedness of Boltzmann-Bose-Einstein equation and incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier limit
In the diffusive scaling and in the whole space, we prove the global
well-posedness of the scaled Boltzmann-Bose-Einstein (briefly, BBE) equation
with high temperature in the low regularity space . In particular, we
quantify the fluctuation around the Bose-Einstein equilibrium
with respect to the parameters and
temperature . Furthermore, the estimate for the diffusively scaled BBE
equation is uniform to the Knudsen number . As a consequence, we
rigorously justify the hydrodynamic limit to the incompressible
Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations. This is the first rigorous fluid limit result
for BBE.Comment: 42 page
A Survey of Network Protocol Fuzzing: Model, Techniques and Directions
As one of the most successful and effective software testing techniques in
recent years, fuzz testing has uncovered numerous bugs and vulnerabilities in
modern software, including network protocol software. In contrast to other
fuzzing targets, network protocol software exhibits its distinct
characteristics and challenges, introducing a plethora of research questions
that need to be addressed in the design and implementation of network protocol
fuzzers. While some research work has evaluated and systematized the knowledge
of general fuzzing techniques at a high level, there is a lack of similar
analysis and summarization for fuzzing research specific to network protocols.
This paper offers a comprehensive exposition of network protocol software's
fuzzing-related features and conducts a systematic review of some
representative advancements in network protocol fuzzing since its inception. We
summarize state-of-the-art strategies and solutions in various aspects, propose
a unified protocol fuzzing process model, and introduce the techniques involved
in each stage of the model. At the same time, this paper also summarizes the
promising research directions in the landscape of protocol fuzzing to foster
exploration within the community for more efficient and intelligent modern
network protocol fuzzing techniques
A simple encoder scheme for distributed residual video coding.
Rate-Distortion (RD) performance of Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is considerably less than that of conventional predictive video coding. In order to reduce the performance gap, many methods and techniques have been proposed to improve the coding efficiency of DVC with increased system complexity, especially techniques employed at the encoder such as encoder mode decisions, optimal quantization, hash methods etc., no doubt increase the complexity of the encoder. However, low complexity encoder is a widely desired feature of DVC. In order to improve the coding efficiency while maintaining low complexity encoder, this paper focuses on Distributed Residual Video Coding (DRVC) architecture and proposes a simple encoder scheme. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: 1) propose a bit plane block based method combined with bit plane re-arrangement to improve the dependency between source and Side Information (SI), and meanwhile, to reduce the amount of data to be channel encoded 2) present a simple iterative dead-zone quantizer with 3 levels in order to adjust quantization from coarse to fine. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms DISCOVER scheme for low to medium motion video sequences in terms of RD performance, and maintains a low complexity encoder at the same time
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