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Coordinated Container Migration and Base Station Handover in Mobile Edge Computing
Offloading computationally intensive tasks from mobile users (MUs) to a
virtualized environment such as containers on a nearby edge server, can
significantly reduce processing time and hence end-to-end (E2E) delay. However,
when users are mobile, such containers need to be migrated to other edge
servers located closer to the MUs to keep the E2E delay low. Meanwhile, the
mobility of MUs necessitates handover among base stations in order to keep the
wireless connections between MUs and base stations uninterrupted. In this
paper, we address the joint problem of container migration and base-station
handover by proposing a coordinated migration-handover mechanism, with the
objective of achieving low E2E delay and minimizing service interruption. The
mechanism determines the optimal destinations and time for migration and
handover in a coordinated manner, along with a delta checkpoint technique that
we propose. We implement a testbed edge computing system with our proposed
coordinated migration-handover mechanism, and evaluate the performance using
real-world applications implemented with Docker container (an
industry-standard). The results demonstrate that our mechanism achieves 30%-40%
lower service downtime and 13%-22% lower E2E delay as compared to other
mechanisms. Our work is instrumental in offering smooth user experience in
mobile edge computing.Comment: 6 pages. Accepted for presentation at the IEEE Global Communications
Conference (Globecom), Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 202
Does afforestation deteriorate haze pollution in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH), China?
Although aggressive emission control strategies have been implemented recently in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area (BTH), China, pervasive and persistent haze still frequently engulfs the region during wintertime. Afforestation in BTH, primarily concentrated in the Taihang and Yan Mountains, has constituted one of the controversial factors exacerbating the haze pollution due to its slowdown of the surface wind speed. We report here an increasing trend of forest cover in BTH during 2001-2013 based on long-term satellite measurements and the impact of the afforestation on the fine-particle (PM2.5) level. Simulations using the Weather Research and Forecast model with chemistry reveal that afforestation in BTH since 2001 has generally been deteriorating the haze pollution in BTH to some degree, enhancing PM2.5 concentrations by up to 6% on average. Complete afforestation or deforestation in the Taihang and Yan Mountains would increase or decrease the PM2.5 level within 15% in BTH. Our model results also suggest that implementing a large ventilation corridor system would not be effective or beneficial to mitigate the haze pollution in Beijing
Higgs Boson Sector of the Next-to-MSSM with CP Violation
We perform a comprehensive study of the Higgs sector in the framework of the
next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model with CP-violating parameters in
the superpotential and in the soft-supersymmetry-breaking sector. Since the CP
is no longer a good symmetry, the two CP-odd and the three CP-even Higgs bosons
of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model in the CP-conserving limit
will mix. We show explicitly how the mass spectrum and couplings to gauge
bosons of the various Higgs bosons change when the CP-violating phases take on
nonzero values. We include full one-loop and the logarithmically enhanced
two-loop effects employing the renormalization-group (RG) improved approach. In
addition, the LEP limits, the global minimum condition, and the positivity of
the square of the Higgs-boson mass have been imposed. We demonstrate the
effects on the Higgs-mass spectrum and the couplings to gauge bosons with and
without the RG-improved corrections. Substantial modifications to the allowed
parameter space happen because of the changes to the Higgs-boson spectrum and
their couplings with the RG-improved corrections. Finally, we calculate the
mass spectrum and couplings of the few selected scenarios and compare to the
previous results in literature where possible; in particular, we illustrate a
scenario motivated by electroweak baryogenesis.Comment: 40 pages, 49 figures; v2: typos corrected and references added; v3:
some clarification and new figures added, version published in PR
Integration and visualization of systems biology data in context of the genome
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>High-density tiling arrays and new sequencing technologies are generating rapidly increasing volumes of transcriptome and protein-DNA interaction data. Visualization and exploration of this data is critical to understanding the regulatory logic encoded in the genome by which the cell dynamically affects its physiology and interacts with its environment.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The Gaggle Genome Browser is a cross-platform desktop program for interactively visualizing high-throughput data in the context of the genome. Important features include dynamic panning and zooming, keyword search and open interoperability through the Gaggle framework. Users may bookmark locations on the genome with descriptive annotations and share these bookmarks with other users. The program handles large sets of user-generated data using an in-process database and leverages the facilities of SQL and the R environment for importing and manipulating data.</p> <p>A key aspect of the Gaggle Genome Browser is interoperability. By connecting to the Gaggle framework, the genome browser joins a suite of interconnected bioinformatics tools for analysis and visualization with connectivity to major public repositories of sequences, interactions and pathways. To this flexible environment for exploring and combining data, the Gaggle Genome Browser adds the ability to visualize diverse types of data in relation to its coordinates on the genome.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Genomic coordinates function as a common key by which disparate biological data types can be related to one another. In the Gaggle Genome Browser, heterogeneous data are joined by their location on the genome to create information-rich visualizations yielding insight into genome organization, transcription and its regulation and, ultimately, a better understanding of the mechanisms that enable the cell to dynamically respond to its environment.</p
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