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Self-organizing peer-to-peer social networks
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 The Authors.Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems provide a new solution to distributed information and resource sharing because of its outstanding properties in decentralization, dynamics, flexibility, autonomy, and cooperation, summarized as DDFAC in this paper. After a detailed analysis of the current P2P literature, this paper suggests to better exploit peer social relationships and peer autonomy to achieve efficient P2P structure design. Accordingly, this paper proposes Self-organizing peer-to-peer social networks (SoPPSoNs) to self-organize distributed peers in a decentralized way, in which neuron-like agents following extended Hebbian rules found in the brain activity represent peers to discover useful peer connections. The self-organized networks capture social associations of peers in resource sharing, and hence are called P2P social networks. SoPPSoNs have improved search speed and success rate as peer social networks are correctly formed. This has been verified through tests on real data collected from the Gnutella system. Analysis on the Gnutella data has verified that social associations of peers in reality are directed, asymmetric and weighted, validating the design of SoPPSoN. The tests presented in this paper have also evaluated the scalability of SoPPSoN, its performance under varied initial network connectivity and the effects of different learning rules.National Natural Science of Foundation of Chin
Spectral Line Width Broadening from Pair Fluctuation in a Frozen Rydberg Gas
Spectral line width broadening in Rydberg gases, a phenomenon previously
attributed to the many-body effect, was observed experimentally almost a decade
ago. The observed line width was typically 80-100 times larger than the average
interaction strength predicted from a binary interaction. The interpretation of
such a phenomenon is usually based on the so-called diffusion model, where the
line width broadening mostly originates from the diffusion of excitations. In
this paper, we present a model calculation to show that diffusion is not the
main mechanism to the line width broadening. We find that the rare pair
fluctuation at small separation is the dominant factor contributing to this
broadening. Our results give a width of about 20-30 times larger than the
average interaction strength. More importantly, by turning off the diffusion
process, we do not observe order of magnitude change in the spectral line
width
A concentrator for static magnetic field
We propose a compact passive device as a super-concentrator to create an
extremely high uniform static magnetic field over 50T in a large
two-dimensional free space from a weak background magnetic field. Such an
amazing thing becomes possible for the first time, thanks to space-folded
transformation and metamaterials for static magnetic fields. Finite element
method (FEM) is utilized to verify the performance of the proposed device
A channel estimation method for MIMO-OFDM Mobile WiMax systems
This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Copyright IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.In this paper, channel estimation for Space-Time Block Code (STBC) - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is investigated for Mobile WiMax systems. A new channel estimation approach is proposed using the dedicated pilot subcarriers defined at constant intervals by the WiMax standard. The estimation method has low computation as only linear operations are needed due to orthogonal pilot coding. The performances of the proposed method have been demonstrated by extensive computer simulations. For the OFDM system with two transmit antennas and one to four receive antennas and using QPSK modulation, the simulated results under different Stanford University Interim (SUI) channels show that the proposed method has only a 4dB loss compared to the ideal case where the channel is known at the receiver
Transforming magnets
Based on the form-invariant of Maxwell's equations under coordinate
transformations, we extend the theory of transformation optics to
transformation magneto-statics, which can design magnets through coordinate
transformations. Some novel DC magnetic field illusions created by magnets
(e.g. shirking magnets, cancelling magnets and overlapping magnets) are
designed and verified by numerical simulations. Our research will open a new
door to designing magnets and controlling DC magnetic fields
Challenge on the Astrophysical R-process Calculation with Nuclear Mass Models
Our understanding of the rapid neutron capture nucleosynthesis process in
universe depends on the reliability of nuclear mass predictions. Initiated by
the newly developed mass table in the relativistic mean field theory (RMF), in
this paper the influence of mass models on the -process calculations is
investigated assuming the same astrophysical conditions. The different model
predictions on the so far unreachable nuclei lead to significant deviations in
the calculated r-process abundances.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
Gate-controllable spin-battery
We propose a gate-controllable spin-battery for spin current. The
spin-battery consists of a lateral double quantum dot under a uniform magnetic
field. A finite DC spin-current is driven out of the device by controlling a
set of gate voltages. Spin-current can also be delivered in the absence of
charge-current. The proposed device should be realizable using present
technology at low temperature.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Appl. Phys. Let
Consequences of 't Hooft's Equivalence Class Theory and Symmetry by Large Coarse Graining
According to 't Hooft (Class.Quantum.Grav. 16 (1999), 3263), quantum gravity
can be postulated as a dissipative deterministic system, where quantum states
at the ``atomic scale''can be understood as equivalence classes of primordial
states governed by a dissipative deterministic dynamics law at the ``Planck
scale''. In this paper, it is shown that for a quantum system to have an
underlying deterministic dissipative dynamics, the time variable should be
discrete if the continuity of its temporal evolution is required. Besides, the
underlying deterministic theory also imposes restrictions on the energy
spectrum of the quantum system. It is also found that quantum symmetry at the
``atomic scale'' can be induced from 't Hooft's Coarse Graining classification
of primordial states at the "Planck scale".Comment: 12 papge, Late
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