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Robust And Optimal Opportunistic Scheduling For Downlink 2-Flow Network Coding With Varying Channel Quality and Rate Adaptation
This paper considers the downlink traffic from a base station to two
different clients. When assuming infinite backlog, it is known that
inter-session network coding (INC) can significantly increase the throughput of
each flow. However, the corresponding scheduling solution (when assuming
dynamic arrivals instead and requiring bounded delay) is still nascent.
For the 2-flow downlink scenario, we propose the first opportunistic INC +
scheduling solution that is provably optimal for time-varying channels, i.e.,
the corresponding stability region matches the optimal Shannon capacity.
Specifically, we first introduce a new binary INC operation, which is
distinctly different from the traditional wisdom of XORing two overheard
packets. We then develop a queue-length-based scheduling scheme, which, with
the help of the new INC operation, can robustly and optimally adapt to
time-varying channel quality. We then show that the proposed algorithm can be
easily extended for rate adaptation and it again robustly achieves the optimal
throughput. A byproduct of our results is a scheduling scheme for stochastic
processing networks (SPNs) with random departure, which relaxes the assumption
of deterministic departure in the existing results. The new SPN scheduler could
thus further broaden the applications of SPN scheduling to other real-world
scenarios
Finding Related Publications: Extending the Set of Terms Used to Assess Article Similarity.
Recommendation of related articles is an important feature of the PubMed. The PubMed Related Citations (PRC) algorithm is the engine that enables this feature, and it leverages information on 22 million citations. We analyzed the performance of the PRC algorithm on 4584 annotated articles from the 2005 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Genomics Track data. Our analysis indicated that the PRC highest weighted term was not always consistent with the critical term that was most directly related to the topic of the article. We implemented term expansion and found that it was a promising and easy-to-implement approach to improve the performance of the PRC algorithm for the TREC 2005 Genomics data and for the TREC 2014 Clinical Decision Support Track data. For term expansion, we trained a Skip-gram model using the Word2Vec package. This extended PRC algorithm resulted in higher average precision for a large subset of articles. A combination of both algorithms may lead to improved performance in related article recommendations
GENHOP: An Image Generation Method Based on Successive Subspace Learning
Being different from deep-learning-based (DL-based) image generation methods,
a new image generative model built upon successive subspace learning principle
is proposed and named GenHop (an acronym of Generative PixelHop) in this work.
GenHop consists of three modules: 1) high-to-low dimension reduction, 2) seed
image generation, and 3) low-to-high dimension expansion. In the first module,
it builds a sequence of high-to-low dimensional subspaces through a sequence of
whitening processes, each of which contains samples of joint-spatial-spectral
representation. In the second module, it generates samples in the lowest
dimensional subspace. In the third module, it finds a proper high-dimensional
sample for a seed image by adding details back via locally linear embedding
(LLE) and a sequence of coloring processes. Experiments show that GenHop can
generate visually pleasant images whose FID scores are comparable or even
better than those of DL-based generative models for MNIST, Fashion-MNIST and
CelebA datasets.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ISCAS 202
High-Mobility Pentacene-Based Thin-Film Transistors With a Solution-Processed Barium Titanate Insulator
Abstract—Pentacene-based organic thin-film transistors
(OTFTs) with solution-processed barium titanate (Ba1.2Ti0.8O3)
as a gate insulator are demonstrated. The electrical properties
of pentacene-based TFTs show a high field-effect mobility of
8.85 cm2 · V−1 · s−1, a low threshold voltage of −1.89 V, and a
low subthreshold slope swing of 310 mV/decade. The chemical
composition and binding energy of solution-processed barium
titanate thin films are analyzed through X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy. The matching surface energy on the surface of
the barium titanate thin film is 43.12 mJ · m−2, which leads to
Stranski–Krastanov mode growth, and thus, high mobility is
exhibited in pentacene-based TFTs.
Index Terms—Barium titanate, high field-effect mobility, high
permittivity, organic thin-filmtransistor (OTFT), solution process
Improving Formwork Engineering Using the Toyota Way
Construction is a labor-intensive industry with formwork engineering requiring a disproportionate amount of labor and costs. Formwork accounts for approximately one-third of the cost of reinforced concrete construction, partly because traditional formwork processes frequently result in delivery delays and material waste. The purpose of this research is to adapt production concepts pioneered by Toyota (the “Toyota Way”) to improve formwork engineering. The Toyota Way of production consists of four tiers of management philosophy, known as the “4Ps” model. This research adopts the 4Ps as steps for formwork improvement. The first step, “establishing long term vision,” emphasizes long term considerations for formwork improvement. Step two, “establishing value streams,” reviews formwork flows and eliminates wastage. The third step, “developing the crew,” forms mold workers as a team. The final step is “developing a culture of continuous improvement” that provides a basis for constant review and provides a basis for continuous progress. The present research used the Toyota Way to improve formwork engineering. The improvements include reductions in resource waste and increases in operational value. In the long run, the proposed model could provide a learning and growth platform for individuals, the business unit, and the company’s extended network of partners. It could also serve to spur innovative thinking in the improvement of formwork engineering
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