FastDu is a file system service that tracks file system changes by intercepting file system calls to maintain directory summaries, which play important roles in both storage administration and improvement of user experiences for some applications. In most circumstances, directory summaries are independently harvested by applications via traversing the file system hierarchy and calling stat () on every file in each directory. For large file systems, this brute-force traverse-based approach can ta...

This paper presents a mixed H₂/H_∞ control using fuzzy singularly perturbed model (FSPM) with multiple perturbation parameters. Since FSPM with multiple perturbation parameters is an extension of models with a single perturbation parameter, the theoretical results are applicable to a larger class of systems described by multiple time scale nonlinear models, such as flying aircraft and flexible space robots. The parameter-independent solution of the mixed H₂/...

In order to improve micro-CT's capability of accurate quantification of linear attenuation coefficient μ, a dual energy method was developed to correct beam hardening artifacts caused by the polychromatic spectra of X-ray tubes. In this method, two sets of scans, taken at different energy levels, were combined to create a synthetic monochromatic image. A physical polychromatic model of μ in dual energy imaging was developed with an iterative method to solve the model for a few selected pixels. T...

A reverse detection based QoS routing algorithm was developed based on the dynamic topology of low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation networks. This distributed algorithm has very low computational complexity, so it is suitable for on-board processing. This algorithm improves the autonomous operating capability and throughput of satellite networks. Simulations show that the algorithm has better performance than the static sequent snap shots algorithm with acceptable low overhead signaling...

Extended target detection performance can be enhanced by using phase-modulated waveform designs in band-limited radar systems. Unlike waveforms designed for the total energy constraint, phase-modulated waveforms can fully exploit the transmit power in the pulse duration, which is more suitable for practical radar systems. An alternating iterative algorithm was developed to optimize the phase-modulated baseband waveform by maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver filter output. ...

Time-division multiplexed switching (TDMS)-based multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel sounders are widely used for wireless channel measurements due to their effective costs. However, measurement noise such as phase noise in the local oscillators as well as additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) can result in significant errors in channel capacity estimates. This study analyzes the impact of phase noise and AWGN on channel capacity in TDMS-based MIMO measurements, with a channel capacity ...

Relevance feedback plays a key role in multiple feature-based image retrieval applications. This paper describes an online metric learning approach for a set of ranking functions. In the feedback round, the most relevant and most nonrelevant images related to the target image are selected to construct a relative comparison triplet. The weighting parameters of the multiple ranking functions are updated by minimizing a quadratic objective function constrained by the triplet. The approach unifies t...

Cooperative energy spectrum sensing has been widely applied in cognitive radio (CR) networks. In this paper, two cooperative sensing algorithms based on the received signals' correlation matrix were proposed. The first proposed algorithm made use of both diagonal elements and non-diagonal elements in the cooperative scheme. In the second algorithm, when the sensing station can obtain the information of the channel gains between the primary user and the sensing nodes, the weighted linear model ca...

Implementing video applications on emerging multi-core processors is a promising technique for personal, real-time multi-media applications. However, when porting the legacy parallel video encoders developed for clusters to shared-memory multi-cores, the existing parallel algorithms result in workload imbalances on different cores and communication inefficiencies. This paper describes a strip-wise parallel scheme to balance workloads and a hybrid communication mechanism to reduce communication o...

Decreasing the power supply voltage in dynamic voltage frequency scaling to save power consumption may introduce extra delays in CMOS circuits, which may cause errors. This paper presents the probabilistic delay fault model (PDFM), which describes the probability of an error occurring as a function of the power supply voltage and the clock period in synchronous CMOS circuits. In a wide range of applications (graphic, video, digital filtering, etc.), errors occurring with low probability and not ...

A ball grid array (BGA) package based on Si interposer with through silicon via (TSV) was designed. Thermal behaviors of the designed BGA with Si interposer has been analyzed and compared to a conventional BGA with BT substrate in the approach of finite element modeling (FEM). The Si interposer with TSV was then fabricated and the designed BGA package was demonstrated. The designed BGA package includes a 100 μm thick Si interposer, which has redistribution copper traces on both sides. Through vi...

Support vector machines (SVMs) have widespread use in various classification problems. Although SVMs are often used as an off-the-shelf tool, there are still some important issues which require improvement, such as feature rescaling. Standardization is the most commonly used feature rescaling method. However, standardization does not always improve classification accuracy. This paper describes two feature rescaling methods: multiple kernel learning-based rescaling (MKL-SVM) and kernel-target ali...

Modern datacenter and enterprise networks require application identification to enable granular traffic control that either improves data transfer rates or ensures network security. Providing application visibility as a core network function is challenging due to its performance requirements, including high throughput, low memory usage, and high identification accuracy. This paper presents a payload-based application identification method using a signature matching engine utilizing characteristi...

Packet classification is crucial to the implementation of advanced network services that require the capability to distinguish traffic in different flows, such as access control in firewalls and protocol analysis in intrusion detection systems. This paper proposes a novel packet classification algorithm optimized for multi-core network processors. The proposed algorithm, AggreCuts, has an explicit worst-case search time with modest memory usage. The data structure of AggreCuts is flexible and we...

The performance of distributed computing systems is partially dependent on configuration parameters recorded in configuration files. Evolutionary strategies, with their ability to have a global view of the structural information, have been shown to effectively improve performance. However, most of these methods consume too much measurement time. This paper introduces an ordinal optimization based strategy combined with a back propagation neural network for autotuning of the configuration paramet...