The robust optimal control of single Conveyor-Serviced Production Station (CSPS) with uncertain service rate was researched. Under the cases where only the interval of service rate was given and the look-ahead range was controllable, the optimal robust control problem could be described as a mini-max problem by using Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) with uncertain parameters. Global optimization method was adopted to derive the optimal robust control policy when states were dependent. Firstly, the worst performance value was obtained under fixed policy by genetic algorithm. Secondly, according to the obtained worst performance value, the optimal robust control policy was achieved with simulated annealing algorithm. The simulation results show that there is little difference between optimal performance cost of the system whose service rate is fixed as the mean of interval and optimal robust performance cost of the CSPS system with uncertain service rate. Moreover, the difference is getting smaller when the uncertain interval narrows and it means that the global optimization algorithm works effectively.
In order to evaluate a systems security and predict the attack actions, an attack model based on system states aggregation was presented. In the model, the threat was abstracted as the aggregation of the systems states, and the attack process was depicted as the change of the system states aggregation. A method of detecting network attacks and early warning using the model was also described. Based on the model, an early warning prototype was implemented. Our experiment shows that the prototype is able to detect attack processes effectively and predict the possible risk level the system will reach.
All kinds of system events are stored in logs. After a successful intrusion, the intruder will try to modify the logs to conceal the intrusion. A method for verifying and protecting log integrity was described to make all log entries generated prior to the logging system’s compromise impossible for the attacker to undetectably modify. A set of trusted log entries was provided to other programs when damages are made to log integrity.
VIA(Virtual Interface Architecture) has been developed to standardize user-level network communication protocol. The kernel VIA was implemented and used in network storage. The test on Linux platform shows that the kernel-level VIA can improve all aspects of the I/O path between the storage nodes and the servers compared to the user-level VIA, especially can decrease the latency at least 30% for small-sized requests(<512B).