A Combined Prediction Scheme (CPS) and a concept of Prediction Accuracy Assurance (PAA) were put forward for the runtime of local and remote tasks, on the issue of inapplicability of the singleness policy to all the heterogeneous tasks. The toolkit of GridSim was used to implement the CPS, and PAA was a quantitative evaluation standard of the prediction runtime provided by a specific strategy. The simulation experiments showed that, compared with the local task prediction strategy such as Last and Sliding Median (SM), the average relative residual error of CPS respectively reduced by 1.58% and 1.62%; and compared with the remote task prediction strategy such as Running Mean (RM) and Exponential Smoothing (ES), the average relative residual error of CPS respectively reduced by 1.02% and 2.9%. The results indicate that PAA can select the near-optimal value from the results of comprehensive prediction strategy, and CPS enhances the PAA of the runtime of local and remote tasks in the computing environments.
Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) was used to realize region of interest (ROI) image coding. Based on the characteristics of SPIHT, the properties of image wavelet coefficients after the coefficients associated with ROI were scaled up, and human visual specialties, a parameter of image quality (Q) and its formula were presented. Based on this, an improved algorithm was put forward, which could improve the subjective quality of image meanwhile ensure the quality of ROI. The experimental results show that the proposed method is effective and the formula of Q is correct, and we can choose Q to control the quality of ROI.
A multiple descriptions transform coding algorithm based on wavelet (WMDTC) is proposed. We first partitioned the wavelet coefficients of the highest and lowest pyramid levels into two sets. A pairwise correlating transform (PCT) was applied to each pair to generate two new sets of coefficients that were correlated between the sets. Coefficients in each set were encoded and decoded independently. Each description was then transmitted through separate channels. If only one channel was working, it was possible to estimate the lost description from another. We combined WMDTC with interpolation to improve reconstructed image. The algorithm performs well in performance simulations.