Aiming at the problem of spectrum allocation based on maximizing network benefit in cognitive radio and the fact that Manta Ray Foraging Optimization (MRFO) algorithm is difficult to solve the problem of spectrum allocation, a Discrete Manta Ray Foraging Optimization (DMRFO) algorithm was proposed.Considering the pro-1 characteristic of spectrum allocation problem in engineering, firstly, MRFO algorithm was discretely binarized based on the Sigmoid Function (SF) discrete method. Secondly, the XOR operator and velocity adjustment factor were used to guide the manta rays to adaptively adjust the position of next time to the optimal solution according to the current velocity. Then, the binary spiral foraging was carried out near the global optimal solution to avoid the algorithm from falling into the local optimum. Finally, the proposed DMRFO algorithm was applied to solve the spectrum allocation problem. Simulation results show that the convergence mean and standard deviation of the network benefit when using DMRFO algorithm to allocate spectrum are 362.60 and 4.14 respectively, which are significantly better than those of Discrete Artificial Bee Colony (DABC) algorithm, Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) algorithm and Improved Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (IBPSO) algorithm.
Prevailing cloud storage systems normally use master/slave structure, which may cause performance bottlenecks and scalability problems in some extreme cases. So, fully distributed cloud storage system based on Distributed Hash Table (DHT) technology is becoming a new choice. How to solve load balancing problem for nodes, is the key for this technology to be applicable. The Kademlia algorithm was used to locate storage target in cloud storage system and its load balancing performance was investigated. Considering the load balancing performance of the algorithm significantly decreased in heterogeneous environment, an improved algorithm was proposed, which considered heterogeneous nodes and their storage capacities and distributed loads according to the storage capacity of each node. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve load balance performance of the system. Compared with the original algorithm, after running a long period (more than 1500 hours in simulation), the number of overloaded nodes in system dropped at an average percentage 7.0%(light load) to 33.7%(heavy load), file saving success rate increased at an average percentage 27.2%(light load) to 35.1%(heavy load), and also its communication overhead is acceptable.
The existing Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheduling methods for industrial emergency data under the conditions of asynchronous and multi-channel medium have the problems of high delay, saturated Control Channel (CC), and large energy consumption. To solve these problems, an Emergency data scheduling algorithm Oriented Asynchronous Multi-channel industrial wireless sensor networks, called EOAM, was proposed. First, the receiver-based strategy was adopted to solve the problem of saturated control channel during asynchronous multi-channel scheduling. Then a well-designed Special Channel (SC) together with the priority indication method was proposed to provide fast channel switch and real-time transmission of emergency data; additionally, the non-urgent data was allowed to occupy channel by a backoff-based mechanism indicated by the priority indication method, which could ensure the utilization of special channel. EOAM was suitable for both unicast and broadcast communications. The simulation results show that, compared with the Distributed Control Algorithm (DCA), the transmission delay of EOAM can reach 8 ms, the reliability is above 95%, and the energy consumption is reduced by 12.8%, which can meet the transmission requirements of industrial emergency data.
Concerning the delay of related task scheduling in cloud computing, a Related Task Scheduling algorithm based on Task Hierarchy and Time Constraint (RTS-THTC) was proposed. The related tasks and task execution order were represented by Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), and the task execution concurrency was improved by using the proposed hierarchical task model. Through the calculation of the total time constraint in each task layer, the tasks were dispatched to the resource with the minimum execution time. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed RTS-THTC algorithm can achieve better performance than Heterogeneous Earliest-Finish-Time (HEFT) algorithm in the terms of the total execution time and task delay.
An fast image stitching algorithm based on improved Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) was proposed to overcome the real-time and robustness problems of the original SURF based stitching algorithms. The machine learning method was adopted to build a binary classifier, which identified the critical feature points obtained by SURF and removed the non-critical feature points. In addition, the Relief-F algorithm was used to reduce the dimension of the improved SURF descriptor to accomplish image registration. The weighted threshold fusion algorithm was adopted to achieve seamless image stitching. Several experiments were conducted to verify the real-time performance and robustness of the improved algorithm. Furthermore, the efficiency of image registration and the speed of image stitching were improved.