{"title":"A Rule-Based Expert Server System for Multimedia Transmission","authors":"Xiaofei Zhou, K. Ong","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.20","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel multimedia transmission server system is designed using rule-based expert system technology. Working parameters and session management methods are separated from the decisionmaking procedure and stored in a knowledge base (XML format). The server fires different transmission strategies inside the knowledge base by runtime inference. Thus it can easily adjust transmission parameters under various environments and incorporate newly developed methods without significantly changing the main body of the server code. Results indicate that the expert system can efficiently deliver smooth streams and save server resources. The overhead brought along with the flexibility is tested to be acceptable.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129767042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mobility-Aware and Cross-layer Based Middleware for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks","authors":"M. Denko, E. Shakshuki, H. Malik","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.15","url":null,"abstract":"Most existing message-oriented middleware for mobile networks rely on infrastructure or assume the existence of reliable and continuous connections among communicating entities. These schemes do not take advantage of cross-layer optimizations. Publish/subscribe middleware has been widely used to provide asynchronous communication functionality in distributed application environments. Due to node mobility and frequent node disconnections, asynchronous publish/subscribe message middleware is a proper communication model for mobile ad hoc networking environments. In this paper, we propose a MOBility-aware and CROSS-layer based middleware (MOBCROSS) for mobile ad hoc networks. MOBCROSS is based on the publishing and subscription of topics. The main features of MOBCROSS are mobility awareness, network reconfiguration, and cross-layer interaction support. The performance of the middleware is evaluated in a simulation environment. The simulation results indicated that MOBCROSS achieves a good packet delivery ratio and low overhead.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116146463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depth-Latency Tradeoffs in Multicast Tree Algorithms","authors":"Michael T. Helmick, Fred S. Annexstein","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.52","url":null,"abstract":"The construction of multicast trees is complicated by the need to balance a number of important objectives, including: minimizing latencies, minimizing depth/hops, and bounding the degree. In this paper, we study the problem of determining a degree-bounded directed spanning tree of minimum average-latency in a complete graph where the inter-node latencies are used to determine a metric. In particular, we focus on measuring the effects on average latency when imposing depth constraints (i.e., bounds on hop count) on degree-bounded spanning trees. The general problem is a well known NP-hard problem, and several works have proposed approximate solutions which aim at minimizing either depth or latency. In this work, we present a new heuristic algorithm which improves upon previous solutions by considering both depth and latency and the tradeoffs between them. Our algorithms are shown to improve the theoretical worst-case approximation factors, and we demonstrate improvements under empirical evaluation. Our experiments examine and analyze several different topologies, including, low-dimensional random geometric networks, random transit-stub networks, and high- dimensional hypercube networks. We show how our solutions can be applied in the context of enabling multicasting support in locality aware peer-to-peer overlay networks.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121533969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Sato, M. Uehara, K. Shimomura, Hirobumi Yamamoto, K. Kamijo
{"title":"On Rejecting Outliers by Smirnov Test for Massive Data Input System in Vegetable Geographical Origin Identification System","authors":"N. Sato, M. Uehara, K. Shimomura, Hirobumi Yamamoto, K. Kamijo","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.99","url":null,"abstract":"As co-work with agricultural chemists, we developed a vegetable geographical origin identification system using trace element composition to solve cultivated place forging problems on vegetables in Japan. Vegetables cultivated in farm fields absorb trace metal elements from soil. Here, trace element means that very small quantity elements in chemistry. Since trace element compositions in soil differ from districts, trace element composition of cultivated vegetables also differs from districts, even farms. Our system can identify geographical origin of vegetables in short time by comparing trace element composition of doubtful vegetable and genuine vegetables. Therefore, trace element compositions of vegetables must be measured when they are shipped from farms. Normally, since fresh vegetables are sold in the same day of shipping, trace element compositions must be measured and recorded into databases in few hours, before they will arrive at market, sold to general consumers. In this paper, we describe a massive data gather system for our system which rejects outliers. In addition, we describe an interface between our system and measurement instruments that are PC/WS based but closed system.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122973157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Analysis of an Active Flow Control Mechanism with Entry Threshold in InfiniBand Networks","authors":"Shihang Yan, I. Awan, G. Min","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.110","url":null,"abstract":"InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) has been ratified as a new industry standard for the server Input/Output (I/O) and inter-processor communication. It defines a switch-based interconnection technology with high-bandwidth and low-latency suitable for constructing high-speed networks in cluster computing systems. In this paper, we propose an efficient flow control mechanism for InfiniBand networks in order to reduce the delay, blocking probability, and mean queue length as well as improve the system utilization. Consequently, this mechanism can enhance the Quality-of-Service (QoS) of InfiniBand. The principle of maximum entropy (ME) is adopted as an effective methodology to analyze the new mechanism with the generalized exponential (GE)-Type distribution for modeling the inter-arrival times and service times of the input traffic. Typical performance measures obtained from simulation experiments are included to validate the accuracy of the analytical results.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127028215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Loizos Michael, W. Nejdl, Odysseas Papapetrou, W. Siberski
{"title":"Improving distributed join efficiency with extended bloom filter operations","authors":"Loizos Michael, W. Nejdl, Odysseas Papapetrou, W. Siberski","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.80","url":null,"abstract":"Bloom filter based algorithms have proven successful as very efficient technique to reduce communication costs of database joins in a distributed setting. However, the full potential of bloom filters has not yet been exploited. Especially in the case of multi-joins, where the data is distributed among several sites, additional optimization opportunities arise, which require new bloom filter operations and computations. In this paper, we present these extensions and point out how they improve the performance of such distributed joins. While the paper focuses on efficient join computation, the described extensions are applicable to a wide range of usages, where bloom filters are facilitated for compressed set representation.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130438035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of Throughput Performance for the IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g Networks","authors":"P. Mahasukhon, M. Hempel, S. Ci, H. Sharif","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.46","url":null,"abstract":"The 802. llg offers backward compatibility to 802.11b operating in 2.4 GHz with the same set of MAC parameters. However, this compatibility causes 802.1 lg to perform differently as 802.11a in terms of radio throughput performance, although both standards employ orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology to achieve high data rate. In this paper, we compare and present an in- depth analysis of the throughput performance of both 802.11a and 802.1 lg standards. In order to compare the throughput performance of 802.11a and 802.1 lg, a Markov chain model of IEEE 802.11 MAC is adopted to evaluate the saturation throughput. Our analytical and experimental results show an inferior throughput performance for 802.1 lg even with the same OFDM technology as employed for 802.11a.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131640829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy-based Adaptable Service Systems Architecture","authors":"Paramai Supadulchai, F. A. Aagesen","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.113","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a policy-based architecture for adaptable service systems based on the combination of reasoning machines and extended finite state machines. Policies are introduced to obtain flexibility with respect to specification and execution of adaptable service systems that give high performance over a range of system status values. The presented architecture covers three aspects: service system framework, adaptation mechanisms and data model. The adaptation mechanisms can be based on static or dynamic policy systems. Static policy systems have a non-changeable set of policies, dynamic policy systems have a changeable set of policies, which are managed by policies at a higher level. The data model for the reasoning machine functionality is based on the rule-based reasoning language \"XML equivalent transformation\" (XET). The capability configuration management of a service system with runtime simulation results based on the proposed architecture is presented with the intention to illustrate the use of the architecture and discuss the potential advantages of using dynamic policies.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130992269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Waluyo, Feng Zhu, D. Taniar, B. Srinivasan, W. Rahayu
{"title":"Multiple Entity Types Wireless Broadcast Database System","authors":"A. Waluyo, Feng Zhu, D. Taniar, B. Srinivasan, W. Rahayu","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.95","url":null,"abstract":"In a wireless environment, data broadcast paradigm has been recognized as an effective and scalable mechanism to disseminate frequently requested information to a large number of clients. This paper presents the development of a multiple entity types wireless broadcast database system. The broadcast system is designed to serve transitive queries or queries that access related data items belonging to different entity types. The broadcast data are retrieved from a central database server. We apply three different data broadcast schemes including: (i), filtering technique for mobile device to perform transitive queries and display the desired data from incoming multiple entity types broadcast data items; (ii), the index broadcasting scheme designed to predict the arrival of the desired data to appropriately execute power conserving mode; (iii), incorporate multiple channel environments to allow mobile device to tune into multiple broadcast channels to receive the desired data. The proposed model uses a share indices price context to demonstrate the effective use of these data broadcast schemes.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122675965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Protocol vSCSI for Ethernet-based Network Storage","authors":"D. Feng, Jun-Jie Ye, Zhan Shi","doi":"10.1109/AINA.2007.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2007.18","url":null,"abstract":"Ethernet-based network storage protocols such as iSCSI have become increasingly common in today's storage network. In this paper, we propose and implement another new protocol vSCSI (Vl-attached SCSI) for competing with iSCSI in LAN environment, and experimentally compare performance ofvSCSI and iSCSI for environments with no data sharing across machines. Using VI replaces TCP/IP, vSCSI achieves higher throughput than iSCSI, meanwhile maintains low cost. The test results on the Linux platform show that vSCSI outperforms iSCSI for data intensive workloads. In average, vSCSI performs better than iSCSI by 115.12% in the way of sequence write and 35.02% in sequence read. The high-bandwidth and low-latency of VI providing are the primary reasons for this performance difference.","PeriodicalId":361109,"journal":{"name":"21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114403591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}