简介:ThispaperpresentsaDynamicCross-layerDataQueueManagementapproach(DC-DQM)basedonprioritytoaddresstheprioritydeviationprobleminDelay-TolerantMobileSensorNetworks(DT-MSNs).Receiver-drivendatadeliveryschemeisusedforfastresponsetodatatransfers,andaprioritybasedinteractionmodelisadoptedtoidentifythedatapriority.Threeinteractiveparametersareintroducedtoprioritizeanddynamicallymanagedataqueue.Theexperimentalresultsshowthatitcanamelioratedatadeliveryratioandachievegoodperformanceintermsofaveragedelay.
简介:Classicalnetworkreliabilityproblemsassumebothnetworksandcomponentshaveonlybinarystates,fullyworkingorfullyfailedstates.Butmanyactualnetworksaremulti-state,suchascommunicationnetworksandtransportationnetworks.Thenodesandarcsinthenetworksmaybeinintermediatestateswhicharenotfullyworkingeitherfullyfailed.Asimulationapproachforcomputingthetwo-terminalreliabilityofamulti-statenetworkisdescribed.Two-terminalreliabilityisdefinedastheprobabilitythatdunitsofdemandcanbesuppliedfromthesourcetosinknodesunderthetimethresholdT.Thecapacitiesofarcsmaybeinastochasticstatefollowinganydiscreteorcontinuousdistribution.Thetransmissiontimeofeacharcisalsonotafixednumberbutstochasticaccordingtoitscurrentcapacityanddemand.Tosolvethisproblem,acapacitatedstochasticcolouredPetrinetisproposedformodellingthesystembehaviour.Placesandtransitionsrespectivelystandforthenodesandarcsofanetwork.Capacitatedtransitionandself-modifiedtokencolourwithrouteinformationaredefinedtodescribethemulti-statenetwork.Bythesimulation,thetwo-terminalreliabilityandnodeimportancecanbeestimatedandtheoptimalroutewhosereliabilityishighestcanalsobegiven.Finally,twoexamplesofdifferentkindsofmultistatenetworksaregiven.