基于能量均衡的无线传感器网络生命周期延长策略

为了从能量均衡角度出发解决无线传感器网络生命周期延长问题,从而延长整个物联网生命周期,针对无线传感器网络节点遭遇"路由空洞"的时候出现路由中断和生命周期缩短现象,分析能量消耗原理,构建最优跳数模型和能量均衡协议,并提出采用能量均衡的思路减少节点能量消耗。实验仿真发现,应用能量均衡协议使无线传感器网络节点能量分布更加均匀,节点能量消耗时间明显变长,而个别节点能量消耗速度明显大于其他节点的情况得以减少,达到延长无线传感器网络生命周期的目的。仿真结果验证了该方法的可行性。     

一种能量均衡的战场无线传感器网络路由协议算法

针对战场无线传感器网络中节点能量消耗不均衡以及节点剩余能量问题,提出了一种基于能量均衡的战场无线传感器网络LEACH路由协议的改进算法,该算法主要是对传感器网络中的簇群内节点的剩余能量,以及其传输数据的链路长度这两个方面的权重问题进行了改进,使传感器网络的能量消耗趋于平衡,通过MATLAB平台对改进后的EBLRP协议与LEACH协议进行了模拟仿真,结果表明,新的路由协议能够使网络的生命周期延长13%左右,并且使节点的能量消耗情况有所缓解。     

一种能量高效和均衡的无线传感器网络分簇数据融合算法

在无线传感器网络中,如果传感器节点之间的能耗不均衡,一些能耗进度较快的节点会过快失效,继而导致网络过早无法正常工作。为了解决分簇无线传感器网络在数据收集过程中所存在的节点之间能耗不均衡问题,提出了一种新的分簇数据融合算法。该算法将网络划分为大小不等的栅格,并根据剩余能量使簇首分别在每个栅格的节点中轮转。簇首消耗的能量越多,其所在的栅格也越大,栅格内有更多节点参与簇首的轮换以分担能量负载。通过该方式,算法能够提高节点的能耗均衡程度。另外,考虑到无线传感器网络的能量受限,算法还采取了一系列措施以节约能量。仿真实验结果表明,算法在能量使用效率、网络生命周期以及能耗均衡程度三个方面都具有较好的性能。     

基于节点剩余能量的分时分簇LEACH改进算法

针对无线传感网络中高效路由协议的设计问题,基于传感器节点的剩余能量提出一种分时分簇的改进LEACH算法。算法通过分时分簇方式,有效克服了传统LEACH算法中簇首数目不稳定的缺陷,且不会额外增加网络的能耗,使得簇首在整个网络中的分布以及网络的能量消耗更加均衡,有效延长了传感器网络的正常工作时间。仿真实验验证了改进算法的有效性。     

基于改进自适应聚类的无线传感器目标跟踪算法

针对无线传感器网络目标跟踪中跟踪精度与传感器节能问题进行研究,提出基于预测的簇头自适应聚类算法,该算法采用动态聚类算法,通过考虑传感器节点剩余能量、节点到汇聚的距离和节点到运动目标的距离3个参数,最大限度地减少簇头与基站间的远程通信,节约网络能量,延长网络寿命,降低目标漏失概率,加入预测机制,采用线性预测的方法预测跟踪...     

基于介数中心性重要节点的能量均衡机制

针对无线传感器网络中瓶颈节点和准瓶颈节点对网络影响的特例性问题,将重要节点的概念推广到对节点介数的研究,提出了基于介数中心性重要节点的能量均衡机制。该机制将介数值大于网络平均介数值的节点判定为重要节点,并利用重要节点的邻居节点建立缓冲机制来减少其数据的转发次数,在牺牲较少数据传输延时的情况下节省了介数中心性重要节点的能量消耗。仿真实验表明该机制能够较好地均衡无线传感器网络中的节点能耗,提高了网络生命周期。     

一种声纳浮标无线传感器网络中的目标定位方法

对声纳浮标无线传感器网络进行了介绍;针对声纳浮标无线传感器网络中对目标的定位问题,提出了质心法和Bounding Box法两种解决方法,并给出了计算模型及坐标变换公式;质心法和Bounding Box法,原理简单,计算量小,符合无线传感器网络硬件资源有限、电源能量有限的特点;对质心法和Bounding Box法进行了仿真模拟,结果表明了这两种方法的定位效果受网络中节点探测半径的影响,Bounding Box的定位效果优于质心法.     

无线传感器网络LEACH协议的分析与改进

无线传感器网络中节点能量资源是非常有限的,能耗的降低对网络寿命的延长产生着至关重要的影响.在介绍无线传感器网络基本概念的基础之上,对LEACH路由协议的原理进行了简要说明,并分析了其缺点.探讨了一些以LEACH为基础的改进协议.在群首选择机制方面对LEACH协议进行了改进.在NS2平台上以生命周期为指标对LEACH协议及改进后的协议进行了模拟,结果表明当使用改进协议时,网络有着更长的寿命.     

一种高效节能的小世界无线传感器网络

总结了无线传感器网络的小世界构造方法,基于混合模式构造了具有小世界特征的无线传感器网络,此混合模式分为拓扑优化阶段、小世界模型构造阶段和能量动态均衡阶段,最终形成了应用A3和A3 Cov算法的基于混合模式的小世界无线传感器网络MSW-WSNs-A3和MSW-WSNs-A3 Cov.基于Java平台对上述网络进行了仿真分析,结果表明,MSW-WSNs-A3和MSW-WSNs-A3 Cov具有更长的生命周期和更好的网络运行有效性.     

用于目标跟踪无线传感器网络的动态分簇算法

针对跟踪精度和网络能耗的问题,提出了一种用于目标跟踪无线传感器网络的基于预测的动态分簇算法.把目标运动过程看作是高斯马尔可夫过程,根据目标历史轨迹,估计下一时刻位置坐标和运动速度,然后基于估计结果优化选择分簇的簇头和簇成员,形成一个动态分簇来实现目标跟踪.仿真结果表明:该算法使目标跟踪有较好的跟踪精度,能有效均衡网络能耗,延长网络寿命.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.