低错误平层数列分割移位LDPC码构造算法研究

为降低LDPC码错误平层,提出一种基于环分类搜索的数列分割移位LDPC码构造算法。该算法具有码长、码率和列重的任意可设性,同时该类码的Tanner图围长至少为8。循环移位因子可以通过简单的代数表达式描述,从而降低内存需求。仿真结果表明,当误码率达到10-5时,数列分割移位LDPC(496,248)码相对于PEG-LDPC码获得了约1.9dB的性能提升;且随着信噪比的升高,两条译码性能曲线之间的差距将更为增大。此外,列重为3的数列分割移位LDPC码(6144,5376)在信噪比4.6dB以后并未出现明显的错误平层。该构造算法与PS-LDPC码相比在误码率达到10-8时大约获得0.25dB增益,特别在错误平层区域其译码性能优于围长为4和6的PEG构造算法,其构造复杂度和耗时也相较于PS-LDPC码和PEG-LDPC码构造算法展现出一定优势。通过基于Tanner图的诱捕集分析方法,统计(496,248)APPS-LDPC码中由8环组成的部分小型诱捕集并不存在,从而证明了其错误平层降低的原因。     

一种新颖的并行级联LDPC码译码算法

针对传统的并行级联低密度奇偶校验码(PCGC)译码算法采用串行算法导致译码延迟大,难以在实时通信系统中应用的问题,提出了一种新颖的PCGC码译码算法,该算法通过对各子码进行并行消息迭代,对相同的信息位进行变量消息联合更新,实现了PCGC码的并行译码。理论分析和仿真结果表明,提出的PCGC码译码算法相较于传统译码算法译码延迟降低,信噪比较低时误码率性能弱于后者,信噪比较高时,误码率性能优于后者。     

低复杂度LDPC码译码算法

提出了一种低复杂度的LDPC码译码算法CSPA(combined sum-productalgorithm),该算法初始迭代采用和积译码算法(SPA),当大部分信息趋于稳定时,将算法切换到选择节点更新算法(SNU)。仿真表明:在中长码时,新算法克服了SNU算法收敛速度慢和较高错误平台的不足;与和积译码算法相比,该算法以微弱的性能损失换取复杂度的有效降低。     

基于节点选择更新的简化LDPC译码算法

文中通过分析信息在短环中传递的特性,提出了一种基于节点选择更新的简化LDPC译码算法。该算法可以通过在一定程度上避免短环对译码的影响来降低译码运算复杂度。仿真结果表明对于二元以及多元LDPC码,该算法相对于BP算法只有少量性能损失。     

BCH+turbo码在军用光通信系统应用中的性能分析

对应用于光通信系统的原始turbo码提出了改进方案:用BCH码做外码、turbo码做内码组成一种新的串行级联卷积码(SCCC).提出了相应的全面迭代最大后验概率(MAP)译码算法.推导了级联码的不可检测错误概率.对SCCC码的误码率进行了仿真,仿真结果表明,SCCC码在高信噪比时降低了通信系统的误码率,可适用于军用光通信系统.     

基于MSA的高阶调制信号比特度量算法的研究

最小和算法(MSA)折中了译码性能和运算复杂度两个方面,是低密度奇偶校验码(LDPC码)硬件实现最常用的译码算法。比特后验概率对数似然比(LLR)是LDPC码MSA译码的关键参数,现有的高阶调制信号比特后验概率LLR计算方法及简化算法都需要估计噪声方差,估计值影响译码性能。论文从分析M阶无记忆二维调制信号比特后验概率LLR通用的计算方法入手,研究了适用于MSA译码的高阶调制信号比特后验概率LLR简化算法,该算法无需估计噪声方差,进一步降低了运算量和实现复杂度。     

一种加速收敛的LDPC码译码算法

对高斯信道下LDPC(Low-Density Parity-Check)码的传统的译码算法进行分析,指出影响收敛速度的原因,并提出了一种基于整数运算的加速收敛的LDPC码译码算法。该算法融合分层译码(Layered Belief Propagation)算法、带偏移量的最小和算法(Offset Min-Sum)以及量化的优势。仿真验证表明该算法有效地减少了译码复杂度,加速了译码收敛,且性能上同传统的量化最小和算法相比没有下降。     

二维Turbo编码的无人机通信研究

传统基于RS-Turbo码的系统需要提供RS译码及Turho译码2种不同的译码算法需求,使得译码器的软硬件设计复杂化,无法满足无人机通信要求.从理论上分析了Turbo码的性能特点,提出一种改进的二维turbo迭代算法,并应用在无人机通信仿真中.仿真结果表明该算法在低信噪比时能够提升误码率性能,且易于工程实现.     

球形译码算法中不均匀半径分配方案及性能分析

在球形译码算法中,初始半径的选择与分配是影响算法性能与复杂度的重要因素.针对球形译码算法在低信噪比时复杂度高的问题,提出了一种新的基于V-BLAST信号模型的初始半径选择与(准)线性半径分配方案,并分析了应用该方案的两种典型球形译码算法流程的性能与复杂度,其分析方法适用于任意不均匀半径分配方案.分析与仿真表明,与传统的球形译码算法相比,在信噪比较低时,采用该方案的球形译码算法的复杂度显著降低;在较宽信噪比范围内,其误码率性能接近最大似然检测性能.     

面向GPU的5G新型无线电的高吞吐率LDPC译码器

提出了一种基于图形处理单元(graphic processing unit, GPU)的5G软件无线电准循环低密度奇偶校验(low density parity check, LDPC)码译码器,为了节省片上和片下带宽,采用码字缩短和打孔技术、两级量化和数据打包方案,以提升数据带宽的利用率。实验基于Nvidia RTX 2080Ti GPU平台实现了高码率情况下的最小和近似译码算法的并行译码,通过分析GPU上的最优线程设置,将码率为5/6的(2 080,1 760) LDPC算法的译码吞吐率提升至1.38 Gbit/s,译码吞吐率性能优于现有其他基于GPU的LDPC译码器。     

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.     

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).     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Country survey XVI the defence sector in the economy of a declining superpower: Soviet Union and Russia, 1965-2001

The Soviet Union was able to develop a large military-industrial complex and become the world's second superpower despite deficiencies in its centrally planned economy because defence was given high priority status and special planning, rationing and administrative mechanisms were used to attain national security objectives. However, in the period 1976-85 the effectiveness of priority protection diminished and defence institutions experienced more of the problems typical of the shortage economic system. The heavy defence burden also created growing difficulties for the civilian economy. The attempts by the Gorbachev government to reform the defence sector and improve defence-economic relationships during perestroika (1985-91) uniformly failed. For most of the transition period, the Russian military-industrial complex has been adversely affected by its low priority status, cuts in defence spending, instability of the hybrid politico-economic system, and negative growth of the economy. The armed forces and defence industry have been reduced in size and their outputs of military services and equipment have fallen to low levels. Nevertheless, the Russian armed forces still have over one million troops, significant stocks of sophisticated conventional weapons, and a large nuclear arsenal. The government of President Putin has raised the priority of the defence sector, increased real defence spending, and adopted ambitious plans to revive Russian military power. It is likely, though, that tight resource constraints will hamper efforts to reform the armed forces and to upgrade weapons. By 2010 Russia will be an important, but not dominant, military power in Eurasia.     

Traffickers,terrorists, and a ‘new security challenge’: Russian counternarcotics strategy and the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade

The collapse of the Soviet Union precipitated the massive expansion of drug use and trade in Russia. The country now has one of the largest populations of injecting drug users in the world and has become the largest single-country market for Afghan heroin. In 2003 the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade was created to coordinate a comprehensive counternarcotics strategy appropriate to the scale of this threat. The service continues to face a number of challenges in its early stages of development. However, it has made considerable advances in improving responses to large-scale organised crime and in building international cooperation.