面向能耗有效高性能嵌入式微处理器的VLIW调度

为了降低功耗,目前能耗有效的嵌入式微处理器一般都采用分布式与层次化的寄存器文件结构。第一层的超小寄存器文件(TORF)的极小容量使得很多数据必须存放到第二层的通用寄存器文件(GRF)中,这给编译器带来了新的挑战。通过分析程序特征,提出了新的VLIW调度算法,通过在编译时对变量进行检测,在恰当的时机插入虚拟的copy操作并进行指令与通信调度,为对寄存器需求较大的全局变量与软流水变量构建了新的包含GRF的数据传输路由,将对TORF的压力转移到GRF中。实验结果表明,新的VLIW调度算法符合处理器的设计初衷。与不使用GRF相比,在程序性能只降低约8%的情况下,降低了约51%的寄存器访问能耗,43%的处理器能耗。最关键的是避免了程序员手工分配优化的难题。     

6LoWPAN网络中基于非协作博弈算法的能效拥塞策略

拥塞问题导致6LoWPAN网络的数据包丢失,降低了网络吞吐量,并增加了额外能耗.为此,提出基于非协作博弈算法的能效拥塞(Non-cooperative Gaming for Energy-efficient Congestion Control,NGECC)策略.NGECC策略利用信道占用情况和缓存区的使用状况,优化叶节点的数据传输速率,进而避免父节点端的数据传输拥塞,从而降低数据包的丢失率.仿真结果表明,提出的NGECC策略提升了数据包传递率、吞吐量,并降低了能耗和数据传输时延.     

弹上信息处理器闭环模飞系统的研制

弹上信息处理器是导弹电子系统的关键部件,为满足弹上信息处理器研制过程中的闭环实时模飞需求,基于Vxworks实时操作系统技术,实现了基于PCI总线仪器的实时闭环模飞系统.为有效地提高仪器的集成度,仪器模块采用FPGA作为主控制器,基于可编程片上系统(SOPC)技术,实现了带有DMA控制器的PCI接口、HDLC串行通讯协议以及对输入输出开关量的控制.应用结果表明:该设计实现了高效灵活的闭环实时模飞系统,能满足弹上信息处理器不同研制阶段的测试需求,便于更新和扩展.     

基于SOPC的陀螺星敏感器姿态确定系统

为了提高姿态确定算法的计算速度,通过对陀螺星敏感器姿态确定算法的详细分析,设计出了基于SOPC(System On a Programmable Chip)系统的卡尔曼滤波处理器.在该处理器中,对算法进行了软硬件代码划分.软件部分采用Nios II IDE编程环境进行编写和编译,硬件部分采用硬件描述语言进行构造.通过S...     

WSNs中基于鸡群优化算法选择簇头的簇路由

能量是无线传感网络(Wireless Sensor Networks,WSNs)的重要资源.有效地利用节点能量可延长网络寿命.簇技术是提高资源分配、缓解网络能耗的有效策略.提出基于鸡群优化算法选择簇头的簇路由(Chicken Swarm Optimization-based Cluster Head Selecting Clustering Routing,CSO-CHS).CSO-CHS路由先从能量角度构建目标函数,再利用鸡群优化算法产生最优鸡群,进而形成最优的簇.通过最优的簇,平衡节点间能耗,进而实现延长网络寿命的目的 .仿真结果表明,相比于同类算法,CSO-CHS路由缓解了节点能耗速度,延长了网络寿命.     

WSNs中基于攻击感知的源位置隐私保护路由协议

为保护无线传感网络(Wireless Sensor Networks,WSNs)中的源节点位置隐私,提出基于攻击感知的源位置隐私保护路由(Attack-perceiving-based Source-Location Privacy protecting routing,ASPR).通过sink广播消息,节点获取局部的网络拓扑信息,并建立邻居列表;源节点再计算邻居节点的权重值,并选择权重最小的节点构建路由;当检测到攻击者,节点就发生警告消息,并调整构建路由策略,使攻击无法回溯源节点.仿真实验表明,提出的ASPR路由延长了源节点保持位置隐私的时间,减少了节点能耗,在安全性和网络能耗间达到平衡.     

基于FPGA的BOC调制信号捕获处理器设计

通过对BOC调制信号的相关特性进行分析,结合带通欠采样技术,提出了一种BOC调制信号的直接捕获方法,并进行基于FPGA的BOC调制信号捕获处理器的设计与实现.仿真结果表明,基于FPGA的BOC调制信号捕获处理器实现了对BOC信号的正确捕获,为BOC信号接收机的研制提供了技术基础.     

基于SOPC技术的无人机飞控系统硬件平台设计

提出了一种基于可编程片上系统(SOPC)技术的无人机飞行控制系统硬件解决方案.控制系统核心为单片FPGA芯片,处理单元采用了多个高性能32位嵌入式NiosⅡ处理器来并行处理数据.利用VerilogHDL硬件描述语言在FPGA芯片内部编写了包括图像预处理、姿态预处理、逻辑控制系统等设备.和传统的无人机控制系统相比,得益于采用SOPC技术带来的高度集成性,控制系统保证了在具有很强的数据处理能力的同时拥有较小的体积和较低的功耗.     

延迟容忍无线传感器网络动态数据传输

分析现有经典延迟容忍移动无线传感器网络DTMSN(Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks)数据收集算法.提出了一种基于选择复制的动态数据传输策略ASRAD(Advanced Selective Replication based Adaptive Data Delivery Scheme).其基本思想是把数据消息动态的复制给更有可能与汇聚点通信的传感器节点以达到尽量增大传输成功率和降低传输能耗的目的.ASRAD由数据传输和队列管理两个主要部分组成.     

基于FPGA的雷达脉冲压缩处理器设计

FPGA和DSP技术在数字脉冲压缩系统中已得到广泛应用,但采用DSP芯片运算量大,设备复杂,成本高.提出了一种基于FPGA的适用于中小压缩比情况的数字脉冲压缩处理器的设计方案,能够实现M序列码和线性调频等多种信号的脉冲压缩,仿真结果表明,该处理器具有使用灵活、便于功能扩展和成本低的特点.     

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.     

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.     

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.