基于变量节点串行消息传递的LDPC码译码研究

针对标准LDPC码译码中洪水消息传递机制的不足,提出以串行机制进行消息传递,按照变量节点的顺序进行消息处理和传递,对每个变量节点同时接收校验消息和发送变量消息。该方法使更新的消息能够很快进入当前迭代计算,改善了LDPC迭代译码的收敛性能。通过对几种常用译码算法的仿真比较,验证了在复杂度不增加的情况下,该方法性能优于其它几种最大后验概率准则的译码方法,且算法收敛快,是一种能较好兼顾性能与实现复杂度的译码方法。     

基于准循环双对角阵的LDPC码编码算法研究*

针对校验矩阵形如准循环双对角阵的结构化LDPC码,对比研究了两类高效的编码算法：矩阵分解编码算法和分项累加递归编码算法,指出了两种算法从实现角度是等效的,但分项累加递归编码算法推导更为直观,且便于硬件并行实现。基于分项累加编码算法,提出了一种适合准循环双对角LDPC码的部分并行编码结构,设计实现了IEEE 802.11n标准中的LDPC码编码器。FPGA实现结果表明,所设计的LDPC编码器硬件开销较少,信息比特吞吐率最高能达到13Gbps。     

基于准循环双对角阵的LDPC码编码算法

针对校验矩阵形如准循环双对角阵的结构化LDPC码,对比研究了两类高效的编码算法:矩阵分解编码算法和分项累加递归编码算法,证明了两类算法从实现角度是等价的,但分项累加递归编码算法推导更为直观,且便于硬件并行实现。基于分项累加编码算法,提出了一种适合准循环双对角LDPC码的部分并行编码结构,设计实现了IEEE 802.11n标准中的LDPC码编码器。FPGA实现结果表明,所设计的LDPC编码器具有硬件开销较小、吞吐率高的优点,在码长为1944bit、码率为5/6时信息比特吞吐率最高可达13Gbps。     

低复杂度非规则LDPC码的构造方法

较高的编码复杂度成为非规则LDPC码应用的一个难点。文章从实际应用的角度出发,针对中长码提出了两种低复杂度的非规则LDPC码的构造方法:改进的B IBD和ALDPC,大大降低了编码复杂度。仿真结果表明,构造出的码字比传统的PEG构造方法有一定的性能改善。最后,从非规则码的EX IT图出发,分析了两种构造码子性能的差异。     

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。     

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。     

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。     

GPS软件接收机信号快速捕获新方法

针对微弱信号条件下GPS软件接收机的C/A码捕获问题,提出一种新的并行快速捕获算法。采用平均相关技术降低C/A码的自相关损耗,基于载频误差补偿技术减小C/A码累积误差;利用叠加相关方法降低相干累积运算的复杂度,通过循环移位减小频率步进搜索的时间消耗。实验结果表明该算法能够有效实现GPS信号捕获。对比仿真实验表明,该算法能够完成弱GPS信号捕获,且运算量适中,适合高灵敏度软件接收机使用。     

北斗卫星导航系统多进制LDPC编码性能评估

考虑到卫星导航系统传输距离远、落地信号功率低,导航接收机在复杂遮挡环境下可能受到干扰不能正常解调电文,导航电文设计中一般采用纠错编码获取编码增益来提升恶劣环境下的解调性能。随着技术水平的提高,各大系统在现代化升级过程中越来越多地采用性能更优的纠错编码,北斗全球系统现代化信号导航电文将采用多进制LDPC编码。在研究多进制LDPC编译码原理基础上,首次对北斗采用的64进制LDPC进行了软件仿真和硬件实现,对北斗卫星导航系统多进制LDPC编译码性能和实现复杂度进行了仿真分析和试验平台测试,结果表明,多进制LDPC编码方案具有较高的编码增益,相对二进制LDPC有0.4~0.8 dB的优势,对于恶劣环境下的解调性能具有较大改善,该研究可为北斗现代化信号接收终端研发提供参考。     

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。     

Putin – the masked nemesis of the strategy of ambiguity

Recent events demonstrate the complex and adaptive approach employed by Russia to reassert influence in Europe. The changing face of Russia’s strategy commenced in 2007 when it launched a crippling cyber-attack against Estonia. This was followed by a large Russian conventional attack against Georgia in 2008, occupying two large areas of the nation. 2014 witnessed the Russian annexation of Crimea where in just a week, Russia seized control of Crimea “without firing a shot.” The annexation of Crimea was rapidly followed by a Russian inspired and led subversive war in eastern Ukraine. The common thread among these diverse Russian operations is its use of ambiguity to confound and confuse decision makers in the West.     

India's counter-insurgency experience: the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy

The Indian Army, a force trained primarily for conventional warfare, has been engaged in internal counter-insurgency operations since the 1950s. Despite such a long innings on a counter-insurgency mode, little attention has been accorded within military circles to doctrinal innovation for waging sub-conventional warfare in India's democratic political context. At best, the Army continues to view counter-insurgency duty as secondary to its primary duty of defending India from external conventional threats. By conceptualizing a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’, this article aims to fill this critical doctrinal gap in India's military policy. The author argues that a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’ based on democratic political culture, measured military methods, special counter-insurgency forces, local social and cultural awareness and an integrative nation-building approach will result in positive handling of India's internal security problems. The author utilizes India's counter-insurgency experiences in Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, and Operation ‘Sadhbhavana’ in Jammu and Kashmir as illustrative empirical indicants in order to validate the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy.     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

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).     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.     

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.