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。     

Postmodern warfare and the blurred boundaries between war and peace

Each age has its own wars and its own forms of warfare. In today’s evolving world risk society warfare has entered a new development stage. The states of the “global North” adapt their forms of intervention. They increasingly practice postmodern warfare characterized especially by the role of influencing the information space, networked approaches, the incorporation of indirect and covert actions, and the special quality of new technologies. This practice furthers an increasing grey zone between limiting and de-bounding of warfare. The phenomenon of postmodern warfare raises some tough questions and offers a rich research agenda.     

灭雷具图像声呐探测过程仿真模型

根据灭雷具上高分辨率图像声呐的工作原理和探测过程,从为部队官兵提供模拟训练平台的角度出发,利用计算机的图形、图像处理和虚拟现实技术,提出一种数学模型和物理模型相结合的图像声呐可视化建模思路。通过仿真,证明此种方法既便于计算机实现,又符合灭雷具图像声呐的真实探测和显示过程。同时,为了整个仿真系统的需要,简单地给出了系统中三维海底地形和水雷目标的数据模型和构造方法。     

基于规则LDPC码校验矩阵的测试响应压缩方法研究

摘要：针对现有的测试响应压缩方法在未知位处理能力、混淆能力、诊断能力和压缩能力方面只侧重于单一能力的问题,首次将LDPC编码技术应用于测试响应压缩中,提出一种基于规则LDPC码校验矩阵的测试响应压缩方法．通过对上述4种能力进行仿真分析得出,该方法与现有测试响应压缩方法相比整体性能有明显的提升．     

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。     

‘Full spectrum dominance’: Donald Rumsfeld,the Department of Defense,and US irregular warfare strategy, 2001–2008

This article examines the evolution of US irregular warfare (IW) doctrine and practice from 2001 onwards. It argues that, after 9/11, top-tier civilian policymakers in the US Department of Defense (DoD) and across the US government developed a heightened awareness of asymmetric threats and non-conventional forms of warfare, especially those shaped by contemporary globalisation. The result was a gradual turn towards irregular warfare, led by Rumsfeld and the DoD, designed to ensure ‘full spectrum dominance’ across all modes of conflict. This pre-dated the insurgency in Iraq and the promotion of counterinsurgency in the US Army by General David Petraeus and others. Policymakers' reluctance to acknowledge the insurgency in Iraq was not down to a failure to understand the concept of IW, but because they had viewed Iraq in conventional terms for so many years and were reluctant to admit their mistake.     

The Mexican War: frontier expansion and selective incursion

ABSTRACT

Mexico’s defeat in the war that (in the U.S.) takes the country’s name resulted as much from the strategic context created by unrealized nation-building that followed independence as it did from American tactical supremacy. Three centuries of Spanish empire did not translate into national military excellence due to the decades of revolutionary upheaval that followed the sudden decapitation occasioned by Napoleon’s ouster of the monarchy in Madrid. That the occupation which followed major combat provided salutary lessons learned in dealing with guerrillas rather than a Vietnam-like litany of quagmire eventuated from the conscious designs of military leadership steeped in the same Napoleonic dynamic that had produced our opponent. The United States wisely chose to leave issues of state-building and governance to the Mexicans themselves, while annexing the sparsely populated northern remnant of Spanish empire.     

Systems failure: the US way of irregular warfare

ABSTRACT

Since 9/11, the United States has achieved notable gains against al Qaeda, and also Islamic State (IS), all while avoiding another mass-casualty attack at home. Yet, institutionally, culturally, and in its capabilities, the US government remains seriously ill-equipped for the task of countering irregular threats. Partly as a result, Islamist extremism shows no sign of being defeated, having instead metastasized since 9/11 and spread. Why, given the importance accorded to counterterrorism, has the US approach remained inadequate? What is impeding more fundamental reforms? The article evaluates the United States’ way of irregular warfare: its troubled engagement with counterinsurgency and its problematic search for lower cost and lower risk ways of combating terrorism. It suggests needed reforms but acknowledges also the unlikelihood of change.