Tianle Zhang¹, Lihua Yin¹, Xiang Cui^{1, *}, Abhishek Behl², Fuqiang Dong³, Ziheng Cheng⁴, Kuo Ma⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 835-845, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06050

Abstract In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), because battery and energy supply are constraints, sleep scheduling is always needed to save energy while maintaining connectivity for packet delivery. Traditional schemes have to ensure high duty cycling to ensure enough percentage of active nodes and then derogate the energy efficiency. This paper proposes an RFID based non-preemptive random sleep scheduling scheme with stable low duty cycle. It employs delay tolerant network routing protocol to tackle the frequent disconnections. A low-power RFID based non-preemptive wakeup signal is used to confirm the availability of next-hop before sending packet. It eliminates energy consumption of repeated retransmission… More >

Bin Xu^{1, 2}, Yong Tang¹, Yi Zhu¹, Wenqing Yan¹, Cheng He³, Jin Qi^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 2031-2042, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011149

Abstract Manufacturing service composition of the supply side and scheduling of the demand side are two important components of Cloud Manufacturing, which directly affect the quality of Cloud Manufacturing services. However, the previous studies on the two components are carried out independently and thus ignoring the internal relations and mutual constraints. Considering the two components on both sides of the supply and the demand of Cloud Manufacturing services at the same time, a Bilateral Collaborative Optimization Model of Cloud Manufacturing (BCOM-CMfg) is constructed in this paper. In BCOM-CMfg, to solve the manufacturing service scheduling problem on the supply side, a new… More >

Amit Chhabra^{1, *}, Gurvinder Singh², Karanjeet Singh Kahlon²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 813-834, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010934

Abstract Cloud computing infrastructure has been evolving as a cost-effective platform for providing computational resources in the form of high-performance computing as a service (HPCaaS) to users for executing HPC applications. However, the broader use of the Cloud services, the rapid increase in the size, and the capacity of Cloud data centers bring a remarkable rise in energy consumption leading to a significant rise in the system provider expenses and carbon emissions in the environment. Besides this, users have become more demanding in terms of Quality-of-service (QoS) expectations in terms of execution time, budget cost, utilization, and makespan. This situation calls… More >

Xiangmao Chang^{1, 2, *}, Xiaoxiang Xu¹, Deliang Yang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 193-206, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08183

Abstract Strip Wireless Sensor Networks (SWSNs) have drawn much attention in many applications such as monitoring rivers, highways and coal mines. Packet delivery in SWSN usually requires a large number of multi-hop transmissions which leads to long transmission latency in low-duty-cycle SWSNs. Several pipeline scheduling schemes have been proposed to reduce latency. However, when communication links are unreliable, pipeline scheduling is prone to failure. In this paper, we propose a pipeline scheduling transmission protocol based on constructive interference. The protocol first divides the whole network into multiple partitions and uses a pipelined mechanism to allocate active time slots for each partition.… More >

Zhu Liu^{1, 2, *}, Xuesong Qiu¹, Shuai Zhang², Siyang Deng², Guangyi Liu^{3, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1351-1364, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07334

Abstract With the growing amounts of multi-micro grids, electric vehicles, smart home, smart cities connected to the Power Distribution Internet of Things (PD-IoT) system, greater computing resource and communication bandwidth are required for power distribution. It probably leads to extreme service delay and data congestion when a large number of data and business occur in emergence. This paper presents a service scheduling method based on edge computing to balance the business load of PD-IoT. The architecture, components and functional requirements of the PD-IoT with edge computing platform are proposed. Then, the structure of the service scheduling system is presented. Further, a… More >

Yinghang Jiang¹, Qi Liu^2,3,*, Williams Dannah¹, Dandan Jin², Xiaodong Liu³, Mingxu Sun^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 713-729, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.04604

Abstract Hadoop is a well-known parallel computing system for distributed computing and large-scale data processes. “Straggling” tasks, however, have a serious impact on task allocation and scheduling in a Hadoop system. Speculative Execution (SE) is an efficient method of processing “Straggling” Tasks by monitoring real-time running status of tasks and then selectively backing up “Stragglers” in another node to increase the chance to complete the entire mission early. Present speculative execution strategies meet challenges on misjudgement of “Straggling” tasks and improper selection of backup nodes, which leads to inefficient implementation of speculative executive processes. This paper has proposed an Optimized Resource… More >

Jin Wang^{1, 2, 3}, Yu Gao², Chang Zhou², R. Simon Sherratt⁴, Lei Wang^{5, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 695-711, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08674

Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are usually formed with many tiny sensors which are randomly deployed within sensing field for target monitoring. These sensors can transmit their monitored data to the sink in a multi-hop communication manner. However, the ‘hot spots’ problem will be caused since nodes near sink will consume more energy during forwarding. Recently, mobile sink based technology provides an alternative solution for the long-distance communication and sensor nodes only need to use single hop communication to the mobile sink during data transmission. Even though it is difficult to consider many network metrics such as sensor position, residual energy… More >

Yuankun Yan^1,*, Yan Kong¹, Zhangjie Fu^1,2

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.1, No.3, pp. 143-155, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2019.07772

Abstract Nowadays, emergency accidents could happen at any time. The accidents occur unpredictably and the accidents requirements are diversely. The accidents happen in a dynamic environment and the resource should be cooperative to solve the accidents. Most methods are focusing on minimizing the casualties and property losses in a static environment. However, they are lack in considering the dynamic and unpredictable event handling. In this paper, we propose a representative environmental model in representation of emergency and dynamic resource allocation model, and an adaptive mathematical model based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) to generate an optimal set of solution domain. The experimental… More >

Wenbin Yu^{1, 2, 3, *}, Yinsong Xu^{1, 2, 3}, Wenjie Liu^{1, 2, 3}, Alex Xiangyang Liu⁴, Baoyu Zheng⁵

Journal of Quantum Computing, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 111-118, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jqc.2019.07412

Abstract Suppose a practical scene that when two or more parties want to schedule an appointment, they need to share their calendars with each other in order to make it possible. According to the present result the whole communication cost to solve this problem should be their calendars’ length by using a classical algorithm. In this work, we investigate the appointment schedule issue made by N users and try to accomplish it in quantum information case. Our study shows that the total communication cost will be quadratic times smaller than the conventional case if we apply a quantum algorithm in the… More >

Tianbo Lu^1,2,*, Ru Yan^1,2, Chao Li^3,*, Lihua Yin³, Hao Chen¹, Xieyu Zou⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.3, pp. 965-982, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05635

Abstract With the rapid development of the Internet, people pay more and more attention to the protection of privacy. The second-generation onion routing system Tor is the most commonly used among anonymous communication systems, which can be used to protect user privacy effectively. In recent years, Tor’s congestion problem has become the focus of attention, and it can affect Tor’s performance even user experience. Firstly, we investigate the causes of Tor network congestion and summarize some link scheduling algorithms proposed in recent years. Then we propose the link scheduling algorithm SWRR based on WRR (Weighted Round Robin). In this process, we… More >