According to Cisco’s Internet Report 2020 white paper,there will be 29.3 billion connected devices worldwide by 2023,up from 18.4 billion in 2018.5G connections will generate nearly three times more traffic than 4G c...According to Cisco’s Internet Report 2020 white paper,there will be 29.3 billion connected devices worldwide by 2023,up from 18.4 billion in 2018.5G connections will generate nearly three times more traffic than 4G connections.While bringing a boom to the network,it also presents unprecedented challenges in terms of flow forwarding decisions.The path assignment mechanism used in traditional traffic schedulingmethods tends to cause local network congestion caused by the concentration of elephant flows,resulting in unbalanced network load and degraded quality of service.Using the centralized control of software-defined networks,this study proposes a data center traffic scheduling strategy for minimization congestion and quality of service guaranteeing(MCQG).The ideal transmission path is selected for data flows while considering the network congestion rate and quality of service.Different traffic scheduling strategies are used according to the characteristics of different service types in data centers.Reroute scheduling for elephant flows that tend to cause local congestion.The path evaluation function is formed by the maximum link utilization on the path,the number of elephant flows and the time delay,and the fast merit-seeking capability of the sparrow search algorithm is used to find the path with the lowest actual link overhead as the rerouting path for the elephant flows.It is used to reduce the possibility of local network congestion occurrence.Equal cost multi-path(ECMP)protocols with faster response time are used to schedulemouse flows with shorter duration.Used to guarantee the quality of service of the network.To achieve isolated transmission of various types of data streams.The experimental results show that the proposed strategy has higher throughput,better network load balancing,and better robustness compared to ECMP under different traffic models.In addition,because it can fully utilize the resources in the network,MCQG also outperforms another traffic scheduling strategy that does rerouting for elephant flows(namely Hedera).Compared withECMPandHedera,MCQGimproves average throughput by 11.73%and 4.29%,and normalized total throughput by 6.74%and 2.64%,respectively;MCQG improves link utilization by 23.25%and 15.07%;in addition,the average round-trip delay and packet loss rate fluctuate significantly less than the two compared strategies.展开更多
On-demand availability and resource elasticity features of Cloud computing have attracted the focus of various research domains.Mobile cloud computing is one of these domains where complex computation tasks are offloa...On-demand availability and resource elasticity features of Cloud computing have attracted the focus of various research domains.Mobile cloud computing is one of these domains where complex computation tasks are offloaded to the cloud resources to augment mobile devices’cognitive capacity.However,the flexible provisioning of cloud resources is hindered by uncertain offloading workloads and significant setup time of cloud virtual machines(VMs).Furthermore,any delays at the cloud end would further aggravate the miseries of real-time tasks.To resolve these issues,this paper proposes an auto-scaling framework(ACF)that strives to maintain the quality of service(QoS)for the end users as per the service level agreement(SLA)negotiated assurance level for service availability.In addition,it also provides an innovative solution for dealing with the VM startup overheads without truncating the running tasks.Unlike the waiting cost and service cost tradeoff-based systems or threshold-rule-based systems,it does not require strict tuning in the waiting costs or in the threshold rules for enhancing the QoS.We explored the design space of the ACF system with the CloudSim simulator.The extensive sets of experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the ACF system in terms of good reduction in energy dissipation at the mobile devices and improvement in the QoS.At the same time,the proposed ACF system also reduces the monetary costs of the service providers.展开更多
Modernization of armies is a constant process and is driven by intuitive fact that those who do not modernize will become extinct. In last five decades, the development of modern armies has taken place around Colonel ...Modernization of armies is a constant process and is driven by intuitive fact that those who do not modernize will become extinct. In last five decades, the development of modern armies has taken place around Colonel John Boyd’s theory of OODA loop that deals with information superiority. Building a robust, mobile and capable network that could provide for novel appliances and information superiority is the main challenge which modernizers are facing. Network, suitable for future combat operations, and able to transport a vast amount of information on a battlefield, is expensive to build. Every mistake in design and the need to correct those mistakes could halt development in an army for years. Therefore, system dependability analysis during system design phase is needed. In this report, the concept of a future Battle Network System is described. The Report evaluates operational environment of BNS and possible failure reasons of the service, and illustrates the change in BNS Quality of Service due to probable transport layer errors. This paper describes the method of testing the concept of proposed network systems on the drawing board, and emphasizes design points for a new system. Nevertheless, the proposed method is by no means conclusive. Rather, it describes an engineering approach to define the main problems while creating MANET-based networking systems.展开更多
Cloud computing is providing IT services to its customer based on Service level agreements(SLAs).It is important for cloud service providers to provide reliable Quality of service(QoS)and to maintain SLAs accountabili...Cloud computing is providing IT services to its customer based on Service level agreements(SLAs).It is important for cloud service providers to provide reliable Quality of service(QoS)and to maintain SLAs accountability.Cloud service providers need to predict possible service violations before the emergence of an issue to perform remedial actions for it.Cloud users’major concerns;the factors for service reliability are based on response time,accessibility,availability,and speed.In this paper,we,therefore,experiment with the parallel mutant-Particle swarm optimization(PSO)for the detection and predictions of QoS violations in terms of response time,speed,accessibility,and availability.This paper also compares Simple-PSO and Parallel MutantPSO.In simulation results,it is observed that the proposed Parallel MutantPSO solution for cloud QoS violation prediction achieves 94%accuracy which is many accurate results and is computationally the fastest technique in comparison of conventional PSO technique.展开更多
To guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the key objectives of thenext generation network.Based on the introduction of the Next GenerationNetwork(NGN) and the definition of QoS,various aspects of QoS areana...To guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the key objectives of thenext generation network.Based on the introduction of the Next GenerationNetwork(NGN) and the definition of QoS,various aspects of QoS areanalyzed in this article,with emphasis on different approaches and businessmodels.It is noted that QoS concerns the parametric network performanceparameters and the application “satisfaction” level.展开更多
In the present scenario,cloud computing service provides on-request access to a collection of resources available in remote system that can be shared by numerous clients.Resources are in self-administration;consequent...In the present scenario,cloud computing service provides on-request access to a collection of resources available in remote system that can be shared by numerous clients.Resources are in self-administration;consequently,clients can adjust their usage according to their requirements.Resource usage is estimated and clients can pay according to their utilization.In literature,the existing method describes the usage of various hardware assets.Quality of Service(QoS)needs to be considered for ascertaining the schedule and the access of resources.Adhering with the security arrangement,any additional code is forbidden to ensure the usage of resources complying with QoS.Thus,all monitoring must be done from the hypervisor.To overcome the issues,Robust Resource Allocation and Utilization(RRAU)approach is developed for optimizing the management of its cloud resources.The work hosts a numerous virtual assets which could be expected under the circumstances and it enforces a controlled degree of QoS.The asset assignment calculation is heuristic,which is based on experimental evaluations,RRAU approach with J48 prediction model reduces Job Completion Time(JCT)by 4.75 s,Make Span(MS)6.25,and Monetary Cost(MC)4.25 for 15,25,35 and 45 resources are compared to the conventional methodologies in cloud environment.展开更多
The National Health Service(NHS)is a term used to describe the publicly funded healthcare delivery system providing quality healthcare services in the United Kingdom.There are several challenges militating against the...The National Health Service(NHS)is a term used to describe the publicly funded healthcare delivery system providing quality healthcare services in the United Kingdom.There are several challenges militating against the effective laboratory service delivery in the NHS in England.Biomedical scientists work in healthcare to diagnose disease and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment through the analysis of body fluids and tissue samples from patients.They provide the"engine room"of modern medicine with 70%of diagnosis based on the laboratory results generated by them.This review involved the search of literature for information on working condition of biomedical scientist in the NHS in England.Laboratory service delivery in the NHS in England faces numerous daunting challenges;staffing levels in the last few years have become dangerously low,less remunerated,relatively less experienced and predominantly band 5's,multidisciplinary rather than specialty based,associated with working more unsocial hours without adequate recovery time,de-banding of staff,high staff turnaround,profit and cost driven rather than quality.These factors has resulted in burn out,low morale,high sickness absences,increased error rate,poor team spirit,diminished productivity and suboptimal laboratory service delivery.There is the urgent need to retract our steps on unpopular policies to ensure that patient care is not compromised by ensuring adequate staffing level and mix,ensuring adequate remuneralion of laboratory staff,implementing evidenced-based specialty oriented service,determining the root cause/s for the high staff turnover and implementing corrective action,identifying other potential sources of waste in the system rather than pruning the already dangerously low staffing levels and promoting a quality delivery side by side cost effectiveness.展开更多
In order to incorporate smart elements into distribution networks at ITELCA laboratories in Bogotá-Colombia, a Machine-to-Machine-based solution has been developed. This solution aids in the process of low-cost e...In order to incorporate smart elements into distribution networks at ITELCA laboratories in Bogotá-Colombia, a Machine-to-Machine-based solution has been developed. This solution aids in the process of low-cost electrical fault location, which contributes to improving quality of service, particularly by shortening interruption time spans in mid-voltage grids. The implementation makes use of a GENEKO modem that exploits its digital inputs together with a full coverage of certain required auxiliary services so as to generate proper detection signals whenever failure currents occur;which allows incorporating the latest failure detection technology into the system.展开更多
The growing demand of usage of wireless sensors applications in different aspects makes the quality-of-service (QoS) to be one of paramount issues in wireless sensors applications. Quality of service guarantee in wire...The growing demand of usage of wireless sensors applications in different aspects makes the quality-of-service (QoS) to be one of paramount issues in wireless sensors applications. Quality of service guarantee in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is difficult and more challenging due to the fact that the resources available of sensors and the various applications running over these networks have different constraints in their nature and requirements. Traditionally quality of service was focused on network level with concern in metrics such as delay, throughput, jitter e.c.t. In this paper we present appropriate metrics of QoS for WSN which involve service, reliability and availability which ultimately facilitating in archiving qualitable service. We discuss the reverse look of QoS and hence present mathematically the three significant quality factors that should currently be taken into account in developing WSNs application quality services namely, availability, reliability and serviceability. We run experiments incorporating these three phenomenons (reliability, availability and serviceability—RAS) to demonstrate how to attain QoS which effectively improve reliability of the overall WSNs.展开更多
Network enabled digital technologies are offering new and exciting opportunities to increase the connectivity of devices for the purpose of home and office automation. ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) is such a digital wireless...Network enabled digital technologies are offering new and exciting opportunities to increase the connectivity of devices for the purpose of home and office automation. ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) is such a digital wireless technology that is used for personal area networks. In this paper, an office automation network using the combination of fixed and mobile IEEE 802.15.4 has been deployed and analyzed. The QoS parameters of the network as the performance metrics like throughput, MAC delay and data dropped rate have been investigated. Finally the network has been finalized with the optimized QoS parameters.展开更多
Network Coding is a relatively new forwarding paradigm where intermediate nodes perform a store, code, and forward operation on incoming packets. Traditional forwarding approaches, which employed a store and forward o...Network Coding is a relatively new forwarding paradigm where intermediate nodes perform a store, code, and forward operation on incoming packets. Traditional forwarding approaches, which employed a store and forward operation, have not been able to approach the limit of the max-flow min-cut throughput wherein sources transmitting information over bottleneck links have to compete for access to these links. With Network Coding, multiple sources are now able to transmit packets over bottleneck links simultaneously, achieving the max-flow min-cut through-put and increasing network capacity. While the majority of the contemporary literature has focused on the performance of Network Coding from a capacity perspective, the aim of this research has taken a new direction focusing on two Quality of Service metrics, e.g., Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and Latency, in conjunction with Network Coding protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). Simulations are performed on static and mobile environments to determine a Quality of Service baseline comparison between Network Coding protocols and traditional ad hoc routing protocols. The results show that the Random Linear Network Coding protocol has the lowest Latency and Dynamic Source Routing protocol has the highest PDR in the static scenarios, and show that the Random Linear Network Coding protocol has the best cumulative performance for both PDR and Latency in the mobile scenarios.展开更多
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are required to provide different levels of Quality of Services (QoS) based on the type of applications. Providing QoS support in wireless sensor networks is an emerging area of researc...Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are required to provide different levels of Quality of Services (QoS) based on the type of applications. Providing QoS support in wireless sensor networks is an emerging area of research. Due to resource constraints like processing power, memory, bandwidth and power sources in sensor networks, QoS support in WSNs is a challenging task. In this paper, we discuss the QoS requirements in WSNs and present a survey of some of the QoS aware routing techniques in WSNs. We also explore the middleware approaches for QoS support in WSNs and finally, highlight some open issues and future direction of research for providing QoS in WSNs.展开更多
The purpose of this study is to use the model of service quality concepts to evaluate the service qualities of"community health centers"in order to find out the service quality gaps and thus reinforce the co...The purpose of this study is to use the model of service quality concepts to evaluate the service qualities of"community health centers"in order to find out the service quality gaps and thus reinforce the competitive edge.This study took Datong District Health Centre in Taipei city as the research object and performed a questionnaire survey with internal and external customers.In terms of internal customers(service staff),50 employees participated and a total number of 50 effective questionnaires were returned.In terms of external customers,convenience sampling was adopted to collect the questionnaires,679 answered questionnaires were returned,effective copies being 667.The research tool was the questionnaire that was designed mainly on the basis of SERVQUAL(the scale of service quality determinants)and with reference to the practical data of service process during its implementation at subject service departments.The findings included the conclusions such as"there exists significant effect between service quality and customer satisfaction","the biggest difference among service qualities is service performance gap(GAP3),showing that there is still a room for improvement regarding the service provided at the health centre"and"different demographic variables have significant effects on customer satisfactions,e.g.higher age groups,lower education level and jobless people have lower satisfaction on the service received".The research result can be provided to relevant organisations as a reference for improvement.展开更多
Performance anomaly detection is the process of identifying occurrences that do not conform to expected behavior or correlate with other incidents or events in time series data.Anomaly detection has been applied to ar...Performance anomaly detection is the process of identifying occurrences that do not conform to expected behavior or correlate with other incidents or events in time series data.Anomaly detection has been applied to areas such as fraud detection,intrusion detection systems,and network systems.In this paper,we propose an anomaly detection framework that uses dynamic features of quality of service that are collected in a simulated setup.Three variants of recurrent neural networks-SimpleRNN,long short term memory,and gated recurrent unit are evaluated.The results reveal that the proposed method effectively detects anomalies in web services with high accuracy.The performance of the proposed anomaly detection framework is superior to that of existing approaches using maximum accuracy and detection rate metrics.展开更多
Small cells have been regarded as an appealing technique to boost resource reuse ratio.On the other hand,their large-scale and self-organised tendency would complicate the interference environment of mobile networks.M...Small cells have been regarded as an appealing technique to boost resource reuse ratio.On the other hand,their large-scale and self-organised tendency would complicate the interference environment of mobile networks.Meanwhile,traffic class is booming in recent years,which leads to higher demand for network designers on Quality of Service(QoS)provision,and therefore users' diverse requirements may not be guaranteed in such an interference limited scenario.To maximise the number of users with QoS demands as well as resource reuse ratio,we formulate the resource allocation problem into a multi-objective l0norm form.It is shown to be NP hard,and an iterative method is employed to approach the optimal solution.Because of its limit of being not adaptive to large-scale networks,we also design a heuristic method based on chordal graph,which,however,could result in performance loss when the size of networks is small.Finally,by combining these two methods,we devise a hybrid algorithm such that the allocation performs both efficiently and effectively.Simulation results illustrate the performance of our proposed methods in terms of outage probability and resource reuse ratio.展开更多
This paper investigates the routing among autonomous systems (ASs) with quality of service (QoS) requirements. To avoid the intractability of the problem, abstract QoS capability must be informed among ASs, because th...This paper investigates the routing among autonomous systems (ASs) with quality of service (QoS) requirements. To avoid the intractability of the problem, abstract QoS capability must be informed among ASs, because the routhing which constrained QoS has been proved to be nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP) hard even inside an AS. This paper employs the modified Dijkstra algorithm to compute the maximum bottleneck bandwidth inside an AS. This approach lays a basis for the AS-level switching capability on which interdomain advertisement can be performed. Furthermore, the paper models the aggregated traffic in backbone network with fractional Brownian motion (FBM), and by integrating along the time axis in short intervals, a good estimation of the distribution of queue length in the next short intervals can be obtained. The proposed advertisement mechanism can be easily implemented with the current interdomain routing protocols. Numerical study indicates that the presented scheme is effective and feasible.展开更多
An assessment method for the quality of service(QoS)of virtual knowledge communities(VKC)is proposed based on fuzzy theory and analytic hierarchy process(AHP).The QoS is evaluated in terms of Website design,reliabilit...An assessment method for the quality of service(QoS)of virtual knowledge communities(VKC)is proposed based on fuzzy theory and analytic hierarchy process(AHP).The QoS is evaluated in terms of Website design,reliability,responsiveness,trust,personalization,and information quality.The cognitive QoS and the QoS evaluated by assessors are compared to analyze which QoS of the VKC should be improved urgently and which indicators keep leading positions,and to assist administrators of the VKC on measuring and understanding current status and implementation effect of the QoS.展开更多
The MAC layer in IEEE802.16 is designed to differentiate service among traffic categories with different multimedia requirements.In this paper,a scheduling algorithm at MAC layer for multiple connections with diverse ...The MAC layer in IEEE802.16 is designed to differentiate service among traffic categories with different multimedia requirements.In this paper,a scheduling algorithm at MAC layer for multiple connections with diverse QoS requirements is proposed.As for this algorithm,each connection is assigned a priority,which is updated dynamically based on its service status concluding queue characteristic and channel state.A connection with the highest priority is scheduled each time.Analytical model is developed by assuming a Finite State Markov Chain(FSMC)channel model.Simulation results show that the proposed scheduling algorithm can improve the performance of mean waiting time and throughput in broadband wireless networks.展开更多
基金This work is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61772180the Key R&D plan of Hubei Province(2020BHB004,2020BAB012).
文摘According to Cisco’s Internet Report 2020 white paper,there will be 29.3 billion connected devices worldwide by 2023,up from 18.4 billion in 2018.5G connections will generate nearly three times more traffic than 4G connections.While bringing a boom to the network,it also presents unprecedented challenges in terms of flow forwarding decisions.The path assignment mechanism used in traditional traffic schedulingmethods tends to cause local network congestion caused by the concentration of elephant flows,resulting in unbalanced network load and degraded quality of service.Using the centralized control of software-defined networks,this study proposes a data center traffic scheduling strategy for minimization congestion and quality of service guaranteeing(MCQG).The ideal transmission path is selected for data flows while considering the network congestion rate and quality of service.Different traffic scheduling strategies are used according to the characteristics of different service types in data centers.Reroute scheduling for elephant flows that tend to cause local congestion.The path evaluation function is formed by the maximum link utilization on the path,the number of elephant flows and the time delay,and the fast merit-seeking capability of the sparrow search algorithm is used to find the path with the lowest actual link overhead as the rerouting path for the elephant flows.It is used to reduce the possibility of local network congestion occurrence.Equal cost multi-path(ECMP)protocols with faster response time are used to schedulemouse flows with shorter duration.Used to guarantee the quality of service of the network.To achieve isolated transmission of various types of data streams.The experimental results show that the proposed strategy has higher throughput,better network load balancing,and better robustness compared to ECMP under different traffic models.In addition,because it can fully utilize the resources in the network,MCQG also outperforms another traffic scheduling strategy that does rerouting for elephant flows(namely Hedera).Compared withECMPandHedera,MCQGimproves average throughput by 11.73%and 4.29%,and normalized total throughput by 6.74%and 2.64%,respectively;MCQG improves link utilization by 23.25%and 15.07%;in addition,the average round-trip delay and packet loss rate fluctuate significantly less than the two compared strategies.
基金This research work is funded by TEQIP-III under Assistantship Head:1.3.2.2 in PFMS dated 29.06.2021.
文摘On-demand availability and resource elasticity features of Cloud computing have attracted the focus of various research domains.Mobile cloud computing is one of these domains where complex computation tasks are offloaded to the cloud resources to augment mobile devices’cognitive capacity.However,the flexible provisioning of cloud resources is hindered by uncertain offloading workloads and significant setup time of cloud virtual machines(VMs).Furthermore,any delays at the cloud end would further aggravate the miseries of real-time tasks.To resolve these issues,this paper proposes an auto-scaling framework(ACF)that strives to maintain the quality of service(QoS)for the end users as per the service level agreement(SLA)negotiated assurance level for service availability.In addition,it also provides an innovative solution for dealing with the VM startup overheads without truncating the running tasks.Unlike the waiting cost and service cost tradeoff-based systems or threshold-rule-based systems,it does not require strict tuning in the waiting costs or in the threshold rules for enhancing the QoS.We explored the design space of the ACF system with the CloudSim simulator.The extensive sets of experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the ACF system in terms of good reduction in energy dissipation at the mobile devices and improvement in the QoS.At the same time,the proposed ACF system also reduces the monetary costs of the service providers.
文摘Modernization of armies is a constant process and is driven by intuitive fact that those who do not modernize will become extinct. In last five decades, the development of modern armies has taken place around Colonel John Boyd’s theory of OODA loop that deals with information superiority. Building a robust, mobile and capable network that could provide for novel appliances and information superiority is the main challenge which modernizers are facing. Network, suitable for future combat operations, and able to transport a vast amount of information on a battlefield, is expensive to build. Every mistake in design and the need to correct those mistakes could halt development in an army for years. Therefore, system dependability analysis during system design phase is needed. In this report, the concept of a future Battle Network System is described. The Report evaluates operational environment of BNS and possible failure reasons of the service, and illustrates the change in BNS Quality of Service due to probable transport layer errors. This paper describes the method of testing the concept of proposed network systems on the drawing board, and emphasizes design points for a new system. Nevertheless, the proposed method is by no means conclusive. Rather, it describes an engineering approach to define the main problems while creating MANET-based networking systems.
文摘Cloud computing is providing IT services to its customer based on Service level agreements(SLAs).It is important for cloud service providers to provide reliable Quality of service(QoS)and to maintain SLAs accountability.Cloud service providers need to predict possible service violations before the emergence of an issue to perform remedial actions for it.Cloud users’major concerns;the factors for service reliability are based on response time,accessibility,availability,and speed.In this paper,we,therefore,experiment with the parallel mutant-Particle swarm optimization(PSO)for the detection and predictions of QoS violations in terms of response time,speed,accessibility,and availability.This paper also compares Simple-PSO and Parallel MutantPSO.In simulation results,it is observed that the proposed Parallel MutantPSO solution for cloud QoS violation prediction achieves 94%accuracy which is many accurate results and is computationally the fastest technique in comparison of conventional PSO technique.
文摘To guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the key objectives of thenext generation network.Based on the introduction of the Next GenerationNetwork(NGN) and the definition of QoS,various aspects of QoS areanalyzed in this article,with emphasis on different approaches and businessmodels.It is noted that QoS concerns the parametric network performanceparameters and the application “satisfaction” level.
文摘In the present scenario,cloud computing service provides on-request access to a collection of resources available in remote system that can be shared by numerous clients.Resources are in self-administration;consequently,clients can adjust their usage according to their requirements.Resource usage is estimated and clients can pay according to their utilization.In literature,the existing method describes the usage of various hardware assets.Quality of Service(QoS)needs to be considered for ascertaining the schedule and the access of resources.Adhering with the security arrangement,any additional code is forbidden to ensure the usage of resources complying with QoS.Thus,all monitoring must be done from the hypervisor.To overcome the issues,Robust Resource Allocation and Utilization(RRAU)approach is developed for optimizing the management of its cloud resources.The work hosts a numerous virtual assets which could be expected under the circumstances and it enforces a controlled degree of QoS.The asset assignment calculation is heuristic,which is based on experimental evaluations,RRAU approach with J48 prediction model reduces Job Completion Time(JCT)by 4.75 s,Make Span(MS)6.25,and Monetary Cost(MC)4.25 for 15,25,35 and 45 resources are compared to the conventional methodologies in cloud environment.
基金Supported by grant(NEI001)from the management of Nelson Biomedical Limited UK
文摘The National Health Service(NHS)is a term used to describe the publicly funded healthcare delivery system providing quality healthcare services in the United Kingdom.There are several challenges militating against the effective laboratory service delivery in the NHS in England.Biomedical scientists work in healthcare to diagnose disease and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment through the analysis of body fluids and tissue samples from patients.They provide the"engine room"of modern medicine with 70%of diagnosis based on the laboratory results generated by them.This review involved the search of literature for information on working condition of biomedical scientist in the NHS in England.Laboratory service delivery in the NHS in England faces numerous daunting challenges;staffing levels in the last few years have become dangerously low,less remunerated,relatively less experienced and predominantly band 5's,multidisciplinary rather than specialty based,associated with working more unsocial hours without adequate recovery time,de-banding of staff,high staff turnaround,profit and cost driven rather than quality.These factors has resulted in burn out,low morale,high sickness absences,increased error rate,poor team spirit,diminished productivity and suboptimal laboratory service delivery.There is the urgent need to retract our steps on unpopular policies to ensure that patient care is not compromised by ensuring adequate staffing level and mix,ensuring adequate remuneralion of laboratory staff,implementing evidenced-based specialty oriented service,determining the root cause/s for the high staff turnover and implementing corrective action,identifying other potential sources of waste in the system rather than pruning the already dangerously low staffing levels and promoting a quality delivery side by side cost effectiveness.
文摘In order to incorporate smart elements into distribution networks at ITELCA laboratories in Bogotá-Colombia, a Machine-to-Machine-based solution has been developed. This solution aids in the process of low-cost electrical fault location, which contributes to improving quality of service, particularly by shortening interruption time spans in mid-voltage grids. The implementation makes use of a GENEKO modem that exploits its digital inputs together with a full coverage of certain required auxiliary services so as to generate proper detection signals whenever failure currents occur;which allows incorporating the latest failure detection technology into the system.
文摘The growing demand of usage of wireless sensors applications in different aspects makes the quality-of-service (QoS) to be one of paramount issues in wireless sensors applications. Quality of service guarantee in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is difficult and more challenging due to the fact that the resources available of sensors and the various applications running over these networks have different constraints in their nature and requirements. Traditionally quality of service was focused on network level with concern in metrics such as delay, throughput, jitter e.c.t. In this paper we present appropriate metrics of QoS for WSN which involve service, reliability and availability which ultimately facilitating in archiving qualitable service. We discuss the reverse look of QoS and hence present mathematically the three significant quality factors that should currently be taken into account in developing WSNs application quality services namely, availability, reliability and serviceability. We run experiments incorporating these three phenomenons (reliability, availability and serviceability—RAS) to demonstrate how to attain QoS which effectively improve reliability of the overall WSNs.
文摘Network enabled digital technologies are offering new and exciting opportunities to increase the connectivity of devices for the purpose of home and office automation. ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) is such a digital wireless technology that is used for personal area networks. In this paper, an office automation network using the combination of fixed and mobile IEEE 802.15.4 has been deployed and analyzed. The QoS parameters of the network as the performance metrics like throughput, MAC delay and data dropped rate have been investigated. Finally the network has been finalized with the optimized QoS parameters.
文摘Network Coding is a relatively new forwarding paradigm where intermediate nodes perform a store, code, and forward operation on incoming packets. Traditional forwarding approaches, which employed a store and forward operation, have not been able to approach the limit of the max-flow min-cut throughput wherein sources transmitting information over bottleneck links have to compete for access to these links. With Network Coding, multiple sources are now able to transmit packets over bottleneck links simultaneously, achieving the max-flow min-cut through-put and increasing network capacity. While the majority of the contemporary literature has focused on the performance of Network Coding from a capacity perspective, the aim of this research has taken a new direction focusing on two Quality of Service metrics, e.g., Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and Latency, in conjunction with Network Coding protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). Simulations are performed on static and mobile environments to determine a Quality of Service baseline comparison between Network Coding protocols and traditional ad hoc routing protocols. The results show that the Random Linear Network Coding protocol has the lowest Latency and Dynamic Source Routing protocol has the highest PDR in the static scenarios, and show that the Random Linear Network Coding protocol has the best cumulative performance for both PDR and Latency in the mobile scenarios.
文摘Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are required to provide different levels of Quality of Services (QoS) based on the type of applications. Providing QoS support in wireless sensor networks is an emerging area of research. Due to resource constraints like processing power, memory, bandwidth and power sources in sensor networks, QoS support in WSNs is a challenging task. In this paper, we discuss the QoS requirements in WSNs and present a survey of some of the QoS aware routing techniques in WSNs. We also explore the middleware approaches for QoS support in WSNs and finally, highlight some open issues and future direction of research for providing QoS in WSNs.
文摘The purpose of this study is to use the model of service quality concepts to evaluate the service qualities of"community health centers"in order to find out the service quality gaps and thus reinforce the competitive edge.This study took Datong District Health Centre in Taipei city as the research object and performed a questionnaire survey with internal and external customers.In terms of internal customers(service staff),50 employees participated and a total number of 50 effective questionnaires were returned.In terms of external customers,convenience sampling was adopted to collect the questionnaires,679 answered questionnaires were returned,effective copies being 667.The research tool was the questionnaire that was designed mainly on the basis of SERVQUAL(the scale of service quality determinants)and with reference to the practical data of service process during its implementation at subject service departments.The findings included the conclusions such as"there exists significant effect between service quality and customer satisfaction","the biggest difference among service qualities is service performance gap(GAP3),showing that there is still a room for improvement regarding the service provided at the health centre"and"different demographic variables have significant effects on customer satisfactions,e.g.higher age groups,lower education level and jobless people have lower satisfaction on the service received".The research result can be provided to relevant organisations as a reference for improvement.
文摘Performance anomaly detection is the process of identifying occurrences that do not conform to expected behavior or correlate with other incidents or events in time series data.Anomaly detection has been applied to areas such as fraud detection,intrusion detection systems,and network systems.In this paper,we propose an anomaly detection framework that uses dynamic features of quality of service that are collected in a simulated setup.Three variants of recurrent neural networks-SimpleRNN,long short term memory,and gated recurrent unit are evaluated.The results reveal that the proposed method effectively detects anomalies in web services with high accuracy.The performance of the proposed anomaly detection framework is superior to that of existing approaches using maximum accuracy and detection rate metrics.
基金ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First, thanks for the invitation from the organ- isers of IEEE/CIC ICCC 2013 held in Xi＇an, China. This work was supported by the Na- tional Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 60972047, No. 61231008 the National Science and Technology Major Project under Grams No. 2011ZX03005-004, No. 2011ZX03004-003, No. 2011ZX03005- 003-03, No. 2013ZX03004007-003+4 种基金 the Shannxi 13115 Project under Grant No. 2010ZDKG-26 the National Basic Research Program of China （973 Program） under Grant No. 2009CB320404 the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Inn- ovative Research Team in University under Gr- ant No. IRT0852 the 111 Project under Grant No. B08038 and the State Key Laboratory Fou- ndation under Grants No. ISN1002005, No. ISN090305.
文摘Small cells have been regarded as an appealing technique to boost resource reuse ratio.On the other hand,their large-scale and self-organised tendency would complicate the interference environment of mobile networks.Meanwhile,traffic class is booming in recent years,which leads to higher demand for network designers on Quality of Service(QoS)provision,and therefore users' diverse requirements may not be guaranteed in such an interference limited scenario.To maximise the number of users with QoS demands as well as resource reuse ratio,we formulate the resource allocation problem into a multi-objective l0norm form.It is shown to be NP hard,and an iterative method is employed to approach the optimal solution.Because of its limit of being not adaptive to large-scale networks,we also design a heuristic method based on chordal graph,which,however,could result in performance loss when the size of networks is small.Finally,by combining these two methods,we devise a hybrid algorithm such that the allocation performs both efficiently and effectively.Simulation results illustrate the performance of our proposed methods in terms of outage probability and resource reuse ratio.
文摘This paper investigates the routing among autonomous systems (ASs) with quality of service (QoS) requirements. To avoid the intractability of the problem, abstract QoS capability must be informed among ASs, because the routhing which constrained QoS has been proved to be nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP) hard even inside an AS. This paper employs the modified Dijkstra algorithm to compute the maximum bottleneck bandwidth inside an AS. This approach lays a basis for the AS-level switching capability on which interdomain advertisement can be performed. Furthermore, the paper models the aggregated traffic in backbone network with fractional Brownian motion (FBM), and by integrating along the time axis in short intervals, a good estimation of the distribution of queue length in the next short intervals can be obtained. The proposed advertisement mechanism can be easily implemented with the current interdomain routing protocols. Numerical study indicates that the presented scheme is effective and feasible.
文摘An assessment method for the quality of service(QoS)of virtual knowledge communities(VKC)is proposed based on fuzzy theory and analytic hierarchy process(AHP).The QoS is evaluated in terms of Website design,reliability,responsiveness,trust,personalization,and information quality.The cognitive QoS and the QoS evaluated by assessors are compared to analyze which QoS of the VKC should be improved urgently and which indicators keep leading positions,and to assist administrators of the VKC on measuring and understanding current status and implementation effect of the QoS.
文摘The MAC layer in IEEE802.16 is designed to differentiate service among traffic categories with different multimedia requirements.In this paper,a scheduling algorithm at MAC layer for multiple connections with diverse QoS requirements is proposed.As for this algorithm,each connection is assigned a priority,which is updated dynamically based on its service status concluding queue characteristic and channel state.A connection with the highest priority is scheduled each time.Analytical model is developed by assuming a Finite State Markov Chain(FSMC)channel model.Simulation results show that the proposed scheduling algorithm can improve the performance of mean waiting time and throughput in broadband wireless networks.
