The statistical characteristics of combined lidar and radiometric measurements obtained from satellite lidar CALIOP and ground-based sun-radiometer stations were used as input datasets to retrieve ...the altitude profiles of aerosol parameters (LRS-C technique). The signal-to-noise ratio of the input satellite lidar signals increased when averaging over a large array of measured data. An algorithm and software package for processing the input dataset of the LRS-C sounding of atmospheric aerosol in regions with medium and low aerosol loads was developed. This paper presents the results of studying long-term changes in the concentration profiles of aerosol modes in regions of East Europe (AERONET site Minsk, 53.92° N, 27.60° E) and East Antarctic (AERONET site Vechernaya Hill, 67.66° S, 46.16° E).
Increasing the share of renewable energy sources in power systems is key to a successful energy transition. Optimal renewable site selection requires a holistic approach, involving land, resources, ...environmental and economical data and constraints. In this paper we consider the problem of solar PV penetration into the power network as a spatiotemporal analysis combined with decision support targeted for policy makers and investors. Our goal is to seek new models that maximize energy penetration and stability into the network, while minimizing the operational costs. We show how the selection of solar PV sites can be accomplished to satisfy such objectives by investigating the optimal clustering of multiple solar PV parks around a shared electrical substation. This is a combinatorial problem in terms of all the potential clusters given the set of PV site candidates. Our main contribution lies in identifying and proposing a modeling analogy of our problem with the so-called SONET problem, tackled in fiber network designs. We show how this new spatiotemporal PV park placement model minimizes operational costs, while increasing energy stability of the solutions produced. We also introduce a GIS preprocessing step to reduce the computational cost of the proposed approach. We compare our proposed SONET-based model to an existing GIS-optimization model on a real case study and data from the French Guiana’s power system. This new approach aggregates multiple PV parks into clusters distributed across the territory. In the case of French Guiana, the same global nominal power (≈45MW) can, for instance, be distributed among 11 PV parks and 3 clusters, against 3 large-scale PV parks. Results show substantial gain in costs per kWh produced, up to 10MW of extra installed power and 16GWh of extra power generation when considering PV parks ⩽5MW. The new cluster configuration also ensures improved energy stability of the solutions, resulting in mitigation of the risks for both the network manager and the decision maker.
•Modeling analogy with optical network design for optimal PV site clustering.•Enhanced risk management of operational costs and energy stability.•Comparative study with an existing GIS-optimization model on real data.•Novel implementation strategy for PV site selection at utility scale.
Present-day metro networks employ SONET-based WDM rings, a circuit-switched architecture primarily designed to support the circuit-switched client (i.e., voice), and thus having inefficient bandwidth ...utilization in the presence of bursty packet-switched data traffic (e.g. ATM, Ethernet, IP). Despite several improvisations made in SONET to reduce its inefficiency for packet-switched client, SONET-over-WDM metro today finds it challenging to cope up with the ever-escalating bursty traffic from the access. As of now, the packet-switched WDM ring stands as a promising candidate for the next-generation metro networks, more so for the metro edges, the lower sub-segment of the metro networks, interfacing with the access network. Although, several testbeds have been developed for packet-switched WDM rings in the recent years, the viability of these designs highly depends on the latency of the proposed packet-based media-access protocols and the transmission impairments in the physical layer as the network scales in size. Addressing these problems, we revisit the previously proposed packet-switched WDM metro ring architectures and make a comprehensive study considering both the MAC as well as physical-layer issues, in order to deliver a design guideline for practically viable solutions to the network providers.
Flexible-grid elastic optical networks (EONs) have attracted intensive research interests for the agile spectrum management in the optical layer. Meanwhile, due to the relatively small spectrum ...allocation granularity, spectrum fragmentation has been commonly recognized as one of the key factors that can deteriorate the performance of EONs. To alleviate spectrum fragmentation, various defragmentation (DF) schemes have been considered to consolidate spectrum utilization in EONs through connection reconfigurations. However, most of the previous approaches operate in the sequential manner (Seq-DF), i.e., involving a sequence of reconfigurations to progressively migrate highly fragmented spectrum utilization to consolidated state. In this paper, we propose to perform the DF operations in a parallel manner (Par-DF), i.e., conducting all the DF-related connection reconfigurations simultaneously. We first provide a detailed analysis on the latency and disruption of Seq-DF and Par-DF in EONs, and highlight the benefits of Par-DF. Then, we study two types of Par-DF approaches in EONs, i.e., reactive Par-DF (re-Par-DF) and proactive Par-DF (pro-Par-DF). We perform hardness analysis on them, and prove that the problem of re-Par-DF is NP-hard in the strong sense while pro-Par-DF is an APX-hard problem. Next, we focus on pro-Par-DF and propose a Lagrangian-relaxation (LR) based heuristic to solve it time-efficiently. The proposed algorithm decomposes the original problem into several independent subproblems and ensures that each of them can be solved efficiently. The LR based approach informs us the proximity of current feasible solution to the optimal one constantly, and offers a near-optimal performance (relative dual gap 5%) within 500 iterations in most simulations. Extensive simulations also verify that the proposed pro-Par-DF approach outperforms Seq-DF in terms of the DF Latency, Disruption and Cost.
Satellite-based aerosol optical property retrieval over land, especially size-related parameters, is challenging. This study proposed a novel two-stage machine learning (ML) algorithm for retrieving ...aerosol optical depth (AOD), Ångström exponent (AE), fine mode fraction (FMF), and fine mode AOD (FAOD)) over land using MODIS observed reflectance. The new ML algorithm consists of three steps: (1) first, all samples extracted from AERONET measurements were used to train the ML model, (2) then, to reduce the extreme estimation bias of the model, divided low-value and high-value samples were used to train low-value and high-value ML models, respectively, and (3) finally, the three ML models were integrated into the final retrieval based on the weight interpolation. Independent site network validation results show that the new ML algorithm has a Pearson correlation coefficient (R) of 0.894 (0.638, 0.661, 0.865) and root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.146 (0.258, 0.245, 0.153) for the AOD (AE, FMF, FAOD) retrieval, which significantly outperforms the validation metrics of MODIS operational products, with AOD (AE, FMF, FAOD) RMSE of 0.130-0.156 (0.536-0.569, 0.313, 0.191). The inter-comparison of aerosol products shows that the spatial patterns of AOD, AE, FMF, and FAOD of the new ML algorithm are in good agreement with those of the MODIS and POLDER products. These results illustrate that the new ML algorithm has good performance and transferability and indicate the ability of ML methods to be applied to multispectral instruments (such as MODIS) to retrieve multiple aerosol properties.
We reveal that an introduction of frequency-weighted inter-layer coupling term in networks of frequency dipoles can induce explosive synchronization transitions. The reason for explosive ...synchronization is that the oscillators with synchronization superiority are moderately suppressed. The findings show that a super-linear correlation induces explosive synchronization in networks of frequency dipoles, while a linear or sub-linear correlation excites chimera-like states. Clearly, the synchronization transition mode of networks of frequency dipoles is controlled by the power-law exponent. In addition, by means of the mean-field approximation, we obtain the critical values of the coupling strength within and between layers in two limit cases. The results of theoretical analysis are in good agreement with those of numerical simulation. Compared with the previous models, the model proposed in this paper retains the topological structure of network and the intrinsic properties of oscillators, so it is easy to realize pinning control.
The Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) is widely used as an advanced model dataset for the understanding of global climate change. However, ...independent validation and comparison of MERRA-2 are both insufficient and always desired. Therefore, in this study, the quantitative evaluation of MERRA-2 aerosol products was conducted over China for Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), Angstrom exponent (AE), absorbing AOD (AAOD) and chemical components (black carbon (BC) and dust (DU)) using Sun sky radiometer Observation NETwork (SONET) ground-based measurements and POLDER-3/PARASOL satellite products generated by the GRASP algorithm. The available MERRA-2 monthly dataset and PARASOL/GRASP monthly and seasonal products were intercompared over China. MERRA-2 AOD (550 nm) show general good agreement with SONET and PARASOL/GRASP. For example, the correlation coefficients are usually 0.6–0.85 with SONET and 0.75–0.85 with PARASOL/GRASP, the bias is usually −0.293 to +0.008 with SONET. For AE and AAOD, the agreement is still reasonable. MERRA-2 is found to overestimate fine mode AE and to display a general underestimation of aerosol absorption over China. In addition, MERRA-2 BC and DU mass concentrations show spatial and quantitative consistency with PARASOL/GRASP components climatological products. The relatively high columnar BC mass concentration is observed around 1.5–2 mg/m3 over the East China industrial region and high DU mass concentration is around 150 mg/m3 near Taklimakan desert. MERRA-2 shows slightly higher BC and lower DU concentration than PARASOL/GRASP over East China. The evaluations with in situ BC measurements near surface verify the overestimation (MAE = +0.44 µg/m2) of MERRA-2 and underestimation (MAE = −0.38 µg/m2) of PARASOL/GRASP. The analysis demonstrates multi-source datasets, such as ground-based, space-borne remote sensing, in situ measurements, model simulation as well as reanalysis data, complement each other and can be used to refine aerosol characterization.
Comprehensive analysis that aims to understand the topology of real-world networks and the development of algorithms that replicate their characteristics has been significant research issues. ...Although the accuracy of newly developed network protocols or algorithms does not depend on the underlying topology, the performance generally depends on the topology. As a result, network practitioners have concentrated on generating representative synthetic topologies and utilize them to investigate the performance of their design in simulation or emulation environments. Network generators typically represent the Internet topology as a graph composed of point-to-point links. In this study, we discuss the implications of multi-access links on the synthetic network generation and modeling of the networks as bi-partite graphs to represent both subnetworks and routers. We then analyze the characteristics of sampled Internet topology data sets from backbone Autonomous Systems (AS) and observe that in addition to the commonly recognized power-law node degree distribution, the subnetwork size and the router interface distributions often exhibit power-law characteristics. We introduce a SubNetwork Generator (SubNetG) topology generation approach that incorporates the observed measurements to produce bipartite network topologies. In particular, generated topologies capture the 2-mode relation between the layer-2 (i.e., the subnetwork and interface distributions) and the layer-3 (i.e., the degree distribution) that is missing from the current network generators that produce 1-mode graphs. The SubNetG source code and experimental data is available at https://github.com/netml/sonet.
The Time Deviation in Packet-Based Synchronization Weiss, M. A.; Shenoi, Kishan
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control,
2016-April, 2016-Apr, 2016-4-00, 20160401, Letnik:
63, Številka:
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The telecommunications industry has used the time deviation (TDEV) very effectively for specifying network equipment clock performance as well as the performance of timing signals generated by ...Central Office equipment such as primary reference clocks and building integrated timing supplies (BITS) and synchronization supply units (SSUs). We discuss here the development of TDEV, and the variations of TDEV motivated by the advent of packet-switching and the steady transformation of the telecom network from circuit-switched-based to packet-switched-based. We illustrate these with simulation of the performance of the precise time protocol (PTP) across a packet-switched network. We then apply published methods to automatically determine noise types, and use these to predict time dispersion from a master clock for a slave clock using these PTP packets to stay synchronized. The result shows how TDEV and the other deviations provide an extensive array of tools for telecom networks, as well as for general time and frequency applications.
We have performed time transfer experiments based on passive listening in fiber optical networks using Packet over synchronous optical networking (SONET)/synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH). The ...experiments have been performed with different complexity and over different distances. For assessment of the results, we have used a GPS link based on carrier-phase observations. On a 560-km link, precision that is relative to the GPS link of <; 1 ns has been obtained over several months. In this paper, we describe and quantify the different error sources influencing the fiber time transfer measurements. We show that the temperature dependence of the optical fiber is the major contribution to the error budget, and, thus, reducing this effect should be the best way of improving the results.
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