Thomson Licensing

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Huaneng Power International, Inc.

Wuhan Kaidi Electric Power Environmental Co., Ltd.

Yong He

Xiao-jun Ma

Jun Li

Yongguang Zhang

Kun Tan

Jun Xu

Jiansong Zhang

Charles Chunaming Wang

Haichen Shen

Xiaojun Ma

Huanqiang Zhang

Paramvir Bahl

Ranveer Chandra

Qi Cheng Li

Thomas Moscibroda

Zhigang Zhang

Zhenan Sun

Yunlong Wang

Kunbo Zhang

Zhengquan Luo

Charles Chuanming Wang

Jianping Song

Yi Zhang

Deqing Liang

Guang Hua Zhou

Weidong Li

Xuebing Zhou

Zhen Long

Jian Ping Song

Guanghua Zhou

Chuanming Wang

Hong Zhao

Changmin Han

A device and a method for continuous COcapture by a double-bed hydrate process are provided. The device includes a first fixed-bed hydrate reactor, a second fixed-bed hydrate reactor, a solution circulation system, a gas inlet system and an exhaust system; the first fixed-bed hydrate reactor and the second fixed-bed hydrate reactor are respectively connected in series with the gas inlet system, the exhaust system and the solution circulation system, and are connected in parallel; the refrigerant fluid and the heat medium fluid output by a compression-refrigeration system alternately flow into a heat exchange coil of the first fixed-bed hydrate reactor and a heat exchange coil of the second fixed-bed hydrate reactor, and the two fixed-bed hydrate reactors are alternately subjected to hydrate formation and decomposition reactions to realize continuous COcapture and separation.

Device and method for continuous COcapture by double-bed hydrate process

Disclosed is a disentangled personalized federated learning method via consensus representation extraction and diversity propagation provided by embodiments of the present application. The method includes: receiving, by a current node, local consensus representation extraction models and unique representation extraction models corresponding to other nodes, respectively; extracting, by the current node, the representations of the data of the current node by using the unique representation extraction models of other nodes respectively, and calculating first mutual information between different sets of representation distributions, determining similarity of the data distributions between the nodes based on the size of the first mutual information, and determining aggregation weights corresponding to the other nodes based on the first mutual information; the current node obtains the global consensus representation aggregation model corresponding to the current node.

Disentangled personalized federated learning method via consensus representation extraction and diversity propagation

Disclosed is a method for updating a node model that resists discrimination propagation in federated learning. The method includes: obtaining a node model corresponding to a data node; calculating a mean value of the distribution of class features and a quantity ratio corresponding to training data of the data node, calculating a distribution weighted aggregation model based on the node model, the mean value of the distribution of class features and the quantity ratio; calculating a regularization term corresponding to the data node based on the node model and the distribution weighted aggregation model; calculating a variance of the distribution of the class features corresponding to the data node, calculating a class balanced complementary term by using a cross-domain feature generator; and updating the node model based on the distribution weighted aggregation model, the regularization term, and the class balanced complementary term.

Method for updating a node model that resists discrimination propagation in federated learning

A high-efficiency gradient hierarchy complex desulfurizing tower includes a tower body. The tower body tower includes an oxidization and crystallization stage, a coarse desulfurization and dedusting stage, a fine desulfurization and dedusting stage, and a horizontal demisting stage from the bottom up. The oxidization and crystallization stage tower includes a pond and a separation mechanism provided in the pond and separating the pond into an upper area and a lower area. The coarse desulfurization and dedusting stage tower includes a gas distributing board and a multi-layer spray layer that are placed above a gas import, the spray layer being in connection with the pond. The fine desulfurization and dedusting stage tower includes a tube demister, a flushing layer, a film liquid holdup layer, a liquid holdup layer recycling can, the pH of slurry in the liquid holdup layer recycling can being higher than the pH of slurry in the pond.

High-efficiency gradient hierarchy complex desulfurizing tower

Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices that allow a white space base station to request available frequency ranges for white space transmission in a local area. A white space finder service models a primary user device's transmission signal propagation area using terrain data associated with the local area of the primary user device. The white space finder service also determines, based on the location of the white space base station and the modeled propagation area, one or more locally available, non-interfering frequency ranges and provides them to the white space base station. The white space base station compares the provided frequency ranges to policies and selects one or more of the available frequencies that accommodate the policies. The white space base station also maps the transmission frequency ranges to virtual frequency ranges for transmission by a software-defined radio employing spectrum virtualization.

Spectrum allocation for base station

Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices for reshaping virtual baseband signals for transmission on non-contiguous and variable portions of a physical baseband, such as a white space frequency band. In the transmission path, a spectrum virtualization layer maps a plurality of frequency components derived from a transmission symbol produced by a physical layer protocol to sub-carriers of the allocated physical frequency band. The spectrum virtualization layer then outputs a time-domain signal derived from the mapped frequency components. In the receive path, a time-domain signal received on the physical baseband is reshaped by the virtual spectrum layer in order to recompose a time-domain symbol in the virtual baseband.

Mapping signals from a virtual frequency band to physical frequency bands

Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices for reshaping virtual baseband signals for transmission on non-contiguous and variable portions of a physical baseband, such as a white space frequency band. In the transmission path, a spectrum virtualization layer maps a plurality of transmission components associated with a transmission symbol produced by a physical layer protocol to sub-carriers of the allocated physical frequency band. The spectrum virtualization layer then outputs a physical transmission symbol composed of time-domain samples derived from the mapped frequency components and a cyclic prefix. In the receive path, a time-domain symbol received on the physical baseband is reshaped and equalized by the virtual spectrum layer in order to recompose a time-domain samples of a transmission stream in the virtual baseband.

Mapping a transmission stream in a virtual baseband to a physical baseband with equalization

In the context of IEEE 802.11 WLAN networks, enhancement to the Relaxed Deterministic Backoff (R-DEB) for random access of shared (Medium Access Control MAC) method. For all available candidate resource slots, a busy index is calculated that reflects the level of use/occupation in the past and infers a probability of use in the future by another concurring device. The method assumes the use of a sub-set of resource slots for transmission, and updates this set by replacing resource slots for which collisions are frequent with a not currently used candidate resource for which the busy index is the lowest. Passive Spoofing/overhearing of all resources for clear channel assessment (CCS) is used for resource monitoring purposes.

Selection of transmission lots of the relaxed deterministic back-off methods in the medium access control

A method and system are described including retrieving a sparseness indication, retrieving an indication of a number of failed transmissions, comparing the sparseness indication to an optimal sparseness, comparing the number of failed transmissions to a first threshold, adjusting a size of a set of triggering events responsive to both the first and the second comparison, comparing a data buffer push rate to a data buffer arrival rate, further adjusting the size of the triggering set responsive to the third comparison, determining system fairness, comparing the size of the triggering set to a second threshold and further adjusting the size of the triggering set responsive to one of the determination and a combination of the determination and the fourth comparison.

Adaptive triggering set for relaxed deterministic back-off method

A method and apparatus are described including identifying a channel that a decentralized network is using for communications and identifying a station that is a member of the decentralized network to monitor data transmission activity over the identified channel. Also described are a method and apparatus for a station to transmit data over a communication medium of a decentralized network including monitoring the communication medium, determining if the communication medium is idle, transmitting data if the communication medium is idle and if the station has a data to transmit and adjusting a slot count and a service ring configuration if the medium is busy. Further described are a method and apparatus including monitoring a communication channel used by a decentralized network, determining a number of available idle time slots between two successive frame transmissions initiated by different stations, updating a service ring, adjusting a number of stations and adjusting a slot count.

Deterministic back-off method and apparatus for peer-to-peer communications

A method and apparatus are described including determining a target congestion index, determining a congestion index based on information from a last back-off round, comparing the target congestion index with the congestion index, performing one of increasing a triggering set size by a first factor and decreasing the triggering set size by a second factor responsive to the comparison, determining if a communications medium is idle, adjusting a back-off counter responsive to the third determining act, determining if the back-off counter is equal to a triggering point in the triggering set and transmitting data responsive to the fourth determining act.

Constant window back-off method for multiple access in wireless local area networks

A method and apparatus are described for gaining access to a communication medium in a contention-based network, including determining a slot count based on a number of stations in the contention-based network, adjusting the slot count, initiating a frame transmission when the slot count reaches a predetermined value and wherein said number of stations and an address queue are adjusted to reflect one of a priority and traffic patterns. Further, a method and apparatus are described for gaining access to a communication medium in a contention-based network, including receiving a slot count based on a number of stations in the contention-based network, adjusting the slot count, initiating a frame transmission when the slot count reaches a predetermined value and wherein said number of stations and an address queue are adjusted to reflect a priority.

Method and apparatus for media access in contention-based networks

A method and apparatus for improving power performance of a wireless adapter which adopts a time slicing scheme by dividing a beacon interval into multiple slices, and assigning these slices to the stations through the beacon frame. The stations wakeup at the appointed slices to receive their buffered frames from an access point, and may enter into sleep state once the transactions conclude. A further embodiment including formatting data into a control frame for use in a wireless local area network, the frame including an indication, for each station associated with the wireless local area network, whether frames are buffered awaiting transmission to each respective station, a number of time intervals between control frames, and at which time interval the transmission of the buffered frames will begin for each station having buffered frames awaiting transmission.

Method and apparatus for power management in WLAN

A method and apparatus are described including determining if a successful unicast transmission has occurred, adjusting a contention window to a minimum value and adjusting a time slot back-off counter to one-half of the value of the contention window plus one responsive to the determination and adjusting the contention window using one of a plurality of adjustment schemes and selecting said time slot back-off counter from an interval between zero and the contention window.

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