scholarly journals A Scheme of Selecting Vehicles to Assist Download Based on WebGIS for VANET

Author(s):  
Qibin Zhou ◽  
Qinggang Su ◽  
Peng Xiong

The assisted download is an effective method solving the problem that the coverage range is insufficient when Wi-Fi access is used in VANET. For the low utilization of time-space resource within blind area and unbalanced download services in VANET, this paper proposes an approximate global optimum scheme to select vehicle based on WebGIS for assistance download. For WebGIS, this scheme uses a two-dimensional matrix to respectively define the time-space resource and the vehicle selecting behavior, and uses Markov Decision Process to solve the problem of time-space resource allocation within blind area, and utilizes the communication features of VANET to simplify the behavior space of vehicle selection so as to reduce the computing complexity. At the same time, Euclidean Distance(Metric) and Manhattan Distance are used as the basis of vehicle selection by the proposed scheme so that, in the case of possessing the balanced assisted download services, the target vehicles can increase effectively the total amount of user downloads. Experimental results show that because of the wider access range and platform independence of WebGIS, when user is in the case of relatively balanced download services, the total amount of downloads is increased by more than 20%. Moreover, WebGIS usually only needs to use Web browser (sometimes add some plug-ins) on the client side, so the system cost is greatly reduced.

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shumpei Haginoya ◽  
Aiko Hanayama ◽  
Tamae Koike

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to compare the accuracy of linking crimes using geographical proximity between three distance measures: Euclidean (distance measured by the length of a straight line between two locations), Manhattan (distance obtained by summing north-south distance and east-west distance) and the shortest route distances. Design/methodology/approach A total of 194 cases committed by 97 serial residential burglars in Aomori Prefecture in Japan between 2004 and 2015 were used in the present study. The Mann–Whitney U test was used to compare linked (two offenses committed by the same offender) and unlinked (two offenses committed by different offenders) pairs for each distance measure. Discrimination accuracy between linked and unlinked crime pairs was evaluated using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). Findings The Mann–Whitney U test showed that the distances of the linked pairs were significantly shorter than those of the unlinked pairs for all distance measures. Comparison of the AUCs showed that the shortest route distance achieved significantly higher accuracy compared with the Euclidean distance, whereas there was no significant difference between the Euclidean and the Manhattan distance or between the Manhattan and the shortest route distance. These findings give partial support to the idea that distance measures taking the impact of environmental factors into consideration might be able to identify a crime series more accurately than Euclidean distances. Research limitations/implications Although the results suggested a difference between the Euclidean and the shortest route distance, it was small, and all distance measures resulted in outstanding AUC values, probably because of the ceiling effects. Further investigation that makes the same comparison in a narrower area is needed to avoid this potential inflation of discrimination accuracy. Practical implications The shortest route distance might contribute to improving the accuracy of crime linkage based on geographical proximity. However, further investigation is needed to recommend using the shortest route distance in practice. Given that the targeted area in the present study was relatively large, the findings may contribute especially to improve the accuracy of proactive comparative case analysis for estimating the whole picture of the distribution of serial crimes in the region by selecting more effective distance measure. Social implications Implications to improve the accuracy in linking crimes may contribute to assisting crime investigations and the earlier arrest of offenders. Originality/value The results of the present study provide an initial indication of the efficacy of using distance measures taking environmental factors into account.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Saba K. Naji ◽  
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Muthana H. Hamd ◽  

Due to, the great electronic development, which reinforced the need to define people's identities, different methods, and databases to identification people's identities have emerged. In this paper, we compare the results of two texture analysis methods: Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Local Ternary Pattern (LTP). The comparison based on comparing the extracting facial texture features of 40 and 401 subjects taken from ORL and UFI databases respectively. As well, the comparison has taken in the account using three distance measurements such as; Manhattan Distance (MD), Euclidean Distance (ED), and Cosine Distance (CD). Where the maximum accuracy of the LBP method (99.23%) is obtained with a Manhattan and ORL database, while the LTP method attained (98.76%) using the same distance and database. While, the facial database of UFI shows low quality, which is satisfied 75.98% and 73.82% recognition rates using LBP and LTP respectively with Manhattan distance.


Author(s):  
Subrata Acharya

There is a need to be able to verify plaintext HTTP content transfers. Common sense dictates authentication and sensitive content should always be protected by SSL/HTTPS, but there is still great exploitation potential in the modification of static content in transit. Pre-computed signatures and client-side verification offers integrity protection of HTTP content in applications where SSL is not feasible. In this chapter, the authors demonstrate a mechanism by which a Web browser or other HTTP client can verify that content transmitted over an untrusted channel has not been modified. Verifiable HTTP is not intended to replace SSL. Rather, it is intended to be used in applications where SSL is not feasible, specifically, when serving high-volume static content and/or content from non-secure sources such as Content Distribution Networks. Finally, the authors find content verification is effective with server-side overhead similar to SSL. With future optimization such as native browser support, content verification could achieve comparable client-side efficiency.


Author(s):  
Parag Jain

Most popular machine learning algorithms like k-nearest neighbour, k-means, SVM uses a metric to identify the distance(or similarity) between data instances. It is clear that performances of these algorithm heavily depends on the metric being used. In absence of prior knowledge about data we can only use general purpose metrics like Euclidean distance, Cosine similarity or Manhattan distance etc, but these metric often fail to capture the correct behaviour of data which directly affects the performance of the learning algorithm. Solution to this problem is to tune the metric according to the data and the problem, manually deriving the metric for high dimensional data which is often difficult to even visualize is not only tedious but is extremely difficult. Which leads to put effort on \textit{metric learning} which satisfies the data geometry.Goal of metric learning algorithm is to learn a metric which assigns small distance to similar points and relatively large distance to dissimilar points.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andysah Putera Utama Siahaan

Determination of the optimum route is often encountered in daily life. The purpose of the optimum route itself is to find the best trajectory of the two pairs of vertices contained in a map or graph. The search algorithm applied is A*. This algorithm has the evaluation function to assist the search. The function is called heuristic. Two methods which have been introduced as a step to obtain the value of heuristic function are by using Euclidean and Manhattan distance. Both of these methods create the optimum distance in shortest path problem, but these functions gain the different results. This research performs the development of the heuristic function using Euclidean, Manhattan, Euclidean Square and the author method (Andysah).


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