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Optimizing Service Efficacy in 5G HetNets: An Adaptive Acceleration PSO Approach
International Journal of Crowd Science 2024, 8(4): 168-175
Published: 16 September 2024
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The dense deployment of Femto Base Stations (FBS) assisting Macro Base Stations (MBS) in a Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) resolves the coverage issue of 5G signal transmission. However, the imprudent layout of FBSs results in extensive energy consumption and increased signal interference among base stations. Regulating the transmission power of each base station in the HetNets through the main controller or MBS is essential to maximize the power efficiency of the entire HetNets while adhering to the constraints of basic signal throughput and fairness. To address this challenge, this paper proposes an Adaptive Acceleration Particle Swarm Optimization (AA-PSO) algorithm. This algorithm dynamically determines the inertia weight based on each particle’s optimal position and the global optimal position, and introduces the concept of time-varying parameters to control the learning rate, thus managing the search range and convergence speed of the particle swarm. The results demonstrate that the AA-PSO algorithm can efficiently determine the optimal transmission power of each base station in the HetNets, reduce interference between MBS and FBSs, as well as among FBSs, and ultimately improve the service efficacy of the entire network.

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Measurement and Optimization of Metro Network Service Efficacy
International Journal of Crowd Science 2024, 8(3): 149-158
Published: 19 August 2024
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The high efficacy of metro network services not only enhances residents’ travel quality but also brings significant socio-economic benefits, thus is of great importance to urban land use and city development. Existing methods for measuring metro service efficacy often overlook metro network connectivity and rely heavily on subjective questionnaire data analysis from the user experience perspective. This paper proposes a method to measure metro network service efficacy from the user’s perspective. The approach first calculates the connectivity index of metro network and estimates the housing premium brought by metro network connectivity, which reveals users’ willingness to pay for metro network connectivity. This method objectively measures metro network service efficacy from the user’s perspective. Based on this, efficacy optimization methods are proposed, providing quantitative simulation methods for metro expansion, site selection, operation quality adjustments, etc., which are of great reference value to metro management departments and even urban sustainable development.

Open Access Conceptual paper Issue
Intelligent transaction: definition, modes, and research directions
International Journal of Crowd Science 2019, 3(1): 36-48
Published: 03 April 2019
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Purpose

In the crowd intelligence networking era, the smart connections of human, machines and things enable point-to-point trustable transactions and distributed efficient collaboration; the smart connections among government, enterprises, organizations and the public would enable active participation of the public in society management and decision-making and improve the efficiency of government management and services. All interactions among various agents can be viewed as the transaction activity. The social division of labor system drives the evolution of transaction. The transaction mode also differentiated into different patterns with the development of human society. What will be the intelligent transaction in the crowd intelligence networking era? What will be the transactions modes and rules in the crowd intelligence networking era? The answers to these questions are of great importance to the future development of transactions.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors review the evolution of traditional transaction and transaction modes and analyze the driving forces of it. They attempt to give the definitions of intelligent transaction and intelligent transaction mode. They also review the traditional transaction modes and rules, analyze the characteristics of the intelligent transaction and classify the intelligent transaction modes.

Findings

The authors find the intelligent transaction is mainly reflected in the intellectualization of transaction subject, transaction object and transaction process. They summarize the characteristics of intelligent transaction and develop four modes for the intelligent transactions based on the modularization level of the transaction objects and the quantity of transaction subjects, including the demand side and the supply side. The authors also show representative examples to further illustrate rules and features of these transaction modes and point out the potential research directions.

Originality/value

This study is among the first to analyze the characteristics of the intelligent transaction, and the proposed division framework of the intelligent transaction modes could not only add value to the future research of intelligent transaction modes and rules but also help to guide the transactions in the crowd intelligence network.

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