On the Application of Channel Characteristic-Based Physical Layer Authentication in Industrial Wireless Networks

Wang, Qiuhua,Kang, Mingyang,Yuan, Lifeng,Wang, Yunlu,Miao, Gongxun,Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond Korean Society for Internet Information 2021 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.15 No.7

Channel characteristic-based physical layer authentication is one potential identity authentication scheme in wireless communication, such as used in a fog computing environment. While existing channel characteristic-based physical layer authentication schemes may be efficient when deployed in the conventional wireless network environment, they may be less efficient and practical for the industrial wireless communication environment due to the varying requirements. We observe that this is a topic that is understudied, and therefore in this paper, we review the constructions and performance of several commonly used test statistics and analyze their performance in typical industrial wireless networks using simulation experiments. The findings from the simulations show a number of limitations in existing channel characteristic-based physical layer authentication schemes. Therefore, we believe that it is a good idea to combine machine learning and multiple test statistics for identity authentication in future industrial wireless network deployment. Four machine learning methods prove that the scheme significantly improves the authentication accuracy and solves the challenge of choosing a threshold.

Characteristics of the traditional Atlas fabrics of the Xinjiang Uygur Minority Ethnic Group, China

Lifeng Wang,Younhee Lee 복식문화학회 2020 服飾文化硏究 Vol.28 No.2

The study investigates Atlas fabrics, the Ikat weaving method used by the Uygur People in Xinjiang, China. Based on domestic and foreign papers and other literature, different cultural characteristics of Ikat fabrics from various regions are compared. Following a theoretical investigation, characteristics of fabrics from the Indian Patola, Indonesian Ikat, Japanese Kasuri, and Uzbekistan Adras are summarized and compared with the characteristics of pattern, color, and manufacturing process of Atlas silk from Xinjiang China (also an Ikat fabric). The results are as follows. First, although the weaving process used for Ikat fabrics differs from country to country according to different national cultures, lifestyles, colors, patterns, and usage methods, they are all Ikat dyed fabrics. Therefore, they are all regarded as precious objects symbolizing a certain social status, and are used as a gift for special occasions, such as weddings. Second, the form of the pattern varies. Indian Patola has clear outlines and regular patterns, while the patterns of Japanese Kasuri are mainly inspired by folk life ideas. Indonesian Ikat contains influences from indigenous tribes, and Uzbekistan’s and China’s Atlas textiles are influenced by geography, religion, and national culture, including bright colors and pattern designs inspired by plants, musical instruments, and geometric figures. Finally, the patterns and colors of Xinjiang Atlas fabrics present strong ethnic characteristics. Unlike the Uzbekistan fabric which is mostly influenced by Islam, human and animal patterns would not feature in Xinjiang Atlas patterns, which mostly consist of long strips, repeated in a neat and orderly form.

Oxidative stress-induced circKIF18A downregulation impairs MCM7-mediated anti-senescence in intervertebral disc degeneration

Wang Jianle,Xia Dongdong,Lin Yan,Xu Wenbin,Wu Yaosen,Chen Jiaoxiang,Chu Junjie,Shen Panyang,Weng Sheji,Wang Xiangyang,Shen Lifeng,Fan Shunwu,Shen Shuying 생화학분자생물학회 2022 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.54 No.-

Low back pain, triggered by intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD), is one of the most common causes of disability and financial expenditure worldwide. However, except for surgical interventions, effective medical treatment to prevent the progression of IVDD is lacking. This study aimed to investigate the effects of circKIF18A, a novel circRNA, on IVDD progression and to explore its underlying mechanism in IVDD. In this study, we found that oxidative stress was positively correlated with nucleus pulposus cell (NPC) senescence in IVDD and that circKIF18A was downregulated in IVDD and attenuated senescent phenotypes such as cell cycle arrest and extracellular matrix degradation in NPCs. Mechanistically, circKIF18A competitively suppressed ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation of MCM7, and the protective effects of circKIF18A on NPCs were partially mediated by MCM7 under oxidative stress. Intradiscal injection of adenoviral circKIF18A ameliorated IVDD in a rat model. This study revealed that circKIF18A regulates NPC degeneration by stabilizing MCM7 and identified a novel signaling pathway, the circKIF18A-MCM7 axis, for anti-senescence molecular therapy in IVDD.

Study of the departure of pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) from Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Wang Yang,Chen Fengmao,Wang Lichao,Zhou Lifeng,Song Juan 한국응용곤충학회 2020 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.23 No.4

In order to study the causes of pine wood nematode (PWN) departure from Monochamus alternatus, the effects of the feeding behavior of M. alternatus on the start date of the departure of PWN were studied. The start date of the departure of PWN carried by the directly fed M. alternatus was 5–13 d after beetle emergence, mainly concentrated within 6–10 d, with a mean ( ± SD) of 8.02 ± 1.96 d. The start date of the departure of PWN carried by the M. alternatus fed after starvation was 5–14 d after beetle emergence, mainly concentrated within 6–9 d, with a mean of 7.76 ± 2.28 d. The results show that there was no significant difference in the start departure date of PWN between the two treatments. This shows that the feeding behavior of M. alternatus is not the trigger for PWN departure. At the same time, it was found that the motility of the PWN carried by M. alternatus at 8 d after emergence was significantly greater than that of the PWN carried by the newly emerged M. alternatus. And the PWN carried by M. alternatus at 8 d after emergence was extracted more easily than the PWN carried by newly emerged beetles. These results show that greater motility was associated with easier departure of PWN from M. alternatus. In addition, transcriptome sequencing found that the level of oxidative phosphorylation metabolism of PWN carried by beetles at 8 d after emergence was significantly higher than that in the PWN carried by newly emerged beetle. High oxidative phosphorylation was associated with increased energy production and motility by the PWN and were the internal cause of the start of nematode departure.

On the Application of Channel Characteristic-Based Physical Layer Authentication in Industrial Wireless Networks

( Qiuhua Wang ),( Mingyang Kang ),( Lifeng Yuan ),( Yunlu Wang ),( Gongxun Miao ),( Kim-kwang Raymond Choo ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2021 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.15 No.6

Channel characteristic-based physical layer authentication is one potential identity authentication scheme in wireless communication, such as used in a fog computing environment. While existing channel characteristic-based physical layer authentication schemes may be efficient when deployed in the conventional wireless network environment, they may be less efficient and practical for the industrial wireless communication environment due to the varying requirements. We observe that this is a topic that is understudied, and therefore in this paper, we review the constructions and performance of several commonly used test statistics and analyze their performance in typical industrial wireless networks using simulation experiments. The findings from the simulations show a number of limitations in existing channel characteristic-based physical layer authentication schemes. Therefore, we believe that it is a good idea to combine machine learning and multiple test statistics for identity authentication in future industrial wireless network deployment. Four machine learning methods prove that the scheme significantly improves the authentication accuracy and solves the challenge of choosing a threshold.

High yield engineered nanovesicles from ADSC with enriched miR-21-5p promote angiogenesis in adipose tissue regeneration

Sun Di,Mou Shan,Chen Lifeng,Yang Jie,Wang Rongrong,Zhong Aimei,Wang Wei,Tong Jing,Wang Zhenxing,Sun Jiaming 한국생체재료학회 2023 생체재료학회지 Vol.27 No.00

Background: Mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EVs) have been found to have a great potential for soft tissue repair due to various biological functions, including pro-angiogenesis and low immunogenicity. However, the low yield and heterogeneity of MSC-EVs limited their clinical transformation. This study was designed to develop a novel adipose-derived stem cell engineered nanovesicles (ADSC-NVs) with high production and explore its pro-angiogenetic effect and application in adipose tissue regeneration. Methods: Adipose-derived stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (ADSC-EVs) were isolated from an EVs-free culture medium for human ADSCs (hADSCs). ADSC-NVs were prepared by sequentially extruding ADSCs followed by iodixanol density gradient ultracentrifugation and were compared with ADSC-EVs in morphology, size distribution, protein contents and yield. The pro-angiogenetic effect of ADSC-NVs in different doses (0, 5, 20 and 80 μg/mL) in vitro was determined using transwell assay, tube formation assay, western blot and qRT-PCR. In vivo, BALB/c nude mice were administered injection of a mixture of fat granules and different dose of ADSC-NVs and grafts were harvested at 12 weeks post-transplantation for further analysis. By analyzing the weight and volume of grafts and histological evaluation, we investigated the effect of ADSC-NVs in vessel formation and adipose tissue regeneration. Results: Our results showed yield of purified ADSC-NVs was approximately 20 times more than that of ADSC-EVs secreted by the same number of ADSCs. In vitro, both ADSC-NVs and ADSC-EVs exhibited a dose-dependent proangiogenetic effect, despite their distinct miRNA profiles. These effects of ADSC-NVs may be mediated by enriched miR-21-5p via PTEN inhibition and PI3K/p-Akt signaling activation. Furthermore, after a mixed injection of ADSC-NVs, vessel formation and adipose regeneration were observed in vivo in fat implants. Conclusions: Our study developed a potent alternative of ADSC-EVs. ADSC-NVs have a high pro-angiogenesis potential and can be used as cell-free therapeutic biomaterials in soft tissue regeneration.

Facile Synthesis of Ag/ZnO Hollow Microspheres with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance under Simulated Sunlight Irradiation

Lifeng Cui,Qiulin Zhang,Chaochuang Yin,Shifei Kang,Zhigang Ge,Qineng Xia,Yangang Wang,Xi Li 성균관대학교(자연과학캠퍼스) 성균나노과학기술원 2019 NANO Vol.14 No.3

Water pollution caused by intensive use of organic dyes has become an increasingly serious problem recently. Green and efficient processes are desperately needed to remove persistent organic pollutants from waste waters. Herein, Ag nanoparticles loaded ZnO hollow microspheres were synthesized through a simple solvothermal method and used as a photocatalyst for dye degradation. The calculated band gap of Ag/ZnO — 5% (2.97 eV) is much narrower than that of pure ZnO (3.37 eV). The obtained Ag/ZnO samples show a remarkable photocatalytic activity in photodegradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) under simulated sunlight irradiation. The degradation efficiency of RhB for Ag/ZnO — 5% is 98.8% after 100 min irradiation while only 52.8% degradation rate is obtained over pure ZnO. The enhancement is attributed to the exposed active ZnO (001) plane and the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect of Ag nanoparticles that promote the separation of photogeneated electrons and holes.

A Novel Recombinant BCG Vaccine Encoding Eimeria tenella Rhomboid and Chicken IL-2 Induces Protective Immunity Against Coccidiosis

Qiuyue Wang,Lifeng Chen,Jianhua Li,Jun Zheng,Ning Cai,Pengtao Gong,Shuhong Li,He Li,Xichen Zhang 대한기생충학열대의학회 2014 The Korean Journal of Parasitology Vol.52 No.3

Distributed Optimization over General Directed Networks with Random Sleep Scheme

Zheng Wang,Lifeng Zheng,Huaqing Li 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2020 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.18 No.10

Distributed optimization aims at optimizing a global objective function which is described by a sum of local objective functions through local information processing and sharing. This paper studies the problem of distributed optimization over a network in which underlying graph is generally directed strongly connected. Most existing distributed algorithms require each agent to observe the gradient of the local objective function per iteration, which leads to heavy computational cost. A computation-efficient distributed optimization algorithm incorporating a random sleep scheme is proposed by incorporating a rescaling gradient technique to address the unbalancedness of the directed graph. The implementation of the proposed algorithm allows agents not only locally allocates the weights on the received information, but also independently decides whether to execute gradient observation at each iteration. Theoretical analysis verifies that the proposed algorithm is able to seek the optimal solution with probability one. Simulations are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, show correctnessof the theoretical analysis, and investigate the tradeoffs between convergence performance and computation cost.

Stabilization of Nonlinear Switched Systems with Distributed Time-delay: The Discrete-time Case

Chaochen Wang,Xiaoli Fang,Lifeng Ma,Jie Zhang,Yuming Bo 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2021 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.19 No.12

This paper investigates the stabilization problem of nonlinear switched systems subject to the distributed time-delay. The considered nonlinear switched systems are quite general whose dynamics are affected by bothexogenous noises and distributed time-delay. The purpose of the addressed problem is to propose a state feedback control law such that, the closed-loop system is exponentially stable in the mean square sense and meanwhile, therequired weighted L2 gain is achieved. By resorting to the Lyapunov functional method in combination with the average dwell time approach, sufficient conditions are provided for the existence of the desired control schemein terms of the feasibility of certain Hamilton-Jacobi inequalities (HJIs). Within the established framework, the required feedback controller gains can be obtained by solving the series of HJIs. Finally, an illustrative numericalexample is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed control algorithm.