This paper presents a novel approach to proxy blind signatures in the realm of quantum circuits,aiming to enhance security while safeguarding sensitive information.The main objective of this research is to introduce a...This paper presents a novel approach to proxy blind signatures in the realm of quantum circuits,aiming to enhance security while safeguarding sensitive information.The main objective of this research is to introduce a quantum proxy blind signature(QPBS)protocol that utilizes quantum logical gates and quantum measurement techniques.The QPBS protocol is constructed by the initial phase,proximal blinding message phase,remote authorization and signature phase,remote validation,and de-blinding phase.This innovative design ensures a secure mechanism for signing documents without revealing the content to the proxy signer,providing practical security authentication in a quantum environment under the assumption that the CNOT gates are securely implemented.Unlike existing approaches,our proposed QPBS protocol eliminates the need for quantum entanglement preparation,thus simplifying the implementation process.To assess the effectiveness and robustness of the QPBS protocol,we conduct comprehensive simulation studies in both ideal and noisy quantum environments on the IBM quantum cloud platform.The results demonstrate the superior performance of the QPBS algorithm,highlighting its resilience against repudiation and forgeability,which are key security concerns in the realm of proxy blind signatures.Furthermore,we have established authentic security thresholds(82.102%)in the presence of real noise,thereby emphasizing the practicality of our proposed solution.展开更多
Failure detection module is one of important components in fault-tolerant distributed systems,especially cloud platform.However,to achieve fast and accurate detection of failure becomes more and more difficult especia...Failure detection module is one of important components in fault-tolerant distributed systems,especially cloud platform.However,to achieve fast and accurate detection of failure becomes more and more difficult especially when network and other resources' status keep changing.This study presented an efficient adaptive failure detection mechanism based on volterra series,which can use a small amount of data for predicting.The mechanism uses a volterra filter for time series prediction and a decision tree for decision making.Major contributions are applying volterra filter in cloud failure prediction,and introducing a user factor for different QoS requirements in different modules and levels of IaaS.Detailed implementation is proposed,and an evaluation is performed in Beijing and Guangzhou experiment environment.展开更多
Intellectualization has become a new trend for telecom industry, driven by intelligent technology including cloud computing, big data, and Internet of things. In order to satisfy the service demand of intelligent logi...Intellectualization has become a new trend for telecom industry, driven by intelligent technology including cloud computing, big data, and Internet of things. In order to satisfy the service demand of intelligent logistics, this paper designed an intelligent logistics platform containing the main applications such as e-commerce, self-service transceiver, big data analysis, path location and distribution optimization. The intelligent logistics service platform has been built based on cloud computing to collect, store and handling multi-source heterogeneous mass data from sensors, RFID electronic tag, vehicle terminals and APP, so that the open-access cloud services including distribution, positioning, navigation, scheduling and other data services can be provided for the logistics distribution applications. And then the architecture of intelligent logistics cloud platform containing software layer(SaaS), platform layer(PaaS) and infrastructure(IaaS) has been constructed accordance with the core technology relative high concurrent processing technique, heterogeneous terminal data access, encapsulation and data mining. Therefore, intelligent logistics cloud platform can be carried out by the service mode for implementation to accelerate the construction of the symbiotic win-winlogistics ecological system and the benign development of the ICT industry in the trend of intellectualization in China.展开更多
Based on the energy storage cloud platform architecture,this study considers the extensive configuration of energy storage devices and the future large-scale application of electric vehicles at the customer side to bu...Based on the energy storage cloud platform architecture,this study considers the extensive configuration of energy storage devices and the future large-scale application of electric vehicles at the customer side to build a new mode of smart power consumption with a flexible interaction,smooth the peak/valley difference of the load side power,and improve energy efficiency.A plug and play device for customer-side energy storage and an internet-based energy storage cloud platform are developed herein to build a new intelligent power consumption mode with a flexible interaction suitable for ordinary customers.Based on the load perception of the power grid,this study aims to investigate the operating state and service life of distributed energy storage devices.By selecting an integrated optimal control scheme,this study designs a kind of energy optimization and deployment strategy for stratified partition to reduce the operating cost of the energy storage device on the client side.The effectiveness of the system and the control strategy is verified through the Suzhou client-side distributed energy storage demonstration project.展开更多
We introduce Quafu-Qcover,an open-source cloud-based software package developed for solving combinatorial optimization problems using quantum simulators and hardware backends.Quafu-Qcover provides a standardized and c...We introduce Quafu-Qcover,an open-source cloud-based software package developed for solving combinatorial optimization problems using quantum simulators and hardware backends.Quafu-Qcover provides a standardized and comprehensive workflow that utilizes the quantum approximate optimization algorithm(QAOA).It facilitates the automatic conversion of the original problem into a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization(QUBO)model and its corresponding Ising model,which can be subsequently transformed into a weight graph.The core of Qcover relies on a graph decomposition-based classical algorithm,which efficiently derives the optimal parameters for the shallow QAOA circuit.Quafu-Qcover incorporates a dedicated compiler capable of translating QAOA circuits into physical quantum circuits that can be executed on Quafu cloud quantum computers.Compared to a general-purpose compiler,our compiler demonstrates the ability to generate shorter circuit depths,while also exhibiting superior speed performance.Additionally,the Qcover compiler has the capability to dynamically create a library of qubits coupling substructures in real-time,utilizing the most recent calibration data from the superconducting quantum devices.This ensures that computational tasks can be assigned to connected physical qubits with the highest fidelity.The Quafu-Qcover allows us to retrieve quantum computing sampling results using a task ID at any time,enabling asynchronous processing.Moreover,it incorporates modules for results preprocessing and visualization,facilitating an intuitive display of solutions for combinatorial optimization problems.We hope that Quafu-Qcover can serve as an instructive illustration for how to explore application problems on the Quafu cloud quantum computers.展开更多
With the rapid advancement of quantum computing,hybrid quantum–classical machine learning has shown numerous potential applications at the current stage,with expectations of being achievable in the noisy intermediate...With the rapid advancement of quantum computing,hybrid quantum–classical machine learning has shown numerous potential applications at the current stage,with expectations of being achievable in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum(NISQ)era.Quantum reinforcement learning,as an indispensable study,has recently demonstrated its ability to solve standard benchmark environments with formally provable theoretical advantages over classical counterparts.However,despite the progress of quantum processors and the emergence of quantum computing clouds,implementing quantum reinforcement learning algorithms utilizing parameterized quantum circuits(PQCs)on NISQ devices remains infrequent.In this work,we take the first step towards executing benchmark quantum reinforcement problems on real devices equipped with at most 136 qubits on the BAQIS Quafu quantum computing cloud.The experimental results demonstrate that the policy agents can successfully accomplish objectives under modified conditions in both the training and inference phases.Moreover,we design hardware-efficient PQC architectures in the quantum model using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm and develop a learning algorithm that is adaptable to quantum devices.We hope that the Quafu-RL can be a guiding example to show how to realize machine learning tasks by taking advantage of quantum computers on the quantum cloud platform.展开更多
火灾事故对人民生命财产安全构成了极大的威胁。消防水源作为灭火时的首选,在救援中发挥着重要作用。针对消防供水设施人工管理效率低、工作状态难以实时知晓和人为损坏频繁等问题,设计了一种基于窄带物联网(Narrow Band Internet of Th...火灾事故对人民生命财产安全构成了极大的威胁。消防水源作为灭火时的首选,在救援中发挥着重要作用。针对消防供水设施人工管理效率低、工作状态难以实时知晓和人为损坏频繁等问题,设计了一种基于窄带物联网(Narrow Band Internet of Things, NB-IoT)的消防水源数字化感知系统。系统终端采用自主设计,实现消防水源关键信息的实时采集,通过NB-IoT无线通信技术将数据上传至云平台。云平台实现数据预处理、流转与存储,并通过配套的Web端和APP将关键信息进行可视化展示。消防管理人员可远程查看消防水源状态以及巡检记录的信息,出现异常时自动报警推送。利用组合模型对监测终端采集的非用水时水压进行学习,通过设置阈值与时间窗口实现消防用水行为的识别,对消防水系统的维护进行指导。经测试,系统运行稳定、使用便捷,具有良好的实用价值。展开更多
基金Project supported by the General Project of Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(Grant Nos.2024JJ5273 and 2023JJ50328)the Scientific Research Project of Education Department of Hunan Province(Grant Nos.22A0049 and 22B0699)。
文摘This paper presents a novel approach to proxy blind signatures in the realm of quantum circuits,aiming to enhance security while safeguarding sensitive information.The main objective of this research is to introduce a quantum proxy blind signature(QPBS)protocol that utilizes quantum logical gates and quantum measurement techniques.The QPBS protocol is constructed by the initial phase,proximal blinding message phase,remote authorization and signature phase,remote validation,and de-blinding phase.This innovative design ensures a secure mechanism for signing documents without revealing the content to the proxy signer,providing practical security authentication in a quantum environment under the assumption that the CNOT gates are securely implemented.Unlike existing approaches,our proposed QPBS protocol eliminates the need for quantum entanglement preparation,thus simplifying the implementation process.To assess the effectiveness and robustness of the QPBS protocol,we conduct comprehensive simulation studies in both ideal and noisy quantum environments on the IBM quantum cloud platform.The results demonstrate the superior performance of the QPBS algorithm,highlighting its resilience against repudiation and forgeability,which are key security concerns in the realm of proxy blind signatures.Furthermore,we have established authentic security thresholds(82.102%)in the presence of real noise,thereby emphasizing the practicality of our proposed solution.
基金supported by the National High-tech Research and Development Program(863) of China under Grant No. 2011AA01A102
文摘Failure detection module is one of important components in fault-tolerant distributed systems,especially cloud platform.However,to achieve fast and accurate detection of failure becomes more and more difficult especially when network and other resources' status keep changing.This study presented an efficient adaptive failure detection mechanism based on volterra series,which can use a small amount of data for predicting.The mechanism uses a volterra filter for time series prediction and a decision tree for decision making.Major contributions are applying volterra filter in cloud failure prediction,and introducing a user factor for different QoS requirements in different modules and levels of IaaS.Detailed implementation is proposed,and an evaluation is performed in Beijing and Guangzhou experiment environment.
基金supported in part by National Key Research and Development Program under Grant No. 2016YFC0803206China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No.2016M600972
文摘Intellectualization has become a new trend for telecom industry, driven by intelligent technology including cloud computing, big data, and Internet of things. In order to satisfy the service demand of intelligent logistics, this paper designed an intelligent logistics platform containing the main applications such as e-commerce, self-service transceiver, big data analysis, path location and distribution optimization. The intelligent logistics service platform has been built based on cloud computing to collect, store and handling multi-source heterogeneous mass data from sensors, RFID electronic tag, vehicle terminals and APP, so that the open-access cloud services including distribution, positioning, navigation, scheduling and other data services can be provided for the logistics distribution applications. And then the architecture of intelligent logistics cloud platform containing software layer(SaaS), platform layer(PaaS) and infrastructure(IaaS) has been constructed accordance with the core technology relative high concurrent processing technique, heterogeneous terminal data access, encapsulation and data mining. Therefore, intelligent logistics cloud platform can be carried out by the service mode for implementation to accelerate the construction of the symbiotic win-winlogistics ecological system and the benign development of the ICT industry in the trend of intellectualization in China.
基金supported by the State Grid Corporation of China Science and Technological Project(Research and demonstration application of key technology of energy storage cloud for mobile energy storage application of electric vehicles 5419-20197121 7a-0-0-00)
文摘Based on the energy storage cloud platform architecture,this study considers the extensive configuration of energy storage devices and the future large-scale application of electric vehicles at the customer side to build a new mode of smart power consumption with a flexible interaction,smooth the peak/valley difference of the load side power,and improve energy efficiency.A plug and play device for customer-side energy storage and an internet-based energy storage cloud platform are developed herein to build a new intelligent power consumption mode with a flexible interaction suitable for ordinary customers.Based on the load perception of the power grid,this study aims to investigate the operating state and service life of distributed energy storage devices.By selecting an integrated optimal control scheme,this study designs a kind of energy optimization and deployment strategy for stratified partition to reduce the operating cost of the energy storage device on the client side.The effectiveness of the system and the control strategy is verified through the Suzhou client-side distributed energy storage demonstration project.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.92365206)the support of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Certificate Number:2023M740272)+1 种基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12247168)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Certificate Number:2022TQ0036)。
文摘We introduce Quafu-Qcover,an open-source cloud-based software package developed for solving combinatorial optimization problems using quantum simulators and hardware backends.Quafu-Qcover provides a standardized and comprehensive workflow that utilizes the quantum approximate optimization algorithm(QAOA).It facilitates the automatic conversion of the original problem into a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization(QUBO)model and its corresponding Ising model,which can be subsequently transformed into a weight graph.The core of Qcover relies on a graph decomposition-based classical algorithm,which efficiently derives the optimal parameters for the shallow QAOA circuit.Quafu-Qcover incorporates a dedicated compiler capable of translating QAOA circuits into physical quantum circuits that can be executed on Quafu cloud quantum computers.Compared to a general-purpose compiler,our compiler demonstrates the ability to generate shorter circuit depths,while also exhibiting superior speed performance.Additionally,the Qcover compiler has the capability to dynamically create a library of qubits coupling substructures in real-time,utilizing the most recent calibration data from the superconducting quantum devices.This ensures that computational tasks can be assigned to connected physical qubits with the highest fidelity.The Quafu-Qcover allows us to retrieve quantum computing sampling results using a task ID at any time,enabling asynchronous processing.Moreover,it incorporates modules for results preprocessing and visualization,facilitating an intuitive display of solutions for combinatorial optimization problems.We hope that Quafu-Qcover can serve as an instructive illustration for how to explore application problems on the Quafu cloud quantum computers.
基金supported by the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciencessupported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.92365206)+2 种基金the support of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Certificate Number:2023M740272)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12247168)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Certificate Number:2022TQ0036)。
文摘With the rapid advancement of quantum computing,hybrid quantum–classical machine learning has shown numerous potential applications at the current stage,with expectations of being achievable in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum(NISQ)era.Quantum reinforcement learning,as an indispensable study,has recently demonstrated its ability to solve standard benchmark environments with formally provable theoretical advantages over classical counterparts.However,despite the progress of quantum processors and the emergence of quantum computing clouds,implementing quantum reinforcement learning algorithms utilizing parameterized quantum circuits(PQCs)on NISQ devices remains infrequent.In this work,we take the first step towards executing benchmark quantum reinforcement problems on real devices equipped with at most 136 qubits on the BAQIS Quafu quantum computing cloud.The experimental results demonstrate that the policy agents can successfully accomplish objectives under modified conditions in both the training and inference phases.Moreover,we design hardware-efficient PQC architectures in the quantum model using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm and develop a learning algorithm that is adaptable to quantum devices.We hope that the Quafu-RL can be a guiding example to show how to realize machine learning tasks by taking advantage of quantum computers on the quantum cloud platform.
文摘火灾事故对人民生命财产安全构成了极大的威胁。消防水源作为灭火时的首选,在救援中发挥着重要作用。针对消防供水设施人工管理效率低、工作状态难以实时知晓和人为损坏频繁等问题,设计了一种基于窄带物联网(Narrow Band Internet of Things, NB-IoT)的消防水源数字化感知系统。系统终端采用自主设计,实现消防水源关键信息的实时采集,通过NB-IoT无线通信技术将数据上传至云平台。云平台实现数据预处理、流转与存储,并通过配套的Web端和APP将关键信息进行可视化展示。消防管理人员可远程查看消防水源状态以及巡检记录的信息,出现异常时自动报警推送。利用组合模型对监测终端采集的非用水时水压进行学习,通过设置阈值与时间窗口实现消防用水行为的识别,对消防水系统的维护进行指导。经测试,系统运行稳定、使用便捷,具有良好的实用价值。
