Topology-aware overlay multicast over IP multicast networks

Most existing overlay multicast approaches refuse to consider any network layer support no matter whether it is available or not. This design principle greatly increases the complexity of the routing algorithms and makes the overlay topologies incompatible with the underlying network. To address these issues, topologyaware overlay multicast over IP multicast networks （TOMIMN） was proposed as a novel overlay multicast protocol, which exploits the cooperation between end-hosts and IP multicast routers to construct a topologyaware overlay tree. Through a little modification to protocol independent multicast sparse mode （PIM-SM）, a multicast router is able to receive registration from nearby group members and redirect passing-by join requests to them. Due to the multicast router＇s support, TOMIMN organizes its group members into an overlay multicast tree efficiently, which matches the physical network topology well.     

Unsupervised color-texture image segmentation

The measure J in J value segmentation （JSEG） fails to represent the discontinuity of color, which degrades the robustness and discrimination of JSEG. An improved approach for JSEG algorithm was proposed for unsupervised color-texture image segmentation. The texture and photometric invariant edge information were combined, which results in a discriminative measure for color-texture homogeneity. Based on the image whose pixel values are values of the new measure, region growing-merging algorithm used in JSEG was then employed to segment the image. Finally, experiments on a variety of real color images demonstrate performance improvement due to the proposed method.     

A note on a provable secure encryption scheme

A Cramer-Shoup scheme was modified in a variant way.The major advantage with respect to Kurosawa-Desmedt scheme is that it saves a key parameter and produces shorter ciphertext.The proof of security shows that our scheme can be instantiated with any computational secure key derivation and message authentication functions.Thus it extends the applicability of the Kurosawa-Desmedt scheme and improves its effciency.