Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for DHCP-communications monitoring by a network controller in software defined networks is disclosed. A method comprises detecting that a virtualized compute instance is instantiated on a host computer; generating, and transmitting to a port manager executing on the host computer, instructions to set a BLOCK-EXCEPT-DHCP status on a port assigned to the virtualized compute instance; determining whether an IP address has been assigned to the port by a DHCP service; and if it has: generating, and transmitting to the port manager, instructions to set a NORMAL status on the port; generating, and transmitting to the port manager, a SpoofGuard configured with the IP address assigned to the port; based on notifications received from the SpoofGuard, determining whether the IP address assigned to the port of the virtualized compute instance has been misused, expired or spoofed; and if it has, transmitting instructions to set the BLOCK-EXCEPT-DHCP status on the port.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to various types of optical fibers that are spliced together with a splice protector provided to house the spliced optical fibers. The splice protector has dimensions that enable improved mechanical properties of the spliced optical fiber.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a cleaning robot and a control method thereof. The cleaning robot includes a chassis; a drive system; an energy storage unit, supported by the chassis and includes at least one charging contact sheet, wherein the charging contact sheet protrudes from a plane of the chassis slightly, and the energy storage unit is configured to be charged according to a predetermined amount in a case that the robot is located at a charging station; and a control system, disposed on a main circuit board inside the cleaning robot and including a non-transitory memory and a processor, wherein the control system is configured to control the energy storage unit to charge according to the predetermined amount based on a to-be-cleaned area and a total power consumption factor.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a cleaning robot and a control method thereof. The cleaning robot includes: a chassis; a fluid applicator, carried on the chassis and configured to distribute a cleaning fluid on at least part of a cleaning width; a fluid storage apparatus, detachably connected to the chassis, wherein the fluid storage apparatus is in communication with the fluid applicator and configured to apply the cleaning fluid distributed by the fluid applicator to a floor; and a control unit, carried on the chassis and configured to control the fluid applicator to stop distributing the cleaning fluid in a case that a to-be-cleaned area of the floor reaches a preset value.

Abstract: Example methods and systems for authentication for logical overlay network traffic are described. In one example, a first computer system may detect an inner packet and generate authentication information associated with the inner packet based on control information from a management entity. The authentication information may indicate that the inner packet originates from a trusted zone. The first computer system may further generate an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the inner packet with an outer header that specifies the authentication information, and send the encapsulated packet towards the second virtualized computing instance to cause a second computer system to verify that the inner packet originates from the trusted zone based on the authentication information.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for providing an extendable system health management framework in a network. Embodiments include receiving, by a manager, a system health plugin. Embodiments include determining, by the manager, an association between the system health plugin and a host in the network based on the host satisfying one or more conditions. Embodiments include providing, by the manager, the system health plugin to the host for installation in a system health agent on the host. Embodiments include receiving, by the manager, from the host, status information for the system health plugin.

Abstract: A fiber optic cable assembly includes first and second cable sections each having a jacket, at least one optical fiber, and multiple strength members. An intermediate cable section includes at least one splice joint as well as bundled sections of strength members of the cable sections formed into bundled sections that overlap and are adhered together. As adhered, the bundled strength members are shorter than the at least one spliced optical fiber in the intermediate section to ensure that the strength members bear tensile loads. A fabrication method includes binding unjacketed segments of strength members of two cable sections into bundled sections of strength members, fusion splicing ends of optical fibers, polymerically overcoating at least one splice joint, and adhering the bundled sections of strength members in an overlapping arrangement. An apparatus for thermoplastically coating cable assembly portions includes a trough for molten thermoplastic material, and a lateral insertion slot defined therein.

Abstract: The present application discloses positive electrode active material, preparation method thereof, positive electrode plate, lithium-ion secondary battery and battery module, pack, and apparatus. The positive electrode active material includes a nickel-containing lithium composite oxide satisfying a chemical formula Li1+a[NixCoyMnzMb]O2, in the formula, M is a doping element at transition metal site, 0.5?x<1, 0?y<0.3, 0?z<0.3, ?0.1?a<0.2, 0<b<0.3, x+y+z+b=1, wherein the positive electrode active material has a layered crystal structure and belongs to space group R3m; under the condition that the positive electrode active material is in 78% delithiation state, at least part of the doping elements M have a chemical valence of +3 or more, and surface oxygen of the positive electrode active material has an average valence state of VO satisfying ?2.0?VO??1.5.

Abstract: Methods for enhancing the speed performance of solid-state storage devices using stream-aware garbage collection. A garbage collection method in according to an embodiment includes: searching, in each of a plurality of super-block groups G, for a super-block set C that satisfies: all of the super-blocks m within the super-block set C in the super-block group G contain a lesser amount of valid data than the other super-blocks within the super-block group G; and a total amount of valid data within the super-block set C are just enough to complete an entire super-block; selecting the super-block group G that includes the super-block set C with the maximum number of super-blocks m; and performing garbage collection on the super-block set C in the selected super-block group G.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of identifying packet latency in a software defined datacenter (SDDC) that includes a network and multiple host computers executing multiple machines. At a first host computer, the method identifies and stores (i) multiple time values associated with several packet processing operations performed on a particular packet sent by a first machine executing on the first host computer, and (ii) a time value associated with packet transmission through the SDDC network from the first host computer to a second host computer that is a destination of the particular packet. The method provides the stored time values to a set of one or more controllers to process to identify multiple latencies experienced by multiple packets processed in the SDDC.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a film layer analysis method for an electroluminescent device. The electroluminescent device includes an anode layer, an electroluminescent material layer, and a silver-bearing cathode layer that are sequentially laminated. The film layer analysis method includes stripping the silver-bearing cathode layer from the electroluminescent device by using a first ion sputtering source to obtain an analysis sample with the electroluminescent material layer exposed, and analyzing the exposed electroluminescent material layer by using a second ion sputtering source; wherein sputtering energy of the first ion sputtering source is greater than sputtering energy of the second ion sputtering source.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material and a preparation method thereof, a positive electrode plate, a lithium-ion secondary battery, and a battery module, battery pack, and apparatus containing such lithium-ion secondary battery are provided. The positive electrode active material includes matrix particles and a coating layer covering an exterior surface of the matrix particle, where the matrix particle includes a lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide, and the coating layer includes an oxide of element M1; the matrix particle is doped with element M2 and element M3, element M2 in the matrix particle is uniformly distributed, and element M3 in the matrix particle has a decreasing concentration from the exterior surface to a core of the matrix particle; and element M1 and element M3 are each independently selected from one or more of Mg, Al, Ca, Ba, Ti, Zr, Zn, and B, and element M2 includes one or more of Si, Ti, Cr, Mo, V, Ge, Se, Zr, Nb, Ru, Rh, Pd, Sb, Te, Ce, and W.

Abstract: This application discloses a positive electrode active material and a preparation method thereof, a positive electrode plate, a lithium-ion secondary battery, and a battery module, battery pack and apparatus related thereto. The positive electrode active material includes secondary particles formed by agglomeration of primary particles, where the primary particles are a lithium transition metal oxide, and a transition metal site of the lithium transition metal oxide includes nickel and a doping element; and a Young's modulus E of the primary particles satisfies 175 GPa?E?220 GPa.

Abstract: This application relates to a positive electrode active material and a preparation method thereof, a lithium-ion secondary battery and related battery module, battery pack, and apparatus. The positive electrode active material of this application includes a composite oxide of lithium, boron, and a transition metal element, where the transition metal element includes element nickel, and a molar ratio of element nickel to element lithium ranges from 0.55 to 0.95; the positive electrode active material includes secondary particles formed by primary particles; at least 50% of the primary particles in the secondary particle are arranged radially; in the outermost layer of the secondary particle, 70% or more of the primary particles each have at least two parallel sides; and in a cross section through the center of the secondary particle, 60% or more of the primary particles each have at least two parallel sides.

Abstract: The present application discloses a positive electrode active material including a lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide, the molar content of nickel in the lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide accounts for 60%-90% of the total molar content of nickel, cobalt and manganese, and the lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide has a layered crystal structure of a space group R3m; a transition metal layer of the lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide includes a doping element, and the local mass concentration of the doping element in particles of the positive electrode active material has a relative deviation of 20% or less; and in a differential scanning calorimetry spectrum of the positive electrode active material in a 78% delithiation state, an initial exothermic temperature of a main exothermic peak is 200° C. or more, and an integral area of the main exothermic peak is 100 J/g or less.

Abstract: An infrastructure for mapping between logic block addresses (LBAs) and physical block addresses (PBAs). A disclosed method includes: receiving a request the specifies an LBA; determining an applicable zone based on the LBA from a set of zones, wherein the set of zones expose an LBA address space of the storage device; identifying at least one tree from a set of trees having a root node associated with the applicable zone; traversing the at least one tree to identify a set of leaf nodes based on the LBA, wherein each leaf node points to an mpage; and determining corresponding PBA information for the LBA by examining mapping information contained in each mpage.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material and a preparation method thereof, a positive electrode plate, a lithium-ion secondary battery, and a battery module, a battery pack, and apparatus containing the lithium-ion secondary battery are provided. The positive electrode active material includes secondary particles formed by agglomeration of primary particles, where the primary particles include a layered nickel-containing lithium composite oxide, and the nickel-containing lithium composite oxide includes a doping element; and when the positive electrode active material is charged from an 11% delithiated state to a 78% delithiated state at a rate of 0.1C, a lattice of the primary particles has a maximum shrinkage rate satisfying ?amax?3.00% in an a-axis direction, and a maximum swelling rate satisfying ?cmax?3.02% in a c-axis direction.

Abstract: A fiber optic cable assembly includes first and second cable sections each having a jacket, at least one optical fiber, and multiple strength members. An intermediate cable section includes at least one splice joint as well as bundled sections of strength members of the cable sections formed into bundled sections that overlap and are adhered together. As adhered, the bundled strength members are shorter than the at least one spliced optical fiber in the intermediate section to ensure that the strength members bear tensile loads. A fabrication method includes binding unjacketed segments of strength members of two cable sections into bundled sections of strength members, fusion splicing ends of optical fibers, polymerically overcoating at least one splice joint, and adhering the bundled sections of strength members in an overlapping arrangement. An apparatus for thermoplastically coating cable assembly portions includes a trough for molten thermoplastic material, and a lateral insertion slot defined therein.