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ICNRG                                                      Hongke Zhang
Internet Draft                                                 Fei Song
Intended status: Informational                                 Wei Quan
Expires: April 12, 2019                                            BJTU
                                                          Jianfeng Guan
                                                           Changqiao Xu
                                                                   BUPT
                                                        October 5, 2018

            Uniform information with a hybrid naming (hn) scheme
                        draft-zhang-icnrg-hn-09.txt

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Abstract

   This document defines a hybrid naming scheme for unifying all kinds
   of information including resources, services and data. With many
   proposals of novel network architectures emerging, such as DONA, ICN
   NDN, the location-based routing starts to transfer to the content
   based ones. Currently, it is incompatible that many different
   information naming schemes are adopted in different network
   proposals, respectively, i.e. flat names in DONA, hierarchical names
   in NDN. The proposed naming scheme adopts a hybrid naming structure,
   which includes hierarchical component, flat component and attribute
   component. The hybrid naming (hn) scheme enables to identify
   different routing information uniformly, and provides many great
   advantages, such as high aggregation, limited length, suffix holes
   remission, fuzzy matching support, high security and good
   compatibility with IPv4/IPv6, DONA, CCN/NDN and so on.

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ................................................ 3
      1.1. Hierarchical naming..................................... 3
      1.2. Flat naming ............................................ 4
      1.3. Attribute naming........................................ 4
   2. Conventions used in this document............................ 4
   3. Novel hybrid naming (hn) format.............................. 5
      3.1. Hierarchical component generating .......................6
      3.2. Flat component generating............................... 6
      3.3. Attribute component generating ..........................7
   4. Advantages .................................................. 7
      4.1. High aggregation........................................ 7
      4.2. Limited length ......................................... 8
      4.3. Suffix holes remission.................................. 8

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      4.4. Fuzzy matching support.................................. 9
      4.5. Good compatibility..................................... 10
      4.6. High security ......................................... 10
   5. Transition form IPv4 and IPv6............................... 10
      5.1. Case one .............................................. 10
      5.2. Case two .............................................. 11
   6. Compatibility .............................................. 11
      6.1. Compatibility with DONA................................ 11
      6.2. Compatibility with CCN/NDN............................. 12
   7. Formal Syntax .............................................. 13
   8. Security Considerations..................................... 13
   9. IANA Considerations ........................................ 13
   10. Conclusions ............................................... 13
   11. References ................................................ 13
      11.1. Normative References.................................. 13
      11.2. Informative References................................ 14
   12. Acknowledgments ........................................... 15
   Authors' Addresses ............................................ 15

1. Introduction

1.1. Hierarchical naming

   A readable naming mechanism based on the hierarchical structure by
   some emerging network architectures (i.e. Content-Centric Network
   (CCN) [1]/Named Data Networking (NDN) [2]) has been proposed. This 
   kind of hierarchical name is very similar as identifying a web
   with a URL for example "/www.bupt.edu.cn/content/a.avi". In this
   example, "/" is the separator between adjacent components of the
   name.

   As we know, there are many advantages in this naming scheme.First, 
   it is well compatible with current applications or systems based on 
   URL, which can decrease the difficulty of deploying the novel 
   network. Second, it does well in aggregation which can reduce the 
   number of routing information, thus, to improve lookup efficiency 
   of routing information. Besides, the lookup mechanism of this 
   mechanism has a good compatibility with the existing classless inter
   -domain routing (CIDR) [3].

   However, there also exist some fatal disadvantages in the 
   hierarchical name. Because it consists of a series of unlimited 
   components. The number of components is changeable, with the length 
   of each component being not restricted. All these features cause the 
   length of names variable and relatively long [4]. In this way, the 
   routing table and forwarding table may be very huge, which issues in 
   low lookup efficiency.

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   On the side, when users search for a resource, they might not
   remember the long name of the resource. For example, users need the
   resource a.avi, but they might not know the official name
   "/www.bupt.edu.cn/content/a.avi" or "/www.bupt.edu.cn/movie/a.avi".
   Thus, hierarchical naming structure is difficult to support a fuzzy
   matching based on the attributes of names.

1.2. Flat naming

   The flat naming mechanism has been used in other novel network
   architectures, such as DONA [5] and NetInf [6], of which the name 
   can be produced by cryptographic hashing of the content or its 
   attributes.

   Because the flat name has not any structure restriction, it can be
   obtained and used more flexibly. Any string with a fix length, no
   matter whether it is readable or not, can be used as a flat name.

   However, the flat name is hard to aggregate, which will increase 
   the number of routing entries and reduce the expandability of 
   routing table. In addition, it increases the probability for users 
   to forget the official names of the desired information, because 
   most of flat names is not readable. When users want to obtain 
   contents, it needs an additional mapping system to connect readable 
   names with unreadable names for users.

1.3. Attribute naming

   The naming mechanism based on attributes of content is used in the
   CBCB [7]. It enumerates the attribute information of a resource,
   such as the category, format, date, feature, level and so on. This
   name is non-uniqueness, and is different from the former two
   mechanisms. The related content can be searched and located by dint
   of the key properties of resource.

   The merits of this naming mechanism are that, it supports searching 
   key words and provides benefits for the fuzzy matching of searching 
   resources. However, there may be many similar properties for a set 
   of certain resources. A number of attributes is hardly ensure the 
   uniqueness of naming. Thus, to guarantee the uniqueness, the 
   attributes stored in routing system will be very huge.

2. Conventions used in this document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

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   In this document, these words will appear with that interpretation
   only when in ALL CAPS. Lower case uses of these words are not to be
   interpreted as carrying significance described in RFC 2119.

   In this document, the characters ">>" preceding an indented line(s)
   indicates a statement using the key words listed above. This
   convention aids reviewers in quickly identifying or finding the
   portions of this RFC covered by these keywords.

3. Novel hybrid naming (hn) format

   According to the analysis of above three naming mechanisms in the 
   field of advantages and disadvantages, a hybrid naming is suggested 
   to emphasize the benefits of them and weaken their demerits.

   Most important of all, three different mainstream naming schemes
   are adopted in different novel network architectures, which makes
   the networks be hardly compatible and implemented complexly.

   There's one easy and all-benefit solution is to integrate them, and
   take each of them as a part of the hybrid naming solution. In other 
   words, each of them takes some weight of the novel naming scheme.

   We proposed a hybrid naming mechanism (named by "hn"), which
   combines the three naming mechanisms in a sequence, and creates a
   more powerful and universal naming format.

   The hybrid naming format should include three components:

   o Hierarchical component

   o Flat component

   o Attribute component

   Each part carries different information of name in diverse formats, 
   and is combined to an entire name. The hybrid name is started by a 
   symbol "hn://". The order of three parts should be as follows:

   1. The first part of a name is very essential for the aggregation of
      routing entries, which adopts a hierarchical structure. The 
      symbol "/" is used to split the hierarchical levels in this part.

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   2. The second part of a name is very important to identify the
      content uniquely. The second part uses a flat structure and a
      string with a fix length through hash computing.

   3. The third part of a name is used to represent the extensive
      information of resources. The attribute-based structure is
      selected to use in the third part, which is composed of a series 
      of attribute words. An example of the hybrid name for a movie is
      shown in Figure 1.

   +----------------------+---------------+---------------------------+
   |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m|u584rnfiur324yh|movie:avi:1024:part1:kongfu|
   +----------------------+---------------+---------------------------+
                   Figure 1 An example of hn for a movie

   An example of the hybrid name for a picture is shown in Figure 2.

   +--------------------------+---------------+-----------------------+
   |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/pic|fh84rnfiur324ru| jpg:300*500:prairie   |
   +--------------------------+---------------+-----------------------+
                   Figure 2 An example of hn for a picture

3.1. Hierarchical component generating

   Hierarchical component is the first part of the hn naming format.
   This part is suppoesed to be generated by a followed reference
   standard.

   The string set in top level and second level and so on are defined 
   by this standard, which is very useful to promote its aggregation 
   greatly. One available but not complete reference standard for 
   component of hierarchical naming is the naming scheme of DNS.

3.2. Flat component generating

   Flat component is the second part of hn naming scheme. This part is
   suggested to identify the information using a string with a limited
   length, and it must be combined with the first part to identify the
   information uniquely.

   Flat component can be generated by cryptographic hash algorithm by
   the information itself or some characters of the information. Even
   though this part has a low probability of aggregation, it emphasizes
   and ensures the uniqueness of name.

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3.3. Attribute component generating

   Attribute component is set as the third part of hn naming scheme.
   This part will take it over for the fuzzy matching and some 
   advanced search, i.e. QoS guarantee. This part will also contribute 
   to conduct some potential advanced application based on the useful
   attributes. It can be generated by extracting the features of the
   information, such as the format, issue time, file size, catalog,
   location, popularity, privacy level and so on.

4. Advantages

4.1. High aggregation

   The aggregation of naming is very important for the name lookup and
   storage. According to Google's report, the number of URLs it indexed
   was 26 million in 1998, which reached to one billion in 2000, and is
   currently 1 trillion [8]. In July 2011, these URLs could be
   aggregated to about 280 million domain names, among which 86 million
   are active.

   It is a fact that there is a great aggregation for the first few
   levels of the hierarchical tree. Therefore, the hierarchical
   structure is placed in the first part of the hn. By this way, the
   routing entries can be reduced markedly and the aggregation of
   route can be improved. For example, there are two routing
   entries"/www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/movie/fhk562nfgjru056:kongfu:avi:1024p:pa
   rt1 3" and
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/picture/fh84rnf213gjrru:jpg:300*500:prairie 3"
   which have the same forwarding port "3" and prefix
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/m". Therefore, the forwarding port and
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/m" can only be stored in routing table. Above all,
   it not only reduces the entries of routing table, but also reduces
   the length of each routing entries. An example of aggregation
   process is shown in Figure 3.

   +----------------------------+---------------+------------------+--+
   |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/movie|fhk562nfgjru056|kongfu 1024p part1|3 |
   +----------------------------+---------------+------------------+--+

   +------------------------------+-----------------+---------------+-+
   |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/picture| fh84rnf213gjrru |300*500 prairie|3|
   +------------------------------+-----------------+---------------+-+

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                        +----------------------+---+
                        |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m| 3 |
                        +----------------------+---+
                    Figure 3 An example of aggregation

4.2. Limited length

   The length of name based on hierarchical structure is variable and
   relatively long, because it is formed by several parts and the
   number of component is changeable. Kelvin [9] has selected 6627999
   URL in 78764 different domain names, and the statistics shows that
   the average length of URL is 76.97 bytes. In ICN, the name must be
   extracted to query in forwarding table or routing table. And the 
   long name entry will lead to the lower query speed, hence, 
   affecting the performance of routing.

   The hn naming scheme uses flat naming as part of component in the 
   name to ease this problem. A fix length flat part is embedded behind 
   the hierarchical part. This design not only can prevent the length 
   of names from being not too long, but also will reduce the effect of 
   the aggregation. For example, if the average length of hierarchical 
   part is controlled within 30 bytes, adopting a flat part with a fix
   length of 20 bytes, then, the whole average length will be
   restricted within 50 bytes. Compared to 76.97 bytes, the length is
   shortened by nearly 35%, which will improve the query speed of name
   greatly using the length dependent algorithms.

4.3. Suffix holes remission

   The suffix hole is a well-known problem for the route of prefix
   matching. For example, a routing entry "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/3" is
   stored in the route table for prefix matching. In fact, it is
   aggregated by "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/a.avi/part1 3"and
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/b.avi/part1 3". In this way, the forwarding
   packets will be forward from port 3, only if the prefix of name is
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/". However, if packets with a name of
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/c.avi" arrives in the router, it will also 
   be forwarded from port 3. In fact, the network that port 3 connects
   only has a.avi and b.avi. This causes the so-called suffix holes 
   [10].

   In the proposed hn scheme, the problem of suffix holes can be solved 
   by the flat part efficiently. For example, there are two resource 
   names
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/s83hho90oxn2783nde4r:kongfu:avi:1024p:part1
   3" and
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/8uh723k9ng556sgaesgs:love:rmvb:720p:part2:20
   12-3-4 3". After route aggregation, the routing entry will become

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   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/ 3". The routing entry will be matched when
   a packet whose name is "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/a932jfdjf2032942-jdd:
   control: avi: 1024p: part1: part2" arrives at this router.

   However, it could not be forwarded from the port 3 based on hn
   scheme because of the incomplete prefix matching. There is a suffix 
   list in each aggregating prefix, and the packet will be forwarded 
   only when the requesting suffix exists in the suffix list. In hn 
   scheme, it must assort a suffix list for each routing entries like
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/ 3" to store the flat part of names.
   Even though the name of the new packet has been matched to the 
   routing entries, its flat part "a932jfdjf2032942-jdd" does not exist 
   in the suffix list "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/ 3". The plat part will be 
   used to decide whether it forwards the request packet when the prefix 
   is matched. By this way, the problem of suffix holes can be resolved
   effectively. The lookup process of hn names is shown in Figure 4.

   +----------------------------+-----------------+------------------+
   |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/main/m/| eld624knhgvfded |kongfu 1024p part1|
   +----------------------------+-----------------+------------------+
                 |
                 | Prefix match
                 v
   +-----------------------+---+              +----------------------+
   |/www.bjtu.edu.cn/main/m| 3 |--------------| s83hho90oxn2783nde4r;|
   |                       |   |              | 8uh732k9ng556sgaesgs;|
   +-----------------------+---+              +----------------------+
                                                          |
                                                          |
                                                          v
                                                      +-------+
                                                      | seek  |
                                                      +-------+
                                                       |     |
                                                succeed|     |failed
                                                       v     v
                                                +-------+    +-------+
                                                |forward|    |discard|
                                                +-------+    +-------+
                         Figure 4 The hn lookup process

4.4. Fuzzy matching support

   In the practical, it's an essential situation that the users may not
   know the full official resource name when they search for a resource.
   The hn naming scheme supports the fuzzy matching according to the
   function of the attribute component. For example, if the users need

   

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   the resource a.avi, they don't need to know the official name
   "hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/|u584uuj89324ru|kongfu:movie:avi:1024p:part1
   ". In this case, users only publish the information of video
   "kongfu" and the resolution ratio "1024p". Then the related
   resources can be found intelligently by fuzzy matching through the
   attribute component matching, which is the benefit of embedding
   attribute of resource in the end of name.

4.5. Good compatibility

   This naming scheme provides a good compatibility for all three
   mainstream naming schemes, which are the subset of the hn naming
   scheme.

4.6. High security

   It is very similar as identifying a web with a URL in the
   conventional hierarchical naming mechanism, for example
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/a.avi". However, the name of components is
   variable. Although it is convenient to get information of every 
   component of the resources, it results in bad security.

   In the proposed hn scheme, this security problem can be solved. For
   example, one hn resource name called "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/
   s83hho90oxn2783nde4r: kongfu: avi: 1024p: part1 3", and another
   conventional name "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/movie/a.avi 3". The attacker can
   know every component when he/she sees the conventional name. On the
   contrary, the hn name does not have this problem. In the hn naming
   scheme, people can just know the few components of the resources,
   thus, the attacker could not attack the components easily.
   Therefore, this kind of naming scheme has a better security than
   hierarchical naming mechanism. Also, MD5 algorithm can be applied to
   the hn naming in order to encrypt the resources displayed in the
   flat component.

5. Transition form IPv4 and IPv6

5.1. Case one

   In TCP/IP networks, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are used to represent
   the resource locations. IPv4 and IPv6 addresses can also be used to
   fetch the desired information uniquely with association of the port
   information and content directory. We consider the hybrid naming
   scheme transiting from IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

   The IPv4 or IPv6 address is the hierarchical as the first part of
   the hybrid name. The port number is placed as the second part of the

   
   
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   hybrid name. The third part of hybrid name is the content directory
   set. An illustration of transition from IPv4 and IPv6 is shown in
   Figure 5.

   +--------------------+----+-------------------------------------+--+
   |hn://192.168.100.100|8080|m:picture:library:west:computer:book |3 |
   +--------------------+----+-------------------------------------+--+
   +------------------------------------------+----+---------------+--+
   |hn://2001.da8.215.a815.c492.d445.3489.ec8c|8080|m:picture:book |3 |
   +------------------------------------------+----+---------------+--+
                      Figure 5 Illustration of case one

5.2. Case two

   Another case of transition from URL is shown in Figure 6. For 
   example, the url is
   "http://www.baidu.com:80/s?wd=icbc&rsv_bp=0&tn=baidu
   &spt=3&ie=utf8", in which the symbol "?" is followed by a sequence
   of attributes information. The hn format is shown as following.

   +------------------+-----+--------------------------------------+--+
   |hn://www.baidu.com|80/s?|wd:icbc rsvbp:0 tn:baidu spt:3 ie:utf8|3 |
   +------------------+-----+--------------------------------------+--+
                       Figure 6 Illustration of case two

6. Compatibility

6.1. Compatibility with DONA

   Data-Oriented Network Architecture (DONA) converts the location-
   based routing to the content-based routing. The hybrid naming scheme 
   is well compatible with DONA and the specific transformation process 
   is manifested as below.

   (1)The hierarchical component is transferred into a flat id with a
      shorter length, which is distinct with the original flat 
      component.

   (2)This new flat id can be produced by some relevant authorities,
      which is similar with the domain-name providers. Besides, this
      flat id enables to represent huge amounts of hierarchical names by
      increasing its length constantly. However, it is typically much
      shorter than the previous name.

   (3)According to the variable length of hierarchical components, an 
      integer identifier is designed to identify the length of 
      transferred component. This mechanism is similar to the partition 
      method of subset.

          
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   (4)The symbol "/" is used for splitting this identifier with flat
      component.

   For example, there is a routing entry
   "/www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/movie/fhk562nfgjru056:kongfu:avi:1024p:part1 3".
   The first component "www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/movie" is transferred to a
   unique flat name "dllta", which is settled before the flat
   component. Meanwhile, we get an identifier "5" to illustrate that 
   the first 5 characters represent the length of transferred 
   hierarchical name. It is significant that the name can be restored 
   easily by their one-to-one mapping. This transformation process
   is shown in Figure 7.

   +---------------------------+---------------+-------------------+--+
   |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/movie|fhk562nfgjru056|kongfu 1024p part1|3 |
   +---------------------------+---------------+-------------------+--+
   +---------------------------+--------------------+---+
   |dona://dlltafhk562nfgjru056/5|kongfu 1024p part1| 3 |
   +---------------------------+--------------------+---+
     Figure 7 An example of the transformation for hierarchical name

6.2. Compatibility with CCN/NDN

   A readable naming mechanism based on the hierarchical structure has
   been proposed in CCN/NDN. The hybrid naming scheme is also well
   compatible with CCN/NDN. The specific transformation process is
   shown as below.

   (1)The hierarchical component of hn structure will not be changed as
   the first unit.

   (2)The flat component is transferred to one unit followed by the
   first unit, and uses "/" as separation label.

   (3)The attributes component is separated as many units, which are
   separated by the label "/".

   (4)The transformation between the hybrid naming structure and
   CCN/NDN hierarchical naming structure can be easily accomplished.

   For example, there is a routing entry
   hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/picture|fh84rnf213gjrru|300*500 prairie 3".
   The components "fh84rnf213gjrru|300*500 prairie" is transferred to
   several unique units "id=fh84rnf213gjrru/300*500prairie". It is
   essential that the name can be restored easily according to their
   one-to-one mapping. This transformation process is shown in Figure
   8.

   

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   +------------------------------+-----------------+----------------+-+
   |hn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/picture| fh84rnf213gjrru |300*500 prairie |3|
   +------------------------------+-----------------+----------------+-+
   +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-+
   |ccn://www.bjtu.edu.cn/m/picture/id=fh84rnf213gjrru/300*500prairie|3|
   +-----------------------------------------------------------------+-+
         Figure 8 An example of the transformation for flat name

7. Formal Syntax

   The following syntax specification uses the augmented Backus-Naur
   Form (BNF) as described in RFC 5234 [RFC5234].

8. Security Considerations

   The proposed hn naming scheme has potential benefits for the
   security. The hierarchical prefix has a high aggregation, which can
   avoid the security issues of rapid expansion in routing or
   forwarding table, such as DoS attack. The users' privacy and the
   content secrets can be protected by the flat component from readable
   names. The attributes component can improve the management for the
   secure contents by using some encryption key.

9. IANA Considerations

   This document presents no IANA considerations.

10. Conclusions

   This document defines a novel hybrid naming scheme for unifying all
   kinds of information (including resources, services and data). This
   hybrid naming scheme owns many advantages, which can provide a
   better compatibility for existing naming schemes.

11. References

11.1. Normative References

   [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI
              10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
                          
 

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11.2. Informative References

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12. Acknowledgments

   Meng Zhang and Liang Zhu contributed to discussion and revision of
   this document whilst working at Beijing University of Posts and
   Telecommunications, Beijing, China.

   This document was prepared using 2-Word-v2.0.template.dot.

Authors' Addresses

   Hongke Zhang
   Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU)
   Beijing, 100044, P.R.China

   Email: hkzhang@bjtu.edu.cn

   Fei Song
   Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU)
   Beijing, 100044, P.R.China

   Email: fsong@bjtu.edu.cn

   Wei Quan
   Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU)
   Beijing, 100044, P.R.China

   Email: weiquan@bjtu.edu.cn

   Jianfeng Guan
   Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)
   Beijing, 100876, P.R.China

   Email: jfguan@bupt.edu.cn

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   Changqiao Xu
   Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)
   Beijing, 100876, P.R.China

   Email: cqxu@bupt.edu.cn

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