When planning or controlling the system development process, a project leader needs to make decisions which take into account a number of aspects, including: availability of assets and competences, previously enacted ...
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Multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) has been considered as a strong candidate for next generation wireless communication system due to its excellent performance in multi-path fading channel and simpl...
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Multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) has been considered as a strong candidate for next generation wireless communication system due to its excellent performance in multi-path fading channel and simple receiver structure. Carrier Interferometry code for MC-CDMA (CI/MC-CDMA) provides better BER performance, less peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and higher design flexibility than conventional MC-CDMA systems employing Hadarmard-Walsh spreading code. However, like all the multi-carrier transmission technologies such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), the inter-carrier interference (ICI) produced by the frequency offset between the transmitter and receiver local oscillators or by Doppler frequency shift due to high mobility causes significant bit error rate (BER) performance degradation in CI/MC-CDMA system. In this paper, we apply the ICI self-cancellation scheme previously proposed for OFDM system to orthogonal CI/MC-CDMA system to reduce ICI effect and improve BER performance. Unlike the traditional ICI self-cancellation scheme for OFDM which reduces the ICI at the price of lowing the transmission rate and reducing the bandwidth efficiency, we introduce a second set of orthogonal CI codes to maintain the throughput. Simulations of different leveled modulations over AWGN channel and multi-path fading channel confirmed the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed self-embedded ICI cancellation scheme for CI/MC-CDMA system where significant BER performance gain has been observed when ICI is present.
Recent experiments have demonstrated that low-jitter mode locked lasers enable unprecedented high-resolution high-speed analog to digital conversion. That capability may be leveraged to bring spectral efficiency of op...
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For more than 30 years, knowledge-based product configuration systems have been successfully applied in many industrial domains. Correspondingly, a large number of advanced techniques and algorithms have been develope...
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For more than 30 years, knowledge-based product configuration systems have been successfully applied in many industrial domains. Correspondingly, a large number of advanced techniques and algorithms have been developed in academia and industry to support different aspects of configuration reasoning. While traditional research in the field focused on the configuration of physical artefacts, recognition of the business value of customizable software products led to the emergence of software product line engineering. Despite the significant overlap in research interests, the two fields mainly evolved in isolation. Only limited attempts were made at combining the approaches developed in the different fields. In this paper, we first aim to give an overview of commonalities and differences between software product line engineering and product configuration. We then identify opportunities for cross-fertilization between these fields and finally develop a research agenda to combine their respective techniques. Ultimately, this should lead to a unified configuration approach.
The quadruped/biped reconfigurable walking robot with parallel leg mechanism can realize not only the quadruped walking, but also the biped walking. The converting process from the quadruped to the biped includes lock...
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We present a transport-based model that can be used to investigate the optoelectronic operations of transistor lasers with multiple quantum well. Significant enhancement in device performances is anticipated when the ...
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IEEE 802.22 networks consist of base stations and consumer premise equipments (CPEs) where the base station in each cell opportunistically accesses and allocates (uplink and downlink) channels to all the CPEs in its c...
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IEEE 802.22 networks consist of base stations and consumer premise equipments (CPEs) where the base station in each cell opportunistically accesses and allocates (uplink and downlink) channels to all the CPEs in its cell. Information on white space (unused primary channels) availability is reported by the CPEs to the base stations. Thus, a base station's effectiveness to allocate channels are based on its ability to gauge the spectrum usage at various locations. In this paper, we propose a channel usage estimation framework where a base station uses the spectrum reports from other neighboring base stations to estimate the spectrum usage scenario at any arbitrary location within its cell. Our estimation framework is based on Shepard's interpolation technique for irregular points. We propose a channel allocation scheme that minimizes interference among CPEs and maximizes white space utilization. Through simulation experiments, we demonstrate the accuracy of the estimation technique, utilization of the available spectrum, and efficiency of allocation scheme. We also show that our scheme achieves very low false positives and no false negatives. Finally, we show that the optimal number of base stations that need to be consulted is in accordance with Shepard's bounds 1 .
The pump-probe technique has been used to perform room temperature studies of the photoinduced changes in the reflectivity ΔR associated with exciton and carrier dynamics in GaN prepared by lateral epitaxial overgrow...
The pump-probe technique has been used to perform room temperature studies of the photoinduced changes in the reflectivity ΔR associated with exciton and carrier dynamics in GaN prepared by lateral epitaxial overgrowth. For resonant excitation of cold excitons, the ΔR decay possesses a 720 ps component attributed to the free exciton lifetime in this high quality material. For electrons with small excess energy (< 50 meV), the strong increase in the ΔR decay rate with decreasing excitation density suggests that screening of the Coulomb interaction may play an important role in the processes of carrier relaxation and exciton formation. The faster decay times at a given carrier density observed for hot (> 100 meV) electron relaxation are attributed to electron-hole scattering in conjunction with the screened electron-LO phonon interaction.
We have characterized the single-event transient sensitivity to gate bias of InAlSb/InAs/AlGaSb high electron mobility transistors through experiments and simulations. These depletion-mode transistors exhibit increase...
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Energy consumption in buildings comprises a significant fraction of total worldwide energy consumption and is strongly influenced by occupant behavior. To explore the quantitative effect of particular occupant actions...
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