The use of femtocells has been an attractive solution since it achieves better coverage and capacity and low cost for deployment and maintenance. However, their performance can be compromised by the cross-tier interfe...
The use of femtocells has been an attractive solution since it achieves better coverage and capacity and low cost for deployment and maintenance. However, their performance can be compromised by the cross-tier interference with existing macrocell infrastructure or between adjacent femtocells, especially in the case of co-channel deployment. One way to address this, is adjusting the transmit power of every femto base station with respect for overall performance. To this direction, we have implemented a framework that simulates femtocell overlays over LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) macrocellular systems. The framework allows power management over user-defined femtocell deployment, deciding their power levels according to three different power schemes. The resulting throughput is presented for every point of the macrocell in a user-friendly GUI. In this paper, we present the design of this framework and discuss the results.
In Cognitive Radio (CR) Networks, the licensed but vacant spectrum bands are shared by the unlicensed users (CR users) in an opportunistic manner. The CR users should operate and cohabit in the licensed bands without ...
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(纸本)9781467309202
In Cognitive Radio (CR) Networks, the licensed but vacant spectrum bands are shared by the unlicensed users (CR users) in an opportunistic manner. The CR users should operate and cohabit in the licensed bands without causing any interference to the Primary Users (PUs). This CR user cohabitation which is managed by a spectrum Coordinator, enables several design challenges. Therefore, A User Cohabitation Coordinator, UCC, should be designed considering the heterogeneous Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for the CR users and the short-term fluctuations in the available licensed spectrum bands. Moreover, the spectrum coordination among the CR network operators for CR users should also be considered by the UCC for an effective and fair spectrum sharing. Considering these challenges, the main contribution of this paper is to design a QoS-based spectrum coordinator for CR user cohabitation in order to achieve high throughput and fairness. The proposed UCC uses the first-difference filter clustering and correlation based PU modeling to integrate the fluctuations of the PU activities into the spectrum sharing. The UCC characterizes the QoS requirements of CR users by adopting queuing theoretic models. The proposed scheme enables the cohabitation of the CR operators dynamically. The evaluations demonstrate that the proposed UCC provides high throughput while maintaining the fairness in the CR networks.
The banking industry across the globe has witnessed a revolution in the last two decades in its efforts to meet the ever growing customer demands. The advancement of technology has encouraged many organisations to mov...
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The banking industry across the globe has witnessed a revolution in the last two decades in its efforts to meet the ever growing customer demands. The advancement of technology has encouraged many organisations to move across markets to position themselves as multinationals and the Sri Lankan banking sector is no different. Continuous analysis of customer demands has driven the banks to rely heavily on technology thereby crowding the markets with many products and services. Sri Lankan banks today are continuing to introduce innovative electronic banking solutions to their customers. The question however is: How much of these electronic banking solutions are actually used by the customers? This study was conducted to identify the consumer response on facilities offered by the bank. A survey was conducted and data collected from 404 banking customers in the Colombo district were analysed. Results of the survey reveal that the topmost facilities demanded from the bank are accurate and secure services. The ATM is ranked as the third and the usage is 80%. The research concludes that customers expect the bank to provide a high level of service more than the electronic-based solutions per se.
NS-2 (Network Simulator) is one of the most popular discrete event simulators used for network simulation. Trace files produced by NS-2 provide very useful information for post simulation analysis. This paper presents...
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(纸本)9789898565235
NS-2 (Network Simulator) is one of the most popular discrete event simulators used for network simulation. Trace files produced by NS-2 provide very useful information for post simulation analysis. This paper presents the architecture and development considerations for a TRAce FILe analysis tool, which intends to simplify the management of trace files generated during network simulations. The tool is focused on NS-2 trace files, but can be extended to handle a variety of simulation trace files formats. Its purpose is to make the execution of a large number of network simulations faster, and the extraction of results from a large amount of data more flexible and productive. TRAFIL introduces a novel way of interpreting, parsing, reading and eventually utilizing NS-2 trace files by using "metafiles" and "sub-metafiles" during the trace file recognition and process procedures, making the overall operations more abstract, substantially efficient and faster than alternative approaches. Furthermore, TRAFIL facilitates the whole trace file analysis task, offering the opportunity to store each trace file as well as every measurement produced for each trace file. The tool aims to aid the analysis of simulation results offering features that other tools in this area have been missing.
The function of the parahippocampal place area (PPA) is a matter of debate. We investigated this issue in fMRI experiment by 36 normal subjects using two types of tasks: figure and text. Furthermore, the figure tasks ...
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This paper presents an integration of Wavelet and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based lighting normalization, and shifting-mean Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) based face classifiers for face recognition. The aim...
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(纸本)9789898425980
This paper presents an integration of Wavelet and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based lighting normalization, and shifting-mean Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) based face classifiers for face recognition. The aims are to provide robust recognition rate against large face variability due to lighting variations and to avoid retraining problem of the classical LDA for incremental data. In addition, the compact holistic features is employed for dimensional reduction of the raw face image. From the experimental results, the proposed method gives sufficient and robust achievement in terms of recognition rate and requires short computational time.
Motion segmentation for articulated objects is an important topic of research. Yet such a segmentation should be as free as possible from underlying assumptions so as to fit general scenes and objects. In this paper w...
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In this paper, we deal with the cyclic scheduling problem usually observed in the FMS producing multi-type parts where the AGVS plays a role of a material handling system. Finding the conditions guaranteeing the AGVs ...
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Building a comprehensive medical image database, in the spirit of the UMLS, can be beneficial for assisting diagnosis, patient education and self-care. However, a highly curated, comprehensive image database is diffic...
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This paper presents human-robot communication for a monitoring support system in an Intelligent Space. An Intelligent Space (iSpace) is a space in which many intelligent devices are installed to observe the user's...
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