Performance evaluation of equal-gain (EG) diversity systems is notoriously difficult-a classical problem dating back to Lord Rayleigh himself almost a century ago. A number of references to this problem and to its dif...
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Performance evaluation of equal-gain (EG) diversity systems is notoriously difficult-a classical problem dating back to Lord Rayleigh himself almost a century ago. A number of references to this problem and to its difficulty can be found in the research literature and textbooks. In this paper, we derive exact analytical expressions for the EG receiver performance in Rayleigh, Rician, Nakagami-m and Nakagami-q fading channels in terms of the Appell hypergeometric function. Our methodology and analytical framework can readily handle any order of diversity as well as arbitrary fading statistics (including mixed-fading). The method also applies to a broad class of coherent, differentially coherent and noncoherent modulation formats. For coherent BPSK and BFSK, the solution is particularly simple because a desirable exponential integral representation for the Gaussian probability integral is available.
Little-JIL, a language for programming coordination in processes is an executable, high-level language with a formal (yet graphical) syntax and rigorously defined operational semantics. The central abstraction in Litt...
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Little-JIL, a language for programming coordination in processes is an executable, high-level language with a formal (yet graphical) syntax and rigorously defined operational semantics. The central abstraction in Little-JIL is the step, which is the focal point for coordination, providing a scoping mechanism for control, data and exception flow and for agent and resource assignment. Steps are organized into a static hierarchy, but can have a highly dynamic execution structure including the possibility of recursion and concurrency. Little-JIL is based on two main hypotheses. The first is that coordination structure is separable from other process language issues. Little-JIL provides rich control structures while relying on separate systems for resource, artifact and agenda management. The second hypothesis is that processes are executed by agents that know how to perform their tasks but benefit from coordination support. Accordingly, each Little-JIL step has an execution agent (human or automated) that is responsible for performing the work of the step. This approach has proven effective in supporting the clear and concise expression of agent coordination for a wide variety of software, workflow and other processes.
This paper reports on an on-going project undertaken within the University of Rome at Tor Vergata to automate the business processes of a class of administrative organizations. The experience gained and the lessons le...
Opus is a new programming language designed to assist in coordinating the execution of multiple, independent program modules. With the help of Opus, coarse grained task parallelism between data parallel modules can be...
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Efficient performance tuning of parallel programs is often hard. We present a performance prediction and visualization tool called VPPB. Based on a monitored uni-processor execution, VPPB shows the (predicted) behavio...
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Efficient performance tuning of parallel programs is often hard. We present a performance prediction and visualization tool called VPPB. Based on a monitored uni-processor execution, VPPB shows the (predicted) behaviour of a multithreaded program using any number of processors and the program behaviour is visualized as a graph. The first version of VPPB was unable to handle I/O operations. This version has, by an improved tracing technique, added the possibility to trace activities at the kernel level as well. Thus, VPPB is now able to trace various I/O activities, e.g., manipulation of OS internal buffers, physical disk I/O, socket I/O, and RPC. VPPB allows flexible performance tuning of parallel programs developed for shared memory multiprocessors using a standardized environment; C/C++ programs that uses the thread package in Solaris 2.X.
This paper describes the results of the working group investigating the issues of empirical studies for evolving systems. The groups found that there were many issues that were central to successful evolution and this...
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This paper describes the results of the working group investigating the issues of empirical studies for evolving systems. The groups found that there were many issues that were central to successful evolution and this concluded that this is a very important area within softwareengineering. Finally nine main areas were selected for consideration. For each of these areas the central issues were identified as well as success factors. In some cases success stories were also described and the critical factors accounting for the success analyzed. In some cases it was later found that a number of areas were so tightly coupled that it was important to discuss them together.
Following Mandayam et al. (1998), we define outage events as the channel being attenuated for at least a deterministic period of time, /spl tau//sub m/. Compared with a continuous time Markov chain or discrete time Ma...
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Following Mandayam et al. (1998), we define outage events as the channel being attenuated for at least a deterministic period of time, /spl tau//sub m/. Compared with a continuous time Markov chain or discrete time Markov chain, a semi-Markov process (SMP) is general enough that it allows the sojourn time to be any distribution function. In this paper, we develop a minimum duration outage model based on an SMP. Closed-form expressions are derived for the time dependent and steady state probabilities of outage. Describing the outage event in the transient regime, our model can reflect the channel fading behavior in a dynamic way.
An RF channel at a cell is assigned to a call during the call set-up process. The channel is dedicated to the subscriber until the call is terminated (normal termination) or the subscriber leaves the cell (handoff). H...
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An RF channel at a cell is assigned to a call during the call set-up process. The channel is dedicated to the subscriber until the call is terminated (normal termination) or the subscriber leaves the cell (handoff). However, the RF channel may fail due to equipment failure or environment changes (failure-termination). In order to increase system end-to-end availability, an RF channel recovery method is proposed in this paper. When an RF channel fails, the channel is replaced by another working channel and the call continues. The method to replace failed RF channels of ongoing calls and to handle channel failures of handoff and new calls is investigated. The numerical results show that the recovery scheme reduces the dropped calls and the blocked calls significantly under both light and normal traffic. In addition, the numerical results for the recovery model and the pure performance model are nearly the same, which indicates that the recovery scheme can almost eliminate the dropped/blocked calls caused by channel impairment.
A fully automatic adjustment system for mass production of the optical head for magnetooptical disk drives is described. The optical head is composed of millimeter scale optical components, such as laser diode, the co...
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A fully automatic adjustment system for mass production of the optical head for magnetooptical disk drives is described. The optical head is composed of millimeter scale optical components, such as laser diode, the collimator lens, the object lens, various prisms and various detectors. A series of algorithms composed of measurement, recognition, calculation of manipulation, execution of manipulation, verification and fixation ensures proper adjustment of the head. The key is to process the measured value, recognize the shape of the beam and the waveform, and determine the manipulation. With this system, the adjustment process is reduced to 6 minutes, as compared to 9 hours it takes an experience worker.
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