The use of multimedia technology can provide cost effective methods for management and dissemination of information, and thus increase economic efficiency. Distributed, networked multimedia information systems will be...
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The use of multimedia technology can provide cost effective methods for management and dissemination of information, and thus increase economic efficiency. Distributed, networked multimedia information systems will be a critical component of technology-based information infrastructures in the future. Several ground breaking applications have already appeared, and more are expected to follow. Innovations in hardware and software are feeding this revolution. In this paper, the notion of quality for multimedia data transferred over the networks is developed. Multimedia data synchronization requirements are specified to ensure high quality delivery of multimedia information. Accordingly we propose synchronization techniques in a client server environment.
Existing quantum cryptographic schemes are not, as they stand, operable in the presence of noise on the quantum communication channel. Although they become operable if they are supplemented by classical privacy-amplif...
Existing quantum cryptographic schemes are not, as they stand, operable in the presence of noise on the quantum communication channel. Although they become operable if they are supplemented by classical privacy-amplification techniques, the resulting schemes are difficult to analyze and have not been proved secure. We introduce the concept of quantum privacy amplification and a cryptographic scheme incorporating it which is provably secure over a noisy channel. The scheme uses an “entanglement purification” procedure which, because it requires only a few quantum controlled-not and single-qubit operations, could be implemented using technology that is currently being developed.
Summary form only given. Variability of total electron content (TEC) in the equatorial anomaly region of the ionosphere can be studied extensively using the results of measurements taken by the NASA/CNES satellite, TO...
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Summary form only given. Variability of total electron content (TEC) in the equatorial anomaly region of the ionosphere can be studied extensively using the results of measurements taken by the NASA/CNES satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon, which provides global ocean coverage (0 to 360 degrees longitude, -66 to +66 degrees latitude). The NASA radar altimeter (NRA) is the first spaceborne dual-frequency altimeter capable of accurately measuring vertical ionospheric TEC below 1340 km. TOPEX TEC observations have already been used to support results from an ionospheric measurement campaign that was conducted in equatorial anomaly regions of South America by Phillips laboratory in Spring, 1994. The best agreement in TEC values is seen during intervals of longitudinal proximity of the satellites' paths. Vertical measurements from TOPEX are obtained at a rate of one per second at 5.3 and 13.6 GHz. Along the same surface tracks every 10 days during which global ocean coverage is accomplished. TOPEX data records from 9/92 to 9/95 have been processed and reduced to one CDROM disc using one degree averaging over 110 km. Along track for evaluation of TEC measurements. Various plotting programs have been developed to represent the data for observation of TEC values and the occurrence of the equatorial anomaly. To facilitate further TEC studies, interface software has been prepared to provide easy access to specific dates, local times and longitudes with identification of anomaly formation and structure. The TOPEX over-ocean data can be used as a supplement to land based measurements in applications to ionospheric research at low and middle latitudes. This study focuses on comparisons between TOPEX vertical TEC data and GPS equivalent vertical TEC measurements taken near the East and West coastal regions of South America. Also the Phillips laboratory Global Parameterized Ionospheric Model (PIM) is utilized in an effort to estimate slant to vertical conversion errors.
Summary form only given. Previous ionospheric observations have measured total electron content (TEC) values at fixed land based locations. These observations suggest the existence of longitudinal variations in TEC va...
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Summary form only given. Previous ionospheric observations have measured total electron content (TEC) values at fixed land based locations. These observations suggest the existence of longitudinal variations in TEC values. Complementing ground data, the current NASA TOPEX mission is providing TEC data collected over oceans as a function of latitude, longitude and time starting from September 1992. With this broad data base, the authors show a more complete picture of the longitudinal dependance between the Atlantic and Pacific ocean regions and relate this dependance to plasma drifts. Periods during June and December solstice, and March and September equinox in the years 1992, through 1995, are picked to study the low-latitude regions spanning the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. TEC isodensity contours are presented by latitude versus longitude at common local time. The authors correlate these contours with results from the Phillips laboratory ionospheric model.
Opens in BICMOS structures are analyzed here. It is shown that some opens cannot be detected by stuck-fault or other functional tests, since some transistors in BiCMOS gates do not affect the logical function of the g...
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Opens in BICMOS structures are analyzed here. It is shown that some opens cannot be detected by stuck-fault or other functional tests, since some transistors in BiCMOS gates do not affect the logical function of the gate. A switch-level model for CMOS circuits is extended to include bipolar devices. With this switch-level model, opens that cannot be detected by stuck-faults or other functional tests are easily identified. It is also shown that, in BICMOS circuits, an open defect in one transistor can accelerate the wearout of another nondefective transistor.
Very often many parameterized trials of a simulation are required. Modifying parameters of a simulation will often only modify a fraction of the work. This paper proposes time scale combining (TSC) to combine multiple...
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Very often many parameterized trials of a simulation are required. Modifying parameters of a simulation will often only modify a fraction of the work. This paper proposes time scale combining (TSC) to combine multiple independent simulation trials by sharing common events and inter-processor communication messages across distinct simulations. As a result, some of the overhead experienced in parallel computation can be amortized across these multiple simulations, reducing the total time required to execute all of the simulations. The results from an experimental evaluation on both asynchronous and synchronous parallel architectures are presented.< >
We present our approach to Multiple Perspective Interactive (MPI) video. In MPI video, a viewer could view an event from multiple perspectives, even based on the contents of the events. Using strategically located mul...
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We present our approach to Multiple Perspective Interactive (MPI) video. In MPI video, a viewer could view an event from multiple perspectives, even based on the contents of the events. Using strategically located multiple cameras a set of image sequences is obtained and used to build a 3-dimensional model of the important events in a scene. Considering the request of a user, the system decides the best camera at every time instant and edits image sequences from these camera, much like an editor in standard live sport events, to provide a user the video sequence of the episode from the user's desired perspective. Our system features automatic camera selection and interaction using three-dimensional cursors. We present results of a prototype which is a part of our early efforts to establish a framework of MPI video. Our prototype is a football video retrieval system. We present our results to concretely show the concept of the interactive video.
This paper compares the coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM) system and a single-carrier system using decision feedback equalization (DFE) in a Rayleigh-fading environment assuming perfect knowledg...
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This paper compares the coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM) system and a single-carrier system using decision feedback equalization (DFE) in a Rayleigh-fading environment assuming perfect knowledge of the channel and ignoring error propagation in the DFE. Analytic techniques are introduced to bound the average probability of error of a single-carrier system using decision-feedback equalization and the average probability of error of a COFDM system in a two-path fading channel.
There is a tremendous interest in the development of the evolutionary computation techniques as they are well suited to deal with optimization of functions containing a large number of variables. This paper presents a...
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There is a tremendous interest in the development of the evolutionary computation techniques as they are well suited to deal with optimization of functions containing a large number of variables. This paper presents a brief review of evolutionary computing techniques. It also discusses briefly the hybridization of evolutionary computation and neural networks and presents a solution of a classical problem using neural computing and evolutionary computing techniques.< >
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