... repetition ofthe same information (complex number) mapping over the OFDM symbols forthe slowest out ofthe coding schemes In conjunction with the FDS approach, 50 QPSK symbols and 50 of their respective ... is the reference signal for one ofthe four constellation points Then the soft value of Ymk and Ysk is used after deciding the Euclidean distance, as the following: Soft( b2 k ) Re(Ymk ) Soft( ... accepted forthe accuracy of information contained in the published articles The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out ofthe use of any...
... inequality of signal power forthe different OFDM data subcarriers The averaging CSI is adopted for bg(k) Therefore the soft bits incorporated with CSI forthe DC 32-QAM demapping are given by the following: ... maximum θ is required to retain the sign ofthe soft bit value; otherwise using a larger θ can make the sign ofthe soft bit value inverted, which causes errors forthe soft bit decoding θ is set to ... and the users’ experience of these products Since the standard has been set forthe transmitter, optimization ofthe receiver becomes paramount to maximize the MB-OFDM system performance Furthermore,...
... in the output spectrum ofthe transmitter are the LO leakage and the sideband signal The power ofthe LO leakage is determined by the offset ofthe I/Q ABB path In order to reduce the power of ... boost the output power ofthe up-mixer as well as to reduce the impact of former stages on the linearity ofthe transmitter A flat gain ofthe PA is desired, too Besides, considerations ofthe ... between the V2I unit and the switches ofthe up-mixer as shown in Fig 11 Besides, the linearity ofthe up-mixer is mainly affected by the V2I unit while the impact ofthe switch stage is of less...
... requires the definition ofthe complete packet exchange mechanism as well as detailed information on each single block ofthe receiver 82 NovelApplicationsofthe UWB Technologies Therefore, the ... communication purposes and, in the case of IR-UWB for ranging applications, to the estimation ofthe Time -of- Flight (ToF) The UWB channel is statistical, therefore determining these system-level data implies ... on the I&D unit of our Energy Detection receiver case study as an example Next paragraph will focus on the design ofthe block and all 88 10 NovelApplicationsofthe UWB Technologies the hypothesis...
... summarize the TDT algorithm for UWB TH-PPM systems in its NDA form and then in its DA form 130 NovelApplicationsofthe UWB Technologies 3.2.1 Non-data-aided mode Forthe synchronization mode NDA, the ... between the symbols s(m − 2) and s(m) Thus, forthe synchronization in NDA mode, the performances of this approach are affected by the sign ofthe transmitted symbols To increase the chances that the ... )] For transmitter 1, the demodulation output ofthe kth bit is (24) 118 NovelApplicationsofthe UWB Technologies Tk(1) k N s N Tc ( k 1)N s N Tc r (t ) V (t )dt (25) Then, the...
... be used, the cost of each node must be kept small For example, the cost of a node should be less than 1% ofthe cost ofthe product it is attached to Small form factor: Transceivers’ form factors ... consortium include the development ofthe specification and compliance testing process, management ofthe certification program and promotion ofthe TransferJet technology As of April 2010, there are ... the low band of UWB (3.244-4.742 GHz) that is based on spread spectrum technique for WSN applicationsThe main feature ofthe system is the design simplicity having the advantage of using simple...
... PIN diode Then, the detected signal was onward transmitted through the tested channel to the W-CDMA receiver The purpose of this experiment was thestudyofthe wired channel performance The measured ... wireless because ofthe need for improved “quality of life” forthe patients In essence, the use of “wireless” in a hospital is conflicting with the safety and security demands forthe sensitive ... boost the performance ofthe UEs at the edge ofthe cell This case is also known as the Coordinated Multiple Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP) system In this case, the transmission of the...
... hence therefore harming the communication rights ofthe primary radios in the allocated band and violating the regulatory requirements The hidden terminal problem also can harm the performance of ... curve The C-ROC depicts the probability of false alarm in the x-axis and probability of miss detection in the y-axis Figure-8 shows the C-ROC curves forthe energy detector for various values of ... to noise ratio is very low the knowledge ofthe noise power can be used to improve the detection performance ofthe energy detectors In energy detectors, the energy ofthe received signal is computed...
... normalize the natural frequency argument ofthe soft-spectrum mask as given by Eq (34) The purpose of such normalization is to let the support ofthe soft-spectrum mask match the support ofthe co-basis ... in place ofthe natural frequency f and time t The relationship among them will be addressed later on 252 NovelApplicationsofthe UWB Technologies 3.4 The dimension ofthe co-basis Before proceeding, ... this co-basis, the well-known orthonormal expansion method will wonders forthe design of pulses, yielding the waveform ofthe pulses (time domain) by expanding the soft-spectrum in the frequency...
... dictate the total number of multiplications: first, N the number of sampling points for performing numerical integration; second, M the dimension ofthe co-basis; finally, K the length ofthe resulting ... requirements forthe throughput performance so that the fairness ofthe network should be considered However, the mutual interference ofthe radio systems is significantly important forthe design of this ... detect the primary systems ideally and this effect may degrade the performance ofthe primary systems Therefore, in this section, the performance ofthe interference mitigation technique for UWB...
... allows for evaluation ofthe performance of current designs and prediction of future design performance Data on the in vivo load state of joint replacement components is required to understand the ... 300 NovelApplicationsofthe UWB Technologies more by the atmosphere and are typically used for short range applications Using UWB for localization in the OR holds a distinct advantage over other ... in Figure 55 The specification ofthe ASIC is shown in Table The gain ofthe amplifier can be adjusted via an external resistor After examining the outputs ofthe microcantilever, the gain was...
... ofthe windowed portion ofthe signals from all the channels are calculated and summed up to form a pixel value forthe image ofthe breast The synthetic focal point is then scanned through the ... and preserve the uniformity ofthe tissue, the breast is compressed before X-Ray imaging which can be uncomfortable forthe patients (Fear et al., 2002) 338 NovelApplicationsofthe UWB Technologies ... could be represented as the sum of a number of complex sinusoids The number of these terms equals to the number ofthe scattering points in the view ofthe antenna and the multiple scattering...
... assess the effectiveness ofthe developed technique, several test cases have been considered Forthe sake of brevity, only the computation ofthe fundamental resonant 364 NovelApplicationsofthe ... from the center ofthe breast hemisphere to 5mm below the inner layer ofthe skin as the tumors so close to the skin can be detected by examining the surface ofthe breast Tables and show the ... beneath the image Here, the regions with different dielectric values are approximated by spheres The radius ofthe sphere is chosen as the circumference ofthe region divided by 2π The center of the...
... constant r 37 The puck is suspended at a distance of h mm from the bottom ofthe cavity Since the dielectric permittivity ofthe resonator is rather high, the effect ofthe orthogonal Cartesian ... NEXRAD antennas, the effect ofthe UWB system will be lower than the case of clear path between the antennas of both systems The effect ofthe UWB transmitters on the UMTS2600 downlink for different ... example of CIR where the FAP is not the same as SP the sampling interval is on the order of a pulse duration Therefore, there can be a large delay between the first path and the strongest path, and the...
... analysis was done forthe other subbands, however we hesitate to show the ranging results of all of them forthe sake of conciseness For higher BW the algorithm search forthe first peak above ... the size ofthe feasibility region, the more restricted is the domain of z and therefore the more accurate is the solution; ˆ b) implies that the tighter are the bias upper-bounds, the more accurate ... = otherwise assumed the presence of a bias and h The effectiveness and the accuracy of this method depends on: a) the size ofthe feasibility ˜ ˆ region I , which is obtained from the set of...
... Comparison ofthe localization accuracy achieved by different algorithms forthe case of a multi-hop scenario in mixed LOS/NLOS conditions Conclusions In this chapter, we have seen the most effective ... described in the literature We distinguished them in methods for large-scale and single-hop networks We also addressed the NLOS problem and, we provided effective solutions forthe single-hop ... estimates, especially in the case of mixed LOS/NLOS conditions References Abramowitz, M & Stegun, I A (1965) Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, 10...
... inequality of signal power forthe different OFDM data subcarriers The averaging CSI is adopted for bg(k) Therefore the soft bits incorporated with CSI forthe DC 32-QAM demapping are given by the following: ... is the reference signal for one ofthe four constellation points Then the soft value of Ymk and Ysk is used after deciding the Euclidean distance, as the following: Soft( b2 k ) Re(Ymk ) Soft( ... maximum θ is required to retain the sign ofthe soft bit value; otherwise using a larger θ can make the sign ofthe soft bit value inverted, which causes errors forthe soft bit decoding θ is set to...
... Table The size ofthe FST obtained for each ofthe corpora, the coverage ofthe FST and the traversal time per input are shown in this table The coverage ofthe FST is the number of inputs that ... state machine for each ofthe stored patterns and then traverse the machine using the given test pattern If the machine reaches the final state, then the test pattern matches one ofthe stored patterns ... ambiguity is not reduced and the full parser parses with all the trees forthe words ofthe sentence The drop in coverage is due to the fact that for 10% ofthe sentences, the generalized parse retrieved...
... supported The costs of building a ship, costs of its maintenance and use and the price of sold fish are fixed forthe whole game At the end ofthe game the value ofthe ships owned by the companies ... to the increase of k, the flexibility ofthe weight function is improved However, the flexibility ofthe function has the relation of a trade-off with computational complexity In the meaning of ... hybridization of BP and SA (BPSA), and GA They reported 12 Theory and NovelApplicationsof Machine Learning poor performance forthe SA method, but still promoted the use of GO methods instead of standard...
... hypothermia was the cause of favourable outcome in these three patients, the extent of neurological injury was much less severe than had been expected on the basis of their initial injury and the ... Treatment of comatose survivors of out-ofhospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia N Engl J Med 2002, 346:557-563 The Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group: Mild therapeutic hypothermia ... procedures or other interventions to restore blood flow to the endangered parts ofthe central nervous system References Polderman KH: Application of therapeutic hypothermia in the ICU: opportunities...