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Novel 3D memory-centric NoC architecture for transaction-based SoC applications

Large and complex system-on-chip devices consisting of many processor cores, accelerators, DSP functions and many other processing and memory elements are becoming common in the semiconductor industry nowadays. To communicate, these processing and memory elements need to have a network-on-chip (NoC) that is scalable enough to support large number of elements and large bandwidth among other

Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications

Synthetic generation of radio maps for device-free passive localization

In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system that automatically constructs accurate radio maps for device-free WLAN localization systems. The system is capable of generating deterministic and probabilistic radio maps for localization systems. Our system uses 3D ray tracing enhanced with the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) to model the electric field behavior

Software and Communications

Conceptual cost estimation of pump stations projects using fuzzy clustering

Conceptual cost estimates, are prepared at the very early stages of a project, and generally before the construction drawings and specifications are available. At this stage, cost estimates are needed by the owner, contractor, designer, or funding agencies for determination of the feasibility of a project, financial evaluation of a number of alternative projects, or establishment of an initial

Artificial Intelligence
Software and Communications
Mechanical Design

Interference alignment for secrecy

This paper studies the frequency/time selective K-user Gaussian interference channel with secrecy constraints. Two distinct models, namely the interference channel with confidential messages and the interference channel with an external eavesdropper, are analyzed. The key difference between the two models is the lack of channel state information (CSI) of the external eavesdropper. Using

Artificial Intelligence
Software and Communications

Adaptive sensing and transmission durations for cognitive radios

In a cognitive radio setting, secondary users opportunistically access the spectrum allocated to primary users. Finding the optimal sensing and transmission durations for the secondary users becomes crucial in order to maximize the secondary throughput while protecting the primary users from interference and service disruption. In this paper an adaptive sensing and transmission scheme for

Software and Communications

Admission and power control for spectrum sharing cognitive radio networks

We investigate the problem of admission and power control considering a scenario where licensed, or primary, users and cognitive radios, or secondary users, are transmitting concurrently over the same band. The primary users share a common receiver and the interference on this receiver from secondary users should be strictly limited to a certain level. Each secondary link is assumed to have a

Software and Communications

On the enhancement of LDPC codes used in WiMAX

In this paper the low density party check (LDPC) codes used in the IEEE 802.16 standard physical layer are studied, and two novel techniques to enhance the performance of such codes are introduced. In the first technique, a novel parity check matrix for LDPC codes over GF(4) with the non-zero entries chosen to maximize the entropy is proposed, the parity check matrix is based on the binary parity

Software and Communications

Achievable degrees of freedom of the K-user interference channel with partial cooperation

In this paper, we consider the K-user interference channel with partial cooperation, where a strict subset of the K users cooperate. For the K-user interference channel with cooperating subsets of length M, the outer bound of the total degrees of freedom is KM/(M+1). In this paper, we propose a signal space-based interference alignment scheme that proves the achievability of these degrees of

Software and Communications

Kalman filter-based tracking of a device-free passive entity in wireless environments

Device-free passive (DfP) localization has been recently proposed to allow localizing a stationary entity that neither carries a device nor participates actively in the localization process. In this paper, we present a Kalman filter-based system that enables tracking a continuously moving entity in a typical wireless environment rich in multipath. The concept behind DfP tracking is that the

Software and Communications

Censoring for improved performance of distributed detection in wireless sensor networks

In this paper, we consider the problem of binary hypothesis testing for distributed detection in wireless sensor networks in which a transmission censoring scheme is employed. The sensor nodes transmit binary decisions to the fusion center (FC) for final decision making. Sensor nodes with unreliable observation samples censor transmission to FC. By having two thresholds at each sensor node, a

Software and Communications