In this paper, a multiuser cellular two-way relaying scenario is considered where multiple single-antenna mobile stations (MSs) and one multiple-antenna base station (BS) communicate, bidirectionally, via one half-duplex multiple-antenna relay station (RS). Furthermore, the case when the number of antennas at the RS is not sufficient to decode the individual messages is addressed. For this case, a

A novel ripple mitigation technique is proposed for switched-capacitor voltage regulators (SCVR), which eliminates the output voltage ripple without using multi-phase interleaving. An inner control loop matches the SCVR's switch current to the load current on a cycle by cycle basis. A 2-phase 32 SCVR is designed in 45-nm CMOS process with the proposed control. For a 1.8 V to 1.05 V /40 mA

In this paper, we consider the design of access schemes for secondary users in cognitive radio systems based on the primary user feedback information. We consider a secondary user employing a random access scheme with an access probability that depends on the primary user feedback state. We show that the proposed scheme can enhance the system performance in terms of the secondary throughput and/or

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

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

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

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

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

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

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