The technique of multi-carrier (MC) transmission has received wide spread interest, especially for high data rate applications. Sometimes, scarcity of available bandwidth necessitates spectrum sharing between the MC system and other narrow band systems. If a part of the spectrum of the MC system is overlapped by a relatively narrow band transmission signal, the latter will introduce narrow band interference to the MC system, hampering the proper action of the MC system. In such scenarios, the MC receiver has to perform actions, such as channel estimation and synchronization, in the presence of possibly strong in-band interference. In this book, we study the effect of digitally modulated narrow band interference signals on some popular...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-8004-6
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Tracking multiple targets in a high cluttered environment where multiple receivers are used is a challenging task due to the high level of false alarms and uncertainty in the track hypothesis. The multi-static active sonar scenario is an example for such systems where multiple source-receiver combinations are deployed. Due to the nature of the underwater environment and sound propagation characteristics, tracking targets in the underwater environment becomes a complex operation. The methodology presented in this book provides a rapid and reliable tracking system capable of tracking multiple targets without depending on a kinematic model of the target movement. In this algorithm, Self Organizing Maps, Dynamic Programming and the Hough...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-2276-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Multi-Link Trunking (MLT) is a link aggregation or IEEE 802.3ad port trunking technology designed by Nortel (now acquired by Avaya). It allows grouping several physical Ethernet links into one logical Ethernet link to provide fault-tolerance and high-speed links between routers, switches, and servers. In the past redundant links were unused due to Spanning Tree’s loop protection. Using this technology allows or enables the use of several links (from 2 up to 8) and combined them to create increased bandwidth and several fail-over paths. This produces server to switch or switch to switch connections that are up to 8 times faster. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1316-8666-5
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Multi-Carrier Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (MC-DS-CDMA) is a multiplexing technique that combines the advantages of both multi-carrier modulation and DS-CDMA. Among them are high system flexibility, high data rate transmission, high bandwidth efficiency and fading resilience. Adopted as an option for the down-link transmission in the CDMA2000 third Generation (3G) cellular standard, MC-DS-CDMA is also one of the potential candidates for the future fourth Generation (4G) broadband wireless systems. When designing receivers for MC-DS-CDMA mobile wireless systems, two main problems must be taken into account. Firstly, the Multiple Access Interference (MAI) caused by other active users greatly limits the system capacity....
ISBN: 978-3-6391-8667-3
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Multi- purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity. It is used most commonly in Canada and the United States where the two most popular outdoor team sports, gridiron football and baseball, require radically different facilities. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1342-1656-2
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Reactive in-mold coating (IMC) products have been used successfully for many years to improve the surface quality of Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) compression molded parts. IMC provides a smooth, sealed surface, used as a conductive or nonconductive primer for subsequent painting operations. The success of IMC for SMC parts has recently attracted the interest of thermoplastic injection molders. The potential environmental and economic benefits of using IMC as a primer and, in the ideal case, to replace painting completely are large. Acceptance of IMC as a competitor to traditional painting processes will depend upon the improvement of its ability to deliver in-mold coated parts in short cycle times at the highest possible quality level....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System or MILES is used by the United States Armed Forces and other armed forces around the world for training purposes. It uses lasers and blank cartridges to simulate actual battle. Individual soldiers carry small laser receivers scattered over their bodies, which detect when the soldier has been shined by a firearm's laser. Each laser transmitter is set to mimic the effective range of the weapon on which it is used. When a person is "hit," a medic can use the digital readout to determine which first aid method to practice. Different versions of MILES systems are available both within the US and internationally. The capabilities of the individual...
ISBN: 978-6-1316-4928-8
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Multielectrode arrays (MEAs) or microelectrode arrays are devices that contain multiple plates or shanks through which neural signals are obtained or delivered, essentially serving as neural interfaces that connect neurons to electronic circuitry. There are two general classes of MEAs: implantable MEAs, used in vivo, and non-implantable MEAs, used in vitro. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1325-8171-6
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This book focuses on Image Transmission through MC-CDMA Channel in low SNR environment. The whole MC-CDMA system is composed of 5 main components which are the compressor, transmitter model, channel model, receiver model and decompressor. The system involves multi-user image transmission. The original image with PPM or PGM file extension is compressed by using JPEG2000 standards (Wavelet Image Compression). The compressed image is inserted into the digital system and the image data is transmitted through the system. The multi-user image data are received in the output of the receiver. Then this image goes to the decompressor. The multi-user image data are decompressed into an image with PPM or PGM file extension. The reconstructed image...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-0586-8
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The pricing problem in a multi-period setting is a challenging problem and has attracted much attention in recent years. In this book, we consider a monopoly and an oligopoly pricing problem. The products are assumed to be differentiated and substitutable. Each seller has the option to set prices for her products at each time period, and her goal is to find a pricing policy that will yield the maximum overall profit. In this book, we address both the uncertain and the competitive aspect of the problem. First, we study the uncertain aspect of the problem in a simplified setting, where there is only one seller and two periods in the model. We use ideas of robust optimization, adjustable robust optimization, dynamic programming and...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-1251-8
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MUSE (Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding), was a dot-interlaced digital video compression system that used analog modulation for transmission to deliver 1125-line high definition signals to the home. Japan had the earliest working HDTV system, which was named Hi-Vision (a contraction of HIgh-definition teleVISION) with design efforts going back to 1979. The country began broadcasting analog HDTV signals in the late 1980s using 1035 active lines interlaced in the standard 2:1 ratio (1035i) with 1125-lines total. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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In order to protect groundwater resources from pollution and to clean up contaminated sites, we should understand the fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface and physical-chemical-biological processes involving remediation. To enhance our understanding, numerical studies are performed on (i) multiphase flow and multispecies transport of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), (ii) biological transformations of contaminants, (iii) in-situ air sparging (IAS), and (iv) thermal enhanced venting in the subsurface. Among VOCs, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylenes, and vinyl chloride are chosen as target contaminants herein. The effects of density-driven advection of gas phase and biotransformation of contaminants on their fate and...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-9277-5
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Robots that are used to support humans in dangerous environments, e.g., in manufacture facilities are established for decades. Now, a new generation of service robots is focus of current research and about to be introduced. These intelligent service robots are intended to support humans in everyday life. Thus, it is imperative for the acceptance of such robots to provide interaction interfaces that we humans are accustomed to in comparison to human-human communication. Consequently, intuitive modalities like gestures or spontaneous speech are needed to teach the robot previously unknown objects and locations. Then, the robot can be entrusted with tasks like, fetch-and-carry orders even without an extensive training of the user. In this...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-9940-8
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The interest in designing high-speed communication systems over metallic wire conductors remains very strong. This interest is exemplified by efforts to deliver Very-high-speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) systems, Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile (EFM), multi-Gbps Ethernet over copper twisted pairs of short length, and multi-Gbps chip-to-chip serial links over cable or backplane traces. A prevailing characteristic of such systems is that multiple lines emanate from a central node and reach remote terminals. Crosstalk among the lines is in several cases the dominant constraining factor for communication. This work examines how coordination among signals of different lines during transmission or reception facilitates reliable, high-speed...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-2127-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Multicast addressing is a network technology for the delivery of information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of the network only once, creating copies only when the links to the multiple destinations split. The word "multicast" is typically used to refer to IP multicast which is often employed for streaming media and Internet television applications. In IP multicast the implementation of the multicast concept occurs at the IP routing level, where routers create optimal distribution paths for datagrams sent to a multicast destination address spanning tree in real-time. At the Data Link Layer, multicast describes...
ISBN: 978-6-1316-8776-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) capability which only allowed exchange of text messages up to 160 characters in length. The most popular use is to send photographs from camera-equipped handsets, although it is also popular as a method of delivering news and entertainment content including videos, pictures, text pages and ringtones. The standard is developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), although during development it was part of the 3GPP and WAP groups. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-0442-4
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This book presents a new formulation for the swarm optimization technique as a system of autonomous agents. The proposed technique is based on an intimate understanding of swarms and animal aggregations in an attempt to simulate cognitive thinking of their members. The dynamic balance between gregarious and social intolerance behaviors demonstrated by social animals is used to form the swarm and keep its persistence. In this work, members of the swarm are represented by agents that enjoy a certain degree of freewill to respond adaptively to changes on the states of their swarm mates. Adaptive responses are reflected on the way agents move inside the problem domain. A new set of basic behaviors is defined, namely imitation, memory...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-6416-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In radio, multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) is a set of advanced MIMO, multiple-input and multiple-output (pronounced mee-moh or my-moh), technologies that exploit the availability of multiple independent radio terminals in order to enhance the communication capabilities of each individual terminal. To contrast, single-user MIMO only considers access to the multiple antennas that are physically connected to each individual terminal. MU-MIMO can be seen as the extended concept of space-division multiple access (SDMA) which allows a terminal to transmit (or receive) signal to (or from) multiple users in the same band simultaneously. PU2RC is a fundamental and practical MU-MIMO technology for broadcast...
ISBN: 978-6-1316-8749-5
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Tissue engineering has been redefined as “the use of physical, chemical, biological and engineering processes to control and direct the aggregate behaviors of cells”.This offers tremendous opportunities for designing in vitro physiological models to study disease pathogenesis, inventing cell-based therapeutics in clinical applications and developing novel pharmaceutical methods for reducing the use of animals in drug testing. However, while using biomanufacturing processes, cells are subjected to an array of mechanical forces which may injure it. While experimental studies have been conducted for specific bio-fabrication systems to understand cell responses, an engineering model is also needed that can be used to predict the effect...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-9907-2
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The focus of this book is on developing user interfaces that identify and verify legitimate users in real-time due to their biometric characteristics. Face and hand geometry are the biometric identifiers that are used in the applications. Application programs using these biometric identifiers are developed in unimodal and multimodal cases. In this book, six Java applications are developed to capture users' hand and face images in real-time, to enroll, to verify and identify them. All of the applications are designed as wizard applications and are built upon the same scenario. In the face recognition, Gabor jets are used to extract feature values of the face images. Matching the person is done according to the Gabor based feature vectors....
ISBN: 978-3-6391-4774-2
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The combination of MIMO multiple antenna technique together with OFDM multi-carrier transmission promises to achieve high spectral efficiencies while setting moderate complexity demands on transmitter and receiver structures. In multi-user systems, the achievable throughput can be improved further by assigning the available system resources to the users experiencing favourable channel conditions. Based on this idea, the concept of channel-adaptive transmission for MIMO-OFDM has been developed, where the transmission is adapted to the current channel conditions. However, the time variant nature of the radio channels, which is caused by movement of the user terminals or by impairments in the transmission chain, may introduce severe...
ISBN: 978-3-8381-1056-1
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Today, with the assistance of information technology, market globalization can be realized. Nevertheless, manufacturing quality is still a decisive factor for global market competition, and exploring an effective statistical method for improving process quality in a complex manufacturing system is an issue. Yet, the impact of information technology on statistical process control has not been well recognized. Therefore, statistical quality technology in multistage process control and the impact of information technology on statistical process control are discussed. In this book, a method will be introduced and a set of guidelines will be proposed to improve the overall process capability in a multistage process. Two real case examples are...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-0322-2
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In this thesis, we have analyzed the subcarrier fading characteristics of multicarrier modulation (MCM) schemes such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA), under generalized frequency-selective fading conditions. We have also developed several approaches to simplify the analytical expressions of bit error rate (BER) performance, as well as to enhance the performance of OFDM and MC-CDMA systems with various equalization and combining schemes. A wide variety of frequency-selective fading channels containing different combinations of independent/correlated Rayleigh and Rician fading paths are then studied. The achievements stated in this thesis have contributed towards...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-9208-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mumbai Fire Brigade is responsible for the provision of fire protection in the City of Greater Mumbai as well as responding to building collapses, drowning cases, gas leakage, oil spillage, road and rail accidents, bird and animal rescues, fallen trees and taking appropriate action during natural calamities. The origins of the Fire Service in Bombay can be traced back to 1777 when Colonel Lee was allotted Rs. 4 per day "for his trouble of superintending the fire engines", which were hand-operated. Mumbai Fire Brigade was modelled on London Fire Brigade. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1307-9356-2
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