{"title":"B16. Effect of mutual coupling on the performance of four elements microstrip antenna array fed by a Butler matrix","authors":"M. Aldemerdash, A. Abdin, A. Mitkees, H. Elmikati","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208516","url":null,"abstract":"Detailed design of a four element microstrip antenna array fed by a Butler matrix is presented. The proposed structure represents a switched-beam smart antenna system working in the ISM band at 2.45 GHz. To compensate for mutual coupling effects, a four-arm spiral electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure is inserted between adjacent microstrip patches. The four-arm spiral EBG structure provides 40% reduction in size compared with the conventional mushroom EBG structure. The antenna gain with and without EBG substrate is evaluated taking into account the effect of mutual coupling. It is found that the use of four-arm spiral EBG substrate reduces the mutual coupling by (3-17) dB between the patches. This is useful in improving the accuracy of the direction of the main beam of the array. Moreover, this improves the gain by a small value of 0.25 dB. Simulation of the antenna system is carried out using Ansoft Designer software V4.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116272768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"K4. Gene network construction and pathways analysis for high throughput microarrays","authors":"N. A. Samee, N. Solouma, Y. Kadah","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208578","url":null,"abstract":"The key idea discussed in this paper is to infer gene regulatory network from high throughput microarray data for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). Working with such huge number of genes is a complex process. So, our framework for inferring gene interactions from large scale microarrays is based on a selected set of informative genes. We applied two measures of dependencies between genes: Correlation and mutual information. Therefore, two types of networks were constructed: Co-expression network and Mutual information network. Some Mutual information network inference algorithms: Context Likelihood of Relatedness (CLR), Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Accurate Cellular Networks (ARACNE), and Minimum Redundancy Network (MRNET) were applied. A proposed method for simplifying the complex structure of the inferred network is introduced using the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) which provides a better visual interpretation of the constructed networks. From the constructed networks we were able to identify a set of functional gene modules. These modules were validated using the Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment. The GO enrichment analysis has proven the strength of the ARACNE inference algorithm over all other employed algorithms. Moreover, a comparison was carried out between the Mutual information network inference and the well known Bayesian inference. To establish this comparison, specific pathways in HCC were rather chosen. These pathways were tested for their significance using singular value decomposition. According to this comparison, again the ARACNE showed better results.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"18 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113962372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"B3. Compact and broadband left handed CPW power divider/combiner for C/X bands","authors":"M. Abdalla, Zhirun Hu","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208503","url":null,"abstract":"A compact and broadband three-port left handed coplanar waveguide power divider is presented. The left handed power divider is designed using a simple left handed T junction. The left-handed T junction power divider/combiner has the advantages of its broadband (2.5 times wider bandwidth) and compact size (50% size reduction at the mid frequency) compared to conventional T junction. The theory of left handed power divider is introduced and the detailed design procedures were explained. Finally, the design is validated using electromagnetic full simulations. The results confirm the power division and compactness of the proposed compact device.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125170917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C46. Robust beamforming in multi-users cognitive radio system","authors":"B. Nagy, M. Elsabrouty, S. Elramly","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208564","url":null,"abstract":"In cognitive radio (CR) networks with multi-antenna links, secondary users (SUs) can transmit over the same spectrum as primary users (PUs) with the condition that the SUs interference must not exceed a certain level on PUs. Our target is to provide the SUs with a minimum acceptable quality-of-service (QoS), while keeping the interference to the PUs below a given threshold. However, it is not easy to know the channel state information on the links to PUs, thus uncertainty should be considered on those links. In this paper we present a study of the optimal transmit beamforming weights of the SUs network in the presence of uncertainty on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) PU links that is modeled by two different methods. Moreover the two models of the problem are solved using semidefinite programming (SDP) optimization technique and they are both compared to a previous model using computer simulations.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114848658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C33. Performance evaluation of chaotic interleaving with FFT and DWT OFDM","authors":"Z. A. Hamid, A. El-Henawy, H. El-Shenawy","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208551","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new interleaving scheme for efficient data transmission with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) over fading channels. This approach is based on the chaotic Baker map. The binary data is interleaved with the proposed approach prior to the modulation step. In addition to reducing the channel effects on the transmitted data, the proposed chaotic interleaving approach adds a degree of encryption to the transmitted data. The performance of the proposed approach is tested on the Discrete Wavelet Transform OFDM (DWT-OFDM) and the conventional Fast Fourier Transform OFDM (FFT-OFDM) with and without chaotic interleaving. The proposed system comprises Frequency-Domain Equalization (FDE) to obtain high diversity gains over frequency selective multi-path fading channels. The simulation results show that the DWT-OFDM system implementing the new interleaving scheme provides better Bit Error Rate (BER) performance than the FFT-OFDM system.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121426524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C30. Enhancement of OFDM modulation and adaptive array beamforming using discrete wavelet transform","authors":"S. El-Khamy, M. Shokry","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208548","url":null,"abstract":"The adaptive array antenna is combined with OFDM \"orthogonal frequency division multiplexing\" as multicarrier technique to combat the flat and frequency selective fading effects at high speed wireless communication. It is well known in OFDM that a cyclic prefix (CP) is appended to each symbol in order to mitigate the effect of InterSymbol Interference (ISI). However, this reduces the spectral efficiency. A perfect reconstruction using discrete wavelet transmultiplexer in OFDM transceiver counters the degrading effect of ISI, and also conserves bandwidth. A discrete wavelet transform-based least mean square (WLMS) adaptive beamformer is presented in this paper, this beamformer uses wavelet transform to reduce the signal dimension in wavelet domain for low complexity and denoising. Theoretical analysis and simulations demonstrate this algorithm with better beamforming performance which converges faster than the conventional adaptive beamformer.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125758849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"D5. Wideband tunable MEMS phase shifters for radar phased array antenna","authors":"A. K. Aboul-Seoud, A. Hamed, A. Hafez","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208570","url":null,"abstract":"A wideband tunable MicroElectroMechanical System (MEMS) phase shifter is proposed for radar phased array antenna. A tuning circuit is added to modulate a narrow band phase shifter to achieve a bandwidth of about 200 MHz at 3 GHz central frequency which is suitable for radar applications. RF capacitors, inductors, and resistors are selected and optimized for the tuning circuit to achieve a phase response suitable at the pre-mentioned bandwidth. The overall phase response of the phase shifter is an algebraic sum of the narrow band phase shifter and the tuning circuit phase responses. The phase shifter is designed, simulated and tested using Advanced Design System (ADS) software either with or without using tuning circuits. This type of phase shifters can give high performance and resolution at a bandwidth 20 times wider than the normal switched line phase shifter.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128231697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"B5. Ultra wideband patch antenna and power amplifier transmitter front end","authors":"L. Khalaf, M. Abdelazeez","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208505","url":null,"abstract":"An ultra wideband (UWB) transmitter front end (RFE) consisting of UWB circular patch antenna and an UWB GaAs common source (CS) power amplifier (PA) for the frequency range 3 to 10 GHz is presented. The patch antenna covers most of the UWB range and has an area of 30×30 squared mm. The UWB patch antenna has a return loss below 10 dB from 3 to 9 GHz, simulated with a port of 50 Ohm impedance. Since the PA and antenna both have variable impedance, the matching is performed simultaneously. The antenna impedance is directly matched to the PA using optimization algorithms. The transmitted power from the antenna is simulated with a variation around 2 dB over the entire frequency range. The PA has a gain varying from 15 to 30 dB to compensate for the antenna impedance variation.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130931738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C1. Performance evaluation of MC-DS-CDMA system in presence of modulated narrowband interference","authors":"A. Samy, A. El-Mahdy, K. El-barbary, A. Hanafy","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208519","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with a multicarrier direct sequence code division multiple access (MC-DS-CDMA) system operating over a Rayleigh fading and sharing common spectrum with multi binary phase shift keying narrowband interference (BPSK NBI). A suppression filter is employed in each subband of the MC-DS-CDMA receiver to reduce the NBI. A complete performance analysis is provided. The analysis shows that, the suppression filter can improve the MC-DS-CDMA system performance significantly. It is also illustrated that under the effect of multi BPSK NBI the double sided filter outperforms the single sided filter at small values of the signal to interference power ratio and at the same number of taps. Moreover, it is shown that, increasing the number of taps of the double sided suppression filter to be more than nine taps increases the complexity of the filter and does not add any performance gain to the system.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127112220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"K6. Circular binary segmentation modeling of array CGH data on hepatocellular carcinoma","authors":"E. Hashem, M. Mabrouk, A. Sharawy","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2012.6208580","url":null,"abstract":"Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a malignant tumor derived from hepatocytes that belong to primary malignant epithelial tumors of the liver. The outcome of HCC patients still remains dismal due to the difficulty in detecting the disease at its early stage. We propose a new approach aiming to identify new biomarkers for early diagnosis of HCC. Genomic DNA copy number alterations (CNAs) are associated with complex diseases like HCC. Array-based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (a-CGH) is a technique used to identify copy number changes in genomic DNA. We use a statistical model based on a circular binary segmentation (CBS) algorithm. Our approach makes use of a median absolute deviation model to separate outliers from their surrounding segments. We tested 35 samples of HCC patients on specific chromosome regions, then applied CBS algorithm to detect genomic DNA alternations in copy number. Our results show that a gain of 1q was detected in 63% and a gain of 20q was detected in 26% of HCC cases. Also, a loss of 4q was detected in 3%, a loss of 13q was detected in 29%, loss in 16q was detected in 9%, and loss of 17q was detected in 3% of HCC cases.","PeriodicalId":109281,"journal":{"name":"2012 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125690493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}