{"title":"A study of satellite channel utilization in the presence of rain attenuation in Florida","authors":"K. Karimi, V. Aalo, H. Helmken","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324296","url":null,"abstract":"Rain attenuation is the most dominant cause of signal degradation in satellite links operating at Ka-band. This is a particularly serious issue for ground terminal stations located in a sub-tropical region such as state of Florida. Presently, most rain compensation algorithms are based on the use of a fixed, large fade margin to combat occasional deep fades. However, the use of a fixed margin, especially for a rainy region, results in an inefficient use of channel capacity for a high percentage of the time. This paper uses an adaptive rain fade counter-measure based on the effective utilization of the channel capacity for several Florida locations with links operating in the Ka-band. In order to determine the outage rates both in terms of channel capacity and BER, Manning's (1990) rain attenuation prediction model, based on the rain history of the transmitting and receiving stations has been employed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123216396","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":"VLSI design of a bus arbitration module for the 68000 series of microprocessors","authors":"E. Ososanya, M. McGlone, T. D. Strong","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324344","url":null,"abstract":"Modern computer systems often are designed around a bus architecture. This, of course eliminates the need for complete point-to-point interconnection of all the devices attached to the bus. The major hurdle to this system is in resolving the conflicts that arise when more than one device wants to use the bus to communicate at a time. The job of resolving such conflicts is left to bus arbitration circuitry. A system designer using the MC68000 family is in some luck. This series of microprocessors has a limited set of lines built in to allow for external circuitry to request and receive the bus from the processor. However, having given up the bus the processor does nothing to decide who receives the bus next. This is left to external arbitration circuitry. This paper describes a VLSI chip designed to perform bus arbitration for the Motorola MC68000 series of microprocessors. With such a module, several devices (such as DMA, I/O controllers, and multiple microprocessors) can share a single bus while our device handles all bus conflicts using a priority scheme. The device is flexible, programmable, and compatible with the MC68000 family's bus architecture and their support chips.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125424847","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":"Performance of selection diversity systems in a Nakagami fading environment","authors":"R. Sannegowda, V. Aalo","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324295","url":null,"abstract":"Closed form results for the symbol error probabilities are derived for M-ary, L branch selection diversity system in a Nakagami fading environment using noncoherent frequency-shift keying modulation. The maximum SNR selection and the maximum output selection schemes are considered. The analysis is not limited to integer values of the Nakagami fading parameter m. Results for the Rayleigh fading channel are obtained and presented as special cases of those of the Nakagami fading model. The symbol error probability when the diversity branches undergo different fading statistics with unequal mean SNR are considered for the maximum SNR selection scheme. Outage probabilities are also calculated for the maximum SNR selection scheme.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"27 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123578310","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":"DSP based control of switched reluctance motors","authors":"R. Samudio, P. Pillay","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324278","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the design of a DSP-based control of a switched reluctance motor. A TMS320E15 Digital Signal Processor is used to control the conduction angle for each phase as well as the phase current. The conduction for each phase is synchronized with the rotor position by using an optical encoder shaft position sensor. Stator current control is achieved using a hysteresis current controller. Schematics and practical measurements are provided.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132387134","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":"Partitioned schemes of mapping neural networks onto mesh connected computers","authors":"P. Liu, L. Martinez","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324329","url":null,"abstract":"Two new mapping methods for implementing neural networks on parallel mesh-connected processors are given. These are the rectangular region based mapping method and the no zero weight value mapping method. Implementation and performance comparisons with another existing method are carried out. One of these three methods can be used depending on system and problem parameters.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131074704","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":"Classification of periodic patterns using Hough transform","authors":"J. Campos, T. Kasparis","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324337","url":null,"abstract":"Texture is an important characteristic in an image, and it is used to identify objects or regions of interest within an image. The problem of texture classification has been widely studied and most of the proposed techniques fall into two categories: statistical or structural. In this paper, a structural approach based on the Hough method for line detection is proposed for the description of periodic textures that consist of mostly straight lines. The features used for the classification procedure are based on the relative orientations and separations of lines. With the proper normalizations, classification is independent of geometrical transformations such as rotation, translation and/or scaling. This approach provides more unique features compared to other approaches. Experimental results with test patterns are presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131175052","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":"Management and technical issues in a Pentium-based server development project","authors":"G. T. Troskey","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324353","url":null,"abstract":"IBM recently announced its PS/2 Server 95 based on the Pentium microprocessor. This paper provides a technical description of the product's architecture and technology. It then goes beyond that to also describe some of the nontechnical issues that were involved in the concept, design and development stages of the project. It is asserted that companies are world-class to the degree that they master all of the critical success factors, both technical and business.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133848901","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":"A new method for unit ramp rate processing in Lagrangian relaxation unit commitment","authors":"W. L. Peterson, S. R. Brammer, S.O. Elder","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324302","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Lagrangian relaxation based technique for solving the power system thermal unit commitment problem. The specific technique described in this paper focuses on finding a feasible commitment, then attempting to improve on the optimality of the solution. A new method for processing ramp rate constraints is also introduced. The algorithm has been implemented on a large scale power system.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116405097","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":"Spectral domain analysis of coupled microstrip transmission lines","authors":"J. Bagby","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324297","url":null,"abstract":"A full-wave spectral-domain integral equation formulation is used to analyze coupled open boundary microstrip transmission lines. A general rigorous formulation is specialized to the case of two identical uniform lines and a method of moments (MOM) solution is implemented. In contrast with earlier subdomain basis MOM solutions, entire-domain basis functions which incorporate appropriate edge conditions for transverse and longitudinal current components are utilized. This allows closed-term evaluation of relevant spatial integrals and results in improved accuracy using far fewer terms. Extensions of earlier results, including characteristic impedances, propagation constants and current distributions are presented for the dominant and first two higher-order coupled modes, and compare favorably to results of other techniques.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131622892","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":"Evolution of multi-valley electron distributions in GaAs","authors":"R. Chennupati, M. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1994.324355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1994.324355","url":null,"abstract":"An approach based on the physical evolution of the distribution function in the energy relaxation scale is used to study multi-valley distribution functions of electrons in GaAs subjected to a rapid change in electric field. This approach, which assumes the distribution can be determined by mean energy, is able to describe transport phenomena, including inter-valley transitions, in the scale as small as the energy relaxation time. Results show that, near the peak of velocity overshoot and bottom of undershoot in the /spl Gamma/ valley, the energy-dependent distribution cannot respond as fast as the distribution obtained from Monte Carlo method. This results in less pronounced overshoot and undershoot in the /spl Gamma/ valley when using the introduced approach than using the Monte Carlo method. However, in the L valley, overshoot and undershoot are not pronounced, and these two approaches are in very good agreement.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":119615,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON '94","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132994219","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}