{"title":"Thinned multi-ring arrays using genetic algorithms","authors":"S. El-Khamy, M. Lotfy, M. H. Ramadan, A. El-Tayeb","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929177","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetic optimization problems generally involve a large number of parameters. Traditional optimization methods are not well suited for optimizing a large number of discrete parameter. This paper focuses on a relatively new approach to optimization, namely, the generic algorithm (GA). Thinning of large antenna arrays is an example of sophisticated multi-parameter optimization problems. In addition to reducing cost and complexity, thinning (randomizing) removes the periodicity in the array excitation and hence results in the cancellation of grating lobes and the possible reduction of sidelobes of the array. This paper deals with the optimal thinning of large planar arrays of the original multi-ring structure using genetic algorithms. The genetic algorithm determines which elements are turned off in a periodic ring array to yield the lowest maximum relative sidelobe level. As an example the paper describes simulation of the proposed technique for a 64-element ring area. The considered original ring array is considered to be excited by two aperture techniques sampling methods described in a previous work. The results shows that the thinned ring array enjoys much lower sidelobe levels, and hence are of great engineering importance.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122786476","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":"Statistical multiplexing gain: direct estimation and its application to admission control in ATM networks","authors":"G. Khalaf, S.S.K. El-Yamany","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929407","url":null,"abstract":"A new approach to determining the admissibility of a new call request in a buffered ATM network is developed. In this approach, all traffic presented to the network is assumed to be statistically multiplexed sources. This leads to statistical interactions among different traffic sources. The extent of multiplexing gain (spare capacity) is efficiently estimated and the bandwidth (resource) allocation is traded off in an optimal call admission control policy. The algorithms presented in this paper are tested by simulation and their effectiveness is investigated.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125284539","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":"Modified back propagation algorithm for learning artificial neural networks","authors":"W. Ahmed, E. Saad, E. Aziz","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929244","url":null,"abstract":"Back Propagation is now the most widely used tool in tile field of artificial neural networks. Many attempts try to enhance this algorithm to get minimum mean square error, less training time and small number of epochs. This paper first reviews the disadvantages of the Back Propagation algorithm. Next, the new modified back propagation is explained. Finally, comparison between the two algorithms is made through many examples.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125426191","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":"Helical antennas with nonuniform helix diameter","authors":"H. Elkamchouchi, A. Salem","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929187","url":null,"abstract":"On this paper the helical antenna is considered with different helix diameters, uniform, linear, exponential and logarithmic diameter variations are considered. In each case, the radiation fields in the principal planes, the gains, axial ratio and current distributions are obtained. Also the input impedance is calculated as the frequency varies around the design values for each case. In all cases the pitch is taken constant. The numerical evaluations indicate that the exponential helix gives better performance.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126567073","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":"Dipole enhanced characteristics using nonconventional metallic reflectors","authors":"H. Elkamchouchi, M. N. Abd El-Salam","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929190","url":null,"abstract":"The earliest cellular antennas were fairly simple radiation platforms such as omnis, corner reflectors and panel antennas. In these halcyon days of low subscriber densities, seemingly infinite available bandwidth (courtesy of the single PSTN-owned carrier philosophy) and humble subscriber demands, these simple antennas fared well. A number of factors changed all this in the late eighties. The mass appeal of the mobile market started to bite, dramatically increasing subscriber densities. The era of the single PSTN-owned cellular operator drew to a close, heralding a new age of competitive deregulation, with multiple operators each allowed a specific narrow spectrum. Network planners began to feel the squeeze. To meet new network demands, entirely new antennas systems were required-antennas with improved flexibility, more precise cell coverage and reduced total cost. In this paper the radiation characteristics of simple antenna forms i.e. dipoles were highly improved using non-conventional reflectors. Consequently any antennas used in base stations that can be mounted with the same technique can be highly improved with a relatively low cost.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133774527","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 code division multiple access (CDMA) systems in Nakagami multipath fading channel","authors":"S. Elnoubi, A. Hashem","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929215","url":null,"abstract":"Multicarrier CDMA system is characterized by a simpler receiver structure than the conventional RAKE receiver. Most of previous studies evaluated the performance of the MC-CDMA system in a Rayleigh multipath fading channel. This paper compares the performance of a RAKE receiver and MC-CDMA system in a Nakagami multipath fading. The Nakagami model, known as the m-distribution model, is a generalized model as it includes Gaussian, Rayleigh and Rice fading as special cases by changing the Nakagami parameter m. On the other hand, the Nakagami model has been shown by many in the literature to be the closest model to the indoor mobile radio channel. According to our analysis, we found that the MC-CDMA system outperforms the practical RAKE receiver, in which the number of RAKE fingers is less than the maximum resolvable paths of the channel. Moreover, the MC-CDMA system outperforms the RAKE receiver in lower diffusive channels.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126969690","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":"DCT and DWT feature extraction and ANN classification based technique for non-destructive testing of materials","authors":"F. Zaki, M. Abd Elnaby, I. Elshafiey, A. Ashour","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929156","url":null,"abstract":"Eddy current (EC) nondestructive testing (NDT) based on probe impedance and magnetic flux density in the defect regions is considered in this work. For this a numerical model is introduced for the development of the EC-NDT system using 3D finite element analysis. This model is used to simulate the material defects and prepares the data required for computer simulation of the EC-NDT system. The image data for three types of cracks in two types of materials are processed by discrete cosine (DCT) and discrete wavelet (DWT) transforms for feature extraction. Depending on the extracted features, the defects are classified using artificial neural network. A series of computer simulation experiments are carried out to assess the performance. 100% correct crack identification is achieved.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116757123","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":"Fixed channel allocation handover strategies in LEO satellite systems","authors":"M. Riad, M. Elsokkary","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929400","url":null,"abstract":"For the UMTS scenario, some of the satellite components will be based on non-geostationary satellites. This mobile system will have global coverage and should aim at providing the same QoS as for fixed terrestrial networks. In a non-geostationary satellite system where cells are fixed with respect to the satellite, handover requests are frequent during the lifetime of a call. In this paper we present some strategies in order to guarantee the success of the handover procedure. An analytical approach is developed to evaluate the impact of blocking, handover failures and forced terminations.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129848023","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":"Efficient satellite orbit determination algorithm","authors":"M. El-Mahy","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929219","url":null,"abstract":"Satellites as they cross the night sky look like moving stars, which can be accurately tracked by an observer with binoculars as well as by giant radars and large cameras. In this paper, the iterated extended Kalman filter (IEKF) is applied to the problem of satellite orbit determination for a low altitude (300 km), nearly circular (e=0.0003), orbit with an inclination of 50/spl deg/. The satellite is subject to significant perturbing accelerations. The performance, accuracy, efficiency, estimation errors, and prediction errors of the algorithm are calculated using actual satellite tracking data obtained from ground based radars.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129735079","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":"Analysis of electromagnetic absorption in the human head for mobile telephone using the method of moments (MoM) and generalized multipole technique (GMT)","authors":"A. Hassanin","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929423","url":null,"abstract":"A numerically efficient technique combining the method of moments (MoM) and the generalised multipole technique (GMT) is developed to determine the electromagnetic field induced inside biological bodies. A tensor integral equation for the electric field inside the body is derived and solved numerically for various biological models. MoM treats the source and biological bodies, while GMT takes the influence of the smooth dielectric body into account. The results obtained are combined with Green's functions in closed form. A multi system is built using a simulation model of a human head. It is able to measure the electric field and determine the absorbed power, SAR can be determined using the dosimetric assessment system (DASY). Applying special software, it can obtain the form of the harmful emissions.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124782201","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}