{"title":"Finite difference time domain solutions for the dielectric resonator antenna problems with different feeding signals","authors":"H. Elkamchouchi, Y.G. El-Kayar","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929160","url":null,"abstract":"With the great growth continuing in computers' power that is associated with a big growth in the numerical algorithms for solving radiation problems, the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method has taken its chance to demonstrate its power in simplifying the sophisticated radiation problems. In this research, the FDTD method is used, with suitable absorbing boundary conditions (ABC) and feeding model, to solve the dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) problems both in two dimensions (2D) and three dimensions (3D) using different shapes of the antennas and different types of the feeding signals including transient signals. The resultant electric field strengths and radiation patterns are obtained for these cases.","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":"122899223","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":"CDMA performance improvement through bias reduction using optimized partial parallel interference cancellation factor","authors":"A. Fawzy, M. Riad","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929213","url":null,"abstract":"In a CDMA system, the number of simultaneous users is a very important factor. So, a great number of researchers are interested in increasing the maximum available number of users for a given performance of a cellular system. To increase that number, multiple access interference (MAI) had to be cancelled. These cancellation techniques result in a bias term (BT) appearing in amplitude estimates after the cancellation process. The BT deviates the estimated values of amplitudes from their real mean, leading to a wrong decision. This paper introduces a new method to decrease the BT. Using the partial parallel interference cancellation (PPIC) factor, this factor is optimized against the bit error rate (BER). Also we show a comparison between BER of different types of sub-optimal receiver structures and PPIC with optimized factor F/sub g/. Finally, we compare the BER of 3-main categories of CDMA receivers: the conventional CDMA receiver, brute force cancellation with 2 stages and 3 stages, and PPIC with optimized factor F, with 2 stages and 3 stages. We can say that the use of PPIC with optimized factor is a very good technique to decrease the BER and increase the number of simultaneous users for a given system's parameters.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"542 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":"134198106","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":"Simple closed-form solution for normalized current distribution and scattered field pattern for straight wires","authors":"M. Fahmy, I. Eshrah, M. Khalaf","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929205","url":null,"abstract":"A simple expression has been developed for the normalized current distribution and hence the scattered field pattern for a straight wire subject to an electromagnetic wave incident at arbitrary angle. Although the expression is approximate, the obtained current distribution and subsequent field pattern are generally in good agreement with results obtained by the sophisticated moment method.","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":"116338144","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":"Nonlinear cumulant based adaptive filter for simultaneous removal of Gaussian and impulsive noises in images","authors":"H. M. Ibrahim, R. Gharieb, A. H. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929235","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an edge-preserving higher order statistics (HOS) based filter called nonlinear cumulant based adaptive filter (NCBAF) for noise suppression in images. The NCBAF algorithm combines the linear (averaging) characteristics of the two-dimensional cumulant based adaptive enhancer (2DCBAE) and the nonlinear characteristics of the median filter. The proposed algorithm allows the simultaneous removal of impulsive and Gaussian noise types in images, processed in a single filtering pass. The performance of the proposed method is compared to the commonly used median filter and the 2DCBAE.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"68 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":"122124867","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":"Two-dimensional generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) with partial adaptivity","authors":"I. Salem, H. A. Hanafy, A. Moufid","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929162","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the problem of designing a generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) using the two-dimensional rectangular array. This work extends the cross-spectral metric (CSM) for subspace selection and dimensionality reduction to partially adaptive 2-D sensor array processing. Our results demonstrated that the CSM results in a low-dimensional processor which provides nearly optimal performance, as compared to the full adaptive direct form processor. In addition, less cost, complexity, and processing time are achieved with the partially adaptive 2-D GSC for practical considerations.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"83 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":"125989200","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":"Study of limitations on pixel size of very high resolution image sensors","authors":"E. Eid","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929154","url":null,"abstract":"The employment of small pixel size is very crucial to the physical implementation of very high resolution CMOS APS image sensors. This is because of the restriction imposed by the required lithography method utilized in modern sub-micron CMOS fabrication processes on the size of the image sensor chip. Furthermore, the cost of a CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) image sensor chip substantially goes down as the pixel size goes down, whether the image sensor chip is very high resolution or not. However, there exist several optical limitations on the pixel size that make it imprudent to further reduce the pixel size beyond those limitations. A major limitation on the reduction of pixel size is that pixel sensitivity is significantly reduced as pixel size goes down. One may take refuge in using low f-number optics to allow more photons into the pixel to compensate for the reduced sensitivity of the small pixel. However, the employment of low f-number optics is associated with high cost, which may offset the low cost advantage of image sensor chips that have small pixels. Additionally, low f-number optics may introduce undesirable aberrations. Another major limitation on the reduction of pixel size is that cross-talk is considerably increased as the pixel size is decreased. Keeping cross-talk low is very critical to the proper operation of an image sensor, particularly color image sensors.","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":"130014929","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":"Capacity occupation strategy for data messaging over non-geostationary mobile satellite communication systems","authors":"Nawal A. El-fishawy, S. Khamis","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929401","url":null,"abstract":"Considerable interest has been focused on the possibility of employing a large number of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide an overall global coverage. Capacity estimation of different LEO satellite constellations is derived in terms of satellite altitude and traffic offered. A capacity occupation strategy is proposed for the transmission of both telephone and wireless data messaging over LEO satellite channels. Telephone calls are treated on a blocked calls cleared basis, while data messages are treated on a blocked calls delayed system with infinite and finite queue length. Performance metrics are obtained as a function of the blocking probability of both telephone and data traffic, average delay time and average queue length of data messages at different ratios of telephone to data traffic.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"36 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":"130788120","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}
H. Masui, M. Ishii, K. Sakawa, H. Shimizu, T. Kobayashi, M. Akaike
{"title":"Spatio-temporal channel characteristics at base station in microwave urban propagation","authors":"H. Masui, M. Ishii, K. Sakawa, H. Shimizu, T. Kobayashi, M. Akaike","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929420","url":null,"abstract":"Propagation measurements were performed in an urban area at 8.45 GHz. We examined the delay and angle spread characteristic of the main arrival wave at the base-station receiving antenna. The delay spread (/spl sigma//sub d/) tends to increase with the angle spread (/spl sigma//sub main/spl phi//). Both /spl sigma//sub main/spl phi// and /spl sigma//sub d/ in the line-of-sight (LOS) environments were smaller than those in the non-LOS (NLOS) environments. /spl sigma//sub d/ in the NLOS environments was greater than that at locations with the same angle spread in the LOS environments. /spl sigma//sub main/spl phi// in the LOS environments did not depend on the distance between the transmitter and receiver. Likewise, in the NLOS environments, if did not depend on the distance between the corner and receiver.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"20 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":"127776055","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":"Design and development of an annotated ECG database","authors":"M.A. Azim, F. Abou-Chadi, H. Bakr, H. H. Soliman","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929425","url":null,"abstract":"Annotated databases are used in the evaluation and testing of the performance of electrocardiographic (ECG) processing and data compression algorithms. They help greatly in testing and evaluating new developed systems, as they require proper validation of their performance. The present work documents the design and development of an annotated, single-channel digital ECG database. The procedures for forming the annotated database consist of five processing steps. The first step is to eliminate the different types of noise interfered with the ECG signals using digital filters. The second step is the detection of QRS-complexes. The third step is to extract quantitative parameters identifying different ECG signals. The fourth step is the classification process in which the ECG beats are classified into different categories. The last step is the annotation process: each beat is given a specific symbol. Since the formation of the database itself has significant effect on the measured performance of the system under investigation, efficient techniques that give the highest performance must be selected for each of the mentioned processing steps. The developed database is similar to the known AHA database. It consists of fifty-five records, each of period of 10 minutes and is recorded on 1.44\" floppy diskettes. The database contains five categories of ECG records: (1) ventricular arrhythmia, (2) atrial fibrillation/flutter, (3) ischaemic heart disease, (4) ECG test compression database, and (5) pacemakers. The developed database is a preliminary version for developing a complete Egyptian annotated database.","PeriodicalId":123517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'2001 (IEEE Cat. No.01EX462)","volume":"20 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":"134085432","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 concatenated turbo-trellis coded modulation for mobile satellite channels","authors":"R. El-Swady, M.A. Bahie Eldin, L. F. Gergis","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2001.929394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2001.929394","url":null,"abstract":"A new family of parallel and serial concatenated concatenated codes is presented. Turbo trellis-coded modulation (T-TCM) is considered for combining turbo codes with multilevel modulation schemes to save the bandwidth of the transmission channel and to obtain a good performance for various distortions. The scheme has been investigated for a combined BFSK/QPSK modulation scheme on a mobile satellite channel with varying the length of the interleaver which links the two recursive systematic codes. The proposed technique is compared with the conventional trellis coded modulation scheme, and it is demonstrated that T-TCM performs much better than other known coded modulation schemes for the particular type of channel.","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":"134041650","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}