{"title":"Analysis of diffraction loss in NLOS small cell backhaul links deployed in urban canyons","authors":"B. Malila, O. Falowo, N. Ventura","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313755","url":null,"abstract":"The dense deployment of low cost small cell access networks in urban areas has generally been accepted as a solution to the capacity and coverage problem in 5G access networks. This deployment strategy has however, resulted in the need for high capacity, low cost backhaul systems. Millimeter-wave (mmW) technologies with inherent Gbps capacity are currently being considered as possible solutions. However, like all wireless systems deployed in urban, mmW backhaul solutions will require clear line-of-sight for proper operation. The systems must also have autonomous capabilities to achieve the scalability and flexibility expected of 5G transport systems. Recent measurement campaigns have shown that usable links based on diffracted signals are achievable under non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions in urban environments. In our earlier work, an intelligent NLOS SCB system which uses diffracted signals has been proposed. In this paper we study existing propagation models for urban environments. We use the Single Knife Edge Diffraction (SKED) model to predict diffraction loss on the propagation path due to knife edge obstructions for street level to roof top NLOS SCB links. Using ideal SKED parameter values to be used in the design and optimization of typical NLOS SCB systems, a numerical analysis of the effect of varying these parameters on diffraction loss is carried out. The results obtained show that the model can be used in the development of algorithms for SCB radio devices with cognitive and self-organizing capabilities. Future work will involve the development of such algorithms using Genetic Algorithm.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115148257","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":"Interference problems expected when solid-state marine radars will come into widespread use","authors":"G. Galati, G. Pavan, F. D. Palo","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313803","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing environmental consciousness and the better attention being paid to the primary resources (especially oil and raw materials) is one of the main drivers of the increase in vessel traffic. Moreover, sea shipping is characterized by a good delivery rate and by affordable operating costs in comparison with other transport means, i.e. by road, rail or air. For this reasons, the continuous increase of vessel traffic requires a high degree of control and an adequate assistance to the navigation, in order to ensure safety, reduction of risks for the environment, as well as an efficient, quick and comfortable navigation. The paper describes the evolution of the marine radar systems pointing out the advantages and the potential drawbacks due to the implementation of solid state technology in the incoming, new generation solid-state, high duty cycle marine radars.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124464002","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}
I. Fondón, Jose Francisco Valverde, A. Sarmiento, Q. Abbas, S. Jiménez, P. Alemany
{"title":"Automatic optic cup segmentation algorithm for retinal fundus images based on random forest classifier","authors":"I. Fondón, Jose Francisco Valverde, A. Sarmiento, Q. Abbas, S. Jiménez, P. Alemany","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313693","url":null,"abstract":"Glaucoma is an eye disease that constitutes the second cause of blindness over the world. Although it cannot be cured, its progression may be prevented if it is early detected. Expert ophthalmologists use as a sign of suffering from the disease, the evaluation of the relationship between optic disc and cup areas in retinal fundus images and, therefore, image processing techniques applied to glaucoma has become an emerging research line. This paper presents a novel technique for the detection of the optic cup in retinal fundus images, which may be included in a glaucoma computer aided diagnosis tool. The method, based on a color space related to human perception and adapted to surrounding conditions, JCh from CIECAM 02 (International Commission on Illumination Color Appearance Model), utilizes a random forest classifier to obtain cup edge pixels. As vessels tend to bend in the edge of the cup, the classifier does not consider all the pixels in the image. In fact, only those belonging to vessels and possessing the highest curvature among their neighbors are taken into account. Another prior knowledge used in the proposed method is the fact that cup area usually posses a bright yellow color. Therefore the feature vector serving as an input for the classifier is made with the curvature, the color of the candidate pixel and its location relative to the OD center. Finally, a basic post processing is performed to join the selected pixels with a smooth curve. The method has been tested in a publicly available database, GlaucomaRepo, from where we used 35 images for training and 55 for test. Five numerical parameters were calculated and a comparison against three color spaces was performed. The results obtained indicate the effectiveness of the approach.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116776760","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":"SCOPE: A Multi-Agent system tool for supply chain network analysis","authors":"Roberto Domínguez, S. Cannella, J. Framiñan","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313688","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents SCOPE, a novel Multi-Agent modelling and simulation platform specifically designed to emulate and study complex supply chains. SCOPE allows the user to create supply chains of any size, defining customers and providers for each company, without limiting assumptions on random variables of the production-distribution and delivery system. In order to show the benefits of this platform, we also present a practical example of how SCOPE can overcome limitations of other classical methods for supply analysis.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124836644","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}
O. Chubykalo-Fesenko, P. Nieves, U. Atxitia, T. Ostler, R. Chantrell
{"title":"Optimising materials for energy-efficient all-optical magnetic switching","authors":"O. Chubykalo-Fesenko, P. Nieves, U. Atxitia, T. Ostler, R. Chantrell","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313753","url":null,"abstract":"The all-optimal magnetic switching is a promising phenomenon to push forward the speed of the magnetic recording. This switching with linearly polarized lasers has been shown to have a pure thermodynamical origin and received the name of thermally induced magnetization switching (TIMS). TIMS has enormous potential for reduction of the energy consumption. It has been shown to occur in antiferromagnetically coupled alloys and heterostructures. Here we discuss the criteria for the TIMS to occur. Based on this criterium we discuss possible optimization of materials with respect to the rare-earth content and the dynamics of electron and phonon systems.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124901505","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":"Stator inductance matrix diagonalization algorithms for different multi-phase winding schemes of round-rotor electric machines part I. theory","authors":"A. Tessarolo, L. Branz, M. Bortolozzi","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313776","url":null,"abstract":"The stator winding of multi-phase machines can be designed according to different schemes, which differ by either the number or the spatial arrangement of phases. For control and analysis purposes, it is often useful that the stator inductance matrix is reduced to a diagonal form. This allows for the multiphase machine to be split into independently-controllable systems and directly leads to stator harmonic impedance determination. Simple and compact diagonalization algorithms are established in this paper covering all possible multi-phase schemes of practical importance with a unified approach, under the hypothesis of uniform air-gap and negligible magnetic saturation. In a companion paper, All the proposed equations are experimentally assessed though dedicated tests on several multiphase winding schemes.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115569795","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":"Femtocell power control scheme based on the maximum frame utilization technique","authors":"Buglow Ally Asgaar, V. Bassoo","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313749","url":null,"abstract":"Femtocells are foreseen as the future of indoor environments. As femtocells are user-installed devices, subscribers will be more interested in acquiring them. Nonetheless, femtocells come with their challenges and one of the main problem associated with femtocells is interference. Interference can occur between macrocells and femtocells (cross-tier) or amidst femtocells (co-tier). This paper proposes a power control scheme which attempts at mitigating both co-tier and cross-tier interference. The benefit of this scheme is the significant reduction in the femtocell transmit power particularly at low traffic load. In contrast, to previous power control schemes, 100% and 76% decrease in the transmitting power of the femtocell is noted at low traffic loads for the user located furthest away from the access point, when the access point is positioned at the center and near the house edge of the ground floor respectively. Besides, 95% reduction in signal leakage out of the house is observed considering highest channel bandwidth compared to previous power control schemes when the access point is positioned in the middle of the house.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"342 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122759922","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":"Technical configuration of TV White Space Devices","authors":"I. Gepko","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313665","url":null,"abstract":"To avoid the interference, there are large areas in TV planning called TV white spaces (TVWS) where certain channels are deliberately not used. It was proposed to use them for low-power wireless networking on non-interfering basis with the licensed (primary) Digital TV service. The lack of knowledge about locations of TV receivers as well as unreliability of the aggregate interference impact estimation caused by large number of White Space Devices (WSDs) accessing the spectrum are reported to be key challenges for the use of TVWS. We propose a novel approach where parameters required for protection of the primary system are calculated for a certain minimal separation distance observance of which for specific inhabited area could be ensured. In our view, to reuse spectrum efficiently the portable WSD has to support the dynamic power control via its sensing ability while the geolocation database which informs WSDs concerning the available channels should contain the list of recommended minimum distances.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114149386","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":"Interfacing brain and machines: Challenges and perspectives","authors":"Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313810","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. Interfacing brain and machines involve recording neural signals, extracting information from them and applying stimulations in closed loop. Applications are huge: from therapies for epilepsy and other kind of brain seizures to the control of prosthesis. Challenges are enormeous and truly multidisciplinary: including, design of ultra low-noise microelectronic circuits with minimum power budget, energy scavenging, bio-compatibility, compressive sensing, etc. This talk identifies critical challenges and overviews proposed solutions. Discussions are illustrated with actual circuits tested in animals in collaboration between the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville, the University of Seville and the Institute of Bioengineering of the School of Medicine of the Universidad Miguel Hernandez.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117036746","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}
E. F. Ordóñez-Morales, J. Bravo-Torres, Jose Victor Saians-Vazquez, Y. Blanco-Fernández, Martín López Nores, J. Pazos-Arias
{"title":"SPORANGIUM - validating the concept of sporadic social networks in pervasive applications","authors":"E. F. Ordóñez-Morales, J. Bravo-Torres, Jose Victor Saians-Vazquez, Y. Blanco-Fernández, Martín López Nores, J. Pazos-Arias","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2015.7313706","url":null,"abstract":"We present the SPORANGIUM platform that deploys sporadic social networks (SSNs) among people who happen to be in a common place, by establishing ad-hoc connections over their respective mobile devices. The idea is to boost interactions among strangers who might share common interests in places like museums, theatres and stadiums, taking care of multiple concurrent flows of information and enabling added-value services to efficiently manage those contents. This paper describes the simulator we have developed to validate the SSN concept in one of the application scenarios of SPORANGIUM, dealing with tourism information on behalf of the participants in a bus tour.","PeriodicalId":133824,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130399585","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}