{"title":"On Extrinsic Information of Good Codes Operating Over Memoryless Channels with Incremental Noisiness","authors":"M. Peleg, A. Sanderovich, S. Shamai","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321086","url":null,"abstract":"We show that the Extrinsic Information about the coded bits of any good (capacity achieving) code operating over a binary symmetric channel is zero when the code operates at code rate above capacity and a positive constant otherwise, that is, the Extrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) chart is a step function of channel quality, for any capacity achieving code. This extends similar previous results proved over the erasure channel and over the AWGN channel, indicating the step function property of the EXIT chart is rather general. It follows that, for a common class of iterative receivers where the error correcting decoder must operate at the first iterations at rate above capacity (such as in turbo equalization, turbo channel estimation, parallel and serial concatenated coding and the like), classical good codes which achieve capacity over the relevant channels are not effective and should be replaced by different new ones. The authors are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion¿Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel. M. Peleg is also with Rafael ltd. The work was supported by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF).","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131192604","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":"Using Mobile Base Stations to Improve Network Performance in Densely Populated Areas","authors":"M. Zaslavsky, A. Freedman","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321122","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss a wireless network providing service in a dense urban environment, where certain amount of users tend to move together in groups, e.g. in buses. We analyze a concept of mobile base stations (mobile picocells) mounted on vehicles carrying a large number of users, and their contribution to providing the service alongside the existing network with fixed base stations. The analytical and numerical results of blocking and forced termination probabilities are obtained and validated by simulations. The substantial improvement of network performance compared with a traditional service providing schemes is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127925678","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":"Blind Source Separation for MIMO-AR Mixtures Using GMM","authors":"T. Routtenberg, J. Tabrikian","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321090","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of blind source separation (BSS) of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) autoregressive (AR) mixture is addressed in this paper. A new time-domain method for system identification and BSS for MIMO-AR models in proposed based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for sources distribution. The algorithm is based on generalized expectation-maximization (GEM) for joint estimation of the AR model parameters and the GMM parameters of the sources. The method is tested via simulations of synthetic and audio signals mixed by a MIMO-AR model. The results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the well-known multidimensional linear predictive coding (LPC), and it enables to achieve higher signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) in the BSS problem.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122297139","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":"Dynamic Test Composition In Hierarchical Software Testing","authors":"B. Bergelson, I. Exman","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321078","url":null,"abstract":"Testing of large software systems is essential to assure the desired system reliability, but it involves large amounts of computer resources. It turns out that working in mid-range test granularity obtains very regular hierarchical test graphs, implying significant savings of testing-time, by dynamic generation of the strictly necessary tests. We formulate general analytic expressions for time savings and obtain the important result that savings increases with system size. The approach was demonstrated by actually implementing a testing system for large bundles of content files.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121305272","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":"Investigation of Transactional Memory Using FPGAs","authors":"S. Grinberg, S. Weiss","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321125","url":null,"abstract":"The following outlines an effort to speedup the evaluation of a transactional memory system without loosing accuracy. Instead of using the traditional software simulation techniques we build our system within a large FPGA device. The system elements are a mix of commercially available IP cores and our own design. Together with appropriate runtime monitoring this approach yields a powerful substitute to simulation.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116260596","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":"Reliability Analysis of Two Protection System Configurations for High Voltage Transmission Lines","authors":"A. Lisnianski, D. Laredo, H. Ben Haim","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321059","url":null,"abstract":"Protection systems play a crucial role in power systems. The increasing demand for electric power leads to the complexity of the network and, therefore, to an increasing search for the improvement of the reliability of the high voltage (161 kV and over) line system protections. In order to achieve the required reliability level, the redundancy technique is often used. Two alternatives of redundancy are usually used. The first one is the use of two distance-protections connected in parallel, named as configuration {z, z}, and the second one is the use of one distance-protection and a differential-protection connected in parallel, named as configuration {z, Delta} . These two configurations are compared, in the paper, based on their calculated reliability. The comparison was made using new developed Markov stochastic models. Based on these models, the CIGRE reliability index for protection systems was computed for each configuration. It was shown that the configuration {z, z} is more reliable than the configuration {z, Delta} . Therefore, for high voltage line protection, where redundancy is required, it is recommended to use the configuration {z, z}.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130931660","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 and fabrication of sub micron scale directional coupler in high-index Silicon-On-Insulator","authors":"Ido E. Dotan, D. Goldring, D. Mendlovic","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321085","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe the design, fabrication and analysis of a directional coupler using sub micron SOI waveguides. Specifically, we focus on couplers featuring sub 100nm waveguide separation. Several phenomena that occur due to the ultra small gap are examined. We show that the etching rate at the waveguides gap is decreased and as a consequence the coupling between the waveguides is enhanced. Three dimensional numerical simulations are presented as well as fabrication results.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121887075","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":"Measuring Behavioral Software Design Patterns","authors":"Marat Teplitsky, I. Exman","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321116","url":null,"abstract":"Large software systems can be made reliable by design patterns reuse. But there is a lack of ways to assure implementation correctness of the patterns themselves. We propose run-time measurement as a systematic verification approach for software design patterns. It is shown that standard state probabilities have a stable asymptotic behavior, allowing safe identification of standard patterns. The software measuring device ¿ called \"patternometer\" ¿ is non-intrusive and generic. This is possible due to an aspect-oriented implementation. Case studies ¿ as Observer and Mediator - demonstrate the approach.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124323642","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":"New design method for one-dimensional photonic crystal reflectors in strip waveguides","authors":"D. Goldring, D. Mendlovic","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321114","url":null,"abstract":"we present a method for designing a highly reflective one dimensional photonic crystal mirror embedded in a single mode silicon ridge waveguide. This highly reflective mirror obtains high reflectivity (R>0.999) as well as lower reflectivity based on the design parameters. In addition, the suggested design may yield low transmission losses, i.e., R+T¿1. The highly reflective mirror is the main building block of a high-Q cavity using one dimensional photonic crystal structures.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126314323","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 Novel Optical OOK Multiple Access Method by Self-Heterodyne Filtering for FTTx Communication Network","authors":"H. Joseph, D. Sadot","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2006.321132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2006.321132","url":null,"abstract":"We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new method for FTTx multiple access network based on self-heterodyne filtering with directly modulated uncooled DFB lasers. A factor of ten in the number of users is enabled.","PeriodicalId":142814,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134100054","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}