{"title":"An Analysis of Three-Level IP Network Topologies","authors":"S. Chamberland","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.90","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an analysis of three-level network topologies, in the context of the topological optimization problem of Internet protocol (IP) networks. This problem consists in selecting the number of routers and their types to install at each level, selecting the port types to install in each router and finding the access, edge and core networks. Considering that IP networks are still expensive, network optimization is an important issue for the service providers to remain competitive. A mathematical programming model is proposed for this problem. Next, the model is adapted and analyzed for each topology considered. An illustrative example is solved using a commercial implementation of the branch-and-bound algorithm.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116369770","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":"Narrowcast Advertising Retail Metrics: A Simulation with Fuzzy Product Profitability Potential","authors":"M. Alexiuk, N. Pizzi, G. Sawatzky, W. Pedrycz","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.201","url":null,"abstract":"Narrowcast advertising is becoming a prominent means to modify retail product consumption. This consumption is directed to maximize profit despite changes in consumer preferences and is effected by changes to the number of advertising impressions and their product content. The profitability potential of a product quantifies possible future earnings for a retail outlet and is a useful tool for retail decision makers. Common retail metrics, such as sales data, surveys of consumer product preferences, and advertising impressions, can be fused to robustly define product profitability potential. This paper evaluates several profitability potential definitions that fuse three common retail measurements encoded as fuzzy sets. The simulation considers a pool of consumers who act on their product preferences and modify these preferences in response to advertising. The retail outlet modifies advertising playout in an attempt to maximize profit. Control retail outlets compare results across the same initial consumer population and price structure. Profitability definitions that included advertising impressions performed well against other definitions.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121671187","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}
Yunjiao Xue, Ho Sung Lee, Ming Yang, P. Kumarawadu, H. Ghenniwa, Weiming Shen
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of NS-2 Simulator for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Yunjiao Xue, Ho Sung Lee, Ming Yang, P. Kumarawadu, H. Ghenniwa, Weiming Shen","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.345","url":null,"abstract":"Simulation for wireless sensor networks has become a challenging exercise due to the hardware design, energy constraints, and deployment of large number of nodes. NS-2 has been widely used in network simulations but does not perform well for wireless sensor networks. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the NS-2 simulator based on performance evaluation of simulation results, and proposes some improvements needed in NS-2 to cope up with wireless sensor network simulations.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"29 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113962438","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 Channel Identification and Data Detection for SIMO OFDM Systems","authors":"M. Ahmadi, A. S. Mehr","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.21","url":null,"abstract":"Reliable channel estimation is necessary for OFDM systems employing coherent detection to achieve high data rate communication. Pilot aided detection algorithms benefit of rapid convergence, but suffer from non-efficient bandwidth usage. Thus blind channel estimation algorithms are of great interest. In this paper, blind channel estimation and data detection for multi-path FIR channels in SIMO system based solely on the output data of different receivers is proposed. Here, the relation between data received from single transmitter at different receivers exploit for least-square based channel estimation.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124353754","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 Technique for Evaluating the Reliability Improvement Due to Energy Storage Systems","authors":"D. Aming, A. Rajapakse, T. Molinski, E. Innes","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.109","url":null,"abstract":"Energy storage systems (ESS) can be employed to improve the reliability of power supply at isolated rural locations supplied by long radial networks. This study presents a Monte Carlo simulation based method for assessing the reliability improvement potential of such an ESS. The proposed methodology can be used to establish the proper power rating and storage duration to achieve a given reliability objective. The paper examines a case study for a rural community in Manitoba and establishes the relationship between the expected values of reliability indices and the energy storage duration. The results of the simulation demonstrate the improvement of reliability of power supply with the addition of an ESS located at the remote substation. However, according to ESS cost data published in literature, the proposed option may not still be economically feasible.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124515061","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":"Mitigation of Interference by Ultra Wide Band Radio into Other Communication Services: Evolution to Cognitive Ultra Wide Band Radio","authors":"M. Sablatash","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.339","url":null,"abstract":"Methods to mitigate interference from ultra wide band (UWB) radio devices into other communication services whose spectra lie within the major frequency band allowed for UWB, 3.1 to 10.6 GHz, can be classified as non-adaptive and adaptive. Adaptive methods began to emerge in about 2002, and a publication on UWB cognitive radio appeared in 2004. The non-adaptive methods for mitigation of interference by UWB first appeared in publications in the middle 1980's, and were mainly on pulse shaping, modulation and randomization methods that will be summarized, with their advantages and shortcomings, in the paper. Examples are pulse position modulation (PPM), which was replaced in about 2002 by bi-phase modulation (BPM), hybrid modulation combining PPM and BPM, DS-CDMA, pulse shapes obtained by constrained optimization methods, forming notches or eliminating a subband in a pulse spectrum, use of spreading codes, etc. Motivated by the urgent need to utilize spectrum more efficiently and maintain the most effective form of communications in changing conditions, adaptive methods, proposed in about 2003 for more flexible and efficient use of the spectrum and minimization of interference by UWB than possible with non-adaptive methods, have evolved to R & D on UWB cognitive radio (UWBCR). UWBCR builds on software defined radio technology, by building intelligence into a radio, to adapt to spectrum availability, activity and detection of clear spectrum, to learn and adapt to waveforms and protocols, and current user needs, thus enabling the choice of the best current form of communication. The paper will summarize how cognitive UWB may be used for dynamic interference cancellation, and enable interference cancellation by producing spectral notches. A number of functions that could be performed by cognitive UWB radio will be described.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126274886","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":"Areas of Vulnerability in an Environment of Uncertainty","authors":"D. McGillis, K. El-Arroudi, R. Brearley, G. Joós","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.73","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the vulnerability of power system operating in an environment of increasing uncertainty. Uncertainty can be related to the performance of a system under stress and the measures whereby this condition of possible system collapse could be identified and averted through remedial actions. For this reason, the paper begins with a definition of a vulnerable system as one that is in a degraded state and is then subjected to moderate disturbances that can lead to system collapse. When uncertain generation such as wind generation or deregulation is then introduced, these moderate disturbances can be regarded as variations in the wind generation or the system topology.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126215729","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 Joint Network-Channel Coding Scheme for Relay-Based Communications","authors":"Hieu T. Nguyen, Ha H. Nguyen, T. Le-Ngoc","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.231","url":null,"abstract":"A bandwidth-efficient joint network-channel coding scheme based on distributed turbo codes is proposed for relay-based wireless communications systems. The proposed scheme provides a solution to increase the transmission rate and/or improve the error performance. To enhance the system performance over the adverse block fading channels, the relay not only delivers the additional parity bits as in the conventional turbo coded systems but also repeats a portion of systematic bits by using higher-order constellations. This increases the number of information bits having a diversity order of 2. As a result, the proposed scheme yields a 3-dB gain in the transmitted power compared to the conventional scheme for the case of symmetric channels. The gain is further increased when the relay has a better channel condition to the destination than the users.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128035830","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 Hardware Implementation of Real-Time Video Deblocking Using Shifted Thresholding","authors":"M. Hansen, A. Wong, W. Bishop","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.14","url":null,"abstract":"Video compression has become very important as demand has increased for the storage and transmission of digital video content. Popular video compression schemes like MPEG encoding make use of block-transform coding techniques which are susceptible to blocking artifacts. Recently, an efficient deblocking algorithm based on the concept of shifted thresholding has been proposed. This algorithm uses only integer arithmetic and replaces division operations with bit shifting. This paper proposes a new hardware architecture for the implementation of video deblocking using shifted thresholding. A prototype system for high performance video deblocking using a FPGA (field programmable gate array) board is described. The prototype system leverages the reduced hardware complexity of the shifted thresholding algorithm to cost-effectively implement video deblocking on a FPGA board.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"40 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125745652","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":"An Identification Technique for ARMA Systems in the Presence of Noise","authors":"S. Fattah, W. Zhu, M. Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2007.227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2007.227","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach for the identification of minimum-phase autoregressive moving average (ARMA) systems in the presence of additive noise. For the identification of the AR part of an ARMA system, unlike conventional correlation based methods, we propose to employ a once-repeated autocorrelation function (ORACF) of the observed noisy signal which is capable of reducing the effect of additive noise. The ORACF is used in a modified form of the least-squares Yule-Walker equations which provides an estimate of the AR parameters as a least-squares solution. For the identification of the MA part, the residual signal obtained by filtering the observed signal via the estimated AR polynomial is used. In order to tackle the noise in the residual signal, a noise-compensation scheme is proposed. The MA parameters are estimated by using the spectral factorization corresponding to the noise-compensated power spectrum of the residual signal. Simulation results show the superiority of performance by the proposed method in comparison to some of the existing methods at low levels of SNR.","PeriodicalId":183910,"journal":{"name":"2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122252843","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}