{"title":"Decorrelation receivers for unresolved multipath Ricean fading channels","authors":"F. Danilo-Lemoine, H. Leib","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933643","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers specular coherent and non-coherent optimal, as well as sub-optimal detection structures for unresolved multipath Ricean fading channels with known delays. Specular coherent receiver structures require carrier phase estimation of the Ricean specular component. Non-coherent structures, on the other hand, do not make use of the specular coherent carrier phase. It is shown that both detection techniques include a multipath decorrelation stage before diversity combining, generalizing the Rake receiver. It is also shown that for high SNR, the specular coherent structure converges to the non-coherent structure. A sub-optimal technique based on a quadratic decorrelation receiver (QDR) that is easier to implement than the optimal non-coherent structure is also presented. Based on single pulse performance analysis, this paper shows that the decorrelation stage is essential in eliminating error floors. The results demonstrate that diversity gains over unresolved multipath fading channels can be obtained if multipath decorrelation is performed before diversity combining. This work also shows that while specular coherent detection performs in general better than non-coherent, in many cases the advantages for high SNR are very small.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129785864","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}
Gang Zhang, Y. Shu, Zheng Zhao, Zhijie Guan, O. Yang
{"title":"An active refresh method in Web caching","authors":"Gang Zhang, Y. Shu, Zheng Zhao, Zhijie Guan, O. Yang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933691","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new control method called the active refresh method (ARM) to maintain cache consistency. We examine the problems associated with the implementation of the ARM, and carry our thorough experiments using the trace-driven simulation method. The results of our experiments show that the usage of ARM helps to greatly increase the cache hit-rate and the byte hit-rate while decreasing the time delay.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128818683","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":"Application of artificial neural network in noise mixed partial discharge recognition","authors":"Zhong Zheng, K. Tan","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933765","url":null,"abstract":"To test partial discharge (PD) recognition ability under different noise conditions, systemic research is carried out. In a noise-screened high voltage lab and using a high speed, wide-band digital measuring system, different kinds of PD current waveforms are recorded. Noises of different types are investigated. Then the PD signals are immersed into different noises with certain signal-noise ratios (SNR). By applying the segmented time domain data compression method, the features vectors of mixed waveforms are extracted. Employing a backpropagation algorithm, a feedforward triple-layered artificial neural network (ANN) program is generated and optimized. The mixed waveforms are tested and influence of each noise types in different SNR conditions are studied.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116034280","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 block-based lossless compression of digital mammograms","authors":"M.Y. Al-Saiegh, S. Krishnan","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933567","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is a leading cause of death among women in Canada. Computer-aided diagnosis of mammograms (X-ray films of breast tissue) is a noninvasive and an inexpensive way of diagnosing breast cancer. The objective of this project is to investigate image compression schemes for faithful transmission and reproduction of digital mammography data over a communication link. A fixed block-based (FBB) near lossless compression scheme for mammograms has been developed which runs in conjunction with traditional compression schemes such as Huffman coding and Lempel-Ziv Welch (1978) coding. The algorithm codes blocks of pixels within the image that contain the same intensity value (the odds of having blocks of the same pixel values in a mammography image are very high), thus reducing the size of the image substantially while encoding the image at the same time. The proposed compression scheme was applied on 44 mammograms (22 benign and 22 malignant), and the compression scheme provided a compression ratio of 1.7:1. When Huffman (1952) coding and LZW coding were used in conjunction with the FBB compression scheme, the compression ratio was 3.81:1 for Huffman, and 5:1 for LZW coding. The proposed FBB lossless compression technique seems to be promising for teleradiology applications.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116213982","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":"Fault characterizations and design-for-testability technique for detecting I/sub DDQ/ faults in CMOS/BiCMOS circuits","authors":"K. Raahemifar, Mokhtar Ahmadi","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933594","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides the results of a simulation-based fault characterization study of CMOS/BiCMOS logic families. We show that most of the shorts cause I/sub DDQ/ faults, while open defects result in delay or stuck-open faults. We propose a design-for-testability technique for detecting short and bridging faults in CMOS/BiCMOS logic circuits. The impact of this circuit modification on the behavior of the circuit in normal mode is investigated.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121260327","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":"Broadband array design for performance improvement","authors":"Q. Zeng, D. O'Shaughnessy","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933670","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses a new design methodology for broadband arrays, which imposes no restriction on the desired far- and near-field beam pattern, can cope with arbitrarily wide bandwidths and has computational simplicity and accuracy. We clarify the concepts and demonstrate the feasibility of the design procedure with an example design covering a 10:1 frequency range, which is suitable for speech acquisition using a microphone array.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116512160","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 a voltage regulator for self-excited induction generator employing current-type static compensator","authors":"H. Karshenas, A. Abdolahi","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933588","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns the control of a self-exited induction generator (SEIG) by a sophisticated current-type static compensator (CT-STATCOM). The nature of self-excitation in a SEIG makes its output voltage very dependent on the amount of reactive power at the generator terminals. In the proposed scheme, a current-type converter (CTC) is employed to generate leading or lagging current at the SEIG terminals such that a regulated voltage is achieved. The rugged, short-circuit proof structure of a CTC makes it suitable for this application. Absence of three-phase output inductors and current control loop are other advantages of using CTC. Simulation results performed on a test machine shows the validity of analysis.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127166985","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":"Technologies for hybrid wavelength/time optical CDMA transmission","authors":"L.R. Chen","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933723","url":null,"abstract":"We compare two photonic technologies for the physical implementation of hybrid wavelength/time codes for optical CDMA transmission: arrayed waveguide gratings and fiber Bragg gratings. We also present a new, flexible grating-based encoder that can realize various types of wavelength/time codes.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"81 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126021020","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":"Neural networks and fuzzy logic in electrical engineering","authors":"F. Jurado, B. Ogayar, M. Castro, J. Carpio","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933575","url":null,"abstract":"Control system packages have become essential ingredients of both undergraduate and graduate courses in the control area. This work describes our experience with the use of MATLAB/sup TM/ with its fuzzy logic and neural networks toolboxes in electrical engineering control courses. While some of the methods in the area of intelligent systems and control have significant benefits to offer, engineers are often reluctant to utilize new intelligent control techniques for several reasons. Two fuzzy logic controllers for a gas turbine have been developed using speed and mechanical power deviations. A neural network has been designed to tune the gains of the fuzzy logic controllers based on the operating conditions of the electric power plant. Student feedback indicates that theoretical developments in lectures on control systems were only appreciated after the laboratory exercises.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124170568","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 genetic algorithm for testable data path synthesis","authors":"H. Harmanani, R. Saliba, M. Khoury","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2001.933689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2001.933689","url":null,"abstract":"A high level synthesis for testability method is presented with the objective to generate testable resistor transistor logic designs from behavioral descriptions. The approach is formulated as an allocation problem and solved using an efficient genetic algorithm that generates cost-effective testable designs. We follow the allocation method with an automatic test point selection algorithm that trades off design area and delay with test quality. The method is implemented and design comparisons are reported.","PeriodicalId":184523,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8555)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133542955","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}