{"title":"Design and Analysis of Quad-Band Wilkinson Power Divider","authors":"Hussam Jwaied, Firas Muwanes, N. Dib","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000680","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the design of equal-split quad-band Wilkinson power divider is presented. The design consists of two quad-band transmission line transformers and four isolation resistors. Standard transmission line theory and even/odd modes analyses are used to obtain closed form expressions that are solved using particle swarm optimization technique to find the required divider parameters (lengths, characteristic impedances, and isolation resistors). Very good matching at all ports and isolation between the output ports are achieved at four arbitrary frequencies. To validate the design approach and the derived equations, a quad-band microstrip line Wilkinson divider is designed, analyzed, and measured.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133102565","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":"Ultra-Wideband Multi-Band OFDM Systems: Timing Synchronization and Frequency Offset Estimation","authors":"Chin Wee Yak, Z. Lei","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000722","url":null,"abstract":"In digital communications systems, receiver synchronization (in terms of timing and carrier frequency offset estimation) is fundamental before accurate channel estimation can follow. Timing errors can cause intersymbol interferences (ISI) that destroy OFDM subcarriers' orthogonality and degrade system performance [Athaudage, 2002; Speth et al., 1997]. On the other hand, frequency offset (FO) may arise from random Doppler frequency shifts, carrier frequency mismatch between transmitter and receiver oscillators and sampling frequency errors. The FO causes severe reduction in signal amplitude and introduces intercarrier interferences (ICI) which cause severe bit error rate (BER) degradation [Moose, 1994]. It is hence critical to accurately estimate the timing and FO for reliable communications. For ultra-wideband (UWB) multi-band OFDM systems, the proposed algorithm, First significant multipath detection via Threshold comparison of Adjacent samples (FTA), focuses on detecting the first significant multipath component (MPC) by comparing the difference between two adjacent energy samples of a proposed metric against a pre-defined threshold. Each energy sample is obtained from summing received multipath components' energies. A simplified FO estimator is obtained from the proposed metric by averaging the phase differences between each corresponding subcarrier of the two identical adjacent training symbols. Using timing information, the maximum likelihood (ML) FO estimator and its theoretical Cramer Rao Bound (CRB) for the MB-OFDM UWB system are derived for comparison with FTA.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124837017","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":"Scalable Lifetime in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks","authors":"A. Marowka","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000709","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless ad hoc networks are self-organized groups of mobile devices that are able to communicate with each other using a wireless physical medium. A critical issue in ad hoc networks is how to maintain network activities in order to achieve maximum lifespan despite energy constraints. The aim of power management of routing protocols is to prolong the lifetime of the entire network and to increase the delivery rate of transactions carried out through the mobile network. We define a Quality-of-Power-Service (QoPS) metric to evaluate the efficiency of power-aware unicast routing protocols. The aim of these protocols is to increase the longevity of ad hoc networks. QoPS metric is applied to different position-based power-aware unicast routing protocols. Our simulation results confirm that power-relative distribution of data streams in multi-path unicast routing protocols distributes energy consumption to multiple nodes and thus increase the network's lifetime. Moreover, the experiments show that multi-path protocols provide excellent scalability and high delivery success rate. The locality distribution phenomenon discovered by the simulations explains, on the one hand, the improved scalability and the long lifetime of large, dense, and high-degree wireless networks, and on the other hand, the short lifetime of small, sparse, and low-degree networks.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"276 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131537065","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":"Optimized Quality of Service (QoS) Routing in Mobile Adhoc Networks Using Self-Healing Techniques","authors":"R. Asokan, A. Natarajan, C. Venkatesh","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000679","url":null,"abstract":"An adhoc network is a collection of mobile hosts dynamically forming a temporary network without the aid of any existing established infrastructure. Quality of Service (QoS) is a set of service requirements that needs to be met by the network while transporting a packet stream from a source to its destination. QoS support for Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) is a challenging task due to the dynamic topology and limited resources. To support QoS in routing, information such as path length, delay, jitter and energy in the network should be available and manageable. The main objective of this paper is to enhance the QoS routing for MANETs using Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) with Self-Healing and Optimized Routing Techniques (SHORT). SHORT improves routing optimality by monitoring routing paths continuously and redirecting the path whenever a short-cut path is available. In this paper the performance comparison of TORA and TORA with SHORT has been analyzed using Network simulator (ns–2) for variou...","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133890792","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":"Minimized Memory Architecture for Low Latency Viterbi Decoder Using Zig-Zag Algorithm","authors":"C. Arun, V. Rajamani","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000667","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new architecture for efficient and minimized memory management in Viterbi Decoders based on Zig-Zag algorithm. The memory organization techniques mainly deal with the storage of survivor sequences from which the decoded information sequence is retrieved. The survivor sequences are usually stored in RAM blocks and traced back. Register Exchange (RE) Method and Trace-Back (TB) Method have been used for memory management techniques. Due to large memory area utilization of these two methods, a new architecture is implemented in this paper. This method uses only a single RAM instead of two (used in Trace-Back Method), which performs storage as well as trace-back simultaneously. The implementation shows that the memory size has been reduced to 56.09% when compared to the trace-back (TB) Method. The trade off in latency has been compensated by optimization of the parameters and it has been reduced to 50%. The architecture based on Viterbi Decoder has been implemented with a constraint length of 4, code rate of 1/6 and the traceback depth of 20.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"17 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120966331","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":"Combined Method for Adaptive Channel Estimation with Application to DMT Systems","authors":"Ahmad Al Amayreh, J. Masson, M. Hélard","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000655","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a Second-Order Statistics (SOS)-based channel estimator that finds application in Discrete MultiTone (DMT) systems. Most SOS adaptive channel estimators are based either on Newton–Raphson or on steepest descent methods. These classes of methods have complementary advantages and disadvantages. In this contribution, a new adaptive channel estimator based on combined Conjugate Gradient-NR method is developed. Among a number of attractive features, the combined estimator demands less computational complexity than that required by NR-based estimators, and when compared to CG estimators, the combined estimator exhibits better convergence especially for ill-conditioned channels. All mentioned theoretical results are illustrated by numerical results for estimates of randomly generated and real measured channels. Comparison with other well-known algorithms shows good trade off between performance and complexity.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131484371","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":"Wavelength Selective Auxiliary C-Band ASE Pumping for L-Band EDFA","authors":"S. Bhardwaj, Subhash C. Arya, V. Priye","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000692","url":null,"abstract":"The variation of Gain and Noise Figure (NF) at 1580 nm with length of Erbium doped fiber (EDF) for two auxiliary pumping schemes employing narrowband Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) and ASE filtered up to a particular wavelength in C-band, by considering a serially cascaded two stage wideband amplifier model are investigated. It is shown that indeed, there exists a wavelength range of ASE for achieving maximum gain. The gain can be increased by 14 dB if wavelength bandwidth of 1480–1554 nm is selected instead of pumping with the broadband ASE (1480–1700 nm). By auxiliary pump using ASE sliced in the 1533 nm window, gain as high as 28 dB and NF as low as 5.5 dB can be achieved for shorter fiber length. To achieve gain of 25–30 dB for the L-band signal only a EDF length of 30 m is required in the case of tuned ASE launching at 1533 nm as compared to 40 m and 65 m by optimized ASE bandwidth and broadband. The values of noise figure do not show significant variation in any of the three configurations. It is apparent that using single wavelength ASE pumping at 1533 nm reduces the fiber length by 10 m (compared to optimized ASE bandwidth pumping) and by 32 m (compared to broadband ASE bandwidth pumping), when L-band EDFA is designed for 25–30 dB signal gain and NF less than 6 dB. These results will be important in designing cascaded wideband EDFA for Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) systems.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128890656","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}
Rachid Saadane, D. Aboutajdine, A. Hayar, R. Knopp
{"title":"Estimation of Ultra Wide Band Channel Degrees of Freedom","authors":"Rachid Saadane, D. Aboutajdine, A. Hayar, R. Knopp","doi":"10.1142/S021979950700059X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S021979950700059X","url":null,"abstract":"Multipath propagation effects encountered in mobile wireless channels provide additional degrees of freedom [Ganesan et al., 2000] that can be exploited via appropriate signaling and reception. In this work, based on a set of measurements conducted at Eurecom, we consider a novel approach of analyzing an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) indoor radio propagation channel by performing an eigen-decomposition and observing the scaling of the number of significant eigenvalues with the channel bandwidth by using the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Minimum Description Length (MDL). These criterion are applied to estimate the number of degrees of freedom (DoF) of an UWB in an indoor environment. We evaluate our approach under both scenarios, line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS). Based on AIC and the MDL criterion, we find that this number is large; this has important consequences on the receiver design. We show also, that in opposition to the accepted idea in the literature, the number of Degrees of Freedom (DoF) does not increase linearly with the channel bandwidth. Hence, the results of the estimation of UWB channel entropy confirm that the number of DoF increases sub-linearly with the channel bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124375306","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}
D. D. Krishna, M. Gopikrishna, C. Aanandan, P. Mohanan, K. Vasudevan
{"title":"Planar Elliptical UWB Antenna with Band-notch Characteristics","authors":"D. D. Krishna, M. Gopikrishna, C. Aanandan, P. Mohanan, K. Vasudevan","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000631","url":null,"abstract":"A coplanar waveguide-fed planar elliptical monopole antenna suitable for use in ultra-wide band communication systems is presented. Antenna exhibits a wide impedance bandwidth from 2.64–10.9 GHz with an omni-directional radiation pattern. Further, a notched band centered at 5.45 GHz is obtained within the wide bandwidth by inserting a narrow horizontal slit inside the patch. The notched frequency can be easily tuned by varying the slit parameters. The slit provides significant reduction in gain in the notch band with little effect on the antenna operation at other frequencies. The time domain studies on the antenna shows a linear phase response throughout the band except at the notched frequency. The transient analysis of the antenna indicates very little pulse distortion confirming its suitability for pulsed systems.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133241666","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 the parabolic equation Method to Several Canonical Indoor Propagation Problems","authors":"N. Noori, H. Oraizi","doi":"10.1142/S0219799507000618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219799507000618","url":null,"abstract":"The parabolic wave equation is derived for general lossy dielectric media and applied to the analysis of radio wave propagation problems inside buildings. The paraxial version of the wave equation is solved with a marching algorithm that requires limited computing resources as compared with its full version. Using this site-specific approach, several canonical indoor propagation problems such as propagation through windows, reinforced concrete walls and inside corridors are investigated. Good agreement between the parabolic equation numerical simulation results and those reported in the literature validates the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":185917,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Opt. Commun.","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123747173","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}