{"title":"Performance of analysis-by-synthesis low-bit rate speech coders in mobile radio channel","authors":"S.M. El Noubi, M. El-Said Nasr, E. Gemeay","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022643","url":null,"abstract":"Low bit rate coding of voice is critical for accommodating more users on channels that have inherent limitations of bandwidth or power-like cellular radio or satellite links. Analysis-by-Synthesis (AbS) coders are the candidate coders for producing good quality speech in the range from 4.8 to 16 kb/s. The multi-pulse excited linear predictive coder (MPE-LPC), and the regular-pulse excited linear predictive coder (RPE-LPC) are among very large number of (AbS) speech coders. The MPE and RPE can produce high quality speech at bit rate lower than 9.6 kb/s with a fairly moderate complexity. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for achieving variable-bit rates below 9.6 kb/s by using switched quantization. The issues of transmitting a 9.6 kb/s MPE arid RPE analysis-by-synthesis predictive coded speech over a mobile radio-fading channel are discussed. The coder robustness and the sensitivity of speech-carrying bits to channel errors are also presented. Further, the performance of a /spl pi//4 differential quadrature phase shift keying (/spl pi//4 DQPSK) method over Rayleigh fading mobile radio channel is presented by the coder output. Objective and subjective tests are used to show the effect of the Rayleigh fading mobile radio channel on the performance of the coder, and also determine the amount of the minimum value of channel signal to noise power ratio (SNR dB) required to obtain a good speech quality.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125544058","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 cellular structure for stratospheric platform mobile communications","authors":"M. Nofal, M. Hadhood, M. Dessouky, Y. Albagory","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022642","url":null,"abstract":"A novel cellular structure is proposed for the ambitious stratospheric platform mobile communications. The innovated structure adopts a multibeam scanning antenna array to create ring-shaped cells instead of the classical honey cells. This helps in avoiding the impact of positional instability especially the rotational motion of the platform around its vertical axis. Furthermore the transmitted power is reduced as well as the handover and location updating rates. The adaptation of the cell area for traffic balancing is easier than using the traditional hexagonal one. The geometry of the ring cell is analyzed in order to investigate the main parameters affecting the system performance such as the beam visiting time and the beam-scanning rate.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126744053","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":"Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging of lesions in multiple sclerosis patients","authors":"I. Elshafiey","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022674","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) provides an advanced tool for a quantitative noninvasive technique to detect MS lesions. This technique exploits the sensitivity of MRI to random water diffusion in tissues in the presence of diffusion gradient pulses incorporated into the imaging sequence. Large diffusion weighting is achieved by increasing the magnitude of diffusion pulses; it is essential for the generation of a high SNR diffusion signal. However, large diffusion gradients induce strong eddy currents in the metallic structure of the cryostat, resulting in distortion of MR images. This suggests that moderate diffusion weighting should be optimum for inspection. This study investigates the use of DT-MRI of the brain of human MS patients at a diffusion level of 480 s/mm/sup 2/, which proved to be optimum in a previous study conducted on normal volunteers. MRI studies were performed on a GE 1.5 tesla scanner at Hermann Hospital, Houston, using a single shot diffusion weighted echo planar imaging sequence. All acquisitions were cardiac gated to minimize the effect on the images of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pulsation. The presented quantitative results compare various DT-MRI stains for lesion and normal tissue and they reveal that DT-MRI is a powerful noninvasive technique for detecting MS lesions in the human brain.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116069621","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 automatic testing technique for PLDs","authors":"A. Elsayed, M. Elbably, H. Elbolok","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022649","url":null,"abstract":"The programmable logic devices (PLDs) are widely used in the hardware implementation of many designed circuits. Identifying the faulty row, which contains many configurable logic blocks (CLBs) was the aim of many researchers. A. new technique is proposed in this research. The main aim of the proposed technique concentrates on identifying the location of the faculty CLB in FPGA (field programmable gate array) chips.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116510348","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":"Design of metal electrodes with six important electrooptic materials","authors":"A. Zaghloul","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022666","url":null,"abstract":"The coplanar electrode is analyzed by using conformal mapping and image methods where the electrode thickness is very thin. Three electrode configurations (symmetric, asymmetric and negative symmetric) are analyzed with six electrooptic materials (ADP, KDP, LiNbO/sub 3/, LiTaO/sub 3/, KNbO/sub 3/ and BaTiO/sub 3/) to find the characteristic impedance, Z, and the electric field components, E/sub x/ and E/sub y/. The dimensions of the electrodes and the thickness of electrooptic material are designed to realize a matching impedance of 50 ohms. The impedance decreases when the relative permittivity, /spl epsiv//sub r/ of the electrooptic material increases but it increases with a buffer layer. There is one or more compatible substrate materials for each electrooptic material. The effect of the shielding electrodes is discussed. The above methods give good accuracy as compared to the finite element method (FEM). The numerical results can be used as guide design curves.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"404 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132577224","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":"MVDDS network layers adapted with DVB-RCS as a terrestrial RC solution","authors":"M. Rizk, M. M. Ayoub","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022669","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new network architecture approach, which is composed of a combination of the broadcast, and telecom technologies in order to have an integrated network that facilitates the submission of interactive services over an asymmetric multimedia network to different categories of users. A novel architecture of a point-to-multipoint broadband network using a three-layer network solution compliant with the DVB standard is proposed The downstream network layers are composed of a merging structure between microwave video distribution system (MVDS) and satellite master TV distribution networks (SMATV) distribution systems, while the upstream network structure is composed of a combination of SMATV, local multipoint distribution system (LMDS) and MVDS distribution networks.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124635016","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":"Design of ADPLL for good phase and frequency tracking performance","authors":"A. Khalil, K. T. Ibrahim, A. Salama","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022634","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describe a new all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL). We reconfigure the commercially available ADPLL 74HC297 with a newly developed digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to obtain digitally a phase-frequency detector (PFD) which achieves good phase and frequency error detection performance not implemented in 74HC297. A complete VHDL RTL level design is developed and fully synthesized for both 74HC297 and the proposed ADPLL. The VHDL code is targeted to FPGA technology (Altera, Xilinx) and standard cell ASIC (Alcatel 0.5 micron technology). Simulation of the proposed ADPLL and 74HC297 shows good tracking and homogeneous output of the proposed ADPLL.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133735317","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":"Liver tumor hyperthermia using an N/spl times/N ultrasound phased array","authors":"N. Ismail, K. El-ela","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022677","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing of ultrasonic waves to concentrate their power at different locations inside the volume of a liver tumor is investigated. The focusing process can be achieved by using an ultrasound phased array. An N/spl times/N phased array is introduced to produce the specific temperature distribution inside human liver. The pseudo-inverse field conjugation method is applied to generate focused power points to deliver heat to the treated volume.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131693677","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 new fuzzy adaptive perceptual image coding system","authors":"S. El-Khamy, I. Ghaleb, N. El-Yamany","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022639","url":null,"abstract":"A new adaptive, perceptual image coding system in the framework of fuzzy logic is proposed. The image is decomposed into 8/spl times/8 blocks that are then subjected to the discrete cosine transform (DCT). The image DCT blocks are then classified using the fuzzy c-medians (FCMED) clustering algorithm into four fuzzy classes. Coding bits are then adaptively and perceptually allocated to the DCT coefficients in each class. DCT coefficients are then normalized, optimally quantized, coded, and transmitted, accompanied by their overhead information over a channel. The performance of the proposed system is evaluated using the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) measure and a just noticeable distortion (JND) based perceptual measure.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114360859","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}
Hajiz, Khaled Sharafw, E. El-Diwany, Hudia. El-Hennawyw
{"title":"An RF CMOS modified-cascode LNA with inductive source degeneration","authors":"Hajiz, Khaled Sharafw, E. El-Diwany, Hudia. El-Hennawyw","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022654","url":null,"abstract":"An RF CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) is proposed using modified-cascode topology to reduce the voltage supply and consequently the power dissipation. The circuit was simulated and designed for 0.5 /spl mu/m CMOS MOSIS process. At 1 GHz, the LNA noise figure (NF) is 1.62 dB, forward gain is 18.6 dB and reverse isolation is -45.5 dB. The LNA consumes 12.5 mW from a 1 V power supply.","PeriodicalId":231600,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114679015","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}