{"title":"Hardware simulator design for LTE applications with time-varying MIMO channels","authors":"B. Habib, G. Zaharia, G. El Zein","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462893","url":null,"abstract":"A hardware simulator facilitates the test and validation cycles by replicating channel artifacts in a controllable and repeatable laboratory environment. This paper presents new frequency domain and time domain architectures of the digital block of a hardware simulator of MIMO propagation channels. The two architectures are tested with LTE standard, in outdoor environment, using time-varying channels. The new architectures of the digital block are presented and designed on a Xilinx Virtex-IV FPGA. Their accuracy and latency are analyzed. The result shows that the architectures produce low occupation on the FPGA and have a small relative error of the output signals.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124501583","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":"Simulation of random effects in transmission line models via stochastic differential equations","authors":"L. Brancík, A. Prokeš, E. Kolárová","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462890","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with a method for simulation of transmission line (TL) models with randomly varied parameters, based on the theory of stochastic differential equations (SDE). The random changes of both excitation sources and TL model parameters can be considered. Voltage and/or current responses are represented in the form of the sample means and proper confidence intervals to provide reliable estimates. The TL models are based on a cascade connection of RLGC networks enabling to model nonuniform TLs in general. To develop model equations a state-variable method is used, and afterwards a corresponding vector SDE is formulated. A stochastic implicit Euler numerical scheme is used while using the MATLAB® language environment for all the computations. To verify the results the deterministic responses are also computed by the help of a numerical inversion of Laplace transforms procedure.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129092689","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}
Onsy Abdul Alim, Dr. Mohamed Moselhy, Eng. Fatima Mroueh
{"title":"EMG signal processing and diagnostic of muscle diseases","authors":"Onsy Abdul Alim, Dr. Mohamed Moselhy, Eng. Fatima Mroueh","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462866","url":null,"abstract":"Real time recordings of motor unit action potential (MUAP) signals from myopathy (MYO), neuropathy (NEU), and normal (NOR) subjects, using intramuscular electromyography (needle EMG) are treated and processed in order to be classified for the diagnosis of neuromuscular pathology. Feedforward-backpropagation neural network is used for the classification. Recognition rates were found to be higher than 70% and higher when using time domain features as inputs for the neural network.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127317085","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":"Error correction capabilities in block ciphers","authors":"A. Belal, B. Owaidat, N. Saleh, R. Jaber","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462905","url":null,"abstract":"In information theory, the Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different. It measures the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string into the other, or the number of errors that transformed one string into the other. The process of detecting errors in a sequence of bits is determined by comparing this sequence to a dictionary of encodings, if found then the pattern is correct, otherwise an error has occurred. In order to correct the errors, the original pattern is substituted with the closest pattern in the dictionary, i.e. the pattern with the smallest hamming distance from the original. A code having a minimum Hamming distance d, can typically detect up to d - 1 and correct up to (d - 1)/2 errors in a code word. In this paper we are going to study the possibility to design an encoding scheme by using random patterns in the dictionary that are created by a secure encryption algorithm, and we are going to test the error correction capabilities of our code. For our study, we used a model in which the code words are represented by whole numbers and an error of size r will change the message number by ± r. So, for example, a single error in the message x=7 will change the value of x to 8 or 6, and if x=7 is received as y=10 then an error of size 3 has occurred. The study will be as follows: if we have K numbers selected randomly from {1, 2, 3 ... N} where K<;N, what is the expected minimum distance between the numbers that we will get? To reach our objective, we designed a tool that will find the smallest distance between some K selected numbers out of N, and we were able to show theoretically and practically that for any N, there exist K<;N such that the minimum distance between those K selected numbers is definitely going to be 1, and therefore we cannot detect or correct any error.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128816900","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":"Hardware platform to tests the availability of rooms in a medical center","authors":"R. Y. Rezk, C. Sleiman, R. A. Z. Daou","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462848","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the major problem in Lebanese hospitals is the absence of accurate database systems that can provide the reception with a list of available beds or rooms in the hospital. Hence, the system we have realized aims to provide a new tool to check the availability of the beds based on hardware and software. Therefore, each bed is equipped of a sensor based network that can test whether this bed is in use or not. As a result, a test bench is realized in order to show the whole system. Note that a differentiation between first class rooms and second class rooms is also taken into consideration.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124328424","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":"Degradation of free space optical communication performance caused by atmospheric turbulence","authors":"A. Prokeš, L. Brancík","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462896","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper the influence of turbulent atmosphere on optical power loss in transmission channel of free space optical communication link is presented. Compared to the other, previously published works, the paper presents simulations based on very complex link model containing all important parts of an optical wireless communication system. The link model allows setting of the basic parameters of laser diode, transmitting lens, laser beam, receiver lens, and parameters of photodiode and front-end amplifier of an optical receiver and also allows selection of the modulation format and many other electrical parameters. For modeling the turbulence effect on the link performance the modified Rytov scintillation theory have been used. The paper extends already published analysis of scintillation loss performed for a plane wave to a spherical wave which includes, in addition, the propagation loss. Communication link performances are calculated not only in dependence on general quantities such as scintillation index or signal to noise ratio, but they are evaluated for real link model parameters such as transmission range or power link margin.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128823057","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. Yagain, A. Vijayakrishna, P. Nikhil, A. Adarsh, S. Karthikeyan
{"title":"FPGA based path solvers for DFGs in high level synthesis","authors":"D. Yagain, A. Vijayakrishna, P. Nikhil, A. Adarsh, S. Karthikeyan","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462882","url":null,"abstract":"Retiming is a transformation which can be applied to Digital Signal Processing Blocks that can increase the clock frequency. Folding in retiming can also reduce the resource utilization and power consumption. This transformation requires computation of critical path and shortest path at various stages. In this particular work, a FPGA based path finder is designed to compute critical path and shortest path in the Data Flow Graphs (DFGs). Since this path computation is performed using FPGA based IC, the speed of retiming transformation increases. This also reduces the resource utilization of the general purpose machine in which retiming transformation is usually performed. Critical path in sequential circuit is defined as the longest path between any two storage components. This determines the minimum feasible clock period for any sequential circuit. We need to compute the critical path before we apply retiming transformation to any digital Signal Processing block. Similarly shortest path computation is required in retiming while solving the system inequalities in the constraint graph. In this work, shortest path computation is performed using Floyd-Warshall algorithm. Since FPGA based hardware for path solvers performs much faster when compared to general purpose processor [where actual retiming is done], the speed with which the retiming transformation is performed increases. Xilinx ISE design suit is used with device as SPARTEN3E XC3S250E for the work presented.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126176216","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 the fractional order system in the thermal diffusive interface - Part 2: Application to a finite plane medium","authors":"R. Assaf, X. Moreau, R. A. Z. Daou, F. Christophy","doi":"10.1109/ictea.2012.6462855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ictea.2012.6462855","url":null,"abstract":"After presenting, in the first part of this work, the homogeneous aluminum linear semi-infinite bar, and having shown that the fractional behavior of order 0.5 appears for relatively high instances which represents low frequencies (it depends in fact on the location of the temperature sensor), this part aims to do almost the same study but for a homogeneous aluminum linear finite bar. In this case, we realize that the fractional order behavior, when found, occupies a limited frequency band within medium frequencies. In fact, for medium frequencies, the fractional order behavior appears when the measured temperature is near the boundary where the flux is applied. Whenever the temperature sensor is placed far than the critical distance, the fractional behavior is no more recognized.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132847477","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":"Determining the geographic effect of gas flaring using multi-SAR azimuth processing","authors":"M. Ezeoke, K. Tong, T. Adole, A. Lovett","doi":"10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462870","url":null,"abstract":"The remote sensing requirements to determine the effects of gas flaring on the environment and localize point of risk is immense. Based on the wave front reconstruction theory and Geographic Information System, this paper considers the principle of synthetic aperture radar cross range imaging to determine the extent of gas flaring using optical data and radar reconstruction algorithm.","PeriodicalId":245530,"journal":{"name":"2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130302150","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}