{"title":"Design of a VLSI neural network arrhythmia classifier","authors":"H. Shawkey, H. Elsimary, H. Haddara, H. Ragaie","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760911","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial neural networks are now attractive tools to enhance and improve the efficiency, the capability and the features of instrumentation in applications related to measurements, system identification, and control. The aim of this paper is to implement an implantable cardiverter defibrillator (ICD) using an analog neural network. The paper describes a VLSI neural network chip to be implemented using 1.2 /spl mu/m CMOS technology, which acts as an intracardiac tachycardia classification system. A robust neural network is less sensitive to noise, drift and offsets inherent in analog applications. The proposed classifier uses two types of neural networks a Kohonen self organizing map (KSOM) circuit and a winner take all (WTA) circuit.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"5 37","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120810017","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":"Optical constants of lead sulfide in the 3-11 microns window","authors":"I. Elfalla, A. Zaki, S. Alian","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760938","url":null,"abstract":"Lead sulfide (PbS) in thin film form was prepared by thermal evaporation in order to evaluate its optical characteristics. The absorption coefficient of lead sulfide in the 3-11 microns band of the infrared spectrum was calculated under smooth and rough surface conditions. The calculated and measured absorption coefficient was in a good agreement with that published by Semiletov. These results were an order of magnitude higher than that published in the handbook of optical constants of solids and referred to Scanlon.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125034512","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":"On the spectral efficiency of different coherent techniques for frequency comb multiple access systems","authors":"M. Ali","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760891","url":null,"abstract":"The spreading of M-ary signaling frequency comb multiple access (FCMA) signatures over different radio modulation techniques is investigated. Detection has been carried out coherently for AWGN communication channels including cochannel interference. The dependence of bit error probability on the signal to noise ratio, the number of simultaneous accesses, and the number of frequencies per signature are given as parameters. Coherence detection FCMA among FSK has indicated an improvement of FCMA systems capacity. The different modulation techniques performance is presented and spectral efficiency estimated. New systems results indicated 0.3 b/s/Hz compared to a maximum of 0.22 for the noncoherent M-ary FCMA.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128644392","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":"Adaptive interference canceller with minimized number of sensors","authors":"E. Soleit, K. El-Barbary","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760941","url":null,"abstract":"A method of interference cancellation using adaptive antenna arrays is investigated. A proposal for an adaptive antenna array is presented where the number of antenna sensors is minimized. The performance of both the proposed scheme and the ordinary one are compared through computer simulations. The effects of the number of array elements and interference to signal ratio (ISR) on the performance of the adaptive interference canceller is evaluated. It is found that the proposed scheme of the adaptive antenna array exhibits a better performance than the ordinary adaptive antenna array.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132052521","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":"Photonic switch using surface-emitting laser diode and APD","authors":"M. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760935","url":null,"abstract":"A very sensitive photonic switch is proposed by integrating vertically an avalanche photodiode (APD) and a surface-emitting laser diode (VCSEL). The switch requires a very low input optical power of /spl sim/1 nW, and emits a large output of several milliwatts. Both optical and electrical feedback from the VCSEL to the APD are taken into account. A closed-form expression for the switching characteristics is obtained. The dynamics of optical switching is analyzed using a small-signal stability analysis.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130908583","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":"Modeling of magneto-optic eddy current inspection of hidden flaws in aircraft skin","authors":"I. Elshafiey","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760929","url":null,"abstract":"Eddy current inspection of aging aircraft has currently achieved new developments with the introduction of magneto-optic imaging (MOI). Real time images of aircraft skin cracks and corrosion can be obtained using MOI instruments. The sensitivity of MOI inspection and hence the feasibility of its use for actual configuration depends' on instrument parameters, structure geometry, and flaw size and depth. Computational modeling of the three dimensional structure under test and its interaction with the eddy current source is inevitable to enhance the equipment design and determine the probability of detection of critical flaw size defects using MOI. Finite element modeling of eddy current magneto-optic imaging is invoked in this paper and applied to a typical configuration of interest in aircraft inspection. The configuration considers a flaw initiating under the cap of a fastener used to connect two aluminum layers of the aircraft skin. Two materials are considered for the fastener: titanium and steel. The results are presented in a field map of the normal magnetic flux field, similar to expected images using MOI inspection. Simulation results revealed that the change in the vertical component of the magnetic field is noticeable for this configuration, and that MOI can be used to detect hidden flaws covered by the fastener cap.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127881694","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 two channel IIR QMF filters with smooth wavelet functions","authors":"A. I. Saleh, M. Fahmy, G. Raheem, G. Fahmy","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760904","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a rapidly convergent algorithm for the design of pseudo perfect reconstruction two channel IIR filter banks with regular wavelet functions. Regularity is achieved through imposing multiple poles at z=-1 in the analysis and synthesis filter banks. The proposed algorithm yields a stable IIR function with equiripple pass and stop responses and with almost constant group delay. It is shown that the analysis and synthesis banks are of the same complexities and as a result of being realized in a lattice form they are immune from quantization effects. Illustrative examples are also given.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115149875","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}
M. Mayhoub, R. E. Zanfally, H. El Hennawy, S. Mahrous
{"title":"Efficient evaluation of the error probabilities of CDMA communication in mobile satellite channel","authors":"M. Mayhoub, R. E. Zanfally, H. El Hennawy, S. Mahrous","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760892","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the analytical performance evaluation of direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) signal transmission through a mobile satellite channel's system using Gold sequences. Because of the inaccuracy of the Gaussian approximation for the multiple access interference (MAI). An improved Gaussian process with good accuracy has been used. The impairments taken into consideration in the system are the non-linear effect of a travelling wave tube amplifier (TWTA) onboard the satellite (AM-to-AM and AM-to-PM conversions), additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and mobile propagation shadowing channel. The performance of the conventional detector receiver for MAI and the propagation channel modelled as shadowing (lognormal and Rayleigh) in suburban areas are evaluated both analytically and by importance sampling simulation. The obtained results of both the analytical and simulation methods, in terms of the dependence of the error probability on shadowing channel and the down-link noise at different values of input back-off of TWTA, are in good agreement.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128122755","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}
Hany E. Abd El-Raoufk, E.A. El-Diwani, A. Ammar, F. El-Hefnawi
{"title":"A 3D modified FDTD (2,4) algorithm for improving phase accuracy with low resolution","authors":"Hany E. Abd El-Raoufk, E.A. El-Diwani, A. Ammar, F. El-Hefnawi","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760876","url":null,"abstract":"A finite difference time domain method with low dispersion for time harmonic waves in 3D is presented. The method uses finite difference operators which are second order in time and fourth order in space with two independent optimization factors. The factors are used to minimize the phase error of the wave which enables the use of low resolution grids thus reduces the required memory. Good results for the phase accuracy are obtained compared with the second order Yee algorithm for the case of radiation from time-harmonic infinitesimal dipole.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134107442","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}
H. Abdelbaki, Erol Gelenbe, Taskin Kocak, S. El-Khamy
{"title":"Random neural network filter for land mine detection","authors":"H. Abdelbaki, Erol Gelenbe, Taskin Kocak, S. El-Khamy","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760927","url":null,"abstract":"The two primary measures of land mine detection performance are the probability of detection P/sub d/ and the probability of false alarm P/sub fa/. These two measures are highly inter-dependent and must be evaluated together. The relationship between the two probabilities directly affects the overall performance of the sensor in the field. In this paper we introduce a novel false alarm non-parametric filter based on the random neural network (RNN) model and the /spl delta/-technique. The study is based on mine detection using electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors. The minefield data are pre-processed via the /spl delta/-technique before applying it to the RNN. The RNN has a predefined structure that tries to implement a mapping close enough in some precise sense to the discrimination function between non-mine and mine patterns. Limited numbers of non-mine and mine patterns, extracted from a small calibration area for a certain minefield provided by DARPA, are used for training the RNN. We show that the RNN gives effective decisions on patterns measured on other locations using different EMI sensor. The results show that the RNN produces a probability of detection up to 100 per cent with a substantial reduction of false alarms over the /spl delta/-technique (up to 40 per cent false alarm filtering).","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114543237","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}