A. Muhammad, Fan Wang, Zefeng Lv, Muhammad Asad, Samra Zafar, E. Munir, Xiaopeng Hu
{"title":"Energy Efficient Cubical layered Path Planning Algorithm (EECPPA) for acoustic UWSNs","authors":"A. Muhammad, Fan Wang, Zefeng Lv, Muhammad Asad, Samra Zafar, E. Munir, Xiaopeng Hu","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121900","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we purpose Energy Efficient logical Cubical layered Path Planning Algorithm (EECPPA) and Multiple Sink EECPPA (MSEECPPA) for acoustic 3D Under Water Sensor Networks (UWSNs). EECPPA and MSEECPPA algorithms are completely distributed and highly adoptive in their execution in logical divided 3D networks into multiple cubes. Proposed models are flexible during location variations of sensors and have excellent ability to reconfigure the size of the logical cubes within 3D cubical UWSNs. These multiple logical cubes play vital role in selection of multiple group leading nodes, called Cluster Heads (CHs). The iterative executional operation of EECPPA and MSEECPPAA is divided into three phases called; Network Dimensional Phase (NDP), Network Settling Phase (NSP) and Network Transmission Phase (NTP). In first phase, multiple cubical layers are constructed, in second leading nodes are selected near the reference point of logical cube's boundaries and in NTP actual communications of the nodes take place. MSEECPPA algorithm selects the suitable relaying nodes called multiple sinks to utilize the multi-hoping mechanism to increase the lifetime of longer distance nodes from the Base Station (BS). Extensive simulation experiments provide the encouraging findings that proposed models outperform the DBR routing protocol in successful packet delivery, less propagational delay and better network lifetime.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122165406","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":"Measurements of construction materials penetration losses at frequencies from 26.5 GHz to 40 GHz","authors":"C. Vargas, L. Mello, R. C. Rodriguez","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121917","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents results of measurements of penetration losses for common construction material in frequencies between 26.5 GHz and 40 GHz. The results are important to the design and deployment of 5G cellular communication systems that will possibly operate in millimeter wave bands, in addition to the currently used frequencies. The penetration losses were in laboratory using a signal generator, two 20 dBi horn antennas and a spectrum analyzer. The materials tested were thin and thick Styrofoam, thin and thick pressed wood, thin and thick solid wood, window glass, a wooden door and a brick wall and measurements show that brick almost completely blocks the millimeter wave signal, causing attenuations up to 64 dB at 34 GHz, whereas the penetration loss is negligible, as expected. Penetration loss in pressed wood and wood significantly depends on the material's thickness.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132275998","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}
Ahmed Youssef, P. Driessen, F. Gebali, B. Moa, Stephen T. Harrison
{"title":"Enhancement of time compression overlap-add using multirate downsample upsample shift add algorithm","authors":"Ahmed Youssef, P. Driessen, F. Gebali, B. Moa, Stephen T. Harrison","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121904","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce a Downsample Upsample Shift Add (DUSA) method that faithfully implements the Time Compression Overlap-Add (TC-OLA) technique while overcoming some of the existing TC-OLA implementation shortcomings. The mathematical framework of DUSA relies on three operators: downsample, upsample, shift and add operators, and is shown to yield the same results as TC-OLA. Moreover, at some point of the processing of DUSA is carried out at a lower sampling rate which partially decreases the complexity of the design. Furthermore, DUSA does not depend on the window function and inherently accommodates any values of the TC-OLA parameters, namely the segment length, M, and the hoping size, R. Finally, DUSA can be easily extended to implement other schemes such as CDMA.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125378273","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}
Tianming Wei, Y. Coady, Josh MacDonald, K. Booth, Jon Salter, C. Girling
{"title":"Dumb pipes for smart systems: How tomorrow's applications can salvage yesterday's plumbing","authors":"Tianming Wei, Y. Coady, Josh MacDonald, K. Booth, Jon Salter, C. Girling","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121899","url":null,"abstract":"Tomorrow's immersive applications will leverage Mixed Reality interfaces accessing a multitude of services from distributed clouds. They will face extreme latency constraints, massive datasets, spontaneous collaboration, and constant service churn. This paper outlines our experience evolving an application designed to support collaborative work in Urban Design (UD) practices. The application, UD Co-Spaces, recently weathered significant churn as a core service was discontinued and replaced by a service with a subtly different API. A “dumb pipes” approach, where services communicate through a simple message queue, facilitated this evolution with relatively little disruption to the rest of the system. We show how this strategy can be used to reintroduce new features to the system, and is sustainable as the system's interfaces evolve to use Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality environments.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123000564","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 efficient FPGA-based memory architecture for compute-intensive applications on embedded devices","authors":"S. N. Shahrouzi, D. Perera","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121901","url":null,"abstract":"FPGAs are increasingly being utilized to accelerate real-time compute and data intensive applications on embedded platforms. FPGAs achieve high speed-performance by exploiting a variety of parallelisms in computations. However, on-chip memories of current FPGAs are typically dual-port, which hinders multiple simultaneous read/write (R/W) operations required for parallel processing. Although several multi-ported memories are proposed in the literature to address this issue, there is a tradeoff associated with the existing architectures; that is, increasing the number of ports, reduces the total available memory on chip for the block RAMs to store essential data for real-time processing. This tradeoff is not desirable, especially for real-time compute/data intensive applications on embedded platforms, due to the significant amount of time spent on accessing the external memory. In this research work, we introduce a novel and efficient multi-ported memory architecture to bridge the gap between this tradeoff. Experiments are performed to evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of our multi-ported memory architecture. Our unique memory architecture is generic and parameterized. Our memory can be configured to provide a sufficient number of ports for simultaneous R/W operations, while utilizing the total available on-chip memory to store the essential data.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121492555","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":"Handwritten digits recognition using PCA of histogram of oriented gradient","authors":"Wu-Sheng Lu","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121906","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a multiclass classifier based on principal component analysis (PCA) of histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) for accurate and fast recognition of handwritten digits. HOG is known as an effective feature descriptor for computer vision and image processing, and PCA has shown its ability for fast multiclass recorgenition. By combining PCA with HOG, the PCA-of-HOG based classifier is developed. The proposed algorithm was applied to the MNIST database of handwritten digits to demonstrate its performance in comparison with classifiers based on PCA of raw input data.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134146419","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":"Disordered speech quality estimation using linear prediction","authors":"Y. S. E. Ali, V. Parsa, P. Doyle, S. Berkane","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121897","url":null,"abstract":"Tracheoesophageal (TE) speech is generated by patients who have undergone a total laryngectomy where the larynx (voice box) is removed and replaced by a tracheoesophageal puncture. This work presents a novel low complexity algorithm to estimate the degree of severity of disordered TE speech. The proposed algorithm uses features which are computed from 32-ms voiced frames of the speech signal. A 21-st order LPC analysis is performed on each voiced frame of the speech and high order statistics (central moments: mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis) are extracted from the LPC coefficients, Cepstral coefficients and the LPC residual signal. The averages of each of these moments are computed along with the pitch average over all voiced frames yielding a total of 14 quality features. Experimental results with two sets of databases (20 and 35 TE speakers) showed that the proposed speech quality estimation approach performs well with a correlation with subjective scores in the range between 0.81 and 0.86.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122516310","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}
Nathan Vandenberg, Maycira P. F. Costa, Y. Coady, T. Agbaje
{"title":"PySciDON: A python scientific framework for development of ocean network applications","authors":"Nathan Vandenberg, Maycira P. F. Costa, Y. Coady, T. Agbaje","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121926","url":null,"abstract":"Remote sensing reflectance is measured by ocean colour satellites, and is used as a proxy for estimation of ocean productivity. However, satellite reflectance data needs to be validated so accurate productivity data is retrieved. To accomplish this, large amounts of in situ above-water reflectance data are collected by the SAS Solar Tracker developed by Satlantic, and installed in moving ships. This provides a large amount of data that needs to be calibrated, flagged for erroneous measurements, and further processed for proper validation of satellite measure reflectance. In this paper we compare our own system, PySciDON, with state-of-the-art commercial software. PySciDON filters data based on longitude, meteorological, and erroneous viewing angle flags, and further calculates reflectance based on input wind speeds, and simulation of different ocean colour satellite bands. As a case study, we tested PySciDON output with data acquired in 2016 on the west coast of Canada with FOCOS (Ferry Ocean Colour Observation Systems) and compared with Prosoft, a proprietary software by Satlantic. The analysis shows that in the early processing stages, PySciDON produces similar data as Prosoft. However, later processing stages show small differences, which could be associated with the interpolation model or some issues we have uncovered with Prosoft.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"320 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116428578","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}
Naeem Ayoub, Muhammad Asad, M. Aslam, Zhen-guo Gao, E. Munir, R. Tobji
{"title":"MAHEE: Multi-hop advance heterogeneity-aware energy efficient path planning algorithm for wireless sensor networks","authors":"Naeem Ayoub, Muhammad Asad, M. Aslam, Zhen-guo Gao, E. Munir, R. Tobji","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121915","url":null,"abstract":"Designing and practical implementation of energy efficient routing protocol is always a major concern for researchers in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In the past decade various energy efficient clustering routing protocols are designed to overcome this issue. Clustered base path planning technique is widely used in both homogeneous and heterogeneous WSNs. Existing techniques are based on direct communication which consume more energy and create hot-spot near Base Station (BS). Inter-communication between nodes can play a better role in order to minimize the hot-spot issue. In this regard we propose Multi-Hop Advance Heterogeneity-aware Energy Efficient (MAHEE) clustering path planning algorithm for WSNs. In the proposed algorithm, advance Cluster Head (CH) selection algorithm is used in which nodes have higher energy will be chosen as CH. Moreover inter-cluster multi-hop routing with the help of advance CH selection can enhance the network stability and lifetime. Simulation results verify our proposed multi-hop technique give better performance over existing state of the art routing protocols.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127860962","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":"TDOA-FDOA source geolocation using moving horizon estimation with satellite location errors","authors":"Changxu Shan, Le Yang, Liu Yang, Xi Li, Wei Li","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM.2017.8121932","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers estimating the trajectory of a moving source on Earth using time difference of arrival (TDOA) and frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) measurements obtained over time at multiple satellites. The known satellite locations are subject to random errors. To cope with the source maneuver and/or temporal variations of the satellite location errors, a moving horizon estimation (MHE)-based technique is developed. It takes into account the presence of satellite location errors and estimates the source trajectory only in an iterative manner. The proposed estimator can reach the hybrid Cramér-Rao lower bound (HCRLB) under small Gaussian noises and the condition that within the estimation horizon, the source has constant velocity and the satellite location errors are fixed. Simulations corroborate the theoretical developments.","PeriodicalId":308087,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"120 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128490670","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}