{"title":"A new map for chaotic communication","authors":"D. Chaves, Carlos E. C. Souza, C. Pimentel","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6947959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6947959","url":null,"abstract":"We propose in this paper a new one-dimensional chaotic map based on the hyperbolic tangent function that depends on a single control parameter r. The Lyapunov exponent of this map remains practically unaltered with the variation of r. Two new statistics are proposed to study the chaotic dynamic characteristics of chaotic maps, namely, the spread rate, and the contraction factor. The proposed map may be employed in chaotic communication systems based on symbolic dynamics with advantages over current approaches that uses piecewise linear maps.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123127379","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}
R. P. Almeida, R. S. Oliveira, N. S. Moritsuka, C. Francês, A. Teixeira, J. W. A. Costa
{"title":"Digital radio over fiber transmission based on SCM and WDM system for C-RAN architecture","authors":"R. P. Almeida, R. S. Oliveira, N. S. Moritsuka, C. Francês, A. Teixeira, J. W. A. Costa","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6947987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6947987","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents two technologies for Centralized Radio Access Network Architecture (C-RAN) based on Digital Radio over Fiber (DRoF) respectively SCM (Subcarrier Multiplexing) and WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing). The simulation analysis is discussed by evaluating the impact of the digitized process on the system performance, complexity and cost. Results indicates that SCM-DRoF has a acceptable BER performance for fiber links up to 20 km and WDM-DRoF can reach up to 40 km. However, WDM-DRoF uses a greater number of components compared to SCM-DRoF and it can generates a higher cost as well. Both setup can be used applied to C-RAN architecture considering this aspects.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121233992","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":"Speech intelligibility measures for speech enhancement under nonstationary acoustic noise","authors":"R. Tavares, L. Zão, R. Coelho","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6948048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6948048","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the study of four objective intelligibility measures to evaluate the performance of speech enhancement techniques. The objective measures have high correlation with the speech intelligibility rates obtained in subjective listening tests. Four noise reduction algorithms are applied to enhance the speech signals corrupted by real highly nonstationary acoustic noises. The results show that, for most of the noise conditions, the best intelligibility results are obtained by the speech enhancement technique based on the empirical mode decomposition. Moreover, the Wiener filtering based technique also achieves interesting intelligibility gain for the highly nonstationary noises.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123566528","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}
Gustavo Mendonça, Sara Candeias, F. Perdigão, C. Shulby, Rean Toniazzo, A. Klautau, S. Aluísio
{"title":"A method for the extraction of phonetically-rich triphone sentences","authors":"Gustavo Mendonça, Sara Candeias, F. Perdigão, C. Shulby, Rean Toniazzo, A. Klautau, S. Aluísio","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6947957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6947957","url":null,"abstract":"A method is proposed for compiling a corpus of phonetically-rich triphone sentences; i.e., sentences with a high variety of triphones, distributed in a uniform fashion. Such a corpus is of interest for a wide range of contexts, from automatic speech recognition to speech therapy. We evaluated this method by building phonetically-rich corpora for Brazilian Portuguese. The data employed comes from Wikipedia's dumps, which were converted into plain text, segmented and phonetically transcribed. The method consists of comparing the distance between the triphone distribution of the available sentences to an ideal uniform distribution, with equiprobable triphones. A greedy algorithm was implemented to recognize and evaluate the distance among sentences. A heuristic metric is proposed for pre-selecting sentences for the algorithm, in order to quicken its execution. The results show that, by applying the proposed metric, one can build corpora with more uniform triphone distributions.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126930859","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":"Enhanced motion cues for automatic depth extraction for 2D-to-3D video conversion","authors":"Gustavo Alves, Eduardo A. B. da Silva","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6947992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6947992","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present two methods of depth extraction for 2D-to-3D video conversion. One for a scene captured with a static camera and other for the case of a moving camera, both using information from the motion present on the scene. In the first method, temporal difference, morphological operations and a region filling technique are used to segment the moving objects and define the foreground. Moreover, analysis of how the detected regions vary over nearby frames is applied to ensure the temporal consistency. For the regions corresponding to background, depth values are obtained merging information from linear perspective and texture characteristics. The second method is applied when a dynamic background is detected. It requires an input sequence encoded with H.264, so the motion information extracted from the compressed bitstream is used to assign depth values for the entire scene.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132280038","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}
P. Nardelli, Carlos H. M. de Lima, H. Alves, P. Cardieri, M. Latva-aho
{"title":"Throughput of wireless networks with Poisson distributed nodes using location information","authors":"P. Nardelli, Carlos H. M. de Lima, H. Alves, P. Cardieri, M. Latva-aho","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6948051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6948051","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a statistical characterization of the individual achievable rates and the spatial throughput of bipolar Poisson wireless networks. We derive closed-form expressions for the probability density function of the achievable rates under two decoding rules: treating interference as noise, and jointly detecting the strongest interfering signals treating the others as noise. Based on these rules and the bipolar model, we approximate the expected maximum spatial throughput, showing the best performance of the latter decoding rule. We show that, when the same decoding rule and density are considered, the cognitive spatial throughput always outperforms the other option.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133255117","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":"Improved cryptanalysis combining differential and artificial neural network schemes","authors":"Moisés Danziger, Marco Aurelio Amaral Henriques","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6948008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6948008","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we show the application of a neural cryptanalysis approach to S-DES input-output-key data to test if it is capable of mapping the relations among these elements. The results show that, even with a small amount of samples (about 0,8% of all data), the neural network was able to map the relation between inputs, keys and outputs and to obtain the correct values for the key bits k0, k1 and k4. By applying differential cryptanalysis techniques on the key space, it was possible to show that there is an explanation about the neural network partial success with some key bits. After implementing new s-boxes, which are more resistant to the differential attack, the neural network was not able to point out bits of the key any more. We believe that this new methodology of attack and repair assessment using neural networks has the potential to contribute in the future analysis of other cryptographic algorithms.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115230731","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}
Thiago Marques Sousa, Cintia Borges Margi, Regina Melo Silveira, Bruno Carvalho Albertini, A. Saraiva
{"title":"Evaluating multipath routing protocols to improve video transmission for precision agriculture","authors":"Thiago Marques Sousa, Cintia Borges Margi, Regina Melo Silveira, Bruno Carvalho Albertini, A. Saraiva","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6947996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6947996","url":null,"abstract":"Precision agriculture (PA) is the application of technologies and principles to manage spatial and temporal variability related to crop production. A new PA application is emerging where semi-autonomous tractor systems with remote supervision requires real-time video transmission. This paper analyses the use of multipath routing protocols over an ad hoc network for farming areas and evaluates quality of service metrics, such as delivery frame rate, end-to-end delay and Peak-Signal-to-Noise Ratio, of the transmitted video flows. Results were obtained through simulation using NS-2 with Evalvid Framework. Simulation results show that QD-SMR has slightly higher PSNR results with less variability than AOMDV, and also better PSNR results than D-SMR and SMR when two or three video flows were transmitted.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115477617","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}
Bruno C. de Farias, E. B. de Lima Filho, E. Bezerra
{"title":"A proposal for clock reference correction in MPEG-2 transport stream processors","authors":"Bruno C. de Farias, E. B. de Lima Filho, E. Bezerra","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6947961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6947961","url":null,"abstract":"The transport stream is a standard format commonly used in digital TV systems for conveying audio, video and program-related information. Among other data, transport streams also encapsulate a timing reference, known as program clock reference, which is a snapshot of the 27 MHz system clock. This information allows clock recovery in receivers, which provides correct content presentation and even drives output interfaces. However, if arrival times of transport packets change during transmission or processing, such a scenario may lead to system clock errors, which is known as jitter. Traditional methods for correcting the program clock reference information are normally based on 27 MHz counters/floating-point accumulators and do not completely mitigate jitter. More recent methods use a semaphore-controlled counter/accumulator and even propose a joint adaptation and clock reference correction, which result in a reduced number of operations and low jitter levels at the output, respectively. Nevertheless, there is no study concerning the implementation of semaphore-controlled methods in transport stream processors. Given that, the present work proposes an implementation methodology for field-programmable gate arrays, using hardware description language. The related results validate the use of semaphore-controlled methods and show that the proposed methodology is effective, with the benefit of avoiding metastability effects.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124422903","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":"Discrete approach to electrical resistance tomography with applications to distributed network sensing","authors":"Frederico M. Aguiar, D. Pipa, M. D. da Silva","doi":"10.1109/ITS.2014.6947988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITS.2014.6947988","url":null,"abstract":"Most of electrical resistance tomography literature is aimed at biomedical application, where one wishes to estimate the conductivity distribution of some portion of human body in order to detect some health disorder. The solution to this problem often starts considering a continuous media, which requires subsequent discretization through finite element simulations or other sophisticated methods. In this paper, we propose an alternative and purely discrete approach. We pose the problem as a resistor grid, or network, of which only the peripheral elements are accessible for measurements. By injecting known electrical current externally, we want to estimate all the conductances of the network given only boundary voltage measurements. Since the relation between conductance values and voltage measurement is nonlinear, we present two solutions to the problem: one based on iterative linearization and another based on neural network, which solves the problem directly in the nonlinear domain. Finally, we present simulated experiments to demonstrate the viability of the proposed approach and highlight possible applications of the developed technique.","PeriodicalId":359348,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124423945","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}