{"title":"Underwater Wireless Communication Using Coil-Based Magnetic Induction","authors":"Chaoxian Qi, Debing Wei, M. Pan, Jiefu Chen","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321593","url":null,"abstract":"A coil antenna-based magnetic induction (MI) scheme for subsea wireless communications is introduced. Magnetic induction (MI) is considered to be a good candidate to overcome the challenges posed by the harsh underwater environment. The designed MI communication system is implemented in hardware. Both numerical simulations and lab experiments are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the MI antenna.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126287493","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}
Jinkai Wu, A. Nashashibi, M. Kashanianfard, K. Sarabandi
{"title":"A Low-loss Waveguide Filter for Harmonic Rejection in a Polarimetric Automotive Radar","authors":"Jinkai Wu, A. Nashashibi, M. Kashanianfard, K. Sarabandi","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321613","url":null,"abstract":"A 75-83GHz waveguide band-pass filter is designed and fabricated for harmonic rejection of a multiplier chain used in a polarimetric automotive radar. The radar uses a multiplier/amplifier chain to achieve the desired signal at E-band from a source at X-band. It is shown that this filter can provide more than 50 dB signal suppression at 72 GHz (7th harmonic) and 35 dB suppression at 85.5 GHz (9th harmonic) with less than 1 dB ripples in the pass-band and less than 500 ps group delay. The filter is made of a perforated septum placed in the E-plane of a rectangular waveguide. Fabrication error was successfully minimized by using a brass sheet and a high precision laser cutter. This high-performance filter is shown to improve the performance of the FMCW MMW radar by significantly lowering the noise floor and eliminating other interference effects.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123359770","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 Noval Fast Resource Allocation Scheme for D2D-enabled Cellular Networks","authors":"Hui Dun, Fang Ye, S. Jiao","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321668","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation for device-to-device (D2D) communications with underlaying cellular networks. Specifically, in underlay mode, D2D communications optimize for maximizing the corresponding utility under cellular users' quality of service (QoS) requirement and transmit power constraints. To solve this challenging subchannel allocation problem, which is actually a nonconvex mixed-integer programming problem, we decompose the whole optimization problem into independent subproblems. Firstly, we find out the candidate D2D communications users who are permitted to share the same spectrum with cellular users in the admission control subproblem. Then, to solve the resource allocation subproblem, a novel fast and tradeoff subchannel allocation algorithm between utility and fairness is proposed with setting higher priority for unpopular D2D users. Simulation results validate our proposed novel fast allocation strategy achieves remarkable improvement with low complexity and fairness guaranteeing.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126223725","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":"Scattering and Diffraction of a Uniform Complex-Source Beam by a Finite Wedge","authors":"L. Klinkenbusch","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321676","url":null,"abstract":"A plane-polar multipole approach has been used to rigorously solve the scattering and diffraction of a TM-polarized uniform complex-source beam (UCSB) by a perfectly conducting finite wedge. The numerical results include a comparison between the scattered far-fields for an incident plane wave and an incident UCSB for different values of the corresponding focus length.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126607822","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":"Wideband Printed Ridge Gap 45° Schiffman phase shifter for millimeter wave systems","authors":"Islam Afifi, A. Sebak","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321684","url":null,"abstract":"The millimeter wave band is a highly potential candidate for wireless and imaging systems. Designing millimeter wave components using new promising technology such as the printed ridge gap waveguide is highly recommended. Phase shifters are essential components in beam forming networks and phased arrays. In this paper, a wideband 45° Schiffman phase shifter is designed in the printed ridge gap waveguide technology at 30 GHz. It has a wide bandwidth from 24.59 to 36.83 GHz (39.8%) with return loss better than 14 dB and output phase difference of 45° ± 3.5°.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130324497","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":"Subharmonic Mixing Using a Reflective Spatio-Temporally Modulated Metasurface","authors":"Zhan Wu, C. Scarborough, A. Grbic","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321648","url":null,"abstract":"A reflective, dual-polarized, space-time metasurface with subwavelength unit cells (d0 = λ0/5) is reported. Each column of unit cells on the metasurface can be independently, temporally modulated, allowing space-time modulation along one axis. The time-modulation of adjacent columns is staggered to establish a desired modulation wavenumber. A homogenized model of the metasurface is proposed that includes the discretization of the spatial modulation. Compared to the continuous spatial modulation commonly assumed in earlier works, the discretized modulation allows new phenomena such as subharmonic mixing. Specifically, when the reflection phase is a sawtooth function in time, subharmonic frequency translation can be achieved without additional filtering and mixing circuitry. Measurement results validating the theoretical findings are presented at 10 GHz.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"27 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123779954","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":"USNC/URSI 2020 Author Index","authors":"","doi":"10.23919/usnc/ursi49741.2020.9321623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/usnc/ursi49741.2020.9321623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122547365","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":"Step-Recovery Diode Pulse Generators for Time-Domain Microwave Breast Screening","authors":"Wesley Y. Kendall, M. Popovic","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321659","url":null,"abstract":"The main motivational factor of the here-reported work is the circuitry required for microwave-range operation of a time-domain breast screening prototype. A sub-nanosecond impulse generator was fabricated and evaluated for generation of 2-4GHz impulses for the initial device prototype. The circuit consists of shunt and series cascaded step-recovery diodes. The measured pulses have a full-width half-maximum (FWHM) of 95ps and peak amplitude of 280mV.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131731816","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}
Fang Ye, Tong Zhao, Yibing Li, T. Jiang, Yingsong Li
{"title":"Anti-interference Strategy Selection Method Based on the Minimum Loss Criterion","authors":"Fang Ye, Tong Zhao, Yibing Li, T. Jiang, Yingsong Li","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321675","url":null,"abstract":"The previous research on how to choose the anti-interference method is to build a profit matrix based on game theory, and select the anti-interference strategy with the largest profit value. This paper proposes a method of identifying anti-interference strategy selection based on the minimum loss criterion: transforming established profit matrix into a minimum loss decision matrix and iterating it enough times to get the best strategy. Compared with the previous methods, the proposed method in this study can be proved to achieve smaller losses.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133577631","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":"High-Accuracy Unambiguous Localization Using Spectrally Sparse Code-Modulated Signals","authors":"Anton Schlegel, J. Nanzer","doi":"10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/USNC/URSI49741.2020.9321639","url":null,"abstract":"Open-loop coherent distributed antenna arrays require that the localization error between the nodes is λ/15 or less to achieve 90% coherent gain with high probability, leading to ranging accuracies on the order of cm for beamforming at microwave frequencies. We present a ranging system using two code-modulated tones generated on separate transceivers in software-defined radio for unambiguous high-accuracy localization of nodes in distributed antenna arrays. The best peak-to-sidelobe level was -0.89 dB with the code-modulated waveform compared to -0.11 dB for a standard two-tone waveform, each with a frequency separation of 10 MHz. This increased suppression, though minimal in a traditional radar detection sense, is significant for cooperative ranging between nodes in a distributed array. The code-modulated two-tone waveform achieved a range accuracy below 3 cm in a wireless ranging setup.","PeriodicalId":443426,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134285282","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}