The capacity region of a multiple-access discrete memoryless channel can increase with feedback (Corresp.)

The capacity of a single-input single-output discrete memoryless channel is not increased by the use of a noiseless feedback link. It is shown, by example, that this is not the case for a multiple-access discrete memoryless channel. That is, it is shown that the capacity region for such a channel is enlarged if a noiseless feedback link is utilized.     

A two wave theory of traveling-wave tubes and backward-wave oscillations

Starting from Pierce's small-signal TWT equations, a two-wave theory for complicated TWT's and BWO's is developed. Explicit gain expressions for TWT's with severs and velocity tapers are given. A detailed treatment is given of a BWA structure with a single-step velocity taper in the center. The BWO start oscillation current is calculated as a function of the taper strength. The effciency of a step velocity taper as a remedy for backward-wave oscillations in the higher passbands of a TWT is then analyzed. It is shown that a suitable taper can increase the start oscillation current by more than a factor of 10 without adverse effects on the TWT performance if the backward waye coupling impedance is low. A tube with a weak linear taper is analyzed by a perturbation technique and it is found that there is no significant difference between the start oscillation currents for tubes with weak linear or abrupt tapers of comparable strengths.     

Temperature control for food in pots on cooking hobs

A control system for the temperature of food in a cooking pot is introduced. The cooking pot is heated on a consumer cooking hob. The temperature of the pot side is used as input for the controller. It is measured by an infrared detector. The infrared detector is a thermopile. The sensor signal is evaluated by a rule-based control algorithm. The system is simple, reliable, and very user friendly. An exact temperature settlement in a consumer hob is available for the first time. The system is used for automatic cooking     

Theoretical Aspects of Microstrip Waveguides

The Microstrip is a modification of the wire-above-ground system of transmission - the wire is replaced by a narrow strip printed on a dielectric sheet which is backed by a conductor. An exact theory for such a structure is difficult because the cross section is not homogeneous and has a geometry which does not lead to separation of variables. Furthermore it is an "open" structure where the energy is not confined to a finite region as it would be in conventional or "closed" waveguides.     

GaAs dynamic memory design

Subthreshold leakage loss is a serious problem for GaAs dynamic memory. Since the leakage current in a MESFET is several orders of magnitude higher than that in a MOSFET, it is difficult to retain the charge at dynamic nodes resulting in data storage errors, In order to solve this problem, a novel DRAM architecture is proposed. The design is based on a cell consisting of a MESFET switch and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) planar capacitor as the storage element. The leakage current is reduced by a level-shift technique and a self-biased transistor is used to maintain the dynamic charge during the sense period. A high performance sense amplifier is used to detect small bit line voltage changes and refresh the stored data. A 1 Kb prototype, fabricated in a 1 μm nonself-aligned GaAs MESFET technology, exhibited a total read/write access time of the order of 3 ns     

High-Chip-Count UWB Biphase Coding for Multiuser UWB-Over-Fiber System

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a novel technique to optically generate high-chip-count, phase-coded direct-sequence (DS) ultrawideband (UWB) signals for multiple-access UWB communications. In the proposed system, a lightwave from a laser source is phase-modulated by a Gaussian pulse train. The phase-modulated lightwave is then sent to a polarization modulator, to modulate the polarization state of the lightwave by a code pattern. The polarization-coded optical signal is then converted into a biphase-coded DS-UWB signal by a polarization-dependent frequency discriminator. The key device in the proposed system is the frequency discriminator, which is implemented using a length of polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) and a polarizer. A 127-chip, biphase-coding DS-UWB that has a data rate of 26.46 Mb/s and a chip rate of 3.36 Gb/s is experimentally generated. A multiuser UWB-over-fiber system is then proposed and a two-user system is demonstrated, in which the encoding is performed experimentally and the decoding is performed by numerically calculating the correlation between the coded UWB signal and the signature sequence. The signal of each user is well recognized. An effective two-user UWB-over-fiber system based on the DS-UWB technology is thus demonstrated.      

Robust detection of a known signal in nearly Gaussian noise

A detector that is not nonparametric, but that nevertheless performs well over a broad class of noise distributions is termed a robust detector. One possible way to obtain a certain degree of robustness or stability is to look for a min-max solution. For the problem of detecting a signal of known form in additive, nearly Gaussian noise, the solution to the min-max problem is obtained when the signal amplitude is known and the nearly Gaussian noise is specified by a mixture model. The solution takes the form of a correlator-limiter detector. For a constant signal, the correlator-limiter detector reduces to a limiter detector, which is shown to be robust in terms of power and false alarm. By adding a symmetry constraint to the nearly normal noise and formulating the problem as one of local detection, the limiter-correlator is obtained as the local min-max solution. The limiter-correlator is shown to be robust in terms of asymptotic relative efficiency (ARE). For a pulse train of unknown phase, a limiter-envelope sum detector is also shown to be robust in terms of ARE.     

Modeling of a nonpinchoff depletion mode MOSFET

A depletion-mode MOSFET is typically formed with a thin channel of opposite conductivity type to the substrate. When a large gate voltage is applied to deplete this channel, an inversion layer is induced. As strong inversion occurs, the depletion layer depth reaches a maximum and cannot be further increased. If this depth is less than the thickness of the channel, the channel cannot be pinched off unless a reverse bias is applied to the substrate. Such a depletion-mode MOSFET is modeled as a MOSFET connected in parallel with a JFET which shares a portion of the channel. The MOSFET has zero background bias so long as the JFET is not pinched off. When the substrate bias V/SUB SS/ is larger than V/SUB p/ to pinch off the JFET, the MOSFET channel depth is reduced, equivalent to applying a background bias to the MOSFET. This background bias V/SUB B/ is shown to be a square root function of V/SUB SS/ and V/SUB p/.     

激光诱导放电毛化技术中放电坑的表面形貌研究

利用高重频YAG激光作用在固体表面所产生的等离子体使工件和电极之间在电压远低于击穿阈值的条件下产生放电。实验结果显示 ,放电坑基本上呈火山坑形 ,既有单坑结构 ,也有多坑结构 ,其形貌受到放电波形、电源极性、放电介质等因素的影响。放电坑表面形貌的规律是 :①除了涂油时的阳极放电坑是单坑结构以外 ,其他条件下的放电坑都是复合多坑结构 ;②单坑结构呈火山坑形 ,坑底为圆弧形 ,熔凝物堆积在坑的边缘 ,多坑结构则是一个大的放电坑中有多个凸起尖峰     

Firewalls fend off invasions from the Net

Whether a computer is in a corporation, government agency, university, small business, or at home, if it is linked to a network, hackers are a risk. The first line of defense against them is a firewall, provided it is set up correctly. Firewall technology is a set of mechanisms that collectively enforce a security policy on communication traffic entering or leaving a guarded network domain. The security policy is the overall plan for protecting the domain. Embodied in hardware, software, or both, a firewall guards and isolates the domain. Broadly, firewalls attempt to maintain privacy and ensure the authenticity of data communications that pass through their domain's boundaries. Whether data is entering or leaving a domain, it is protected from eavesdropping (passive wiretapping) and change (active wiretapping). But only communication traffic entering or leaving a domain comes under the influence of firewall technology     

Determination of Test Intervals in Certain Repairable Standby Protective Systems

A System has associated with it a Safeguard such that whenever a failure in the Safeguard is detected, the System is shut down. The System is restarted as soon as the Safeguard is repaired. An example is a standby protective system attached to a nuclear power plant; as soon as failure is detected in the protective system the nuclear plant will be shut down until repair is completed. In order to insure that the Safeguard remains in the utmost state of readiness, the components of the Safeguard are periodically tested, and repaired if the test reveals a failure. In this paper we define a measure of readiness appropriate for the above systems and consider the problem of determining the testing frequency of the components of the Safeguard in such a way that an adequate level of readiness is maintained. As an illustration, the method is applied to a typical reactor-trip system.     

A Short Polarization Converter Using a Triangular Waveguide

A novel polarization converter using a triangular waveguide is proposed and analyzed by the imaginary-distance beam-propagation method based on Yee's mesh and the finite-difference time-domain method. The polarization conversion length is investigated as a function of relative refractive index difference. It is found, for a silicon core embedded in a silica cladding, that the conversion length is 2 mum, while the insertion loss is 0.5 dB at a wavelength of 1.55 mum. The extinction ratio is more than 20 dB over a wide wavelength range of 1.25 to 1.65 mum. Using a geometrically expanded model, the polarization conversion behavior is verified in the experiment at a microwave frequency of 15 GHz. Finally, reasonable polarization conversion is obtained with a modified structure, in which the two corners of the triangular waveguide are cut and the cut plane is aligned with a square input (output) waveguide.     

An initial growth of a small-signal two-dimensional domain in a bulk effect device

This paper presents a small-signal theory of a two-dimensional domain initiation in a bulk effect device, and discussions are focused on a transverse extension of the initial domain. It is introduced that the transverse extension velocity is not so fast as compared with the longitudinal propagation velocity in a stage of the domain initiation. This is because the longitudinal propagation velocity is much faster than the stable domain propagation velocity, although the transverse extension velocity is also faster than the mature domain velocity. It is necessary to estimate a marginal distance for an immature domain to travel in a domain growth time when a logic element utilizing the transverse extension of the high field domain is designed.     

On the design of nonlinear discrete-time predictors (Corresp.)

The problem of minimum mean-squared error prediction of a discrete-time random process using a nonlinear filter consisting of a zero-memory nonlinearity followed by a linear filter is studied. Classes of random processes for which the best predictor is realizable using a nonlinear filter of the above form are discussed. For those random processes for which the best predictor is not realizable using the above nonlinear filter, an iterative procedure is presented for finding a suboptimal nonlinear filter; special attention is directed to the case where the nonlinearity is a polynomial. Also, a noniterative approach based on nonlinear regression is presented.     

Partial internal model control

Internal model control (IMC) is a well-known and effective control scheme. However, when unstable processes are concerned, the original IMC structure cannot be directly used for control system implementation. In this paper, a new scheme called partial internal model control (PIMC) is proposed, which is capable of controlling both stable and unstable processes. In PIMC, a process model is expressed as the sum of the stable and antistable parts and only the stable part of the process model is used as the internal model. The process stable part is canceled by the internal model and the remaining antistable part is stabilized and controlled with a primary controller, which is usually a PID-type regulator when the antistable part is of a low order. Various properties of a PIMC system such as internal stability and robust stability are analyzed. The design of PIMC is discussed in detail. Various simulation examples are included for illustration and a real-time implementation on a motor system is presented     

On the Capacity of Randomly Used Shared Channels

The channel capacity of a communication channel made available to a user on a shared basis with other users is here considered. An overall system bandwidth B is divided into segments and parceled out to subscribers in an overlapping manner. Viewing emissions by the sharing user as Gaussian noise, the channel capacity is treated as a random variable, and its probability function, mean, and variance are studied. For a fixed power to each user, it is found that the average capacity of a user is maximum when the number of multiple assignments of a frequency band is approximately the inverse of the probability of use. The increase in channel capacity over exclusive assignment is also determined. The probability function of the capacity is worked out for some specific case to show its dependence on the frequency assignment policy, and a general procedure for determining the probability function is given.     

A Study on Straight-Line Tracking and Posture Control in Electric Bicycle

The development of automatic control for driving a bicycle is a challenging theme and is expected to be a human assist system. Previously, an acceleration-based method for stabilizing bicycle posture was proposed by the authors. In the experiments with this controller, the posture of the bicycle might be stabilized, but it is impossible to run on the desired trajectory, because there is no consideration with respect to a trajectory control. For the sake of expanding this system into more sophisticated equipment, a realization of the trajectory control for the bicycle is important. From the viewpoint of an assist system for human motion, a unified control of posture and trajectory brings a sophisticated function to a bicycle, and a high-performance bicycle is expected to be a convenient vehicle, similar to a small car. This paper proposes two strategies to stabilize bicycle posture and trajectory control that realizes a straight-line tracking: one is a lateral velocity controller, and the other is a steering function controller. The validity of the proposed approaches is evaluated by simulations and experiments.     

One-to-All Broadcasting in Petersen-Torus Networks for SLA and MLA Models

In a network, broadcasting is the dissemination of a message from a source node holding a message to all the remaining nodes through a call. This letter proposes a one-to-all broadcasting algorithm in the Petersentorus network PT(n, n) for the single-link-available and multiple-link-available models. A PT(n, n) is a regular network whose degree is 4 and number of nodes is 10n², where the Petersen graph is set as a basic module, and the basic module is connected in the form of a torus. A broadcasting algorithm is developed using a divide-and-conquer technique, and the time complexity of the proposed algorithm approximates n+4, the diameter of PT(n, n), which is the lower bound of the time complexity of broadcasting.     

Nonparametric estimation algorithms based on input quantization (Corresp.)

The estimation of a parameter of a white discrete-time process with arbitrary statistical distribution is considered, using quantized samples. Because of the quantization the necessary statistical modeling is simplified to the measurement of a few parameters. Under the assumption that the parameter space is a small interval, a locally optimum estimator (LOE) is derived. It is shown that this estimator has a desirable parallel structure for implementation by simple digital hardware. The idea is then extended to the case of a large parameter space for which aG-estimator consisting of an array of identical LOE's is presented. To analyze the performance of this scheme, the estimation of the location parameter of a continuous, unimodal, and symmetric distribution is studied. In this case it is proved that theG-estimator extends the optimality of a single LOE to the larger parameter space.     

Filter-embedded design and its applications to passive components

A design in which a filter is embedded in a fiber fixed on a substrate is proposed. It was successfully applied to the fabrication of low loss fiber optic components for a single-mode fiber transmission system. These components have a wide operational temperature range. The design is easily adapted to a multifilter or multifiber component. Filter embedding is achieved in two ways. One is to insert a thin filter chip in a slit which is machined into a fiber fixed on a substrate by a dicing saw (filter inserted type). The other is to evaporate a filter film directly on a fiber end face and butt this fiber to another fiber on a guide groove on a substrate (filter evaporated type)