Investigations on the flow field in an unshrouded pump impeller geometry

Transient CFD simulations are performed to investigate the flow behaviour inside an unshrouded pump using the SAS method. Two blade designs are compared at two different tip clearances and the results are validated by measurements. The detected vortex structure is visualized by the normalized helicity, further discussed regarding its development and behaviour and finally implicated to the efficiency of the two different blade designs.     

Record amorphous silicon single‐junction photovoltaic module with 9.1% stabilized conversion efficiency on 1.43 m2

Providing two‐thirds of the total stabilized power of thin‐film tandem MICROMORPH^TM technology, the amorphous junction remains a key element in the quest for higher efficiencies. This paper reports and summarizes a considerable work to achieve a record large‐area amorphous silicon single‐junction photovoltaic module. New hardware has been developed and known process steps have been accurately tuned and combined with new features of cell design. Effort was focused on the deposition of high‐quality and low‐defect a‐Si:H layers that has promoted an improved device stability and resistance against light induced degradation. Efficient light management has been used, and module design has been revised. The word‐record performance reported in this paper for a large‐area (1.43 m²) stabilized module conversion efficiency (total area) was measured and certified by Swiss PV Module Test Center to be 9.1%. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A generalized parametric PR-QMF design technique based on Bernsteinpolynomial approximation

A generalized, parametric, perfect-reconstruction quadrature-mirror-filter (PR-QMF) design technique based on Bernstein polynomial approximation in the magnitude-square domain is presented. The parametric nature of this solution provides useful insights to the PR-QMF problem. Several well-known orthonormal wavelet filters, PR-QMFs, are shown to be the special cases of the proposed technique. Energy compaction performances of a few popular signal decomposition techniques are presented for AR(1) signal sources. It is observed that the hierarchical QMF filter banks considered outperform the block transforms as expected     

An objective performance measure in multiresolution signaldecomposition

Presents an analysis of band energies and evaluates the effects of aliasing in perfect reconstruction (PR) multirate systems. An objective performance measure called nonaliasing energy ratio (NER) is defined. The merit of the new measure is emphasized with performance comparisons of popular block transforms and 2-band PR-QMF based hierarchical filter banks. It is shown that the new measure complements the widely used energy compaction measure     

Performance Analysis of OFDM Repeater Networks with Spatial Fading Correlation

This paper analyzes the performance of the OFDM diversity systems with the spatial fading correlation when the network includes an RF repeater. In case of OFDM transmission, since the combining scheme is usually employed in the frequency domain, the correlation between different subchannels should be considered. In a multipath channel, correlation varies over subchannels depending on the channel delay profile and the spatial correlation between each individual delayed paths. In this study, a multipath channel is constructed by the repeated signal instead of natural multipath due to cluttered environments and the system performance with spatial correlation per subcarrier is evaluated. Previously, it is reported that the effect of correlation can be reduced by the Time Shifted Sampling (TSS) technique which relies on the multipath diversity. Numerical results indicate that the TSS technique is also effective in reducing the effect of correlation for the multipath channels constructed by the repeaters.     

Towards the formation of comprehensive SLAs between heterogeneous wireless DiffServ domains

Traffic patterns generated by multimedia services are different from traditional Poisson traffic. It has been shown in numerous studies that multimedia network traffic exhibits self-similarity and burstiness over a large range of time-scales. The area of wireless IP traffic modeling for the purpose of providing assured QoS to the end-user is still immature and the majority of existing work is based on characterization of wireless IP traffic without any coupling of the behaviour of queueing systems under such traffic conditions. Work in this area has either been limited to simplified models of FIFO queueing systems which do not accurately reflect likely queueing system implementations or the results have been limited to simplified numerical analysis studies. In this paper, we advance the knowledge of queueing systems by example of traffic engineering of different UMTS service classes. Specifically, we examine QoS mapping using three common queueing disciplines; Priority Queuing (PQ), Low Latency Queuing (LLQ) and Custom Queueing (CQ), which are likely to be used in future all-IP based packet transport networks. The present study is based on a long-range dependent traffic model, which is second order self-similar. We consider three different classes of self-similar traffic fed into a G/M/1 queueing system and construct analytical models on the basis of non-preemptive priority, low-latency queueing and custom queueing respectively. In each case, expressions are derived for the expected waiting times and packet loss rates of different traffic classes. We have developed a comprehensive discrete-event simulator for a G/M/1 queueing system in order to understand and evaluate the QoS behaviour of self-similar traffic and carried out performance evaluations of multiple classes of input traffic in terms of expected queue length, packet delay and packet loss rate. Furthermore, we have developed a traffic generator based on the self-similar traffic model and fed the generated traffic through a CISCO router-based test bed. The results obtained from the three different queueing schemes (PQ, CQ and LLQ) are then compared with the simulation results in order to validate our analytical models.     

A Novel Underlay Cognitive Radio Based on Direct Sequence Complementary Coded CDMA

In this study, we propose a spectrum sharing scheme where secondary-users (SUs) can co-exist at the same frequency band with the primary-users simultaneously. Both primary (PN) and secondary networks (SN) are considered as CDMA based networks with the same set of orthogonal complementary codes. An orthogonal complementary code set possesses both ideal auto-correlation function (ACF) of any code and ideal cross-correlation function for any two codes in the same set. In the proposed scheme, a delay is applied to the transmission of the SN which exploits ideal ACF properties of complementary codes and will not interfere the transmission of the primary user. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme enables SUs to efficiently utilize the PN’s licensed spectrum without any harmful interference.     

Permutation Based Design of Orthogonal Block Transforms and Filter Banks

In this work, a new efficient design techniquefor orthogonal block transforms, lapped orthogonal transformsand 4-channel perfect reconstruction subband filter banks isdeveloped. The technique consists of permutation and sign changeoperations on a reference vector. This approach can be thoughtof as a generalization of the Hadamard transform in the sensethat the reference vector h ₀ (which will be a prototype low-pass filteralso forming one of the basis functions of the transform) willin general have components that are not identically 1's. Thedesign technique, a constructive method based on Hadamard arrays,provides a convenient means to explore new transforms. The meritof our method is that the number of unknowns and equality constraintsare both reduced significantly which render the design proceduremuch more feasible while guaranteeing at the same time linearphase.