Packet Design and Signal Processing for OFDM-Based Mobile Broadband Wireless Communication Systems

We consider improving the performance of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based mobile broadband wireless communication (MBWC) systems. We show that a recently approved packet-based MBWC standard can cause the resulting systems to suffer from severe performance degradations for time-varying channels due to the lack of a mechanism for tracking the time-varying channels needed for coherent detection. We consider both packet design and signal processing to deal with time-varying channels. For the packet design, we segment an entire packet into multiple subpackets—with each subpacket having zero tail bits to reset the convolutional channel encoder—so that the detection/decoding result of each subpacket can be used to update the channel response for this subpacket. For signal processing, we use weighted polynomial fitting and prediction at the receiver to improve the channel tracking accuracy. Simulation results show that the coherent detection based on our new scheme can significantly outperform the commonly suggested differential modulation/detection methods.     

梯度材料电场辅助自蔓延燃烧合成机理研究

采用电场辅助自蔓延高温合成技术制备了SiC-TiC-xNi梯度功能材料.利用电场的焦耳加热效应,使那些通过单一自蔓延高温合成(SHS)技术难以进行或不能进行的反应物的制备得以实现;电场加快离子的扩散与迁移速度,减少晶体缺陷,使反应更加充分.实验发现,随着电场强度的增大,反应体系的温度升高、电流值变大.     

Environmental factors and kinetics of microbial degradation of poly(3‐hydroxybutyrate‐co‐3‐hydroxyvalerate) in an aqueous medium

Environmental factors such as oxygen, temperature, and microbial species may have significant effects on decomposition of biodegradable polymers. A representative biodegradable, thermoplastic polymer, poly(3‐hydroxybutyrate‐co‐hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), was decomposed in an aqueous medium under controlled laboratory conditions by soil microbes for the intrinsic degradation kinetics and the effects of the environmental factors on polymer biodegradation. The amount of proteins, including the PHBV depolymerases, that attached to the polymer surfaces was quite constant during the period of significant mass loss of the polymer specimens. The microbial polymer degradation followed a zero‐order rate model, so the residual mass fraction of PHBV films declined linearly with time. The mixed aerobic microbial organisms from fertile soil showed a higher activity of polymer degradation than an aerobic PHBV‐producing bacterium and the mixed anaerobes in the same soil. The mixed anaerobic microorganisms from barren soil decomposed the polymer at a slower rate than the anaerobes from fertile soil, and this was attributed to fewer microbial cells in the barren soil instead of the difference in the microbial species. The temperature effect on PHBV degradation can be described with an Arrhenius equation, and the activation energy is around 16 kcal/mol. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 87: 205–213, 2003     

用于磁场测量的高精度500A/30V零压开关直流稳流电源

研制了一种带有无源辅助网络的全桥移相脉宽调制零压开关(FB PSPWMZVS)高精度磁铁稳流电源,并在电磁铁磁场测量中得到应用,其电流稳定度在8h内优于±1×10-4。     

Profile-Driven Component Placement for Cluster-Based Online Services

The growth of the Internet and of various intranets has spawned a wealth of online services, most of which are implemented on local-area clusters using remote invocation (for example, remote procedure call/remote method invocation) among manually placed application components. Component placement can be a significant challenge for large-scale services, particularly when application resource needs are workload dependent. Automatic component placement has the potential to maximize overall system throughput. The key idea is to construct (offline) a mapping between input workload and individual-component resource consumption. Such mappings, called component profiles, then support high-performance placement. Preliminary results on an online auction benchmark based on J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) suggest that profile-driven tools can identify placements that achieve near-optimal overall throughput.     

Optical-transmission characteristics of optical-fiber cables and installed optical-fiber cable networks for WDM systems

Many cables containing 1.3-/spl mu/m zero-dispersion single-mode (SM) optical fibers are installed in trunk and access networks. Recently, there have been a number of studies on wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) systems designed to increase transmission capacity and flexibility. If we can construct WDM systems using SM optical-fiber cable networks designed to transmit using wavelengths in the 1.3-/spl mu/m window (O-band), this will prove very effective in reducing construction costs. It is therefore important to examine the wavelength dependence of the transmission characteristics of SM optical-fiber cables and networks that have already been installed and in which several optical fibers are joined. In this paper, we describe the measured optical characteristics of SM optical-fiber cables and installed optical-fiber cable networks at various wavelengths. The optical characteristics were stable in the 1.46 to 1.625-/spl mu/m wavelength range and we confirmed that the installed SM optical-fiber cable networks could be used for WDM system applications.     

气测录井定量快速色谱分析技术

为了推动气测录井定量快速色谱分析技术在钻井现场广泛应用,该文从定量快速色谱与常规色谱的比较入手,在阐述定量快速色谱仪工作原理的基础上,探讨了定量快速色谱技术三个方面的优势——薄油气层的发现与评价、快速钻进条件下发现油气层以及加入钻井液添加剂条件下识别真假油气显示。相信随着定量快速色谱分析技术的应用,油气层发现与评价的准确率会得到很大提高。     

Computational analysis of thin coating layer failure using a cohesive model and gradient plasticity

Thermal barrier coatings (TBC) are widely used to prevent transient high temperature attack and allow components high durability. Due to strong inhomogeneous material properties the TBC failure often initiates near the interface between the brittle oxide layer and the ductile substrate. A reliable prediction of the TBC failure requires detailed information about the crack tip field and the consequent fracture criteria. In the present paper both cohesive model and gradient plasticity are used to simulate the failure process and to study interdependence of the interface stress distribution with the specific fracture energies. Computations confirm that combination of the two models is able to simulate different failure mechanisms in the TBC system. The computational model has the potential to give a realistic prediction of the crack propagation process.     

自对准双扩散MOS器件的阈值电压分析

文章提出了精确描述自对准双扩散MOS器件阀值电压的解析模型，给出了其沟道中杂质的二维分布和源结耗尽层宽度的计算方法；分析了边缘效应对氧化层电容的影响，借助电荷共事模型，建立了反映非均匀沟道中耗尽层电荷变化及其对开启电压影响的阀值电压模型；同时，借助二维仿真器，计算出自对准双扩散MOS器件的阈值电压，其值与解析值相吻合。     

一种基于PWM的电压输出DAC电路设计

对实际应用中的脉宽调制(PWM)波形的频谱进行了理论分析．指出通过一个低通滤波器可以把PWM调制的数模转换信号解调出来．实现从PWM到DAC的转换。论文还对转换误差产生的因素进行了分析，指出了减少误差的方法，论文给出了两种从PWM到0～5V电压输出的电路实现方法，第2种电路具有很高的转换精度。