Antenna diversity for a narrow-band successive-cancellation multiuser detector

The performance of a successive-cancellation multiuser detector (SC-MUD) for narrow-band signals operating in the Rayleigh-fading channel is shown to deteriorate severely unless very large power margins at the receiver are maintained. To mitigate this deterioration, antenna diversity is applied and adapted to the SC-MUD. In each detection stage, the best signal for detection and the corresponding combining weights are determined jointly. Two criteria for selecting the best signal based on maximizing the signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio and maximizing the minimum distance-to-noise ratio, respectively, are proposed and evaluated. For signal combining, zero forcing and minimum mean square error (mmse) combining are considered. The obtained results show that the SC-MUD with mmse combining performs close to maximum likelihood joint detection while keeping a much lower computational complexity when the number of users is less than the number of receive antennas. The effect of channel-estimation errors is investigated for orthogonal training sequences and shown to result in a minor degradation compared to perfect estimation.     

The Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Two-Dimensional Hyperbolic Problems. Part I: Superconvergence Error Analysis

In this paper we investigate the superconvergence properties of the discontinuous Galerkin method applied to scalar first-order hyperbolic partial differential equations on triangular meshes. We show that the discontinuous finite element solution is O(h ^p+2) superconvergent at the Legendre points on the outflow edge for triangles having one outflow edge. For triangles having two outflow edges the finite element error is O(h ^p+2) superconvergent at the end points of the inflow edge. Several numerical simulations are performed to validate the theory. In Part II of this work we explicitly write down a basis for the leading term of the error and construct asymptotically correct a posteriori error estimates by solving local hyperbolic problems with no boundary conditions on more general meshes.     

Discontinuous Galerkin error estimation for hyperbolic problems on unstructured triangular meshes

We extend the error analysis of Adjerid and Baccouch [1], [2] for the discontinuous Galerkin discretization error to variable-coefficient linear hyperbolic problems as well as nonlinear hyperbolic problems on unstructured meshes. We further extend this analysis to transient hyperbolic problems and prove that the local superconvergence results presented in [1] still hold for both steady and transient variable-coefficient linear and nonlinear problems. This local error analysis allows us to construct asymptotically correct a posteriori error estimates by solving local hyperbolic problems with no boundary conditions on each element of general unstructured meshes. We illustrate the superconvergence and the efficiency of our a posteriori error estimates by showing computational results for several linear and nonlinear numerical examples.     

Robustness study of emerged communities from exchanges in peer-to-peer networks

The study of emerged community structure is an important challenge in networks analysis. In fact, several methods have been proposed in the literature to statistically determine the significance of discovered structures. Nevertheless, most of existing analysis models consider only the structural aspect of emerged communities. We are interested in studying the robustness of emerged communities in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. More precisely, we consider the emerged communities in the induced graph by all the exchanges in these networks. Hence, rather than examining the robustness only on the structural properties of the graph, we will focus on the parameters that allow the emergence of community structures. In fact, perturbing these parameters might destroy most of the obtained properties at the emerged level. To the best of our knowledge, robustness of networks has never been considered from this angle before. In this paper, we study the impact of perturbing the content and the profile of nodes on the emerged communities in P2P networks. We show how these alterations affect both structure and information supported by the emerged structures.     

Nonlinear multi-scale decomposition by EMD for Co-Channel speaker identification

Multimedia Tools and Applications - A multi-scale analysis method, called Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), has been proposed for analysis of nonlinear and non stationary data. The empirical mode...     

Cancellation technique to reduce intercarrier interference in OFDM

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are sensitive to frequency errors, which cause intercarrier interference among subcarriers. A new cancellation method to reduce the effects of frequency offset errors is presented. The main feature is to map each data symbol a_k which is to be transmitted onto a pair of non-adjacent subcarriers, with weightings +1 and -1, rather than to a single subcarrier. The carrier-to-interference ratio gain of the proposed method over normal OFDM varies between 10 to 30 dB. This method also offers a frequency diversity effect in a multipath fading channel     

Bandwidth efficiency of MC-CDMA signals

The bandwidth efficiency of MC-CDMA signals is evaluated and compared to that of DS-CDMA signals. For the same available bandwidth, the achievable processing gain of the two systems with and without filtering is evaluated and then compared