Indirect test of M-S circuits using multiple specification band guarding

Testing analog and mixed-signal circuits is a costly task due to the required test time targets and high end technical resources. Indirect testing methods partially address these issues providing an efficient solution using easy to measure CUT information that correlates with circuit performances. In this work, a multiple specification band guarding technique is proposed as a method to achieve a test target of misclassified circuits. The acceptance/rejection test regions are encoded using octrees in the measurement space, where the band guarding factors precisely tune the test decision boundary according to the required test yield targets. The generated octree data structure serves to cluster the forthcoming circuits in the production testing phase by solely relying on indirect measurements. The combined use of octree based encoding and multiple specification band guarding makes the testing procedure fast, efficient and highly tunable. The proposed band guarding methodology has been applied to test a band-pass Butterworth filter under parametric variations. Promising simulation results are reported showing remarkable improvements when the multiple specification band guarding criterion is used.     

MIMO异构网络中一种基于人工噪声的抗主动窃听者的鲁棒安全传输方案

为保证MIMO异构网络面临多天线主动窃听时的安全性,该文提出一种基于人工噪声的抗主动窃听者的鲁棒安全传输方案。首先,考虑窃听者发送上行导频干扰的情形,研究了其发送的上行导频干扰对合法用户信道估计的影响。随后,基于信道估计结果对宏基站、微基站的下行数据与噪声信号的预编码矩阵进行设计,并推导了此种情形下系统安全速率的表达式。然后,以系统安全速率最大化为目标对基站的下行数据与噪声信号的发送功率进行优化设计,并提出一种基于1维线性搜索的求解方法。进一步地,考虑窃听者在发送上行导频干扰后,继而发送噪声干扰用户下行通信的情形,提出一种基于离散零和博弈方法来获取最优的发送功率设计。仿真结果验证了所提方案的安全性和鲁棒性。     

一种改进的IMMPF目标跟踪算法

对多运动模型的目标进行跟踪,通常采用传统的交互式多模型粒子滤波算法。但是,该算法存在一些缺陷和不足。为此,提出了一种新的基于变速率模型和遗传算法的IMMPF目标跟踪算法。针对IMMPF算法对目标进行跟踪时可能出现的未知可变转弯速率,采用了一种更恰当的可变速率目标模型;对于IMMPF算法中的粒子多样性丧失问题,则将进化理论中的遗传算法引入到目标跟踪算法中,对采样进行优化,增加了采样粒子的多样性,使采样向后验分布取值较大的区域移动。仿真结果表明,提出的算法能更好的适应目标的机动运动,同时明显减少所需的采样数,取得了更好的跟踪性能。     

Design of an enhanced access point to optimize TCP performance in Wi-Fi hotspot networks

In the last years, the number of Wi-Fi hotspots at public venues has undergone a substantial growth, promoting the WLAN technologies as the ubiquitous solution to provide high-speed wireless connectivity in public areas. However, the adoption of a random access CSMA-based paradigm for the 802.11 MAC protocol makes difficult to ensure high throughput and a fair allocation of radio resources in 802.11-based WLANs. In this paper we evaluate extensively via simulations the interaction between the flow control mechanisms implemented at the TCP layer and the contention avoidance techniques used at the 802.11 MAC layer. We conducted our study considering initially M wireless stations performing downloads from the Internet. From our results, we observed that the TCP downlink throughput is not limited by the collision events, but by the inability of the MAC protocol to assign a higher chance of accessing the channel to the base station. We propose a simple and easy to implement modification of the base station’s behavior with the purpose of increasing the TCP throughput reducing useless MAC protocol overheads. With our scheme, the base station is allowed to transmit periodically bursts of data frames towards the mobile hosts. We design a resource allocation protocol aimed at maximizing the success probability of the uplink transmissions by dynamically adapting the burst length to the collision probability estimated by the base station. By its design, our scheme is also beneficial to achieve a fairer allocation of the channel bandwidth among the downlink and uplink flows, and among TCP and UDP flows. Simulation results confirm both the improvement in the TCP downlink throughput and the reduction of system unfairness.     

4G关键技术研究

随着用户对移动通信系统的速率要求不断提高,3G系统实际所能提供的最高速率已不能满足未来市场的实际需求,因而在3G系统还没有大规模投入商用的情况下,国内外移动通信领域的专家已经在进行4G系统的研究和开发工作.4G是多功能集成的宽带移动通信系统,具有许多关键优势,因而已成为移动通信领域的研究热点.文章给出了4G的体系结构,并对4G相关技术的原理进行了详细分析.     

一种基于空时分组编码的MIMO-OFDM系统接收空间分集方案

文献[1]提出了一种使用正交设计的单输入多输出正交频分复用(SIMO-OFDM)系统的空间分集接收结构,目的是为了减少接收端DFT块的数目以降低系统复杂度和减少功率消耗。由于在线性处理过程中噪声叠加的影响,造成了一定的性能损失。本文提出了一种基于空时分组编码的多输入多输出OFDM(MIMO-OFDM)系统空间分集接收方案,通过在文献[1]提出的分集结构中引入使用空时分组编码的发射分集,弥补了因减少DFT块数目而造成的性能损失。本文对使用空时分组编码后的处理过程进行了推导,并对使用空时编码前后的系统性能进行了仿真和比较。     

Web文本挖掘在互联网信息统计中的研究与设计

互联网的迅猛发展，越来越迫切地需要全面准确对网上信息进行分类及统计，Web挖掘技术的兴起，尤其是该技术中的文本挖掘，使这种统计成为可能。本文研究了互联网信息统计的现状，介绍了Web挖掘技术并分析了Web文本挖掘的关键技术。继而结合文本挖掘技术设计了网站分类系统的模型，同时对其开发步骤进行了说明。最后展望了此技术方案在相关领域的应用前景。     

物联网业务特征及业务模型研究

介绍了物联网多种应用方式,特别对车联网、智能家居等物联网应用的网络通信方式、资源消耗等通信特征及参数进行重点分析,得出普遍适用的物联网应用网络层通信模型分析方法。     

Statistical analysis of large on-chip power grid networks by variational reduction scheme

One of the most critical challenges in today's CMOS VLSI design is the lack of predictability in chip performance at design stage. One of the process variabilities comes from the voltage drop variations in on-chip power distribution networks. In this paper, we present a novel analysis approach for computing voltage drops of large power grid networks under process variations. The new algorithm is very efficient and scalable for huge networks with a large number of variational variables. This approach, called variational extended truncated balanced realization (varETBR), is based on model order reduction techniques to reduce the circuit matrices before the variational simulation. It performs the parameterized reduction on the original system using variation-bearing subspaces. After the reduction, Monte Carlo based statistical simulation is performed on the reduced system and the statistical responses of the original system are obtained thereafter. varETBR calculates variational response Grammians by Monte Carlo based numerical integration considering both system and input source variations in generating the projection subspace. varETBR is very scalable for the number of variables and flexible for different variational distributions and ranges as demonstrated in experimental results. Experimental results, on a number of IBM benchmark circuits up to 1.6 million nodes, show that the varETBR can be 1900X faster than the Monte Carlo method and is much more scalable than one of the recently proposed approaches.