Adaptation of CDMA Soft Handoff Thresholds Using Fuzzy Inference System

This paper proposes a new procedure to adjust soft handoff thresholds dynamically by using fuzzy inference system. This algorithm is compared with IS-95A and IS-95B/cdma2000 soft handoffs. The aims are to increase the thresholds at high traffic loads in order to release the traffic channel for supporting more carried traffic, and to decrease the thresholds at low traffic loads in order to give high quality of traffic channel. The inputs of the proposed algorithm are the number of remaining channels of each base station and the number of active pilots in active set of each mobile station. The output is the new soft handoff thresholds. In the fuzzy inference module, the triangular membership function, the max-min composition, and the weighted average formula defuzzification are selected. By comparison of all performance indicators among three algorithms, soft handoff using fuzzy inference tends to give higher performance than those of IS-95A and IS-95B/cdma2000 soft handoffs at high traffic loads and at lower soft handoff thresholds while the quality of traffic channel is still acceptable. Moreover, the wider soft handoff window size of the proposed algorithm gives high carried traffic and low blocking probability but lower quality of traffic channels. In addition, the adaptive soft handoff window size can give lower blocking probability while still keep acceptable quality of traffic channels.     

Effects of diameter ratio of adiabatic circular cylinder and tilt angle on natural convection from a square open tilted cavity

A numerical analysis is carried out to study the performance of natural convection inside a square open tilted cavity filled with air. An adiabatic circular solid cylinder is placed at the center of the cavity and the sidewall in front of the breathing space is heated by a constant heat flux. The top and bottom walls are kept at the ambient constant temperature. Two‐dimensional forms of Navier–Stokes equations along with the energy equations are solved using the Galerkin finite element method. Results are obtained for a range of Grashof numbers from 10³ to 10⁶ at Pr = 0.71 while the tilt angle varies from 0 to 45° and the diameter ratio of the cylinder is considered to be 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 with constant physical properties. The parametric studies for a wide range of cylinder diameter ratios and cavity tilt angles show significant features of the present problem in terms of stream functions and temperature profiles. The computational results indicate that the heat transfer coefficient is strongly influenced by the above governing parameters. It is also found that the average Nusselt number decreases when the diameter ratio increases. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res; Published online in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/htj ). DOI 10.1002/htj.21001     

A die rotating system for moderations of extrusion load and pressure drop profiles for molten PP and wood/polypropylene composites in extrusion processes

A die‐rotating system was proposed in this work for moderations of extrusion forces and entrance pressure drop for molten polypropylene (PP) and wood/polypropylene (WPP) composites in a capillary rheometer and a single screw extruder. The effects of processing conditions and wood loading in PP were of our interests. The extrusion force and entrance pressure drop with and without the die rotating system were monitored in real‐time. This was the first time that the die‐rotating system was used for processing of highly viscous wood/polymer composite materials. It was found that the flow properties of the molten PP and WPP composites obeyed pseudoplastic non‐Newtonian behavior. The behavior was more obvious at wood contents of above 6 wt % and in the capillary rheometer. The rotation of the die could moderate the extrusion load by 60% and entrance pressure drop by 20% in the capillary rheometer, and the entrance pressure drop by 30% in the single screw extruder, especially at the conditions where the viscosities of the WPP and the extrusion rate were high. Greater fluctuations in entrance pressure drop caused by die rotation were observed in the single screw extruder. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 120:1006–1016, 2011     

An optimum virtual paths network-based atm network using the genetic algorithm

In this article, we propose the use of the Genetic Algorithm (GA) to optimize a Virtual Paths (VPs) network and describe a simple coding technique. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.