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... The state x1 and x2 of the closed-loop system in Example 3.5 Simulation result is shown in Figure for the initial condition x0 − T , T 0.2, τ 0.1, α and F t β , where α and β are random constants ... vector, and u ∈ Rm is the external input of system 2.1 f : Rn → Rn is a continuous nonlinear function with f 0, and there exists a positive definite matrix Q such that f x ≤ xT Qx for x ∈ Rn ΔA t and ... and any scalar β > 0, the following inequality holds: MN N T MT ≤ β−1 MQ−1 MT βN T QN 2.4 Lemma 2.3 see 16 Given constant symmetric matrices S1 , S2 , S3 , and S1 0, then S1 S2 S−1 ST < if and...
... iterations and analyzed, and their derivative values, such as mean, median, and standard deviation, are also calculated and studied An additional feature, such as the central energy, is also defined and ... Canada Research Chairs’ Program and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada References [1] L M Donagh, F Bimbot, and R Gribonval, “A granular approach for the analysis ... Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, vol 38, no 1, pp 2–8, 2000 [4] K Umapathy, Time-frequency modelling of wideband audio and speech signals, M.S thesis, Deparment of Electrical and...
... stationary and nonstationary blocks in a sequence of frames (box 1-stationary block, box 2-nonstationary block) Video Analysisand Reconstruction Using Time-Frequency Representations and Fast Hermite ... Sullivan and T Wiegand, “Video compression-from concepts to the H.264/AVC standard,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 93, no 1, pp 18–31, 2005 [2] J L Mitchell, W B Pennebaker, C E Fogg, and D J LeGall, ... 454–474, August 2004 11 [8] T Wiegand, G J Sullivan, G Bjøntegaard, and A Luthra, “Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,...
... path loss exponent n and the distance ratio dM /dW , dM being the distance between the transmitter and the legitimate receiver, and dW is the distance between the transmitter and the eavesdropper: ... Dagiuklas, and S Kotsopoulos, “An obstacle-aware human mobility model for ad hoc networks,” in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysisand Simulation of Computer and ... Communications and Networking 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 P(Cs > 0) original value dR = dR = 0.8 0.9 dR = dR = The Probability of Nonzero Secrecy Capacity and Outage Secrecy Capacity before and after...
... Figures 14 and 15, we report on the numerical test runs for α 1, β 1, and two values of t1 , t1 0.2 and t1 0.8, respectively In Figures 16 and 17, analogous results for α 5, β 0.5, and t1 0.2, ... of problem 1.6a - 1.6b and their dead cores, we need to introduce two additional functions μ and p related to h and study their properties Lemma 2.4 Assume that 1.7 holds and let h be given by ... } and {τn } in 0, such that limn → ∞ νn t0 limn → ∞ τn and c1 , and limn → ∞ μ τn c2 with c1 / c2 Taking {μ νn }, {μ τn } are convergent, limn → ∞ μ νn 10 Advances in Difference Equations and...
... SMP-Gabor method and from the grand average of the 8238 waveforms using standard MP-Gabor This table indicates that there are some commonalities between the SMP-Gabor and MP-Gabor on the grand average ... is the signal, and t and ω are the time and the frequency variables, respectively Some of the most This procedure converges to x in the limit, that is, x = ∞ k k=1 R x, gk gk , and preserves signal ... Family Study (MTFS), a longitudinal and epidemiological investigation of the origins and development of substance use disorders and related psychopathology All male and female twin participants for...
... punctured ZCZPS is introduced, and a method using optimized punctured sequence-pair and Hadamard matrix to construct such codes is given and proved In Section 4, the properties and ambiguity function ... [19] P Z Fan and M Darnell, Sequence Design for Communications Applications, Research Studies Press, John Wiley & Sons, London, UK, 1996 [20] P Z Fan and M Darnell, “On the construction and comparison ... sequences, Chu sequences, and modulatable sequences However, it should be noted that for both binary and non-binary cases, it is impossible for the sequences to have perfect ACF and CCF simultaneously...
... block fading channel [22].) S1 transmits 1i1 and 1p1 , S2 transmits 1i2 and 1p2 , and the common relay first transmits 2i1 and 2p1 and then transmits 2i2 and 2p2 , hence the level of cooperation is ... sources S1 and S2 transmit information bits and parity bits that are related to their own information, and R transmits information bits and parity bits related to the information from S1 and S2 ... [cNs +1 , , c2Ns ]T , and c(3) = [c2Ns +1 , , cN ]T , and where S1 and S2 transmit Ns bits (note that each user is given an equal slot length because of fairness), and R transmits Nr bits,...
... then performed and it confirmed a high correlation (R2 ) between model and experimental data Contralateral analysis showed that the mechanical behaviour of muscles (both dominant and non dominant ... between model and experimental data 2.5 Contralateral Analysis A contralateral analysis on both of the lower limbs was also conduced by comparing the following: (i) muscle motion of dominant and nondominant ... Hees, J.-C Lemper, and T Mets, “The feasibility of whole body vibration in institutionalised elderly persons and its influence on muscle performance, balance and mobility: a randomised controlled...
... reconstructs the multiview images from H and L subbands by inverting U and P steps in the analysis side Figures and show the first level decompositions of the DCWL Haar and 5/3 types, respectively EURASIP ... → 2i+2 , where X2i and X2i+1 are the reconstructed versions of image views X2i and X2i+1 Li and Hi are the reconstructed versions of low-pass and high-pass subband i of Li and Hi Note that at ... techniques and the R-D models for encoding image and video contents, there are not many works examining the development of distortion analysisand an R-D model to use in the bit allocation and to...
... 2 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking analysisand the design remain fully analytical and linear in the parameters, that is fountain distributions are ... properly addressing the rate splitting issue, and finally, conclusions and perspectives are drawn in Section System Description and Notations 2.1 Definitions and Notations We consider in this paper only ... a Gaussian random variable with mean m and variance σ = 2m [14] We call information content (IC), the mutual information between a random variable representing a transmitted bit and another one...
... (1), (16), and (17), the pdfs for cellular systems with D = 2R (typical value for WCDMA systems) and D = 5R are evaluated for both the proposed model and the circular-cell approximation and presented ... the circular-cell approximation and the proposed model is 4.7% if ρ = R, and 10.3% when ρ = r Integrating (1), (16), and (17), the corresponding cdfs are calculated and illustrated in Figure Noticeable ... previously defined The mean absolute, eP , and the mean relative, εP , estimation errors are defined from (20) and (21) substituting f [i] and [i] [i] fsim with P [i] and Psim , that is, the values of...
... the bandwidth of m(t) is very small compared with H(t) We assume that the signal bandwidth of V (t) and H(t) (hence the bandwidth of V (t) and H(t)) is BS , and that the bandwidth of nV (t) and ... term) and a zero-mean band-limited Gaussian with the same power and frequency range is shown in Figure In the simulation, the bandwidth of bandpass filter is 40 MHz (BL = 20 MHz), the bandwidth ... results in (25), and the results are shown in Figures and In the simulation, both the SNRV and the SNRH terms are equal, and the bandwidth of the antenna is 10 MHz wider than the bandwidth of the...
... simplicity and good performance The proposed algorithm will also lay a ground for the following cycle pathway research Methods The proposed algorithm is composed of a spectral density analysisand a ... Algorithm 1: Identifying cyclic process involved genes where x and σ stand for the mean and variance of the sampled data, respectively, and τ is defined as follows: τ= a tan 2ω m−1 l=0 sin(2ωtl ) ... number of alternative schemes were proposed recently to cope with missing and/ or irregularly spaced data samples Stoica and Sandgren [12] updated the traditional Capon method to cope with the irregularly...
... using a pseudorandom sequence, to randomize the interference and meanwhile makes it difficult to intercept and detect the transmitted signal Consider a DS-CDMA system with M users and K receive ... requiring d and 242 − to be relatively prime In other words, d should not be divided by 3, 7, 43, and 127 The secure scrambling process can be summarized as follows (1) The base station and the mobile ... protect the encryption key and to protect the mobile station from being hacked by the malicious attackers PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CDMA SYSTEMS WITH SECURE SCRAMBLING Pseudorandom scrambling in CDMA...
... xI and Im[x] = xQ Statistical expectation and complex conjugation are denoted by E[ · ] and ( · )∗ , respectively We also assume that the complex random signals and random quantities at hand, ... of research interest at communication theoretic research community and baseband signal processing levels, the radio implementation aspects and their implications on the system performance and ... as the I and Q branch D/A converters and lowpass filters On the receiver side, on the other hand, the I/Q downconversion as well as the I- and Q branch filtering, amplification, sampling, and A/D...