A simple transmit diversity system for fading channels using shaped sinusoidal functions

This paper proposes a transmit-diversity system using a pair of orthogonal pulses. The system uses a set of orthonormal-basic functions, which contains four shaped-sinusoidal pulses with the same frequency. The first two elements in the set are shaped sine and cosine pulses. The second two elements are the same sine and cosine pulses but they are shaped with the Hilbert transform of the shaping pulse of the first two elements. The modulator in the proposed system produces two modulated symbols for each data symbol. It uses the first two elements in the proposed set in modulating the first modulated symbol and the second two elements in modulating the second modulated symbol. The modulated symbols are transmitted though two antennas. The diversity order of the proposed system is twice the number of antennas in the receiver. In the proposed system, no space-time coding is used and the channel gains change every symbol period. This is different from the Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The receiver of the proposed system consists of two matched filters for each receiving antenna. No special detectors or interference cancelation techniques are used because there is no interference between the outputs of the matched filters.     

Closed‐Loop Transmit Diversity Techniques for Small Wireless Terminals and Their Performance Assessment in a Flat Fading Channel

Closed‐loop transmit diversity is considered an important technique for improving the link budget in the third generation and future wireless communication standards. This paper proposes several transmit diversity algorithms suitable for small wireless terminals and presents performance assessment in terms of average signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) and outage improvement, convergence, and complexity of operations. The algorithms presented herein are verified using data from measured indoor channels with variable antenna spacing and the results explained using measured radiation patterns for a two‐element array. It is shown that for a two‐element array, the best among the proposed techniques provides SNR improvement of about 3 dB in a tightly spaced array (inter‐element spacing of 0.1 wavelength at 2 GHz) typical of small wireless devices. Additionally, these techniques are shown to perform significantly better than a single antenna device in an indoor channel considering realistic values of latency and propagation errors.     

State space approach to magnetohydrodynamic flow of perfectly conducting micropolar fluid with stretch

In this work we introduce a model of the boundary layer equations for a perfect conducting micropolar fluid with stretch, bounded by an infinite vertical flat plane surface of a constant temperature. This model is applied to study the effects of free convection currents on the flow of the fluid in the presence of a constant magnetic field. The state space technique is adopted for the solution of a one‐dimensional problem for any set of boundary conditions. The resulting formulation together with the Laplace transform techniques are applied to a thermal shock problem. The inversion of the Laplace transforms is carried out using a numerical approach. Numerical results are given and illustrated graphically for the problem. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Memristor emulator with tunable characteristic and its experimental results

In this study, operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) based simple and practical TiO₂ memristor emulator is presented. The proposed memristor emulator employs a multi-outputs OTA, an analog multiplier and a resistor and a capacitor. The parameters of the proposed memristor emulator can be tuned electronically by changing the biasing current of the OTA. Change of the transconductance gain of the OTA provides an advantage: “externally controllable memristor”. Non-volatile resistive switching characteristics and an application of this proposed memristor are given. Also, the memristor emulator is implemented using the commonly available OPA860. The effectiveness of the proposed memristor emulator is verified by the experimental results, which show good agreement with the theoretical and simulation results.     

基于天线分集和空-时编码的抗舰载卫星天线指向损耗方法研究

本文针对舰载卫星天线指向损耗问题,将接收分集和空-时编码技术应用于舰艇卫星通信中。构建了舰船卫星通信信道模型,分析了舰载天线随机指向损耗特点,研究了接收分集和空-时编码技术,进行了舰船卫星MIMO通信性能仿真。研究结果表明,将MIMO技术应用于舰艇卫星通信可以有效改善舰载卫星天线指向损耗的不良影响。     

高职院校《电路分析》课程开放式考核方式的探索

传统的电路分析课程考核模式主要存在考核内容缺乏实践性、考核模式较为单一、成绩评价欠公平、缺少对考核结果的信息反馈等弊端。高职院校的学生普遍文化基础薄弱,学习动力不足,缺少有效的学习方法,自主学习意识和能力不强。针对高职学生的特点,建立“理论与技能相结合,过程与结果相结合”的多元化开放式考核评价体系,能更好地体现评价主体与评价内容、方式的“多元化”,突出考核内容与资源的“开放性”,以评促学,全面锻炼、提高和考察学生的综合素质。     

具有天线选择与中继选择的空间调制技术

针对空间调制(SM)技术存在的缺欠,提出了具有天线选择和中继选择的空间调制系统方案。首先在多输入多输出(MIMO)信道模型下,通过对发送端天线选择,将拥有最佳信道状态的天线选出进行SM,打破SM技术对发送端天线数的限制,并提升采用高阶调制的SM分集性能。然后进一步将此思想引入协作通信网络,结合传感器网络的分级观念,提出采用中继选择和空间调制的中继传输协议,并通过仿真观察系统分集性能的改善。仿真结果表明,上述中继传输协议不仅能提升系统性能,而且使系统配置更加灵活。     

基于混沌粒子群算法的多目标调度优化研究

针对当前车间调度多目标优化研究存在收敛速度慢、精度低的问题,提出了混沌多目标粒子群优化算法。在算法中,设计了一种新的叠加Logistic扰动的Tent混沌映射算子,通过该算子周期性地更新种群以保证种群的多样性;对收缩粒子群算法进行了扩展使其能够快速收敛到Pareto前沿。通过标准测试问题与实际应用对所提方法进行了验证,实验结果显示混沌多目标粒子群优化算法无论在收敛速度还是在优化精度上都优于其它典型多目标进化算法。     

Survey study and experimental investigation on the local behavior of pedestrian groups

Current research on pedestrian dynamics mainly focuses on the interactions among isolated individuals, the impact of the presence of groups is not fully considered. In recent 5 years, researchers have started to investigate pedestrian group movement. The aim of this work is to explore the local behavior of pedestrian groups by questionnaires and field observation. Survey study focused on pedestrians' psychology when walking in groups, which included five parts: group size, interpersonal distance, spatial relationship among group members, speed adjustment of group members, information transmission, and acid action among group members. Meantime a field observation was carried out to study group movement characteristics, which contained speed, step frequency, offset angle and interpersonal distance. The survey results show that group members have a closer interpersonal distance, faster information transmission and plenty of acid action. Conversely, group walking has a negative influence on pedestrian's speed, step frequency by comparing with the way isolated pedestrian walks. In addition, it is found that for a certain group, the group members are able to keep movement consistent. Also there exists obvious movement diversity among different group types (male dyads, female dyads, couple groups, and ordinary‐friend groups) because of different gender and social relationship. Ultimately the results will be more promising for helping to model the movement of pedestrian groups. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 20: 87–97, 2015     

Performance analysis of multiple‐input multiple‐output relay networks based impulse radio ultra‐wideband

In this paper, we study the performance of time hopping pulse position modulation for impulse radio ultra‐wideband. We consider relay network applying decode‐and‐forward protocol. The channels between nodes adopt the IEEE 802.15.4a norms. The bit error rate performance is analyzed considering the effect of interference. Our results show significant improvement due to the diversity gain provided by the relay nodes. However, the performance is limited when multiple access interference (MAI) is present. To combat the MAI effect and further improve the detection reliability, we propose to use antenna selection at the relay. The relay receiver is assumed to be equipped with multiple antennas, and only the best antenna is selected. This is shown to improve the performance in the presence of MAI and improve the diversity gain.Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.