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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980, et al.
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Digitising Sensitive Heritage Monuments In Antarctica
- 2024
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Ingår i: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLVIII-2/W4-2024. 10th International Workshop 3D-ARCH "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures, 21–23 February 2024, Siena, Italy / editor(s): S. Campana, F. Fassi, and F. Remondino. - : International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. - 1682-1750.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the Antarctica expedition CHAQ2020, several cultural heritage sites – remains from the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) – were documented using a range of different techniques and technologies. These physical monuments and environments are for all intents and purposes unavailable for most researchers due to their remote location and are also threatened by the effects of climate change. Hence, the deployed documentation techniques and technologies were selected both as a consequence of the inherently difficult conditions in Antarctica, where their reliance, durability, and speed were key considerations, but also for their perceived ability to document the unique and fragile environment. The documentation was carried out with the double intention of both allowing for observations in situ through processes of analytical drawings and data capture, but also capturing the environment as broadly and deeply as possible, in essence making a copy of it open for studies of unknown unknowns, that could serve as a source material for research questions still undefined. Hence, with the documentation of the winter station on Snow Hill Island as a case study, and with a perspective on documentation as a method through which to process, preserve, and disseminate information, this article serves to critically detail, compare, and evaluate the digital techniques and technologies that the expedition deployed to capture architectural elements and spatial contexts, and the data that could be obtained through these.
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- Aydin, Osman, et al.
(författare)
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EU FP7 INFSO-ICT-317669 METIS, D 4.1 Summary on preliminary trade-off investigations and first set of potential network-level solutions
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- METIS WP4 covers research activities in network-level aspects of the advancement of wireless network technologies towards the year 2020 and beyond. The aim is to develop novel network-level technology concepts to address the challenges foreseen in future scenarios with regard to interference, traffic and mobility management issues. Moreover, another task of this work package is to propose functional enablers which can support the above potential solutions.This document provides* a report of the ongoing progress in WP4 regarding the research topics agreed upon in IR 4.1,* a high level description of the proposed concepts and approaches adopted by different partners.More specifically, the document describes, first set of potential network-level solutions and presents some first research results in order to position them with regards to the state of the art approaches. It also gives an overview of research activities to be considered later in WP4.
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- Beygi, Lotfollah, 1977
(författare)
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Channel-Aware Multilevel Coded Modulation for Coherent Fiber-Optic Communications
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The past decades have shown an ever-increasing demand for high-rate Internet services, motivating a great effort to increase the spectral efficiency of optical networks. In general, fiber-optic links are non-Gaussian, and in contrast to additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, there is no standard framework for quantifying fundamental limits or designing capacity-approaching coding schemes for such channels. In this thesis, some steps are taken toward this challenging goal by first developing a channel model for fiber-optic links and, second, using an information-theoretic design framework to investigate joint design of forward error correction and multilevel modulation, so-called coded modulation (CM), techniques for these channels.We extend the signal statistics of highly nonlinear single-polarization fiber-optic links with negligible dispersion to the polarization-multiplexed case. Taking chromatic dispersion into account, we derive an analytical discrete-time model for single- wavelength, polarization-multiplexed, non-dispersion-managed (non-DM) links. According to this model, for high enough symbol rates, a fiber-optic link can be described as a linear dispersive channel with AWGN and a complex constant scaling.We exploit the proposed channel model for highly nonlinear fiber-optic links to devise a new channel-aware multilevel CM scheme based on the minimization of the total block error rate. We introduce a CM system with an N-dimensional constellation constructed from the Cartesian product of N identical one-dimensional constellations. The multidimensional scheme shows better trade-off between complexity and performance than a one-dimensional multilevel CM scheme.By invoking the introduced channel model for the dispersive non-DM links, we present a four-dimensional CM scheme, which shows a better trade-off between digital signal processing complexity and transparent reach than existing methods. This CM scheme together with a probabilistic signal shaping method is used to devise a rate-adaptive scheme with a single low-density parity-check code. The performance evaluation of the proposed CM scheme for a single-channel transmission fiber-optic system justifies the improvement of the system spectral efficiency for a wide range of transparent reaches, observing more than 1 dB performance gain compared to existing methods.
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- Björnson, Emil, et al.
(författare)
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DISTRIBUTED MASSIVE MIMO IN CELLULAR NETWORKS: IMPACT OF IMPERFECT HARDWARE AND NUMBER OF OSCILLATORS
- 2015
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Ingår i: 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 2076-1465. - 9780992862633 ; , s. 2436-2440
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) combines the array gain of coherent MIMO processing with the proximity gains of distributed antenna setups. In this paper, we analyze how transceiver hardware impairments affect the downlink with maximum ratio transmission. We derive closed-form spectral efficiencies expressions and study their asymptotic behavior as the number of the antennas increases. We prove a scaling law on the hardware quality, which reveals that massive MIMO is resilient to additive distortions, while multiplicative phase noise is a limiting factor. It is also better to have separate oscillators at each antenna than one per BS.
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- Björnson, Emil, et al.
(författare)
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Massive MIMO Systems With Non-Ideal Hardware : Energy Efficiency, Estimation, and Capacity Limits
- 2014
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. - : IEEE Press. - 0018-9448 .- 1557-9654. ; 60:11, s. 7112-7139
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of large-scale antenna arrays can bring substantial improvements in energy and/or spectral efficiency to wireless systems due to the greatly improved spatial resolution and array gain. Recent works in the field of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) show that the user channels decorrelate when the number of antennas at the base stations (BSs) increases, thus strong signal gains are achievable with little interuser interference. Since these results rely on asymptotics, it is important to investigate whether the conventional system models are reasonable in this asymptotic regime. This paper considers a new system model that incorporates general transceiver hardware impairments at both the BSs (equipped with large antenna arrays) and the single-antenna user equipments (UEs). As opposed to the conventional case of ideal hardware, we show that hardware impairments create finite ceilings on the channel estimation accuracy and on the downlink/uplink capacity of each UE. Surprisingly, the capacity is mainly limited by the hardware at the UE, while the impact of impairments in the large-scale arrays vanishes asymptotically and interuser interference (in particular, pilot contamination) becomes negligible. Furthermore, we prove that the huge degrees of freedom offered by massive MIMO can be used to reduce the transmit power and/or to tolerate larger hardware impairments, which allows for the use of inexpensive and energy-efficient antenna elements.
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- Brunnstrom, Kjell, 1960-, et al.
(författare)
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Statistical quality of experience analysis: on planning the sample size and statistical significance testing
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI). - SPIE/IS&T : IS&T - the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. - 1017-9909 .- 1560-229X. ; 27:5, s. 053013-1-053013-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyzes how an experimenter can balance errors in subjective video quality tests betweenthe statistical power of finding an effect if it is there and not claiming that an effect is there if the effect is not there,i.e., balancing Type I and Type II errors. The risk of committing Type I errors increases with the number ofcomparisons that are performed in statistical tests. We will show that when controlling for this and at thesame time keeping the power of the experiment at a reasonably high level, it is unlikely that the number oftest subjects that are normally used and recommended by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),i.e., 15 is sufficient but the number used by the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG), i.e., 24 is more likelyto be sufficient. Examples will also be given for the influence of Type I error on the statistical significance ofcomparing objective metrics by correlation. We also present a comparison between parametric and nonparametricstatistics. The comparison targets the question whether we would reach different conclusions on the statisticaldifference between the video quality ratings of different video clips in a subjective test, based on thecomparison between the student T-test and the Mann–Whitney U-test. We found that there was hardly a differencewhen few comparisons are compensated for, i.e., then almost the same conclusions are reached. Whenthe number of comparisons is increased, then larger and larger differences between the two methods arerevealed. In these cases, the parametric T-test gives clearly more significant cases, than the nonparametrictest, which makes it more important to investigate whether the assumptions are met for performing a certaintest.
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- Chen, Jiajia
(författare)
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5G Transport networks : Capacity, latency and cost (invited)
- 2019
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Ingår i: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. - : OSA - The Optical Society. - 9781557528209 ; Part F133-Networks 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper summarizes recent research on 5G transport networks addressing challenges on capacity, service migration and techno-economics that are brought by 5G new attributes, e.g., cloud radio access networks, diverse usage scenarios and heterogeneous deployments.
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| 58. |
- Chen, Kairang, 1986-
(författare)
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Energy-Efficient Data Converters for Low-Power Sensors
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are employed in many applications, such as for monitoring bio-potential signals and environmental information. These applications require high-resolution (> 12-bit) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) at low-sampling rates (several kS/s). Such sensor nodes are usually powered by batteries or energy-harvesting sources hence low power consumption is primary for such ADCs. Normally, tens or hundreds of autonomously powered sensor nodes are utilized to capture and transmit data to the central processor. Hence it is profitable to fabricate the relevant electronics, such as the ADCs, in a low-cost standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. The two-stage pipelined successive approximation register (SAR) ADC has shown to be an energy-efficient architecture for high resolution. This thesis further studies and explores the design limitations of the pipelined SAR ADC for high-resolution and low-speed applications.The first work is a 15-bit, 1 kS/s two-stage pipelined SAR ADC that has been implemented in 0.35-μm CMOS process. The use of aggressive gain reduction in the residue amplifier combined with a suitable capacitive array digital-to-analog converter (DAC) topology in the second-stage simplifies the design of the operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) while eliminating excessive capacitive load and consequent power consumption. A comprehensive power consumption analysis of the entire ADC is performed to determine the number of bits in each stage of the pipeline. Choice of a segmented capacitive array DAC and attenuation capacitorbased DAC for the first and second stages respectively enable significant reduction in power consumption and area. Fabricated in a low-cost 0.35-μm CMOS process, the prototype ADC achieves a peak signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 78.9 dB corresponding to an effective number of bits (ENOB) of 12.8-bit at a sampling frequency of 1 kS/s and provides a Schreier figure-of-merit (FoM) of 157.6 dB. Without any form of calibration, the ADC maintains an ENOB > 12.1-bit up to the Nyquist bandwidth of 500 Hz while consuming 6.7 μW. Core area of the ADC is 0.679 mm2.The second work is a 14-bit, tunable bandwidth two-stage pipelined SAR ADC which is suitable for low-power, cost-effective sensor readout circuits. To overcome the high open-loop DC gain requirement of the OTA in the gain-stage, a 3-stage capacitive charge pump (CCP) is utilized to achieve the gain-stage instead of using the switch capacitor (SC) amplifier. Unity-gain OTAs have been used as the analog buffers to prevent the charge sharing between the CCP stages. The detailed design considerations are given in this work. The prototype ADC, designed and fabricated in a low-cost 0.35-μm CMOS process, achieves a peak SNDR of 75.6 dB at a sampling rate of 20 kS/s and 76.1 dB at 200 kS/s while consuming 7.68 μW and 96 μW, respectively. The corresponding Schreier FoM are 166.7 dB and 166.3 dB. Since the bandwidth of CCP is tunable, the ADC maintains a SNDR > 75 dB upto 260 kHz. The core area occupied by the ADC is 0.589 mm2.As the low-power sensors might be active only for very short time triggered by an external pulse to acquire the data, the third work is a 14-bit asynchronous two-stage pipelined SAR ADC which has been designed and simulated in 0.18-μm CMOS process. A self-synchronous loop based on an edge detector is utilized to generate an internal clock with variable phase. A tunable delay element enables to allocate the available time for the switch capacitor DACs and the gain-stage. Three separate asynchronous clock generators are implemented to create the control signals for two sub-ADCs and the gain-stage between. Aiming to reduce the power consumption of the gain-stage, simple source followers as the analog buffers are implemented in the 3-stage CCP gain-stage. Post-layout simulation results show that the ADC achieves a SNDR of 83.5 dB while consuming 2.39 μW with a sampling rate of 10 kS/s. The corresponding Schreier FoM is 176.7 dB.
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- Czegledi, Cristian Bogdan, 1988, et al.
(författare)
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Modified Digital Backpropagation Accounting for Polarization-Mode Dispersion
- 2017
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Ingår i: Optical Fiber Communication Conference. - 9781943580231
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose a modified DBP algorithm accounting for PMD. The accumulated PMD at the receiver is factorized into several PMD sections, and inserted into the DBP routine to distributively compensate for PMD, outperforming the conventional approach by 1.1 dB in SNR.
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- del Aguila Pla, Pol, 1990-, et al.
(författare)
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Clock synchronization over networks - Identifiability of the sawtooth model
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, we analyze the two-node joint clocksynchronization and ranging problem. We focus on the case of nodes that employ time-to-digital converters to determine the range between them precisely. This specific design leads to a sawtooth model for the captured signal, which has not been studied in detail before from an estimation theory standpoint. In the study of this model, we recover the basic conclusion of a well-known article by Freris, Graham, and Kumar in clock synchronization. Additionally, we discover a surprising identifiability result on the sawtooth signal model: noise improves the theoretical condition of the estimation of the phase and offset parameters. To complete our study, we provide performance references for joint clock synchronization and ranging. In particular, we present the Cramér-Rao lower bounds that correspond to a linearization of our model, as well as a simulation study on the practical performance of basic estimation strategies under realistic parameters. With these performance references, we enable further research in estimation strategies using the sawtooth model and pave the path towards industrial use.
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