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- Zhang, Kewei, et al.
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Protecting GNSS Open Service-Navigation Message Authentication against Distance-Decreasing Attacks
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As the security of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for civilian usage is increasingly important, navigation message authentication (NMA) significantly improves resilience to spoofing attacks. However, not all attacks can be effectively countered: a strong variant of replay/relay attacks, distance-decreasing (DD) attacks, can shorten pseudorange measurements, without manipulating the cryptographically protected navigation message, thus manipulating the position, velocity, and time solution undetected. First, we discuss how DD attacks can tamper with GNSS signals, demonstrating the attack effectiveness on a recorded Galileo signal. DD attacks might introduce bit errors to the forged signals, but the adversary can keep this error rate very low with proper attack parameter settings. Then, based on our mathematical model of the prompt correlator output of the tracking phase at the victim receiver, we find that the correlator output distribution changes in the presence of DD attacks. This leads us to apply hypothesis testing to detect DD attacks, notably a Goodness of Fit (GoF) test and a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT), depending on the victim’s knowledge on the DD attacks. Monte Carlo simulations are used to evaluate the detection probability and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for two tests, for different adversary configuration and noise settings. Then, we evaluate the effectiveness of the GoF and GLRT tests with a synthesized DD signal. Both tests can detect DD attacks with similar performance in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments. The GLRT detection probability is approximately 20% higher than that of the GoF test in low SNR environments.
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- Khanzadi, M Reza, 1983, et al.
(författare)
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Calculation of the Performance of Communication Systems from Measured Oscillator Phase Noise
- 2014
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. - 1549-8328 .- 1558-0806. ; 61:5, s. 1553-1565
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Oscillator phase noise (PN) is one of the major problems that affect the performance of communication systems. In this paper, a direct connection between oscillator measurements, in terms of measured single-side band PN spectrum, and the optimal communication system performance, in terms of the resulting error vector magnitude (EVM) due to PN, is mathematically derived and analyzed. First, a statistical model of the PN, considering the effect of white and colored noise sources, is derived. Then, we utilize this model to derive the modified Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound on PN estimation, and use it to find an EVM bound for the system performance. Based on our analysis, it is found that the influence from different noise regions strongly depends on the communication bandwidth, i.e., the symbol rate. For high symbol rate communication systems, cumulative PN that appears near carrier is of relatively low importance compared to the white PN far from carrier. Our results also show that 1/f^3 noise is more predictable compared to 1/f^2 noise and in a fair comparison it affects the performance less.
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- Khanzadi, M Reza, 1983
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Modeling and Estimation of Phase Noise in Oscillators with Colored Noise Sources
- 2013
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The continuous increase in demand for higher data rates due to applications with massive number of users motivates the design of faster and more spectrum efficient communication systems. In theory, the current communication systems must be able to operate close to Shannon capacity bounds. However, the real systems perform below capacity limits, mainly due to channel estimation error and hardware impairments that have been neglected by idealistic or simplistic assumptions on the imperfections. Oscillator phase noise is one of the hardware impairments that is becoming a limiting factor in high data rate digital communication systems. Phase noise severely limits the performance of systems that employ dense constellations. Moreover, the level of phase noise (at a given off-set frequency) increases with carrier frequency which means that the problem of phase noise may be even more severe in systems with high carrier frequency.The focus of this thesis is on finding accurate statistical models of phase noise, as well as the design of efficient algorithms to mitigate the effect of this phenomenon on the performance of modern communication systems. First we derive the statistics of phase noise with white and colored noise sources in free-running and phase-locked-loop-stabilized oscillators. We investigate the relation between real oscillator phase noise measurements and the performance of communication systems by means of the proposed model. Our findings can be used by hardware and frequency generator designers to better understand the effect of phase noise with different sources on the system performance and optimize their design criteria respectively. Then, we study the design of algorithms for estimation of phase noise with colored noise sources. A soft-input maximum a posteriori phase noise estimator and a modified soft-input extended Kalman smoother are proposed. The performance of the proposed algorithms is compared against that of those studied in the literature, in terms of mean square error of phase noise estimation, and symbol error rate of the considered communication system. The comparisons show that considerable performance gains can be achieved by designing estimators that employ correct knowledge of the phase noise statistics. The performance improvement is more significant in low-SNR or low-pilot density scenarios.
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- Nopchinda, Dhecha, 1991
(författare)
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mm-Wave Data Transmission and Measurement Techniques: A Holistic Approach
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The ever-increasing demand on data services places unprecedented technical requirements on networks capacity. With wireless systems having significant roles in broadband delivery, innovative approaches to their development are imperative. By leveraging new spectral resources available at millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies, future systems can utilize new signal structures and new system architectures in order to achieve long-term sustainable solutions. This thesis proposes the holistic development of efficient and cost-effective techniques and systems which make high-speed data transmission at mm-wave feasible. In this paradigm, system designs, signal processing, and measurement techniques work toward a single goal; to achieve satisfactory system level key performance indicators (KPIs). Two intimately-related objectives are simultaneously addressed: the realization of efficient mm-wave data transmission and the development of measurement techniques to enable and assist the design and evaluation of mm-wave circuits. The standard approach to increase spectral efficiency is to increase the modulation order at the cost of higher transmission power. To improve upon this, a signal structure called spectrally efficient frequency division multiplexing (SEFDM) is utilized. SEFDM adds an additional dimension of continuously tunable spectral efficiency enhancement. Two new variants of SEFDM are implemented and experimentally demonstrated, where both variants are shown to outperform standard signals. A low-cost low-complexity mm-wave transmitter architecture is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A simple phase retarder predistorter and a frequency multiplier are utilized to successfully generate spectrally efficient mm-wave signals while simultaneously mitigating various issues found in conventional mm-wave systems. A measurement technique to characterize circuits and components under antenna array mutual coupling effects is proposed and demonstrated. With minimal setup requirement, the technique effectively and conveniently maps prescribed transmission scenarios to the measurement environment and offers evaluations of the components in terms of relevant KPIs in addition to conventional metrics. Finally, a technique to estimate transmission and reflection coefficients is proposed and demonstrated. In one variant, the technique enables the coefficients to be estimated using wideband modulated signals, suitable for implementation in measurements performed under real usage scenarios. In another variant, the technique enhances the precision of noisy S-parameter measurements, suitable for characterizations of wideband mm-wave components.
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980, et al.
(författare)
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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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- Augustian, Midhumol, et al.
(författare)
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EEG Analysis from Motor Imagery to Control a Forestry Crane
- 2018
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Ingår i: Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2018). - Cham : Springer. - 9783319738871 - 9783319738888 ; , s. 281-286
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Brain-computer interface (BCI) systems can provide people with ability to communicate and control real world systems using neural activities. Therefore, it makes sense to develop an assistive framework for command and control of a future robotic system which can assist the human robot collaboration. In this paper, we have employed electroencephalographic (EEG) signals recorded by electrodes placed over the scalp. The human-hand movement based motor imagery mentalization is used to collect brain signals over the motor cortex area. The collected µ-wave (8–13 Hz) EEG signals were analyzed with event-related desynchronization/synchronization (ERD/ERS) quantification to extract a threshold between hand grip and release movement and this information can be used to control forestry crane grasping and release functionality. The experiment was performed with four healthy persons to demonstrate the proof-of concept BCI system. From this study, it is demonstrated that the proposed method has potential to assist the manual operation of crane operators performing advanced task with heavy cognitive work load.
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- Pérez-Penichet, Carlos, et al.
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Poster abstract : Augmenting WSNs with interoperable 802.15.4 sensor tags
- 2017
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Ingår i: SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. - 9781450354592
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The sensing capabilities of most sensor networks are fixed at the time of deployment. Adding new sensing capabilities to such networks is a costly and cumbersome process. We present Passive Sensor Tags, battery-free sensing devices that could be used to extend the sensing capabilities of an existing network. Sensor tags feature our new 802.15.4 receiver design which is suitable for micro-power operation, making battery-free tags possible. Because our tags can both transmit and receive 802.15.4 frames there is no need for any modification to the deployed hardware. We present preliminary measurements of transmission and reception range.
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- Grabowski, Alexander, 1993
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VCSEL Equivalent Circuits and Silicon Photonics Integration
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is a light source of great importance for numerous industrial and consumer products. The main application areas are datacom and sensing. The datacom industry uses GaAs-based VCSELs for optical interconnects, the short-reach fiber optical communication links used to transfer large amounts of data at high rates between units within data centers and supercomputers. In the area of sensing, VCSELs are largely used in consumer products such as smart phones (e.g. face ID and camera auto focus), computer mice, and automobiles (e.g. gesture recognition and LIDAR for autonomous driving). In this work, an advanced physics-based equivalent circuit model for datacom VCSELs has been developed. The model lends itself to co-design and co-optimization with driver and receiver ICs, thereby enabling higher data rate transceivers with bandwidth limited VCSELs and photodiodes. The model also facilitates an understanding of how each physical process within the VCSEL affects the VCSEL static and dynamic performance. It has been applied to study the impact of carrier transport and capture on VCSEL dynamics. The work also includes micro-transfer-printing of GaAs-based single-mode VCSELs on silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Such PICs are increasingly used for e.g. compact and highly functional bio-photonic sensors. Transfer printing of VCSELs enables the much-needed on-PIC integration of power efficient light sources. The bottom-emitting VCSELs are printed above grating couplers on the PIC and optical feedback is used to control the polarization for efficient coupling to the silicon nitride waveguide. Wavelength tuning, as required by the bio-sensing application, is achieved by direct current modulation.
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- Yanggratoke, Rerngvit, 1983-
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Data-driven Performance Prediction and Resource Allocation for Cloud Services
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cloud services, which provide online entertainment, enterprise resource management, tax filing, etc., are becoming essential for consumers, businesses, and governments. The key functionalities of such services are provided by backend systems in data centers. This thesis focuses on three fundamental problems related to management of backend systems. We address these problems using data-driven approaches: triggering dynamic allocation by changes in the environment, obtaining configuration parameters from measurements, and learning from observations. The first problem relates to resource allocation for large clouds with potentially hundreds of thousands of machines and services. We developed and evaluated a generic gossip protocol for distributed resource allocation. Extensive simulation studies suggest that the quality of the allocation is independent of the system size for the management objectives considered.The second problem focuses on performance modeling of a distributed key-value store, and we study specifically the Spotify backend for streaming music. We developed analytical models for system capacity under different data allocation policies and for response time distribution. We evaluated the models by comparing model predictions with measurements from our lab testbed and from the Spotify operational environment. We found the prediction error to be below 12% for all investigated scenarios.The third problem relates to real-time prediction of service metrics, which we address through statistical learning. Service metrics are learned from observing device and network statistics. We performed experiments on a server cluster running video streaming and key-value store services. We showed that feature set reduction significantly improves the prediction accuracy, while simultaneously reducing model computation time. Finally, we designed and implemented a real-time analytics engine, which produces model predictions through online learning.
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- Lian, Mengke, et al.
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What Can Machine Learning Teach Us about Communications
- 2018
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Ingår i: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings. - 2157-8095. ; 15 January 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rapid improvements in machine learning over the past decade are beginning to have far-reaching effects. For communications, engineers with limited domain expertise can now use off-the-shelf learning packages to design high-performance systems based on simulations. Prior to the current revolution in machine learning, the majority of communication engineers were quite aware that system parameters (such as filter coefficients) could be learned using stochastic gradient descent. It was not at all clear, however, that more complicated parts of the system architecture could be learned as well. In this paper, we discuss the application of machine-learning techniques to two communications problems and focus on what can be learned from the resulting systems. We were pleasantly surprised that the observed gains in one example have a simple explanation that only became clear in hindsight. In essence, deep learning discovered a simple and effective strategy that had not been considered earlier.
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- Jang, Jeong Keun, et al.
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Area-efficient scheduling scheme based FFT processor for various OFDM systems
- 2018
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Ingår i: 2018 IEEE ASIA PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (APCCAS 2018). - : IEEE. - 9781538682401 ; , s. 338-341
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents an area-efficient fast Fouriertransform (FFT) processor for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems based on multi-path delay commutator architecture. This paper proposes a data scheduling scheme to reduce the number of complex constant multipliers. The proposed mixed-radix multi-path delay commutator FFT processor can support 128-, 256-, and 512-point FFT sizes. The proposed processor was synthesized using the Samsung 65-nm CMOS standard cell library. The proposed processor with eight parallel data paths can achieve a high throughput rate of up to 2.64 GSample/s at 330 MHz.
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- Al Nahas, Beshr, 1985, et al.
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Low-power listening goes multi-channel
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2014. ; , s. 2-9
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Exploiting multiple radio channels for communication has been long known as a practical way to mitigate interference in wireless settings. In Wireless Sensor Networks, however, multi-channel solutions have not reached their full potential: the MAC layers included in TinyOS or the Contiki OS for example are mostly single-channel. The literature offers a number of interesting solutions, but experimental results were often too few to build confidence. We propose a practical extension of low-power listening, MiCMAC, that performs channel hopping, operates in a distributed way, and is independent of upper layers of the protocol stack. The above properties make it easy to deploy in a variety of scenarios, without any extra configuration/scheduling/channel selection hassle. We implement our solution in Contiki and evaluate it in a 97-node~testbed while running a complete, out-of-the-box low-power IPv6 communication stack (UDP/RPL/6LoWPAN). Our experimental results demonstrate increased resilience to emulated WiFi interference (e.g., data yield kept above 90% when Contiki MAC drops in the 40% range). In noiseless environments, MiCMAC keeps the overhead low in comparison to Contiki MAC, achieving performance as high as 99% data yield along with sub-percent duty cycle and sub-second latency for a 1-minute inter-packet interval data collection. © 2014 IEEE.
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- Behdadi, Dorna, 1988, et al.
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A Normative Approach to Artificial Moral Agency
- 2020
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Ingår i: Minds and Machines. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0924-6495 .- 1572-8641. ; 30:2, s. 195-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper proposes a methodological redirection of the philosophical debate on artificial moral agency (AMA) in view of increasingly pressing practical needs due to technological development. This “normative approach” suggests abandoning theoretical discussions about what conditions may hold for moral agency and to what extent these may be met by artificial entities such as AI systems and robots. Instead, the debate should focus on how and to what extent such entities should be included in human practices normally assuming moral agency and responsibility of participants. The proposal is backed up by an analysis of the AMA debate, which is found to be overly caught in the opposition between so-called standard and functionalist conceptions of moral agency, conceptually confused and practically inert. Additionally, we outline some main themes of research in need of attention in light of the suggested normative approach to AMA.
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- Kruglov, Dmitrii, 1994, et al.
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Enhancing mmWave On-Chip-Antennas Using In-Package Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Microwave Conference. - 1527-3342 .- 1557-9581. - 9782874870637 ; , s. 885-888
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose a silicon on-Chip-in-Package antenna design featuring a simulated radiation efficiency of > 70% and an S11 matching better than −10 dB in the 112–125 GHz frequency range. High radiation performance is achieved by: (i) thinning the silicon substrate down to 100 μm through wafer-level grinding; (ii) embedding the IC in-between two PCBs, one of which forms an electromagnetic bandgap structure that attenuates the EM leakage inside the silicon substrate. Furthermore, since the die-embedding concept employs the gap-waveguide packaging technology, a universal contactless waveguide interconnect is realized between the IC and the radiating gap waveguide in the package. This will also enable modular antenna designs.
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- Cheng, Hei Victor
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Aspects of Power Allocation in Massive MIMO
- 2016
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The past decades have seen a rapid growth of mobile data trac, both in terms of connected devices and data rate. To satisfy the ever growing data trac demand in wireless communication systems, the current cellular systems have to be redesigned to increase both spectral eciency and energy eciency. Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) is one solution that satisfy both requirements. In massive MIMO systems, hundreds of antennas are employed at the base station to provide service to many users at the same time and frequency. This enables the system to serve the users with uniformly good quality of service simultaneously, with low-cost hardware and without using extra bandwidth and energy. To achieve this, proper resource allocation is needed. Among the available resources, transmit power is one of the most important degree of freedom to control the spectral eciency and energy eciency. Due to the use of excessive number of antennas and low-end hardware at the base station, new aspects of power allocation compared to current systems arises. In the rst part of the thesis, a new uplink power allocation schemes that based on long term channel statistics is proposed. Since quality of the channel estimates is crucial in massive MIMO, in addition to data power allocation, joint power allocation that includes the pilot power as additional variable should be considered. Therefore a new framework for power allocation that matches practical systems is developed, as the methods developed in the literature cannot be applied directly to massive MIMO systems. Simulation results conrm the advantages brought by the the proposed new framework. In the second part of the thesis, we investigate the eects of using low-end ampliers at the base stations. The non-linear behavior of power consumption in these ampliers changes the power consumption model at the base station, thereby changes the power allocation. Two dierent scenarios are investigated and both results show that a certain number of antennas can be turned o in low load scenarios.
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- Haque, Muhammad Fahim Ul
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Pulse-Width Modulated RF Transmitters
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The market for wireless portable devices has grown signicantly over the recent years.Wireless devices with ever-increased functionality require high rate data transmissionand reduced costs. High data rate is achieved through communication standards such asLTE and WLAN, which generate signals with high peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR),hence requiring a power amplier (PA) that can handle a large dynamic range signal. Tokeep the costs low, modern CMOS processes allow the integration of the digital, analogand radio functions on to a single chip. However, the design of PAs with large dynamicrange and high eciency is challenging due to the low voltage headroom.To prolong the battery life, the PAs have to be power-ecient as they consume a sizablepercentage of the total power. For LTE and WLAN, traditional transmitters operatethe PA at back-o power, below their peak efficiency, whereas pulse-width modulation(PWM) transmitters use the PA at their peak power, resulting in a higher efficiency.PWM transmitters can use both linear and SMPAs where the latter are more power efficient and easy to implement in nanometer CMOS. The PWM transmitters have a higher efficiency but suffer from image and aliasing distortion, resulting in a lower dynamic range,amplitude and phase resolution.This thesis studies several new transmitter architectures to improve the dynamicrange, amplitude and phase resolution of PWM transmitters with relaxed filtering requirements.The architectures are suited for fully integrated CMOS solutions, in particular forportable applications.The first transmitter (MAF-PWMT) eliminates aliasing and image distortions whileallowing the use of SMPAs by combining RF-PWM and band-limited PWM. The transmittercan be implemented using all-digital techniques and exhibits an improved linearity and spectral performance. The approach is validated using a Class-D PA based transmitter where an improvement of 10.2 dB in the dynamic range compared to a PWM transmitter for a 1.4 MHz of LTE signal is achieved.The second transmitter (AC-PWMT) compensates for aliasing distortion by combining PWM and outphasing. It can be used with switch-mode PAs (SMPAs) or linear PAs at peak power. The proposed transmitter shows better linearity, improved spectral performanceand increased dynamic range as it does not suffer from AM-AM distortion of the PAs and aliasing distortion due to digital PWM. The idea is validated using push-pull PAs and the proposed transmitter shows an improvement of 9 dB in the dynamic rangeas compared to a PWM transmitter using digital pulse-width modulation for a 1.4 MHzLTE signal.The third transmitter (MD-PWMT) is an all-digital implementation of the second transmitter. The PWM is implemented using a Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA) core, and outphasing is implemented as pulse-position modulation using FPGA transceivers, which drive two class-D PAs. The digital implementation offers the exibility to adapt the transmitter for multi-standard and multi-band signals. From the measurement results, an improvement of 5 dB in the dynamic range is observed as compared to an all-digital PWM transmitter for a 1.4 MHz LTE signal.The fourth transmitter (EP-PWMT) improves the phase linearity of an all-digital PWM transmitter using PWM and asymmetric outphasing. The transmitter uses PWM to encode the amplitude, and outphasing for enhanced phase control thus doubling the phase resolution. The measurement setup uses Class-D PAs to amplify a 1.4 MHz LTEup-link signal. An improvement of 2.8 dB in the adjacent channel leakage ratio is observed whereas the EVM is reduced by 3.3 % as compared to an all-digital PWM transmitter.The fifth transmitter (CRF-ML-PWMT) combines multilevel and RF-PWM, whereas the sixth transmitter (CRF-MP-PMWT) combines multiphase PWM and RF-PWM. Both transmitters have smaller chip area as compared to the conventional multiphase and multilevel PWM transmitters, as a combiner is not required. The proposed transmitters also show better dynamic range and improved amplitude resolution as compared to conventional RF-PWM transmitters.The solutions presented in this thesis aims to enhance the performance and simplify the digital implementation of PWM-based RF transmitters.
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- Mollén, Christopher, 1987-
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High-End Performance with Low-End Hardware : Analysis of Massive MIMO Base Station Transceivers
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Massive MIMO (multiple-input–multiple-output) is a multi-antenna technology for cellular wireless communication, where the base station uses a large number of individually controllable antennas to multiplex users spatially. This technology can provide a high spectral efficiency. One of its main challenges is the immense hardware complexity and cost of all the radio chains in the base station. To make massive MIMO commercially viable, inexpensive, low-complexity hardware with low linearity has to be used, which inherently leads to more signal distortion. This thesis investigates how the degenerated linearity of some of the main components—power amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and low-noise amplifiers—affects the performance of the system, with respect to data rate, power consumption and out-of-band radiation. The main results are: Spatial processing can reduce PAR (peak-to-average ratio) of the transmit signals in the downlink to as low as 0B; this, however, does not necessarily reduce power consumption. In environments with isotropic fading, one-bit ADCs lead to a reduction in effective signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) of 4dB in the uplink and four-bit ADCs give a performance close to that of an unquantized system. An analytical expression for the radiation pattern of the distortion from nonlinear power amplifiers is derived. It shows how the distortion is beamformed to some extent, that its gain never is greater than that of the desired signal, and that the gain of the distortion is reduced with a higher number of served users and a higher number of channel taps. Nonlinear low-noise amplifiers give rise to distortion that partly combines coherently and limits the possible SINR. It is concluded that spatial processing with a large number of antennas reduces the impact of hardware distortion in most cases. As long as proper attention is paid to the few sources of coherent distortion, the hardware complexity can be reduced in massive MIMO base stations to overcome the hardware challenge and make massive MIMO commercial reality.
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- Zhang, Kewei
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Secure GNSS-based Positioning and Timing : Distance-Decreasing attacks, fault detection and exclusion, and attack detection with the help of opportunistic signals
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With trillions of devices connected in large scale systems in a wired or wireless manner, positioning and synchronization become vital. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the first choice to provide global coverage for positioning and synchronization services. From small mobile devices to aircraft, from intelligent transportation systems to cellular networks, and from cargo tracking to smart grids, GNSS plays an important role, thus, requiring high reliability and security protection. However, as GNSS signals propagate from satellites to receivers at distance of around 20 000 km, the signal power arriving at the receivers is very low, making the signals easily jammed or overpowered. Another vulnerability stems from that civilian GNSS signals and their specifications are publicly open, so that anyone can craft own signals to spoof GNSS receivers: an adversary forges own GNSS signals and broadcasts them to the victim receiver, to mislead the victim into believing that it is at an adversary desired location or follows a false trajectory, or adjusts its clock to a time dictated by the adversary. Another type of attack is replaying GNSS signals: an adversary transmits a pre-recorded GNSS signal stream to the victim receiver, so that the receiver calculates an erroneous position and time. Recent incidents reported in press show that the GNSS functionalities in a certain area, e.g., Black Sea, have been affected by cyberattacks composed of the above-mentioned attack types. This thesis, thus, studies GNSS vulnerabilities and proposes detection and mitigation methods for GNSS attacks, notably spoofing and replay attacks. We analyze the effectiveness of one important and powerful replay attack, the so-called Distance-decreasing (DD) attacks that were previously investigated for wireless communication systems, on GNSS signals. DD attacks are physical layer attacks, targeting time-of-flight ranging protocols, to shorten the perceived as measured distance between the transmitter and receiver. The attacker first transmits an adversary-chosen data bit to the victim receiver before the signal arrives at the attacker; upon receipt of the GNSS signal, the attacker estimates the data bit based on the early fraction of the bit period, and then switches to transmitting the estimate to the victim receiver. Consequently, the DD signal arrives at the victim receiver earlier than the genuine GNSS signals would have, which in effect shortens the pseudorange measurement between the sender (satellite) and the victim receiver, consequently, affecting the calculated position and time of the receiver. We study how the DD attacks affect the bit error rate (BER) of the received signals at the victim, and analyze its effectiveness, that is, the ability to shorten pseudorange measurements, on different GNSS signals. Several approaches are considered for the attacker to mount a DD attack with high probability of success (without being detected) against a victim receiver, for cryptographically unprotected and protected signals. We analyze the tracking output of the DD signals at the victim receiver and propose a Goodness of Fit (GoF) test and a Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test (GLRT) to detect the attacks. The evaluation of the two tests shows that they are effective, with the result being perhaps more interesting when considering DD attacks against Galileo signals that can be cryptographically protected. Moreover, this thesis investigates the feasibility of validating the authenticity of the GNSS signals with the help of opportunistic signals, which is information readily available in modern communication environments, e.g., 3G, 4G and WiFi. We analyze the time synchronization accuracy of different technologies, e.g., Network Time Protocol (NTP), WiFi and local oscillator, as the basis for detecting a discrepancy with the GNSS-obtained time. Two detection approaches are proposed and one testbench is designed for the evaluation. A synthesized spoofing attack is used to verify the effectiveness of the approaches. Beyond attack detection, we develop algorithms to detect and exclude faulty signals, namely the Clustering-based Solution Separation Algorithm (CSSA) and the Fast Multiple Fault Detection and Exclusion (FM-FDE). They both utilize the redundant available satellites, more than the minimum a GNSS receiver needs for position and time offset calculation. CSSA adopts data clustering to group subsets of positions calculated with different subsets of available satellites. Basically, these positions, calculated with subsets not containing any faulty satellites, should be close to each other, i.e., in a dense area; otherwise they should be scattered. FM-FDE is a more efficient algorithm that uses distances between positions, calculated with fixed-size subsets, as test statistics to detect and exclude faulty satellite signals. As the results show, FM-FDE runs faster than CSSA and other solution-separation fault detection and exclusion algorithms while remaining equally effective.
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- Ranisch, Robert, et al.
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Ethics of digital contact tracing apps for the Covid-19 pandemic response
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- There is a growing interest in contact tracing apps (CT apps) for pandemic man- agement. These apps raise significant moral concerns. It is therefore crucial to consider ethical requirements before and while implementing such apps. Public trust is of major importance for population uptake of contact tracing apps. Hasty, ill-prepared or badly communicated implementations of CT apps will likely under- mine public trust, and as such, risk impeding general effectiveness. In response to these demands, to meet ethical requirements and find a basis for justified trust, this background introduces an ethical framework for a responsible design and implementation of CT apps. However, even prudently chosen measures of digital contact tracing carry moral costs, which makes it necessary address different trade-offs. This background paper aims to inform developers, researchers and decision-makers be- fore and throughout the process of implementing contact tracing apps.
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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, Kairang, 1986-
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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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- Farsi, Mohammad, 1994, et al.
(författare)
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Pilot distributions for phase noise estimation in electro-optic frequency comb systems
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We explore the optimal pilot positioning for phase tracking in electro-optic frequency comb setups. We show that, in contrast to previous results for regular multichannel systems, allocating the first and the last channels for pilots is optimal given a fixed pilot overhead.
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- Mao, Yadong, et al.
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Decentralized Training of 3D Lane Detection with Automatic Labeling Using HD Maps
- 2023
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Ingår i: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. - 1550-2252. ; 2023-June
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- To have competent 3D lane detection for real-world driving, a massive amount of data from all over the world is needed, but data collection and manual annotation are costly and time-consuming. The diversity of data collected by developmental cars might still be limited compared to the data collected by a large fleet of customer cars. Federated learning enables training models on edge without transferring data out of devices. However, training supervised learning tasks at the edge is directly tied to having access to high-quality labels, which is limited at the edge. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic method to generate 3D lane labels at the edge using a pre-recorded HD map to enable the federated training of the 3D lane detection model. As a reference, a semi-automatic method is applied for creating a 3D-lane dataset used as ground truth. Our experimental results show that the model can achieve comparable performance when training on the same dataset in both a centralized and a decentralized manner. And the models trained on semi-automatic labeled datasets slightly outperform those trained on fully-automatically labeled datasets. This study shows that a well-performing 3D lane detection model can be trained in a supervised and fully decentralized manner, and most importantly, data privacy at the edge is guaranteed.
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- Panigrahi, Smruti Ranjan, 1983-, et al.
(författare)
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A Study of Delay and Doppler Spreads at 24 GHz ISM band
- 2020
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Ingår i: 2020 16th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob). - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 9781728197227 ; , s. 1-6
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the wide-band channel characteristics at 24 GHz ISM band in a mobile radio environment. The mobility in the test environment is achieved by attaching the transmit antenna to a KUKA robot's arm. The radio measurements were carried out inside the robotics lab at the University of Gävle, Sweden. The radio channel measurements were carried out at various situations, e.g., line of sight (LOS), non-line of sight (NLOS), regular lab environment, reflective environment, and different velocities of the robot's arm. The influence of these situations on the power delay profile, Doppler spectral density, root mean square (RMS) delay spread, RMS Doppler spread, coherence bandwidth and coherence time, has been studied.
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- Seyedhosseinzadeh, Neda, et al.
(författare)
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A 100–140 GHz SiGe-BiCMOS sub-harmonic down-converter mixer
- 2017
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Ingår i: 2017 12th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC). - 9782874870484 ; 2017-January
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper demonstrates a wideband, subharmonic down converting mixer using a commercial 130-nm SiGe-BiCMOS technology. The mixer adopts a frequency doubling LO-stage, a differential switched-transconductance RF-stage, on-chip LO and RF baluns, and two emitter-follower buffer-stages. The measured results exhibit a maximum conversion gain up to 2.6 dB over the frequency range of 100 to 140 GHz with a LO power of 5 dBm. The mixer achieves an input referred 1-dB compression point of −7.2 dBm, with a DC power of 46.3 mW, including 26.7 mW for buffer-stages. It demonstrates also up to 12 GHz 3-dB IF bandwidth, which to the authors' best knowledge, is the highest obtained among active sub-harmonic mixers operating above 100 GHz. The chip occupies 0.4 mm2, including pads.
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- Åkerberg, Johan, et al.
(författare)
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Design challenges and objectives in industrial wireless sensor networks
- 2017
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Ingår i: Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols, and Standards. - Boca Raton : CRC Press. - 9781466500525 - 9781466500518 ; , s. 79-100
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent years the advances in wireless sensor networks have grown exponentially and WSNs have been deployed in diverse application areas such as agriculture, disaster management, intelligent transport systems, and industrial automation. In industrial automation, wireless sensor networks have so far mostly been considered within building automation, factory automation, and process automation in order to save cost in cable reduction and maintenance but also improved flexibility [14]. Recently, wireless sensor networks for smart grid applications have been discussed. Several market forecasts have recently predicted exponential growths in the sensor market over the next few years, resulting in a multi-billion dollar market in the near future. For instance, ABI research [18] predicts that in 2015 around 645 million IEEE 802.15.4 chipsets will be shipped and that the worldwide market for automation systems in process industries will grow to roughly $150 billion.
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- Liu, Yang, et al.
(författare)
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A Study Towards Enhanced Reliability Performance of Remote Control and Monitoring Application Over Commercial Wireless Communication Networks
- 2006
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Ingår i: 2006 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1424405173 - 1424405173 ; , s. 1-4
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Remote control and monitoring systems provide many useful operating advantages in industrial automation and demand highly reliable and secure communication means. Their widespread use is, however, limited because of the high cost of current communications in use making them economically infeasible. Hence, there is a need to develop new low cost communication and control concepts by making such solutions economically feasible. In this paper, we present a scheme for implementing reliable wireless communication links for application of remote control and monitoring system based on current available commercial wireless communication networks, e.g. GPRS/EDGE/UMTS. The reliability enhancement over wireless networks has been proposed and its performance has been studied. This paper examines the proposed solution by means of both analytical and numerical evaluation, and has shown that the demanded reliability performance can be met by using only commercial wireless communication networks.
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- Theorin, Alfred, et al.
(författare)
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An event-driven manufacturing information system architecture for Industry 4.0
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Production Research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0020-7543 .- 1366-588X. ; 55:5, s. 1297-1311
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Future manufacturing systems need to be more flexible, to embrace tougher and constantly changing market demands. They need to make better use of plant data, ideally utilising all data from the entire plant. Low-level data should be refined to real-time information for decision-making, to facilitate competitiveness through informed and timely decisions. The Line Information System Architecture (LISA), is presented in this paper. It is an event-driven architecture featuring loose coupling, a prototype-oriented information model and formalised transformation services. LISA is designed to enable flexible factory integration and data utilisation. The focus of LISA is on integration of devices and services on all levels, simplifying hardware changes and integration of new smart services as well as supporting continuous improvements on information visualisation and control. The architecture has been evaluated on both real industrial data and industrial demonstrators and it is also being installed at a large automotive company. This article is an extended and revised version of the paper presented at the 2015 IFAC Symposium on Information Control in Manufacturing (INCOM 2015). The paper has been restructured in regards to the order and title of the chapters, and additional information about the integration between devices and services aspects have been added. The introduction and the general structure of the paper now better highlight the contributions of the paper and the uniqueness of the framework.
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- Lv, Zhihan, Dr. 1984-, et al.
(författare)
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Editorial : 5G for Augmented Reality
- 2022
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Ingår i: Mobile Networks and Applications. - : Springer. - 1383-469X .- 1572-8153.
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- Homem, Irvin, 1985-
(författare)
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Advancing Automation in Digital Forensic Investigations
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Digital Forensics is used to aid traditional preventive security mechanisms when they fail to curtail sophisticated and stealthy cybercrime events. The Digital Forensic Investigation process is largely manual in nature, or at best quasi-automated, requiring a highly skilled labour force and involving a sizeable time investment. Industry standard tools are evidence-centric, automate only a few precursory tasks (E.g. Parsing and Indexing) and have limited capabilities of integration from multiple evidence sources. Furthermore, these tools are always human-driven.These challenges are exacerbated in the increasingly computerized and highly networked environment of today. Volumes of digital evidence to be collected and analyzed have increased, and so has the diversity of digital evidence sources involved in a typical case. This further handicaps digital forensics practitioners, labs and law enforcement agencies, causing delays in investigations and legal systems due to backlogs of cases. Improved efficiency of the digital investigation process is needed, in terms of increasing the speed and reducing the human effort expended. This study aims at achieving this time and effort reduction, by advancing automation within the digital forensic investigation process.Using a Design Science research approach, artifacts are designed and developed to address these practical problems. Summarily, the requirements, and architecture of a system for automating digital investigations in highly networked environments are designed. The architecture initially focuses on automation of the identification and acquisition of digital evidence, while later versions focus on full automation and self-organization of devices for all phases of the digital investigation process. Part of the remote evidence acquisition capability of this system architecture is implemented as a proof of concept. The speed and reliability of capturing digital evidence from remote mobile devices over a client-server paradigm is evaluated. A method for the uniform representation and integration of multiple diverse evidence sources for enabling automated correlation, simple reasoning and querying is developed and tested. This method is aimed at automating the analysis phase of digital investigations. Machine Learning (ML)-based triage methods are developed and tested to evaluate the feasibility and performance of using such techniques to automate the identification of priority digital evidence fragments. Models from these ML methods are evaluated in identifying network protocols within DNS tunneled network traffic. A large dataset is also created for future research in ML-based triage for identifying suspicious processes for memory forensics.From an ex ante evaluation, the designed system architecture enables individual devices to participate in the entire digital investigation process, contributing their processing power towards alleviating the burden on the human analyst. Experiments show that remote evidence acquisition of mobile devices over networks is feasible, however a single-TCP-connection paradigm scales poorly. A proof of concept experiment demonstrates the viability of the automated integration, correlation and reasoning over multiple diverse evidence sources using semantic web technologies. Experimentation also shows that ML-based triage methods can enable prioritization of certain digital evidence sources, for acquisition or analysis, with up to 95% accuracy.The artifacts developed in this study provide concrete ways to enhance automation in the digital forensic investigation process to increase the investigation speed and reduce the amount of costly human intervention needed.
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- Bao, Husileng, 1991, et al.
(författare)
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Wideband mm-wave Spectrum-Efficient Transmitter Using Low-Pass Sigma–Delta-Over-Fiber Architecture
- 2023
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Ingår i: IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters. - 2771-9588 .- 2771-957X. ; 33:10, s. 1505-1508
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The millimeter-wave band offers large bandwidth and promises high data rates for wireless communication systems. This work proposes a millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber architecture suitable for wideband mm-wave communication, using a lowpass sigma-delta modulation approach. The central unit generates baseband sigma-delta bitstreams, in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) components, which are transported to a remote radio head (RRH) using a standard QSFP28 optical interconnect link connection. In the RRH, the baseband I/Q signals are upconverted to the millimeter-wave band, amplified, and transmitted through an antenna. The performance of the resulting sigma-delta-over-fiber transmitter architecture is experimentally verified at 28 GHz, demonstrating a state-of-the-art symbol rate up to 1.5 Gsym/s. Furthermore, in over-the-air measurements, the architecture is shown to support 1 Gsym/s with 5.9% error vector magnitude for 64/256/1024 quadrature amplitude modulation cases over a 5 m wireless distance. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed architecture for the realization of wideband millimeterwave distributed antenna systems.
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- Bencheikh Lehocine, Chouaib, 1993, et al.
(författare)
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Robust Analog Beamforming for Periodic Broadcast V2V Communication
- 2022
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. - 1524-9050 .- 1558-0016. ; 23:10, s. 18404-18422
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We generalize an existing low-cost analog signal processing concept that takes advantage of the periodicity of vehicle-to-vehicle broadcast service to the transmitter side. In particular, we propose to process multiple antennas using either an analog beamforming network (ABN) of phase shifters, or an antenna switching network (ASN) that periodically alternates between the available antennas, to transmit periodic messages to receivers that have an analog combining network (ACN) of phase shifters, which has been proposed in earlier work. To guarantee robustness, we aim to minimize the burst error probability for the worst receiving vehicular user, in a scenario of bad propagation condition that is modeled by a single dominant path between the communicating vehicles. In absence of any form of channel knowledge, we analytically derive the optimal parameters of both ABN and ASN. The ABN beamforming vector is found to be optimal for all users and not only for the worst receiving user. Further, we demonstrate that Alamouti scheme for the special case of two transmit antennas yields similar performance to ABN and ASN. At last, we show that the derived parameters of the two proposed transmission strategies are also optimal when hybrid ACN-maximal ratio combining is used at the receiver.
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- Bencivenni, Carlo, 1986
(författare)
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Aperiodic Array Synthesis for Telecommunications
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Arrays of antennas offer important advantages over single-element antennas and are thus a key part of most advanced communication systems. The majority of current arrays are based on a classical regular layout, which offer simple design criteria despite some limitations. Aperiodic arrays can reduce the number of elements and improve the performance, however their design is far more challenging. This thesis focuses on the synthesis of aperiodic arrays, advancing the state-of-the-art of phased arrays and pioneering the application to Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems.In satellite communications (SATCOM), aperiodic sparse arrays have the potential for drastically reducing the costs of massive antennas. Most available synthesis methods are however either intractable, suboptimal or limited for such demanding scenarios. We propose a deterministic and efficient approach based on Compressive Sensing, capable of accounting for electromagnetic phenomena and complex specifications. Some of the key contributions include the extension to the design of multi-beam, modular, multi-element, reconfigurable and isophoric architectures.The same approach is successfully applied to the design of compact arrays for Point-to-Point (PtP) backhauling. The aperiodicity is used here instead to reduce the side lobes and meet the target radiation envelope with high aperture efficiency. A dense, column arranged, slotted waveguide isophoric array has been successfully designed, manufactured and measured.Line-of-Sight (LoS) MIMO can multiply the data rates of classical Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) backhauling systems, however it suffers from limited installation flexibility. We demonstrate how aperiodic arrays and their switched extensions can instead overcome this shortcoming. Since a small number of antennas are typically used, an exhaustive search is adopted for the synthesis.Massive Multi-User (MU) MIMO is envisioned as a key technology for future 5G systems. Despite the prevailing understanding, we show how the MIMO performance is affected by the array layout. To exploit this, we propose a new hybrid statistical-density tapered synthesis approach. Results show a significant improvement in minimum power budget, capacity and amplifier efficiency, especially for massive and/or crowded systems
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- Chani Cahuana, Jessica, 1988, et al.
(författare)
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Digital Predistortion Parameter Identification for RF Power Amplifiers Using Real-Valued Output Data
- 2017
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. - 1549-7747 .- 1558-3791. ; 64:10, s. 1227-1231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This brief presents a novel digital predistortion (DPD) parameter identification technique that requires only the acquisition of either the in-phase (I) or the quadrature (Q) component of the power amplifier (PA) output signal. To this end, an approach that allows us to estimate the parameters of a model using only one of the IQ components of the model output is presented. Based on experimental results, it is shown that the proposed real-valued measurements based technique can offer similar linearization capabilities as its complex-valued counterparts. The experimental results also indicate that the proposed technique can be used in combination with other techniques that focus on reducing the speed of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)
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- Chen, Jingjing, 1982, et al.
(författare)
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10 Gbps 16QAM transmission over a 70/80 GHz (E-band) radio test-bed
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Microwave Week 2012: "Space for Microwaves", EuMW 2012, Conference Proceedings - 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2012. - : IEEE. - 9782874870286 - 9781467323024 - 9782874870262 ; , s. 556-559
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A millimeter-wave radio test-bed is implemented which demonstrates 16QAM transmission over 70/80 GHz band for data rate up to 10 Gbps. Performance of the 16QAM transmitter and receiver is evaluated in a loop-back lab set-up. With the proposed 10 Gbps on single carrier system architecture, it is possible to achieve 40 Gbps over a 5 GHz bandwidth when combined with polarization and spatial multiplexing.
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- Farhadi, Hamed, 1983
(författare)
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On the throughput of wireless interference networks with limited feedback
- 2011
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Ingår i: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT'11). - 2157-8095. - 9781457705960 ; , s. 762 - 766
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Considering a single-antenna M-user interference channel with symmetrically distributed channel gains, when the channel state information (CSI) is globally available, applying the ergodic interference alignment scheme, each transmitter-receiver pair achieves a rate proportional to ½ of a single user's interference-free achievable rate. This is substantially higher than the achievable rate of the conventional orthogonal transmission schemes such as TDMA. Since the rigid requirement on the CSI may be difficult to realize in practice, in this paper we investigate the performance of applying the ergodic interference alignment scheme when the estimation of each channel gain is made globally known through exploiting only a limited feedback signal from the associated receiver of that channel. Under a block fading environment, we provide a lower bound on the achievable average throughput of the network. Our results imply that the better performance of interference alignment over TDMA may still exist even without the assumption of perfect CSI. Also, the trade off between allocating feedback rate of each receiver to the desired channel or the interference channels at deferent SNR region investigated.
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- Gülgün, Ziya, et al.
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Multiple Spoofer Detection for Mobile GNSS Receivers Using Statistical Tests
- 2021
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Ingår i: IEEE Access. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 2169-3536. ; 9, s. 166382-166394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We consider Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) spoofing attacks and devise a countermeasure appropriate for mobile GNSS receivers. Our approach is to design detectors that, operating after the signal acquisition, enable the victim receiver to determine with high probability whether it is under a spoofing attack or not. Namely, the binary hypothesis is that either the GNSS receiver tracks legitimate satellite signals, H-0, or spoofed signals, H-1. We assume that there exists an unknown number of multiple spoofers in the environment and the attack strategy (which legitimate signals are spoofed by which spoofers) is not known to the receiver. Based on these assumptions, we propose an algorithm that identifies the number of spoofers and clusters the spoofing data by using Bayesian information criterion (BIC) rule. Depending on the estimated and clustered data we propose a detector, called as generalized likelihood ratio (GLRT)-like detector. We compare the performance of the GLRT-like detector with a genie-aided detector in which the attack strategy and the number of spoofers is known by the receiver. In addition to this, we extend the GLRT-like detector for the case where the noise variance is also unknown and present the performance results.
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- Jacobsson, Sven, 1990, et al.
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Massive MU-MIMO-OFDM Uplink with Hardware Impairments: Modeling and Analysis
- 2018
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Ingår i: Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. - 1058-6393. ; 2018-October, s. 1829-1835
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 IEEE. We study the impact of hardware impairments at the base station (BS) of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink system. We leverage Bussgang's theorem to develop accurate models for the distortions caused by nonlinear low-noise amplifiers, local oscillators with phase noise, and oversampling finite-resolution analog-to-digital converters. By combining the individual effects of these hardware models, we obtain a composite model for the BS-side distortion caused by nonideal hardware that takes into account its inherent correlation in time, frequency, and across antennas. We use this composite model to analyze the impact of BS-side hardware impairments on the performance of realistic massive MU-MIMO-OFDM uplink systems.
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- Kang, Jeongwan, et al.
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Optimized Switching Between Sensing and Communication for mmWave MU-MISO Systems
- 2022
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Ingår i: 2022 Ieee International Conference On Communications Workshops (Icc Workshops). - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). ; , s. 498-503
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we propose a scheme optimizing the per-user channel sensing duration in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) systems. For each user, the BS predicts the effective rate to be achieved after pilot transmission. Then, the channel sensing duration of each user is optimized by ending the pilot transmission when the predicted rate is lower than the current rate. The robust regularized zero-forcing (RRZF) precoder and equal power allocation (EPA) are adopted to transmit sensing pilots and data. Numerical results show that the more severe the interference among users, the longer channel sensing duration is required. Moreover, the proposed scheme results in a higher sum rate compared to benchmark schemes.
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- Kylin, Carl, 1996
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Over the air calibration of transmitter distortion for active antenna arrays
- 2024
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Radar systems for air surveillance have long utilised large antenna arrays to generate high enough gain for a narrow enough transmitted beam. In most modern systems this is accomplished through the use of large active electronically steered antenna arrays. Calibrating a large active antenna array is a challenging endeavour. Distorting effects stemming from the amplifying circuitry can have a non-negligible effect on the transmitted signal, and the effects can vary across the array. In modern and future transmitter arrays, individually controlled antenna elements will be a feature. With such systems, distortion that varies over an array can be combatted. One challenge is how to collect data about what signal is being transmitted and in what way the actual signal differs from the desired transmitted signal. The work presented in this thesis studies aspects of characterising a model describing the distortion generated in an active antenna array using an over the air channel. Specifically, the first included article presents a method where signals collected using an over the air channel generated by targets of opportunity are used to estimate the parameters of a non-linearly parametrised model for a radar transmitter. In this article, the radar is assumed to transmit different signals on each antenna element. The second included article studies conditions for identifiability for the setup in the first article as well as for other similar setups. These works constitute the second part of this thesis. To put this work into context, the first part of this thesis presents an overview of the problems caused by distortion in a radar system. This is investigated under different modelling assumptions and for radars operating in a number of different modes.
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- Liu, Edward, et al.
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A 25-40 GHz Three-Way Power Amplifier with No Load Modulation Achieving Broadband Deep Power Back-Off Efficiency Enhancement
- 2024
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Ingår i: Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium. - 1529-2517. - 9798350359473 ; , s. 127-130
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) power amplifier (PA) topology that avoids the trade-off between bandwidth and load modulation. The proposed topology uses three PA paths and can achieve efficiency enhancement at power back-off without load modulation. With a 100 MHz 5G NR FR2 1-CC 64-QAM signal, this PA achieves average power and PAE of 6.45 - 12.61 dBm and 5.9 - 16.4% from 25 - 40 GHz, respectively. With a 200 MHz signal, average power and PAE are 5.58 - 11.1 dBm and 4.8 - 13.3%, respectively.
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- Liu, Yang, et al.
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A Study Towards Reliability- and Delay-Critical Wireless Communication for RoboCup Robotic Soccer Application
- 2007
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Ingår i: 2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1424413117 - 9781424413119 - 1424413125 - 1424413125 - 1424413117 ; , s. 633-636
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- RoboCup is an international competition for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment to autonomously play soccer game against another team. Due to the nature of the competition, the requirements and constraints for the wireless communication are extremely tight. The challenge is that wireless communication is involved in the control loop and therefore the reliability and propagation delay are vital factors which directly affect the team performance. Beside, various interferences with known and unknown frequency / transmission power usually exist at the competition site, which are hazardous environment to achieve reliable and low latency performance for wireless communication. This paper investigates the performance strengths and weaknesses of wireless communication means e.g. RF, IEEE 802.11a/b, IEEE 802.15.4, DECT, Linx, etc, which are commonly used nowadays in different RoboCup teams and propose improvements towards reliable and delay-critical wireless communication.
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- Nilsson, Emil, et al.
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Ultra Low Power Wake-Up Radio Using Envelope Detector and Transmission Line Voltage Transformer
- 2013
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Ingår i: IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 2156-3357 .- 2156-3365. ; 3:1, s. 5-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An ultra-low power wake-up radio receiver using no oscillators is described. The radio utilizes an envelope detector followed by a baseband amplifier and is fabricated in a 130-nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process. The receiver is preceded by a passive radio-frequency voltage transformer, also providing 50 Omega antenna matching, fabricated as transmission lines on the FR4 chip carrier. A sensitivity of -47 dBm with 200 kb/s on-off keying modulation is measured at a current consumption of 2.3 mu A from a 1 V supply. No trimming is used. The receiver accepts a dBm continuous wave blocking signal, or modulated blockers 6 dB below the sensitivity limit, with no loss of sensitivity.
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- Pang, Xiaodan, Dr., et al.
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Bridging the Terahertz Gap : Photonics-assisted Free-Space Communications from the Submillimeter-Wave to the Mid-Infrared
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Lightwave Technology. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. - 0733-8724 .- 1558-2213. ; 40:10, s. 3149-3162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since about one and half centuries ago, at the dawn of modern communications, the radio and the optics have been two separate electromagnetic spectrum regions to carry data. Differentiated by their generation/detection methods and propagation properties, the two paths have evolved almost independently until today. The optical technologies dominate the long-distance and high-speed terrestrial wireline communications through fiber-optic telecom systems, whereas the radio technologies have mainly dominated the short- to medium-range wireless scenarios. Now, these two separate counterparts are both facing a sign of saturation in their respective roadmap horizons, particularly in the segment of free-space communications. The optical technologies are extending into the mid-wave and long-wave infrared (MWIR and LWIR) regimes to achieve better propagation performance through the dynamic atmospheric channels. Radio technologies strive for higher frequencies like the millimeter-wave (MMW) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) to gain broader bandwidth. The boundary between the two is becoming blurred and intercrossed. During the past few years, we witnessed technological breakthroughs in free-space transmission supporting very high data rates, many achieved with the assistance of photonics. This paper focuses on such photonics-assisted free-space communication technologies in both the lower and upper sides of the THz gap and provides a detailed review of recent research and development activities on some of the key enabling technologies. Our recent experimental demonstrations of high-speed free-space transmissions in both frequency regions are also presented as examples to show the system requirements for device characteristics and digital signal processing (DSP) performance.
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- Schilliger Kildal, Madeleine, 1987, et al.
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Verification of the Random Line-of-Sight Measurement Setup at 1.5-3 GHz including MIMO Throughput Measurements of a Complete Vehicle
- 2020
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. - 0018-9545 .- 1939-9359. ; 69:11, s. 13165-13179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The performance evaluation of wireless systems is crucial for the development of future systems with more connected devices. It is essential to have an easy and relevant method for ensuring the wireless communication performance of the devices. We have recently developed a new random line-of-sight (random-LOS) measurement system for evaluating the communication performance of wireless devices, e.g., transceivers and antennas installed on a vehicle. In the measurement system, a plane wave is generated in the test zone emulating the far-field wave transmitted from a radio base station. In this paper we present both numerical simulations and actual experimental results of the random-LOS over-the-air (OTA) measurement setup operating in the 1.5-3 GHz band. The measurement accuracy is determined by the field variations within the test zone, where a smaller variation gives better measurement accuracy. In this paper the achieved accuracy expressed in terms of standard deviation (STD) was evaluated to be approximately 1 dB of the power within a cylindrical test zone of height 0.4 m and diameter 2 m. The active multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) performance of antenna systems installed on an actual vehicle was measured and evaluated using the presented setup. A comparison to a theoretical zero forcing (ZF) receiver is also presented.
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- Schrammar, Nicolas, et al.
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Average Throughput in AWGN Cognitive Fading Interference Channel with Multiple Secondary Pairs
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2012 7th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, CROWNCOM 2012. - : IEEE Computer Society. - 2166-5370. - 9781936968558 - 9781467329767 ; , s. 158-162
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We consider the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) cognitive fading interference channel consisting of one primary and multiple secondary transmitter-receiver pairs. The secondary transmitters have non-causal knowledge of the primary message. We find a tuple of achievable rates by utilizing the discrete superposition model (DSM), which is a simplified, deterministic channel model. The coding scheme devised for the DSM can be translated into a coding scheme for the AWGN model, where the rate achieved in the AWGN model is at most a constant gap below the rate achieved in the DSM. We then calculate the average throughput of the secondary pairs under the assumption of Rayleigh fading channels. The main result is that our scheme performs well in the weak interference regime. The sum-throughput increases with the number of secondary pairs.
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- Wang, Chao, et al.
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On the Degrees of Freedom of Parallel Relay Networks
- 2010
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Ingår i: 2010 IEEE GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE GLOBECOM 2010. - 1930-529X. - 9781424456383 - 9781424456369
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We study the degrees of freedom (DOF) of a single-antenna M-user time-varying parallel relay network, where the communications between M pairs of unconnected sources and destinations are provided by a large number of half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relays. Unlike the conventional relaying strategy which demands all the relays to simultaneously assist the sources, we divide the relays into two clusters and permit them to take turns forwarding the source messages. With appropriate interference alignment design, it is proved that the M-user time-varying relay network has M DOF, provided that the number of relays is infinitely large.
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- Zarifi, D., et al.
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A Gap Waveguide-Based D-Band Slot Array Antenna with Interdigital Feed Network
- 2023
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. - 0018-926X .- 1558-2221. ; 71:9, s. 7124-7131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This work presents a high gain D-band slot array antenna with a corporate-fed distribution network designed by the gap waveguide. The gap waveguide technology is employed for overcoming the challenge of appropriate electrical contact related to the mechanical assemblage of the antenna feed network and the radiation layer. The antenna includes 24×16 slots and the basis of the antenna interdigital feeding network includes the ridge and groove gap waveguides. A standard WR-6 waveguide flange at the bottom is used to excite the presented antenna. To understand the fabrication challenges and tolerance issues around 140GHz, an antenna prototype was made by standard CNC milling techniques. The results show that an impedance bandwidth of 5.5% (141.8-149.8 GHz), efficiency higher than 78%, and a peak gain of 33.8 dBi are achieved for the proposed 24×16-element array antenna. According to the results, the presented planar array is a good option for D-band applications and can be used as the building block to develop high efficiency and high gain upper mm-wave antennas.
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