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- Fischione, Carlo, et al.
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Power and Rate Control with Outage Constraints in CDMA Wireless Networks
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Communications. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 0090-6778 .- 1558-0857. ; 57:8, s. 2225-2229
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A radio power control strategy to achieve maximum throughput for the up-link of CDMA wireless systems with variable spreading factor is investigated. The system model includes slow and fast fading, rake receiver, and multi-access interference caused by users with heterogeneous data sources. The quality of the communication is expressed in terms of outage probability, while the throughput is defined as the sum of the users' transmit rates. The outage probability is accounted for by resorting to a lognormal approximation. A mixed integer-real optimization problem P-1, where the objective function is the throughput under outage probability constraints, is investigated. Problem P-1 is solved in two steps: firstly, we propose a modified problem P-2 to provide feasible solutions, and then the optimal solution is obtained with an efficient branch-and-bound search. Numerical results are presented and discussed to assess the validity of our approach.
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- D'Angelo, M., et al.
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How to select the OOK detection threshold in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. - 9781424425167
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- On-off keying (OOK) is an attractive modulation technique to reduce energy consumption of power-constrained wireless networks. The OOK detection threshold, however, must be carefully selected to minimize the bit error probability (BER). This is a challenging task to accomplish on resource-limited nodes or on networks with high-mobility. In this paper, an efficient algorithm to compute the optimal threshold is proposed. The system scenario considers nodes simultaneously transmitting over same frequencies in Rayleigh-log-normal or Rice-log-normal fading conditions. It is shown that by using the Stirling expansion for the BER, and a log-normal approximation, a quick contraction-mapping can be built to achieve the threshold numerically. The mapping is simple to implement and converges quickly. Numerical simulations verify the validity of the theoretical analysis, and show that the new algorithm performs quite well in scenarios of practical interest.
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- de Val-Borro, M., et al.
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A comparative study of disc-planet interaction
- 2006
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Ingår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 370:529, s. 29-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We perform numerical simulations of a disc-planet system using various grid-based and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) codes. The tests are run for a simple setup where Jupiter and Neptune mass planets on a circular orbit open a gap in a protoplanetary disc during a few hundred orbital periods. We compare the surface density contours, potential vorticity and smoothed radial profiles at several times. The disc mass and gravitational torque time evolution are analysed with high temporal resolution. There is overall consistency between the codes. The density profiles agree within about 5 per cent for the Eulerian simulations. The SPH results predict the correct shape of the gap although have less resolution in the low-density regions and weaker planetary wakes. The disc masses after 200 orbital periods agree within 10 per cent. The spread is larger in the tidal torques acting on the planet which agree within a factor of 2 at the end of the simulation. In the Neptune case, the dispersion in the torques is greater than for Jupiter, possibly owing to the contribution from the not completely cleared region close to the planet.
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- von Mackensen, S., et al.
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Development of a disease-specific quality of life questionnaire for children & adolescents with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP-QoL)
- 2006
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Ingår i: Pediatric Blood & Cancer. - : Wiley. - 1545-5017 .- 1545-5009. ; 47:Suppl.5, s. 688-691
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Quality of life (QoL) assessment in children with coagulation disorders is a relatively unstudied area. While hemophilia-specific questionnaires (such as Haemo-QoL) are available, no instrument for children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) has been validated yet. A disease-specific questionnaire for children with ITP was therefore developed (ITP-QoL) in three phases: (a) a preparatory phase; (b) a developmental phase; (c) a pilot testing phase. Since dimensions of Haemo-QoL were considered important for children with ITP, items were adapted, reformulated and additional dimensions were included. Two age-group versions were designed for children (aged 3-7, 8-18 years) and parents in Italian, German, and Swedish languages and were pilot tested. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2006;47:688-691. (c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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