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Distributed Estimation Using Non-regular Quantized Data

  • Kim, Yoon Hak
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2017
  • We consider a distributed estimation where many nodes remotely placed at known locations collect the measurements of the parameter of interest, quantize these measurements, and transmit the quantized data to a fusion node; this fusion node performs the parameter estimation. Noting that quantizers at nodes should operate in a non-regular framework where multiple codewords or quantization partitions can be mapped from a single measurement to improve the system performance, we propose a low-weight estimation algorithm that finds the most feasible combination of codewords. This combination is found by computing the weighted sum of the possible combinations whose weights are obtained by counting their occurrence in a learning process. Otherwise, tremendous complexity will be inevitable due to multiple codewords or partitions interpreted from non-regular quantized data. We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides a statistically significant performance gain with low complexity as compared to typical estimation techniques.

Adptive Coded-Modulation in Slow Fading Channels

  • Kim, Young-Min;William C. Lindsey
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.99-110
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    • 1999
  • The adaptive coded modulation (ACM) is a promissing way to provide a substantial improvement in spectral efficiency for slow fading channels. The basic idea is to adapt system functional-ity such as modulation, coding, information rate, and transmission power to varying channel conditions. In this work, the potential of adaptive coded modulation is investigated using cut-off rate anal-ysis in a unified way and using computer simulation. The anal-ysis includes various effects of fading channels such as feedback delay and channel prediction error. It was shown that the adaptive coded modulation can provide several folds of increase in spectral efficiency compared to a fixed coded-modulation system employing QPSK when channel varies slowly.

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A Heuristic Algorithm for Designing Near-Optimal Mobile Agent Itineraries

  • Gavalas Damianos
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.123-131
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    • 2006
  • Several distributed architectures, incorporating mobile agent technology, have been recently proposed to answer the scalability limitations of their centralized counterparts. However, these architectures fail to address scalability problems, when distributed tasks requiring the employment of itinerant agents is considered. This is because they lack mechanisms that guarantee optimization of agents' itineraries so as to minimize the total migration cost in terms of the round-trip latency and the incurred traffic. This is of particular importance when MAs itineraries span multiple subnets. The work presented herein aspires to address these issues. To that end, we have designed and implemented an algorithm that adapts methods usually applied for addressing network design problems in the specific area of mobile agent itinerary planning. The algorithm not only suggests the optimal number of mobile agents that minimize the overall cost but also constructs optimal itineraries for each of them. The algorithm implementation has been integrated into our mobile agent framework research prototype and tested in real network environments, demonstrating significant cost savings.

Effect of Synchronization Errors on the Performance of Multicarrier CDMA Systems

  • Li Ying;Gui Xiang
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.38-48
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    • 2006
  • A synchronous multicarrier (MC) code-division multiple access (CDMA) system using inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) and fast Fourier transform (FFT) for the downlink mobile communication system operating in a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel is analyzed. Both carrier frequency offset and timing offset are considered in the analysis. Bit error rate performance of the system with both equal gain combining and maximum ratio combining are obtained. The performance is compared to that of the conventional system using correlation receiver. It is shown that when subcarrier number is large, the system using IFFT/FFT has nearly the same performance as the conventional one, while when the sub carrier number is small, the system using IFFT/FFT will suffer slightly worse performance in the presence of carrier frequency offset.

Error Performance of Serially Concatenated Space-Time Coding

  • Altunbas, Ibrahim;Yongacoglu, Abbas
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we investigate the error performance of a serially concatenated system using a nonrecursive convolutional code as the outer code and a recursive QPSK space-time trellis code as the inner code on quasi-static and rapid Rayleigh fading channels. At the receiver, we consider iterative decoding based on the maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm. The performance is evaluated by means of computer simulations and it is shown that better error performance can be obtained by using low complexity outer and/or inner codes and the Euclidean distance criterion based recursive space-time inner codes. We also obtain new systems with large number of trasmit and/or receive antennas providing good error performance.

New Construction of Quaternary Low Correlation Zone Sequence Sets from Binary Low Correlation Zone Sequence Sets

  • Jang, Ji-Woong;Kim, Sang-Hyo;No, Jong-Seon
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.330-333
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, using binary (N, M, L, $\epsilon$) low correlation zone (LCZ) sequence sets, we construct new quaternary LCZ sequence sets with parameters (2N, 2M, L, $2{\epsilon}$). Binary LCZ sequences for the construction should have period $N\;{\equiv}\;3$ mod 4, L|N, and the balance property. The proposed method corresponds to a quaternary extension of the extended construction of binary LCZ sequence sets proposed by Kim, Jang, No, and Chung [1].

An Online Response System for Anomaly Traffic by Incremental Mining with Genetic Optimization

  • Su, Ming-Yang;Yeh, Sheng-Cheng
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.375-381
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    • 2010
  • A flooding attack, such as DoS or Worm, can be easily created or even downloaded from the Internet, thus, it is one of the main threats to servers on the Internet. This paper presents an online real-time network response system, which can determine whether a LAN is suffering from a flooding attack within a very short time unit. The detection engine of the system is based on the incremental mining of fuzzy association rules from network packets, in which membership functions of fuzzy variables are optimized by a genetic algorithm. The incremental mining approach makes the system suitable for detecting, and thus, responding to an attack in real-time. This system is evaluated by 47 flooding attacks, only one of which is missed, with no false positives occurring. The proposed online system belongs to anomaly detection, not misuse detection. Moreover, a mechanism for dynamic firewall updating is embedded in the proposed system for the function of eliminating suspicious connections when necessary.

TCP Performance Improvement Using Cross-Layer Design in MANET Environments (MANET 환경에서 크로스레이어 디자인을 이용한 TCP 성능 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Nam, Ho-Seok;Lee, Tae-Hoon;Do, Jae-Hwan;Kim, Jun-Nyun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.9B
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    • pp.767-774
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    • 2008
  • With the development of ubiquitous sensor networks, the need for communication among mobile nodes has been increased. When the existing TCP is applied to MANET, link failure, route change and network partition make TCP recognize congestion. As a result, TCP shows a poor performance. In this paper, using cross-layer design a new TCP congestion control algorithm that is suitable for MANET is designed and analyzed with ns2.

Exact Bit Error Probability of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

  • Kim, Sang-Hyo;Yang, Jae-Dong;No, Jong-Seon
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.253-257
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, the performance of generic orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) introduced by Alamouti [2], Tarokh [3], and Su and Xia [11] is analyzed. We first define one-dimensional component symbol error function (ODSEF) from the exact expression of the pairwise error probability of an OSTBC. Utilizing the ODSEF and the bit error probability (BEP) expression for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) introduced by Cho and Yoon [9], the exact closed-form expressions for the BEP of linear OSTBCs with QAM in quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel are derived. We also derive the exact closed-form of the BEP for some OSTBCs which have at least one message symbol transmitted with unequal power via all transmit antennas.