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The Army's WIN-T program is developing a new class of terminals for satellite on-the-move (SOTM) missions. The initial target satellites were commercial Ku-band satellites however, the ultimate goal is the Wideband Global System (WGS). WGS will consist of a geosynchronous constellation of at least six spacecrafts with X and Ka-band capable transponders. WGS is the newest department of defense (DOD)...
In this paper, we introduce and evaluate ScaleMesh, a scalable miniaturized dual-radio wireless mesh testbed based on IEEE 802.11b/g technology- ScaleMesh can emulate large-scale mesh networks within a miniaturized experimentation area by adaptively shrinking the transmission range of mesh nodes by means of variable signal attenuators. To this end, we derive a theoretical formula for approximating...
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is the modulation scheme of choice for digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H), which is required to operate under high mobility conditions resulting in significant Inter-carrier Interference (ICI). To mitigate ICI, several cancellation schemes have been proposed but they require reliable channel information at the receiver which is quite challenging...
In this paper the performance of the ESPAR (electronically steerable passive array radiator) antenna in suppressing both the co-channel and inter-symbol interferences is compared with the conventional circular and linear arrays. For this purpose, the STAP (space-time adaptive processing) is implemented in both arrays with equal elements. Simulation results show that when the pattern of the ESPAR antenna...
In this paper, we propose a cross-layer optimization approach that exploits retransmission diversity in wireless CDMA communications. Conventionally, data packets that are not correctly detected are usually dropped. These dropped packets can be used to help data packet detection. By exploiting all the retransmitted packets, data packets can be correctly detected with higher probability. The proposed...
The next generation of wireless networks (4G) will use OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) in the reverse link. In OFDMA, the reverse link resources assigned to a user are called tiles each of which consists of a subset of consecutive subcarriers. Since at most one user is assigned to each of these tiles then reverse link transmissions within a sector are orthogonal. However, the...
Correlative minimum shift keying (MSK), a second order polynomial modulation scheme known as tamed frequency modulation (TFM), is a constant envelope type of modulation with a perfect peak to average power ratio (PAPR), besides the property of low out of band power. We apply the linearized TFM to the single carrier transmission with frequency domain equalization (SC/FDE) concept. We then obtain a...
This paper investigates the effective gain of antennas in indoor channels. A metric called instantaneous effective gain is proposed, and a multiple-cluster 3D channel model is used to facilitate the proposed antenna effective gain. In the multiple-cluster channel model, Laplacian and double exponential distribution are utilized to model azimuth and elevation signal power distribution respectively,...
This paper studies efficient complex valued matrix manipulations for multi-user STBC-MIMO decoding. A novel method called Alamouti blockwise analytical matrix inversion (ABAMI) is proposed for the inversion of large complex matrices that are based on Alamouti sub-blocks. Another method using a variant of Givens rotation is proposed for fast QR decomposition of this kind of matrices. Our solutions...
Due to the increasing interest in mobile/wireless communication, there has been a continuous research in antenna diversity to combat fading. And the model of correlated and unbalanced diversity branches reflects the real-world scenario. The diagonalizer is introduced here before the diversity branches are combined, which can transform the correlated and balanced branches to the uncorrelated and unbalanced...
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