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The standardization for the fifth generation (5G) of mobile and wireless networks is at its early phase and has recently completed the first study item in Release 14. Nevertheless, there is a consensus that 5G will address the diverse service requirements of high-variety use cases. The network shall cope with such variation effectively and cost-efficiently even though the requirements can change over...
In radio mobile cellular networks, the users located at the cell border suffer from a bad quality of service (QoS). Cooperative communication is a promising technique that can overcome this weakness by allowing these users to profit from powerful benefits of spatial diversity. Nevertheless, abstraction is usually made on the impact of the additional multiple access interference inherent to relaying...
In this paper we underline the importance of utilizing unequal powers in wireless ad hoc networks. Recent results from percolation theory indicate that a threshold exists after which a very large randomly positioned ad hoc network becomes disconnected almost surely for a given communication configuration. In this paper we prove that it is possible to extend the region of connectivity by allocating...
Building on the extensive research in Virtual Reality (VR), we are proposing a new dynamic prototype for modelling and simulating carbon emissions in a virtual village called VIRVIL. VIRVIL is a simulated settlement for the assessment of the impact of low and zero carbon technologies and measures in the built environment. The prototype will focus on the impact on the community as a whole, as well...
Opportunistic routing (OR) schemes, such as ExOR, have been shown to provide significant throughput gains over traditional best-path routing schemes for wireless networks. Though the performance of OR schemes depend on the bit-rate, they currently use a fixed rate for transmitting packets. While several schemes have been proposed for selecting bit-rate for unicast transmission to a single receiver,...
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...
Network coding is known to improve throughput by mixing information from different flows and conveying more information in each transmission. Recently some proposals have demonstrated the benefits of applying network coding to wireless networks with broadcast transmissions. It is expected that the opportunities for coding and the corresponding gains depend on the bit-rate chosen for determining routes...
The problem of communication among nodes in an extended network is considered, where radio power decay and interference are limiting factors. It has been shown previously that, with simple multi-hopping, the achievable total communication rate in such a network is at most Theta(radic(N)). In this work, we study the benefit of node cooperation in conjunction with multi-hopping on the network capacity...
This correspondence demonstrates the significant gains that multiple-access users can achieve from sharing a single amplify-forward relay in slow-fading environments. The proposed protocol, namely, multiple-access amplify-forward (MAF), allows for a low-complexity relay and achieves the optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) at high multiplexing gains. Analysis of the protocol further reveals...
A high intercept points, cost-effective, and power-efficient switching FET double balanced mixer (DBM) is reported. The Switching FET DBM demonstrated in this work offers input intercept points (IIP3) and conversion loss typically 44 dBm and 8.5 dB respectively with 15 dBm LO power for the frequency band (RF: 900-2150 MHz, LO: 850-1950 MHz, IF: 50-200 MHz). The measured interport isolation is typically...
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