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An early stopping criterion is proposed for low-density lattice codes (LDLC) to reduce the number of decoding iterations. The stopping criterion is based on a new metric which is used to predict the convergence of the iterative decoding algorithm for LDLC. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed criterion can decrease the average iteration number considerably while the decoding performance...
State-of-the-art channel coding schemes promise data rates close to the wireless channel capacity. However, efficient link adaptation techniques are required in order to deliver such throughputs in practice. Traditional rate adaptation schemes, which are reactive and try to “predict” the transmission mode that maximizes throughput based on “transmission quality indicators”, can be highly inefficient...
This paper considers the selection of users and corresponding uplink decoding in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) multi-cell systems, applicable to future wireless networks with centralized processing at the wireless controller (WC). Two-layer decoding is proposed. First, for all active mobile stations (MSs) the spatial streams are decoupled at the pre-assigned base stations (BSs)...
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the new video compression standard, reducing bitrates nearly at half compared to H.264, offering potentially significant power savings for wireless video transmission at the network interface. This reduction in bitrate is achieved by a series of computationally expensive algorithms, thus making imperative to optimize HEVC decoding in order to provide a low-power...
We propose a probabilistic handshake mechanism for all-to-all broadcast coded slotted ALOHA. We consider a fully connected network where each user acts as both transmitter and receiver in a half-duplex mode. Users attempt to exchange messages with each other and to establish one-to-one handshakes, in the sense that each user decides whether its packet was successfully received by the other users:...
This paper investigates the outage behavior of transmitting correlated binary sources with arbitrary code rate over quasi-static Rayleigh fading multiple access channel (MAC). The sufficient condition for lossless communication with arbitrary code rate is obtained by assuming separate source and channel coding, which indicates the two rate regions specified by the Slepian-Wolf theorem and the MAC...
The rapid growth of video in wireless networks is a crucial issue to be addressed by content providers. Nowadays, an emerging and promising trend is the development of solutions aimed at maximizing the quality of experience (QoE) of end users. However, the prediction of the QoE perceived by users in different conditions remains a major challenge. In this paper, we propose a two-layer hierarchical...
Network coding tends to increase not only the end-to-end delay due to unavoidable buffering of packets, but it also increases the inter-packet delay variations (jitter) due to batching. While an increase in delay does not necessarily adversely affect throughput, sudden delay spikes may interfere with TCP’s congestion avoidance mechanism. Such spikes are a common phenomenon in coded packet networks...
This paper considers the problem of reducing the broadcast delay of wireless networks using instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) based device-to-device (D2D) communications. In D2D-enabled networks, devices help hasten the recovery of the lost packets of devices in their transmission range by sending network coded packets. To solve the problem, the different events occurring at each device are...
This paper reexamines the decoding problem for a distributed Turbo code (DTC) over a 3-node relay network applying the decode-and-forward strategy under the half-duplex constraint. The conventional decoder simply assumes that the relay performs error-free decoding. In practice, unsuccessful decoding at the relay causes error propagation, which may become a performance bottleneck. Improved decoders...
We introduce the “blind index coding” (BIC) problem, which generalizes the classic index coding problem by considering a sender that has some uncertainty about the side information that is available at each receiver. This problem naturally arises in wireless networks in which users obtain their side information through wireless channels with errors that may be unknown to the sender. For the proposed...
This paper establishes that the strong converse holds for some classes of discrete memoryless multimessage multicast networks (DM-MMNs) whose corresponding cut-set bounds are tight, i.e., coincide with the set of achievable rate tuples. The strong converse for these classes of DM-MMNs implies that all sequences of codes with rate tuples belonging to the exterior of the cut-set bound have average error...
Consider an energy-harvesting receiver that uses the same received signal both for decoding information and for harvesting energy to power its circuitry. When the receiver has limited battery size, a signal with bursty energy content may cause power outage since the battery will drain during intervals with low signal energy. The energy content in the signal may be regularized by requiring that sufficient...
Energy harvesting is a promising solution to prolong the lifetime of energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. In particular, scavenging energy from ambient radio frequency (RF) signals has drawn a lot of attention recently. In this paper, we apply simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) to a clustered sensor network such that a cluster head node harvests the wireless energy...
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is a current major surgery technique. A chief problem with MIS is its narrow field of vision. A wireless MIS Panoramic Endoscope (WMISPE) is developed and implemented to provide doctors with broad fields of view. A WMISPE features a combination of video overlapping and video stitching. The panoramic video apparatus has two side-by-side endoscopic lenses that provide...
Space-time block codes offer transmit diversity in Multiple Input Multiple Output wireless systems. Orthogonal and quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes have been developed for improving the performance of wireless communication systems. Three time slot-two transmit antenna systems are of interest in many practical situations in Long Term Evolution-Advanced 4G standard. Quasi-orthogonal and hybrid...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly deployed in office blocks, residential areas and also industrial locations, thanks to advantages in terms of flexibility and scalability. Nowadays available wireless fieldbuses are widely adopted for process monitoring and offer performance comparable with the wired counterparts, despite they still are more sensitive to interference from external sources...
A machine learning co-processor in 0.35μm CMOS for motor intention decoding in the brain-machine interfaces is presented in this paper. Using Extreme Learning Machine algorithm, time delayed sample based feature dimension enhancement, low-power analog processing and massive parallelism, it achieves an energy efficiency of 290 GMACs/W at a classification rate of 50 Hz. A portable external unit based...
This paper analyzes the block error rate (BLER) performance provided by a virtual MIMO scheme which implements a modified Alamouti Space-Frequency Block Code (SFBC) encoding-decoding algorithm using two fixed Decode &Forward relays that perform selective relaying, and single-antenna devices. It also analyzes the performance of the classical relay-based distributed Alamouti scheme with single-antenna...
In this paper, a novel video error concealment technique is presented. More specifically, for IP-based in-vehicle wireless networks, a robust video error concealment technique is proposed based on residual errors and boundary matching approach. Residual errors are used for checking reliability of motion vectors of coding units and a boundary matching algorithm is used for maintaining smoothness in...
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