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WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Selective Relaying in Cooperative OFDM Systems: Two-Hop Random Network
— In this paper, we investigate two selective relaying schemes in cooperative OFDM systems. Selective OFDMA relaying, where the relay selection is performed in a per-subcarrier m...
Bo Gui, Lin Dai, Leonard J. Cimini Jr.
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Combining Cricket System and Inertial Navigation for Indoor Human Tracking
—We present a system-level approach to localizing and tracking users on a basis of different sources of location information. We have applied a combination of the Cricket system ...
Michael Popa, Junaid Ansari, Janne Riihijärvi...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Estimation of Interference-Free Transmit Power for Opportunistic Spectrum Access
Abstract— We consider a scenario in which frequency agile radios opportunistically share a fixed spectrum resource with a set of primary nodes. We develop a collaborative scheme...
Brian L. Mark, Ahmed O. Nasif
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Clustering Characteristics of Millimeter Wave Indoor Channels
—Temporal-Angular channel sounding measurements of an indoor millimeter wave channel (60 GHz) is analyzed to determine whether ray arrivals at the receiver form clusters in the t...
Behnam Neekzad, Kamran Sayrafian-Pour, John S. Bar...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Physical Carrier Sensing Outage in Single Hop IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks with Slowly Moving Stations
—Physical Carrier Sensing plays a crucial role in the effectiveness of CSMA-based MAC protocols, yet its properties and impact on the system performance under slow fading channel...
Jin Sheng, Kenneth S. Vastola
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Distributed Space-Frequency Coding over Amplify-and-Forward Relay Channels
Abstract— In this paper, the design of distributed spacefrequency codes (DSFCs) for wireless relay networks employing the amplify-and-forward (AAF) protocol is considered. The te...
Karim G. Seddik, K. J. Ray Liu
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Sidelobe Suppression for OFDM-Based Cognitive Radios Using Constellation Expansion
— In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for reducing sidelobe interference power levels in OFDM-based cognitive radios. Existing techniques for sidelobe suppression can be ...
Srikanth Pagadarai, Rakesh Rajbanshi, Alexander M....
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Developing Security Solutions for Wireless Mesh Enterprise Networks
—Our study on the deployment topology and communication characteristics of wireless mesh enterprise networks (WMENs) leads to three critical security challenges: (a) deployment o...
Md. Abdul Hamid, Md. Shariful Islam, Choong Seon H...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Closed-Form Approximation for Capacity of Multiuser MIMO Broadcast Systems: A Virtual User Approach
— Besides delivering high data rates in a point-to-point scenario, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna techniques can broadcast personalized data to multiple users in the poi...
Li-Chun Wang, Chu-Jung Yeh, Chi-Fang Li
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Novel Capacity Analysis for Wireless Backhaul Mesh Networks
—This paper presents a novel ring-based approach to analyze the inter-flow capacity of a backhaul wireless mesh networks (WMNs) with centralized scheduling. Based on the property...
Tein-Yaw D. Chung, Kuan-Chun Lee, Hsiao-Chih Georg...