...Challenges for Efficient Communication in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Ian F. Akyildiz, Dario Pompili, Tommaso Melodia Broadband & Wireless Networking Laboratory School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 Tel: (404) 894-5141 Fax: (404) 894-7883 e-mail:{ian, dario, tommaso}@ece.gatech.edu Abstract— Ocean bottom sensor nodes can be used for oceanographic data collection, pollution monitoring, offshore exploration and tactical surveillance applications. Moreover, Unmanned or Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (UUVs, AUVs), equipped with sensors, will find application in exploration of natural undersea resources and gathering of scientific data in collaborative monitoring missions. Underwater acoustic networking is the enabling technology for these applications. Underwater Networks consist of a variable number of sensors and vehicles that are deployed to perform collaborative monitoring tasks over a given area. In this paper, several fundamental key aspects of underwater acoustic communications are investigated. Different architectures for two-dimensional and three-dimensional underwater sensor networks are discussed, and the underwater channel is characterized. The main challenges for the development of efficient networking solutions posed by the underwater environment are detailed at all layers of the protocol stack. Furthermore, open research issues are discussed and possible solution approaches are outlined...
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...CONTENT Page No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Academic calendar Digital Communications Microprocessors and microcontrollers Digital Signal Processing Object Oriented Programming Through Java Managerial Economics And Financial Analysis Digital Signal Processing Lab Microprocessor & Microcontroller Lab Advanced English Communication Skills Lab Object Orient Programming Through Java Lab 2 3 48 85 129 186 217 219 222 224 ACADEMIC CALENDAR VIGNAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACADEMIC CALENDAR B. Tech Academic Year 2013 - 2014 - II - Semester S.No Event Date th 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Submission of abstracts of main project by IV years Faculty orientation program Commencement of Class work Spell for UNIT – I Instructions Fresher’s day Spell for UNIT – II Instructions Alumni meet VIGNAN TARANG Spell for Unit-III Instructions st nd Assignment -1/ Unit test-1 on I & II Units Submission of results & week students list to Dept Spell for Unit-IV Instructions University I-Mid-Exam- II & IV Year rd University I-Mid-Exam- III Year Spell for UNIT – V Instructions for II &IV years rd Spell for UNIT – V Instructions for III year LAB INTERNAL-1 Commencement of Special classes for Slow learners Spell for UNIT – VI Instructions for II &IV years rd Spell for UNIT – VI Instructions for III year Submission of Mini project title along with guide for III year Spell for Unit...
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...Digital Tools for Networking Raquel Bilbraut Communication is any message send through digital devices. It is fast and easier, the message can be stored in the device for longer periods of time, without being damage, and it can be done over large distances. Also it provides facilities like video conferencing wish save a lot of time, money, and effort. Some examples of digital communication are: E-mailing, texting, fax, teleconferencing, and videoconferencing. One of the most important digital tools that I think is very helpful is E-mailing. Email is a store-and-forward method of writing, sending receiving, and saving messages through computers. E-mailing is very fast and provides the receiver the opportunity to answer immediately. Email messages are very easy to locate and is a secure way of sending messages. Although it has its disadvantages like, Spam, and viruses, I still think that is a very efficient, easy and low cost way to transmit messages. Emailing is also one of the tools most used in schools and colleges, it allows immediate communication between the student and the professor. It’s the way of send important information like grades, or to give an advance absent notice. Another helpful digital tool is Teleconferencing. This is a telephone or video meeting between multiple persons in two or more locations. Teleconferencing allows people to participate in regional, national, or worldwide meetings without actually leaving their location. This meetings, are...
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...Document Type: Prentice Hall Author: John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi Book: Communication Systems Engineering Copyright: 2002 ISBN: 0-13-061793-8 NI Supported: No Publish Date: Sep 6, 2006 Multicarrier Modulation and OFDM Overview This tutorial is part of the National Instruments Signal Generator Tutorial series. Each tutorial in this series, will teach you a specific topic of common measurement applications, by explaining the theory and giving practical examples. This tutorial covers multicarrier modulation and OFDM. For additional signal generator concepts, refer to the Signal Generator Fundamentals main page. Table of Contents 1. Multicarrier Modulation and OFDM 2. Further Reading 3. Relevant NI products Multicarrier Modulation and OFDM In the preceding sections, we considered digital transmission through nonideal channels and observed that such channels cause intersymbol interference when the reciprocal of the system rate is significantly smaller than the time dispersion (duration of the impulse response) of the nonideal channel. In such a case, a channel equalizer is employed at the receiver to compensate for the channel distortion. If the channel is a bandpass channel with a specified bandwidth, the information-bearing signal may be generated at the baseband and then translated in frequency to the passband of the channel. Thus, the information-bearing signal is transmitted on a single carrier. We also observed that intersymbol interference usually results...
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...CONCATENATIVE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS OF TWO-SYLLABLE FILIPINO WORDS Lourdes T. Tupas, Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, Ph.D., and Melvin Co Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of the Philippines, Diliman ABSTRACT In concatenative-based speech synthesizers, one of the most important problems is proper union of speech units to achieve an intelligible and natural-sounding synthetic speech. For that purpose, speech units need to be processed and concatenated so that discontinuities at concatenation points are minimized. Another possible solution to this is by using a larger speech unit to decrease the number of concatenation points. In this project, which utilized two-syllable Filipino words, the speech unit is syllable. Characterization of these Filipino words is done to differentiate words of the same spelling but of different meanings. This characterization took note of the pitch, duration of utterance of each syllable in the word, and the first three formant frequencies. A digital signal processing (DSP) block is also implemented. It accepts two-syllable text and outputs all the possible utterances of that word; this block is the text-to-speech synthesizer. A two-interval forced choice test was conducted to evaluate the level of naturalness of the synthesized speech. Words of the same spelling but of different meanings are distinguished using the prosody and intelligibility test. 1. INTRODUCTION ...
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...Click here to download the solutions manual / test bank INSTANTLY!! http://testbanksolutionsmanual.blogspot.com/2011/02/accounting-information-systems-romney.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accounting Information Systems Romney 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney Steinbart 11th Edition Solutions Manual Accounting Information Systems Romney Steinbart 11th Edition Solutions Manual ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL BOOK. YOU ARE BUYING the Solution Manual in e-version of the following book*** Name: Accounting Information Systems Author: Romney Steinbart Edition: 11th ISBN-10: 0136015182 Type: Solutions Manual - The file contains solutions and questions to all chapters and all questions. All the files are carefully checked and accuracy is ensured. - The file is either in .doc, .pdf, excel, or zipped in the package and can easily be read on PCs and Macs. - Delivery is INSTANT. You can download the files IMMEDIATELY once payment is done. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Our response is the fastest. All questions will always be answered in 6...
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...Analog and Digital Comparison Paper Amanda Dyer, Derick Campos, Jesse Ford, Mehran Gerami, Nicolas Monteiro, Wendell Taylor NTC/362 October 15, 2015 Richard Swafford, Jr. Analog and Digital Technology: A Comparison Analog and digital are two different types of signals used to transmit audio or visual information from one place to another. Analog signals are continuous, meaning that there are no breaks or interruptions and digital signals are not continuous, they use specific values to represent information (Strickland, 2008). Analog transmissions are sent via electronic pulses of varying amplitude, while digital transmissions are converted into binary format to represent two individual amplitudes. Analog is cheap and has been used quite some time now, but the biggest issue with analog signals is the limitation of data that can be transmitted. Nowadays almost all equipment being produced is digital based. Analog to digital conversions or A/D conversions is the process of changing a continuous variable signal to a multi-level signal without altering the vital contents or the information or data. A prime example of a telecommunication that uses this form of conversion is a telephone modem. Voice communications vary in range and are not in binary form, so these analog signals must be translated into digital signals. Digital to analog conversions or DAC is the conversion of binary code to analog signal. In order words, signals having few defined levels or states are...
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...[pic] DATA COMMUNICATION THEORY LAB REPORT Report on Digital Transmission of Analogue Signals Pulse Amplitude Modulation INTRODUCTION: The experiment uses the L.J.Electronics Modicom-1 board to investigate the sampling of signals, and the filter effects on the reconstruction of the original signal from the sampled input. The sample/Hold operation is also investigated in this experiment. The Modicum -1 board allows an analogue signal to be sampled at a number of different rate(2kHz,4kHZ,8kHZ,16kHz,32kHz).The pulse width is varied in the steps of 0% from 0 to 90 of the sampling interval. Second order and fourth order low pass filter are available with cut-off frequencies set at 3.4 kHz. BACKGROUND: L.J.Electronics MODICOM-1 board is used to investigate the sampling of signals, and the effects of filter on the reconstruction of the original signal from the sampled input. In addition to this Sample/Hold operation is also investigated. [pic] MODICOM-1 board The MODICOM-1 board is considered as five different blocks namely 1.) Power Input 2.) Sampling Control Logic 3.) Sampling Circuit 4.) Second Order Low Pass Filter and 5.) Fourth Order Low Pass Filter Sampling Control logic: It is used to generate the timing and control signals that sample the input waveform, and also creates a sinusoidal...
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...International Conference on VLSI, Communication & Instrumentation (ICVCI) 2011 Proceedings published by International Journal of Computer Applications ® (IJCA) Energy based Detection Scheme for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Bala Aditya Kota, Bharadwaj S #, Kiran C S, Nithin Krishna B M, Sutharshun V Students (B.Tech), Dept. of ECE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore – 641105. P.Sudheesh, Dr.M.Jayakumar Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore – 641105. 1 2 ABSTRACT Orthogonal Frequency Division M ultiplexing (OFDM ) has been accepted as the modulation scheme of choice for the next generation high-speed wireless communication systems due to the advantages that it offers like high spectral efficiency, resistance to multipath fading and resistance to frequency selective fading. M oreover, it lends itself to simple channel equalization. Conventional single carrier systems do not provide such advantages and hence, OFDM would almost ubiquitously be used for high speed wireless data transmission. However, the main drawback of such systems over single carrier systems is that in the presence of noise, there is an increased computational complexity at the receiver end to decode the data. In this paper, a low complexity detection algorithm is proposed for OFDM systems. M aximum likelihood detection is taken as the baseline detection algorithm and the proposed algorithm is compared with...
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...IEEE T R A N S A C T I O N S O N I N F O R M A T I O N T H E O R Y . VOL. 37, N O . I , J A N U A R Y 1991 43 A Class of Least-Squares Filtering and Identification Algorithms with Systolic Array Architectures Seth Z. Kalson, Member, IEEE, and Kung Yao, Member, IEEE Abstract -A unified approach is presented for deriving a large class of new and previously known time and order recursive least-squares algorithms with systolic array architectures, suitable for high throughput rate and VLSl implementations of space-time filtering and system identification problems. The geometrical derivation given here is unique in that no assumption is made concerning the rank of the sample data correlation matrix. Our method utilizes and extends the concept of oblique projections, as used previously in the derivations of the leastsquares lattice algorithms. Both the growing and sliding memory, exponentially weighted least-squares criteria are considered. Index Terms-Least-squares systolic arrays. tions of the least-squares estimation problem: 1) the filtering problem is to find the filtered output y , , ( t ) , where n . Y,!(t)S Cgl'(t)xi(t), i=l 1ItIT; (1.2) 2) the identification problem is to find the filter weights g ; ( t ) , i = 1;. ., n, for any t I. T This generalization of the least-squares estimation problem is important whenever practical space-time or multichannel filtering arises, such as in adaptive antenna arrays, I. INTRODUCTION decision feedback and...
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...Lockett, Roblee Page 1 of 48 6/3/2003 GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MULTIPLIERLESS TWODIMENSIONAL IMAGE FILTERS by Douglas J. Lockett and Christopher D. Roblee ********* Senior Capstone Design Project Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Union College Steinmetz Hall Schenectady, New York 12308 U.S.A. Submitted May 30, 2003 Final Project Report Senior Capstone Design Project, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Union College, 2003. © 2003 Douglas Lockett, Christopher Roblee Lockett, Roblee Page 2 of 48 6/3/2003 Table of Contents: Abstract……………………………………………………………………………….3 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..4 2. Theory of Multiplierless Arithmetic………………………………………………...5 3. Image Filters 3.1. Motivations for IIR vs. FIR……………………………………………………....7 3.2. Edge Detection …………………………………………………………………..8 3.3. Canny Edge Detection……………………………………………………………9 4. Genetic Algorithms 4.1. Motivations……………………………………………………………………...10 4.2. Basic Theory…………………………………………………………………….10 4.3. Description of the Designed Genetic Algorithm………………………………..13 4.3.1. Fitness Function Definition and Crossover Selection…………………...17 4.3.2. Magnitude Response and Relative Error………………………………...19 4.3.3. GA Parameters…………………………………………………………...19 5. Results 5.1. Magnitude Frequency Analysis ……………………………………………...…21 5.2. Spatial Analysis…………………………………………………………………24...
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...ACKNOWLEDEMENT We thank most of all God Almighty for his mercies and grace that kept us all through our seminar research and for giving us wisdom that was implemented in course of the research work. We are greatly indebted to our supervisor, ENGR. JOHN CHUKWU for his love, courage, guidance and investment to the group, who sacrificed his time and schedule just to make sure that the best is been brought out from this group and also to the group leader who consistently made every effort and spent sleepless night ensuring that the seminar topic research was a worthwhile and fulfilling one, also to us been the group members who contributed to the success of the research topic. We also want to thank the head of engineering department(HOD) who also contributed in his own way and also to school for bringing out the seminar format which guided us well and made our work easier. And to our most beloved parents, guardians which God used in providing the financial resources for us. We say a very big thank you to them all and pray that God bless us all. THANKS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS OF SOME TERMS A DIGITAL SYSTEM is a data technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems represent information using a continuous function. Although digital representations are discrete, the information represented can be either discrete, such as numbers and letters or continuous, such as sounds, images, and other measurements...
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...Organizational Theory, Design, and Change Jones 6th Edition Test Bank Click here to download the solutions manual / test bank INSTANTLY!!! http://solutionsmanualtestbanks.blogspot.com/2011/10/organizational-theory-d esign-and-change_18.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------Organizational Organizational Organizational Organizational Theory, Theory, Theory, Theory, Design, Design, Design, Design, and and and and Change Change Change Change Jones Jones Jones Jones 6th 6th 6th 6th Edition Edition Edition Edition Test Test Test Test Bank Bank Bank Bank -------------------------------------------------------------------------***THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL BOOK. YOU ARE BUYING the Test Bank in e-version of the following book*** Name: Organizational Theory, Design, and Change Author: Jones Edition: 6th ISBN-10: 0136087310 Type: Test Bank - The test bank is what most professors use an a reference when making exams for their students, which means there’s a very high chance that you will see a very similar, if not exact the exact, question in the test! - The file is either in .doc, .pdf, excel, or zipped in the package and can easily be read on PCs and Macs. - Delivery is INSTANT. You can download the files IMMEDIATELY once payment is done. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Our response is the fastest. All questions will always be answered in 6 hours. This is the quality of service we are providing and we hope to be your...
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...A project reported submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course EEL6503: Spread Spectrum and CDMA, Fall 2001 Submitted by Arun Avudainaygam LINEAR AND ADAPTIVE LINEAR MULTIUSER DETECTION IN CDMA SYSTEMS Project Website: http://arun-10.tripod.com/mud/mud.html SECTION 0 Introduction Multiuser detection is a technology that spawned in the early 80’s. It has now developed into an important, full-fledged field in multi-access communications. Multiuser Detection (MUD) is the intelligent estimation/demodulation of transmitted bits in the presence of Multiple Access Interference (MAI). MAI occurs in multi-access communication systems (CDMA/ TDMA/ FDMA) where simultaneously occurring digital streams of information interfere with each other. Conventional detectors based on the matched filter just treat the MAI as additive white gaussian noise (AWGN). However, unlike AWGN, MAI has a nice correlative structure that is quantified by the cross-correlation matrix of the signature sequences. Hence, detectors that take into account this correlation would perform better than the conventional matched filter-bank. MUD is basically the design of signal processing algorithms that run in the black box shown in figure 0.1. These algorithms take into account the correlative structure of the MAI. 0.1 Overview of the project This project investigates a couple of different approaches to linear multiuser detection in CDMA systems. Linear MUDs are detectors that...
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...2007-2008 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD B.TECH. ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING I YEAR COURSE STRUCTURE |Code |Subject |T |P/D |C | | |English |2+1 |- |4 | | |Mathematics - I |3+1 |- |6 | | |Mathematical Methods |3+1 |- |6 | | |Applied Physics |2+1 |- |4 | | |C Programming and Data Structures |3+1 |- |6 | | |Network Analysis |2+1 |- |4 | | |Electronic Devices and Circuits |3+1 |- |6 | | |Engineering Drawing |- |3 |4 | | |Computer Programming Lab. |- |3 |4 | | |IT Workshop |- |3 |4 | | |Electronic Devices and Circuits Lab |- |3...
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