The bit error rate (BER) expression and performance of free-space optical communication link in clear but turbulent atmosphere using subcarrier intensity modulation (SIM) with differential phase shift keying (DPSK) is presented. The practical linear combining technique suitable for differentially modulated data (selection combining) is considered and its performance evaluated under weak atmosph...

In the present paper we study the use of vector quantization in the BTC-VQ image compression system. We propose an inverted order of proceeding in the BTC-VQ algorithm, so that the interaction of coding the bit plane and the quantization data will be taken into consideration. The quality of the image depends radically on the codebook used in VQ. The use of frequencies in the selection of the in...

We propose the use of large dictionaries of tilings for video compression and develop fast algorithms to select the optimal tiling for both the motion compensation and transform stages of a video coder. We illustrate the effectiveness of this approach by showing that our tiling selection method results in up to 23% savings in bit rate as compared to the H.264/AVC tiling selection, for several s...

Recently, cooperative communication have attracted significant attention to tackle the limitations imposed by multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology. To eliminate these limitations and increase spectral efficiency, best relay selection technique was proposed. In this paper, the performance of a new hybrid relay selection protocol is investigated. In particular, closedform expressions ...

The performance of cooperative network can be increased by using relay selection technique. Therefore, interest in relay selection is sloping upward. We proposed two new relay selection schemes based on fuzzy logic for dual hop cooperative communication. These relay selection schemes require SNR (signal to noise ratio), cooperative gain and channel gain as input fuzzy parameters for selection o...

In our Software Defined Radio SDR project we aim at combining two different types of standards, Bluetooth and HiperLAN/2 on one common hardware platform. Goal of our project is to generate knowledge about designing the front end of an SDR system (from the antenna signal to the channel bit stream) where especially an approach from both analog and digital perspective is essential. Bluetooth uses ...

The class of similarity based methods (SBM) covers most neural models and many other classifiers. Performance of such methods is significantly improved if irrelevant features are removed and feature weights introduced, scaling their influence on calculation of similarity. Several methods for feature selection and weighting are described. As an alternative to the global minimization procedures c...