A (k, l) hash-function combiner for property P is a construction that, given access to l hash functions, yields a single cryptographic hash function which has property P as long as at least k out of the l hash functions have that property. Hash function combiners are used to hedge against the failure of one or more of the individual components. One example of the application of hash function co...

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications have been considered as a key technology for future 5G wireless networks because of the orders-of-magnitude wider bandwidth than current cellular bands. In this paper, we consider the problem of codebook-based joint analog-digital hybrid precoder and combiner design for spatial multiplexing transmission in a mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sy...

In this paper we present a fully tunable and reconfigurable single-laser multi-tap microwave photonic FIR filter that utilizes a special SM-to-MM combiner to sum the taps. The filter requires only a single laser source for all the taps and a passive component, a SM-to-MM combiner, for incoherent summing of signal. The SM-to-MM combiner does not produce optical interference during signal merging...

Motivated by recent advances in wideband-gap (WBG) gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology, there is considerable interest in developing efficient solidstate power amplifiers (SSPAs) as an alternative to the traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA) for space applications. This article documents the general architecture considerations pertinent to developing SSPA architectures that can enable...

In this paper, the integrated-antenna concept is applied to push–pull power amplifiers (PA’s). In this approach, the antenna serves as an out-of-phase power combiner and tuned load for higher harmonics. This new architecture effectively has a near-zero loss output hybrid, and results in a high-efficiency PA. The first example is a narrow-band push–pull amplifier integrated with a dual-feed patc...

Much of the research in inductive learning concentrates on problems with relatively small amounts of data residing at one location. In this paper we explore the scalability of learning arbiter and combiner trees from partitioned data. Arbiter and combiner trees integrate classiiers trained in parallel from small disjoint subsets. Previous work demonstrated their eecacy in terms of accuracy, thi...

Performance of differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) is considered for fading channels with nonnegligible time-variation, as well as signal or noise correlation between diversity branches. A differentially coherent maximum-ratio combiner is derived, showing optimal weight dependence on the fading statistics. Bit error rate (BER) is evaluated analytically for Rayleigh fading, and comparison is ...

The paper considers the conventional decision feedback equaliser (DFE) that employs a linear combination of the channel observations and past decisions. An expression of the symbol error rate (SER) is derived for the linear-combiner DFE with the general M-PAM constellation by utilising a geometric translation property of decision feedback. A method is developed to optimise the coefficients of t...