Terrestrial digital broadcasting services in Japan will start in 2003, and conventional analog broadcasting will be terminated in 2011. However, it has been reported that the mobile reception quality for the terrestrial digital broadcasting is significantly reduced for high bit rate transmissions such as high definition television broadcasting. In this study, the reception quality of terrestria...

Formalizing goals and objectives within any organization is influenced by many socio-historical factors. To identify the trend in which educational goals and objectives within the Iranian educational system have evolved in terms of the approach, pattern, performance, and attending to individual differences, a historical analysis was undertaken. Findings are indicative of four eras: first, the c...

We investigate the effect of a directional antenna in wireless sensor networks from the perspective of network lifetime extension. Previous studies on wireless sensor networks have assumed only an omni-directional antenna model, since a directional antenna has been considered inappropriate for sensors due to size and cost constraints. In this sense, we propose to mount the directional antenna o...

Novel preventive link maintenance scheme based on directional antennas has been proposed to extend the life of the link for multihop infrastructureless networks such as Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET). We use the ability of directional antennas to orientate radio signals into the desired directions. We investigate preventive link maintenance scheme to on-demand routing algorithms. The scheme of ...

This project will involve the exploration of a directional extension of multidimensional wavelet transforms, called “contourlets”, to perform pattern recognition. First, the general concept of a directional extension vs. a regular multidimensional wavelet transform will be discussed and explain the reasoning behind the directional extension. Then, a comparison will be done using sample images b...

This project will involve the exploration of a directional extension of multidimensional wavelet transforms, called “contourlets”, to perform pattern recognition. First, the general concept of a directional extension vs. a regular multidimensional wavelet transform will be discussed and explain the reasoning behind the directional extension. Then, an objective comparison will be done using samp...