We study coding for the non-ergodic block-fading channel. In particular, we analyze the error probability of full-diversity binary codes, and we elaborate on how to approach the outage probability limit. In so doing, we introduce the concept outage boundary region, which is a graphical way to illustrate failures in the decoding process. We show that outage achieving codes have a frame error pro...

‘The common grave of Europe’: with these negative words the Netherlandish humanist Justus Lipsius described Low Countries. His adaptation Catullus’ famous verse on Troy1 reveals an essential aspect role territories in early modern Europe. Although their privileged centrality had contributed to function as a nodal point transmission culture, it also turned Countries into theatre war for bloody a...

The band-, treeand lique-width are of primary importan e in algorithmi graph theory due to the fa t that many problems being NP-hard for general graphs an be solved in polynomial time when restri ted to graphs where one of these parameters is bounded. It is known that for any xed 3, all three parameters are unbounded for graphs with vertex degree at most . In this paper, we distinguish represen...

This paper outlines the basic steps in the design and implementation of a feature based Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) image registration application and highlights some of the implementation details, such as the detection of features, feature descriptor design, robust filtering of mismatched descriptors, and transform estimation. Although the approach chosen is based on the Scale Invar...

This paper describes a new modulation technique known as frequency domain reciprocal modulation (FDRM) that has a characteristic of high immunity to dynamic multipath distortion. FDRM is a multicarrier transmission technology that is related to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). FDRM uses frequency domain reciprocal harmonic carriers to allow automatic cancellation of all linear...

It seems silly and impractical: to write a garbage collector (for a Prolog engine) in Prolog itself. However, there are at least three advantages in doing so: (1) one gets a runnable specification of the garbage collector, (2) it can enhance understanding of the algorithms involved without having to worry about gory pointer details, (3) the garbage collector written in Prolog can be used for de...

The stability of onstantoe ients semi-impli it s hemes for the hydrostati primitive equations and the fully elasti Euler equations in presen e of expli itly treated thermal residuals has been theoreti ally examined in the earlier literature, but only for the ase of a at terrain. This paper extends these analyses to the ase where an orography is present, in the shape of a uniform slope. It is sh...

A lass of odes is said to rea h apa ity C of the binary symmetri hannel if for any rate R < C and any " > 0 there is a suÆ iently large N su h that odes of length N and rate R from this lass provide error probability of de oding at most ", under some de oding algorithm. The study of the error probability of expander odes was initiated in Barg and Z emor (2002), where it was shown that they atta...