We consider communication over binary memoryless symmetric channels using random elements from irregular low density parity check code (LDPC) ensembles, and belief propagation (BP) decoding. Under the assumption that the corresponding Tanner graph includes a non-vanishing fraction of degree 2 variable nodes, we determine the large blocklength behavior of the bit error rate for noise levels belo...

This paper describes a speaker verification system in which the talker and imposter models are adapted to achieve maximum discrimination, or equivalently minimum verification error. This goal is accomplishedby extending the minimum error classificationcriterion (MCE) and generalized probabilistic descent (GPD) algorithm to the task of adapting talker model parameters and the corresponding anti-...

All other conditions being equal, the end-to-end throughput of a TCP connection depends on the packet loss rate at the IP level. This is an issue when IP runs on a wireless link, where the bit error rate is variable and typically much higher than it is on fixed links. Especially on physical links where the bandwidth delay product is high, TCP performance is significantly impaired by apparently ...

All other conditions being equal, the end-to-end throughput of a TCP connection depends on the packet loss rate at the IP level. This is an issue when IP runs on a wireless link, where the bit error rate is variable and typically much higher than it is on fixed links. Especially on physical links where the bandwidth delay product is high, TCP performance is significantly impaired by apparently ...

Mobile users with single antennas can use spatial transmission diversity through cooperative space-time encoded transmission. In this paper, we present an end-to-end performance analysis of two-hop asynchronous cooperative diversity with regenerative relays over Rayleigh block-flat-fading channels, in which a precoding frame-based scheme with packet-wise encoding is used. This precoding is base...

Today's telecommunications needs call for faster and more reliable networks. Optical transmission has allowed great advances in creating faster and more reliable global communications networks. Most optical networks are based on the SONET (North American) and SDH (International) standards. For my thesis, I have designed, implemented, and tested a bit-error rate monitoring circuit, compliant wit...

In most source coded bit streams certain bits can be much more sensitive to transmission errors than others. Unequal error protection (UEP) offers a mechanism for matching error protection capability to sensitivity to transmission errors. A UEP system typically has the same average transmission rate as a corresponding equal error protection (EEP) system but offers an improved perceived signal q...

In the present work, the effects of operating conditions including pH, transmembrane pressure, oil concentration, and temperature on fouling resistance and the rejection of turbidity for a polymeric membrane in an ultrafiltration system of wastewater treatment were studied. A new modeling technique called evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR) was investigated. EPR is a method based on regres...

more than 30% of iran's land is formed from mountainous areas. so each year, landslides cause damages to structures, residential areas and forests, creating sedimentation, muddy floods and finally deposit the sediments in reservoir dams. therefore, for preventing of this damages and expressing the sensitivity rate of hillslopes, landslide hazard zonation is considered in prone areas. the p...