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1.	A Computational Approach to Edge Detection Canny, John Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Volume PAMI-8, Issue 6, Date: Nov. 1986, Pages: 679-698 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPAMI.1986.4767851 Summary: This paper describes a computational approach to edge detection. The success of the approach depends on the definition of a comprehensive set of goals for the computation of edge points. These goals must be precise enough to delimit the desired behavi...

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2.	LTE: the evolution of mobile broadband - [LTE part II: 3GPP release 8] Astely, D.; Dahlman, E.; Furuskar, A.; Jading, Y.; Lindstrom, M.; Parkvall, S. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 47, Issue 4, Date: April 2009, Pages: 44-51 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4907406 Summary: This article provides an overview of the LTE radio interface, recently approved by the 3GPP, together with a more in-depth description of its features such as spectrum flexibility, multi-antenna transmission, and inter-cell interference control. The p...

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3.	IEEE recommended practice for software requirements specifications IEEE Std 830-1998 Volume , Issue , Date: 20 Oct 1998, Pages: - Summary: The content and qualities of a good software requirementsspecification (SRS) are described, and several sample SRS outlines arepresented. This recommended practice is aimed at specifying therequirements of software to be developed, but can also be ...

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4.	Mean shift: a robust approach toward feature space analysis Comaniciu, D.; Meer, P. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Volume 24, Issue 5, Date: May 2002, Pages: 603-619 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/34.1000236 Summary: A general non-parametric technique is proposed for the analysis ofa complex multimodal feature space and to delineate arbitrarily shapedclusters in it. The basic computational module of the technique is anold pattern recognition procedure: the mean...

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5.	Design of a High Performance 2-GHz Direct-Conversion Front-End With a Single-Ended RF Input in 0.13 $mu$m CMOS Yiping Feng; Takemura, G.; Kawaguchi, S.; Kinget, P. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1380-1390 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015824 Summary: A 2.1 GHz CMOS front-end with a single-ended low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a double balanced, current-driven passive mixer is presented. The LNA drives an on-chip transformer load that performs single-ended to differential conversion. A detailed compa...

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6.	A survey on sensor networks Akyildiz, I.F.; Weilian Su; Sankarasubramaniam, Y.; Cayirci, E. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 40, Issue 8, Date: Aug 2002, Pages: 102- 114 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2002.1024422 Summary: The advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low-cost sensor networks. The sensor networks can be used for various application areas (e.g., health, military, home). For different application areas, there a...

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7.	A 1 GHz Bandwidth Low-Pass $Delta Sigma$ ADC With 20–50 GHz Adjustable Sampling Rate Hart, A.; Voinigescu, S.P. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1401-1414 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015852 Summary: A low-pass continuous-time delta-sigma data converter with adjustable sampling rate from 20-50 GS/s has been demonstrated in a production 165 GHz-f_T 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS process. The ADC exploits the high transistor f_T of modern si...

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8.	Measurements and Analysis of Process Variability in 90 nm CMOS Liang-Teck Pang; Nikolic, B. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1655-1663 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015789 Summary: A test chip has been built to study the effects of circuit layout on variability, and to characterize within-die (WID) and die-to-die (D2D) variability of delay and leakage current in 90 nm CMOS technology. Delay is obtained through the measurement of...

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9.	A Fully Integrated 0.13- $mu$m CMOS 40-Gb/s Serial Link Transceiver Jeong-Kyoum Kim; Jaeha Kim; Gyudong Kim; Deog-Kyoon Jeong Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1510-1521 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2017973 Summary: A fully integrated 40-Gb/s transceiver fabricated in a 0.13-mum CMOS technology is presented. The receiver operates at a 20-GHz clock performing half-rate clock and data recovery. Despite the low f_Tof 70 GHz, the input sampler achieves 10-m...

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10.	The capacity of wireless networks Gupta, P.; Kumar, P.R. Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Volume 46, Issue 2, Date: Mar 2000, Pages: 388-404 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/18.825799 Summary: When n identical randomly located nodes, each capable oftransmitting at W bits per second and using a fixed range, form awireless network, the throughput λ(n) obtainable by each node fora randomly chosen destination is Θ(W/√(nlog...

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11.	The LTE link-layer design - [LTE part II: 3GPP release 8] Larmo, A.; Lindstrom, M.; Meyer, M.; Pelletier, G.; Torsner, J.; Wiemann, H. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 47, Issue 4, Date: April 2009, Pages: 52-59 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4907407 Summary: The LTE radio interface for 3GPP Release 8 was specified recently. This article describes the LTE link-layer protocols, which abstract the physical layer and adapt its characteristics to match the requirements of higher layer protocols. The LTE link-l...

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12.	Mobile WiMAX systems: performance and evolution Fan Wang; Ghosh, A.; Sankaran, C.; Fleming, P.; Hsieh, F.; Benes, S. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 46, Issue 10, Date: October 2008, Pages: 41-49 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2008.4644118 Summary: Mobile WiMAX was successfully adopted by ITU as one of the IMT-2000 technologies in November 2007. Since then mobile WiMAX (a.k.a. IP-OFDMA) has officially become a major global cellular wireless standard along with 3GPP UMTS/HSPA and 3GPP2 CDMA/ EVDO...

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13.	Cooperative Communications for Cognitive Radio Networks Letaief, K. B.; Zhang, W. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 97, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 878-893 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2015716 Summary: Cognitive radio is an exciting emerging technology that has the potential of dealing with the stringent requirement and scarcity of the radio spectrum. Such revolutionary and transforming technology represents a paradigm shift in the design of ...

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14.	A survey of spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio applications Yucek, T.; Arslan, H. Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Volume 11, Issue 1, Date: First Quarter 2009, Pages: 116-130 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/SURV.2009.090109 Summary: The spectrum sensing problem has gained new aspects with cognitive radio and opportunistic spectrum access concepts. It is one of the most challenging issues in cognitive radio systems. In this paper, a survey of spectrum sensing methodologies for cog...

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15.	Study of Subharmonically Injection-Locked PLLs Jri Lee; Huaide Wang Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1539-1553 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2016701 Summary: A complete analysis on subharmonically injection-locked PLLs develops fundamental theory for subharmonic locking phenomenon. It explains the noise shaping phenomenon, locking range and behavior, PVT tolerance, and pseudo locking issue. All of the anal...

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16.	A 0.13 $mu$ m CMOS Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE RF Transceiver Using a Low-Noise Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer and Direct-Conversion Architecture Pei-Wei Chen; Tser-Yu Lin; Ling-Wei Ke; Rickey Yu; Ming-Da Tsai; Chih-Wei Yeh; Yi-Bin Lee; Bosen Tzeng; Yen-Horng Chen; Sheng-Jui Huang; Yu-Hsin Lin; Guang-Kaai Dehng Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1454-1463 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015797 Summary: This paper presents a single-chip CMOS quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) RF transceiver for GSM/GPRS/EDGE applications which adopts a direct-conversion receiver, a direct-conversion transmitter and a fractional-N frequency synthesizer with a built-in ...

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17.	Interference coordination and cancellation for 4G networks - [LTE part II: 3GPP release 8] Boudreau, G.; Panicker, J.; Ning Guo; Rui Chang; Neng Wang; Vrzic, S. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 47, Issue 4, Date: April 2009, Pages: 74-81 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4907410 Summary: This article provides an overview of contemporary and forward looking inter-cell interference coordination techniques for 4G OFDM systems with a specific emphasis on implementations for LTE. Viable approaches include the use of power control, opportun...

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18.	Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: Efficient protocols and outage behavior Laneman, J.N.; Tse, D.N.C.; Wornell, G.W. Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Volume 50, Issue 12, Date: Dec. 2004, Pages: 3062- 3080 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TIT.2004.838089 Summary: We develop and analyze low-complexity cooperative diversity protocols that combat fading induced by multipath propagation in wireless networks. The underlying techniques exploit space diversity available through cooperating terminals' relaying signal...

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19.	A 65 nm CMOS 30 dBm Class-E RF Power Amplifier With 60% PAE and 40% PAE at 16 dB Back-Off Apostolidou, M.; van der Heijden, M.P.; Leenaerts, D.M.W.; Sonsky, J.; Heringa, A.; Volokhine, I. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1372-1379 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020680 Summary: A 30 dBm single-ended class-E RF power amplifier (PA) is fabricated in a baseline 65 nm CMOS technology. The PA is constructed as a cascode stage formed by a standard thin-oxide device and a dedicated novel high voltage extended-drain thick-oxide devi...

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20.	Cooperative communication in wireless networks Nosratinia, A.; Hunter, T.E.; Hedayat, A. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 42, Issue 10, Date: Oct. 2004, Pages: 74- 80 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2004.1341264 Summary: Transmit diversity generally requires more than one antenna at the transmitter. However, many wireless devices are limited by size or hardware complexity to one antenna. Recently, a new class of methods called cooperative communication has been propo...

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21.	Coexistence studies for 3GPP LTE with other mobile systems - [LTE part II: 3GPP release 8] Man Hung Ng; Shen-De Lin; Li, J.; Tatesh, S. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 47, Issue 4, Date: April 2009, Pages: 60-65 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4907408 Summary: To ensure LTE systems can coexist with other mobile systems operating in the same geographical area, or the LTE Base Station (BS) can be collocated with other mobile system BSs, coexistence studies for LTE with other systems have been carried out in 3...

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22.	A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications Alamouti, S.M. Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on Volume 16, Issue 8, Date: Oct 1998, Pages: 1451-1458 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/49.730453 Summary: This paper presents a simple two-branch transmit diversity scheme.Using two transmit antennas and one receive antenna the scheme providesthe same diversity order as maximal-ratio receiver combining (MRRC) withone transmit antenna, and two receive a...

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23.	Cooperative relay to improve diversity in cognitive radio networks Qian Zhang; Juncheng Jia; Jin Zhang Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 47, Issue 2, Date: February 2009, Pages: 111-117 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4785388 Summary: Recent studies demonstrated that dynamic spectrum access can improve spectrum utilization significantly by allowing secondary unlicensed users to dynamically share the spectrum that is not used by the primary licensed users. Cognitive radio was propos...

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24.	A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: the waveletrepresentation Mallat, S.G. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Volume 11, Issue 7, Date: Jul 1989, Pages: 674-693 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/34.192463 Summary: Multiresolution representations are effective for analyzing theinformation content of images. The properties of the operator whichapproximates a signal at a given resolution were studied. It is shownthat the difference of information between the ap...

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25.	Beyond bandlimited sampling Eldar, Y.; Michaeli, T. Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Volume 26, Issue 3, Date: May 2009, Pages: 48-68 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2009.932125 Summary: Digital applications have developed rapidly over the last few decades. Since many sources of information are of analog or continuous-time nature, discrete-time signal processing (DSP) inherently relies on sampling a continuous-time signal to obtain a ...

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26.	A tutorial on particle filters for online nonlinear/non-GaussianBayesian tracking Arulampalam, M.S.; Maskell, S.; Gordon, N.; Clapp, T. Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Volume 50, Issue 2, Date: Feb 2002, Pages: 174-188 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/78.978374 Summary: Increasingly, for many application areas, it is becoming importantto include elements of nonlinearity and non-Gaussianity in order tomodel accurately the underlying dynamics of a physical system. Moreover,it is typically crucial to process data on-...

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27.	Grid of the future Ipakchi, A.; Albuyeh, F. Power and Energy Magazine, IEEE Volume 7, Issue 2, Date: March-April 2009, Pages: 52-62 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2008.931384 Summary: Many believe the electric power system is undergoing a profound change driven by a number of needs. There's the need for environmental compliance and energy conservation. We need better grid reliability while dealing with an aging infrastructure. And ...

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28.	Cognitive radio: brain-empowered wireless communications Haykin, S. Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on Volume 23, Issue 2, Date: Feb. 2005, Pages: 201- 220 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSAC.2004.839380 Summary: Cognitive radio is viewed as a novel approach for improving the utilization of a precious natural resource: the radio electromagnetic spectrum. The cognitive radio, built on a software-defined radio, is defined as an intelligent wireless communication...

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29.	A Low Jitter Programmable Clock Multiplier Based on a Pulse Injection-Locked Oscillator With a Highly-Digital Tuning Loop Helal, B.M.; Chun-Ming Hsu; Johnson, K.; Perrott, M.H. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1391-1400 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015816 Summary: This paper introduces a pulse injection-locked oscillator (PILO) that provides low jitter clock multiplication of a clean input reference clock. A mostly-digital feedback circuit provides continuous tuning of the oscillator such that its natural frequ...

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30.	A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications inspeech recognition Rabiner, L.R. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 77, Issue 2, Date: Feb 1989, Pages: 257-286 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/5.18626 Summary: This tutorial provides an overview of the basic theory of hiddenMarkov models (HMMs) as originated by L.E. Baum and T. Petrie (1966) andgives practical details on methods of implementation of the theory alongwith a description of selected applicati...

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31.	IEEE Standard for Information technology-Telecommunications and information exchange between systems-Local and metropolitan area networks-Specific requirements - Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications IEEE Std 802.11-2007 (Revision of IEEE Std 802.11-1999) Volume , Issue , Date: June 12 2007, Pages: C1-1184 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IEEESTD.2007.373646 Summary: This revision specifies technical corrections and clarifications to IEEE Std 802.11 for wireless local area networks (WLANS) as well as enhancements to the existing medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) functions. It also incorporates A...

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32.	LTE part II: Radio access - [guest editorial] Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 47, Issue 4, Date: April 2009, Pages: 40-42 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4907405 Summary: Part II of this Feature Topic provides insight into the inner workings of the long term evolution (LTE) air interface.

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33.	Signal processing: a view of the future, part 2 Treichler, J. Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Volume 26, Issue 3, Date: May 2009, Pages: 83-86 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2009.932165 Summary: The intent of the author in this column and its predecessor, published in the March 2009 issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, was to produce a behavioral model for the field of signal processing and then use that model to predict the field's futu...

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34.	What is a Spectrum Hole and What Does it Take to Recognize One? Tandra, R.; Mishra, S. M.; Sahai, A. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 97, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 824-848 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2015710 Summary: “Spectrum holes” represent the potential opportunities for noninterfering (safe) use of spectrum and can be considered as multidimensional regions within frequency, time, and space. The main challenge for secondary radio systems i...

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35.	25 microchips that shook the world Santo, B. Spectrum, IEEE Volume 46, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 34-43 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSPEC.2009.4907384 Summary: microchip design, as in life, small things sometimes add up to big things. Dream up a clever microcircuit, get it sculpted in a sliver of silicon, and your little creation may unleash a technological revolution. It happened with the Intel 8088 micropr...

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36.	A survey on wireless mesh networks Akyildiz, I.F.; Xudong Wang Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 43, Issue 9, Date: Sept. 2005, Pages: S23- S30 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2005.1509968 Summary: Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as a key technology for next-generation wireless networking. Because of their advantages over other wireless networks, WMNs are undergoing rapid progress and inspiring numerous applications. However, many te...

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37.	A DLL With Jitter Reduction Techniques and Quadrature Phase Generation for DRAM Interfaces Byung-Guk Kim; Lee-Sup Kim; Kwang-Il Park; Young-Hyun Jun; Soo-In Cho Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1522-1530 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2016993 Summary: A DLL featuring jitter reduction techniques for a noisy environment is described. It controls a loop response mode by monitoring the magnitude of input jitter caused by supply noise. This technique varies the probability of phase error tracking. It re...

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38.	Signal Processing in Cognitive Radio Ma, J.; Li, G. Y.; Juang, B. H. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 97, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 805-823 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2015707 Summary: Cognitive radio allows for usage of licensed frequency bands by unlicensed users. However, these unlicensed (cognitive) users need to monitor the spectrum continuously to avoid possible interference with the licensed (primary) users. Apart from...

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39.	OFDM for cognitive radio: merits and challenges [accepted from open call] Mahmoud, H.; Yucek, T.; Arslan, H. Wireless Communications, IEEE Volume 16, Issue 2, Date: April 2009, Pages: 6-15 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MWC.2009.4907554 Summary: Cognitive radio is a novel concept that enables wireless systems to sense the environment, adapt, and learn from previous experience to improve the quality of the communication. However, CR requires a flexible and adaptive physical layer in order to p...

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40.	A Fully Integrated Ultra-Low Insertion Loss T/R Switch for 802.11b/g/n Application in 90 nm CMOS Process Kidwai, A.A.; Chang-Tsung Fu; Jensen, J.C.; Taylor, S.S. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1352-1360 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015813 Summary: A 30 dBm ultra-low insertion loss CMOS transmit-receive switch fully integrated with an 802.11b/g/n transceiver front-end is demonstrated. The switch achieves an insertion loss of 0.4 dB in transmit mode and 0.1 dB in receive mode. The entire receiver...

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41.	Cloud Computing: IT as a Service Geng Lin; Fu, D.; Jinzy Zhu; Dasmalchi, G. IT Professional Volume 11, Issue 2, Date: March-April 2009, Pages: 10-13 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MITP.2009.22 Summary: Industry panelists at an IEEE Computer Society conference in Beijing look at the opportunities and challenges emerging from cloud computing and how their companies are addressing them.

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42.	A CMOS Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Front-End Tzeng, F.; Jahanian, A.; Pi, D.; Heydari, P. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1321-1335 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015810 Summary: This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel multi-antenna receiver front-end, which is capable of accommodating various multi-antenna schemes including spatial multiplexing (SM), spatial diversity (SD), and beamforming (BF). The use o...

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43.	Low-Profile Equiangular Spiral Antenna Backed by an EBG Reflector Nakano, H.; Kikkawa, K.; Kondo, N.; Iitsuka, Y.; Yamauchi, J. Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Volume 57, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1309-1318 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TAP.2009.2016697 Summary: The bi-directional beam from an equiangular spiral antenna (EAS) is changed to a unidirectional beam using an electromagnetic band gap (EBG) reflector. The antenna height, measured from the upper surface of the EBG reflector to the spiral arms, is cho...

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44.	An Agile, Ultra-Wideband Pulse Radio Transceiver With Discrete-Time Wideband-IF Zhang, F.; Jha, A.; Gharpurey, R.; Kinget, P. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1336-1351 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020681 Summary: A pulse-based CMOS ultra-wideband transmitter and receiver have been realized using a standard digital 90 nm CMOS process. The transceiver uses digital templates stored in high-speed memories for pulse generation on the transmit side and for correlati...

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45.	Survey of clustering algorithms Rui Xu; Wunsch, D., II Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Volume 16, Issue 3, Date: May 2005, Pages: 645-678 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TNN.2005.845141 Summary: Data analysis plays an indispensable role for understanding various phenomena. Cluster analysis, primitive exploration with little or no prior knowledge, consists of research developed across a wide variety of communities. The diversity, on one hand, ...

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46.	Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Haykin, S.; Thomson, D. J.; Reed, J. H. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 97, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 849-877 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2015711 Summary: Spectrum sensing is the very task upon which the entire operation of cognitive radio rests. For cognitive radio to fulfill the potential it offers to solve the spectrum underutilization problem and do so in a reliable and computationally feasib...

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47.	MIMO Detection Methods: How They Work Larsson, E.G. Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Volume 26, Issue 3, Date: May 2009, Pages: 91-95 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2009.932126 Summary: The goal of this lecture has been to provide an overview of approaches, in the communications receiver context. Which method is the best in practice? This depends much on the purpose of solving : what error rate can be tolerated, what is the ultimate ...

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48.	The Case for Cloud Computing Grossman, R.L. IT Professional Volume 11, Issue 2, Date: March-April 2009, Pages: 23-27 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MITP.2009.40 Summary: To understand clouds and cloud computing, we must first understand the two different types of clouds. The author distinguishes between clouds that provide on-demand computing instances and those that provide on-demand computing capacity. Cloud computi...

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49.	Cloud Computing: New Wine or Just a New Bottle? Voas, Jeffrey; Zhang, Jia IT Professional Volume 11, Issue 2, Date: March-April 2009, Pages: 15-17 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MITP.2009.23 Summary: Cloud computing has evolved from previous computing paradigms going back as far to the days of mainframes, but is it really different? Do the explosive new capabilities from cloud computing solve any of the problems left unsolved from three decades ag...

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50.	Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared Foster, I.; Yong Zhao; Raicu, I.; Lu, S. Grid Computing Environments Workshop, 2008. GCE apos;08 Volume , Issue , Date: 12-16 Nov. 2008, Pages: 1-10 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/GCE.2008.4738445 Summary: Cloud computing has become another buzzword after Web 2.0. However, there are dozens of different definitions for cloud computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a cloud is. On the other hand, cloud computing is not a completely new concept...

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51.	60 GHz CMOS Amplifiers Using Transformer-Coupling and Artificial Dielectric Differential Transmission Lines for Compact Design LaRocca, T.; Liu, J.Y.-C.; Chang, M.-C.F. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1425-1435 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015794 Summary: 57-65 GHz differential and transformer-coupled power and variable-gain amplifiers using a commercial 90 nm digital CMOS process are presented. On-chip transformers combine bias, stability and input/interstage matching networks to enable compact design...

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52.	A Fully Integrated 2 $,times,$2 Power Amplifier for Dual Band MIMO 802.11n WLAN Application Using SiGe HBT Technology Hsin-Hsing Liao; Hao Jiang; Shanjani, P.; King, J.; Behzad, A. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1361-1371 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015817 Summary: A fully monolithic 2 times 2(2 times 5 GHz-band, 2 times 2.4 GHz-band) power amplifier (PA) implemented in a 0.18 mum Silicon Germanium (SiGe) HBT process has been developed for a dual band MIMO 802.11n WLAN system. In order to achieve the required pe...

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53.	IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems Amendment 2: Physical and Medium Access Control Layers for Combined Fixed and Mobile Operation in Licensed Bands and Corrigendum 1 IEEE Std 802.16e-2005 and IEEE Std 802.16-2004/Cor 1-2005 (Amendment and Corrigendum to IEEE Std 802.16-2004) Volume , Issue , Date: 2006, Pages: 0_1-822 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IEEESTD.2006.99107 Summary: This document updates and expands IEEE Std 802.16-2004 to allow for mobile subscriber stations.

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54.	Super-resolution image reconstruction: a technical overview Sung Cheol Park; Min Kyu Park; Moon Gi Kang Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Volume 20, Issue 3, Date: May 2003, Pages: 21- 36 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2003.1203207 Summary: A new approach toward increasing spatial resolution is required to overcome the limitations of the sensors and optics manufacturing technology. One promising approach is to use signal processing techniques to obtain an high-resolution (HR) image (or ...

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55.	Cloud computing Lucky, R.W. Spectrum, IEEE Volume 46, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 27-27 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSPEC.2009.4907382 Summary: Is cloud computing an idea whose time has come?

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56.	An Introduction To Compressive Sampling Candes, E.J.; Wakin, M.B. Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Volume 25, Issue 2, Date: March 2008, Pages: 21-30 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2007.914731 Summary: Conventional approaches to sampling signals or images follow Shannon's theorem: the sampling rate must be at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal (Nyquist rate). In the field of data conversion, standard analog-to-digital converter ...

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57.	IEEE standard glossary of software engineering terminology IEEE Std 610.12-1990 Volume , Issue , Date: 10 Dec 1990, Pages: - Summary: Describes the IEEE Std 610.12-1990, IEEE standard glossary ofsoftware engineering terminology, which identifies terms currently inuse in the field of software engineering. Standard definitions for thoseterms are established

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58.	A New Transceiver Architecture for the 60-GHz Band Parsa, A.; Razavi, B. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 3, Date: March 2009, Pages: 751-762 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2012368 Summary: A new ldquohalf-RFrdquo architecture incorporates a polyphase filter in the signal path to allow the use of a local oscillator frequency equal to half the input frequency. The receiver performs 90deg phase shift and two downconversion steps to produce...

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59.	Transimpedance Amplifier for High Sensitivity Current Measurements on Nanodevices Ferrari, G.; Gozzini, F.; Molari, A.; Sampietro, M. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 44, Issue 5, Date: May 2009, Pages: 1609-1616 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2016998 Summary: The paper presents a very high sensitivity transimpedance amplifier in standard CMOS 0.35 mum technology suited for sensing current signals from molecular and nanodevices systems. The circuit, based on an integrator followed by a differentiator config...

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60.	Capacity limits of MIMO channels Goldsmith, A.; Jafar, S.A.; Jindal, N.; Vishwanath, S. Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on Volume 21, Issue 5, Date: June 2003, Pages: 684- 702 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSAC.2003.810294 Summary: We provide an overview of the extensive results on the Shannon capacity of single-user and multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. Although enormous capacity gains have been predicted for such channels, these predictions are based o...

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61.	Reproducible research in signal processing Vandewalle, P.; Kovacevic, J.; Vetterli, M. Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Volume 26, Issue 3, Date: May 2009, Pages: 37-47 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2009.932122 Summary: What should we do to raise the quality of signal processing publications to an even higher level? We believe it to be crucial to maintain the precision in describing our work in publications, ensured through a high-quality reviewing process. We also b...

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62.	Compressed sensing Donoho, D.L. Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Volume 52, Issue 4, Date: April 2006, Pages: 1289-1306 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TIT.2006.871582 Summary: Suppose x is an unknown vector in Ropf^m (a digital image or signal); we plan to measure n general linear functionals of x and then reconstruct. If x is known to be compressible by transform coding with a known transform, and we reconstruct ...

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63.	A CNN-Based Face Detector with a Simple Feature Map and a Coarse-to-fine Classifier Chen, Y.; Han, C.; Wang, C.; Jeng, B.; Fan, K. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Volume PP, Issue 99, Date: 0, Pages: 1-1 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70798 Summary: In this paper, a fast and robust face detector based on a modified convolutional neural network (CNN) verifier is proposed. In the proposed detector, a pre-processing step, a single convolutional feature map, and a coarse-to-fine based verifier are tr...

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64.	Cognitive Radio and Networking Research at Virginia Tech MacKenzie, A.B.; Reed, J.H.; Athanas, P.; Bostian, C.W.; Buehrer, R.M.; DaSilva, L.A.; Ellingson, S.W.; Hou, Y.T.; Hsiao, M.; Jung-Min Park; Patterson, C.; Raman, S.; da Silva, C. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 97, Issue 4, Date: April 2009, Pages: 660-688 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2013022 Summary: More than a dozen Wireless @ Virginia Tech faculty are working to address the broad research agenda of cognitive radio and cognitive networks. Our core research team spans the protocol stack from radio and reconfigurable hardware to communications the...

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Improvements to seamless vertical handover between mobile WiMAX and 3GPP UTRAN through the evolved packet core - [LTE part II: 3GPP release 8]
Song, W.; Jong-Moon Chung; Daey