# IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

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Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s): C2
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• ### Modeling and Analysis of In-Vehicle Power Line Communication Channels

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):670 - 679
Cited by:  Papers (74)
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In this paper, we address the problem of power line communication inside a vehicle, focusing on channel characterization and modeling. The statistical properties of the transfer function between two points in the power distribution system are deduced from a propagation model that takes into account the complicated structure of the cable bundles. Theoretical estimates are compared to experimental r... View full abstract»

• ### Indoor MIMO Channel Modeling by Rigorous GO/UTD-Based Ray Tracing

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):680 - 692
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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This paper presents a multiple-input-multiple- output (MIMO) channel model based on rigorous ray-tracing techniques, which is based on a full 3-D implementation of geometric optics and the uniform theory of diffraction (3-D GO/ UTD). Results obtained from measurements and simulations of the correlation matrix and capacity of a 2 times 2 MIMO system in specific indoor environments at a frequency of... View full abstract»

• ### Measurement and Modeling of the Land Mobile Satellite Channel at Ku-Band

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):693 - 703
Cited by:  Papers (55)
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This paper presents the results of a measurement campaign conducted in the winter of 2002 around the city of Munich in southern Germany. The primary goal was to evaluate the link performance of the land mobile satellite channel at Ku-band and to characterize the temporal behavior of the channel to help in the evaluation of different fade mitigation techniques for future mobile satellite systems th... View full abstract»

• ### Wide-Sense Stationarity of Mobile MIMO Radio Channels

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):704 - 714
Cited by:  Papers (30)
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Tests for the wide-sense stationarity (WSS) of multivariate random processes are developed and applied to measured multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radio channel responses. Evolutionary spectral density functions are used to estimate the time-dependent power spectral density, and analysis of variance procedures are applied to determine whether the first and second moments of the data series e... View full abstract»

• ### Space-Time Correlated Mobile-to-Mobile Channels: Modelling and Simulation

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):715 - 726
Cited by:  Papers (72)
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A single- and double-bounced two-ring parametric reference model is proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mobile-to-mobile (M-to-M) Ricean fading channels. From this model, a closed-form joint space-time correlation function and a space-Doppler power spectrum are derived for a two-dimensional (2D) non-isotropic scattering environment. Also, space-time correlation functions for the in-... View full abstract»

• ### Vehicle Stability Enhancement of Four-Wheel-Drive Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Rear Motor Control

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):727 - 735
Cited by:  Papers (64)  |  Patents (2)
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A vehicle stability enhancement control algorithm for a four-wheel-drive hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is proposed using rear motor driving, regenerative braking control, and electrohydraulic brake (EHB) control. A fuzzy-rule-based control algorithm is proposed, which generates the direct yaw moment to compensate for the errors of the sideslip angle and yaw rate. Performance of the vehicle stabili... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Control of a Small-Clearance Driving Simulator

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):736 - 746
Cited by:  Papers (30)  |  Patents (3)
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This paper presents a driving simulation whose aim is twofold: (1) to investigate the possibility of reducing motion clearance to achieve compact and low-cost driving simulators and (2) to evaluate multimodal and immersive virtual reality motion restitution in platooning driving. The choice has been made for a driving simulator having at least two degrees of freedom (DOF). These consist of the lon... View full abstract»

• ### Investigation of Sliding-Surface Design on the Performance of Sliding Mode Controller in Antilock Braking Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):747 - 759
Cited by:  Papers (41)  |  Patents (3)
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Sliding mode control (SMC) has widely been employed in the development of a wheel-slip controller because of its effectiveness in applications for nonlinear systems as well as its performance robustness on parametric and modeling uncertainties. The design of a sliding surface strongly influences the overall behavior of the SMC system due to the discontinuous switching of control force in the vicin... View full abstract»

• ### A Comparative Study of Fuel-Cell–Battery, Fuel-Cell–Ultracapacitor, and Fuel-Cell–Battery–Ultracapacitor Vehicles

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):760 - 769
Cited by:  Papers (145)
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Although many researchers have investigated the use of different powertrain topologies, component sizes, and control strategies in fuel-cell vehicles, a detailed parametric study of the vehicle types must be conducted before a fair comparison of fuel-cell vehicle types can be performed. This paper compares the near-optimal configurations for three topologies of vehicles: fuel-cell-battery, fuel-ce... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time Clamp Force Measurement in Electromechanical Brake Calipers

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):770 - 777
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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In brake-by-wire systems, central controllers require accurate information about the clamp force between the brake pad and the disc as a function of pad displacement, which is usually denoted as the characteristic curve of the caliper. Due to aging, temperature, and other environmental variations, caliper characteristic curves vary with time. Therefore, automatic caliper calibration in real-time i... View full abstract»

• ### Clamp-Force Estimation for a Brake-by-Wire System: A Sensor-Fusion Approach

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):778 - 786
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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The elimination of a clamp-force sensor from brake-by-wire system designs is strongly demanded due to implementation difficulties and cost issues. In this paper, a new method is presented to estimate the clamp force based on other sensory information. This estimator fuses the outputs of two models to optimize the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of estimation. Experimental results show that the estim... View full abstract»

• ### Diversity Performance of a Wavelet-Packet-Based Multicarrier Multicode CDMA Communication System

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):787 - 797
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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In this paper, we propose and analyze a novel multicarrier (MC) multicode (MCD) code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system employing wavelet packets (WPs) for modulation. This system can achieve robust performance against multipath fading due to the localization of WPs in the time and frequency domains. The analytical framework is presented, and the system performance with diversity is evaluated ... View full abstract»

• ### An Advanced Satellite UMTS Testbed for Laboratory and Over-the-Air Experiments of Third-Generation Mobile Services—Part II: Experimental Results

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):798 - 809
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This paper complements its companion paper by reporting the key experimental results obtained both in the laboratory and via satellite, using the Satellite Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (S-UMTS) Advanced TestBed (ATB) - a comprehensive facility developed under a European Space Agency contract whose intention was to demonstrate a set of technical solutions for the efficient provision o... View full abstract»

• ### Soft-Limiting Receiver Structures for Time-Hopping UWB in Multiple-Access Interference

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):810 - 818
Cited by:  Papers (35)
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A novel receiver structure based on soft-limiting is proposed for detecting a time-hopping ultrawide-bandwidth (UWB) signal in the presence of multiple-access interference (MAI). The proposed structure contains a nonlinear limiter for suppressing the MAI. Simulation results show that the proposed receiver achieves better bit-error-rate performance than the conventional matched receiver when operat... View full abstract»

• ### $H_{infty}$ Channel Estimator Design for DS-CDMA Systems: A Polynomial Approach in Krein Space

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):819 - 827
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This paper considers the problem of robust channel estimation for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems with time-varying multipath fading channels. Due to the lack of accurate knowledge of model dynamics and statistics of system noises, a polynomial channel estimator is developed by virtue of the Krein space theory. The estimator is calculated by performing a J-spectral ... View full abstract»

• ### Teletraffic Analysis of an Overlaid System Using CDMA and TDMA With Cell Coverage Area Restriction

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):828 - 846
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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Wireless communication has emerged as the most promising and one of the leading sectors of the telecommunications industry in the 21st century. To appreciate the expansion of the wireless sector, in 1990, there were only ten million cellular phone subscribers worldwide that frequently use first-generation technology. Today, there are more than one billion subscribers, and it is expected to increas... View full abstract»

• ### Cross-Modulation Interference and Mitigation Technique for Ultrawideband PPM Signaling

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):847 - 858
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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The detection issues of ultrawideband (UWB) signals depend on the type of modulation scheme that is used during the transmission. Cross-modulation interference (CMI) is a problem that is specific to UWB pulse-position-modulation (PPM) signaling. In this paper, the effects of CMI on the performance of noncoherent UWB receivers are analyzed. The probabilities of error for transmitted-reference (TR) ... View full abstract»

• ### Detection of OFDM Signals in Fast-Varying Channels With Low-Density Pilot Symbols

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):859 - 872
Cited by:  Papers (13)  |  Patents (1)
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In fast-varying channels, an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system needs to insert denser pilot symbols among transmitted symbols in tracking the variation of a channel. However, using denser pilot symbols reduces transmission throughput. In this paper, we propose a pseudopilot algorithm for data detection in fast-varying channels without increasing the pilot density. Our algorithm is ... View full abstract»

• ### A Fast Subcarrier, Bit, and Power Allocation Algorithm for Multiuser OFDM-Based Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):873 - 881
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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In this paper, we propose a real-time subcarrier, bit, and power allocation algorithm for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing-based multiuser communication systems in downlink transmission. Assuming that base stations know the channel gains of all subcarriers of all users, the proposed loading algorithm tries to minimize the required transmit power while satisfying the rate requirement and ... View full abstract»

• ### Predistorter Based on Frequency Domain Estimation for Compensation of Nonlinear Distortion in OFDM Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):882 - 892
Cited by:  Papers (23)  |  Patents (3)
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An orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing signal is very sensitive to the nonlinear distortion of the power amplifier (PA) as a result of its high peak-to-average power ratio. Predistortion, which is an effective countermeasure for balancing off the nonlinearity of a PA, is usually necessary for the sake of mitigating the in-band distortion and the spectrum regrowth. In general, a feedback pat... View full abstract»

• ### Spatial Scheduling With Interference Cancellation in Multiuser MIMO Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):893 - 905
Cited by:  Papers (14)  |  Patents (4)
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This paper proposes a novel downlink spatial scheduling algorithm in multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which selects a good combination of terminals and base station's (BS's) transmit beams so that the BS's beams nullify interstream interference at the selected terminals. In the derivation process, we reveal the new property that the optimization problem of downlink spatial ... View full abstract»

• ### Pilot-Aided Angle-Domain Channel Estimation Techniques for MIMO-OFDM Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):906 - 920
Cited by:  Papers (27)
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Early multiple-input multiple-output with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) channel estimation techniques treat channels as spatially uncorrelated. However, in many situations, MIMO-OFDM channels tend to be spatially correlated, for example, due to limited scattering. For such channels, estimation performance can be improved through exploitation of prior knowledge of the chann... View full abstract»

• ### Exact Performance Analysis of Dual-Branch Coherent Equal-Gain Combining in Nakagami- $m$, Rician, and Hoyt Fading

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):921 - 931
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The exact symbol error rates (SERs) of several M-ary modulation schemes are obtained in a unified manner for mobile radio receivers employing dual-branch coherent equal-gain combining (EGC), where the received signals on each branch follow either similar or different fading distributions. Specifically, the cases considered are Nakagami-m, Rice, and Hoyt fading on both branches, but with not necess... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology covers land, airborne, and maritime mobile services, vehicular electrotechnology, equipment, and systems identified with the automotive industry.

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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Nei Kato, Professor
Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS)
Tohoku University
Aramaki-Aoba 6-3-09, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, JAPAN
Email: kato@it.is.tohoku.ac.jp