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CN, a quarterly journal, dedicates to the latest advancements in communications and network technologies. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to CN must be previously unpublished and may not be…
Ming CEN, Xingfa LIU, Daisheng LUO
Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) estimator can provide better performance of target tracking than mono model Kalman filter. In multi-sensor system ordinarily, availability of measurement from different sensors is stochastic, and it is difficult to construct u…
Yanming TAN, Jianqiu ZENG
Driven by both technology and market, telecom industry is becoming a part of several converged industries in information society gradually from an independent industry which provides telecom products like voice or data. Under such background, this paper intro…
Fumin ZOU, Xinhua JIANG, Zhangxi LIN, Tongsen WANG
In this paper, we propose a banyan-tree topology for the wireless coverage along the road or railway, which is characterized as a zonal network. Theoretical analysis and numerical studies show that the proposed ban-yan-tree topology is appropriate for the zon…
Jia YUAN, Pengwu TIAN, Hongyi YU
Compressive sensing (CS) creates a new framework of signal reconstruction or approximation from a smaller set of incoherent projection compared with the traditional Nyquist-rate sampling theory. Recently, it has been shown that CS can solve some signal proces…
Qun PAN, Xin ZHANG, Ruiming ZHENG, Yongyu CHANG, Dacheng YANG
In cognitive radio (CR) networks, cognitive users need continuously monitor spectrum to decrease or avoid interference to primary users, yet attain a reasonable throughput. In this paper, we exploit a scheme to dynamically change the detection time duration t…
Tingting YANG, Shufang ZHANG
Closed form expressions for the PDF and MGF of the harmonic mean of two independent exponential variates are cited and derived, and then applied to study the performance of cellular multi-node and dual-hop cooperative communication systems with non-regenerati…
Yi ZHENG, Yong ZHANG, Yinglei TENG, Mei SONG
IEEE802.16e is the major global cellular wireless standard that enables low-cost mobile Internet application. However, existing handover process system still has latency affects time-sensitive applications. In this paper, the handover procedures of 802.16e an…
Guangwei YU, Xuzhen WANG
Power offset is zero-order term in the capacity versus signal-to-noise ratio curve. In this paper, approximate analysis of power offset is presented to describe MIMO system with uniform linear antenna arrays of fixed length. It is assumed that the number of r…
Mingxiang GUAN, Mingchuan YANG
Turbo code has been shown to have ability to achieve performance that is close to Shannon limit. It has been adopted by various commercial communication systems. Both universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) TDD and FDD have also employed turbo code…
Jinbao ZHANG, Hongming ZHENG, Zhenhui TAN, Yueyun CHEN
Link Evaluation (LE) is proposed in system evaluation to reduce complexity. It is important to practical sys-tems also for link adaptation. Current algorithms for link evaluation are developed by simulation method, lacking of theoretical description. Although…
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