OCL-BodyScan: A Case Study for Application-centric Programming of Many-Core Processors

Application development for many-core processors is predominately hardware-centric: programmers design, implement, and optimize applications for a pre-chosen target platform. While this approach may deliver very good performance, it lacks portability, being inefficient for applications that aim to use multiple architectures or large-scale...

The climatic-altitude chamber as development and validation tool

Two major trends can be identified for powertrain control in the next decade. The legislation will more and more focus on in-use emissions. Together with the global trend to reduce the CO 2 emissions, this will lead to an integral drive train approach. To develop and validate this integral drive train approach, the need for a new chapter in...

Embedding multiple self-organisation functionalities in future radio access networks

Wireless network operators today allocate considerable manual effort in managing their networks. A viable solution for lowering the manual effort is to introduce self-organisation functionalities. In this paper we discuss the challenges that are encountered when embedding multiple self-organisation functionalities into an overall self...

Simulation Based Performance Assessment: Methodology and case study

During the various phases of the Defense acquisition process, and in the early design phases, many decisions must be made concerning the performance and cost of the new equipment. Often many of these decisions are made while having only a limited view of their consequences or based on subjective information. Moreover, it is known that the impact...

Performance evaluation and traffic modeling

Mobile and wireless communication systems are becoming more and more complex, making understanding the interaction of different technologies on different layers a very difficult task. The introduction of sophisticated techniques on the physical layer that react to changes of the wireless channel on small timescales requires new paradigms for...

Quantifying the quality of service of streaming media in differentiated services networks

Quality of Service (QoS) support in the current internet is indispensable because of QoS-sensitive real-time applications such as Voice-over-IP, IP-TV, video conferencing, online gaming etc. Since the introduction of the Differentiated Services (Diff-Serv) architecture there has been considerable work reported in literature on its performance...

Performance analysis and evaluation of VDSL2 systems: Band-plan study

In this paper we discuss the performance of different profiles of VDSL2 systems in a frequency range up to 12 MHz (bandplan 998 and 997, corresponding to the European region) using two different noise scenarios: VDSL2 Mix and VDSL2 only. The use of different power levels at the downstream is evaluated in these scenarios and it is found that...

Super-Resolution on Moving Objects and Background

Unlike most Super-Resolution (SR) methods described in literature, which perform only SR reconstruction on the background of an image scene, we propose a framework that performs SR reconstruction simultaneously on the background and on moving objects. After registration of the background, moving objects are detected and to each moving object...

Application of the M6T Tracker to Simulated and Experimental Multistatic Sonar Data

This paper describes the first results of applying a multi-sensor multi-hypothesis tracker, called M6T, to simulated and experimental sonar data sets. The simulated data have been generated in the context of the Multistatic Tracking Working Group (MSTWG). For a number of cases (number of sensors and number of input false contacts) we evaluate a...

Design and Analysis of a 34 dBm Ka-Band GaN High Power Amplifier MMIC

This paper presents the design and analysis issues related to the use of recent GaN technologies for realizing high power millimeter wave MMICs. Two GaN Ka-band amplifier MMICs have been designed, fabricated and characterized. The small-signal and power measurement results are presented for both amplifiers, with an excellent output power of 34.1...

Performance analysis of access selection and transmit diversity in multi-access networks

Motivated by the 'beyond 3G' vision of radio access network integration and coordinated radio resource management, a purely analytical performance assessment is presented for a single access point integrating multiple radio accesses. Principal focus is placed on the evaluation of multi-user diversity, multi-access diversity and trunking gains....

HSDPA flow level performance: The impact of key system and traffic aspects

We present a flow-level performance evaluation for a UMTS/HSDPA network. The results provide thorough insights into the performance impact of a number of key system, environment and traffic aspects, e.g. terminal location, the presence of intercellular interference, the intrinsic feedback delay in the channel quality indications, soft combining...

Operator Functional State Assessment [L’évaluation de l’aptitude opérationnelle de l’opérateur humain]

The human operator is a crucial component of complex modern systems. The complexity of these systems, the rapid tempo of contemporary military operations and reduced staffing all contribute to the high cognitive demands experienced by military personnel. Unfortunately, these systems do not account for the functional state of the human operator....

Radio Resource sharing in a GSM/GPRS network

An extensive performance evaluation is presented for a segregated and a hybrid radio resource sharing scheme in an integrated GSM/GPRS network, with a finite queue for data calls that cannot be served immediately upon arrival. Markov chain analysis is used to derive simple performance measures such as the blocking probabilities, expected channel...

Infrared processing and sensor fusion for anti-personnel land-mine detection

In this paper we present the results of infrared processing and sensor fusion obtained within the European research project GEODE (Ground Explosive Ordnance DEtection) that strives for the realization of a vehicle-mounted, multi-sensor anti-personnel land-mine detection system for humanitarian demining. The system has three sensor types: an...

Engineering virtual environment based training simulators

While the potential of Virtual Environments (VE's) for training simulators has been recognized right from the start of the emergence of the technology, to date most VE systems that claim to be training simulators have been developed in an adhoc fashion. Based on requirements of the Royal Netherlands Army and Air Force, we have recently developed...

Performance of national policies

National spatial policies are usually indicative and strategic. As a result, this kind of policy does not have a direct bearing on the spatial organisation of society. Instead the performance of these policies depends on whether or not they are used in subsequent decisionmaking and planning procedures, where and when this seems relevant....