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Investigating the Feasibility of Asynchronous Design Methodologies in Large-scale Microprocessor Systems
(2007-12-20)
Microprocessor systems have been advancing at a phenomenal rate, with each new generation introducing improved fabrication processes and architectural innovations. Unfortunately, traditional fabrication techniques cannot ...
Experimental Validation of an Elastic Registration Algorithm for Ultrasound Images
(2007-10-29)
Ultrasound is a favorable tool for intra-operative surgical guidance due to its fast imaging speed and non-invasive nature. However, deformations of the anatomy caused by breathing, heartbeat, and movement of the patient ...
Modeling and evaluation of multi-core multithreading processor architectures in SystemC
(2007-08-13)
Processor design has evolved over the years to take advantage of new
technology and innovative concepts in order to improve performance.
Diminishing returns for improvements based on current techniques
such as exploiting ...
All-optical 3R regeneration for agile all-photonic networks
(2007-08-13)
Transmission impairments degrade the quality of optical signals, ultimately limiting the achievable transmission distance. Optical 3R regenerators provide an effective means of coping with transmission impairments by ...
A new generic maximum-likelihood metric expression for space-time block codes with applications to decoding
(2007-08-21)
Space-time block coding is a technique used to exploit diversity in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) environment. Orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) are desirable because they can achieve full transmit ...
Neural networks for transmission over nonlinear MIMO channels
(2007-08-09)
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems have gained an enormous amount of attention as one of the most promising research areas in wireless communications. However, while MIMO systems have been extensively explored ...
The use of EMG for load prediction during manual lifting
(2007-10-15)
The Ergonomics Research Group at Queen’s University, supported by the Workplace and Safety Insurance Board, has been developing an on-line system to estimate peak and cumulative joint loading in the workplace. This study ...
A low feedback robust opportunistic scheduler and beamformer for MISO wireless systems
(2007-07-06)
Opportunistic Beamforming is a promising scheme with potential usage in a variety of applications
ranging from cellular audio/video communications to wireless mesh-networks. However, some
aspects in this scheme are open ...
Analysis and Design of Multiple Description Codes for Wired and Wireless Channels
(2007-10-02)
The increasing demand on multimedia communication over wired and wireless networks imposes a continuous pressure on developing more robust coding schemes. Recently, joint source-channel coding with multiple description ...
Analysis and improvement of performance and power consumption of chip multi-threading SMP architectures
(2007-08-28)
Emerging processor technologies are becoming commercially available that make multi-processor capabilities affordable for use in a large number of computer systems. Increasing power consumption by this next generation of ...