Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Scholarly Works: Recent submissions

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    • STAP using knowledge-aided covariance estimation and the FRACTA algorithm 

      Blunt, Shannon David; Rangaswamy, Muralidhar; Gerlach, Karl (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2006-07)
      In the airborne space-time adaptive processing (STAP) a priori information via knowledge-aided covariance estimation (KACE) is employed in order to reduce the required sample support for application to heterogeneous clutter ...

    • Composing protocol frameworks for active wireless networks 

      Minden, Gary J.; Kulkarni, Prasad A. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2000-03)
      This article describes a new model for a composible protocol framework that is suitable for the rapid development of any application-specific service and its deployment in the network. The class-hierarchy model described ...

    • A scalable agent-based network measurement infrastructure 

      Wijata, Yulia Indrayani; Niehaus, Doug; Frost, Victor S. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2000-09)
      The rapid growth of computer networks has made the process of understanding the interaction among network components more challenging than ever. The increase in the size of networks is accompanied by the more demanding use ...

    • Measured temporal and spectral PMD characteristics and their implications for network-level mitigation approaches 

      Allen, Christopher Thomas; Kondamuri, Pradeep Kumar; Richards, Douglas L.; Hague, Douglas C. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2003-01)
      Signal degradation due to polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) effects may become significant for signaling rates of 10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s, and beyond. To assess the utility of various PMD mitigation schemes, temporal and spectral ...

    • The use of ground-penetrating radar with a cooperative target 

      Allen, Christopher Thomas; Shi, Kun; Plumb, Richard G. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1998-09)
      A cooperative target (CT) is proposed to enhance the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR) for buried man-made targets. Applications include tagging high-value buried structures and monitoring ...

    • Automating component reuse and adaptation 

      Alexander, Perry; Morel, Brandon (IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2004-09)
      A continuing challenge for software designers is to develop efficient and cost-effective software implementations. Many see software reuse as a potential solution; however, the cost of reuse tends to outweigh the potential ...

    • A formal specification and verification framework for Time Warp-based parallel simulation 

      Frey, Peter; Radhakrishnan, Radharamanan; Carter, Harold. W.; Wilsey, Philip A.; Alexander, Perry (IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2002-01)
      This paper describes a formal framework developed using the Prototype Verification System (PVS) to model and verify distributed simulation kernels based on the Time Warp paradigm. The intent is to provide a common formal ...

    • Channelized voice over digital subscriber line 

      Habib, Ahsan; Saiedian, Hossein (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2002-10)
      The objective of this article is to present a promising voice over digital subscriber line (VoDSL) solution: an alternative method that uses physical layer transportation to provide channelized VoDSL (CVoDSL). This article ...

    • Kernel-based distance metric learning for microarray data classification 

      Xiong, Huilin; Chen, Xue-wen (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2006-06)
      Background: The most fundamental task using gene expression data in clinical oncology is to classify tissue samples according to their gene expression levels. Compared with traditional pattern classifications, gene ...

    • SMO-based pruning methods for sparse least squares support vector machines 

      Zeng, Xiangyan; Chen, Xue-wen (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2005-11)
      Solutions of least squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs) are typically nonsparse. The sparseness is imposed by subsequently omitting data that introduce the smallest training errors and retraining the remaining data. ...

    • Electromagnetic and physical properties of sea ice formed in the presence of wave action 

      Onstott, Robert G.; Gogineni, Sivaprasad; Gow, Anthony J.; Grenfell, Thomas C.; Jezek, Kenneth C.; Perovich, Donald K.; Swift, C. T. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1998-09)
      Estimating the magnitude of brine flux to the upper ocean requires an ability to assess the dynamics of the formation of sea ice in a region. Brine storage and rate of expulsion is determined by the environmental conditions ...

    • A broad spectral, interdisciplinary investigation of the electromagnetic properties of sea ice 

      Jezek, Kenneth C.; Perovich, Donald K.; Golden, K. M.; Luther, Charles; Barber, David G.; Gogineni, Sivaprasad; Grenfell, Thomas C.; Jordan, Arthur K.; Mobley, Curtis D.; Nghiem, Son V.; Onstott, Robert G. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1998-09)
      This paper highlights the interrelationship of research completed by a team of investigators and presented in the several individual papers comprising this Special Section on the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Arlington, ...

    • Adaptive continuous-time linear quadratic Gaussian control 

      Duncan, Tyrone E.; Guo, L.; Pasik-Duncan, Bozenna (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1999-09)
      The adaptive linear quadratic Gaussian control problem, where the linear transformation of the state A and the linear transformation of the control B are unknown, is solved assuming only that (A, B) is controllable and (A, ...

    • Adaptive control of stochastic manufacturing systems with hidden Markovian demands and small noise 

      Duncan, Tyrone E.; Pasik-Duncan, Bozenna; Zhang, Q. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1999-02)
      The adaptive production planning of failure-prone manufacturing systems is considered in this paper, In real manufacturing systems, the product demand is usually not known a priori. One of the major tasks in production ...

    • Low-coherent WDM reflectometry for accurate fiber length monitoring 

      Hui, Rongqing; Thomas, J.; Allen, Christopher Thomas; Fu, Biao; Gao, Shuang (2003-01)
      A fiber-optic low-coherent reflectometer was developed to accurately monitor fiber length variation. A large length-coverage range was obtained by using a fiber Bragg grating array in a wavelength-division-multiplexing ...

    • Frequency response of cross-phase modulation in multispan WDM optical fiber systems 

      Hui, Rongqing; Wang, Y.; Demarest, Kenneth R.; Allen, Christopher Thomas (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1998-09)
      The spectral characteristics of cross-phase modulation (XPM) in multispan intensity-modulation direct-detection optical systems were investigated both experimentally and theoretically. XPM crosstalk levels and its spectral ...

    • A note on sampling and parameter estimation in linear stochastic systems 

      Duncan, Tyrone E.; Mandl, P.; Pasik-Duncan, Bozenna (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1999-11)
      Numerical differentiation formulas that yield consistent least squares parameter estimates from sampled observations of linear, time invariant higher order systems have been introduced previously by Duncan et al. The ...

    • Separation of noise from distortion for high-speed optical fiber system link budgeting 

      Hui, Rongqing; Vaziri, M.; Zhou, J.; O'Sullivan, Maurice (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1999-07)
      In optical transmission systems and networks with in-line optical amplifiers, system performance degradations caused by random noise and optical path distortions are usually thought to he inseparable, which makes link ...

    • A new performance bound for PAM-based CPM detectors 

      Perrins, Erik; Rice, Michael (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2005-10)
      It is well understood that the pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) representation of continuous phase modulation (CPM) can lead to reduced-complexity detectors with near optimum performance. It has recently been shown that ...

    • Segmentation of satellite imagery of natural scenes using data mining 

      Soh, Leen-Kiat; Tsatsoulis, Costas (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1999-03)
      In this paper, we describe a segmentation technique that integrates traditional image processing algorithms with techniques adapted from knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) and data mining to analyze and segment ...