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ACTS and OLYMPUS propagation experiments
The OLYMPUS and ACTS satellites both provide opportunities for 10 to 30 GHz propagation measurements. The spacecraft are sufficiently alike that OLYMPUS can be used to test some prototype ACTS equipment and experiments. Data are particularly needed on short term signal behavior and in support of uplink power control and adaptive forward error correction (FEC) techniques. The Virginia Tech Satellite Communications Group has proposed a set of OLYMPUS experiments including attenuation and fade rate measurements, data communications, uplink power control, rain scatter interference, and small-scale site diversity operation. A digital signal processing receiver for the OLYMPUS and ACTS beacon signals is being developed
Multi-tier Network Performance Analysis using a Shotgun Cellular System
This paper studies the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) and
carrier-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (CINR) performance at the mobile
station (MS) within a multi-tier network composed of M tiers of wireless
networks, with each tier modeled as the homogeneous n-dimensional (n-D, n=1,2,
and 3) shotgun cellular system, where the base station (BS) distribution is
given by the homogeneous Poisson point process in n-D. The CIR and CINR at the
MS in a single tier network are thoroughly analyzed to simplify the analysis of
the multi-tier network. For the multi-tier network with given system
parameters, the following are the main results of this paper: (1)
semi-analytical expressions for the tail probabilities of CIR and CINR; (2) a
closed form expression for the tail probability of CIR in the range
[1,Infinity); (3) a closed form expression for the tail probability of an
approximation to CIR in the entire range [0,Infinity); (4) a lookup table based
approach for obtaining the tail probability of CINR, and (5) the study of the
effect of shadow fading and BSs with ideal sectorized antennas on the CIR and
CINR. Based on these results, it is shown that, in a practical cellular system,
the installation of additional wireless networks (microcells, picocells and
femtocells) with low power BSs over the already existing macrocell network will
always improve the CINR performance at the MS.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted at IEEE Globecom 201
Exceptional surgeries in 3-manifolds
Myers shows that every compact, connected, orientable 3--manifold with no 2--sphere boundary components contains a hyperbolic knot. We use work of Ikeda with an observation of Adams-Reid to show that every 3--manifold subject to the above conditions contains a hyperbolic knot which admits a non-trivial non-hyperbolic surgery, a toroidal surgery in particular. We conclude with a question and a conjecture about reducible surgeries.Mathematic
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