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Elevated Multiplexing and Signal Space Partitioning in the 2 User MIMO IC with Partial CSIT
The user MIMO interference channel with arbitrary antenna configurations
is studied under arbitrary levels of partial CSIT for each of the channels, to
find the degrees of freedom (DoF) achievable by either user while the other
user achieves his full interference-free DoF. The goal is to gain new insights
due to the inclusion of MIMO (multiple antennas at both transmitters and
receivers) into the signal space partitioning schemes associated with partial
CSIT. An interesting idea that emerges from this study is "elevated
multiplexing" where the signals are split into streams and transmitted from
separate antennas at elevated power levels, which allows these signals to be
jointly decoded at one receiver which has fewer spatial dimensions with lower
interference floors, while another receiver is simultaneously able to
separately decode these signals with a higher interference floor but across a
greater number of spatial dimensions. Remarkably, we find that there is a DoF
benefit from increasing the number of antennas at a transmitter even if that
transmitter already has more antennas than its desired receiver and has no
CSIT.Comment: Submitted as an invited paper to IEEE SPAW
Simple and explicit bounds for multi-server queues with (and sometimes better) scaling
We consider the FCFS queue, and prove the first simple and explicit
bounds that scale as (and sometimes better). Here
denotes the corresponding traffic intensity. Conceptually, our results can be
viewed as a multi-server analogue of Kingman's bound. Our main results are
bounds for the tail of the steady-state queue length and the steady-state
probability of delay. The strength of our bounds (e.g. in the form of tail
decay rate) is a function of how many moments of the inter-arrival and service
distributions are assumed finite. More formally, suppose that the inter-arrival
and service times (distributed as random variables and respectively)
have finite th moment for some Let (respectively )
denote (respectively ). Then
our bounds (also for higher moments) are simple and explicit functions of
, and
only. Our bounds scale gracefully even when the number of
servers grows large and the traffic intensity converges to unity
simultaneously, as in the Halfin-Whitt scaling regime. Some of our bounds scale
better than in certain asymptotic regimes. More precisely,
they scale as multiplied by an inverse polynomial in These results formalize the intuition that bounds should be tighter
in light traffic as well as certain heavy-traffic regimes (e.g. with
fixed and large). In these same asymptotic regimes we also prove bounds for
the tail of the steady-state number in service.
Our main proofs proceed by explicitly analyzing the bounding process which
arises in the stochastic comparison bounds of amarnik and Goldberg for
multi-server queues. Along the way we derive several novel results for suprema
of random walks and pooled renewal processes which may be of independent
interest. We also prove several additional bounds using drift arguments (which
have much smaller pre-factors), and make several conjectures which would imply
further related bounds and generalizations
"Precious Metals-Exchange Rate Volatility Transmissions and Hedging Strategies"
This study examines the conditional volatility and correlation dependency and interdependency for the four major precious metals (that is, gold, silver, platinum and palladium), while accounting for geopolitics within a multivariate system. The implications of the estimated results for portfolio designs and hedging strategies are also analyzed. The results for the four metals system show significant short-run and long-run dependencies and interdependencies to news and past volatility. These results have become more pervasive when the exchange rate and FFR are included. Monetary policy also has a differential impact on the precious metals and the exchange rate volatilities. Finally, the applications of the results show the optimal weights in a two-asset portfolio and the hedging ratios for long positions.
Exergy optimisation for cascaded thermal storage
Cascaded thermal storage, consisting of multiple Phase Change Materials (PCMs) with different melting temperatures, has been proposed to solve the problem of poor heat transfer caused by unavoidable decrease of temperature differences during heat exchange process. This paper conducts a theoretical study of the overall thermal performance for a cascaded thermal storage system. Both heat transfer rate and exergy efficiency are taken into account. The main findings are: the cascaded arrangement of PCMs enhances the heat transfer rate by up to 30%, whilst it does not always improve the exergy efficiency (-15 to +30%). Enhanced heat transfer and reduced exergy efficiency can both be attributed to the larger temperature differences caused by the cascaded arrangement. A new parameter hex (exergy transfer rate) has been proposed to measure the overall thermal performance. It is defined as the product of heat transfer rate and exergy efficiency, representing the transfer rate of the utilisable thermal energy. The simulation results indicate that the cascaded thermal storage has higher overall thermal performance than the single-staged storage despite of higher exergy efficiency loss.Peer reviewe
Probing Form Factors in Top Quark Pair Production at Colliders
We describe how to probe new physics through large CP violation effects and
non--standard Z-t-t couplings via the scattering process e^-e^+ -> t tbar.
[Talk presented at the Workshop on Physics and Experiments with Linear
Colliders, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 26-30 April 1993.]Comment: 4 pages, TeXsis, MSUTH 93/0
Comment on 'Secure Communication using mesoscopic coherent states', Barbosa et al, Phys Rev Lett 90, 227901 (2003)
In a recent letter, Barbosa et al [PRL 90, 227901(2003)] claim that secure
communication is possible with bright coherent pulses, by using quantum noise
to hide the data from an eavesdropper. We show here that the secrecy in the
scheme of Barbosa et al is unrelated to quantum noise, but rather derives from
the secret key that sender and receiver share beforehand
Precious Metals-Exchange Rate Volatility Transmissions and Hedging Strategies
This study examines the conditional volatility and correlation dependency and interdependency for the four major precious metals (that is, gold, silver, platinum and palladium), while accounting for geopolitics within a multivariate system. The implications of the estimated results for portfolio designs and hedging strategies are also analyzed. The results for the four metals system show significant short-run and long-run dependencies and interdependencies to news and past volatility. These results have become more pervasive when the exchange rate and FFR are included. Monetary policy also has a differential impact on the precious metals and the exchange rate volatilities. Finally, the applications of the results show the optimal weights in a two-asset portfolio and the hedging ratios for long positions.
Unconditionally secure one-way quantum key distribution using decoy pulses
We report here a complete experimental realization of one-way decoy-pulse
quantum key distribution, demonstrating an unconditionally secure key rate of
5.51 kbps for a 25.3 km fibre length. This is two orders of magnitudes higher
than the value that can be obtained with a non-decoy system. We introduce also
a simple test for detecting the photon number splitting attack and highlight
that it is essential for the security of the technique to fully characterize
the source and detectors used.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
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