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Distributed sensing devices for monitoring marine environment
The lack of affordable, self-sustaining platforms for monitoring marine water quality means that measurements are done primarily through grab sampling at a limited number of locations and time, followed by analysis back at a centralised facility. This has resulted in huge gaps in our knowledge of water quality. This project aims to develop platforms capable of remote sampling and analysis over extended periods of time. This would provide the building blocks for establishing an 'environmental nervous system' comprised of many distributed sensing devices that share their data in near real-time on the web. The envisaged 'environmental nervous systemâ allows marine environment to be closely monitored, enabling the early detection of pollution events to minimise the danger to people and contamination of distribution systems
T-equivariant disc potential and SYZ mirror construction
We develop a G-equivariant Lagrangian Floer theory by counting pearly trees
in the Borel construction LG. We apply the construction to smooth moment-map fibers
of toric semi-Fano manifolds and obtain the T-equivariant Landau-Ginzburg mirrors. We
also apply this to the typical S^1-invariant SYZ singular fiber, which is the single-pinched
torus, and compute its S^1-equivariant disc potential.First author draf
Event-Driven Optimal Feedback Control for Multi-Antenna Beamforming
Transmit beamforming is a simple multi-antenna technique for increasing
throughput and the transmission range of a wireless communication system. The
required feedback of channel state information (CSI) can potentially result in
excessive overhead especially for high mobility or many antennas. This work
concerns efficient feedback for transmit beamforming and establishes a new
approach of controlling feedback for maximizing net throughput, defined as
throughput minus average feedback cost. The feedback controller using a
stationary policy turns CSI feedback on/off according to the system state that
comprises the channel state and transmit beamformer. Assuming channel isotropy
and Markovity, the controller's state reduces to two scalars. This allows the
optimal control policy to be efficiently computed using dynamic programming.
Consider the perfect feedback channel free of error, where each feedback
instant pays a fixed price. The corresponding optimal feedback control policy
is proved to be of the threshold type. This result holds regardless of whether
the controller's state space is discretized or continuous. Under the
threshold-type policy, feedback is performed whenever a state variable
indicating the accuracy of transmit CSI is below a threshold, which varies with
channel power. The practical finite-rate feedback channel is also considered.
The optimal policy for quantized feedback is proved to be also of the threshold
type. The effect of CSI quantization is shown to be equivalent to an increment
on the feedback price. Moreover, the increment is upper bounded by the expected
logarithm of one minus the quantization error. Finally, simulation shows that
feedback control increases net throughput of the conventional periodic feedback
by up to 0.5 bit/s/Hz without requiring additional bandwidth or antennas.Comment: 29 pages; submitted for publicatio
T-equivariant disc potentials for toric Calabi-Yau manifolds
We formulate and compute the equivariant disc potentials of immersed SYZ fibers in toric Calabi-Yau manifolds, which are closely related to the open Gromov-Witten invariants of Aganagic-Vafa branes. The main tool is an equivariant version of the gluing method in \cite{CHL-glue,HKL}.First author draf
Development of optical sensing system for detection of Fe ions using conductive polymer actuator based microfluidic pump
In this paper, we present a novel microfluidic optical
sensing system by combining a low-power conductive polymer
-based microfluidic pump and a microfluidic chip integrated
with an optical sensor. A self priming microfluidic pump is
developed using a polypyrrole. A microfluidic chip- optical
detector module that contained an optical cuvette with LED
and photo-diode optical sensing module was fabricated.
Integration of the micro pump and the microfluidic chips
complete the sensing system. The pump performance and its
application in chemical analysis have been demonstrated in the
detection of Fe ions
On modular signs
We consider some questions related to the signs of Hecke eigenvalues or
Fourier coefficients of classical modular forms. One problem is to determine to
what extent those signs, for suitable sets of primes, determine uniquely the
modular form, and we give both individual and statistical results. The second
problem, which has been considered by a number of authors, is to determine the
size, in terms of the conductor and weight, of the first sign-change of Hecke
eigenvalues. Here we improve significantly the recent estimate of Iwaniec,
Kohnen and Sengupta.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figure; new version with new coauthor and strong
improvements of two of the two main results
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