288 research outputs found
Development of a Software-Defined Underwater Acoustic Communication System
This report started with a brief history and recent development of underwater acoustic communication systems as well as software-defined radio technologies. Then, some challenges from underwater acoustic channels and available underwater acoustic communication modems are discussed. After finished introducing the basics of SDR and GNU Radio, a detailed description of implementing a software-defined acoustic communication system in GNU Radio are presented, along with some key concepts of the system.
Then, some hardware specifications are presented, following by detailed documentation on a software-defined acoustic communication system experiment with a host computer, a USRP, an acoustic hydrophone, and a hydrophone. At the end of Section 4, the results of the experiment are discussed.
Lastly, the conclusions of this report are made. Some possible directions for future work are suggested in Section 6
Extreme rays of the -Schur Cone
We discuss several partial results towards proving Dennis White's conjecture
on the extreme rays of the -Schur cone. We are interested in which
vectors are extreme in the cone generated by all products of Schur functions of
partitions with or fewer parts. For the case where , White
conjectured that the extreme rays are obtained by excluding a certain family of
"bad pairs," and proved a special case of the conjecture using Farkas' Lemma.
We present an alternate proof of the special case, in addition to showing more
infinite families of extreme rays and reducing White's conjecture to two
simpler conjectures.Comment: This paper has been withdrawn by the authors due to a
misinterpretation of the generalized Littlewood-Richardson rule in several
proof
A mutual authentication and key update protocol in satellite communication network
Satellite communication networks have been widely used to provide essential communication services, including voice communication, global positioning, message communication, etc. However, sorts of network attacks are easy to be launched in these networks due to the limited computation capability and communication width, long communication delay, and intermittent link connection. In this paper, we first propose a new [E]ncryption-based [M]utual [A]uthentication and [K]ey [U]pdate (EMAKU) protocol in satellite communication networks. Next we analyze the security of the EMAKU protocol under two classic network attacks which are replay attack and man-in-the-middle attack. Finally, experiments show that the EMAKU protocol is 21.5% faster than the traditional encryption-based authentication protocols, and the average time of key update of the EMAKU protocol is about 450.01 ms
Polychromatic drivers for inertial fusion energy
Although tremendous achievements have been made toward inertial confinement
fusion, laser plasma instabilities (LPIs) remain to be an inevitable problem
for current drive schemes. To mitigate these instabilities, significant efforts
have been paid to produce high-power broadband ultraviolet lasers. However, no
practical scheme has been demonstrated up to now for efficient triple-frequency
conversion of broadband laser. Here we propose the design of polychromatic
drivers for the generation of multicolor beams mainly based upon the optical
parametric amplification, which can significantly enhance the third-harmonic
conversion efficiency. Each polychromatic light has four colors of
monochromatic beamlets with a full spectrum width of 3\%, and the beamlet
colors of any two adjacent flanges are different. The suppression effects of
such polychromatic lights have been investigated via large scale
particle-in-cell simulations, which indicate that more than 35\% of the
incident energy can be saved from the LPIs compared with monochromatic lasers
for the direct-drive scheme, or high-density filled target for the
indirect-drive scheme. The proposed polychromatic drivers are based on the
matured technologies, and thus may pave the way towards realization of robust
and high-efficiency fusion ignition
- …