IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
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E95.A 巻, 11 号
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Special Section on Signal Design and Its Applications in Communications
Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems
  • Shinya MATSUFUJI
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1945
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
    ジャーナル 認証あり
  • Hao ZHOU, Yu GU, Yusheng JI, Baohua ZHAO
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Communication Theory and Signals
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1946-1954
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
    ジャーナル 認証あり
    Scalable video coding with different modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) applied to different video layers is very appropriate for wireless multicast services because it can provide different video quality to different users according to their channel conditions, and a promising solution to handle packet losses induced by fading wireless channels is the use of layered hybrid FEC/ARQ scheme according to light-weight feedback messages from users about how many packets they have received. It is important to choose an appropriate MCS for each layer, decide how many parity packets in one layer should be transmitted, and determine the resources allocated to multiple video sessions to apply scalable video coding to wireless multicast streaming. We prove that such resource allocation problem is NP-hard and propose an approximate optimal algorithm with a polynomial run time. The algorithm can get the optimal transmission configuration to maximize the expected utility for all users where the utility can be a generic non-negative, non-decreasing function of the received rate. The results from simulations revealed that our algorithm offer significant improvements to video quality over a nave algorithm, an optimal algorithm without feedback from users, and an algorithm with feedback from designated users, especially in scenarios with multiple video sessions and limited radio resources.
  • Mizuki KOTAKE, Teruyuki MIYAJIMA
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Communication Theory and Signals
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1955-1962
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
    ジャーナル 認証あり
    In block transmissions, inter-block interference (IBI) due to delayed waves exceeding a cyclic prefix severely limits the performance. To suppress IBI in downlink MC-CDMA systems, this paper proposes a novel channel shortening method using a time-domain equalizer. The proposed method minimizes a cost function related to equalizer output autocorrelations without the transmission of training symbols. We prove that the method can shorten a channel and suppress IBI completely. Simulation results show that the proposed method can significantly suppress IBI using relatively less number of received blocks than a conventional method when the number of users is moderate.
  • Emmanuel MANASSEH, Shuichi OHNO
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Communication Theory and Signals
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1963-1970
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
    ジャーナル 認証あり
    In this paper, training symbol designs for estimation of frequency selective channels and compensation of in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) imbalances on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitters and receivers are studied. We utilize cross entropy (CE) optimization techniques together with convex optimization to design training sequences having low channel estimate mean squared error (MSE) and minimum effects of I/Q mismatch, while lowering the peak power of the training signals. The proposed design provides better channel estimate MSE and bit error rate (BER) performances and is applicable to OFDM systems with and without null subcarriers. The efficacies of the proposed designs are corroborated by analysis and simulation results.
  • Yutaro NAKAGAWA, Mamiko INAMORI, Yukitoshi SANADA
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Communication Theory and Signals
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1971-1979
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
    ジャーナル 認証あり
    In this paper, an imaging components transmission scheme for the improvement of multipath delay resolution in a Fractional Sampling (FS) OFDM receiver is proposed. FS has been proposed as a diversity scheme and achieves path diversity by enlarging the bandwidth of the baseband filters in order to transmit the imaging components of the desired signal. However, FS is not able to achieve diversity with very short delay multipaths because of its low multipath delay resolution. Wider bandwidth of the transmission signal is required to improve the resolution of the delay. On the other hand, cognitive radio is an emerging technology to utilize frequency spectrum flexibly through dynamic spectrum access (DSA). To resolve the small delay multipaths and to use the spectrum flexibly with DSA, this paper investigates the FS path diversity with the imaging components on the separated frequency channel. The correlation between the 2 FS branches is analyzed theoretically on the 2 path channel under the conditions of sampling interval, delay spread, and frequency separation. Numerical results through computer simulation show that the proposed scheme improves the multipath resolution and the bit error rate (BER) performance under the existence of small delay multipaths.
  • Mai OHTA, Takeo FUJII, Kazushi MURAOKA, Masayuki ARIYOSHI
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Communication Theory and Signals
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1980-1990
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    In this study, we propose a cooperative sensing with distributed pre-detection for gathering sensing information on shared primary system. We have proposed a system that gathers multiple sensing information by using the orthogonal narrowband signal; the system is called the orthogonal frequency-based sensing information gathering (OF-SIG) method. By using this method, sensing information from multiple secondary nodes can be gathered from the surrounding secondary nodes simultaneously by using the orthogonal narrowband signals. The advantage of this method is that the interference from each node is small because a narrowband tone signal is transmitted from each node. Therefore, if appropriate power and transmission control are applied at the surrounding nodes, the sensing information can be gathered in the same spectrum as the primary system. To avoid interference with the primary receiver, we propose a cooperative sensing with distributed pre-detection for gathering sensing information in each node by limiting sensing node power. In the proposed method, the number of sensing information transmitting nodes depends on the pre-detection ability of the individual sensing at each node. Then the secondary node can increase the transmit power by improving the sensing detection ability, and the secondary node can gather the sensing information from the surrounding secondary nodes which are located more far by redesign the transmit power of the secondary nodes. Here, we design the secondary transmit power based on OF-SIG while considering the aggregated interference from multiple sensing nodes and individual sensing ability. Finally we confirm the performance of the cooperative sensing of the proposed method through computer simulation.
  • Yuya MIYAOKA, Yuhei NAGAO, Masayuki KUROSAKI, Hiroshi OCHI
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Communication Theory and Signals
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1991-1997
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
    ジャーナル 認証あり
    In this paper, we propose a hardware architecture of high-speed sorted QR decomposition for 4×4 MIMO wireless communication systems. QR decomposition (QRD) is commonly used in many MIMO detection algorithms. In particular, sorted QR decomposition (SQRD) is the advanced algorithm to improve MIMO detection performance. We design an SQRD hardware architecture by using a modified Gram-Schmidt algorithm with pipelining and recursive processing. In addition, we propose an extended architecture which can decompose an augmented channel matrix for MMSE MIMO detection. These architecture can be applied in high-throughput MIMO-OFDM system such as IEEE802.11n which supports data throughput of up to 600Mbps. We implement the proposed SQRD architecture and the proposed MMSE-SQRD architecture with 179k and 334k gates in 90nm CMOS technology. These proposed design can achieve a high performance of up to 40.8 and 50.0 million 4×4 SQRD operations per second with the maximum operating frequency of 245 and 300MHz.
  • Chao ZHANG, Zhipeng WU
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Digital Signal Processing
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 1998-2006
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    Limited Random Sequence (LRS) is quite important for Analog-to-Information Converter (AIC) because it determines the random sampling scheme and the resultant performance. LRS is established with the elements of “0” and “1”. The “1” appears randomly in the segment of the sequence, so that the production of the original signal and LRS can be considered as the approximation of the random sampling of the original signal. The random sampling result can perfectly recover the signal with Compressive Sensing (CS) algorithm. In this paper, a high order LRS is proposed for the AIC design in Distributed Compressive Sensing (DCS), which has the following three typical features: 1) The high order LRS has the elements of integer which can indicate the index number of the sensor in DCS. 2) High order LRS can adapt to the sparsity variation of the original signal detected by each sensor. 3) Employing the AIC with high order LRS, the DCS algorithm can recover the signal with very low sampling rate, usually above 2 orders less than the traditional distributed sensors. In the paper, the scheme and the construction algorithm of high order LRS are proposed. The performance is evaluated with the application studies of the distributed sensor network and the camera picture correspondingly.
  • Toru YAMADA, Yoshihiro MIYAMOTO, Takao NISHITANI
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Multimedia Environment Technology
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 2007-2014
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    This paper proposes a video-quality estimation method based on a no-reference model for realtime quality monitoring in video-streaming services. The proposed method analyzes both bitstream information and decoded pixel information to estimate video-quality degradation by transmission errors. Video quality in terms of a mean squared error (MSE) between degraded video frames and error-free video frames is estimated on the basis of the number of impairment macroblocks in which the quality degradation has not been possible to be concealed. Error-concealment effectiveness is evaluated using motion information and luminance discontinuity at the boundaries of impairment regions. Simulation results show a high correlation (correlation coefficients of 0.93) between the actual MSE and the number of macroblocks in which error concealment has not been effective. These results show that the proposed method works well in reatime quality monitoring for video-streaming services.
  • Hirokazu TANAKA, Sunmi KIM, Takahiro OGAWA, Miki HASEYAMA
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Image Processing
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 2015-2022
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    A new spatial and temporal error concealment method for three-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (3D DWT) video coding is analyzed. 3D DWT video coding employing dispersive grouping (DG) and two-step error concealment is an efficient method in a packet loss channel [20], [21]. In the two-step error concealment method, the interpolations are only spatially applied however, higher efficiency of the interpolation can be expected by utilizing spatial and temporal similarities. In this paper, we propose an enhanced spatial and temporal error concealment method in order to achieve higher error concealment (EC) performance in packet loss networks. In the temporal error concealment method, structural similarity (SSIM) index is employed for inter group of pictures (GOP) EC and minimum mean square error (MMSE) is used for intra GOP EC. Experimental results show that the proposed method can obtain remarkable performance compared with the conventional methods.
  • Go TANAKA, Noriaki SUETAKE, Eiji UCHINO
    原稿種別: PAPER
    専門分野: Image Processing
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 2023-2031
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    In this paper, impulse noise removal for digital images is handled. It is well-known that switching-type processing is effective for the impulse noise removal. In the process, noise-corrupted pixels are first detected, and then, filtering is applied to the detected pixels. This switching process prevents distorting original signals. A noise detector is of course important in the process, a filter for pixel value restoration is also important to obtain excellent results. The authors have proposed a local similarity-based filter (LSF). It utilizes local similarity in a digital image and its capability against restoration of orderly regions has shown in the previous paper. In this paper, first, further experiments are carried out and properties of the LSF are revealed. Although LSF is inferior to an existing filter when disorderly regions are processed and evaluated by the peak signal-to-noise ratio, its outputs are subjectively adequate even in the case. If noise positions are correctly detected, capability of the LSF is guaranteed. On the other hand, some errors may occur in actual noise detection. In that case, LSF sometimes fails to restoration. After properties are examined, we propose two effective extensions to the LSF. First one is for computational cost reduction and another is for color image processing. The original LSF is very time consuming, and in this paper, computational cost reduction is realized introducing a search area. Second proposal is the vector LSF (VLSF) for color images. Although color images can be processed using a filter, which is for monochrome images, to each color component, it sometimes causes color drift. Hence vector processing has been investigated so far. However, existing vector filters do not excel in preservation of orderly pattern although color drift is suppressed. Our proposed VLSF is superior both in orderly pattern preservation and color drift suppression. Effectiveness of the proposed extensions to LSF is verified through experiments.
  • GunWoo KIM, Yongwoo CHO, Jihyeok YUN, DougYoung SUH
    原稿種別: LETTER
    専門分野: Multimedia Environment Technology
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 2032-2035
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    This paper proposes Burst Error Resilient coding (BRC) technology in mobile broadcasting network. The proposed method utilizes Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) to overcome service outage due to burst loss in mobile network. The performance evaluation is performed by comparing PSNR of SVC and the proposed method under MBSFN simulation channel. The simulation result shows PSNR of SVC equal error protection (EEP), unequal error protection (UEP) and proposed BRC using Raptor FEC code.
  • Yuki MISHIMA, Yoshinobu KAJIKAWA
    原稿種別: LETTER
    専門分野: Engineering Acoustics
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 2036-2040
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
    ジャーナル 認証あり
    In this paper, we propose an automatic parameter adjustment method for audio equalizers using an interactive genetic algorithm (IGA). It is very difficult for ordinary users who are not familiar with audio devices to appropriately adjust the parameters of audio equalizers. We therefore propose a system that can automatically adjust the parameters of audio equalizers on the basis of user's evaluation of the reproduced sound. The proposed system utilizes an IGA to adjust the gains and Q values of the peaking filters included in audio equalizers. Listening test results demonstrate that the proposed system can appropriately adjust the parameters on the basis of the user's evaluation.
  • Yusuke KUWAHARA, Yusuke IWAMATSU, Kensaku FUJII, Mitsuji MUNEYASU, Mas ...
    原稿種別: LETTER
    専門分野: Digital Signal Processing
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 2041-2045
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    In this paper, we propose a normalization method dividing the gradient vector by the sum of the diagonal and two adjoining elements of the matrix expressing the correlation between the components of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of the reference signal used for the identification of unknown system. The proposed method can thereby improve the estimation speed of coefficients of adaptive filter.
  • Yosuke SUGIURA, Arata KAWAMURA, Youji IIGUNI
    原稿種別: LETTER
    専門分野: Digital Signal Processing
    2012 年E95.A 巻11 号 p. 2046-2048
    発行日: 2012/11/01
    公開日: 2012/11/01
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    This paper proposes an adaptive comb filter with flexible notch gain. It can appropriately remove a periodic noise from an observed signal. The proposed adaptive comb filter uses a simple LMS algorithm to update the notch gain coefficient for removing the noise and preserving a desired signal, simultaneously. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed comb filter.
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