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Interpolated Channel Estimation for Mobile OFDM Systems
No full textIn an OFDM system using pilot cells for channel estimation, time interpolation among pilot cells of different OFDM symbols is commonly used to improve the estimate. The estimated channel impulse response is also windowed to further reduce noise and disturbances. However, for a transmission over a time-varying channel, suboptimal time interpolation, implemented with a filter having only a few taps not matched to the maximum Doppler frequency, degrades channel estimation. As aliases can lead to an erroneous estimate of channel duration and consequent errors in windowing, the present invention implements a technique to detect aliases and correct the estimate of channel duration. Parameters of the detection techniques are optimized by an analysis that provides closed-form expressions of the false alarm and miss detection probabilities
Improved channel duration estimate for mobile OFDM systems
No full textChannel estimation for OFDM system using pilot carriers usually comprises time interpolation of the estimates across more OFDM symbols and then frequency interpolation. In order to improve estimate, the frequency response can be transformed into the time domain and windowed. To this end, an estimate of the channel duration is necessary and this process is particularly sensitive to the time interpolation process. In fact, for a transmission over a time-varying channel, if the time interpolation of the pilot estimates is not accurate, aliases arise in the estimated channel impulse response, thus affecting the channel duration estimate. We propose a technique to detect aliases and correct the estimation of channel duration. Parameters of the detection techniques are optimized by an analysis that provides closed-form expressions of the false alarm and miss detection probabilities. Numerical results show the merits of the proposed techniques in a mobile transmission of the terrestrial digital video broadcasting standard (DVB-T)
Multiple adaptive frequency filtering for OFDM channel estimation
No full textIn orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems using pilots, channel estimation is performed on pilots and then interpolated over the time and the frequency axis. As time-interpolated estimates have a different mean square error than pilot estimates we propose the use of multiple adaptive filters for exploiting the frequency correlation of the channel. Each filter operates on a different configuration of pilot and time-interpolated estimates and is adapted independently from the other filters. As a simpler suboptimal solution we consider also the use of a single filter, whose adaptation however takes into account the reliability of the various estimates. Performance results are reported with reference to the DVB-T and DVB-T2 standards showing that the proposed technique performs similar or better than existing approaches at a much lower complexity
METHOD FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN OFDM SYSTEMS
No full textA method and the corresponding device for improving channel estimation in an OFDM system are presented. The invention involves a refining digital filter (150) that is applied to the pilot-based channel response estimate to obtain a refined estimate. The filter coefficients are adaptively changed (160) in order to reduce a variance (or an average) of the error on the coarse channel estimations on pilot tones
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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