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Techniques d’allocation de ressources pour les systèmes à accès multiple non orthogonal
No full textWith the proliferation of Internet applications, between the end of 2016 and 2022, total mobile traffic is expected to increase by 8 times. At the same time, communications networks are required to further enhance system efficiency, latency, and user fairness. To this end, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently emerged as a promising candidate for future radio access. By exploiting an additional multiplexing domain, the power domain, NOMA allows the cohabitation of two or more users per subcarrier, based on the principle of signal superposition. This dissertation addresses several radio resource allocation problems in mobile communication systems, in order to improve network performance in terms of spectral efficiency, through put, or fairness. Theoretical analysis and algorithmic solutions are derived. Numerical results are obtained to validate our theoretical findings and demonstrate the algorithms ability of attaining optimal or sub-optimal solutions. To this direction, the second chapter of this thesis investigates several new strategies for the allocation of radio resources (bandwidth and transmission power) using NOMA principle, where the minimization of the total amount of used bandwidth is targeted. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed strategies for resource allocation can improve both the spectral efficiency and the cell-edge user throughput, especially when compared to schemes employing only orthogonal signaling. A context where the total bandwidth is available has also been studied, in the 3rd chapter where we investigate the performance of the proportional fairness (PF) scheduler, and we propose modifications to it, at the level of user scheduling and power allocation that show to improve the system capacity, user fairness and QoS. In the 4th chapter, we proposed new pairing metrics that allow to favor the fairness at the expense of the throughput and vice versa. The proposed metrics show enhancements at the level of system capacity, user fairness, and computational complexity. Different techniques that allow a hybrid broadcast/multicast transmission on the same frequency platform are proposed in the last chapter and compared to the state of the art.Avec l’émergence rapide des applications Internet, il est prévu que le trafic mobile mondial augmente de huit fois entre fin 2018 et 2022. En même temps, les futurs systèmes de communication se devront aussi d’améliorer l'efficacité spectrale des transmissions, le temps de latence et l’équité entre utilisateurs. À cette fin, une technique d’accès multiple non orthogonal (NOMA) a été récemment proposée comme un candidat prometteur pour les futurs accès radio. La technique NOMA est basée sur un nouveau domaine de multiplexage, le domaine des puissances. Elle permet la cohabitation de deux ou plusieurs utilisateurs par sous-porteuse ou sous-bande de fréquence. Cette thèse aborde plusieurs problèmes liés à l’allocation de ressources basée sur NOMA afin d'améliorer les performances du réseau en termes d'efficacité spectrale, de débit et/ou d’équité entre utilisateurs. Dans ce sens, des solutions théoriques et algorithmiques sont proposées et des résultats numériques sont obtenus afin de valider les solutions et de vérifier la capacité des algorithmes proposés à atteindre des performances optimales ou sous-optimales. Après une étude bibliographique des différentes techniques d’allocation de ressources présentée dans le premier chapitre, on propose dans le deuxième chapitre plusieurs stratégies d’allocation de ressource où une réduction de la bande utilisée par les utilisateurs est ciblée. Les résultats de simulation montrent que les stratégies proposées améliorent à la fois l’efficacité spectrale et le débit total des utilisateurs par rapport aux systèmes basés uniquement sur des techniques d’accès orthogonales. Quant au troisième chapitre, il étudie la performance du Proportional Fairness (PF) Scheduler tout en considérant que la bande passante est disponible en totalité. Dans ce sens, plusieurs améliorations basées sur le PF sont proposées, qui offrent au système NOMA des avantages en termes de débit, d’équité entre utilisateurs et de qualité de service. Dans le quatrième chapitre, nous proposons plusieurs techniques d’allocation de ressources qui donnent aux utilisateurs la possibilité de favoriser le débit par rapport à l’équité entre utilisateurs et vice versa. Dans le dernier chapitre, différentes techniques permettant une transmission hybride broadcast/broadband sur la même bande de fréquence sont proposées et comparées à l’état de l’art
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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