A SPECTRAL-DOMAIN IMMITTANCE APPROACH FOR THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FINLINES LOADED WITH ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM

The equations of electrodynamics for a gyrotropic medium by using Maxwell’s equa-tions are deduced.Through Fourier transformation,the admittances of TM and TE modes inthe electrically gyrotropic substrate and magnetically gyrotropic substrate are given.Numericalresults of the dominant mode in magnetized ferrite-loaded double-layered finlines are presentedwhich could be used in designing finline ferrite devices.

Frame erasure concealment in wideband speech coding based on large hidden Markov model

Frame erasure concealment is studied to solve the problem of rapid speech quality reduction due to the loss of speech parameters during speech transmission. A large hidden Markov model is applied to model the immittance spectral frequency （ISF） parameters in AMR-WB codec to optimally estimate the lost ISFs based on the minimum mean square error （MMSE） rule. The estimated ISFs are weighted with the ones of their previous neighbors to smooth the speech, resulting in the actual concealed ISF vectors. They are used instead of the lost ISFs in the speech synthesis on the receiver. Comparison is made between the speech concealed by this algorithm and by Annex I of G. 722. 2 specification, and simulation shows that the proposed concealment algorithm can lead to better performance in terms of frequency-weighted spectral distortion and signal-to-noise ratio compared to the baseline method, with an increase of 2.41 dB in signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） and a reduction of 0. 885 dB in frequency-weighted spectral distortion.

Topology for current-source grid-connected inverter with improved effciency and pulse width modulation control strategy

A novel topology of the current-source grid-connected inverter is proposed based on the immittance converter theory. A control strategy of sine-sine pulse width modulation （PWM） is studied. Compared with the traditional current-source inverter, the power frequency inductors and power frequency transformer are replaced with high frequency inductors and a high frequency transformer. Thus, the proposed inverter has advantages of small volume, low cost, low total harmonic distortion （THD）, low power losses, high power factor （PF） and simple control. Furthermore, grid voltage cannot influence output current of the grid-connected inverter and the current-source inverter with a high PF that approaches one has been realized. Finally, validity of the theory analysis and feasibility of the control scheme are shown by simulation and experimental results.

Comparison of ISFs and LSFs in Speech/Music Discrimination System

The immittance spectral frequencies （ISFs） is proposed as a new set of classification features and compared with the linear spectral frequencies （LSFs） applied in a frame-level wideband speech/music discrimination system. These two sets of features can be shared by the classifier and coding module to reduce the total computational complexity, making our classification system suitable for multi-mode audio coding applications. A performance assessment and comparison of the features are made. The experiment results show that the ISFs and LSFs have similar good performance when using full covariance matrices in classification models and the ISFs perform slightly better when using diagonal matrices. Their statistical differences for speech and music signals are also revealed.