FUNDAMENTAL COMMUNICATIONS THEORIES AND SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR AMORPHOUS CELLULAR SYSTEMS

The rapid developing of the fourth generation(4G)wireless communications has aroused tremendous demands for high speed data transmission due to the dissemination of various types of the intelligent user terminals as well as the wireless multi-media services.It is predicted that the network throughput will increase

Dynamic Channel Allocation in Sectored Cellular Systems

It is known that dynamic channel assignment(D CA ) strategy outperforms the fixed channel assignment(FCA) strategy in omni-direc tional antenna cellular systems. One of the most important methods used in DCA w as channel borrowing. But with the emergence of cell sectorization and spatial d ivision multiple access(SDMA) which are used to increase the capacity of cel lular systems, the channel assignment faces a series of new problems. In this pa per, a dynamic channel allocation scheme based on sectored cellular systems is p roposed. By introducing intra-cell channel borrowing (borrowing channels from n eighboring sectors) and inter-cell channel borrowing (borrowing channels from n eighboring cells) methods, previous DCA strategies, including compact pattern ba sed channel borrowing(CPCB) and greedy based dynamic channel assignment(GDCA) schemes proposed by the author, are improved significantly. The computer simu lation shows that either intra-cell borrowing scheme or inter-cell borrowing s cheme is efficient enough to uniform and non-uniform traffic service distributi ons.

Handoff Algorithms for Integrated Ad Hoc and Mobile Cellular Systems

Multi-criteria handoff algorithms have been playing a more important role than the traditional handoff algorithms.In order to balance the satisfaction of users and the efficiency of networks,it is necessary to develop new technologies to improve the validity of handoff algorithms.Intelligent and optimized handoff algorithms in hybrid networks that integrate Ad hoc and mobile cellular systems are well-adaptive and robust.They are able to implement handoffs adaptively,according to specific multi-factors such as different Quality of Service(QoS)requirements,network states and mobile node conditions in the future hybrid networks.Therefore,these intelligent and optimized algorithms can make more effective handover decision,and accordingly improve the system’s performance.The future research will tackle intelligent or optimized vertical handoff algorithms for integrated Ad hoc and mobile cellular networks to improve their whole system performance.

Optimum Transmitter Power Control in WCDMA Cellular Systems

Power control is an important technique in WCDMA mobile systems for both increasing system capacity and guaranteeing the required QoS (time delay and wireless link transmission quality) of multimedia services. The optimum power control for narrow band CDMA cellular systems is a problem of single threshold optimization. Because these systems have only one type of traffic and have the same QoS requirement. However, WCDMA mobile system should provide multimedia services and different types of traffic have different QoS requirements. Thus, the power control in WCDMA mobile systems isn't a problem of single threshold optimizing, but turns into the optimizing problem of multi-threshold. We analyze the power control problem in WCDMA cellular mobile systems and propose the optimum transmitter power control algorithm. Three criteria to optimize transmitter power levels of multi-thresholds based on grading the priority orders of multimedia services are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are more effective than conventional algorithms and can provide better performance for WCDMA cellular mobile systems.

A virtual delay queue-based backpressure scheduling for multi-cell cellular edge computing systems

To further improve delay performance in multi-cell cellular edge computing systems,a new delay-driven joint communication and computing resource BP(backpressure)scheduling algorithm is proposed.Firstly,the mathematical models of the communication delay and computing delay in multi-cell cellular edge computing systems are established and expressed as virtual delay queues.Then,based on the virtual delay models,a novel joint wireless subcarrier and virtual machine resource scheduling algorithm is proposed to stabilize the virtual delay queues in the framework of the BP scheduling principle.Finally,the delay performance of the proposed virtual queue-based BP scheduling algorithm is evaluated via simulation experiments and compared with the traditional queue length-based BP scheduling algorithm.Results show that under the considered simulation parameters,the total delay of the proposed BP scheduling algorithm is always lower than that of the traditional queue length-based BP scheduling algorithm.The percentage of the reduced total delay can be as high as 51.29%when the computing resources are heterogeneously configured.Therefore,compared with the traditional queue length-based BP scheduling algorithms,the proposed virtual delay queue-based BP scheduling algorithm can further reduce delay in multi-cell cellular edge computing systems.

LONG-TIME BEHAVIOR OF TRANSIENT SOLUTIONS FOR CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMS

By establishing concept an transient solutions of general nonlinear systems converging to its equilibrium set, long-time behavior of solutions for cellular neural network systems is studied. A stability condition in generalized sense is obtained. This result reported has an important guide to concrete neural network designs.

Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems Considering Dynamic Production Planning and Worker Assignments

This article presents a comprehensive mathematical model for the design and analysis of Dynamic Cellular Manufacturing Systems （DCMS）. The proposed DCMS model considers several manufacturing attributes such as multi period production planning, dynamic system reconfiguration, duplicate machines, machine capacity, the available time for workers, worker assignments, and machine procurement. The objective is to minimize total costs; consisting of holding cost, outsourcing cost, inter-cell material handling cost, maintenance and overhead cost, machine relocation cost. While a study of published articles in the area of Cellular Manufacturing Systems （CMS） shows that workforce management issues have not sufficiently been addressed in the literature, the model presented also incorporates CMS workforce management issues such as salaries, hiring and firing costs of workers in addition to the manufacturing attributes. In-depth discussions on the results for two numerical examples are presented to illustrate applications of the proposed model. The model developed aims to raise the envelope by expanding and improving several CMS models previously presented in the literature.

Improved Analysis of Co-Channel Interference in Cellular Communications Systems

In terms of the carrier-to-interference-ratio, the performance of co-channel interference in cellular communications systems is studied. The approach is based on an improved analysis, which allows to take into account some area in the desired sector may not be interfered by some co-channel sectors with exact geometrical analysis, instead of the entire sector interfered by some co-channel sectors. Other features, such as power control and the number of interferences are also included.

Block diagonalization coordinated transmission with zero-forcing in MIMO broadcast

This work has investigated coordinated multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） transmission schemes in an interference-limited cellular downlink. It has proposed a novel block diagonalization （BD） coordinated transmission scheme, which combines with zero-forcing （ZF） criterion. In the scheme, the BD technique has advantages in suppressing multi-user interference while the ZF technique enables to mitigate interference among spatial data streams for a user. Based on the proposed coordinated scheme, an efficient power allocation is also put forward. The analyses show that the ergodic capacity of the proposed coordinated scheme is that of the MIMO channel with the maximum transmit power at each transmitter. Computer simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed coordinated scheme and its corresponding power allocation.

An Algorithm for the Design of a Cost-Optimized Topology for the Fixed Part of a GSM Network

This paper proposes an algorithm to design a cost optimized topology for thefixed part of a mobile network. For the given locations of base stations and mobile switchingcenters, the algorithm decides the number and position of the base station controllers as well asthe way the base stations are connected to the base stations controllers.