Joint Source-Channel Decoding of EVRC Speech Encoder Using Residual Redundancy

The enhanced variable rate codec (EVRC) is a standard for the 'Speech ServiceOption 3 for Wideband Spread Spectrum Digital System,' which has been employed in both IS-95cellular systems and ANSI J-STC-008 PCS (personal communications systems). This paper concentrateson channel decoders that exploit the residual redundancy inherent in the enhanced variable ratecodec bitstream. This residual redundancy is quantified by modeling the parameters as first orderMarkov chains and computing the entropy rate based on the relative frequencies of transitions.Moreover, this residual redundancy can be exploited by an appropriately 'tuned' channel decoder toprovide substantial coding gain when compared with the decoders that do not exploit it. Channelcoding schemes include convolutional codes, and iteratively decoded parallel concatenatedconvolutional 'turbo' codes.

Relative-Residual-Based Dynamic Schedule for Belief Propagation Decoding of LDPC Codes

Two Relative-Residual-based Dynamic Schedules(RRDS) for Belief Propagation(BP) decoding of Low-Density Parity-Check(LDPC) codes are proposed,in which the Variable code-RRDS(VN-RRDS) is a greediness-reduced version of the Check code-RRDS(CN-RRDS).The RRDS only processes the variable(or check) node,which has the maximum relative residual among all the variable(or check) nodes in each decoding iteration,thus keeping less greediness and decreased complexity in comparison with the edge-based Variable-to-Check Residual Belief Propagation(VC-RBP) algorithm.Moreover,VN-RRDS propagates first the message which has the largest residual based on all check equations.For different types of LDPC codes,simulation results show that the convergence rate of RRDS is higher than that of VC-RBP while keeping very low computational complexity.Furthermore,VN-RRDS achieves faster convergence as well as better performance than CN-RRDS.

The development and verification of thermal-hydraulic code on passive residual heat removal system of Chinese advanced PWR

The technology of passive safety is the current trend among safety systems in nuclear power plant. Pas- sive residual heat removal system (PRHRS), a major part of passive safety systems of Chinese advanced PWR, is a novel design with three-fold natural circulation. On the basis of reasonable physics and mathematics models, MI- TAP-PRHRS code was developed to analyze steady and transient characteristics of the PRHRS. The calculation and analysis show that the code simulates steady characteristics of the PRHRS very well, and it is able to simulate tran- sient characteristics of all startup modes of the PRHRS. However, the quantitative description is poor during the ini- tial stages of the transition process when water hammer occurs.

Bark-Band Residual Noise Model for Parametric Audio Coding

A Bark-band residual noise model integrated with the human hearing mechanism is proposed to efficiently complement sinusoidal model in parametric audio coding. The time-varying spectrum of the residual noise is retrieved by Bark-scale piecewise constant magnitude estimates along with random phases. In the proposed noise model, Bark bands information is obtained by short-time FFT method and window overlap-add technique is exploited to remove boundary discontinuities. SVQ is also incorporated into parameter quantization process for the low bit-rate coding demand. Simulation results and informal listening tests show that when the sinusoidal model is combined with the Bark-band noise model, better synthesis audio quality can be achieved compared with the original sinusoidal modeling audio codec.

A NEW APPROACH TO DVC COMBINED WITH ROI EXTRACTION AND RESIDUAL VIDEO CODING FOR MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS

The Wyner-Ziv distributed video coding scheme is characterized for its intraframe encoder and interframe decoder which can also approach the efficiency of an interframe encoder-decoder system. In Wyner-Ziv residual coding of video, the residual of a frame with respect to a reference frame is Wyner-Ziv encoded, which can reduces the input entropy and leads to a higher coding efficiency than directly encoding the original frame. In this paper, we propose a new approach of residual coding combined with Region Of Interest (ROI) extraction. Experimental results show that, the proposed scheme achieves better rate-distortion performance compared to conventional Wyner-Ziv coding scheme.

Doped low-density parity-check codes

In this paper,we propose a doping approach to lower the error floor of Low-Density Parity-Check(LDPC)codes.The doping component is a short block code in which the information bits are selected from the coded bits of the dominant trapping sets of the LDPC code.Accordingly,an algorithm for selecting the information bits of the short code is proposed,and a specific two-stage decoding algorithm is presented.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed doped LDPC code achieves up to 2.0 dB gain compared with the original LDPC code at a frame error rate of 10^(-6)Furthermore,the proposed design can lower the error floor of original LDPC Codes.

Furfural residues from straw become complex fertilizer by addition method

The additives such as phosphoric acid, calcium phosphate, calcium super phosphate, calcium over super phosphate, calcium carbonate, sodium hydrosulphite, etc. were used to produce furfural from the straw by hydrolysis with sulfuric acid. The effect of amount of the additives, the content of the added substance and the conditions of distillation on the acidity of the residues were studied. The experiment results showed that the all residues became neutral complex fertilizer, and the productivity of furfural increases under the following conditions: sulfuric acid concentration is 20% (by weight), the ratio of liquid to solid is 3∶1—4∶1 (by weight), the ratio of the additives to straw is suitable.

Duadic Codes over the Ring Fq[u] /m- and Their Gray Images

Let m ≥ 2 be any natural number and let be a finite non-chain ring, where and q is a prime power congruent to 1 modulo (m-1). In this paper we study duadic codes over the ring and their extensions. A Gray map from to is defined which preserves self duality of linear codes. As a consequence self-dual, formally self-dual and self-orthogonal codes over are constructed. Some examples are also given to illustrate this.

Joint Source-Channel Decoding Scheme for Image Transmission over Wireless Channel

We improve the iterative decoding algorithm by utilizing the “leaked” residual redundancy at the output of the source encoder without changing the encoder structure for the noisy channel. The experimental results show that using the residual redundancy of the compressed source in channel decoding is an effective method to improve the error correction performance.

Screen image sequence compression method utilizing adaptive block size coding and hierarchical GOP structure

To compress screen image sequence in real-time remote and interactive applications,a novel compression method is proposed.The proposed method is named as CABHG.CABHG employs hybrid coding schemes that consist of intra-frame and inter-frame coding modes.The intra-frame coding is a rate-distortion optimized adaptive block size that can be also used for the compression of a single screen image.The inter-frame coding utilizes hierarchical group of pictures(GOP) structure to improve system performance during random accesses and fast-backward scans.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CABHG method has approximately 47%-48% higher compression ratio and 46%-53% lower CPU utilization than professional screen image sequence codecs such as TechSmith Ensharpen codec and Sorenson 3 codec.Compared with general video codecs such as H.264 codec,XviD MPEG-4 codec and Apple's Animation codec,CABHG also shows 87%-88% higher compression ratio and 64%-81% lower CPU utilization than these general video codecs.

A Novel Cooperative Multicast Scheme Based on Fountain Code

Multicast is an efficient way to support emerging multimedia services over wireless network. Fountain codes are used in multicast systems to enable a robust transmission without CSI feedback and ARQ. We propose a cooperative multicast scheme based on fountain code to improve the performance of multicast. The users are coordinated with each other to decode the message at different time slots within the data transmission of a multicast session. Speci?cally, we take the local channel state information (CSI) and the local residual energy information (REI) into consideration, and apply a relay-selection and power-allocation strategy in our cooperative multicast scheme to prolong the network lifetime, while keeping the transmission delay as low as possible. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve a good tradeoff between transmission delay and network lifetime.

A high-level synthesis based dual-module redundancy with multi-residue detection(DMR-MRD)fault-tolerant method for on-board processing satellite communication systems

On board processing(OBP) satellite systems have obtained more and more attentions in recent years because of their high efficiency and performance.However,the OBP transponders are very sensitive to the high energy particles in the space radiation environments.Single event upset(SEU)is one of the major radiation effects,which influences the satellite reliability greatly.Triple modular redundancy(TMR) is a classic and efficient method to mask SEUs.However,TMR uses three identical modules and a comparison logic,the circuit size becomes unacceptable,especially in the resource limited environments such as OBP systems.Considering that,a new SEU-tolerant method based on residue code and high-level synthesis(HLS) is proposed,and the new method is applied to FIR filters,which are typical structures in the OBP systems.The simulation results show that,for an applicable HLS scheduling scheme,area reduction can be reduced by 48.26%compared to TMR,while fault missing rate is 0.15%.

空间耦合低密度奇偶校验码残差滑窗译码算法

针对空间耦合低密度奇偶校验(SC-LDPC)码滑窗译码(SWD)算法中错误传播导致的高误码率问题,该文提出基于动态残差的滑窗译码(RSWD)算法。通过在窗口内计算边信息更新前后的残差值,动态选择可靠度最低(残差值最大)的边信息优先更新,降低边信息无效更新的频率,提高窗内译码收敛速度。仿真结果表明:相比于传统SWD算法,RSWD算法在窗口中各位置的误比特数明显降低,抑制错误传播效果明显;在高信噪比(SNR)区域或者低迭代次数的情况下,RSWD算法的误码率性能优于SWD算法;此外,将动态残差应用到消息复用(MR)和窗口扩展(WE)两种窗译码算法中,亦能得到类似结论,提升窗译码性能。

基于颜色编码和残差神经网络的非侵入式负荷识别

在非侵入式负荷识别任务中,随着家用电器类型的不断增加,功率差距不大但V-I轨迹相似的设备很容易被分类错误。针对这些问题,本研究提出了基于颜色编码和残差神经网络的非侵入式负荷识别方法。首先,对采集到的高频电压、电流数据进行预处理;然后,再通过二值轨迹映射和HSV颜色编码将V-I轨迹转换为视觉表示,不仅在V-I轨迹中融入了丰富的电气特征,还增强了负荷特征的唯一性;最后利用PLAID公共数据集对本研究所提方法进行了验证。结果表明,本研究所提方法显著提高了识别准确率,并能够有效区分各个电器设备。

Software Defect Prediction Method Based on Stable Learning

The purpose of software defect prediction is to identify defect-prone code modules to assist software quality assurance teams with the appropriate allocation of resources and labor.In previous software defect prediction studies,transfer learning was effective in solving the problem of inconsistent project data distribution.However,target projects often lack sufficient data,which affects the performance of the transfer learning model.In addition,the presence of uncorrelated features between projects can decrease the prediction accuracy of the transfer learning model.To address these problems,this article propose a software defect prediction method based on stable learning(SDP-SL)that combines code visualization techniques and residual networks.This method first transforms code files into code images using code visualization techniques and then constructs a defect prediction model based on these code images.During the model training process,target project data are not required as prior knowledge.Following the principles of stable learning,this paper dynamically adjusted the weights of source project samples to eliminate dependencies between features,thereby capturing the“invariance mechanism”within the data.This approach explores the genuine relationship between code defect features and labels,thereby enhancing defect prediction performance.To evaluate the performance of SDP-SL,this article conducted comparative experiments on 10 open-source projects in the PROMISE dataset.The experimental results demonstrated that in terms of the F-measure,the proposed SDP-SL method outperformed other within-project defect prediction methods by 2.11%-44.03%.In cross-project defect prediction,the SDP-SL method provided an improvement of 5.89%-25.46% in prediction performance compared to other cross-project defect prediction methods.Therefore,SDP-SL can effectively enhance within-and cross-project defect predictions.

相关噪声下基于深度学习的LDPC码联合降噪译码算法设计

为了改善采用低密度奇偶校验(LDPC)码和高阶调制的无线通信系统在相关噪声下的译码性能,提出了一种联合优化降噪和译码的深度学习算法。降噪器中采用了残余收缩模块(RSBU),译码器采用了基于循环神经网络的神经网络最小和译码算法。在提出的联合降噪译码(JDD)算法中,利用复数神经网络在处理复信号方面比实数神经网络更有优势的特点,提出了一个复数RSCNN(CRSCNN),接收的复信号直接输入CRSCNN并利用新颖的联合优化降噪损失函数和译码损失函数的多任务学习策略来改善译码性能。仿真结果显示基于CRSCNN的JDD算法获得了比基于循环神经网络的神经网络最小和译码算法更好的译码性能。

Electrical Installation Safety Assessment of Buildings in Kumasi, Ghana

This study aims to evaluate the safety status of electrical installations in residential and commercial buildings within the Suame ECG strategic business unit, Ghana, focusing on compliance with international and Ghanaian wiring standards. The research assesses key factors influencing safety, including the certification of electricians, the quality of cable brands used, proper cable sizing, adherence to wiring color codes, the awareness and use of Residual Current Circuit Breakers (RCCBs), and the protection of earth electrodes. A descriptive research design was utilized, involving extensive field surveys and electrical installation audits. Data were collected using standardized tools and analyzed with SPSS software to evaluate the professional competencies of artisans and their adherence to safety standards. The findings indicate significant safety risks, with 69.7% of electricians lacking proper certification, leading to the widespread use of non-approved cable brands, improper cable sizing, and deviations from wiring color codes. Additionally, deficiencies were found in the awareness and use of RCCBs and the protection of earth electrodes. The study concludes with recommendations to enhance electrical safety, including mandatory certification for electricians, public awareness campaigns, regular inspections, and ongoing training and development programs. These measures are crucial for improving the overall safety and quality of electrical installations in the Suame area, Ghana.

基于Transformer-Bi-LSTM模型的武器装备剩余寿命预测方法

武器装备担负保卫国土安全的重要使命,其保持稳定运行状态具有重大国防、政治意义;因其装备运行状态不便中断、故障定位过程复杂,使得传统维修方式效率较低;装备使用数据具有连续性、长期性、不平稳性,甚至一些深度学习模型无法处理其中的退化状态历史依赖与关联问题;通过构建元器件层级的剩余寿命预测架构,对特征工程、退化指标构建以及Transformer-Bi-LSTM模型开展研究,采用距离编码技术,实现针对深度学习模型的技术创新,优化模型预测效果;基于某型武器装备主要器件正常试样数据,进行本方法分析验证,在器件已运行时间达到90%设计试验寿命长度时能够进行有效且准确的剩余寿命预测,所提方法满足武器装备器件寿命预警及更换提醒、保障装备战备完好性的应用需求。