An improved capacity-demand-diagram method that uses the well-known constantductility design spectrum for the demand diagram is developed and illustrated by examples. This method estimates the deformation of inelastic SDF systems consistent with the selected inelastic design spectrum, while retaining the attraction of graphical implementation of the ATC-40 Nonlinear Static Procedure.

In the disproof of the Strong Simplex Conjecture presented in [1], a counterexample signal set was found that has higher average probability of correct optimal decoding than the corresponding regular simplex signal set, when compared at small values of the signal-to-noise ratio. The latter was defined as the quotient of average signal energy and average noise power. In this paper, it is shown t...

This paper proposes a vertical beamforming concept to a cellular network employing fractional frequency reuse technique. The reference antenna utilized in this paper is the one currently employed at base station. The idea of using two di erent vertical beams is proposed for cell-center and cell-edge regions, separately. The proposed concept is validated through computer simulation in terms of S...

Although it is well known that feedback does not increase capacity of an additive white Gaussian channel, Yanagi gave the necessary and sufficient condition under which the capacity Cn,FB(P ) of discrete time non-white Gaussian channel is increased by feedback. In this paper we show that the capacity Cn,FB(P ) of the Gaussian channel with feedback is a concave function of P , and give two type ...

The capacity of non-coherent stationary Gaussian fading channels with memory under a peak-power constraint is studied in the asymptotic weaksignal regime. It is assumed that the fading law is known to both transmitter and receiver but that neither is cognizant of the fading realization. A connection is demonstrated between the asymptotic behavior of channel capacity in this regime and the asymp...

We use concepts from communication theory to characterize information hiding schemes: the amount of information that can be hidden, its perceptibility, and its robustness to removal can be modeled using the quantities channel capacity, signal-to-noise ratio, and jamming margin. We then introduce new information hiding schemes whose parameters can easily be adjusted to trade oo capacity, imperce...

Channel estimation via training is a common method for providing imperfect channel state information (CSI) in a network. In a relay network, imperfect CSI can be efficiently provided at the relays by sending training signals from the source and the destination nodes to the relays. Providing imperfect CSI at the destination is more challenging since each relay is required to send training signal...

The necessary and sufficient condition for beamforming optimality for multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems with mean feedback has been derived and thoroughly investigated in this article. The condition is an inequality that contains parameters of the number of antennas, transmission power, and the singular values of channel mean matrix. When the beamforming optimality condition is sati...

In this study, Reactive Black 5 (RB5) was removed from synthetic wastewater using Fenton's oxidation (FO) process. Experiments were conducted on the samples containing 100 and 200 mg l(-1) of RB5 to remove the dye toxicity. Seventy-five milligram per litre of RB5 caused 25% toxicity on 24-h born daphnids whereas 100 mg l(-1) of RB5 displayed 100% toxicity on Daphnia magna. The study was perform...

This paper proposes a vertical beamforming concept to a cellular network employing Fractional Frequency Reuse technique including with cell sectorization. Two different beams are utilized in cell-center and cell-edge, separately. The proposed concept is validated through computer simulation in term of SINR and channel capacity. Also, comparison when utilizing horizontal and vertical beam format...