In this paper, we consider the joint design of source precoding matrix and the relay precoding matrix in a two-hop multiple-input multiple-output relay network. The goal is to find a pair of matrices in order to minimize the power consumption and at the same time meet pre-selected quality of service constraints that are defined as the mean square error of each data stream. Using majorization th...

Multiple-valued decision diagrams (MDDs) give a way of approaching problems by using symbolic variables which are often more naturally associated with the problem statement than the variables obtained by a binary encoding. We present a more general class of MDDs, containing not only branching nodes but also functional nodes, labeled by addition modulo p operation, p prime, and give algorithms f...

Design for security has become an area of increasing importance. This includes securing systems from both natural and intentional threats. Extremely large and complex systems can have an accordingly large number of threat scenarios, thus simply listing the threats and devising countermeasures for each is ineffective and inefficient. The components of a large system may also have various states ...

A new carbon nanotube (CNT) based controlled switch is introduced. The new CNT device is a field emission – based device that uses field electron emission from the CNT to implement the functionality of controlled switching. To implement the field emission CNT controlled switch, four field emission CNTs that have single carbon nanotubes as the emitters were tested; two with single-walled CNT and...

Multiple valued logic (MVL) has been proposed as a means for reducing the power, improving the speed, and increasing the packing density of VLSI circuits. These performance improvements are achieved by designers who identify signal processing functions that can benefit from the design tradeoffs possible with MVL. Since advocates of MVL are accustomed to incorporating the possible tradeoffs of M...

It is shown in this paper that a model of multiplevalued logic over the field of complex numbers is the most appropriate for the representation of the genetic code as a multiple-valued function. The genetic code is considered as a partially defined multiple-valued function of three variables. The genetic code is the four-letter nucleic acid code, and it is translated into a 20-letter amino acid...

An important aspect of data modeling is the identification of entities or objects and their associated attributes. An attribute may be single-valued or multivalued. During database design, the designer usually has to represent all attributes in relational tables that only allow single-valued cells. A number of authors (1, 3, 5, 6) advocate the notion that multivalued attributes are essentially ...

Byzantine Agreement (BA) and Broadcast (BC) are considered to be the most fundamental primitives for fault-tolerant distributed computing and cryptographic protocols. An important variant of BA and BC is Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement (ABA) and Asynchronous Broadcast (called as A-cast) respectively. Most often in the literature, protocols for ABA and A-cast were designed for a single bit mess...

By interpreting ‘p is impossible’ by ‘p is selfcontradictory’, and ‘p is always’ by ‘not p is self-contradictory’, this paper studies which of the three-valued systems of Łucasiewicz, Gödel, Kleene, Bochvar, and Post, do verify the Aristotle’s principles of Non-Contradiction (NC), and Excluded-Middle (EM). Keywords— Systems of three-valued logic, Non-Contradiction, Excluded-Middle.