The clock distribution and generation circuitry forms a critical component of current synchronous digital systems. A digital system’s clocks must have not only low jitter, low skew, but also well-controlled duty cycle in order to facilitate versatile clocking techniques. In high-speed CMOS clock buffer design, the duty cycle of a clock is liable to be changed when the clock passes through a mul...

Duty cycle control is applied in IEEE 802.15.4 medium access control (MAC) protocol to reduce energy consumption. A low duty cycle improves the energy efficiency but it reduces the available transmission time, thereby increases the end-to-end delay. Thus, it is a challenge issue to achieve a good trade-off between energy efficiency and delay. In this paper, we study a duty cycle control problem...

In this communication, hexapod tripod gaits for straightline motion and crab walking are derived. Mathematical relations that express the stability margin, the stride length, and the duty factor are formulated for straight-line motion and for crab walking, respectively. The derived results provide tripod gaits of the hexapod for walking with a prescribed stability margin either over perfect ter...

Quorum-based schemes, e.g., GQS, can ensure asynchronous neighbors to discover each other within bounded time under low-duty-cycle operations. But they are tightly based on the assumption that duty cycles of devices fit some specific prefixed patterns. We tackle this problem by proposing a distributed quorum system to speed up the discovery.

Energy conservation is a major issue in the management of sensor networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimising the performance of energy-constrained sensor networks in the context of event detection applications, with the performance metric being a weighted average of the numbers of missed events and false alarms. We propose two adaptive event-driven techniques, both simple to ...

The Ubiquitous sensor network (USN) node is required to operate for several months with limited system resources such as memory and power. The typical USN node is in the active state for less than 1% of its several month lifetime and waits in the inactive state for the remaining 99% of its lifetime. This paper suggests a power adjustment dual priority scheduler (PA-DPS) that offers low power co...

Data query is a common communication pattern in sensor networks. However, due to the introduction of sleep latency, it is challenging to perform efficient query in low-dutycycle sensor networks. In particular, the round-trip delay from the sink to source nodes and vice versa over the same forwarding path could be extremely long. In this work, westudy the delay optimization problem by jointly co...

the main aim of this research was to investigate the effects of plasma nitriding parameters including frequency and duty cycle for a seris of test samples with different grooves during conventional plasma nitriding (cpn) and active screen plasma nitriding (aspn) treatments. the sample assemblies were consisted of rectangular grooved steel blocks with different groove dimensions of 2, 4, 6, 8 an...

We describe a new and unique method for simultaneous determination of the groove depth and duty cycle of binary diffraction gratings. For a near-normal angle of incidence, the +1 and -1 diffracted orders will behave nearly the same as the duty cycle is varied for a fixed grating depth. The difference in their behavior, quantified as the ratio of their respective diffraction efficiencies, is com...