To mitigate the uplink co-tier interference in heterogeneous networks, advanced receivers are used by Femtocell Base Stations. Orthogonal frequency allocation in interfering cells leads to inefficient spectrum usage. The users can opportunistically access the resources of nearby cells by exploiting the advantage of successive group decoder. Multi cell uplink spectrum allocation with SGD is form...

[1] An analysis of a sudden commencement (SC) manifestation reveals a significant contribution of the polar current system which influences the long-term behavior of the H component at low-latitude ground stations located in the subsolar sector. A transition between ‘‘morning’’ and ‘‘afternoon’’ characteristics of the geomagnetic response occurs at 1300 MLT. ‘‘Morning’’ events are characterized...

We present a velocity model inversion approach using artificial neural networks (NN). We selected four aftershocks from the 2000 Tottori, Japan, earthquake located around station SMNH01 in order to determine a 1D nearby underground velocity model. An NN was trained independently for each earthquake-station profile. We generated many velocity models and computed their corresponding synthetic wav...

Predicting the probabilities that a mobile user will be active in other cells at future moments poses a significant technical challenge to network resource management in multimedia wireless communications. The probability information can be used to assist base stations to maintain a balance between guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) to mobile users and achieving maximum resource utilization....

The spatial and temporal effects of hot seawater (60-70oC) from a power station on nearby soft-bottom communities were analyzed in the protected area “Sebadales del sur de Tenerife” (SE coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands, NE Atlantic Ocean). Sediment samples were taken during summer 2003 and winter 2004 from 12 to 20 m depth. The highest macrofaunal abundance and species richness were found in t...

We apply a heterogenous coefficient spatial autoregressive panel model to explore competition/cooperation by duopoly pairs of German fueling stations in setting prices for diesel and E5 fuel. We rely on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation methodology applied with non-informative priors, which produces estimates equivalent to those from (quasi-) maximum likelihood. We explore station-le...

Neuston samples were collected at 21 stations during an ~700 nautical mile (~1300 km) expedition in July 2012 in the Laurentian Great Lakes of the United States using a 333 μm mesh manta trawl and analyzed for plastic debris. Although the average abundance was approximately 43,000 microplastic particles/km², station 20, downstream from two major cities, contained over 466,000 particles/km², gre...

The ground plane is thought to be an important reference for localizing objects, particularly when angular declination is informative, as it is for objects seen resting at floor level. A potential role for eye movements has been implicated by the idea that information about the nearby ground is required to localize objects more distant, and by the fact that the time course for the extraction of...

This paper considers cooperation between primary and secondary users in shared spectrum radio networks via caching. A network consisting of a single macro (primary) base-station and multiple small (secondary) base-stations is considered. Secondary base-stations can cache some primary files and thereby satisfy content-requests generated from nearby primary users. For this cooperative scenario, w...