Signal detection performance in cognitive radio architecture is enhanced by the cooperation of sensing detectors if the fading and shadowing effects exist on the channel. A cooperative spectrum sensing technique in cognitive radio networks based on two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is proposed in this paper and proposed sensing scheme is examined under Rician fading channel. The performance of...

The algorithm takes as input a vector of data values which contains an initial segment of noise followed by the arrival of a signal. The algorithm returns an estimate of the time of arrival of the signal along with a binary random variable conf indicating the credibility of the estimate: conf = 1 indicating a level of confidence, conf = 0 indicating no confidence in the estimate. For the purpos...

A new two-dimensional version of the Kolmorogov-Smirnov test has been developed for the testing of data which has been placed in a two-dimensional array of bins. Monte Carlo testing has been used to derive the test statistics for 8 x 8, 16 x 16 and 32 x 32 arrays. The predicted probabilities for non-square arrays and arrays with intermediate numbers of elements are compared to the probabilities...

BACKGROUND Influenza is a well known and common human respiratory infection, causing significant morbidity and mortality every year. Despite Influenza variability, fast and reliable outbreak detection is required for health resource planning. Clinical health records, as published by the Diagnosticat database in Catalonia, host useful data for probabilistic detection of influenza outbreaks. ME...

Using probabilistic ideas, we prove that if μ is a mean porous measure on R, then the packing dimension of μ is strictly smaller than n. Moreover, we give an explicit bound for the packing dimension, which is asymptotically sharp in the case of small porosity. This result was stated in [D. B. BELIAEV and S. K. SMIRNOV, “On dimension of porous measures”, Math. Ann. 323 (2002) 123-141], but the p...

A revised sample of the 2 cm Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) survey is studied to test the isotropic distribution of radio sources on the sky and their uniform distribution in space. The revised sample is complete to flux-density limits of 1.5 Jy for positive declinations and 2 Jy for 0 > δ > −20. At present the active galactic nuclei sample comprises 122 members. Application of the two-dimensi...