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    Cognitive cooperative MAC with one primary and two secondary users: achievable rates and optimal power control
    (IEEE-INST Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2014-11) Edemen, Çağatay; Kaya, Onur
    We consider a three-user fading cognitive cooperative multiple access channel (MAC) with one primary and two secondary transmitters. We propose two encoding/decoding strategies with varying levels of cooperation, based on block Markov superposition encoding and backward decoding. The first is an overlay model, where the secondary users (SUs) aid the transmission of the primary user (PU) by causally decoding the PU message and forwarding it while also cooperating among each other. The second is an underlay model, where the SUs cooperate by decoding and forwarding each other's messages while treating the signal received from the PU as noise. In either case, the PU is guaranteed to operate at its maximum achievable single user rate. We characterize the achievable SU rate region for both models and maximize this region as a function of the transmit powers. The simulation results show that the SU rate region can be significantly enlarged, particularly using the overlay model.
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    Generic BER analysis of VLC channels impaired by 3D user-mobility and imperfect CSI
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021-07) Reddy Sekhar, K.; Miramirkhani, Farshad; Mitra, Rangeet; Turlapaty, Anish Chand
    Visible light communications (VLC) has emerged as a high-speed, low-cost, and green supplement for the existing radio frequency (RF) based infrastructures. However, the performance of VLC based systems is found to degrade significantly due to detrimental outages caused by non-negligible variations in the VLC channel-gain, that are jointly induced by radial user-mobility and random photodetector-orientation (together designated as 3D mobility in this letter). In addition to the 3D user-mobility mentioned above, the performance of VLC based systems is further limited by imperfect channel-state information (CSI). Such degradations in the VLC-link caused by the aforementioned factors necessitate the quantification of performance-metrics for further benchmarking/receiver-design. In this work, an analytical expression for bit-error rate (BER) is derived for a single LED indoor VLC system considering the radial user-mobility, random receiver orientation, and imperfect CSI altogether. Further, the derived BER expressions are validated using computer-simulations using typical VLC channel models from the literature. A close agreement between the analytical and the simulated BER is observed, which verifies the accuracy of the presented analysis.
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    A new robust stability criterion for dynamical neural networks with multiple time delays
    (Elsevier Science BV, 2013-01-01) Faydasıçok, Özlem; Arik, Sabri
    This paper investigates the problem of the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium point for the class of neural networks with multiple time delays and parameter uncertainties. Under the assumption that the activation functions are globally Lipschitz continuous, we derive a new criterion for the robust stability of a class of delayed neural networks by utilizing the Lyapunov stability theorems and the Homomorphic mapping theorem. Different from those previously published conditions in the recent literature, the robust stability result presented in this paper not only establishes a time-independent relationship between the network parameters of the neural network, but also takes into account the number the neurons of the designed neural system. Some illustrative numerical examples are also given to make a detailed comparison between our result and the previously published corresponding results. This comparison proves that our result is new and can be considered an alternative condition to those of the previously reported robust stability results.
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    Cascaded model adaptation for dialog act segmentation and tagging
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2010-04) Güz, Ümit; Tür, Gökhan; Hakkani Tür, Dilek; Cuendet, Sebastien
    There are many speech and language processing problems which require cascaded classification tasks. While model adaptation has been shown to be useful in isolated speech and language processing tasks, it is not clear what constitutes system adaptation for such complex systems. This paper studies the following questions: In cases where a sequence of classification tasks is employed, how important is to adapt the earlier or latter systems? Is the performance improvement obtained in the earlier stages via adaptation carried on to later stages in cases where the later stages perform adaptation using similar data and/or methods? In this study, as part of a larger scale multiparty meeting understanding system, we analyze various methods for adapting dialog act segmentation and tagging models trained on conversational telephone speech (CTS) to meeting style conversations. We investigate the effect of using adapted and unadapted models for dialog act segmentation with those of tagging, showing the effect of model adaptation for cascaded classification tasks. Our results indicate that we can achieve significantly better dialog act segmentation and tagging by adapting the out-of-domain models, especially when the amount of in-domain data is limited. Experimental results show that it is more effective to adapt the models in the latter classification tasks, in our case dialog act tagging, when dealing with a sequence of cascaded classification tasks
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    Generative and discriminative methods using morphological information for sentence segmentation of Turkish
    (IEEE-INST Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2009-07) Güz, Ümit; Favre, Benoit; Hakkani Tür, Dilek; Tür, Gökhan
    This paper presents novel methods for generative, discriminative, and hybrid sequence classification for segmentation of Turkish word sequences into sentences. In the literature, this task is generally solved using statistical models that take advantage of lexical information among others. However, Turkish has a productive morphology that generates a very large vocabulary, making the task much harder. In this paper, we introduce a new set of morphological features, extracted from words and their morphological analyses. We also extend the established method of hidden event language modeling (HELM) to factored hidden event language modeling (fHELM) to handle morphological information. In order to capture non-lexical information, we extract a set of prosodic features, which are mainly motivated from our previous work for other languages. We then employ discriminative classification techniques, boosting and conditional random fields (CRFs), combined with fHELM, for the task of Turkish sentence segmentation.
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    Optimal nonlinear controller design for flexible robot manipulators with adaptive internal model
    (INST Engineering Technology-IET, 2007-05) Doğan, Mustafa; İstefanopulos, Yorgo
    Developing nonlinear adaptive and robust controllers for a two-link flexible robot arm is the main objective of this research. The dynamic state feedback controller is used to achieve robust regulation of the rigid modes as well as suppression of elastic vibrations. However, the control of highly nonlinear multi-link flexible arms is subject to uncertainties caused by backlash, payload changes and external disturbances. Therefore adaptive and robust control of multi-link flexible arms is a challenging problem. The internal model approach is adaptively tuned up for unknown disturbances, parallel with a robust stabiliser. The stabiliser part of the controller is optimised with a new evolutionary algorithm.
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    Channel modelling for indoor visible light communications
    (Royal Society Publishing, 2020-04-17) Miramirkhani, Farshad; Uysal, Murat
    Visible light communication (VLC) allows the dual use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for wireless communication purposes in addition to their primary purpose of illumination. As in any other communication system, realistic channel modelling is a key for VLC system design, analysis and testing. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of indoor VLC channel models. In order to set the background, we start with an overview of infrared (IR) channel modelling, which has received much attention in the past, and highlight the differences between visible and IR optical bands. In the light of these, we present a comparative discussion of existing VLC channel modelling studies and point out the relevant advantages and disadvantages. Then, we provide a detailed description of a site-specific channel modelling approach based on non-sequential ray tracing that precisely captures the optical propagation characteristics of a given indoor environment. We further present channel models for representative deployment scenarios developed through this approach that were adopted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) as reference channel models. Finally, we consider mobile VLC scenarios and investigate the effect of receiver location and rotation for a mobile indoor user. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Optical wireless communication’.
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    Effective semi-supervised learning strategies for automatic sentence segmentation
    (Elsevier Science BV, 2018-04-01) Dalva, Doğan; Güz, Ümit; Gürkan, Hakan
    The primary objective of sentence segmentation process is to determine the sentence boundaries of a stream of words output by the automatic speech recognizers. Statistical methods developed for sentence segmentation requires a significant amount of labeled data which is time-consuming, labor intensive and expensive. In this work, we propose new multi-view semi-supervised learning strategies for sentence boundary classification problem using lexical, prosodic, and morphological information. The aim is to find effective semi-supervised machine learning strategies when only small sets of sentence boundary labeled data are available. We primarily investigate two semi-supervised learning approaches, called self-training and co-training. Different example selection strategies were also used for co-training, namely, agreement, disagreement and self-combined. Furthermore, we propose three-view and committee-based algorithms incorporating with agreement, disagreement and self-combined strategies using three disjoint feature sets. We present comparative results of different learning strategies on the sentence segmentation task. The experimental results show that the sentence segmentation performance can be highly improved using multi-view learning strategies that we proposed since data sets can be represented by three redundantly sufficient and disjoint feature sets. We show that the proposed strategies substantially improve the average baseline F-measure of 67.66% to 75.15% and 64.84% to 66.32% when only a small set of manually labeled data is available for Turkish and English spoken languages, respectively.
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    Iterative channel estimation approach for space-time/frequency coded OFDM systems with transmitter diversity
    (Assoc Elettrotecnica Ed Elettronica Italiana, 2004-06) Çırpan, Hakan Ali; Panayırcı, Erdal; Doğan, Hakan
    Focusing on transmit diversity orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission through frequency selective channels, this paper pursues novel iterative channel estimation approaches for both space-frequency OFDM (SF-OFDM) and space-time OFDM (ST-OFDM) systems. Relying on the unifying signal model for SF-OFDM and ST-OFDM transmitter diversity systems, we develop computationally efficient, maximum a posteriori (MAP) channel estimation algorithms according to the MAP criterion. The algorithms require a convenient representation of the discrete multipath fading channel based on the Karhunen-Loeve (KL) orthogonal expansion and estimates the complex channel parameters of each subcarriers iteratively using the expectation-maximisation (EM) method. In order to explore the performance, the closed-form expression for the average symbol error rate (SER) probability is derived for the maximum ratio combiner (MRC). Furthermore, to benchmark performance of the MAP channel estimator, the modified Cramer-Rao bound of channel estimates is also derived. Finally, we provide simulation results studying the influence of delay spread, propagation parameters and modelling mismatch on the performance of channel estimation techniques. Simulation results confirm our theoretical analysis and illustrate that the proposed algorithms are capable of tracking fast fading and improving overall performance.
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    Scattering of electromagnetic waves by a rectangular impedance cylinder
    (Elsevier Science, 2000-04) Topsakal, Erdem; Büyükaksoy, İbrahim Alinur; İdemen, Mehmet Mithat
    A uniformly valid asymptotic solution is developed for the diffraction of a high-frequency wave by an infinitely long rectangular cylinder having different impedance walls. The incident wave is generated by a line source located parallel to the cylinder. The problem is reduced first to a system of modified Wiener-Hopf equations involving infinitely many unknown constants and then to a couple of infinite system of linear algebraic equations which are solved numerically. Explicit expressions of the dominant wave components existing in different regions are found. Some illustrative examples show the capability of the approach.