A new CMOS analogue transconductor is proposed and simulated. This transconductor is based on the operation of MOS transistors in the linear region and has a good linearity. The simulation result shows that less than 1% distortion can be obtained for the differential input signal of 6.4 Vp-p with IB=80µA and supply voltage of 5V.

A chaotic UWB communication system based on IEEE 802.15.4a is proposed for wireless connectivity applications. A compact and simple architecture is implemented by using a chaotic UWB signal and a non-coherent detection scheme. The chaotic UWB signal has noise-like characteristics in time and frequency domains and naturally wide spectrum within a limited bandwidth. The chaotic UWB signal generator is designed on two methods with the bandwidth of 3.1 to 5.1 GHz, and a baseband process is realized on an FPGA including an adaptive decision and a channel code for non-source coded data stream. The system performance is evaluated by transmitting MP3 audio/voice with 32-byte length PSDUs and measuring PERs for assessing the system sensitivity and the interferer compatibility. The proposed system can be an excellent candidate for short-range connectivity services, as well as an inexpensive system with good capability for narrow-band interferences.

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for efficient video broadcasting over WLANs using the IEEE 802.11e HCCA MAC and H.264/SVC. We rearrange the outgoing sequence of H.264/SVC NAL units according to their dimension, temporal, and quality scalability. In addition, our proposed scheme broadcasts the NAL units at various data-rates by using the link adaptation function of IEEE 802.11 PHY. Our scheme is verified using NCTUns network simulator, and is evaluated in terms of throughput, delay, and quality of experience (QoE) using structural similarity (SSIM) rather than mean square error (MSE). We employee a real video clip to increase the reliability of the simulation in which the video clip is compressed as VBR with 24 scalable layers by JSVM reference codec of the H.264/SVC. In the simulation topology, a host broadcasts the video clip to 10 wireless stations which are within 150 meters from an AP. We present performance comparisons between our proposed scheme and the scheme provided by the IEEE 802.11e HCCA standard, which is to be referred to as the simple scheme in this paper. The proposed scheme noticeably enhances in the three performance metrics. All wireless stations by the proposed scheme receive more video data than the simple scheme around 2530% within a delay bound of 1 second. The proposed scheme controls the end-to-end delay to 510% under that of the simple scheme. As for the throughput and the delay performance, the proposed scheme enhances the video quality by up to 67% compared to the simple scheme in SSIM evaluation.

Video applications such as video conferencing among multiple users and video surveillance systems require multiple video connections and QoS guarantee. These days the video systems equipped with IEEE 802.11 LAN interfaces allows a broadband wireless access to the Internet at a reasonable price. However, according to the current IEEE 802.11e HCCA standard, if more than two video sessions are to be established simultaneously, some of them must share the TXOP because the available number of TSIDs for video transmission is restricted to two. In order to resolve this problem, we devise a scheme which can establish up to 13 video sessions by slightly modifying the frame structure while maintaining the compatibility with the current standard. Our scheme is implemented on the NCTUns 4.0 network simulator, and evaluated numerically in terms of throughput, delay, and PSNR. Also real video clips are used as input to our simulation. The results showed that our scheme guarantees the transmission bandwidth requested by each video session.

This paper presents an analysis of the effects of RF filter characteristics on the system performance of an impulse radio. The impulse radio system transmits modulated pulses having very short time duration. Information can be extracted in the receiver side based on the cross-correlation between received and reference pulses. Accordingly, the pulse distortion due to in-band group delay variation can cause serious degradation in system performance. In general, RF band pass filters inevitably cause non-uniform group delays to the signal passing through the filter that are proportional to its skirt characteristic due to its resonance phenomenon. In this work, a small signal scattering parameter, S21, which is a frequency domain parameter, and its Fourier transform are utilized to characterize the output pulse waveform under the condition that the input and output ports are matched. The output pulse waveform of the filter is predicted based on the convolution integral between the input pulse and filter transfer function, and the analysis result is compared with previously reported experimental result. The resulting bit error rate performances in a bi-phase modulation and a pulse position modulation based impulse radio system are also calculated. Moreover, improvement of system performance by the pulse shaping method, a potential solution for pulse waveform distortion, is analyzed.