A novel geometrically invariant watermarking scheme based on gravity center is presented which treating the geometrically invariant gravity centers of host image and its supplement image as reference points. Thus watermark synchronization is obtained. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our scheme to the geometrical distortion including rotation and/or scaling.

In this paper, a new class of bent functions is constructed by combining class M and class C bent functions. Using the construction method of the class D bent functions defined on the binary vector space, new p-ary generalized bent functions are also introduced for odd prime p.

In this paper, using p-ary bent functions defined on vector space over the finite field Fpk, we generalized the construction method of the families of p-ary bent sequences with balanced and optimal correlation properties introduced by Kumar and Moreno for an odd prime p, called generalized p-ary bent sequences. It turns out that the family of balanced p-ary sequences with optimal correlation property introduced by Moriuchi and Imamura is a special case of the newly constructed generalized p-ary bent sequences.

The formation of single monolayer of liquid crystalline molecules, 4-n-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB), deposited by the evaporation method in the air, was confirmed with the surface potential measurement. The surface potential increased with the time of evaporation, and the 3- or 4-minute evaporation at a source temperature of 110 gave the saturated potential, indicating the formation of single monolayer. Single monolayer formation was also supported by the comparison of the UV-visible absorption for evaporated film with LB monolayer. Positive potentials were built at the surface, indicating that CN group faces the substrate.

We have developed an algorithm called the "spectral-domain-to-real-space approach" (SDRSA) to analytically calculate radiation from the two-dimensional current density distribution in microstrip line configurations where the microstrip lines are represented in the form of a three-dimensional inhomogeneous structure. The algorithm is based on the spectral-domain approach used to estimate radiation from microstrip line configurations. Calculation results obtained by using the SDRSA and the current density distribution from a quasi-TEM mode model of microstrip lines agree well with the corresponding estimations obtained by using the equivalent electric current source method and the magnetic current source method, and with the experimental results obtained in the frequency band of up to 1 GHz.

In this paper, we address the survivable routing problem with and without wavelength-continuity constraints by proposing a new Integer Linear Programming (ILP) algorithm, which is based on a simplified necessary and sufficient condition. Numerical results are given and discussed to show the efficiency of our algorithm and the impact of wavelength-continuity constraints.

Recent new technologies of electro-mechanical conversion devices have been reviewed. Especially, the electrochemical properties of anisotropic actuators using polypyrrole have been reviewed in detailed and the realization of the bimorph (or bending beam) structure without artificial adhesive agent is introduced.

A mechanical phase shifter is designed for beam scanning in co-phase fed single-layer slotted waveguide arrays. The multiple-way power divider in this array consists of a series of π-junctions with one guide wavelength spacing in a feed waveguide. The movable narrow walls placed between the π-junctions perturb the guide wavelength as well as the phase of output ports. Method of Moment (MoM) analysis for one unit consisting of one movable plate and two junctions is conducted to estimate the available phase shift as well as the degradation of reflection. A phase shift of 86 degrees is predicted between two π-junctions under the condition of reflection below -20 dB; experiments at 4 GHz confirmed the design. The beam scanning capability of the arrays is also surveyed and the beam-scanning of about 10 degrees is predicted.

This paper discusses performance issues for a sensor network. It describes the unique features of the sensor network and discusses studies on its protocols. Performance measures for the sensor network are investigated and studies related to them are surveyed. As an example of performance measures, this paper analyzes a sensor network's availability, which is the probability that all the sensor nodes are working without any of them having run out of energy. An explicit formula for the sensor network availability is derived, and the optimal placement of sensor nodes is investigated.

High-quality Fe3O4 thin films have been fabricated onto metallic underlayers of Cr/Cu and Al by rf-magnetron sputtering at low substrate temperatures (<573 K). The measured saturation magnetizations Ms are 462 emu/cm3 for Al (50 nm)/Fe3O4 (200 nm) and 422 emu/cm3 for Cr (45 nm)/Cu (300 nm)/Fe3O4 (200 nm), which are markedly enhanced compared with that for the reference sample deposited directly on a glass substrate, and practically comparable to the bulk value of 477 emu/cm3. Highly conductive transport with an order-disorder change of the Verwey transition was observed in the current-perpendicular-to-plane geometry. The order of decrease in coercive field was achieved by exchange coupling with an overlaid NiFe layer.

A modified 0.35 µm gate-length MOSFET large-signal microwave device model, based on the widely used BSIM3 model, is presented in this report. This large-signal microwave model includes a BSIM3 model together with the passive components required to fit the device dc and microwave characteristics over a wide range of biasing points and frequency operation. In this report, we propose a methodology to improve the device microwave linearity by controlling a suitable biasing condition, which is based on the predictions of this modified CMOS large-signal model. The input IM3 enhances more than 10 dB at a 2.4 GHz operation. Furthermore, the adjacent channel power ratio also improves 7.5 dB with proper choosing device dc bias.

This letter presents a novel two-dimensional (2-D) defected ground array (DGA) for planar circuits, which has horizontal and vertical periodicities of defect structure. The defect unit cell of DGA is composed of a Sierpinski carpet structure to improve the effective inductance. Measurements show that the proposed DGA provides steeper cutoff characteristics, lower cutoff frequency, and higher slow-wave factors than the conventional periodic defected ground structure in the same occupied surface.

Thermal stability of stacked high-κ dielectrics, especially ZrO2, HfO2 and ZrSiO4 /SiO2 layered structures, on silicon has been investigated in terms of ultrahigh vacuum (UHV), 1 Torr N2 and helium (He) gas annealing with controlled oxygen partial pressure (PO2) at 920. Comparison of 2 nm and 20 nm ZrO2 films under UHV annealing revealed that the trigger of silicidation is the contact of ZrO2, SiO and Si accompanying disappearance of interfacial SiO2 layer due to SiO desorption. In the contact position, a small amount of SiO gas can easily change ZrO2 to ZrSi2. This reaction model is also applicable to the silicidation of HfO2 and ZrSiO4, at not only stacked high-κ film/Si substrate interface, but also at gate poly-Si/high-κ film interface. Moreover, comparison of UHV, N2 and He annealing with controlled PO2 revealed that the optimal PO2 ranges in He at which the thermal stability of layered structure can be achieved are wider than those in UHV and N2. This result suggests that He gas physically may obstruct SiO creation due to the quenching of atomic vibration at degradation-prone sites in the SiO2 /Si interface, thus reducing probability of bond breaking process, which is the first step of silicidation.

A novel design of Cerebellar Model Articular Controller (CMAC) is presented in this article. The controller is designed by means of a content addressable memory (CAM) to replace a hash-coding function, which is adopted by generic CMACs to tackle memory space problem how a large space maps into a small one. With a different address mapping method from hash-coding methods, each memory location of the proposed architecture includes two tuples: One is the conceptual address stored in a CAM, and another is the weight associated with the conceptual address stored in a SRAM. The CAM, with capability of fast comparison, is used to determine if any of CAM's content is identical to current conceptual address in parallel. If no match occurs, an associated mask function is triggered to expand searching range, which is centered by current conceptual address with a radius defined by the number of maskable bits. If a location in the CAM carries the similar address, the weight (in SRAM) related to this matching location would be shared and updated by both the current conceptual address and the conceptual address in this location. Therefore, the control noises caused by hash-coding methods can be attenuated significantly in either the training or the recall phases in the proposed architecture. Furthermore, if there is no match in current search, after the mask function is executed, the new conceptual address with an initial weight value would be stored in a CAM cell sequentially indexed by an incremental pointer. Instead of storing the information by scattering it over the memory, the proposed architecture sequentially stores the information by the index of this pointer to increase the memory utilization. Simulation results, (1) one input variable and two input variables cases of function approximations, (2) a truck backer-upper control, demonstrate the plausible performance of the proposed CMAC architecture. The architecture and the design criteria for the proposed controller are also discussed.

This letter proposes a millimeter-wave band transformer to connect a standard waveguide to a very thin post-wall waveguide. The post-wall waveguide height is the same as a microstrip or coplanar line. A dielectric substrate with slits etched on both edges is inserted in the standard waveguide for matching. A 22 GHz transformer gives 3.6% bandwidth for a 0.5 mm-height post-wall waveguide. The effects of various mechanical misalignments upon the frequency characteristics of the reflection are also estimated by analysis and measurements.

Group multicasting is a generalization of multicasting whereby every member of a group is allowed to multicast messages to other members that belongs to the same group. The group multicast routing problem (GMRP) is that of finding a set of multicast trees with bandwidth requirements, each rooted at a member of the group, for multicasting messages to other members of the group. An optimal solution to GMRP is a set of trees, one for each member of the group, that incurs the least overall cost. This problem is known to be NP-complete and hence heuristic algorithms are likely to be the only viable approach for computing near optimal solutions in practice. In this paper, we derive a lower bound on the cost of an optimal solution to GMRP by using Lagrangean Relaxation and Subgradient Optimization. This lower bound is used to evaluate the two existing heuristic algorithms in terms of their ability to find close-to-optimal solutions.

We analytically investigate combinatorial effects of timer control and backoff algorithms on performance of bulk data transfer over two-state Markovian packet error channels. Numerical results for throughput, energy efficiency, and the probabilities of packet loss and loss of bulk data indicate that linear backoff algorithms outperform binary exponential ones as a whole when they are employed at the logical link sublayer with timer control.

In this paper, we propose OOK-CDMA system with optical hard-limiters (OHLs) using schemes of transmitting optical pulses with two-level intensities. The proposed system can be applied to both cases with single OHL and double OHLs. In the proposed system, a frame corresponding to a bit time is divided into two frames, where the low intensity pulses are transmitted in the weighted positions at the former frame, and the high ones are transmitted in the weighted positions at the latter frame. At the receiver side, in each weighted position of low intensity level, the ability of Multiple Access Interferences (MAIs) cancellation by OHL is equal to that of the conventional systems. However, in each weighted position of high intensity level, the OHL with the higher-level threshold value can easily eliminate MAIs with low intensity, while the MAIs are not eliminated in the conventional system. As a result, the ability of interference cancellation by OHL is significantly increased. When using single OHL in the proposed system, the optimum combinations of the values of low-level weights and low-level intensity ratio depend on the received laser power. This means that deploying dynamic control of the values of low-level weights and low-level intensity ratio is an imperative requirement in the proposed system with single OHL. On the other hand, when using double OHLs, the optimum combinations of the values of low-level weights and low-level intensity ratio are always constant. We analyze the performance of the proposed system and show its advantage in terms of bit error probability compared to the conventional system in both cases with single OHL and double OHLs. We also show that the proposed system with double OHLs is more effective and practical than the one with single OHL depending on the received laser power.

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is characterized by multi-hop wireless links in the absence of any cellular infrastructure as well as by frequent host mobility. This paper proposes a SMPQ: Spiral-Multi-Path QoS routing protocol in a MANET, while the MAC sub-layer adopts the CDMA-over-TDMA channel model. This work investigates the bandwidth reservation problem of on-demand QoS routing in a wireless mobile ad-hoc network. The proposed approach increases the ability of a route to identify a robust path, namely a spiral-multi-path, from source host to destination host, in a MANET to satisfy certain bandwidth requirements. Two important contributions of the proposed spiral-multi-path are: (1) the spiral-multi-path strengthens route-robustness and route-stability properties and (2) the spiral-multi-path increases the success rate of finding the QoS route. Performance analysis results demonstrate that our SMPQ protocol outperforms other protocols.

The authors propose a Global Open Ethernet (GOE) architecture as a cost-effective scalable solution for next generation of VPNs over optical network infrastructure. Three main approaches have been proposed for a cost-effective VPN solution on metro area network (MAN): Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS), Extended Ethernet via Stacked VLAN tagging (EESVLAN). None of these schemes can satisfy the following requirements at the same time: network topology flexibility, affordable network functionalities, low equipment cost, and low operational cost. We propose the GOE architecture as an affordable VPN solution that addresses all these requirements. GOE combines the functionality of MPLS VPN with low cost and easy operation of Ethernet-based solutions in a cost-effective scalable manner. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of EoMPLS, EESVLAN and GOE VPN solutions in terms of the cost and network utilization. We show that the cost of GOE solution is two-three times smaller than the cost of the other approaches. We also demonstrate that the network utilization provided by GOE is 22% higher than that of both EoMPLS and EESVLAN. Therefore, GOE can be shown to be a cost-effective simple VPN solution with clear advantages in functionality, management and performance.