CCECE 2009: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Software Process

• Hamdy Ibrahim, Behrouz Homayoun Far, Armin Eberlein, Y. Daradkeh:
  Uncertainty management in software engineering: Past, present, and future. 7-12
  
• Shaochun Xu, Xuhui Chen, Dapeng Liu:
  Classifying software visualization tools using the Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive domain. 13-18
  

High Frequency Ocean Radar

• John Walsh, Weimin Huang, Eric Gill:
  The second-order monostatic HF radar cross section incorporating antenna barge motion. 19-22
  
• Malcolm L. Heron:
  The Australian Coastal Ocean radar Network facility. 23-26
  

Image Processing I

• Angshul Majumdar, Rabab Kreidieh Ward:
  Discriminative SIFT features for face recognition. 27-30
  
• Yongjin Wang, Dimitrios Hatzinakos:
  Face verification with changeable templates. 31-36
  

Power Systems I

• Yaosuo Xue, Liuchen Chang, Zhenhong Guo:
  A load controller for wind/hydrogen/diesel weak grid. 37-40
  
• Hae-il Jung, Yevgen Biletskiy:
  Evaluation and comparison of economical efficiency of HVDC and AC transmission. 41-44
  

Broadband Communications I

• Ali Enteshari, Mohsen Kavehrad, Jarir Fadlullah:
  Signal construction for high-speed access over copper wiring. 45-48
  
• Jarir M. Fadlullah, Ali Enteshari, Mohsen Kavehrad:
  Channel equalization for multi-gigabit ethernet over copper. 49-53
  

Ocean Applications

• Jonathan Robinson, Geza Joos:
  VSC HVDC transmission and offshore grid design for a linear generator based wave farm. 54-58
  
• Brian Claus, Neil P. Riggs, Hari P. Sekeran, Ralf Bachmayer:
  Development of a low cost instructional platform for submersible design. 59-62
  

Microwave Devices I

• Shahrooz Asadi, Mustapha Chérif-Eddine Yagoub:
  Design of an E-band high power amplifier for wireless high data rate communications. 63-66
  
• Alireza Saberkari, Shahriar B. Shokouhi, Azadeh Kiani, Fereshteh Poorahangaryan:
  A novel low power static frequency divider based on the GDI technique. 67-70
  

Computer Security

• Mehdi Fahandezh, Michelle Bondy, Shervin Erfani:
  A framework for implementing IPSec functional architecture. 71-76
  
• Ricardo Mendoza González, Miguel Vargas Martin, Jaime Muñoz Arteaga, Francisco Álvarez Rodríguez, Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz:
  A measurement model for secure and usable e-commerce websites. 77-82
  

Signal Processing for Wireless Communications

• Mabruk Gheryani, Zhiyuan Wu, Yousef R. Shayan:
  Design of adaptive MIMO system using linear dispersion code. 83-88
  
• Zhi Zhang, Xiaoguang Dai, William S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk:
  Evaluation of Union bounds for Space-Time codes based on a common function. 89-93
  
• Dimitrie C. Popescu, Shiny Abraham, Otilia Popescu:
  Downlink transmitter adaptation based on greedy SINR maximization. 94-98
  

Image Processing II

• Xin Wang, Nicolas D. Georganas:
  GLCM texture based fractal method for evaluating fabric surface roughness. 104-107
  
• Sansira Seminowich, Aylin Sar, Serdar Yilmaz, Rangaraj M. Rangayyan:
  Segmentation of the effective area of images of renal biopsy samples. 108-111
  
• Richard Dosselmann, Xue Dong Yang:
  An empirical assessment of the structural similarity index. 112-116
  

Renewable Energy I

• Tarek Aboul-Seoud, Adel M. Sharaf:
  A novel dynamic voltage regulator compensation scheme for a standalone village electricity wind energy conversion system. 117-121
  
• Tarlochan S. Sidhu, Zhihan Xu:
  Detection and classification of incipient faults in underground cables in distribution systems. 122-126
  
• Davood Yazdani, Majid Pahlevaninezhad, Alireza Bakhshai:
  Single-phase grid-synchronization algorithms for converter interfaced distributed generation systems. 127-131
  

Broadband Communications II

• Hichem Ayed Harhira, Samuel Pierre:
  Dynamic admission control and path allocation for SLAs in DiffServ networks. 132-136
  
• Anna T. Lawniczak, Hao Wu, Bruno N. Di Stefano:
  Detection of anomalous packet traffic via entropy. 137-141
  
• Visvasuresh Victor Govindaswamy, Gergely V. Záruba, G. Balasekaran:
  Receiver Window Modified Random Early Detection queues with RECHOKe. 142-147
  

Cooperative Diversity I

• Xin Wang, Norman C. Beaulieu:
  Switching rates of two-branch selection diversity in correlated Rayleigh Doppler fading channels. 148-151
  
• Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi, Bahman Abolhassani:
  Spectrally efficient cooperative coded schemes for next generation wireless networks. 152-156
  
• Weilin Jiang, Zhongzhao Zhang, Xuejun Sha, Linan Sun:
  Base station cooperation based on location-aided in cellular system. 157-160
  

Sensor Networks I

• Deyun Gao, Yanchao Niu, Oliver W. W. Yang:
  Synchronous sleep andwake in IP-enabled wireless sensor networks. 161-164
  
• Elham Rezayi, Bahman Abolhassani:
  Virtual MIMO-based wireless sensor networks using LDPC codes. 165-170
  
• Elham Rezayi, Bahman Abolhassani:
  Multirate distributed source coding in wireless sensor network USIND LDPC codes. 171-174
  

Computer Hardware

• Tamer Mohamed, Wael M. Badawy, Graham A. Jullien:
  On using FPGAS to accelerate the emulation of quantum computing. 175-179
  
• Gul N. Khan, Victor Dumitriu:
  Throughput-based network-on-chip topology generation and analysis. 180-184
  
• Nick Huang, Andrew Labun:
  Extracting interconnect capacitance sensitivity to linewidth variation. 185-189
  
• Lei Shi, Jun Pang, Lei Yang, Tiejun Zhang, Donghui Wang:
  Fair-Priority-Expression-Based burst scheduling to enhance performance and fairness of shared dram systems. 190-194
  
• Rana E. Ahmed:
  Cooperative caching in power-aware chip-multiprocessors. 195-198
  

Special Session on Cognitive Radio Systems

• Tricia J. Willink, Humphrey Rutagemwa:
  Framework for performance evaluation of cognitive radio networks in heterogeneous environments. 199-203
  
• Qiyun Zhang, Octavia A. Dobre, Sreeraman Rajan, Robert J. Inkol:
  On the second-order cyclostationarity for joint signal detection and classification in cognitive radio systems. 204-208
  
• Seung-Hoon Hwang, Jun-Ho Baek, Octavia A. Dobre:
  Spectrum sensing using multiple antenna-aided energy detectors for cognitive radio. 209-212
  
• Menguc Oner:
  On the effects of random timing jitter on spectrum sensing algorithms based on cyclostationarity. 213-218
  
• Jeebak Mitra, Lutz H.-J. Lampe:
  Sensing and suppression of impulsive interference. 219-224
  

Image Processing III

• Raymond Phan, Dimitrios Androutsos:
  Colour logo and trademark retrieval and tracking in unconstrained image sequences using Colour Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms. 225-228
  
• Khaled Loukhaoukha, Jean-Yves Chouinard:
  A new image watermarking algorithm based on wavelet transform. 229-234
  
• Ye Mei, Dimitri Androutsos:
  PCA-whitening CSS shape descriptor for affine invariant image retrieval. 235-238
  
• Eman Alibeigi, Majid Toghiani Rizi, Parisa Behnamfar:
  Pipelined minutiae extraction from fingerprint images. 239-242
  
• Wilson Harron, Robert Dony, Stephen Miller:
  Noise reduction to enhance classification of images using textural information. 243-246
  

Power Converters and Drives I

• Yongwen Pan, Man Lin:
  Dynamic leakage aware power management with procrastination method. 247-251
  
• Loïc Michel, Ahmed Chériti, Pierre Sicard:
  Development of an efficient IGBT simulation model. 252-256
  
• Wanmin Fei, Bin Wu:
  A novel topology of bridge-type superconducting fault current limiter. 257-260
  
• Dutta Gupta Tirtho, Liuchen Chang:
  Web based remote operations on inverters. 261-264
  
• A. Hagar, Peter W. Lehn:
  A scalable multi-input multi-level voltage sourced converter. 265-268
  

Broadband Communications III

• Marwan Fayed, Hussein T. Mouftah:
  Prohibitive-link Detection and Routing Protocol. 269-272
  
• Jian Wang, Ted H. Szymanski:
  Power analysis of Input-Queued and Crosspoint-Queued crossbar switches. 273-278
  
• Samir Sebbah, Brigitte Jaumard:
  PWCE design in survivablewdm networks using unrestricted shape p-structure patterns. 279-282
  
• Thomas Coutelen, Brigitte Jaumard, Gérard Hébuterne:
  Is it worth to keep an all optical OBS data plane? 283-287
  
• Nick De Cristofaro, Geoff McGill, Afrim Sallahi, Matt Davis, Alla Alsibai, Marc St-Hilaire:
  QoS evaluation of a voice over IP network with video: A case study. 288-292
  

Cooperative Diversity II

• Xin Wang, Norman C. Beaulieu:
  The impact of noise on switching rates in dual selection combining diversity. 293-297
  
• Prasanna Kalansuriya, Chintha Tellambura:
  Capacity analysis of a decode-and-forward cooperative network under adaptive transmission. 298-303
  
• Linan Sun, Zhongzhao Zhang, Xuejun Sha, Jingning Wang:
  Implementation of coded cooperation using a kind of convolutional codes. 304-307
  
• Assia Semmar, Jean-Yves Chouinard, Viet-Ha Pham:
  Receive antenna diversity results for mobile DTV channel. 308-313
  
• Xiaoguang Dai, William S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk:
  A new family of Linear Dispersion Code for fast Sphere Decoding. 314-317
  

Sensor Networks II

• Khalid M. J. Khayyat, Fayez Gebali:
  Analytical modelling and performance analysis forwireless ad-hoc networks using four-way handshaking mechanism. 318-322
  
• William A. Lintz, John C. McEachen, Murali Tummala:
  Sensor beamforming with distributed mobile elements in a wireless sensor network. 323-328
  
• Al-Abbass Y. Al-Habashneh, Mohamed Hossam Ahmed, Tahir Husain:
  Adaptive MAC protocols for forest fire detection using Wireless Sensor Networks. 329-333
  
• Scott Fazackerley, Alan Paeth, Ramon Lawrence:
  Cluster head selection using RF signal strength. 334-338
  
• Soorena Merat, Wahab Almuhtadi:
  Wireless network channel quality estimation inside reactor building using RSSI measurement of wireless sensor network. 339-341
  

Education and Software

• Howard Li:
  Education in electrical engineering through a design project. 342-345
  
• Jonathan Howse:
  The ROV Pontus - A winning design. 346-349
  
• Rajibul Huq, Hervé Lacheray, Cameron Fulford, Derek Wight, Jacob Apkarian:
  QBOT: An educational mobile robot controlled in MATLAB Simulink environment. 350-353
  
• Elaine Crocker, Ramachandran Venkatesan, Steve Shorlin, Nabil Dawood:
  Teaching Opportunities for Graduate Assistants (TOGA). 354-358
  

Special Session on Cognitive Radio Systems (cont'd)

• Amir Nasri, Robert Schober:
  Robust Lp-norm metric for BICM-OFDM cognitive radio systems. 359-362
  
• Dennis Burgkhardt, Ivan Cosovic, Gunther Auer, Friedrich Jondral:
  Reducing the probability of network overload by spectrum trading. 363-367
  

Speech and Audio Processing

• Douglas Frey, Victor A. Coelho, Rangaraj M. Rangayyan:
  Filtering and removal of the effects of the transducers on the acoustical impulse response of concert halls. 368-371
  
• Md Foezur Rahman Chowdhury, Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Distributed automatic text-independent speaker identification using GMM-UBM speaker models. 372-375
  
• Mouloud Djamah, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Low-complexity encoding of speech lsf parameters using multistage tree-structured vector quantization: Application to the MELP coder. 376-380
  
• Ashraf Atalla, Aleksandar Jeremic:
  Estimation of boundary properties using stochastic differential equations. 385-389
  

Renewable Energy II

• Tarek Aboul-Seoud, Adel M. Sharaf:
  A novel Modulated Power Filter Compensator scheme for standalone wind energy utilization systems. 390-393
  
• Md. Arifujjaman, Mohammad T. Iqbal, John E. Quaicoe:
  A comparative study of the reliability of the power electronics in grid connected small wind turbine systems. 394-397
  
• Yang Hu, Liuchen Chang, Bo Cao:
  Novel predictive voltage controlled UPS inverter for an improved stand-alone wind turbine system. 398-402
  

Performance Evaluation

• Li Wang, Mei Song, Ping Wang, Jie Li, Junde Song:
  Performance modeling on dynamic authentication data management in heterogeneous interworking networks. 403-406
  
• Ken Ferens, Lily Woo, Witold Kinsner:
  Performance of ZigBee networks in the presence of broadband electromagnetic noise. 407-410
  
• Osama M. Hussain, Imran A. Tasadduq:
  Error performance of 8-QAM trellis-coded MC-CDMA with controlled equalization over wireless channels. 411-414
  
• J. Maier, Ken Ferens:
  Classification of english phrases and SMS text messages using Bayes and Support Vector Machine classifiers. 415-418
  

Wireless Communications I

• Jun Huang, Funmilayo Lawal, Lei Jin, Oliver Yang:
  Content-based blind compensation and shaping for streaming video. 419-422
  
• Jun Shi, Yonggang Chi, Xuejun Sha, Naitong Zhang:
  Fractional fourier domain communication system (FrFDCS): Analytic, modeling and simulation results. 423-426
  
• Mohamed R. M. Rizk, Moawad I. Dessouky, Sami A. El-Dolil, Mohammed Abd-Elnaby:
  Efficient access scheme using fuzzy controlled sliding backoff window for wireless networks. 427-432
  
• Xun Tang, Xue-jun Sha, Rong-hui Wen:
  A subchip multipath search method for DSSS system based on Fractional Fourier Transform. 433-436
  

Sensor Networks III

• Yifeng Zhou, Jeremy Schembri, Louise Lamont, Jeff Bird:
  Analysis of stand-alone GPS for relative location discovery in wireless sensor networks. 437-441
  
• Deyun Gao, Yanchao Niu, Oliver W. W. Yang:
  Active mobility control in IPV6 mobile sensor networks. 442-445
  
• Marwan Fayed, Hussein T. Mouftah:
  On the relevance of alpha-hulls to the boundary detection problem in sensor networks. 446-449
  

Cognitive Radio

• K.-L. Du, M. N. S. Swamy, Qiang Ni:
  A dynamic spectrum access scheme for cognitive radio networks. 450-454
  
• Xiao-yan Ning, Xue-jun Sha, Lin Mei:
  Narrowband interference suppression method in Cognitive Ultra-wide Band Radio. 455-458
  

Computer Vision I

• Timothy W. Ubbens, Derek C. Schuurman:
  Vision-based obstacle detection using a support vector machine. 459-462
  
• Christopher D. W. Ward, Michael D. Naish:
  A compactmodular active vision system formulti-target surveillance. 463-467
  

Image and Video Processing I

• Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Q. M. Jonathan Wu:
  Region based searching for early terminated motion estimation algorithm of H.264/AVC video coding standard. 468-471
  
• Alireza Kenarsari-Anhari, Lutz H.-J. Lampe:
  Error concealment for JPEG-coded image transmission overwireless links. 472-477
  

Biomedical Signal Processing I

• Zhaopeng Fan, Gong Zhang, Simon Liao:
  Clinical analysis for cardiovascular disease by calculating Stiffness Index, Cardiac Output from pulse wave. 478-481
  
• Sunil Karamchandani, Uday B. Desai, S. N. Merchant, G. D. Jindal:
  Principal component analysis based backpropagation algorithm for diagnosis of peripheral arterial occlusive diseases. 482-485
  

Power Systems II

• Ramtin Hadidi, Benjamin Jeyasurya:
  Selective initial state criteria to enhance convergance rate of Q-Learning algotithm in power system stability application. 486-489
  
• Zidan A. Bashir, Mohamed E. El-Hawary:
  Load and locational marginal pricing prediction in competitive electrical power environment using computational intelligence. 490-495
  

Ultra-wideband

• Xuanli Wu, Xin Qiu, Xiaoyan Ning, Di Lin:
  Orthogonal hermite functions based orthogonal pulse shaping method. 496-499
  
• Mouhamed Abdulla, Yousef R. Shayan:
  Harnessing simultaneously the benefits of UWB and MBWA: A practical scenario. 508-513
  

Microwave Devices II

• MingXiang Xiao, William S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk:
  A wideband 360degree analog phase shifter design. 524-527
  

Computer Vision II

• Christopher Ward, Michael D. Naish:
  Scheduling active camera resources for multiple moving targets. 528-532
  
• Yuanlong Yu, George K. I. Mann, Ray G. Gosine:
  Modeling of top-down object-based attention using probabilistic neural network. 533-536
  
• Puthukkudichalil Swapna, Nicholas Krouglicof, Ray Gosine:
  The question of accuracy with geometric camera calibration. 541-546
  

Multimedia and Signal Processing Algorithms I

• Yiu-Tong Chan, Bernard H. Lee, Robert J. Inkol, Francois Chan:
  Estimation of symbol rate from the autocorrelation function. 547-550
  
• Richard Rzeszutek, Thomas F. El-Maraghi, Dimitrios Androutsos:
  Scale-Space Random Walks. 551-554
  
• Qi-Wen Ran, Zhong-Zhao Zhang, De-Yun Wei, Xue-Jun Sha:
  Novel nearly tridiagonal commuting matrix and fractionalizations of generalized DFT matrix. 555-558
  

Biomedical Signal Processing II

• Aleksandar Jeremic, Kenneth Tan:
  Estimating respiratory parameters using intra-arterial partial pressure measurements and stochastic differential equations. 559-564
  
• Guangyi Chen, Wei-Ping Zhu:
  Signal denoising using neighbouring dual-tree complex wavelet coefficients. 565-568
  
• Mohamed Haj Taieb, Jean-Yves Chouinard, Assia Semmar:
  Compound dynamic and static effects from wind turbines on the reception of television signals. 569-574
  

Power Systems III

• Nehad E. El-Kharbawe, Sherif O. Faried:
  Damping inter-area oscillations using a static phase shifter. 575-578
  
• Amin Khodabakhshian, Rahmatollah Hooshmand, R. Sharifian:
  Power system stability enhancement by designing PSS and SVC parameters coordinately using RCGA. 579-582
  

Cooperative Diversity III

• Wei-dang Lu, Xue-jun Sha, Jing-ning Wang, Nai-tong Zhang:
  Analysis of relay handoff algorithms in cooperative diversity systems using absolute and relative measurements of energy gain. 589-592
  
• Ning Hu, Xiaofeng Zhong, Ming Zhao, Jing Wang, Luo Chen:
  A computational method for outage probability exploiting spatial diversity without channel state information at transmitter. 593-597
  
• Ning Hu, Xiaofeng Zhong, Ming Zhao, Jing Wang, Luo Chen:
  On the achievable outage probability of opportunistic relaying with decode-and-forward. 598-603
  

Ad Hoc Networks

• Osamah S. Badarneh, Michel Kadoch, Ahmed K. Elhakeem:
  Video multicast based multiple description coding and multi-paths in wireless ad hoc networks. 604-609
  
• Meral Shirazipour, Samuel Pierre:
  Reducing TE-LSP setup time by minimizing blockage with the use of pre-reservations during the path computation process. 610-613
  
• Ning Zhang, Alagan Anpalagan:
  A comprehensive simulation study of SWAN QoS model in MANETs with proactive and reactive routing. 618-623
  

Physical Layer Issues

• Limeng Song, Assia Semmar, Jean-Yves Chouinard, Viet-Ha Pham, Xianbin Wang:
  ATSC multipath channel characterization for fixed and mobile reception. 624-629
  
• Dherar Rezk, XiaoFeng Wang:
  Improved layered space time architecture over quasi-static fading channels with unequal power allocation and multistage decoding. 630-634
  
• David G. Michelson, Weiwen Liu:
  Simulation of rain fading and scintillation on Ka-band Earth-LEO satellite links. 635-640
  

Mobile Robots

• Francis A. Okou, Donatien Nganga-Kouya, Mohammed Tarbouchi:
  A backstepping approach for the design of a nonlinear controller for a two-wheeled autonomous vehicle. 641-645
  
• Howard Li, Brandon C. Brown:
  Non-time based motion control for multiple intelligent vehicles. 646-649
  
• Iraj Hassanzadeh, Mehdi Abedinpour Fallah:
  Dynamic model-based augmented extended Kalman filter for real time simulation of mobile robots. 650-655
  
• Unal Artan, N. James Lavigne, Joshua Marshall:
  Globally consistent mapping of large-scale passageway environments. 656-659
  
• Gayan W. Gamage, George K. I. Mann, Ray G. Gosine:
  A hybrid control strategy for multiple mobile robots with nonholonomic constraints. 660-663
  

Image and Video Processing II

• Md Foezur Rahman Chowdhury, Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  A study on bias-based speech signal conditioning techniques for improving the robustness of automatic speech recognition. 664-669
  
• Yasmina Benabderrahmane, A. Ben Salem, Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Blind speech separation using high order statistics. 670-673
  
• Grégory Huchet, Jean-Yves Chouinard, Demin Wang, André Vincent:
  DC-guided compression scheme for distributed video coding. 674-677
  
• En-Hui Yang, Longji Wang:
  Joint optimization of run-length coding, context-based arithmetic coding and quantization step sizes. 678-681
  
• Muhammad Talal Ibrahim, Matthew J. Kyan, Ling Guan:
  On-line signature verification using global features. 682-685
  

General Interest

• Amar Kumar, Amiya Nayak, Alka Srivastava, Nita Goel:
  Experimental validation of statistical algorithm for diagnosis of damage fault. 686-690
  
• Surath Aebtarm, Nizar Bouguila:
  An optimal bivariate Poisson field chart for monitoring defects. 691-694
  
• Jon Berge, Rajiv K. Varma:
  A software simulator for Geomagnetically Induced Currents in electrical power systems. 695-700
  
• James R. Green, Hanan Mahmoud, Michel Dumontier:
  Modeling tryptic digestion on the Cell BE processor. 701-705
  
• Dave Erickson:
  Interoperability across implementation: The libdrdc data standards library. 706-710
  

Renewable Energy III

• Md. Maruf-ul-Karim, Mohammad T. Iqbal:
  Dynamic modeling and simulation of alkaline type electrolyzers. 711-715
  
• Kokou Mattewu Adegnon, Yves Dubé, Kodjo Agbossou:
  Experimental evaluation of PEM Fuel Cell systems efficiency. 716-719
  
• Sang-Soo Park, Amit K. Jinda, Ani M. Gole, Minwon Park, In-Keun Yu:
  An optimized sensorless MPPT method for PV generation system. 720-724
  
• Liam Paull, Derek MacKay, Howard Li, Liuchen Chang:
  Awater heater model for increased power system efficiency. 731-734
  

Coding for Wireless Communications

• Michael Higuchi, Francois Chan:
  Improved V-BLAST symbol detection using short block codes. 735-738
  
• Sivasothy Senthuran, Alagan Anpalagan, Olivia Das:
  A quasi-orthogonal space-frequency coded ofdm system with time spreading and constellation rotation. 739-744
  
• Sanjeewa P. Herath, Nandana Rajatheva, Chintha Tellambura:
  On the energy detection of unknown deterministic signal over Nakagami channelswith selection combining. 745-749
  

MIMO and Physical Layer

• Miguel López-Guerrero, Javier Gomez:
  A mobility-based channel model for wireless systems with adaptive modulation. 750-755
  
• Mabruk Gheryani, Zhiyuan Wu, Yousef R. Shayan:
  Power allocation strategy for MIMO system based on beam-nulling. 756-761
  
• Weixiao Meng, Junyi Zhao, Shilou Jia:
  Doubly-selective MIMO-OFDM channel identification using superimposed training. 762-765
  
• Rabie Almatarneh, Mohamed Hossam Ahmed, Octavia A. Dobre:
  Frequency-time scheduling algorithm for OFDMA systems. 766-771
  
• Viet-Ha Pham, Jean-Yves Chouinard, Assia Semmar, Xianbin Wang, Yiyan Wu:
  Enhanced ATSC DTV channel estimation. 772-776
  

Access Technology

• Victor Rangel, Javier Gomez, Javier Chapa, Miguel López-Guerrero, R. Aquino:
  Performance analysis of best effort support in broadband IEEE 802.16 networks. 777-782
  
• Abdelsalam B. Amer, Fayez Gebali:
  Cross-layer analysis of wireless LANS: Backoff strategies and error control. 783-788
  
• Azfar Moid, Abraham O. Fapojuwo:
  Application layer optimization for efficient video streaming over IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks. 789-793
  
• Mei Song, Li Wang, Jianwen Huang, Junde Song:
  An optimal interworking authentication scheme based on EAP-AKA for heterogeneous access networks. 794-797
  
• Ali Fanian, Mehdi Berenjkoub, T. Aaron Gulliver:
  A new mutual authentication protocol for GSM networks. 798-803
  

Parallel Processing

• Jonathan Roth, Naraig Manjikian, Subramania Sudharsanan:
  Performance optimization and parallelization of turbo decoding for software-defined radio. 804-809
  
• Theodore S. Norvell:
  A grainless semantics for the HARPO/L language. 810-814
  

Multimedia and Signal Processing Algorithms II

• Diego A. Sorrentino, Andreas Antoniou:
  Improved hybrid demosaicing and color super-resolution implementation using quasi-Newton algorithms. 815-818
  
• Yifeng Qiu, Wael M. Badawy:
  The hardware architecture of a novel motion estimator with adaptive crossed quarter polar search patterns for H.264 encoding. 819-822
  

Robot Manipulators

• Farid Arvani, George K. I. Mann, Andrew Fisher, Ray G. Gosine:
  Sampling-based path planning for robust feature-based visual servoing. 823-826
  
• Migara H. Liyanage, Nicholas Krouglicof, Ray Gosine:
  Design and control of a high performance SCARA type robotic arm with rotary hydraulic actuators. 827-832
  

Permanent Magnet Motor Drives

• M. Abdesh S. K. Khan, Glyn H. George, M. A. Rahman:
  Intelligent speed controllers for IPM motor drives. 833-836
  
• Mohammad N. Uddin, Fasil Abera:
  Development of a model based efficiency optimization for IPMSM drive. 837-840
  

Protection

• K. Alghathbar, H. A. Mahmoud:
  Noisy password scheme: A new one time password system. 841-846
  
• Zhiying Gao, Hassan Naser:
  A Virtual Node-based Shared Restoration scheme in multi-domain networks. 847-851
  

Special Session on Communication for Systems of Sensor Networks

• Jing-ning Wang, Xue-jun Sha, Wei-dang Lu, Zhong-zhao Zhang:
  Partner selection strategy for users with high speed in cooperative diversity systems. 852-855
  
• Xue-jun Sha, Rong-hui Wen, Xin Qiu:
  A new multiple-access method based on Fractional Fourier Transform. 856-859
  

Sensor and Microsystem Design I

• Jack Wu, Vlastimil Masek, Michael Cada:
  The possible use of Fiber Bragg Grating based accelerometers for seismic measurements. 860-863
  
• Liang-yuan Xu, Gong Zhang, Yong Liu, Long Zhang, Ling Zhu, Xiao-lin Kong, Lu-sheng Wu, Simon Liao, Yi-kun Wang:
  Apparatus for detecting advanced glycation Endproducts fluorescence of skin. 864-867
  

Computer Systems

• Dario Schor, Witold Kinsner, Alan Thoren:
  Satellite ground station emulator: An architecture and implementation proposal. 868-873
  
• Dario Schor, Jane Scowcroft, Christopher Nichols, Witold Kinsner:
  A Command and Data Handling unit for pico-satellite missions. 874-879
  
• Ying-Wen Bai, Chun-Yang Tsai:
  Design and implementation of a low-power workstation. 880-885
  

Multimedia and Signal Processing Algorithms III

• Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Q. M. Jonathan Wu:
  Efficient partial distortion search algorithm for block based motion estimation. 890-893
  
• M. Zulfiquar A. Bhotto, Andreas Antoniou:
  A set-membership affine projection algorithm with adaptive error bound. 894-897
  

Analog Circuits

• Fahmi Elsayed, Mohamed F. Ibrahim, Yehya H. Ghallab, Wael M. Badawy, Brent Maundy:
  A new 90NM CMOS current feedback operational amplifier. 903-906
  
• Haizheng Guo, Robert Sobot:
  RF power harvesting analog front-end circuit for implants. 907-910
  
• Ayaz Hasan, Stefano Gregori:
  Modeling of step-up dc-dc converters to formulate design guidelines for optimization. 911-915
  

Power Converters and Drives II

• Jahangir Afsharian, Bin Wu, Navid Reza Zargari:
  A novel power supply configuration for GCT gate drivers. 916-919
  
• Jahangir Afsharian, Bin Wu, Navid Reza Zargari:
  Self-powered supplies for SCR, IGBT, GTO and IGCT devices: A review of the state of the art. 920-925
  
• Amin Khodabakhshian, Rahmatollah Hooshmand, G. Isazadeh:
  Harmonic resonance and over-voltage assessment during switching of high voltage shunt capacitors in E.R.E.C. network. 926-930
  

Wireless Networks I

• Olabisi Emmanuel Falowo, Neco Ventura, H. Anthony Chan:
  Effect of mobile terminal heterogeneity on connection-level QOS in next generation wireless networks. 931-935
  
• Hao Zhang, T. Aaron Gulliver:
  On the capacity of 60 GHz wireless communications. 936-939
  
• Raied A. R. Ibrahim, Mustapha C. E. Yagoub, Riadh W. Y. Habash:
  Microstrip patch antenna for RFID applications. 940-943
  

Special Session on Communication for Systems of Sensor Networks (cont'd)

• Yanjun Yan, Lisa Ann Osadciw, Glen Benson, Eric White:
  Inverse data transformation for change detection in wind turbine diagnostics. 944-949
  
• Weihua Gao, Ganapathi Kamath, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Lisa Ann Osadciw:
  A particle swarm optimization based multilateration algorithm for UWB sensor network. 950-953
  

Sensor and Microsystem Design II

• Rui He, Lihong Zhang:
  Artificial neural network application in analog layout placement design. 954-957
  
• Chaohai Zhang, P. Lv, S. Katsuki, H. Akiyama:
  Gas flow rate effects from a Z-pinch discharge plasma on extreme ultraviolet emission. 958-961
  
• Abdulah A. Zadeh:
  High performance synchronized dual elliptic curve crypto-processor. 962-965
  

Software Models & Algorithms

• Anna T. Lawniczak, Bruno N. Di Stefano:
  Development of multi CA model of 4-way road intersection. 966-969
  
• Gabriel Matni, Michel Dagenais:
  Automata-based approach for kernel trace analysis. 970-973
  
• Yefei Zhao, Zong-yuan Yang, Jinkui Xie:
  Formal semantics of UML state diagram and automatic verification based on Kripke structure. 974-978
  
• Qi-Wen Ran, Hai-Ying Zhang, Zhong-Zhao Zhang, Xue-Jun Sha:
  The analysis of the discrete fractional Fourier transform algorithms. 979-982
  
• Ali Khalaj, Hossein Miar Naimi:
  New efficient fractal based compression method for electrocardiogram signals. 983-986
  

Image and Video Processing III

• Nader Karimi, Shadrokh Samavi, Shahram Shirani, Somaieh Amraee, Zahra Safaryazdi, Elham Mahmoodzadeh:
  A region based predictor for lossless compression of RNAi images. 987-990
  
• Nader Karimi, Shadrokh Samavi, Shahram Shirani, Hossein Talebi, Seyed Mohammad Ali Zaynolabedin:
  Contourlet based image compression using controlled modification of coefficients. 991-994
  
• Majid Mohrekesh, Shadrokh Samavi, Nader Karimi, Shahram Shirani, Parisa Behnamfar:
  Motion estimation by affine transforms based on codirectionality of movements. 995-998
  
• Zahra Mansoori, Mansour Jamzad:
  Content based image retrieval using the knowledge of texture, color and binary tree structure. 999-1003
  
• Ron D. Appel, Parham Aarabi:
  From images to maps. 1004-1007
  

Control Systems I

• Farhana S. Lina, M. Tariq Iqbal:
  Remote control of power fed to the grid in a small distributed generation system. 1008-1011
  
• Wilfred W. Kwok, Darrell Gaudette, Daniel E. Davison:
  Multivariable controller design in the face of sensor delays: A separation principle approach. 1012-1017
  
• Javier Ortiz, Arpan Karwal, Vlastimil Masek:
  PC based multi-phase flow loop sensor calibration. 1018-1021
  
• Mani M. Tousi, Seyyedmohsen Azizi, Kash Khorasani:
  A distributed and cooperative supervisory estimation of multi-agent systems - Part II: Verification and case study. 1022-1027
  
• Seyyedmohsen Azizi, Mani M. Tousi, Kash Khorasani:
  A distributed and cooperative supervisory estimation of multi-agent systems - Part I: Framework. 1028-1033
  

Power Converters and Drives III

• Wanmin Fei, Bin Wu, Qin Wu:
  A novel SHE-PWM method for five level voltage inverters with quarter-wave symmetry. 1034-1038
  
• Akshay K. Rathore, Ashoka Bhat, Ramesh Oruganti:
  Small signal analysis and closed loop control design of L-L type active-clamped ZVS current-fed isolated DC-DC converter. 1044-1048
  
• Saleh A. Saleh, M. A. Rahman:
  Performance testing of a single-phase voltage-source wavelet modulated AC-DC converter. 1049-1054
  
• Meiqin Mao, Jianhui Su, Liuchen Chang, Peng Kai, Guorong Zhang, Ming Ding:
  Research and development of fast field tester for characteristics of solar array. 1055-1060
  
• M. Ranjbar, M. Masoum, Alireza Jalilian:
  Comparison of compensation strategies for shunt active power filter control in unbalanced tree-phase four-wire systems. 1061-1066
  

Wireless Networks II

• Hadi Meshgi, Behzad Kasiri, Bahman Abolhasani:
  High throughput relay selection and resource allocation in multihop cellular networks. 1067-1070
  
• Mohamad Ghaddar, L. Talbi, J. LeBel:
  Microwave scatters evaluation for indoor/outdoor broadband coverage and data transmission. 1071-1075
  

Digital Circuits

• Kuande Wang, Li Chen, Jinsheng Yang:
  AN ultra low power fault tolerant SRAM design in 90nm CMOS. 1076-1079
  
• Bharathram Sivasubramanian, Warren J. Gross, Harry Leib:
  Design and FPGA implementation of iterative decoders for codes on graphs. 1080-1084
  
• Cheng Wang, Howard M. Heys:
  An ultra compact block cipher for serialized architecture implementations. 1085-1090
  
• Shaoxi Wang, Rui He, Lihong Zhang:
  MOSFET model assessment for submicron and nanometer bulk-driven applications. 1091-1094
  
• Nima Hosseini, Hooman Nabovati:
  New geometry for improving Q-factor of spiral integrated inductor on low cost integrated circuit process. 1095-1098
  

Signal and Multimedia Processing

• Sichun Wang, Robert J. Inkol, Sreeraman Rajan, François Patenaude:
  Comparison of two angle of arrival averaging strategies. 1105-1110
  
• Simon Henault, Yahia M. M. Antar, Sreeraman Rajan, Robert J. Inkol, Sichun Wang:
  Impact of a finite ground plane on the accuracy of conventional wideband direction finding systems for signals of unknown polarization. 1111-1116
  
• Sichun Wang, Robert J. Inkol, Sreeraman Rajan, François Patenaude:
  Numerical computation of the normalized detection threshold for the FFT J-out-of-L detector. 1117-1122
  
• Simon Henault, Yahia M. M. Antar, Sreeraman Rajan, Robert J. Inkol, Sichun Wang:
  Impact of experimental calibration on the performance of conventional direction finders. 1123-1128
  

Soft Computing

• Howard Li, Yi Fu, Khalid Elgazzar, Liam Paull:
  Path planning for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using genetic algorithms. 1129-1132
  
• Khalid Elgazzar, Howard Li, Liuchen Chang:
  A centralized fuzzy controller for aggregated control of domestic water heaters. 1141-1146
  
• Awantha Jayasiri, George K. I. Mann, Ray G. Gosine:
  Supervisory control of Fuzzy Discrete Event Systems and its application to mobile robot navigation. 1147-1151
  

Control Systems II

• Fan Yang, Sirish L. Shah, Deyun Xiao:
  SDG model-based analysis of fault propagation in control systems. 1152-1157
  
• Mehdi Fatemi, Jim Millan, Tina Yu, Siu O'Young:
  Toward a general control design paradigm for hybrid systems: Ideas, concepts, and formulations. 1158-1162
  
• Patrick Jodouin, Mohamad Saad, Azeddine Kaddouri:
  Application of robust design of a PI controller using guardian maps. 1163-1166
  

Renewable Energy IV

• Sanjida Moury, Mohammad Tariq Iqbal:
  A new approach to minimize the cogging torque of axial flux pmg for under water applications. 1167-1171
  
• Zhenhong Guo, Liuchen Chang, Yaosuo Xue:
  Cogging torque of permanent magnet electric machiens: An overview. 1172-1177
  
• M. Jahangir Alam, Mohammad T. Iqbal:
  Design and development of hybrid vertical axis turbine. 1178-1183
  
• Emre Ozkop, Ismail H. Altas, Adel M. Sharaf:
  A novel fuzzy logic tansigmoid controller for Wave Energy Converter-grid interface DC energy utilization farm. 1184-1187
  

Optimization Techniques for VLSI

• Mahdi Elghazali, Ahmed Elhossini, Shawki Areibi:
  HW/SW co-design architecture exploration for VLSI maze routing. 1188-1193
  
• Zheng Liu, Lihong Zhang:
  Performance-constrained parasitic-aware retargeting and optimization of analog layouts. 1194-1197
  
• Ming Xu, Gary Gréwal, Shawki Areibi, Charlie Obimbo, Dilip K. Banerji:
  Near-linear wirelength estimation for FPGA placement. 1198-1203
  
• Rui He, Lihong Zhang:
  Analog placement design with constraints of multiple symmetry groups. 1204-1207
  

Circuits for Communications

• Bangli Liang, Zhigong Wang, Dianyong Chen, Bo Wang, Guohui Situ, Tad Kwasniewski:
  A full-rate truly monolithic CMOS CDR for low-cost applications. 1208-1212
  
• Dianyong Chen, Bo Wang, Bangli Liang, Tad Kwasniewski:
  A 10-Gb/s backplane transmitter with a FIR pre-emphasis equalizer to suppress ISI at data centers and edges simultaneously. 1213-1216
  
• Oualid Hammi, Fadhel M. Ghannouchi:
  Efficiency optimization of WCDMA driven two-way Doherty power amplifiers over wide power range. 1217-1220
  
• Bo Wang, Dianyong Chen, Bangli Liang, Jinguang Jiang, Tad Kwasniewski:
  A programmable pre-cursor ISI equalization circuit for high-speed serial link over highly lossy backplane channel. 1221-1226