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Model Computation With Second-Order Radiative Transfer Equation For Snow Medium Using Coupled Finite Element Method And Method Of Moment And Relaxed Hierarchical Equivalent Source Algorithm, Hamsalekha A. Kumaresan, H. T. Ewe, Gobi Vetharatnam, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang Jan 2021

Model Computation With Second-Order Radiative Transfer Equation For Snow Medium Using Coupled Finite Element Method And Method Of Moment And Relaxed Hierarchical Equivalent Source Algorithm, Hamsalekha A. Kumaresan, H. T. Ewe, Gobi Vetharatnam, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Active microwave remote sensing is essential to monitor the conditions of the environment by analyzing the microwave returns from the earth terrain. Various Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) techniques are implemented to study the backscattering coefficient of numerous earth terrains such as vegetation and snow medium. In this paper, a theoretical model based on second order radiative transfer equation is investigated by incorporating two computational methods which are known as coupled Finite Element Method (FEM) and Method of Moment (MoM), and Relaxed Hierarchical Equivalent Source Algorithm (RHESA). These theoretical models consider three shapes of scatterers which can be used to represent the …


Decoupling Of Antennas With Adjacent Frequency Bands, Min Li, Lijun Jiang, Lawrence Kwan Yeung Jan 2021

Decoupling Of Antennas With Adjacent Frequency Bands, Min Li, Lijun Jiang, Lawrence Kwan Yeung

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A decoupling device called cascaded power dividing decoupling network (C-PDDN) is presented for two antennas operating in adjacent frequency bands. Design formulas are derived to determine parametrical variables for high isolation. A prototype of a testing array consisting of two base-station dipole antennas is realized on a Rogers PCB for demonstration purposes. Simulated and experimental results show that good impedance matching, and high isolation are achieved simultaneously after adopting the C-PDDN.


Design Of Dual-Band Decoupling Network For Two Antennas, Min Li, Lijun Jiang, Kwan Lawrence Yeung Jan 2021

Design Of Dual-Band Decoupling Network For Two Antennas, Min Li, Lijun Jiang, Kwan Lawrence Yeung

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents a dual-band decoupling network for two antennas. Design formulas are derived with systematic design procedures. Two benchmarks are presented to elaborate on the design procedure. Results show that the network offers impedance matching, high isolation, and high efficiency at both frequencies, verifying the proposed concept and theory.


Data-Driven Identification Of Governing Partial Differential Equations For The Transmission Line Systems, Yanming Zhang, Lijun Jiang Jan 2021

Data-Driven Identification Of Governing Partial Differential Equations For The Transmission Line Systems, Yanming Zhang, Lijun Jiang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Discovering governing equations for transmission line is essential for the study on its properties, especially when the nonlinearity is introduced in a transmission line system. In this paper, we propose a novel data-driven approach for deriving the governing partial differential equations based on the spatial-temporal samples of current and voltage in the transmission line system. The proposed method is based on the ridge regression algorithm to determine the active spatial differential terms from the candidate library that includes nonlinear functions, in which the time and spatial derivatives are estimated by using polynomial interpolation. Three examples, including uniform and nonuniform transmission …


A Phewas Model Of Autism Spectrum Disorder, John Matta, Daniel Dobrino, Swade Howard, Dacosta Yeboah, Jonathan Kopel, Yasser El-Manzalawy, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi Jan 2021

A Phewas Model Of Autism Spectrum Disorder, John Matta, Daniel Dobrino, Swade Howard, Dacosta Yeboah, Jonathan Kopel, Yasser El-Manzalawy, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit a wide diversity in type, number, and severity of social deficits as well as communicative and cognitive difficulties. It is a challenge to categorize the phenotypes of a particular ASD patient with their unique genetic variants. There is a need for a better understanding of the connections between genotype information and the phenotypes to sort out the heterogeneity of ASD. In this study, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and phenotype data obtained from a simplex ASD sample are combined using a PheWAS-inspired approach to construct a phenotype-phenotype network. The network is clustered, yielding groups …


Microsphere Photolithography Patterned Nanohole Array On An Optical Fiber, Ibrahem Jasim, Jiayu Liu, Chen Zhu, Muhammad Roman, Jie Huang, Edward Kinzel, Mahmoud Almasri Jan 2021

Microsphere Photolithography Patterned Nanohole Array On An Optical Fiber, Ibrahem Jasim, Jiayu Liu, Chen Zhu, Muhammad Roman, Jie Huang, Edward Kinzel, Mahmoud Almasri

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Microsphere Photolithography (MPL) is a nanopatterning technique that utilizes a self-assembled monolayer of microspheres as an optical element to focus incident radiation inside a layer of photoresist. The microspheres produces a sub-diffraction limited photonic-jet on the opposite side of each microsphere from the illumination. When combined with pattern transfer techniques such as etching/lift-off, MPL provides a versatile, low-cost fabrication method for producing hexagonal close-packed metasurfaces. This article investigates the MPL process for creating refractive index (RI) sensors on the cleaved tips of optical fiber. The resonant wavelength of metal elements on the surface is dependent on the local dielectric environment …


Optimal Bidding Strategy For Physical Market Participants With Virtual Bidding Capability In Day-Ahead Electricity Markets, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, Rui Bo Jan 2021

Optimal Bidding Strategy For Physical Market Participants With Virtual Bidding Capability In Day-Ahead Electricity Markets, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, Rui Bo

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Virtual bidding provides a mechanism for financial players to participate in wholesale day-ahead (DA) electricity markets. The price difference between DA and real-time (RT) markets creates financial arbitrage opportunities for financial players. Physical market participants (MP), referred to as participants with physical assets, can also take advantage of virtual bidding but in a different way, which is to further amplify the value of their physical assets. Therefore, this work proposes a model for such physical MPs to maximize the profits. This model employs a bi-level optimization approach, where the upper-level subproblem maximizes the total profit from both physical generations and …


Quality-Of-Service Architecture For Cloud Computing Networking, Ken R. Owens Jr., Steve Eugene Watkins Jan 2021

Quality-Of-Service Architecture For Cloud Computing Networking, Ken R. Owens Jr., Steve Eugene Watkins

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Quality-of-service (QoS) performance is an important consideration for real-time and high-priority traffic on internet protocol (IP) networks. Service differentiation can provide a more efficient and customer-oriented internet. The “best-effort” internet models in use today cannot provide guarantees or service differentiation for end-to-end individual and aggregate data flows. Hardware-based models and software-based models do not completely address the total service-enabled solution. We propose a hybrid architecture that combines software and hardware features to handle network traffic with diverse QoS requirements. Since cloud providers leverage IP networks today, the model is based on a systems engineering approach that uses cloud computing technologies. …


Partial Arc Sampling Receiving Scheme For Demultiplexing Of Orbital Angular Momentum Vortex Beam, Yanming Zhang, Lijun Jiang Jan 2021

Partial Arc Sampling Receiving Scheme For Demultiplexing Of Orbital Angular Momentum Vortex Beam, Yanming Zhang, Lijun Jiang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Due to the divergence of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) beam, the OAM demultiplexing needs a considerable aperture size to acquire the OAM field information, which brings the challenges to implementation of the receiving end. To tackle this issue, we develop a partial arc sampling receiving (PASR) scheme for demultiplexing of the vortex beams by using the augmented dynamic mode decomposition (A-DMD) approach. Simulation benchmarks are provided to demonstrate the validity of the proposed novel demultiplexing method.


Multi-Polarization Phase Retrieval In Near Field Far-Field Transformation, Yuan Ping, Lijun Jiang Jan 2021

Multi-Polarization Phase Retrieval In Near Field Far-Field Transformation, Yuan Ping, Lijun Jiang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In near field far-field transformation (NFFFT), accurate recovery of the current distribution is subjected to the phase measurement. Phase retrieval is an alternative way to recover the current distribution by utilizing the magnitude-only near field sampling data. In phase retrieval algorithm, sufficient independent measurement data are required. Multi-polarization algorithm is employed to generate different current distribution, then, obtaining more independent near field data. Experimental validations of a numeric examples show its potentialities and interest.


Hybrid Beamforming With Deep Learning For Large-Scale Antenna Arrays, Rentao Hu, Lijun Jiang, Ping Li Jan 2021

Hybrid Beamforming With Deep Learning For Large-Scale Antenna Arrays, Rentao Hu, Lijun Jiang, Ping Li

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The emergence of highly directional beamforming technology makes millimeter wave frequency band communication possible in future wireless communication networks. Based on the multipath characteristics of millimeter wave frequency communication, a high-precision multipath channel estimation algorithm based on signal subspace is proposed. In the mobile terminal, an iterative heuristic radiofrequency combination algorithm based on spatial points is proposed. The analog precoding at the base station uses deep learning to accelerate the calculation, and then the multi-user communication is modeled to design the digital precoding. The simulation results show that the multi-channel estimation algorithm can estimate 4 paths with an error of …