Special Topics in Information Technology.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pernici, Barbara.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Ph.D. Program in Information Technology
  • Telecommunications Area
  • Electronics Area
  • Computer Science and Engineering Area
  • Systems and Controls Area
  • Contents
  • Part I Telecommunications
  • 1 Advances in Wave Digital Modeling of Linear and Nonlinear Systems: A Summary
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Part I: Rethinking Definitions of Waves
  • 1.2.1 Mono-Parametric Definitions of Wave Variables
  • 1.2.2 Biparametric Definitions of Wave Variables
  • 1.3 Part II: Modeling Nonlinear One-Port and Multi-port Elements
  • 1.3.1 Canonical Piecewise-Linear Representation of Curves in the Wave Digital Domain
  • 1.3.2 Wave Digital Modeling of Nonlinear Elements Using the Lambert Function
  • 1.3.3 Wave Digital Modeling of Nonlinear 3-Terminal Devices for Virtual Analog Applications
  • 1.4 Part III: Modeling Connection Networks
  • 1.4.1 Modeling Sallen-Key Audio Filters in the Wave Digital Domain
  • 1.4.2 Modeling Circuits with Arbitrary Topologies and Active Linear Multiports Using Wave Digital Filters
  • 1.4.3 Generalized Wave Digital Filter Realizations of Arbitrary Reciprocal Connection Networks
  • 1.5 Part IV: Implementation of Circuits with Multiple Nonlinearities
  • 1.5.1 Wave-Based Analysis of Large Nonlinear Photovoltaic Arrays
  • 1.5.2 Wave Digital Modeling of the Diode-Based Ring Modulator
  • 1.5.3 Linear Multi-step Discretization Methods with Variable Step-Size in Nonlinear Wave Digital Structures
  • 1.6 Part V: New Applications of WD Principles
  • 1.6.1 Wave Digital Implementation of Robust First-Order Differential Microphone Arrays
  • 1.7 Conclusions and Future Works
  • References
  • 2 Enhancing Indoor Coverage by Multi-Pairs Copper Cables: The Analog MIMO Radio-over-Copper Architecture
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 Indoor Propagation and C-RAN Architectures
  • 2.1.2 Analog Fronthauling Architectures.
  • 2.1.3 Radio-over-Copper
  • 2.1.4 Contribution
  • 2.2 The Genesis of the A-MIMO-RoC Architecture
  • 2.3 Theoretical Feasibility and Challenges of A-MIMO-RoC
  • 2.4 A-MIMO-RoC: Numerical Analysis and Simulations Works
  • 2.5 A-MIMO-RoC Prototype and Experimental Results
  • 2.5.1 Experimental Settings
  • 2.5.2 A-MIMO-RoC for LTE Versus Cable IF
  • 2.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part II Electronics
  • 3 Chirp Generators for Millimeter-Wave FMCW Radars
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Digital PLL with Two-Point Modulation Scheme
  • 3.3 Adaptive Digital Pre-distortion
  • 3.4 Implemented Prototype
  • 3.4.1 DTC Design and Control
  • 3.4.2 DCO Design and Control
  • 3.5 Measurements
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 4 Modeling and Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks with Resistive Switching Synapses
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Brain-Inspired Computing
  • 4.3 Resistive Switching in RRAM Devices
  • 4.4 Synapse Circuits with RRAM Devices
  • 4.4.1 1T1R Synapse
  • 4.4.2 4T1R Synapse
  • 4.5 Spiking Neural Networks with RRAM Synapses
  • 4.5.1 Unsupervised Pattern Learning by SRDP
  • 4.5.2 Associative Memory with 1T1R RRAM Synapses
  • 4.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part III Computer Science and Engineering
  • 5 Learning and Adaptation to Detect Changes and Anomalies in High-Dimensional Data
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Related Works
  • 5.3 Problem Formulation
  • 5.4 Data as Random Vectors
  • 5.4.1 Detectability Loss
  • 5.4.2 QuantTree
  • 5.5 Data Featuring Complex Structures
  • 5.5.1 Sparsity-Based Anomaly Detection
  • 5.5.2 Multiscale Anomaly-Detection
  • 5.5.3 Dictionary Adaptation for ECG Monitoring
  • 5.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 6 Enhancing Video Recommendation Using Multimedia Content
  • 6.1 Introduction and Context
  • 6.2 Problem Formulation
  • 6.3 Brief Overview of Ph.D. Research
  • 6.4 Conclusion
  • References.
  • 7 Dynamic Application Autotuning for Self-aware Approximate Computing
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Autonomic Computing and Application Autotuning
  • 7.3 The mARGOt Autotuning Framework
  • 7.3.1 Problem Definition
  • 7.3.2 Application-Knowledge
  • 7.3.3 Interaction with the Application
  • 7.3.4 Runtime Application-Knowledge Learner
  • 7.4 Experimental Results
  • 7.4.1 Evaluation of the Reactive Adaptation
  • 7.4.2 Evaluation of the Proactive Adaptation
  • 7.4.3 Evaluation of the Runtime Learner
  • 7.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • 8 CAOS: CAD as an Adaptive Open-Platform Service for High Performance Reconfigurable Systems
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 The CAOS Platform
  • 8.2.1 CAOS Design Flow
  • 8.2.2 CAOS Infrastructure
  • 8.3 Architectural Templates
  • 8.3.1 Master/Slave Architectural Template
  • 8.3.2 Dataflow Architectural Template
  • 8.3.3 Streaming Architectural Template
  • 8.4 Experimental Results
  • 8.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part IV Systems and Control
  • 9 A General Framework for Shared Control in Robot Teleoperation with Force and Visual Feedback
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.1.1 Research Challenges
  • 9.2 Robust Impedance Shaping of Redundant Teleoperators
  • 9.2.1 Model Predictive Sliding Mode Control
  • 9.2.2 Robust Impedance Shaping
  • 9.3 Virtual Force Feedback
  • 9.4 Occlusion-Free Visual Feedback
  • 9.5 Conclusion
  • References.