Vol. 6 No. 2 (2012)

One of the key issues in designing a network topology is vulnerability. The vulnerability parameter measures the resistance of a network to disruption of operation after the failure of certain stations or communication links. One counter-measure to address the vulnerability of a network is edge connectivity.In this paper, a more selective concept of edge connectivity is introduced, called component order edge connectivity for MAN topology design. This parameter equals the smallest number of edges that must be removed in order to ensure that the order of each component of the resulting sub…

The Bose, Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem (BCH) codes form a large class of powerful random-error correcting cyclic codes. However, the implementation of its decoder requires high-complexity computation resources with a huge number of sequential circuits. This paper presents a low-complexity register transfer level (RTL) circuit design of a BCH decoder. In accordance with the table relationship between the syndrome and the error bit position, we propose a circuit that is mostly occupied by combinational elements without any sequential evolvement. Therefore the designed system has a low complexity…

In the literature, several approaches of designing a DCT/IDCT-based image compression system have been proposed. In this paper, we present a new RTL design approach with as main focus developing a DCT/IDCT-based image compression architecture using a self-created algorithm. This algorithm can efficiently minimize the amount of shifter -adders to substitute multiplier s. We call this new algorithm the multiplication from Common Binary Expression (mCBE) Algorithm. Besides this algorithm, we propose alternative quantization numbers, which can be implemented simply as shifters in digital…

One of the most important methods to solve traffic congestion is to detect the incident state of a roadway. This paper describes the development of a method for road traffic monitoring aimed at the acquisition and analysis of remote sensing imagery. We propose a strategy for road extraction, vehicle detection and incident detection from remote sensing imagery using techniques based on neural networks, Radon transform for angle detection and traffic-flow measurements. Traffic-bottleneck detection is another method that is proposed for recognizing incidents in both offline and real-time mode.…

Multi-site photoplethysmograph (PPG) recording enables researchers to study the vascular and hemodynamic properties of human subjects. Currently, there is no commercial system available in the market to perform either one channel or multi-channel PPG recording. PPG is an optoelectronic technique that measures changes in blood volume associated with cardiac contraction. The measurements can be obtained from fingertips, ear lobes and toes due to their low absorption and high degree of vasculature. The main objective of this project is to develop a two-channel simultaneous PPG recording system…