Special Topics in Information Technology.

• Superior document: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Series
• Author: Pernici, Barbara.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; Ã2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (135 pages)

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.