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Moraine Park Technical College Electrical Power Distribution (EPD) students reached great heights at the recent College Lineman Rodeo, held in Norfolk, Nebraska. 25 teams from throughout the Midwest competed, with four teams participating from Moraine Park. Students competing included Gordon Gossink of Beaver Dam, Tom Schultz of Plymouth, Jon Conger of Neshkoro, Jordon Born of Waupun, Eric Becker of Reeseville, Ryan Yonke of Berlin, Joe Peachy of Eldorado, Jordon Robertson of Dane, Toby Ravnum of Ettrick, Josh Roberts of Osseo, Kyle Schenkenberger of Pine River, and Jake Bergman of Watertown. During the competition, students were able to demonstrate their unique and specialized skills in four areas: cross arm change out, obstacle climb, framing a C-1 structure and lineman knowledge test. The Moraine Park team of Born, Peachy and Roberts placed third in the cross arm change out. "The competition was a chance for EPD students to showcase what they've learned this year and network with other students from around the Midwest," said EPD instructor Jeff Vonau. "It was great for them to see other facilities and work together as a team. I think they all really enjoyed the experience." Moraine Park's EPD program provides theoretical and hands-on training in all phases of power line construction and maintenance. The technical diploma program prepares students for entry-level employment as line technician trainees for electrical utilities, telephone companies and related businesses. For more information on the EPD program, visit morainepark.edu/programs.
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Writers Guild of America, West Announces Final Slate of Candidates for 2011 Officers and Board of Directors Election
LOS ANGELES -- The Writers Guild of America, West has announced the final slate of candidates for the 2011 WGAW Officers and Board of Directors election.
The officer candidates are as follows: President – Patric M. Verrone, Christopher Keyser; Vice President – Howard A. Rodman, John Aboud; Secretary-Treasurer – David N. Weiss (inc.), Carl Gottlieb.
There are 18 candidates nominated to run for eight open seats on the WGAW's Board of Directors as follows: Anthony Sparks, Billy Ray (inc.), Jay Kogen, Thania St. John, Michael Oates Palmer, David S. Goyer, Nelson Soler, Alfredo Barrios, Jr., Jeff Lowell, Ian Deitchman (inc.), Carleton Eastlake (inc.), Barbara E. Nance, Ari B. Rubin, John Brancato, Linda Burstyn (inc.), Mark Alton Brown, Nell Scovell, Dan Wilcox (inc.). (Petition candidate Jeff Lowell was added to the initial candidate roster previously announced on 6/21.)
Note to Editors: WGAW internal rules require candidates to be announced in an order determined by lot; (inc.) denotes an incumbent candidate.
The WGAW will host its annual Candidates Night town-hall forum, at which Guild members may meet and pose questions to their Officer and BOD candidates, on Wednesday, August 31, at WGAW headquarters in Los Angeles.
Guild members will receive candidate, non-candidate, and rebuttal statements, if any, with their ballots prior to the election. Candidates may mail additional campaign materials at their own expense. Members may vote by mail or in person at the WGAW's annual membership meeting on Thursday, September 15. Ballots will be counted on Friday, September 16.
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Looking in a new direction: Lancy 'Buddy' Franklin on stage with his Hawks teammates in Launceston, days after winning the 2013 premiership. Photo: Scott Gelston
There is a concerted push from AFL players to allow free agents to sign a contract with another club during a season to provide them with greater security.
In recent discussions between the AFL Players Association and the AFL, the players have proposed that free agents should be allowed to sign a confidential contract with another club during the season.
If accepted, it would mean players in a position similar to former Hawthorn star Lance Franklin - who was really pledged to Sydney long before the 2013 season ended - would be able to sign that deal in secret, without any concern that an injury would lead to the offer being taken off the table, or revised.
Lance Franklin was really pledged to Sydney long before the 2013 season ended. Photo: Getty Images
The AFL allowed players to sign a agreement of sorts with the expansion clubs in a brief window. Someplayers were secured by Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney in that period, though these agreements were not the official contract.
Under a proposal to revise free agency - which will be discussed at the end of this season - the free agent could receive an offer and sign it in secret if he wished. He would be free to inform his current club that he had a deal with another club and would be leaving at the end of the season.
At the moment, a player cannot enter into an agreement with another club during the course of a season, but a club can offer a deal and theoretically make guarantees.
In rugby league, players announce they are leaving one club in the course of the season - both rules and culture accept the notion of a player announcing his intentions to move to another club.
But the AFLPA and free agents understand that while free agency has shifted AFL culture and created more acceptance of players moving clubs, the game isn't ready for players announcing they are leaving during a season.
But they think the system should allow them to sign a confidential contract that is legally binding with another club. The club could be informed, and one argument is that the club losing the free agent could begin planning to replace the player.
The view of the AFLPA and some managers is that, in effect, players such as Franklin are already striking deals in secret and the rules should catch up with that reality while offering players protection if circumstances change.


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The New Orleans Saints wrapped up a free agent visit Wednesday with former Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Clint Ingram, according to General Manager Mickey Loomis. There was no immediate word on if contract talks had developed.
Ingram, 27, could potentially help fill the void left by former strongside starter Scott Fujita, who signed with the Cleveland Browns in free agency. The Saints didn't draft any outside linebackers over the weekend, so they'd still like to add to a young mix of candidates that includes Jonathan Casillas, Jo-Lonn Dunbar, Marvin Mitchell, Anthony Waters and Stanley Arnoux, plus veteran Troy Evans.
Ingram (6-2, 240 pounds) has been a starter at outside linebacker for most of his four-year career - including the 2008 season, when Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was the defensive coordinator in Jacksonville.
The former third-round pick out of Oklahoma has 159 tackles, 5.5 sacks, two interceptions (one of which he returned for a touchdown) and one forced fumble in his career. But the Jaguars were reportedly disappointed that Ingram didn't take the "next step" they were expecting in 2009 after he had what Coach Jack Del Rio described as a "tremendous offseason."
Ingram started 12 games last year with 52 tackles and one sack before finishing the season on injured reserve with a shoulder injury. He also had arthroscopic knee surgery this offseason but had been participating in the Jaguars' offseason conditioning program.
Ingram began the offseason as a restricted free agent, but he never signed the Jaguars' one-year tender offer of $1.266 million, which they decided to rescind this week after trading for Oakland Raiders linebacker Kirk Morrison.
The Saints can sign Ingram even though they are currently prevented from signing any unrestricted free agents as part of the league's restricitions on the final four playoff teams. Restricted free agents who are not tendered are counted the same way as street free agents or veterans who get released by their teams.
The Saints had one exemption to sign an official unrestricted free agent (a veteran of six or more years whose contract expired this year), which they used on defensive end Jimmy Wilkerson. They could receive another free-agent allowance, however, if they lose free agent safety Darren Sharper to another team.
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Mena Suvari 'American Reunion' Premiere
From the red capet of the American Reunion premiere Mena Suvari let's us know what it was like to bring back her character Heather. She added, "I'm really so blessed to be a part of this series just to begin with and then tom come back and work on another one with this amazing group of people, we really are like a family in a sense and we love these characters and I feel like that really translates on screen."
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Feb. 17, 2013
DAVIS, Calif. - UC Davis emerged from a seesaw game with a 7-5 victory over the Washington baseball team Sunday at Dobbins Stadium, capping the opening weekend of the NCAA Division I college season.
Three times Washington (1-3) took leads, but each time the Aggies (3-1) answered the call, taking the lead for good in the fifth, despite later threats from the Huskies.
UW starter Zach Wright (0-2), who had appeared in relief on Saturday, was stuck with the loss, allowing five runs (four earned) on eight hits over four and one-third innings. UC Davis reliever Spencer Henderson (1-0) gave up two runs over three innings for the win and Max Cordy pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the save.
Washington got three hits and an RBI from sophomore first baseman Trevor Mitsui.
As in the previous three games, there was scoring in the first inning Sunday. The Huskies got on the board when leadoff hitter Braden Bishop opened the game by reaching on a hit by pitch. After moving up on an errant pickoff and a bunt, he scored from third on a Jayce Ray groundout.
UC Davis drew even in the bottom of the first as Tino Lipson led off with a double and eventually scored on an single from Nick Lynch, tying the score at 1-1.
Washington grabbed back the lead with a run in the fourth. After a leadoff walk to Andrew Ely, followed by a bunt and a flyout, Mitsui laced a single up the middle to put the UW in front, 2-1.
The lead was short-lived, however, as the Aggies rallied for a run in the bottom of the fourth. After two quick outs, an infield single and two walks loaded the bases for Lipson, who was hit by a pitch to force in the tying run.
Washington took the lead back in the fifth with two more runs. Freshman catcher Austin Rei got it started with a one-out single before freshman Duncan Hendrickson, making his college debut as a pinch hitter, belted a double down the left-field line to drive him in. Pinch runner Ty Afenir then took third on a wild pitch and scored on a Bishop groundout to make it a 4-2 Husky advantage.
The Aggies replied again in the bottom of the inning as a pair of singles put runners on the corners with one out for Steven Patterson, whose single to left-center dropped in to drive in one. After a second out, UCD catcher Spencer Brann sent a game-tying single through the right side, scoring a second run to tie the game, but the ball got past the UW right fielder, allowing Patterson to come all the way around to give Davis a 5-4 edge.
UC Davis increased its lead in the sixth with two more runs. After a leadoff walk, a double from John Williams scored one run. Two outs later, Nick Lynch doubled to deep right, driving in Williams and making it a 7-4 Aggies lead.
Washington cut into the lead with one in the seventh as Rei reached on an error and eventually scored on a two-out single from Andrew Ely. In the eighth, the UW loaded the bases with one out on a single and two hit batters, but Davis reliever Zach Williams got a strikeout and a groundout to end the threat with his team still in front, 7-5.
Washington returns to the road for another weekend when its travels to Beaumont, Texas, for a four-game tournament. The Huskies will face Lamar and Creighton twice each next Friday through Sunday.
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Bed Tax numbers, which are a good barometer in the tourism business as to how well an area may be doing, are low compared to our competitors.
It's now three percent at Panama City Beach. Other areas have four, five, six or even seven percent in some areas.
Now, the local Tourist Development Council/Convention and Visitors Bureau is beginning preliminary talks to raise the tax 25 percent from the current three percent level; up to four percent.
To some people a jump from three to four percent may not sound like a lot. For example, a $100 a night condo would see the bed tax rise from $3.00 to $4.00. Overall, it could ad up to millions of dollars for the local economy.
If it comes about, the extra tax money would be used for extending public parking lots, adding sports complexes and promotional and operational advances.
But some motel and resort operators think adding the tax could become a competitive disadvantage. One of those is Cody Kahn, Vice President of Operations for the Hilton Corporation.
"We do not need to overburden our industry and all of our guests with an unnecessary tax. It certainly isn't necessary at this time. It's not justifiable."
The TDC will talk about the issue again at its meeting next month. Before the tax could go into effect it would have to be approved by the TDC/CVB board and it would then go to the Bay County Commission where it will have to be approved before the tax increase could go into effect.


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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 475761, 9 pages
SDMA-Based Aeronautical Machine-to-Machine Communications under SINR Constraints
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Received 13 August 2013; Accepted 18 November 2013
Academic Editor: Jianhua He
Copyright © 2013 Jindong Xie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In order to achieve an efficient usage on a limited spectrum for aeronautical machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, in this paper, a space division multiple access- (SDMA-) based architecture is proposed, where the random access of short messages noisy (SMN) M2M communications is considered between autopilot systems onboard and the ground control center for the air traffic precise control, that is, full 4-dimensional trajectory management. It shows that using a zero-forcing beamforming combined with a low complexity aircraft grouping strategy, the SDMA-based mechanism is able to improve the spectrum efficiency under signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) constraints.
1. Introduction
To ensure the continuous safety and efficiency improvement of air traffic flows, the accurate trajectory surveillance and control abilities are highly required for the advanced air traffic control (ATC), that is, 4-dimensional trajectory- (4DT-) based management (The "4D-trajectory management" concept improves the ATC by using "time" with early traffic sequencing based on the aircrafts way-point passage predictions. It is planned to be deployed from 2017 and allowed to enter into services beyond 2020), which has already been scheduled and will be employed in the following decade [1, 2]. Therefore, the future air to ground (A/G) datalink is foreseen to support continuous interactions between the flight management system (FMS) onboard and the ground ATC system for real-time automatic monitoring and control [3–6]. Since an ATC message payload generally contains only hundreds of bits (e.g., position coordinates and timestamps) [7] and needs to be updated frequently (e.g., 16 times per second) [8, 9], future aeronautical communications can be considered as typical short messages noisy (SMN) machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.
In order to support 4DT services, the next generation aeronautical datalinks will be developed by taking into account the SMN-M2M communications. For the sake of safety-of-life related issues [10], two crucial characteristics have to be considered as follows:(i)all aircraft should maintain seamless connections with the control center;(ii)each connection has to support a primary rate for real-time interactions. Here, a primary rate is defined as the basic achievable data rate to provide essential communication services for 4DT management.
Unfortunately, the existing aeronautical datalinks may not be able to satisfy both two objectives from above efficiently [11, 12]. On the other hand, considering the limited aeronautical spectrum [13], the spectrum efficient strategy of aeronautical M2M communications can be reconfigured under the primary rate constraint. In summary, the future aeronautical M2M communication system can be demonstrated as follows:(i)a spectrum should be reused by multiple airborne station (AS) nodes;(ii)aircraft could transmit or receive short messages at real time, without extra resource allocations;(iii)a primary rate should be guaranteed for reliable M2M communications.
Since an interval in distance has to be guaranteed between different aircrafts (e.g., 4~8 nautical miles separation along with a flight course [14]), space division multiple access (SDMA) could be an efficient means [15, 16] to improve the aeronautical spectrum efficiency. Based on SDMA, a spectrum will be multiplexed by multiple AS nodes naturally. Also, real-time A/G interactions could be supported by SDMA assisted random access. With the help of SDMA, potential conflicts of random access will be mitigated easily.
In particular, beamforming over multiple-antenna systems can be an efficient approach to perform the SDMA [17]. Among different beamforming techniques, dirty paper coding (DPC) [18] has been developed to provide the optimal performance by separating combined spatially selective signals. However, DPC is impractical due to its prohibitively high complexity.
As a low complexity linear beamforming approach, orthogonal beamforming [19] is able to support hierarchical priority guaranteed SDMA in M2M communications over cellular networks [20], while it may not be appropriate for aeronautical SMN-M2M communications as an equal, performance of different 4DT management services is required on safety-of-life level. Combined with a semiorthogonal users selection (SUS) scheme [21], zero-forcing beamforming (ZFBF) has been proposed in [22] to provide equitable performance for all selected users. Thus, we may consider ZFBF as a good candidate technique for SDMA-based aeronautical M2M communications. However, unfortunately, SUS cannot achieve the SNR or rates to a certain desired level at each iteration of user selection. Therefore, ZFBF-SUS cannot guarantee the reliability of connections with the safety-of-life related 4DT management.
In this paper, we propose an SDMA-based approach for the future L-band continental A/G communication systems [23, 24]. By using ZFBF over antenna arrays equipped in a ground station (GS), one frequency spectrum is able to support M2M random accesses without conflicts for multiple AS nodes, simultaneously. Moreover, in order to guarantee the primary rate for A/G communications, we propose a low complexity user selection strategy for the ZFBF under signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) constraints to exploit the SDMA gain.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides the system model. Our proposed SDMA-based mechanism for aeronautical M2M communications is introduced in Section 3. After the impacts of feedback reliability discussion in Section 4, the simulation results are presented in Section 5 to analyze the performance. Finally, we conclude this paper in Section 6.
Notation. The superscripts T and H stand for the transpose and Hermitian transpose, respectively. Denote by the 2-norm, and is the total elements number of a certain set. The statistical expectation is represented by . The distribution of a circularly symmetric complex Gaussian (CSCG) random variable with mean and covariance is denoted by . Besides, stands for an identity matrix, and .
2. System Model
Consider a section of the continental A/G communication system with aircraft randomly located in a macrocell. Let be the index set of all AS nodes. We suppose that each AS is equipped with a single antenna, while the GS is equipped with a uniform linear array (ULA) of elements. Due to the reciprocity, we only focus on the reverse link of A/G communications (i.e., from AS to GS), while the main results are easily extended to forward link scenarios.
Let the index of a certain spectrum be with . Assume that AS- and AS- are assigned as a group to access the th spectrum, simultaneously. The resulting geometry model can be described in Figure 1.
Let represent the angle of arrival (AoA) set of AS- and AS- with respect to the array normal, where denotes the set of all selected AS nodes in group . For the sake of simplicity, we do not consider the effect of azimuth angles in the paper, since the ULA is a 2-dimensional distinguish array and insensitive to the azimuth angle (A 3-dimensional distinguish array such as a circular or planar array can be considered as an extension of this work, where the azimuth angles are taken into account).
In aeronautical A/G communication scenario, a wireless channel is generally characterized by a Rician fading with a strong line of sight (LoS) component and a weak diffusion path [25, 26]. If the Rician factor is given by dB in a typical en-route scenario [24], the contribution of LoS component becomes far greater than that of the diffusion part. Consequently, an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) LoS channel can be used to sketch the A/G channel, which is further modeled as an array response vector (ARV) since an antenna array is employed at the GS.
Considering all elements of the ULA are placed at the direction of -axis, the ARV of the AS- is given by where is the antenna spacing and denotes the wavelength of the carrier. Since AoAs of AS nodes could be seen unchanged within a short period and can be easily obtained from positioning systems or efficient AoA estimations, it can be assumed that the ARV of each AS is constant over the duration of a time slot and is well known by the GS.
Denote by is the total number of selected AS nodes on the th spectrum resource, for example, in Figure 1. Moreover, we have and , where is the total number of required frequency resources.
Let and let be the channel matrix and expected signal vector from AS nodes in to GS, respectively. Then the received signal vector at the GS over spectrum is given by where is the additive white Gaussian noise and .
The transmission power of from AS- is assumed to be identical for different ; that is, . However, due to the propagation path loss, the received powers could be different. Since the channels between AS and GS include strong LoS components, for the sake of simplicity, the received power can be described using the following simple path-loss model [27]: where and denote transmit and receive power, respectively. In (3), is propagation wavelength, is the path-loss exponent, is the distance between the transmitter and receiver, and is a close-in reference distance. Since , , and are considered as constants, the path-loss is a function of with the known parameters , , and .
3. Primary Rate Guaranteed SDMA
In this section, the main solution of SDMA-based mechanism for aeronautical M2M communications is presented. As aforementioned, antenna array beamforming and multiple users selection are coupled issues. Lets first consider the beamforming problem.
3.1. Zero-Forcing Beamforming
Let where is the th column vector of , that is, the Hermitian transpose of the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of .
Since is generated by the pseudoinverse of , the column vector in becomes orthogonal with the column vectors in , when and . According to Figure 2, the estimated signal of the th selected user in is given by where is the path-loss parameter in (3) with respect to AS-. Besides, is termed as equivalent channel gain (ECG). The received SINR expression of the th selected user in can be described as where is the index of the th selected AS in . Then the achievable rate of AS- is given by
Since ATC services are safety-of-life related, the proposed system should be able to provide a primary rate for each selected AS node. Here, the primary rate is defined as where is the threshold SNR of an edge-located AS node without performing the SDMA. Then SINR constraints can be applied to all selected AS nodes as follows:
By taking into account the path loss in a macrocell, assuming all the AS have the same noise variance (i.e., ), the threshold transmitting power is obtained by where , , , , and are given.
Apparently, is essential and desired by all AS transmitters, since each AS always fights over the edge of a macrocell. However, if one AS transmits signals using power of , the received SNR, which is affected by the path loss, can be described in Figure 3.
As Figure 3 illustrates, the received SNR of AS nodes with smaller absolute AoAs is higher than those nodes located at the edge area of a macrocell. Since is sufficiently large to hold the primary rate, the higher received SNR of inner AS nodes becomes unnecessary with respect to supporting the 4DT management services. Therefore, the conventional power control schemes have shown the disadvantages for the sake of the spectral efficiency.
Using ZFBF, a spectrum can be multiplexed among inner and fringe AS nodes. In order to measure the advantage of ZFBF-SDMA, the improvement of performance can be described as an SDMA gain [28–30]. Let the SDMA gain be the ratio of the spectrum efficiency with and without the SDMA applied. If the primary rate constraint of M2M communications for different aircraft is identical and represented by , the SDMA gain is given by
It shows in (11) that smaller leads to higher SDMA gain. Then it is desired to develop a user selection method to perform ZFBF-SDMA with a small . Since positions of AS nodes (including AoAs and propagation distances) may cause significant impacts on SINR, AS nodes cannot be grouped randomly due to the SINR constraint. Therefore, the multiuser selection plays a crucial role in the primary rate guaranteed SDMA, which results in improved and reliable overall performance.
3.2. Low Complexity User Selection
The optimal user selection is the exhaustive search, which is impractical due to the prohibit high complexity. The greedy algorithms, such as semiorthogonal user selection (SUS) [22] could be efficient but suboptimal. However, since the SUS may not secure the SINR of each candidate, the primary rate or SINR constraint cannot be guaranteed. If the pseudoinverse operation is carried out on channel matrix of selected users iteratively, SNR may be traceable but the computational complexity, that is, , is considerably high for the time varying scenarios of aeronautical communications. In this subsection, we propose a low complexity user selection with complexity of , which is able to guarantee the rate or SINR constraint for different users.
In order to avoid pseudoinverse operations (which lead to high complexity) in the process of user selection, we focus on the expression of the received SINR in (6). Apparently, the best pairing candidate is to choose the one that maximize the SINR as follows: Note that if is obtained without taking pseudoinverse, user selection under the SINR constraint can be simplified. Next steps will illustrate the dedicated way of inverse-free user selection.
The orthonormal basis of the subspace spanned by can be generated as where , (), is the number of accepted AS nodes in Group , and Therefore, the channel vector of the th selected user for the th spectrum can be rewritten as Then the channel matrix is decomposed as In (16), the unitary matrix is given by The upper triangular matrix is given by where , and the diagonal matrix is written as
According to (4) and (6), the denominator of the SINR expression, which is directly affected by ECG, can be written as where denotes the th element of . Note that equality (a) is based on the fact that and (16). Since is a unitary matrix; that is, , equality (b) can be readily obtained. Finally, equality (c) is verified by noticing that is a diagonal matrix.
Besides, the numerator of (20), based on [22], can be decomposed as In order to obtain the , the can be decomposed by where denotes the sized submatrix of and . Thus, the can be readily obtained by
Since and is the function of , the inverse of can be calculated by taking iterations of vector-matrix multiplication. Note that is an upper triangular matrix and , . Hence, the received SINR of the th selected user can be rewritten as
It is shown that the denominator of (24) can be obtained only by taking vectors multiplication. Based on (24), the matrix-inverse free selection (MFS) for all AS nodes is summarized in Algorithm 1.
Based on steps in Algorithm 1, it is easy to observe that the complexity of proposed MFS is , which is one order lower than those with matrix-inverse on each iteration, that is, . From steps 15~19, it shows that the received SINR of all accepted AS nodes have to be larger than , where the SINR constraints are confirmed for all selected AS nodes, that is, a reliable SDMA for spectrum multiplexing.
4. Impacts of AoA Reliability
So far, we have assumed that perfect AoA information can be obtained at the GS and the AoAs is unchanged within a short time slot. However, the AoAs actually change during the path of AS nodes flying over the GS. Since imperfect AoAs can seriously influence the SDMA performance, impacts of the AoA reliability (i.e., AoA accuracy and updating frequency) will be discussed in this section.
4.1. The Imperfect AoA Estimation
Note that any error or inaccurate AoA estimation will result in a degraded beamforming performance and lead to the interference in 4DT A/G data transmission, which is not desirable. It is important to investigate the impact of imperfect AoA estimations on the performance of the proposed aeronautical SDMA architecture.
While AoA estimation errors have been studied in the literature [31–33], analytical formulations to see the impact of AoA estimation errors are difficult for multiple user broadcasting with SDMA. Thus, in this section, we present a preliminary simulation result on the sensitivity of sum rates to imperfect AoAs. The estimated AoA by the GS, denoted by , can be characterized as a random variable with a uniform distribution as follows [31]: where is the true AoA and is the variance of the AoA estimation error in . Let be normalized as , where is the proportionality factor and is the maximum AoA error obtained by the maximum null-to-null beam width (i.e., from null-to-null at the both sides of the ). Based on (1) and the array factor expression of ULA in [16], can be found as
We can evaluate the impact of imperfect AoA information by defining SINR degradation as
In (27), denotes the degraded SINR, which is obtained by beamforming with , and means the ideal result with . Then, the average SINR degradation can be found in Figure 4.
As shown in Figure 4, the decreases with up to , which results from the fact that the proposed SDMA highly depends on the phase accuracy of ARVs. Although a noticeable mitigation of the performance loss can been seen at the case of a large AoA error, the overall degradation of SINR is unacceptable. Therefore, in order to provide a reliable A/G communication service, the GS has to obtain AoA information of all AS nodes precisely.
If the AoA information is obtained over AS feedback, the updating frequency will be crucial considering the position of an aircraft changes rapidly. This issue will discuss in the next subsection.
4.2. AoA Update Frequency
In the implementation of the primary rate guaranteed SDMA, it is possible to obtain the positions or flight tracks of all AS nodes by AS feedback or positioning function of the ATC system. Consequently, the frequency of information update will affect the AoA accuracy directly and be discussed in this subsection.
Based on the geographic model in Figure 1, the AoA of an AS flying at inner area changes much more bigger than others far away from the GS; even they have the same altitude and speed. However, according to Figure 4, the AS node locates at inner area; for example, . It is less sensitive to AoA errors than those located in the edge of the macrocell; for example, . Therefore, the tolerance of AoA deviations can be roughly estimated, when , the performance becomes negligible (dB, as shown in Figure 4). By using macrocell model illustrated in Figure 1, the AoA deviations can be expressed in terms of the position drift, denoted by , which is given by where denotes the horizontal distance between AS- and the GS, and
It is noteworthy that the position tolerance for beamforming is quite different between inner and boundary areas of a macrocell. With , for example, we have rad (). For the case of km, rad, and rad, it can be shown that
Apparently, with the position drift , that is, approximately meters, for a turbine powered jetliner or a corporate jet cruising at 450–500 Knots in general, which is 231.3–257.2 meters per second, one AS node should update its position no more than second. Note that the updating frequency can be lower at the edge of a macrocell, which will result in a less burden in implementation.
Based on the promising A/G datalink protocols (i.e., L-DACS1 and L-DACS2), it is required that every AS should feedback its position or distance away from the GS in every superframe [24, 34]. Note that the superframe duration is 0.24 second in L-DACS1 or 1 second in L-DACS2, which means the feedback channel is already designed in future systems and the updating frequency will also fulfill all requirements of the proposed aeronautical SDMA system.
5. Numerical Results
In this section, numerical results are presented under assumptions that the unitary noise variance , the standard ULA with , the path-loss exponent , and the close-in reference distance m.
Figure 5 shows the SDMA gain versus total number of AS nodes for different number of antenna elements , where Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to plot each point. It demonstrates that with the overall AS nodes number increased, the performances of SDMA is improved, which is termed as the multiuser diversity. On the other hand, higher SDMA gain can also be obtained by employing large , where the dimension of ARVs is extended to enhance the performance of SDMA. Hence, we can conclude that the system capacity can be improved by increasing the number of antenna elements and the number of aircraft, theoretically. Besides, comparing with the OBF under the same SINR constraint, the proposed ZFBF-MFS algorithm could obtain apparent advantages.
Simulation results of SDMA gain versus number of antenna elements () are presented in Figure 6, where (in km) are considered. It shows that the SDMA gain can be strongly improved by increasing the number of antenna array elements, since the orthogonality between different AS nodes can be improved by employing more array elements. It also shows that the performance gap is limited between the systems with different values of overall AS nodes . In this case, the number of antennas becomes the main factor of SDMA gain when a practical density of aircraft environment is considered in a macrocell, for example, less than a hundred. Note that the OBF with the same SINR constraint also has the same increasing trend but lower performance.
In Figure 7, simulation results of our proposed primary rate guaranteed SDMA and OBF with SINR constraints are presented with different array elements numbers; that is, . It shows that the SDMA gain degrades as increases. If the location of AS follows the uniform distribution in a macrocell, more AS nodes will result in similar AoAs when the radius of macrocell increases. The detailed AoA distribution could be found in [35]. Consequently, we can observe that the SDMA strategy becomes efficient as the macrocell is relatively small. Furthermore, the performance gaps between and are insignificant, which indicates the proposed SDMA approach is able to provide stable performance with different .
In general, the simulations above illustrate that the proposed ZFBF with MFS is a proper SDMA approach for 4DT services. And the ZFBF with MFS will obtain a better SDMA gain compared with OBF in [19, 20, 35].
6. Conclusion
In this paper, an SDMA-based aeronautical M2M communication system has been proposed together with a low complexity user selection approach. It has been shown that a primary rate is guaranteed for all selected AS nodes, while the same frequency spectrum can be reused by ZFBF. Using the proposed matrix-inverse free user selection, the SINR of each AS candidate is calculated with acceptable complexity, that is, .
Through simulations, we have confirmed that the SDMA gain can be strongly improved by increasing the number of antenna elements, while the SDMA can be more efficient when the radius of macrocell is relatively small. Furthermore, our proposed SDMA approach is able to provide stable performance in a high density AS nodes scenario, which is desired by the future aeronautical SMN-M2M communications.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 61250001, 91338106, 61231011, 61171069, and61231013) and by the National High Technology Research and Development Program (Grant no. 2011AA110102).
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LAWRENCE, Kan. - Texas Tech added one more run in the fifth and Brittany Talley tossed three shutout innings of relief to help the 24th-ranked Red Raiders complete a 4-1 victory over Kansas Saturday at Arrocha Ballpark.
The game picked up where it left off from Friday evening with Tech leading 3-1 in the fifth with the bases loaded and Ashley Hamada coming to the plate with one out in the inning.
Taylor Powell replaced Hamada in the lineup when play resumed as she was hit by a 3-1 pitch to score Sandy James. The Red Raiders (38-13; 11-8) left the bases loaded, though, as Emily Bledsoe struck out and Logan Hall grounded into a fielder's choice to third.
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You make me not want to be around you when you get like this.
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Said by Mrs Borden shortly before Lizzie started swinging.
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I'm a potato but i still always found this halirious!
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