List of past pick up articles

Trans.Fundamentals.

Trans.Commun.

2022

Title:
KBP: Kernel Enhancements for Low-Latency Networking for Virtual Machine and Container without Application Customization
Authors:
Kei FUJIMOTO, Masashi KANEKO, Kenichi MATSUI, Masayuki AKUTSU
POINT:
Packet forwarding method in a Linux kernel that receives packets with low latency and high throughput.

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Title:
Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) with Successive Interference Cancellation for Future Radio Access
Authors:
Kenichi HIGUCHI, Anass BENJEBBOUR
POINT:
NOMA simultaneously improves the overall spectrum efficiency and fairness among users (i.e. cell-edge user experience) in future cellular systems.

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Title:
A Survey of Social Network Analysis Techniques and their Applications to Socially Aware Networking
Author:
Sho TSUGAWA
POINT:
Toward novel communication services using social network analysis.

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2021

Title:
A Study on Extreme Wideband 6G Radio Access Technologies for Achieving 100Gbps Data Rate in Higher Frequency Bands
Authors:
Satoshi SUYAMA, Tatsuki OKUYAMA, Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA, Satoshi NAGATA, Takahiro ASAI
POINT:
6G technologies for achieving high data rate "100 Gbps" with sub-THz "100 GHz" are introduced.

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Title:
Quality of Experience (QoE) Studies: Present State and Future Prospect
Author:
Tatsuya YAMAZAKI
POINT:
Timely review and future prospect of Quality of Experience (QoE) is requisite to establish user-centric communication services.

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Title:
Multi-Dimensional Radio Channel Measurement, Analysis and Modeling for High Frequency Bands
Authors:
Minseok KIM, Jun-ichi TAKADA, Kentaro SAITO
POINT:
Comprehensive tutorial of radio channel modeling for emerging high frequency bands.

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Title:
Identifying Heavy-Hitter Flows from Sampled Flow Statistics
Authors:
Tatsuya MORI, Tetsuya TAKINE, Jianping PAN, Ryoichi KAWAHARA, Masato UCHIDA, Shigeki GOTO
POINT:
How can you accurately identify greedy flows in your massive traffic stream? You can find the answer in the paper.

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Title:
A Comprehensive Survey of Potential Game Approaches to Wireless Networks
Author:
Koji YAMAMOTO
POINT:
Relationships among more than 200 potential game-based radio resource management mechanisms with proven convergence----

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Title:
Spatially Coupled LDPC Coding and Linear Precoding for MIMO Systems
Authors:
Zhonghao ZHANG Chongbin XU Li PING

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2020

Title:
Deployment of OpenFlow/SDN Technologies to Carrier Services
Authors:
Yoichi SATO Ichiro FUKUDA Tomonori FUJITA

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Title:
Network Function Virtualization: A Survey
Authors:
Malathi VEERARAGHAVAN, Takehiro SATO, Molly BUCHANAN, Reza RAHIMI, Satoru OKAMOTO, Naoaki YAMANAKA
POINT:
Survey paper that provides readers with insights into the key advantages and disadvantages of Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

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Trans.Electron.

Trans.Inf. & Syst.

ComEX

2022

Title:
High-speed FDTD calculation method specialized for automotive radar analysis
Authors:
Tomokazu Okugi, Kan Okubo
POINT:
A good idea for large-scale simulation of radio waves using the characteristics of GPU computers is explained.

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Title:
Evaluation of the effect of raindrops on the on-glass antenna
Authors:
Osamu Kagaya, Takafumi Kikuchi, Keisuke Arai, Takuji Arima, Toru Uno
POINT:
What happens to the characteristics of the on-glass antenna when rain is falling?

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Title:
Verification of GNSS multipath and positioning in urban areas using 3D maps
Authors:
Rei Furukawa, Nobuaki Kubo, Ahmed El-Mowafy
POINT:
The multipath error and the improvement of positioning accuracy in GNSS positioning in urban areas using a 3D map is verified.

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2021

Title:
PAM-4 eye-opening monitoring techniques based on Gaussian mixture model fitting
Authors:
Yasushi Yuminaka, Keigo Taya, Yosuke Iijima
POINT:
A novel statistical eye-opening monitor technique is proposed to evaluate PAM-4 data transmission quality.

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Title:
Variable sleep period control of energy-efficient network interfaces for QoP-aware networked control systems
Authors:
Takaharu Yamanaka, Takanori Iwai, Ryogo Kubo
POINT:
A quality-of-performance (QoP)-aware communication rate reduction method in networked control systems is proposed.

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Title:
Mobility-aware null-space expansion for multiuser massive MIMO
Authors:
Nobutaka Funaki, Kazuki Maruta, Chang-Jun Ahn
POINT:
This letter improved null-space expansion capability for multiuser massive MIMO in time-varying channel environment, by adaptively controlling null-space dimension according to users’ mobility.

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Title:
Radar cross section measurement of road debris in 79 GHz-band
Authors:
Ryo Yamada, Masahiro Shibao, Akihiro Kajiwara
POINT:
This paper doscusse the effects of "road debris" and "road clutter" on the 79GHz radar detection performance.

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Title:
The Four Qubits Deletion Code is the First Quantum Insertion Code
Author:
Manabu Hagiwara
POINT:
Meet an exciting new type of quantum error-correcting code: insertion/deletion correction.

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2020

Title:
Representation of an equivalent circuit for capacitive wireless power transfer using a distributed-constant circuit
Authors:
Yasumasa Naka, Masaya Tamura

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Title:
Theoretical analysis of interference between directional beams in drone-based 3D mesh network
Authors:
Nobuyuki Shiraki, Takefumi Hiraguri, Isamu Shitara, Naoki Honma
POINT:
Aerial industrial revolution”: Optimal communication route search for drone mesh network considering characteristics of aerial communication.

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ELEX

2022

Title:
Lateral integration of VCSEL and amplifier with resonant wavelength detuning design
Authors:
Shanting Hu, Masashi Takanohashi, Xiaodong Gu, Akihiro Matsutani, Fumio Koyama
POINT:
Demonstration of a novel slolid-state beam scanner based on a VCSEL-integrated amplifier with an in-plane cut off wavelength detuning design.

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2021

Title:
Hybrid antenna arrays with high angular resolution for 77 GHz automotive radars
Authors:
Jiafei Zhao, Le Zou, Rongkun Jiang, Xuetian Wang, Hongmin Gao
POINT:
A hybrid medium- and long-range radar (MLRR) antenna array with high angular resolution is proposed for 77 GHz automotive radars by integrating the both medium-range radar (MRR) and longrange radar (LRR) modes into one substrate based on the optimized sparse array topology.

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Title:
Characterization of cascaded forward Brillouin scattering seeded by backward stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers
Authors:
Neisei Hayashi, Yosuke Mizuno, Heeyoung Lee, Kentaro Nakamura, Sze Yun Set, Shinji Yamashita
POINT:
A new type of nonlinear fiber-optic scattering observed and characterized for distributed acoustic-impedance sensing.

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Title:
Wavelength-tunable sub-picosecond optical switch over entire C-band using nonlinear optical loop mirror
Authors:
Ryoya Hirata, Toshihiko Hirooka, Masato Yoshida, and Masataka Nakazawa
POINT:
An ultrafast optical switch using a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) is demonstrated that can realize a switching speed of faster than 400 fs over the entire C-band.

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Title:
InGaP/GaAsSb/InGaAsSb double heterojunction bipolar transistors with 703-GHz fmax and 5.4-V breakdown voltage
Authors:
Takuya Hoshi, Norihide Kashio, Yuta Shiratori, Kenji Kurishima, Minoru Ida, Hideaki Matsuzaki
POINT:
High current gain InGaP/GaAsSb/InGaAsSb DHBT simultaneously exhibiting fmax > 700 GHz and breakdown voltage > 5 V is demonstrated.

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NOLTA

2022

Title:
Nonlinear dynamics of ship capsizing at sea
Authors:
Atsuo Maki, Yuu Miino, Naoya Umeda, Masahiro Sakai, Tetsushi Ueta, Hiroshi Kawakami
POINT:
Nonlinear dynamics theory empowered by bifurcation analyses revealed the complex vessel behavior of capsizing.
This will greatly contribute to ship safety.

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Title:
Piecewise-linear particle swarm optimizer, basic dynamics, reference frame invariance, and search performance
Authors:
Tomoyuki Sasaki and Hidehiro Nakano
POINT:
Yet another piecewise-liner particle swarm deterministic optimizer gives us power to solve complex optimization problem.

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Title:
Delay-induced stabilization of coupled oscillators
Authors:
Yoshiki Sugitani and Keiji Konishi
POINT:
One of mysteries in the nonlinear science, amplitude death caused by delay,is interestingly revealed.

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2021

Title:
Overview of nonlinear signal processing in 5G and 6G access technologies
Author:
Eiji Okamoto
POINT:
Timely review and valuable perspective of nonlinear signal processing technologies in 5G and 6G.

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Title:
Piecewise linear switched dynamical systems: A review
Author:
Toshimichi Saito
POINT:
A thorough review by the pioneer of the piecewise linear switched dynamical systems.

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