Hardware implementation of MIMO OFDMA test bed and its application towards channel characterization on indoor LAB test environment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandip Das ◽  
Suvra Sekhar Das ◽  
Indrajit Chakrabarti
Keyword(s):  
Hardware Implementation ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Test Environment ◽  
Channel Characterization ◽  
Lab Test

Transition to Online Cable Insulation Condition Monitoring

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. W. Glass ◽  
Leonard S. Fifield ◽  
Mychal P. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Capacitance Measurement ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Test Environment ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
Motor Test

Abstract Nuclear power plant cables were originally qualified for 40 year life and generally have not required specific test verification to assure service availability through the initial plant qualification period. However, license renewals to 60 and 80 years of operation require a cable aging management program that depends on some form of test and verification to assure fitness for service. Environmental stress (temperature, radiation, chemicals, water, and mechanical) varies dramatically within a nuclear power plant and, in some cases, cables have degraded and required repair or replacement before their qualified end-of-life period. In other cases, cable conditions have been mild and dependable cable performance confirmed to extend well beyond the initial qualified life. Most offline performance-based testing requires cables to be decoupled and de-energized for specially trained technicians to perform testing. These offline tests constitute an expensive operational burden that limits the economic viability of nuclear power plants. Although initial investment may be higher, new online test practices are emerging as options or complements to offline testing that avoid or minimize the regularly scheduled offline test burden. These online methods include electrical and fiber-optic partial discharge measurement, spread spectrum time or frequency domain reflectometry, distributed temperature profile measurements, and local interdigital capacitance measurement of insulation characteristics. Introduction of these methods must be supported by research to confirm efficacy plus either publicly financed or market driven investment to support the start-up expense of cost-effective instrumentation to monitor cable condition and assure reliable operation. This work summarizes various online cable assessment technologies plus introduces a new cable motor test bed to assess some of these technologies in a controlled test environment.

scholarly journals Impact Analysis of Interference Sources on Data Communication System for CBTC Application

2012 ◽  
Vol 6-7 ◽  
pp. 356-360
Author(s):  
Shao Yin Wang ◽  
Yi Yu ◽  
Guo Xin Zheng ◽  
Qing Feng Ding
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Access Point ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Communication Performance ◽  
Train Control ◽  
Data Throughput ◽  
Lab Test

We study the anti-interference performance of the 802.11 system when it works as Data Communication System (DCS) in Communication Based Train Control (CBTC). We first conduct extensive experiments on a 802.11b network to assess the ability on a lab test bed, then the outdoor experiments are also conducted. In the presence of jammer, we find that in each case of interference model, there exists a C/I threshold which determine the DCS-Access Point (DCS-AP) and DCS-Station Adapter (DCS-STA) communication performance. In the outdoor environment, different interference sources are adopted to investigate the data throughput value and other parameters of the DCS system under the critical state.

Providing Quantitative Scalability Improvement of Consistency Control for Large-Scale, Replication-Based Grid Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Yijun Lu ◽  
Hong Jiang ◽  
Ying Lu
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Consistency Maintenance ◽  
Grid Systems ◽  
Consistency Control ◽  
Lab Test

Consistency control is important in replication-based-Grid systems because it provides QoS guarantee. However, conventional consistency control mechanisms incur high communication overhead and are ill suited for large-scale dynamic Grid systems. In this chapter, the authors propose CVRetrieval (Consistency View Retrieval) to provide quantitative scalability improvement of consistency control for large-scale, replication-based Grid systems. Based on the observation that not all participants are equally active or engaged in distributed online collaboration, CVRetrieval differentiates the notions of consistency maintenance and consistency retrieval. Here, consistency maintenance implies a protocol that periodically communicates with all participants to maintain a certain consistency level; and consistency retrieval means that passive participants explicitly request consistent views from the system when the need arises in stead of joining the expensive consistency maintenance protocol all the time. The rationale is that it is much more cost-effective to satisfy a passive participant’s need on-demand. The evaluation of CVRetrieval is done in two parts. First, by analyzing its scalability and the result shows that CVRetrieval can greatly reduce communication cost and hence make consistency control more scalable. Second, a prototype of CVRetrieval is deployed on the Planet-Lab test-bed and the results show that the active participants experience a short response time at expense of the passive participants that may encounter a longer response time.

Hardware implementation of a four-terminal HVDC test-bed

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yalong Li ◽  
Xiaojie Shi ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Fred Wang ◽  
Leon M. Tolbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hardware Implementation ◽  
Test Bed

scholarly journals Hardware Implementation of MISO on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Platform with the Help of Alamouti Algorithm

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Seetaiah Kilaru
Keyword(s):  
Field Programmable Gate Array ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Hardware Implementation ◽  
Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Frequency Division ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
System Generator ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Half Decade

Abstract Many software based OFDM techniques were proposed from last half decade to improve the performance of the system. This paper tried to implement the same with Hardware implementation. We created Hardware based MISO platform with OFDM. We implemented Alamouti algorithm on this test bed. The test bed is implemented with the help of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The test bed is functionalized with the help of FPGA through Xilinx based system generator for DSP. In this paper we considered the 2×1 MISO implementation with Alamouti algorithm. The simulation results showed that BER and SNR are considerably high for MISO than SISO. The results also proved that proposed OFDM based Alamouti implementation for MISO is excellent in all performance criterions.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of BPSK Modulation With Peak Noise Avoidance Algorithm in Smart Street Lighting Communications Based on PLC

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Piotr Kiedrowski ◽  
Tomasz Marciniak ◽  
Zbigniew Lutowski ◽  
Łukasz Zabłudowski
Keyword(s):  
Test Bed ◽  
Street Lighting ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Lab Test ◽  
Bpsk Modulation

Abstract This work reports the measurement results of long-terms tests obtained in real smart street lighting LV networks and in lab test bed. The measurements results are presented in the form of PER vs. SNR characteristics for BPSK coded and BPSK coded with peak noise avoidance algorithm. The surprising results obtained from real LV networks prompted the Authors to carry out detailed lab tests. The setup for lab tests is also presented in this work. To carry out lab tests a suitable software was prepared, it allowed to obtain results in 72 times shorter time comparing to real conditions; it is why this work can present characteristics of PER vs. SNR even for the values of PER at the level of 10−9. The work concludes with disadvantages of using the peak noise avoidance algorithm in PLC communication for smart street lighting.

Correlation between dislocation, grain boundary and interface of duplex SS in stress corrosion cracking(SCC)

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 928-929
Author(s):  
Wang Zheng-fang ◽  
Z.F. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Thermal Cycle ◽  
Secondary Phase ◽  
Corrosion Cracking ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Test Environment ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Evaluation Test ◽  
Welding Thermal Cycle ◽  
Micro Analysis

The main purpose of this study highlights on the evaluation of chloride SCC resistance of the material,duplex stainless steel,OOCr18Ni5Mo3Si2 (18-5Mo) and its welded coarse grained zone(CGZ).18-5Mo is a dual phases (A+F) stainless steel with yield strength:512N/mm2 .The proportion of secondary Phase(A phase) accounts for 30-35% of the total with fine grained and homogeneously distributed A and F phases(Fig.1).After being welded by a specific welding thermal cycle to the material,i.e. Tmax=1350°C and t8/5=20s,microstructure may change from fine grained morphology to coarse grained morphology and from homogeneously distributed of A phase to a concentration of A phase(Fig.2).Meanwhile,the proportion of A phase reduced from 35% to 5-10°o.For this reason it is known as welded coarse grained zone(CGZ).In association with difference of microstructure between base metal and welded CGZ,so chloride SCC resistance also differ from each other.Test procedures:Constant load tensile test(CLTT) were performed for recording Esce-t curve by which corrosion cracking growth can be described, tf,fractured time,can also be recorded by the test which is taken as a electrochemical behavior and mechanical property for SCC resistance evaluation. Test environment:143°C boiling 42%MgCl2 solution is used.Besides, micro analysis were conducted with light microscopy(LM),SEM,TEM,and Auger energy spectrum(AES) so as to reveal the correlation between the data generated by the CLTT results and micro analysis.

Lab Test Allows Biennial Thyroid Disease Screen

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
CHRISTINE KILGORE
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Disease ◽  
Lab Test
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