In the real-time delivery of multimedia data streams over networks, the interruption of continuity in a single media stream and the mismatching of the data within the same time interval in multimedia data streams transfered in paralled on different channels are considered as the most serious synchronization problems. There are several mechanisms proposed to handle these problems. In this paper, these mechanisms are analyzed and compared in various point of view by the computer simulation. According to the simulation results, it has been shown that the method which uses the segmentation and the method which uses the seperate synchronization channel are superior to the method which uses the synchronization marks in view of the real-time transmission and quality of sevice. On the other hand, it can be seen that the method which uses the segmentation is superior to the method which uses the seperate synchronization channel from a channel utilization's point of view.

The error rate equation of DS-CDMA/DQPSK skgnal adopting ARQ scheme has been derived in indoor radio channel which is characterized by AWGN, multi-user interference (MUI) and Rician fading, Using the derived equation the error performance has been evaluated and shown in figures as a function of direct to diffuse signal power ratio(KS1rT), the number of active users (K), PN code sequence length (N), the number of parity bit of linear code (b), forward channel BER, and ES1bT/NS1OT. From the results it is known that in severe fading environments (KS1rT=6) the performance of DS-CDMA/DQPSK system is not reliable so it is needed to adopt techniques for improvement. When an ARQ scheme is adopted, as a method for improving error performance, the performance improves compared with that of non-ARQ scheme and the degree of improvement is proportional to the number of parity bits of linear code. As increasing the number of parity bits, system performance is improved vut system throughput efficiency must be considered. In severe fading channel Hybrid ARQ scheme is more effective than ARQ scheme. As a result, ARQ scheme is appropriate for the high-reliability data communication systems over the radio channel in which the real time processing is not required.

Three protocols based on the slotted Aloha technique are proposed for very high-speed optical fiber local area networks using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive star topology and the throughputs and delays are derived. For getting a high probability in successful transmission of control packets determining the transmission of a data packet, we adopt control mini slot groups in these protocols. The retransmission probability is also considered in analysis. Both throughput and delay of three protocols are compared and analyzed by varying the number of control solt groups, the retransmission probability the length of a data packet and the number of channels. The numerical analysis shows that the proposed protocols adopted the control slot groups give the increase of throughput and the decrease of delay.

In this paper, we propose the parallel scrambling technique which is applicable in the multibit-interleaved multiplexing environment. For this, we introduce the concept of SSRG (simple shift register generator) and MSRG(modular shift register generator), and investigate their properties. We also introduce the concept of PSRG(parallel shift register generator) - parallel form of shift register generator, and consider realizations of PSRGs based on SSRGs and MSRGs. Finally, we show how to apply PSRGs to the parallel scrambling for the SDH system.

In this paper, the idea of using a multiple symbol obervation interval to improve error probability performance is applied to differential detection of MTCM(multiple trellis code modulation) with ${\Pi}$/4 shift QPSK, 8DPSK and 16DPSK. We propose two types of sliding multiple symbol differential detection algorithm, type 1 and type 2. The two types of sliding detection scheme are examined and compared with conventional(symbol-by-symbol) detection and bolck detection with these modulation formats in an additive white Gaussian noise(AWGN) using the Monte Carlo simulation. We show that the amount of improvement over conventional and block detection depends on the number of phases and the number of additional symbol intervals added to the observation. Computer simulagtion results are presented for 2,4,8 states in AWGN channel.

This paper presents the CDMA system using the RAKE receiver over a multipath fading channel and in multi-user environments. The interference between the propagation paths in a multipath fading causes a serious degradation in the mobile communication environment. In order to derive the path inteference and reduce the fading effect, the RAKE receiver is used. In a computer simulation, the path number of a fading channel and the branch number of the RAKE receiver are modified. As a result, the CDMA system using the RAKE receiver gives a better performance than the conventional CDMA system over a multipath fading channel and in multi-user environments.

Far-zone electric fields radiated by a coaxial cable through an aperture in a perfectly conducting ground plane are calculated utilizing the dyadic Green's function and vector wave functions. In this paper the outer radius $\alpha$ is assumed to be less than 0.02 so that the aperture fields is well approximated by the dominant TEM mode in the coaxial cable. The result of present approach is compared with the readily obtained solution. The present solution is valid outside of the spherical regions with radius `$\alpha$' from the center of coaxial cable.

The Ultrahigh Vacuum Electron Cyclotron Resonance Chemical Vapor Deposition(UHV-ECRCVD) system whose base pressure is 1${\times}10^{9}$ torr has been constructed. In-situ cleaning prior to the epitaxial growth was carried out at 56$0^{\circ}C$ by ECR generated uniform hydrogen plasma whose density is $10^{10}/cm{3}$. The natural oxide was effectively removed without damage by applying positive DC bias(+10V) to the substrate. RHEED(Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction) analysis has been used to confirm the removal of the surgace oxide and the streaky 2$\times$1 reconstruction of the Si surface, and the suppression of the substrate damage is anaylized by X-TEM(cross-sectional Transmission Electron Microscopy). Surface cleaning technique by ECR hydrogen plasma confirmed good quality epitaxial growth at low temperature.

A humidity sensing device based on a new humidity sensing principle is designed and fabricated in this study. The silicon thermopile is consisted of 25 couples of p-type diffused layer/Al strips. The internal resistance and the Seebeck coefficient are 300kl and 537$\mu$V/K, respectively Fabricated sensors showed linear response characteristics proportional to relative humidity changes with a sensitivity of 9$\mu$V/%RH in the range from 20% to 90%.

In this paper we numerically approximated the field-effect mobility of a-Si:H TFT. Field-effect mobility, based on the charge-trapping model and new effective capacitance model in our study, used Chebyshev approximation was approximated as the function of gate potential(gate-to-channel voltage). Even though various external factors are changed, this formula can be applied by choosing the characteristic coefficients without any change of the approximation formula corresponding to each operation region. Using new approximated field-effect mobility formula, the dependences of field-effect mobility on materials and thickness of gate insulator, thickness of a-Si bulk, and operation temperature in inverted staggered-electrode a-Si:H TFT were estimated. By this was the usefulness of new approximated mobility formula proved.

A compact electron cyclotron resonance(ECR) plasma system composed of a microwave generator and a magnet coil was fabricated. A Langmuir single probe was used to investigate the plasma characteristics of the system through I-V measurements. The performance of the compact ECR plasma system was tested for the case of silicon etching reaction with $CF_{4}/O_{2}$(30%) mixed gas. Electron density and etch rate increased to maximum values and then decreased with increasing argon gas pressure, but electron temperature changed in the opposite way. The electron density and the electron temperature of argon gas plasma were 0.85${\times}~5.5{\times}10^{10}cm^{-3}$ and 4.5~6.0 eV, respectively, in the pressure range from $3{\times}10^{4}$ to 0.05Torr. The etch rate reached a maximum value at the position of 2.5cm from the bottom of plasma cavity. Etch rate uniformity was $\pm$6% across 6cm wafer. Anisotropic index was 0.75 at 1.5${\times}10^{-4}$Torr.

k-bounded circuits are combinational circuits proposed by Fujiwara whose subcircuits are partitioned in a way that they form a tree and have some restricted k inputs respectively. Fujiwara proposed a O($16^{k}m$) fault detection algorithm for k-bounded circuits where m is the number of signal lines in the circuit. This algorithm is very ineffective to be applied to real circuits, even for small values of k. In this paper, it is shown that a single stuck-at fault in k-bounded circuits can be detected in O($2^{k}m$)time, and multiple stuck-at faults are detected in O($4^{k}m$) time by using thable lookup and imput partitionsing.

This paper presents the design of a technology mapping system for optimizing delays of combinational and synchronous sequential logic circuits. The proposed system performs delay optimization for combinational logic circuits by remapping, buffering, and gate merging methods through the correct delay calculation in which the loading values are considered. To get time optimized synchronous sequential circuits, heuristic algorithms are proposed. The proposed algorithms reallocate registers by considering the critical path characteristics. Experimental results show that the proposed system produces a more optimized technology mapping for MCNC benchmarks compared with mis-II.

In this paper, the switch-level fault simulator for CMOS circuits with a gate-to-drain/source short fault is implemented. A fault model used in this paper is based on the graphical analysis of the electrical characteristics of the faulty MOS devices and the conversion of the faulty CMOS circuit to the equivalent faulty CMOS inverter in order to find its effect on the successive stage. This technique is very simple and has the increased accuracy of the simulation. The simulation result of the faulty circuit using the implemented fault simulator is compared with the result of the SPICE simulation.

In this paper we propose an EWLD(Enhanced Weighted Levenshtein Distance) algorithm to organize code-string pattern matching linear array processor based on the mappting to an one-dimensional array from a two-dimensional matching matrix, and design a processing element(PE) of the processor, N PEs are required instead of NS02T in the processor because of the mapping. Data input and output between PEs and all internal operations of each PE are performed in bit-serial fashion. The bit-serial operation consists of the computing of word distance (WD) by comparison and the selection of optimal code transformation path, and takes 22 clocks as a cycle. The layout of a PE is designed based on the double metal $1.5\mu$m CMOS rule. About 1,800 transistors consistute a processing element and 2 PEs are integrated on a 3mm$\times$3mm sized chip.