rates, r 10 t . To capture potential non-linear effects due to convexity, we also include the squared level of the term structure, (r 10 t ) 2 . Slope of Yield Curve We define the slope of the yield curve as the difference between Datastream's 10-year and 2-year Benchmark Treasury yields, slope

for ergodic multiple-antenna channel. Index Terms—Wireless communications, BLAST, turbo codes, transmit diversity, receive diversity, fading channels, sphere decoding, soft-in/soft-out, concatenated codes 1

approach with Eigenface and Fisherface methods on three different face data sets. Experimental results suggest that the proposed Laplacianface approach provides a better representation and achieves lower error rates in face recognition. Index Terms—Face recognition, principal component analysis, linear

over many subcarriers allows acquisition at very low signal-to-noise ratios (SNR’s). Index Terms — Carrier frequency, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, symbol timing estimation.

. Analytical performance evaluation and simulation results show that ESRT converges to the desired reliability with minimum energy expenditure, starting from any initial network state. Index Terms—Congestion control, energy conservation, event-to-sink reliability, reliable transport protocols, wireless sensor

their performance. It is shown that using multiple transmit antennas and space–time block coding provides remarkable performance at the expense of almost no extra processing. Index Terms — Diversity, multipath channels, multiple antennas, space–time codes, wireless communication. I.

and of the environment. Our algorithms have been implemented and tested. We provide experimental evidence showing that our approach yields substantially faster collision detection than previous methods. Index Terms—Collision detection, intersection searching, bounding volume hierarchies, discrete orientation polytopes

Abstract-In this paper we use a previously developed nonlinear dynamic model of TCP to analyze and design Active Queue Management (AQM) control systems using RED. First, we linearize the interconnection of TCP and a bottlenecked queue and discuss its feedback properties in terms of network

.2ms. This optimal sensing time decreases when distributed spectrum sensing is applied. Index Terms—Cognitive radio, sensing-throughput tradeoff, spectrum reuse, spectrum sensing, throughput maximization. I.

proves fast, flexible, and precise in terms of both pixel accuracy and reactivity to background changes. Index Terms—Background modeling, color segmentation, reactivity to changes, shadow detection, video surveillance, object-level knowledge. 1