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    A comparative study on reduced complexity 2-D detectors for bit patterned media
    (2011-12-01)
    Myint, Lin M.M.
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    In this paper, we compare the performance of the reduced complexity 2-D detection methods: Graph-based detection and Viterbi-based detection for the 2-D interference bit patterned media channels at various areal densities. In the graph-based detection, the complexity is reduced by ignoring the ITI from the cornered islands in designing the factor graph. In Viterbi-based detector, a trellis for the ISI only is considered. However, both methods improve the ITI mitigation with the help of multi-track processing and iterative processing. Between them, the graph-based detection needs higher computational complexity than the Viterbi-based detection. However, the graph-based detection method provides a significant performance gain over the Viterbi-based detect.on © 2011 IEEE.
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    Effects of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles over Real-Time Kinematic Positioning in Low-Latitude Region
    (2023-01-01)
    Thu, Phyo C.
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    Saito, Susumu
    Equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) refer to ionospheric irregularities in low-latitude regions, commonly observed after sunset. They originate at the magnetic equator and then potentially spread to mid-latitude region. As cm-level positioning techniques are increasingly important to various segments of society, the performance degradation of these systems due to EPB at low latitudes needs to be investigated. In this work, we analyze the EPB effects on the performances of real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning at the short, medium, and long baselines at low-latitude stations in Thailand. The low-latitudes local ionospheric disturbances such EPBs are shown to degrade the positioning accuracy of RTK in different seasons in 2022. It is found that the positioning errors are higher during the disturbance periods and more severe at the long baselines than the shorter ones, especially during the equinoctial months.
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    Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models for Daily Solar Indices Forecasting in Solar Cycle 25
    (2025-01-01)
    Min Myint, Lin Min
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    Mutasov, Gleb
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    Accurate forecasting of solar activity indices, particularly the Sunspot Number (SSN) and the F10.7 solar radio flux index (F10.7), is essential for effective space weather monitoring, as severe solar and ionospheric disturbances can significantly impact satellite operations, radio communications, and navigation systems. This paper presents a comparative analysis of deep learning models - Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCN), and encoder-only Transformer architectures - for daily forecasting of SSN and F10.7 up to 14 days ahead based on past 27 days. Considering relatively simple model structures, both single-step and multi-step prediction strategies are explored to evaluate the models' capability in handling short-and long-term dependencies in time series data. Daily solar activity data spanning seven solar cycles (Cycles 19-25), obtained from the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, are used for model training and evaluation. Experimental results show that LSTM consistently achieves the best performance across most forecast horizons, particularly in short-to medium-term predictions. The Transformer model delivers competitive and stable results, while TCN performs relatively less effectively, indicating the need for more complex architecture and optimization strategies. These findings highlight the strengths and limitations of each architecture for solar activity forecasting applications.
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    Equinoctial spread-F occurrence at low latitudes in different longitude sectors under moderate and high solar activity
    (2017-11-01)
    Pietrella, M.
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    Pezzopane, M.
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    Fagundes, P. R.
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    de Jesus, R.
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    A comparative study aimed to investigate the equatorial and low-latitude spread-F occurrences for moderate solar activity (MSA) and high solar activity (HSA), was carried out considering concurrent observations made in some ionospheric stations, which identify three separate longitudinal sectors: Chiang Mai (CGM; 18.8° N, 98.9° E, mag. Lat. 13.2° N) and Chumphon (CPN; 10.7° N, 99.4° E, mag. Lat. 3.2° N), Thailand; Palmas (PAL; 10.2° S, 311.8° E, mag. Lat. 0.9° S) and São José dos Campos (SJC; 23.2° S, 314.1° E, mag. Lat. 14.0° S), Brazil; Tucumán (TUC; 26.9° S, 294.6° E, mag. Lat. 16.8° S), Argentina. Spread-F phenomena recorded during the equinoctial months of September and October 2010, March and April 2011, for MSA, March and April 2014, September and October 2014, for HSA, were classified in two different modes: range spread-F (RSF) and frequency spread-F (FSF). The satellite trace (ST) occurrence was also investigated as possible precursor of spread-F events. When comparing the results of equatorial (CPN and PAL) and low-latitude (CGM, SJC, and TUC) stations, some common features independently of the solar activity emerge: (1) a prevalence of RSF signatures is observed in the time interval 20:00–03:00 LT, while FSF occurrences prevail in the time interval 03:00–06:00 LT; (2) STs are confirmed to be a possible precursor of RSF occurrences. For HSA, at equatorial latitudes, spread-F occurrences in the Thai sector (CPN) are higher than those observed in the Brazilian sector (PAL). When comparing the results of low-latitude stations of CGM, SJC, and TUC some unusual aspects characterizing the morphology of spread-F occurrences emerge: (1) contrary to the Thai and Argentine sectors, in the Brazilian sector (SJC), RSF and FSF appearances in September, for HSA, are observed with relatively long persistence times between about 03:00-06:00 LT and 01:00-03:00 LT respectively, while balanced RSF and FSF occurrences with short persistence times are observed for months for MSA; (2) a prevalence of FSF at CGM during the first half of September for MSA, never observed in the Brazilian and Argentine areas. During years of LSA and MSA common morphological aspects are found at CGM and SJC, that is a predominance of FSF, with the lowest persistence times characterizing SJC. This suggests that the low-latitude behaviour of spread-F occurrences, under different levels of solar activity, at least in the longitude sectors here analysed, can be to a some extent generalized.
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    Reliability Ratio-Based Serial Algorithm of LDPC Decoder for Turbo Equalization Schemes
    (2022-02-01)
    Khittiwitchayakul, Sirawit
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    Serial decoding algorithms of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code converge efficiently with low errors. Previously, a serial decoding algorithm, named a shuffled belief-propagation (SBP), was applied in turbo equalization of bit-patterned magnetic recording (BPMR) systems. With the SBP algorithm, an LDPC decoder converged twice as fast as one using conventional BP algorithms. We further improved the convergence speed of SBP by updating the messages in an adaptive order, which played a flexible role throughout decoding. We proposed two adaptive-serial algorithms for LDPC codes in turbo equalization. One updated the messages using the extrinsic loglikelihood ratio (LLR) and the result of the parity-check equation checking. The second contained an additional rule that tracked the LLR sign changes in each iteration. Both algorithms converged faster and with lower bit error rates (BERs) than the SBP and previous adaptive-serial algorithms in a BPMR system with media noise.
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    A flexible KFCI compensation for head/media optimization in perpendicular magnetic recording systems
    (2010-12-01) ;
    Bunsri, K.
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    Novid, M.
    Head/media matching is one of the key procedures used to ensure acceptable performance, reliability and areal density of perpendicular drives. To achieve the optimal bit error rate (BER) performance, head/media optimization is required to handle the variation of each head/media pair within a single drive. Existing optimization uses kilo flux change per inch (KFCI) compensation technique with the fixed slope KFCI value, however, it is unable to handle large variation of the head/media performance. In this paper, we propose to use a flexible KFCI compensation technique between each head/media combination. The relationship between the KFCI slopes and under/over estimation is also established. The result shows that a better BER performance is obtained when compared with the existing technique. In addition, we offer a graphical explanation of the over- and under-compensation issue.
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    The variation of critical frequency of E layer over Chumphon, Thailand
    (2013-12-09)
    Wongcharoen, Poramintra
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    Noppanakeepong, Suthichai
    In this research paper presents the observed critical frequency of E layer (foE) over Chumphon, Thailand which is located at nearly the magnetic equator (lat. 10.72° long. 99.37° dip. 3°) during September 2004 to August 2005. The foE is one of essential parameters in the International Reference Ionsphere (IRI) model. We investigate the variation of the observed foE by comparing to the Sun spot number, ionospheric index, and 10.7 cm. flux. Due to essentially of accurate IRI model can be used to applied in communication such as it may be implied tendency of phenomena in E layer effect on high frequency communication over Chumphon, Thailand. © 2013 IEEE.
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    Reduced-complexity window decoding of spatially coupled LDPC codes for magnetic recording systems
    (2018-10-24)
    Khittiwitchayakul, S.
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    In channel coding theory, the performance of error correcting codes (ECCs) approaching the Shannon limit can be achieved through increasing code lengths. Unfortunately, the complexity of ECCs will be increased as the code length increases. Nowadays, the magnetic recording (MR) system takes advantage of powerful ECCs by using 4 Kbytes sector. Among the advanced ECCs, the spatially coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC) codes (also known as a LDPC convolutional code) [1] are shown to have the decoding latency and complexity lower than those of the underlying LDPC block codes (LDPC-BC). Moreover, the SC-LDPC codes with threshold decoding outperform the LDPC-BC codes [2]. Hence, the SC-LDPC codes are the strong candidate for the future MR systems, when the sector size is increased beyond 4 Kbytes. An SC-LDPC decoder can use sliding window decoding [3] whereby the received signals are decoded by sliding window along the bit sequence. The window decoder is called "uniform window decoding (U-WD)", when all variable nodes (VNs) within a window are updated. In order to reduce the complexity of window decoding, some researchers proposed the non-uniform window decoding (N-WD) [4], which do not update the VNs with no improvement in the bit error rate (BER). This approach provides about 35-50% reduction in complexity compared to U-WD. In this work, we consider the application of SC-LDPC codes in MR systems, whereby SC-LDPC decoder cooperates with BCJR detector to encounter inter-symbol interference (ISI). We propose the dynamic shifting of window decoding (DS-WD) to reduce the complexity of SC-LDPC codes. Herein, the number of shifted bits is defined according to their soft BERs which are estimated at each decoding position. In addition, we modify the N-WD [4] to reinforce our proposed algorithm called "dynamic-shifting non-uniform window decoding (DS-N-WD)." The DS-WD and DS-N-WD achieve the complexity reduction of 7% and 25% without any loss in performance compared to the N-WD algorithms. i
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    Latitudinal GRBR-TEC estimation in Southeast Asia region based on the two-station method
    (2014-10-01)
    Watthanasangmechai, Kornyanat
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    Yamamoto, Mamoru
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    Saito, Akinori
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    Tsugawa, Takuya
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    Yokoyama, Tatsuhiro
    Total electron content (TEC) is an important parameter for revealing latitudinal ionospheric structures, such as the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) in Southeast Asia. Understanding the EIA is beneficial for studying equatorial spread F. To reveal the structures, the absolute TEC as a function of latitude must be accurately determined. In early 2012, we expanded a GNU Radio Beacon Receiver (GRBR) network to provide latitudinal coverage in the Thailand-Indonesia sector. We employed the GRBR network to receive VHF and UHF signals from polar low-Earth-orbit satellites. The TEC offset is an unknown parameter in the absolute TEC estimation process. We propose a new technique based on the two-station method to estimate the offset for the latitudinal TEC estimation, and it works better than the original method for a sparse network. The TEC estimation system requires two iterations to minimize the root-mean-square error (RMSE). Once the RMSE reaches the global minimum, the absolute TECs are estimated simultaneously over five GRBR stations. GPS-TECs from local stations are used as the initial guess of the offset estimation. The height of the ionospheric pierce point is determined from the ionosonde hmF2. As a result, the latitudinal GRBR-TEC was successfully estimated from the polar orbit satellites. The two EIA humps were clearly captured by the GRBR-TEC. The result was well verified with the TEC reconstructed from the C/NOFS density data and the ionosonde bottomside data. This is a significant step showing that the GRBR is a useful tool for the study of low-latitude ionospheric features.
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    Low-latitude equinoctial spread-F occurrence at different longitude sectors under low solar activity
    (2013-02-05)
    Pezzopane, M.
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    Zuccheretti, E.
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    Abadi, P.
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    De Abreu, A. J.
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    De Jesus, R.
    We present the results of a comparative study of spread-F signatures over five low-latitude sites: Chiangmai (CGM; 18.8° N, 98.9° E, mag. Lat. 8.8° N), Thailand; Tanjungsari (TNJ; 6.9° S, 107.6° E, mag. Lat. 16.9° S), Indonesia; Palmas (PAL; 10.2° S, 311.8° E, mag. Lat. 0.9° S) and São José Dos Campos (SJC; 23.2° S, 314.1° E, mag. Lat. 14.0° S), Brazil; and Tucumán (TUC; 26.9° S, 294.6° E, mag. Lat. 16.8° S), Argentina. The investigation was based on simultaneous ionograms recorded by an FMCW (frequencymodulated continuous-wave) at CGM, an IPS-71 (digital ionosonde from KEL aerospace) at TNJ, a CADI (Canadian Advanced Digital Ionosonde) at PAL and SJC, and an AIS-INGV (Advanced Ionospheric Sounder-Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) at TUC, during the equinoctial periods March-April (R<inf>12</inf> = 2.0 and R <inf>12</inf> = 2.2) and September-October (R<inf>12</inf> = 6.1 and R <inf>12</inf> = 7.0) 2009, for very low solar activity. Spread-F signatures were categorized into two types: the range spread-F (RSF) and the frequency spread-F (FSF). The study confirms that the dynamics and the physical processes responsible for these phenomena are actually complicated. In fact, the features that arise from the investigation are different, depending on both the longitude sector and on the hemisphere. For instance, TUC, under the southern crest of the ionospheric equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA), shows a predominance of RSF signatures, while both SJC, under the southern crest of EIA but in a different longitude sector, and CGM, under the northern crest of EIA, show a predominance of FSF signatures. Moreover, the spread-F occurrence over the longitude sector that includes CGM and TNJ is significantly lower than the spread-F occurrence over the longitude sector of PAL, SJC, and TUC. © Author(s) 2013.