Browsing by Author "Yang, Yang"

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    Channel Measurements and Models for High-Speed Train Wireless Communication Systems in Tunnel Scenarios: A Survey
    (Springer, 2016-12-30) Liu, Yu; Ghazal, Ammar; Wang, Cheng-Xiang; Ge, Xiaohu; Yang, Yang; Zhang, Yapei
    The rapid developments of high-speed trains (HSTs) introduce new challenges to HST wireless communication systems. Realistic HST channel models play a critical role in designing and evaluating HST communication systems. Due to the length limitation, bounding of tunnel itself, and waveguide effect, channel characteristics in tunnel scenarios are very different from those in other HST scenarios. Therefore, accurate tunnel channel models considering both large-scale and small-scale fading characteristics are essential for HST communication systems. Moreover, certain characteristics of tunnel channels have not been investigated sufficiently. This article provides a comprehensive review of the measurement campaigns in tunnels and presents some tunnel channel models using various modeling methods. Finally, future directions in HST tunnel channel measurements and modeling are discussed.
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    A new application of high-efficient silver salts-based photocatalyst under natural indoor weak light for wastewater cleaning
    (Elsevier, 2015-06-14) Teng, Fei; Zhao, Yunxuan; Xu, Juan; Xu, Chuangye; Yang, Yang; Zhang, Qiqi; Paul, Shashi; Zhang, Yi; Chen, Mingdong; Zhao, Xudong; Hua, Xia
    As a high-quantum-efficiency photocatalyst, the serious photo-corrosion of silver phosphate (Ag3PO4), limits the practical applications in water purification and challenges us. Herein, Ag3PO4 is found to have a high stability under natural indoor weak light irradiation, suggesting that we can employ it by adopting a new application strategy. In our studies, rhodamine B (RhB, cationic dye), methyl orange (MO, anionic dye) and RhB–MO mixture aqueous solutions are used as the probing reaction for the degradation of organic wastewater. It is found that RhB, MO and RhB–MO can be completely degraded after 28 h under natural indoor weak light irradiation, indicating that multi-component organic contaminants can be efficiently degraded by Ag3PO4 under natural indoor weak light irradiation. The density of natural indoor weak light is measured to be 72cd, which is merely one-thousandth of 300 W xenon lamp (68.2 × 103cd). Most importantly, Ag3PO4 shows a high stability under natural indoor weak light irradiation, demonstrated by the formation of fairly rare Ag. Furthermore, we also investigate the influence of inorganic ions on organic dyes degradation. It shows that the Cl− and Cr6+ ions with high concentrations in wastewater have significantly decreased the degradation rate. From the viewpoint of energy saving and stability, this study shows us that we can utilize the Ag-containing photocatalysts under natural indoor weak light, which could be extended to indoor air cleaning process.
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    Statistical Properties of High-Speed Train Wireless Channels in Different Scenarios
    (IEEE, 2016-07) Liu, Yu; Zhang, Yapei; Ghazal, Ammar; Wang, Cheng-Xiang; Yang, Yang
    In this paper, we compare the statistical properties of high-speed train (HST) wireless channels in different scenarios using a generic non-stationary HST channel model that has been verified by channel measurements (Ghazal et al., 2015). We mainly focus our comparison and analysis on the three most common HST scenarios, i.e., the rural area, cutting, and viaduct scenarios. Several channel statistical properties such as the temporal autocorrelation function (ACF), space cross-correlation function (CCF), and space- Doppler (SD) power spectrum density (PSD) are investigated. The impacts of different scenario- specific parameters on the channel statistical properties are also studied via numerical analysis.