By Robert Van Gulik
In this, the second one e-book in Robert van Gulik's vintage secret sequence of old China, pass judgement on Dee needs to investigate the homicide of his predecessor. His task is advanced through the simultaneous disappearance of his leader clerk and the hot bride of a filthy rich neighborhood shipowner.
Meanwhile, a tiger is terrorizing the district, the ghost of the murdered Justice of the Peace stalks the tribunal, a prostitute has a mystery message for Dee, and the physique of a murdered monk is found to be within the fallacious grave. finally, the pass judgement on, together with his deft powers of deduction, uncovers the single reason for all of those likely unrelated events.
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1a shows the combination efficiency of optimal solution and analytical solution versus power ratio c2. It illustrates that the difference of power between lower sideband and upper sideband is greater; the maximal combination efficiency is higher. In addition, we can find that the difference of combining efficiency between analytical solution and numerical optimal solution is less than 1 %. In this case, the complex subcarrier is the same with AltBOC modulation. Thus the generation complexity is also the same with AltBOC.
Yao Z, Lu M (2013) Constant envelope combination for components on different carrier frequencies with unequal power allocation. In: Proceedings of the 2013 international technical meeting of the institute of navigation, San Diego, pp 629–637 9. Yao Z, Lu M (2013) ACED multiplexing and its application on BeiDou B2 band. In: Proceedings of China satellite navigation conference (CSNC 2013), Lecture notes in electrical engineering, vol 244, pp 25–34 10. Zhang Kai (2013) Generalized constant-envelope dual QPSK and altBOC modulations for modern GNSS signals.
However, it is not flexible enough due to its fixed equal power allocation. For this problem, some related researches have been done. In literature [4], POCET method is proposed to combine GNSS signals at different carrier frequencies. This method is achieved by phase rotation. However, the operation to optimize the phase at each sample time is complex. Moreover, this analytical expression is difficult to obtain. Recently, time multiplex technology is integrated to AltBOC modulation. TD-AltBOC [5] and TMOC-QPSK [6] modulation are both this kind of technologies, which could simplify the generating and receiving process, and achieve similar power spectrum density and function with Galileo AltBOC modulation.