Ontario Ministry of Transportation

About: Ontario Ministry of Transportation is a government organization based out in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poison control & Asphalt. The organization has 4652 authors who have published 3882 publications receiving 59011 citations.

Outage Performance of NOMA in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks With SWIPT

Abstract: This paper considers the application of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into cooperative cognitive radio (CR) networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). For NOMA in cooperative CR networks with SWIPT, the cognitive relay harvests the transmission power from the secondary transmitter with power splitting scheme, while the fixed power allocation scheme is used for the NOMA protocol. The closed-form analytical expression of the overall outage probability for the proposed networks is derived, as well as its diversity order at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region is investigated. Furthermore, compared to OMA in cooperative CR networks with SWIPT, the proposed scheme can always achieve the same diversity order, but lower overall outage performance. Compared with NOMA in cooperative CR networks using its own battery for transmission, the SWIPT NOMA in cooperative CR networks will lead to losing a little of the overall outage performance, but without losing the diversity order.

The early effects of Ontario's Administrative Driver's Licence Suspension law on driver fatalities with a BAC > 80 mg%.

Abstract: BACKGROUND: On November 29, 1996, Ontario introduced an Administrative Driver's Licence Suspension (ADLS) law, which required that anyone charged with driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) over the legal limit of 80 mg% or failing to provide a breath sample would have their licence suspended for a period of 90 days at the time the charge was laid. This study evaluates the early effects of Ontario's ADLS law on alcohol-involved driver fatalities. METHODS: Interrupted time series analysis with ARIMA modelling was applied to the monthly proportion of drivers killed in Ontario with a BAC over 80 mg% for the period Jan. 1, 1988 to Dec. 31, 1997. RESULTS: A significant intervention effect was found, with ADLS being associated with an estimated reduction of 17.3% in the proportion of fatally injured drivers who were over the legal limit. CONCLUSION: These data provide an early indication that the law resulted in some success in reducing alcohol-related driver fatalities.