This paper describes a full vector intensity probe which advances the field of sound intensity and sound source direction estimation using six matched rotating and variable directional microphones. The probe has three pairs of microphones at an equal spacing of 30 mm that are set up in each of the x, y, and z directions and share the same observation point. The calibration method using the rotating microphone system is effective to correct position errors in the y- and z-axes microphone pairs. Sound intensity measurements using the variable directional microphone method can locate with accuracy a sound source, i.e., the structure parts radiating most acoustic energy. The system can find the maximum sound intensity level and beamwidth of the major lobe, and the peak sound intensity levels of the minor lobes. Therefore, a procedure for sound power determination based on minimum measurement data is theoretically and experimentally discussed. Consequently, it is possible to reconstruct only parts of the system emitting the most noise and measure efficiently the sound power level.

We propose a serial unequal error protection (UEP) code system for use with information sources that contain a mixture of both important and less important data. To achieve UEP, the proposed scheme uses a form of Trellis coded modulation (TCM) which encodes the data by switching between some codes that use different signal constellations. So we propose ring-type signal constellations with M levels of importance (MRING). Also, as no extra information about which code is used is added, the receiver estimates which code was used in the transmitter by examining the received signal points. In this paper, theoretical analyses of the 2RING signal constellations (that is, for M = 2) and TCM codes are presented, and the effectiveness and the validity of the system for additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels are confirmed using theoretical analyses and computer simulations. 

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