Elie J. Baghdady. / "September 24, 1956." "This report is based on a thesis submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering, M.I.T., May 16, 1956, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science." / Bibliography: p. 106. / Army Signal Corps Contract DA36-039-sc-64637 Dept. of the Army Task 3-99-06-108 Project 3-99-00-100

J. Granlund. / "January 20, 1949." / Bibliography: p. 79. / Army Signal Corps Contract No. W36-039-sc-32037 Project No. 102B. Dept. of the Army Project No. 3-99-10-022.

Linearity enhancement, especially within the front end of a wireless receiver IC design, is highly desirable since it allows the front-end to withstand strong interferers from co-existing communication standards or other wireless radiators. We propose an interferer suppression method based on feed-forward cancellation that uses an injectionlocked oscillator (ILO) to extract the interferer from the incident spectrum. The technique is expected to be useful in environments where a strong narrowband interferer appears along with a wideband desired signal, such as ultra-wideband (UWB) and emerging cognitive-radio applications. The ILO is further embedded within a phase-locked loop which provides several advantages including ILO center frequency self tuning and automatic phase alignment between the main signal path and the auxiliary path. An IC that uses this approach is implemented in a UMC 0.18[mu]m RFCMOS process. In measurement, the chip demonstrates 20dB suppression for phase and frequency modulated interferers while maintaining around 18dB power gain and noise figure below 5dB, measured with an off-chip balun for the desired signal. Techniques for canceling amplitude modulated interferers, though not included in the integrated circuit, were also demonstrated with an off chip amplitude control loop. Over 20dB rejection was obtained with AM interferers with properly scaled envelop signal applied to the ILO bias port. A second LNA was connected in cascade with the system to emulate the input stage of a down-conversion mixer and the cascaded P1dB was improved over 16dB with cancellation on. Gain compression above 13dB was also observed when auxiliary path was disabled, at the same input level as the P1dB with cancellation applied. / text

Data dissemination among wireless devices is an essential application in wireless networks. In contrast to its wired counterparts which have more stable network settings, wireless networks are subject to network dynamics, such as variable network topology, channel availability and capacity, which are due to user mobility, signal collision, random channel fading and scattering, etc. Network dynamics complicate the protocol design for optimal data disseminations. Although the topic has been intensively discussed for many years, existing solutions are still not completely satisfactory, especially for stochastic or arbitrary networks. In this thesis, we address optimal data dissemination in both stochastic and arbitrary wireless networks, using techniques of Lyapunov optimization, graph theory, network coding, multi-resolution coding and successive interference cancellation. We first discuss the maximization of time-averaged throughput utility over a long run for unicast and multirate multicast, respectively, in stochastic wireless networks without probing into the future. For multi-session unicast communications, a utility-maximizing cross-layer design, composed of joint end-to-end rate control, routing, and channel allocation, is proposed for cognitive radio networks with stochastic primary user occupations. Then, we study optimal multirate multicast to receivers with non-uniform receiving rates, also making dynamic cross-layer decisions, in a general wireless network with both a timevarying topology and random channel capacities, by utilizing random linear network coding and multi-resolution coding. In both solutions, we assume users are selfish and prefer only to relay data for others with strong social ties. Such social selfishness of users is a new constraint in network protocol design. Its impact on efficient data dissemination in wireless networks is largely unstudied, especially under stochastic settings. Lyapunov optimization is applied in our protocol design achieving close-to-optimal utilities. Next, we turn to latency-minimizing data aggregation in wireless sensor networks having arbitrary network topologies under the physical interference model. Different from our effort for stochastic networks where we target at time-averaged optimality over a long run, the objective here is to minimize the time-span to accomplish one round of aggregation scheduling for all sensors in an arbitrary topology. This problem is NP-hard, involving both aggregation tree construction and collision-free link scheduling. The current literature mostly considers the protocol interference model, which has been shown to be less practical than the physical interference model in characterizing the interference relations in the real world. A distributed solution under the physical interference model is challenging since cumulative interferences from all concurrently transmitting devices need to be well measured. In this thesis, we present a distributed aggregation protocol with an improved approximation ratio as compared with previous work. We then discuss the tradeoff between aggregation latency and energy consumption for arbitrary topologies when the successive interference cancellation technique is in force. Another distributed algorithm is introduced with asymptotic optimality in both aggregation latency and latency-energy tradeoff. Through theoretical analysis and empirical study, we rigorously examine the optimality of our protocols comparing with both the theoretical optima and existing solutions. / published_or_final_version / Computer Science / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

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Copies of author's previously published articles inserted. / Bibliography: leaves 118-126. / 160 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / The subject of this thesis is the improvement of the design of High fidelity (HF) Radio modems by interpreting the high fidelity radio channel from a signal design perspective. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1996?

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[pt] Nesta dissertação é investigada, por meio de simulações computacionais, a utilização do conceito de rádio cognitivo considerando a técnica de sensoriamento espectral aplicada às femtocélulas do sistema móvel LTE Release 10 para reduzir os problemas de interferência entre camadas (cross-tier) existentes em um cenário de coexistências das redes heterogêneas (femtocélulas e macrocélulas). Além disso, é investigada a interferência gerada por parte das femtocélulas LTE Release 10 em receptores de TV Digital operando em bandas de frequência adjacentes. Neste caso, além da simulação computacional foram realizadas medições em cenários de coexistência da femtocélula LTE e do Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital na banda de frequência de 700 MHz. / [en] This dissertation investigates, using computer simulation, the use of spectrum sensing Cognitive Radio concept applied in femtocells of the LTE Release 10 mobile system in order to reduce the interference cross-tier problems that exists in the coexistence scenario of a heterogeneous network (femto-macrocells). Furthermore, the interference produced by LTE Release 10 femtocells in TV Digital receivers operating in adjacent frequency bands was investigated. In this case, besides the computer simulations measurements were performed in an experimental setup implementing coexistence scenarios of the LTE femtocell and the Brazilian Digital TV System at the 700 MHz frequency band.

This thesis has sought to provide another look at RF interference at the fundamental level. While previous interference control and regulation methods have existed in the literature, they were more focused on preventing the interference from happening. On the contrary, we have taken a different approach of correcting the interference once it has happened. This allows the transmitters to be more nonlinear, passive filter design to be eased, and receivers to be aware of interference problems. Under this unifying theme of building intelligent radios where receivers are more cognizant of the transmission environment, we have presented a number of architectures.

Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technical advances in electromagnetics, signal processing and processing power have led to a significant increase in sensitivity and accuracy in radio telescopes. With this increase in sensitivity, radio frequency interference (RFI) has become a much larger problem. The notable growth in wireless communication as well as self generated RFI has further escalated this problem. In order to utilise the full capabilities of modern radio telescopes, RFI mitigation is required on the captured signals. With the enormous data rates of modern radio telescopes, managing RFI has become increasingly difficult, and in order to utilise the full captured radio spectrum, more accurate RFI mitigation strategies will be necessary. The use of different RFI mitigation strategies is studied in the form of online and offline techniques. This includes Spectral Kurtosis, Spectral Flatness and the Var/SumThreshold method. The special case for RFI mitigation in timing pulsars will also be studied. These techniques are well known in the radio astronomy community; here, spectral kurtosis and spectral flatness will be implemented on the raw data as well as the post correlated data. System speed and accuracy will be the deciding factors when testing these methods as possible solutions to this problem. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: ‘n Toename in die sensitiwiteit van hedendagse radioteleskope kan toegedra word aan die tegniese bevordering in elktromagnetika en seinverwerking. Die toename in sensitiwiteit het egter tot die gevolg dat radiofrekwensiesteuring ‘n groter rol speel in hedendaagse radioteleskope. Die groei in die gebruik van radioverbindings asook die gevolge van self gei¨nduseerde radiofrekwensiesteuring dra ook verder by tot hierdie probleem. Radiofrekwensiesteuring matiging word toegepas op die opgevangde seine, om sodoende gebruik te maak van die volle kapasiteit van moderne radioteleskope. Die bestuur van radiofrekwensiesteuring word bemoeilik deur die groot hoeveelheid intydse data van die radioteleskope. Meer akurate radiofrekwensiesteuring matigingstegnieke word vereis om die bandwydte ten volle te hanteer. Daar word op ‘n aantal verskillende matingstegnieke gefokus. Hierdie tegenieke kan in twee kategorieë verdeel word, naamlik aanlyn- en aflyntegenieke. Onderafdelings van hierdie kategorieë sluit in: spektrale kurtose, spektrale matheid en “Var/SumThreshold”. Daar word ook na ‘n spesiale geval van radiofrekwensiesteuring matiging gekyk, in die opmeeting van tydsberekening-pulsars. Alhoewel hierdie tegnieke bekend is in die radioastronomie gemeenskap, word spektrale kurtose en spektrale matheid egter toegepas op die rou data sowel as postgekorreleerde data. Daar sal op stelsel spoed en akuratheid gefokus word, om vas te stel of hierdie metodes wel moontlike oplossings bied tot die probleem bespreek.