Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [115]-117).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2010. / Principal faculty advisor: Gonzalo Arce, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 114 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84).

Broadband local area network cable plant design is a time consuming work, it takes lots of computation and it depends a lot on designer's experience. In this thesis the author presents an approach to cable plant design automation, the expert system was implemented in language SCHEME, symbol manipulation was used to generate the data structure (tree) which represent the design results. Signal level simulation can be performed based on the data structure.

Satellite broadband has the potential to provide Internet connectivity to people and places that are unreachable using other wired/wireless technologies. It is therefore a critical component of any service seeking to provide universal coverage. A universal service needs to support a range of Internet applications. While there is existing work on bulk and interactive applications with a characteristic transmission rate, popular Internet applications such as web browsing, web video download or variable-rate voice result in a network traffic that varies its transmission rate. This thesis first investigates the interaction of satellite resource request mechanisms with the quality of service offered to these variable-rate applications using a satellite platform based on DVB-RCS2. It shows that a flexible QoS architecture can be achieved by a combination of resource request methods and network-layer queuing. Variable-rate traffic also poses challenges to the widely deployed Transport Control Protocol (TCP). Previous work analysed the interaction with the congestion control algorithms and proposed Congestion Window Validation (CWV) to constrain the congestion window to the amount of traffic a transport has sent. TCP JAGO studied this problem for variable-rate bursty applications and proposed new algorithms; but these were shown to have drawbacks and there were no guidance on how to implement. This thesis therefore presents, newCWV, a practical mechanism to provide an appropriate estimate of the available path capacity and corresponding congestion control behaviour. This benefits variable-rate applications with shorter transfer durations, but has a consequence of allowing larger traffic bursts into the network that can increase packet loss. Burst mitigation techniques, such as TCP pacing, are proposed to deal with this. These techniques are implemented and tested in the Linux TCP/IP stack, where newCWV improves the burst transfer time. This benefit is particularly significant for the large delay of broadband satellite systems.

Despite policy rhetoric of the importance of digital access and associated Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) for businesses, many rural businesses remain underserved by their broadband service. Next Generation Broadband, sometimes referred to as Superfast Broadband, through commercial investment, predominantly reaches those in high population density areas. The BDUK NGB programme seeks to readdress this digital divide. This publicly funded technology project seeks to upgrade existing fixed telecommunication networks with NGB technology, thus improving rural digital connectivity for community and businesses alike. The value of small and micro businesses to the rural economy goes without saying, yet many remain underserved, or digitally excluded, from modern day business due to inadequate digital access. This doctoral thesis has followed the deployment of the NGB fixed telecommunication upgrades in the North East of Scotland, seeking to observe the changes in the technology as 'it happened' and the implications for Rural Small and Micro Business practices. The case study area included areas of accessible and remote rural classifications to establish how digital inclusion was developed. The research has specifically sought to observe businesses prior to the NGB deployment, track changes over the duration of this project, and ascertain the impact post deployment on business digital capabilities. The key findings established that the NGB deployment programme, due to a post code led approach, has significant gaps in meeting the digital needs of these rural businesses. It established that being geographically remote, does not always constitute being digitally remote, and as result of the tracking of broadband capabilities in the businesses, identified five new typologies and associated scenario outcomes which describes the current rural digital landscape and the ramifications of this on these rural businesses.

So Kin Tai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The 0-1 sorter and concentrator --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Review of literature on constructions --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Odd-even merging network --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- The Fast Knockout algorithm --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Reverse Banyan network prepended by running sum adder --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2.4 --- Recursive construction using iterative cells --- p.14 / Chapter 1.2.5 --- Comparison of construction algorithms --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Compressor based on baseline-swap network --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- Bit permutation induced exchange --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2 --- Compressor --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3 --- The baseline-swap network --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4 --- New algorithm for running parity initialization --- p.31 / Chapter 2.5 --- Input fairness --- p.42 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- The general architecture of 0-1 sorter --- p.46 / Chapter 3.1 --- Recursive 2X-construction --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2 --- Control a 2X-interconnection network as a cyclic 0-1 sorter --- p.50 / Chapter 3.3 --- Recursive construction of larger 0-1 sorter --- p.56 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Epilogue --- p.59 / Chapter 4.1 --- Directions of further studies --- p.59 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Synchronization within the same stage --- p.59 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Layout complexity --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Statistical initialization of running parity --- p.62 / Chapter 4.2 --- Conclusion --- p.63 / REFERENCES --- p.65

Ngai Li. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-[78]). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 247-259). Also available on the Internet.