O Sistema de Posicionamento Global (GPS) permite uma grande variedade de aplicações civis e militares. Dentre as várias aplicações, uma de especial interesse é a navegação, que tem crescido muito nos últimos anos devido a fatores como menor custo, e fácil utilização desta tecnologia. Num sistema de navegação terrestre, assim como na navegação marítima, fluvial e aérea, um mapa digitalizado, ou imagem de satélite disponível da região de interesse é exibida na tela do computador de bordo e a posição do veículo é apresentada em "tempo real" a partir da posição fornecida por receptores GPS. Além disso, a comunicação disponível nos dias de hoje permite uma maior integração entre o veículo e o escritório. Finalmente, o Google Earth permite que se tenha acesso a uma grande quantidade de informações necessárias ao desenvolvimento de inúmeros trabalhos, permitindo inclusive a inserção de fotos e imagens para registro dos acontecimentos. O potencial deste tipo de sistema só foi possível a partir de maio de 2000, com a eliminação da SA (Selective Availability).Com isso, o posicionamento absoluto realizado por receptores de navegação (menos precisos do que os receptores geodésicos) foi aprimorado, podendo conseguir precisões da ordem de 10m, o que aumenta a qualidade de aplicações como a navegação terrestre. A proposta desta dissertação é descrever o desenvolvimento de um protótipo veicular para aplicações de campo em Geociências, onde foi incluída a navegação em tempo real, o uso da internet para a comunicação pessoal e interface de acesso ao Google Earth. O protótipo desenvolvido permite a extensão de parte da infra-estrutura de um laboratório para apoio das atividades de campo. / In our days the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is a technology with a great variety of military and civilian applicability. Among this uses, navigation is one activity that is largely increasing in reason to lowering equipment prices and introduced facilities as easy to use technology. In practice, a system structured to navigate in terrestrial, maritime, fluvial or aerial way is formed by a GPS connected to an onboard computer and video equipped with appropriate software that process in a instantaneous mode (real time) all the information necessary to show on screen the geographical position of the vehicle. In parallel, new advances in network communication open the possibility to integrate completely the vehicle in movement with the staff in the office. Also, the Geoogle Earth™ and World Wide Web increase the facilities to view online the terrain and open the possibility to user interact directly with routines that insert local photo and images. Navigate with accuracy using a single-receiver GPS linked to a computer was only possibly after May of 2000, when the SA (Selective Availability) was excluded from GPS signal. Consequently, absolute positioning with one band handled GPS (low accuracy when compared to geodetic two bands GPS) was tested and the results show the availability to locate points in the Earth surface with an uncertainty degree not above than 10 meters (in terms of planimmetric coordinates). This performance increases the data quality and the ability of single-receiver GPS to be used to navigation purposes. In this work, it is assembled and tested a navigation system prototype installed in a vehicle with the objective to optimize field survey and adapted to some geosciences necessities, including the possibility to navigate in real time integrated with Internet facilities to personal communication and with an interface to access the Google Earth™. The configuration of the navigation system prototype elaborated in this project permit to extend to the field some facilities only accessible in a laboratory environment and consequently the results obtained with the system increased the performance of all the field work stages.

abstract: This work implements three switched mode power amplifier topologies namely inverse class-D (CMCD), push-pull class-E and inverse push-pull class-E, in a GaN-on-Si process for medium power level (5-10W) femto/pico-cells base-station applications. The presented power amplifiers address practical implementation design constraints and explore the fundamental performance limitations of switched-mode power amplifiers for cellular band. The designs are analyzed and compared with respect to non-idealities like finite on-resistance, finite-Q of inductors, bond-wire effects, input signal duty cycle, and supply and component variations. These architectures are designed for non-constant envelope inputs in the form of digitally modulated signals such as RFPWM, which undergo duty cycle variation. After comparing the three topologies, this work concludes that the inverse push-pull class-E power amplifier shows lower efficiency degradation at reduced duty cycles. For GaN based discrete power amplifiers which have less drain capacitance compared to GaAs or CMOS and where the switch loss is dominated by wire-bonds, an inverse push-pull class-E gives highest output power at highest efficiency. Push-pull class-E can give efficiencies comparable to inverse push-pull class-E in presence of bondwires on tuning the Zero-Voltage Switching (ZVS) network components but at a lower output power. Current-Mode Class-D (CMCD) is affected most by the presence of bondwires and gives least output power and efficiency compared to other two topologies. For systems dominated by drain capacitance loss or which has no bondwires, the CMCD and push-pull class-E gives better output power than inverse push-pull class-E. However, CMCD is more suitable for high breakdown voltage process. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2015

One of the primary tasks of the mobile system designers in order to support high density of devices in a CDMA system is to create a code sequence with a capacity for large number of spreading code sequences having low cross-correlation values between them, in order to ensure accommodation of large number of users and to minimise the effect of multiple access interference. In this research, the design for a novel hybrid orthogonal very large set (HOVLS) code sequence is proposed for high density mobile application scenarios. The design and development of both fixed and variable spreading factor code sequences are presented in this thesis. Both type of code sequences have been implemented via simulation using Matlab/Simulink. The performance of the code sequences has been evaluated and compared with that of existing code sequences. The proposed code sequences are more advantageous for high density mobile networks. The unique feature of the fixed length HOVLS code sequence is that its ACF, CCF, and BER performances are similar to that of orthogonal Gold code sequence and orthogonal m-sequence under Rayleigh flat and frequency selective fading channel conditions while having a significantly higher capacity than those orthogonal code sequences. The proposed HOVLS code sequence could support 134 different cells which is more than twice than that of orthogonal Gold code sequence and orthogonal m-sequence. To the knowledge of the author, this is the largest reported family size in the literature for an orthogonal code sequence for CDMA applications. In order to support variable data rate, fixed length HOVLS code sequence was developed into orthogonal variable spreading factor code sequence. It is shown that the proposed OVSF code sequence has slightly better CCF than those of OVSF Gold code sequence and m-sequence in terms of CM (correlation margin). The ACF of the proposed OVSF code sequence is similar to those of OVSF Gold code sequence and m-sequence. The proposed OVSF code sequence possesses comparable BER performance to those of orthogonal Gold code sequence and orthogonal m-sequence under flat fading channel condition. Whereas, the BER performance of the proposed OVSF code sequence is slightly better than that of Gold code sequence and OVSF m-sequence under frequency selective fading channel. Therefore, the proposed HOVLS code sequence is appropriate code sequence in CDMA systems than those of orthogonal Gold code sequence and orthogonal m-sequence for both fixed and variable rate high density network applications.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, 2006. / Submitted by Priscilla Brito Oliveira (priscilla.b.oliveira@gmail.com) on 2009-11-19T11:04:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Saulo Benigno Puttini.pdf: 821913 bytes, checksum: eddf4de73e711bc66889683da5bb64d2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Carolina Campos(carolinacamposmaia@gmail.com) on 2010-01-20T19:23:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Saulo Benigno Puttini.pdf: 821913 bytes, checksum: eddf4de73e711bc66889683da5bb64d2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-01-20T19:23:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Saulo Benigno Puttini.pdf: 821913 bytes, checksum: eddf4de73e711bc66889683da5bb64d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Este trabalho fundamenta-se em propor e avaliar o desempenho de um modelo receptor adaptativo, com utilização de arranjo de sensores, a ser empregado em meios de multiplicidade de acesso via divisão por códigos (CDMA) para fins de estimação de dados. Inicialmente é apresentado um estudo sobre arranjos de antenas, desenvolvendo-se o equacionamento de um arranjo linear e uniforme (ULA). Enfatiza-se o emprego deste para fins de separação espacial de usuários, sendo relatadas e ilustradas algumas formas de conformação de feixe. A seguir, o trabalho aborda o emprego de algoritmos adaptativos, especialmente o método de Wiener e filtro de Mínima Média Quadrática (LMS), para arranjos de sensores, originando os tão conhecidos arranjos adaptativos. Prosseguindo, aborda-se o problema de estimação da direção de chegada (DOA), sendo ilustrados alguns métodos amplamente difundidos na literatura especializada. Algumas simulações de espectro espacial de potência são realizadas, visando a avaliar, principalmente, a capacidade de resolução e a imunidade em relação ao ruído. É apresentado, então, uma metodologia de estimação de DOA como resultado secundário de arranjos adaptativos. Na continuidade, são mostradas algumas características da técnica de espalhamento espectral, essencial para a implementação do acesso múltiplo por divisão no código. Neste contexto, discute-se o problema de sincronismo nas aplicações CDMA, sendo apresentado um algoritmo de detecção de atrasos, baseado em correlação temporal. Finalmente, exibe-se o receptor CDMA adaptativo proposto, avaliado sob diferentes situações de ruído, interferência, controle de potência e quantidade de sensores. É dado tratamento especial às situações de acompanhamento de usuários em movimento, no qual se enfoca a capacidade do receptor em adaptar seu diagrama de radiação às condições de mudança de direção das fontes de sinal. Por meio das simulações, constata-se que, tendo como única informação disponível os códigos de espalhamento, o receptor mostra-se capaz de recuperar o sinal original, separar espacialmente as fontes de interesse e rastrear os usuários do sistema, quando estes se encontravam em movimento. Os resultados apresentados são extremamente satisfatórios. Percebeu-se uma alta imunidade do modelo em relação ao aumento de ruído de fundo do ambiente e uma considerável robustez em relação à interferência co-canal. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This work founds in proposing and evaluating the performance of an adaptive receptor model, applying array of sensors, for use in code division multiple access (CDMA) mediums for data estimation. First, a basic study about antenna arrays is presented, followed by the development of the algebraic equations of the linear uniform array (ULA). It is emphasized the use of these arrays for spatial separation, along with some considerations and illustrations of beamforming techniques. Moving forward, the thesis approaches the employment of adaptive algorithms, especially the Wiener and Least Mean Square (LMS) filters, in array of sensors, resulting in the widely known adaptive arrays. Next, the problem of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is attended, with several well recognized methods being displayed. Some simulations of power spatial spectrum are made, aiming to evaluate, mainly, the resolution ability and the noise immunity. Thus, a methodology applying adaptive algorithms for DOA estimation with array of sensors is signalized as a secondary result. The spread spectrum technique, along with its features and peculiarities, is showed on the continuity, emphasizing the use of the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) for CDMA mediums. Under this context, the synchronization problem is raised and treated, culminating in the presentation of an algorithm, based on temporal correlation, for delay detection. This algorithm was applied in the proposed receptor model. Finally, a CDMA adaptive receptor model is proposed, exhibited and tested under different conditions of noise, interference, power control and number of sensors. Special treatment is dedicated to the tracking of mobile users, where it is witnessed the aptness of the model in adapting its radiation pattern for dynamic situations. Through the simulations, it is showed that the receptor model is able to spatially separate the sources, recover the original signal and track the mobile users, having as sole previous information the code sequence of the sources itself. The attained results are pretty satisfactory. The model came up to be highly immune to medium noise and considerably robust to co-channel interference.

O Sistema de Posicionamento Global (GPS) permite uma grande variedade de aplicações civis e militares. Dentre as várias aplicações, uma de especial interesse é a navegação, que tem crescido muito nos últimos anos devido a fatores como menor custo, e fácil utilização desta tecnologia. Num sistema de navegação terrestre, assim como na navegação marítima, fluvial e aérea, um mapa digitalizado, ou imagem de satélite disponível da região de interesse é exibida na tela do computador de bordo e a posição do veículo é apresentada em "tempo real" a partir da posição fornecida por receptores GPS. Além disso, a comunicação disponível nos dias de hoje permite uma maior integração entre o veículo e o escritório. Finalmente, o Google Earth permite que se tenha acesso a uma grande quantidade de informações necessárias ao desenvolvimento de inúmeros trabalhos, permitindo inclusive a inserção de fotos e imagens para registro dos acontecimentos. O potencial deste tipo de sistema só foi possível a partir de maio de 2000, com a eliminação da SA (Selective Availability).Com isso, o posicionamento absoluto realizado por receptores de navegação (menos precisos do que os receptores geodésicos) foi aprimorado, podendo conseguir precisões da ordem de 10m, o que aumenta a qualidade de aplicações como a navegação terrestre. A proposta desta dissertação é descrever o desenvolvimento de um protótipo veicular para aplicações de campo em Geociências, onde foi incluída a navegação em tempo real, o uso da internet para a comunicação pessoal e interface de acesso ao Google Earth. O protótipo desenvolvido permite a extensão de parte da infra-estrutura de um laboratório para apoio das atividades de campo. / In our days the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is a technology with a great variety of military and civilian applicability. Among this uses, navigation is one activity that is largely increasing in reason to lowering equipment prices and introduced facilities as easy to use technology. In practice, a system structured to navigate in terrestrial, maritime, fluvial or aerial way is formed by a GPS connected to an onboard computer and video equipped with appropriate software that process in a instantaneous mode (real time) all the information necessary to show on screen the geographical position of the vehicle. In parallel, new advances in network communication open the possibility to integrate completely the vehicle in movement with the staff in the office. Also, the Geoogle Earth™ and World Wide Web increase the facilities to view online the terrain and open the possibility to user interact directly with routines that insert local photo and images. Navigate with accuracy using a single-receiver GPS linked to a computer was only possibly after May of 2000, when the SA (Selective Availability) was excluded from GPS signal. Consequently, absolute positioning with one band handled GPS (low accuracy when compared to geodetic two bands GPS) was tested and the results show the availability to locate points in the Earth surface with an uncertainty degree not above than 10 meters (in terms of planimmetric coordinates). This performance increases the data quality and the ability of single-receiver GPS to be used to navigation purposes. In this work, it is assembled and tested a navigation system prototype installed in a vehicle with the objective to optimize field survey and adapted to some geosciences necessities, including the possibility to navigate in real time integrated with Internet facilities to personal communication and with an interface to access the Google Earth™. The configuration of the navigation system prototype elaborated in this project permit to extend to the field some facilities only accessible in a laboratory environment and consequently the results obtained with the system increased the performance of all the field work stages.

Abstract Multicarrier and multiple input–multiple output (MIMO) techniques have become popular in wireless communications over multipath fading channels in recent years. This thesis firstly considers the characterization and simulation of fading mobile radio channels for MIMO multicarrier systems. Secondly, the performance of spread-spectrum multicarrier (MC) code-division multiple-access (CDMA) with multirate transmission is analyzed. Thirdly, the analysis is applied to ultra-wideband (UWB) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems enhanced with frequency-domain code-division multiplexing (CDM). The response of a small-scale fading channel is derived as a function of time, transmit and receive antenna positions, and subcarrier frequency, which leads to a tapped delay-line model with time-, space-, and frequency-selective taps. The taps are modeled as a sum of a deterministic line-of-sight or dominant scattered path and a zero-mean Gaussian part composed of a number of unresolvable scattered paths and, therefore, are Rice fading. The Gaussian parts have the desired temporal and spatiospectral correlations generated by time-correlation shaping filtering and a space-frequency correlation transformation, respectively. The simulator achieves a good accuracy while retaining a reasonable computational complexity. The generic performance analysis of MC-CDMA includes both the multicode and variable spreading factor (VSF) multirate schemes that are inherent for CDMA and capable of providing efficient support for services of different required data rates. The analysis also takes into account the intersymbol interference caused by the multipath delay components exceeding a guard interval, which is commonly omitted in the literature by assuming the guard interval to be longer than the maximum delay spread. Results comparing and pointing out notable differences in the error rate performance of the two multirate schemes in conjunction with six different combining techniques are presented for a synchronous downlink and both a synchronous and asynchronous uplink. The analysis of CDM-enhanced OFDM-UWB involves first a single piconet with different combinations of the VSF and multicode schemes. Frequency-domain spreading is found to improve the performance remarkably when a sufficient spreading factor and a suitable subcarrier combining method are used. Subsequently, CDMA of simultaneously operating piconets (SOPs) with either the VSF or multicode scheme is considered. While both multirate schemes result in a similar performance when the number of SOPs is large, notable differences arise when there are only a few SOPs.

Abstract This dissertation aimed at developing a multi-modal sensing u-healthcare system (MSUS), which reflects the unique properties of a healthcare application in a wireless sensor network. Together with health parameters, such as ECG, SpO2 and blood pressure, the system also transfers context-aware data, including activity, position and tracking data, in a wireless sensor network environment at home or in a hospital. Since packet loss may have fatal consequences for patients, health-related data are more critical than most other types of monitoring data. Thus, compared to environmental, agricultural or industrial monitoring, healthcare monitoring in a wireless environment imposes different requirements and priorities. These include heavy data traffic with wavelike parameters in wireless sensor network and fatal data loss due to the traffic. To ensure reliable data transfer in a wireless sensor network, this research placed special emphasis on the optimization of sampling rate, packet length and transmission rate, and on the traffic reduction method. To improve the reliability and accuracy of diagnosis, the u-healthcare system also collects context-aware information on the user’s activity and location and provides real-time tracking. Waveform health parameters, such as ECG, are normally sampled in the 100 to 400 Hz range according to the monitoring purpose. This type of waveform data may incur a heavy burden in wireless communication. To reduce wireless traffic between the sensor nodes and the gateway node, the system utilizes on-site ECG analysis implemented on the sensor nodes as well as query architecture. A 3D VRML viewer was also developed for the realistic monitoring of the user’s moving path and location. Two communication methods, an 802.15.4-based wireless sensor network and a CDMA cellular network are used by sensors placed on the users’ bodies to gather medical data, which is then transmitted to a server PC at home or in the hospital, depending on whether the sensor is within or outside the range of the wireless sensor network.

In spread spectrum systems employing parity bit selected spreading sequences, parity bits generated from a linear block encoder are used to select a spreading code from a set of mutually orthogonal spreading sequences. In this thesis, turbo receivers for SS-PB systems are proposed and investigated. In the transmitter, data bits are rst convolutionally encoded before being fed into SS-PB modulator. In fact, the parity bit spreading code selection technique acts as an inner encoder in this system without allocating any transmit energy to the additional redundancy provided by this technique. The receiver implements a turbo processing by iteratively exchanging the soft information on coded bits between a SISO detector and a SISO decoder. In this system, detection is performed by incorporating the extrinsic information provided by the decoder in the last iteration into the received signal to calculate the likelihood of each detected bit in terms of LLR which is used as the input for a SISO decoder. In addition, SISO detectors are proposed for MC-CDMA and MIMO-CDMA systems that employ parity bit selected and permutation spreading. In the case of multiuser scenario, a turbo SISO multiuser detector is introduced for SS-PB systems for both synchronous and asynchronous channels. In such systems, MAI is estimated from the extrinsic information provided by the SISO channel decoder in the previous iteration. SISO multiuser detectors are also proposed for the case of multiple users in MC-CDMA and MIMO-CDMA systems when parity bit selected and permutation spreading are used. Simulations performed for all the proposed turbo receivers show a signi cant reduction in BER in AWGN and fading channels over multiple iterations.

Researchers have shown that by combining multiple input multiple output (MIMO) techniques with CDMA then higher gains in capacity, reliability and data transmission speed can be attained. But a major drawback of MIMO-CDMA systems is multiple access interference (MAI) which can reduce the capacity and increase the bit error rate (BER), so statistical analysis of MAI becomes a very important factor in the performance analysis of these systems. In this thesis, a detailed analysis of MAI is performed for binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) signals with random signature sequence in Raleigh fading environment and closed from expressions for the probability density function of MAI and MAI with noise are derived. Further, probability of error is derived for the maximum Likelihood receiver. These derivations are verified through simulations and are found to reinforce the theoretical results. Since the performance of MIMO suffers significantly from MAI and inter-symbol interference (ISI), equalization is needed to mitigate these effects. It is well known from the theory of constrained optimization that the learning speed of any adaptive filtering algorithm can be increased by adding a constraint to it, as in the case of the normalized least mean squared (NLMS) algorithm. Thus, in this work both linear and non-linear decision feedback (DFE) equalizers for MIMO systems with least mean square (LMS) based constrained stochastic gradient algorithm have been designed. More specifically, an LMS algorithm has been developed , which was equipped with the knowledge of number of users, spreading sequence (SS) length, additive noise variance as well as MAI with noise (new constraint) and is named MIMO-CDMA MAI with noise constrained (MNCLMS) algorithm. Convergence and tracking analysis of the proposed algorithm are carried out in the scenario of interference and noise limited systems, and simulation results are presented to compare the performance of MIMO-CDMA MNCLMS algorithm with other adaptive algorithms.

The semestral project deals with characteristics and theory of CDMA, OFDM and VSFOFCDM systems. As comparison and evaluation of these systems as transmission channel is being done for Matlab.