A model to allow the design and evaluation of encapsulated ionic polymer transducers is developed. This model in based on a linearly coupled, two port, electrical equivalent circuit model (Newbury, 2002). The proposed model incorporates multilayer beam theory to model the passive stiffness effects of the encapsulation layer and attempts to increase the prediction accuracy of the model by using distributed parameter system modeling to create the mechanical terms used in the model. Modal expansion is used to extend the applicability of the mechanical impedance terms through multiple resonances of the transducer. The test setup as well as the mathematical approach to characterize the viscoelastic properties of Nafion™ as they relate to this work is described and the results presented. The model simulation is then compared to measured experimental data taken for a number of ionic-polymer-metal composites before and after encapsulation. The applicable frequency range of the model is explored as well as data trends seen above previous frequency ranges (approximately 1 kHz). Free deflection was predicted to reduce by an order of magnitude when the transducers were encapsulated with Kapton™. This trend was observed and correlates well with the measured response. Charge sensing and blocked force were found to increase for a transducer after encapsulation; this could be due to the higher coherence obtained in testing after encapsulation and is not predicted by the model. The model predicts charge sensing and blocked force should remain constant with encapsulation. Low frequency blocked force data for any given transducer was observed to be roughly an order of magnitude greater than the sensing response, before and after encapsulation. There is no explanation for this observation, future work should investigate this phenomena. / Master of Science

The diploma thesis ’Virtualization of Operating Systems’ deals with a general description of virtualization technology and briefly discusses its use cases and advantages. The thesis also mentions examples of different types of virtualization technologies and tools, including more thorough description of the two technologies used for measurement: Docker and KVM. The second part of this thesis descibes the preparation, installation and configuration of all the tools and services that are necessary for measurement of the influence of the aforementioned virtualization technologies on network services running on the virtual machines, including analysis and discussion of the resulting data. Moreover, a custom application for fully automated measurement of the parameters of network services was created, and is also described in this thesis. The conclusion of this thesis summarizes and discusses the achieved results and acknowledges the influence of virtualization on network services, where the Docker application containers, which are with their low overhead comparable to a "bare" system without any virtualization, managed to achieve much better performance results than the traditional virtual machines on KVM.

Partial Reconfigurable FPGA provides ability of reconfigure the FPGA duringrun-time. But the reconfigurable part is disabled while performing reconfiguration. In order to maintain the functionality of system, data stream should be hold for RP during that time. Due to this feature, the reconfiguration time becomes critical to designed system. Therefore this thesis aims to build a functional partial reconfigurable system and figure out how much time the reconfiguration takes. A XILINX ML605 evaluation board is used for implementing the system, which has one static part and two partial reconfigurable modules, ICMP and HTTP. A Web Client sends different packets to the system requesting different services. These packets’ type information are analyzed and the requests are held by a MicroBlaze core, which also triggers the system’s self-reconfiguration. The reconfiguration swaps the system between ICMP and HTTP modules to handle the requests. Therefore, the reconfiguration time is defined between detection of packet type and completion of reconfiguration. A counter is built in SP for measuring the reconfiguration time. Verification shows that this system works correctly. Analyze of test results indicates that reconfiguration takes 231ms and consumes 9274KB of storage, which saves 93% of time and 50% of storage compared with static FPGA configuration.

The master’s thesis deals with computer networks, which are currently the global communication infrastructure and play a very important role in today’s society. Most of us can be unaware of how often we interact with these networks. We almost constantly come into contact with them. They allow us to communicate through the Internet via services such as: email, skype, icq, facebook, etc... The work focuses on the design and implementation of a robot designed for exploration and mapping of computer network topology and protocols HTTP and ICMP. The theoretical part is dedicated to computer networks, seventh and third-layer ISO/OSI model, protocol HTTP and ICMP attacks against DNS, DoS attacks and detection systems and avoiding distortaions.

This thesis deals with the design of three labs in the simulation environment OPNET IT Guru. The first lab demonstrates the differences between the RM OSI transport layer protocols - TCP and UDP. The second lab discusses the role of ICMP protocol and its most famous feature - PING. The third lab is devoted to Application Characterization Environment (ACE) module, which is included in OPNET IT Guru. Theoretical background is provided for all of the mentioned topics. All designed labs can be used to teach at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication of BUT on subjects dealing with network technologies.

<p>The use of microcontrollers and FPGAs is getting more and more wide spread in electronic designs. A recent developmenthas been to implement microcontrollers onboard the FPGA, there are a lot of benefits but also disadvantages with this. Often the microcontroler requires a lot of resources in the expensive FPGA. This is where PicoBlaze, a microcontroller provided by Xilinx, fits in. It is designed with one main object, keep it as small and powerful as possible. </p><p>In this report PicoBlaze is evaluated and documented. Two implementations have been done. One smaller to show how to use PicoBlaze and one larger implementation of an Ethernet network interface. The function of the implementations have been verified on a experiment board utilizing a Virtex-II FPGA. </p><p>The conclusion is that PicoBlaze is a very powerful microcontroller in comparison to the resources it uses on the FPGA. It uses only a little more than 80 slices on a Virtex II FPGA. This is its main advantage, the disadvantages of PicoBlaze is its limited program memory and the limited address space.</p>

The use of microcontrollers and FPGAs is getting more and more wide spread in electronic designs. A recent developmenthas been to implement microcontrollers onboard the FPGA, there are a lot of benefits but also disadvantages with this. Often the microcontroler requires a lot of resources in the expensive FPGA. This is where PicoBlaze, a microcontroller provided by Xilinx, fits in. It is designed with one main object, keep it as small and powerful as possible. In this report PicoBlaze is evaluated and documented. Two implementations have been done. One smaller to show how to use PicoBlaze and one larger implementation of an Ethernet network interface. The function of the implementations have been verified on a experiment board utilizing a Virtex-II FPGA. The conclusion is that PicoBlaze is a very powerful microcontroller in comparison to the resources it uses on the FPGA. It uses only a little more than 80 slices on a Virtex II FPGA. This is its main advantage, the disadvantages of PicoBlaze is its limited program memory and the limited address space.

This thesis discusses the load testing tool JMeter and its opportunities for expansion by modules carrying out cyber attacks of the type Denial of Service (DoS). To begin with, there is a theoretical overview of cyber attacks of this type. The following chapter, talks about the JMeter tool, namely its functions and expansion options. After that, it is proceeded to the actual design and realization of the modules. The module implementing the attack HTTP Flood is created first. This module uses internal functions of the program JMeter. This new module is tested. Next chapter folows the procedure of creating modules, that use external generator of network traffic. Modules SYN Flood, ICMP Flood and NTP Flood are implemented using the generator Trafgen. Module implementing attack Slowloris uses a Python script as a generator of the attack. Finally, all the new modules are tested.

The aim of Master's thesis "Control and monitoring unit for optical link station" is design of hardware and software of unit, which provides remote control and data transfer through Internet. It is required monitoring and setting analog parameters of optical link station by web service. It includes description of Ethernet and net protocols. The core of unit are microcontroller C8051F120 and ethernet controller CP2200 made by Silicon Laboratories.

The thesis discusses about modern geolocation methods and it describes the basic principles of their work. The work is divided into 2 parts - the theoretical one and the practical one. The first part of the thesis is focused on the description of these methods and on the explanation of its basic concepts which are used for determining of the physical position of the station according to its IP address. The second more extensive part of the work focuses on the description of the realization of algorithm in the Octant method in the programming language of Java and its use in the experimental net of PlanetLab. One important thing is to create a set of reference points and targets, which are necessary for the testing of the whole algorithm of the Octant Method. The results of estimated accuracy of target location obtained by the Octant method and their comparison with the results obtained by active methods of CBG, SOI and with the passive method of GeoIP are listed at the end of this work.