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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / This paper addresses the physical and MAC layer performance of the IEEE 802.11b wireless local area networking (WLAN) standard in range-extended outdoor applications for high speed network platforms. Physical layer performance is quantified by bit error rate (BER) and packet error rate (PER) vs. range performance as well as acquisition and tracking performance considering Doppler effects caused by such high-speed platforms. This performance assessment is ascertained through the use of modeling and simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / November 04-07, 1991 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / New techniques for using Ethernet in real time systems are applicable to the typical requirements of high performance Telemetry installations. Most TM installations around the world today are currently implemented using specialized, high speed, point-to-point data paths which have reached their limits in performance. By using Ethernet in real time as a “Data Highway” path, system performance is optimized, and the effective life of a Telemetry system can be significantly extended. Additionally, by integrating a Local Area Network into the system, further advantages are realized. New graphics display hardware and software may be used to provide virtually an “offthe-shelf”, and very cost-effective major system upgrade. Meanwhile, little modification to the host processor hardware or software system is required. This paper examines these premises, and discusses several examples of major Telemetry systems which have made this upgrade.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / The US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) uses a wireless local area network (WLAN) to gather test data. It is desired to extend this WLAN to support tests of gun-launched munitions where miniature and rugged data acquisition hardware will be required. The Two Way Robust Acquisition of Data (2-RAD) program has been initiated under the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (CTEIP) to develop a process to expand the use of WLAN technology, which is now primarily used at YPG for internal ballistic test data acquisition.

Thesis (M. Engin.)--Flinders University, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics. / Typescript bound. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-133). Also available online.

In general, rural areas in Africa are seen as unprofitable by operators and hence these areas do not benefit from typical wired Internet access. Due to the cost involved, only a small number of people in Africa benefit from the Internet. On the other hand, the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) has thoroughly penetrated Africa and in many cases unutilized capacity exists in rural areas. Since the cost of GSM services is still extremely high when compared to the average income of African communities, many organizations are now considering alternative business models for the provision of Internet access to disadvantaged populations. To try to bridge the digital divide, the aim of this contribution is to show that basic but affordable Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity can be provided to rural communities by using spare capacity on GSM networks to carry Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) traffic. Since the main problem with WLAN in Africa is not the last mile, but rather finding a way to connect the wireless access point to an existing backbone network, a solution to integrate WLAN with GSM is proposed.

The purpose of this research is twofold - the first objective being to develop Markovian models that can be used to analyze the performance of the various medium access control protocols of slotted ring type local area networks.

Dans l'évaluation d'Internet au cours des années, un grand nombre d'applications apparaissent, avec différentes exigences de service en termes de bande passante, délai et ainsi de suite. Pourtant, le trafic Internet présente encore une propriété de haute variabilité. Plusieurs études révèlent que les flux court sont en général liés à des applications interactives-pour ceux-ci, on s'attend à obtenir de bonne performance que l'utilisateur perçoit, le plus souvent en termes de temps de réponse court. Cependant, le schéma classique FIFO/drop-tail déployé des routeurs/commutateurs d'aujourd'hui est bien connu de parti pris contre les flux courts. Pour résoudre ce problème sur un réseau best-effort, nous avons proposé un nouveau et simple algorithme d'ordonnancement appelé EFD (Early Flow Discard). Dans ce manuscrit, nous avons d'abord évaluer la performance d'EFD dans un réseau câblé avec un seul goulot d'étranglement au moyen d'étendu simulations. Nous discutons aussi des variantes possibles de EFD et les adaptations de EFD à 802.11 WLAN - se réfèrent principalement à EFDACK et PEFD, qui enregistre les volumes échangés dans deux directions ou compte simplement les paquets dans une direction, visant à améliorer l'équité à niveau flot et l'interactivité dans les WLANs. Enfin, nous nous consacrons à profiler le trafic de l'entreprise, en plus de elaborer deux modèles de trafic-l'une qui considère la structure topologique de l'entreprise et l'autre qui intègre l'impact des applications au-dessus de TCP - pour aider à évaluer et à comparer les performances des politiques d'ordonnancement dans les réseaux d'entreprise classiques. / As the Internet evolves over the years, a large number of applications emerge with varying service requirements in terms of bandwidth, delay, loss rate and so on. Still, the Internet traffic exhibits a high variability property – the majority of the flows are of small sizes while a small percentage of very long flows contribute to a large portion of the traffic volume. Several studies reveal that small flows are in general related to interactive applications – for which one expects to obtain good user perceived performance, most often in terms of short response time. However, the classical FIFO/drop-tail scheme deployed in today’s routers/switches is well known to bias against short flows over long ones. To tackle this issue over a best-effort network, we have proposed a novel and simple scheduling algorithm named EFD (Early Flow Discard). In this manuscript, we first evaluate the performance of EFD in a single-bottleneck wired network through extensive simulations. We then discuss the possible variants of EFD and EFD’s adaptations to 802.11 WLANs – mainly refer to EFDACK and PEFD. Finally, we devote ourselves to profiling enterprise traffic, and further devise two workload models - one that takes into account the enterprise topological structure and the other that incorporates the impact of the applications on top of TCP - to help to evaluate and compare the performance of scheduling policies in typical enterprise networks.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Tests for missile defense systems are very complex, and present challenging issues for the extraction of target lethality data. Future tests will involve the use of multiple interceptors and targets with some of these assets following over-the-horizon (OTH) trajectories. The use of wireless local area network (WLAN) technologies for the acquisition of test data offers a novel approach to manage data bandwidths and link margins over-the-air (OTA) as functions of time and asset. Notional test scenarios are examined for the suitability of WLAN technologies to missile defense intercept testing.