Because the relatively long headers in voice packets may cause unnecessary waste in network bandwidth, in this Thesis, we propose a dynamic MUX/DEMUX mechanism to compress the overhead headers in the VoIP packets. The proposed mechanism can dynamically adjust the length of the compressed VoIP packets for multiple VBR voice connections in a mixed WLAN and WiMAX environment. QoS in terms of voice jitter can be guaranteed after the multiplexed voice packets are de-multiplexed. To validate the proposed mechanism, we implement two VoIP MUX/DEMUX gateways on Linux platform and place them in a mixed WLAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.16a) network at NSYSU campus. On the VoIP MUX/DEMUX gateways, we implement four functions; (i) the header formats of two different mini compressions, (ii) the mechanism of compressing voice packets, (iii) multiple waiting buffers, and (iv) the mechanism of dynamically adjusting waiting time of voice packets from different sources. According to the experimental results, the proposed VoIP MUX/DEMUX mechanism has shown that it can substantially save WiMAX bandwidth and consistently stabilize packet arrival interval (PAI) of voice packets under different levels of background traffic (constant or burst). Thus, the QoS of voice communications are guaranteed through our proposed mechanism.

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The data acquisition system COMET developed by Saab AB contains a unit for signal conditioning and A/D conversion, called KSM. The varieties in signal conditioning constitutes of a number of specific PBAs and maintenance as well as reconfiguration of these are complicated not to mention costly. This thesis has aimed to investigating whether the signal conditioning circuits can be replaced by a general purpose, programmable solution. If so, how can this be done? The development has been carried out by evaluating ideas through the use of a laboratory environment and has resulted in an analog design for laboratory purpose. A reconfigurable design is the result of this thesis as an alternative to the solution used today. In the proposed design mainly digital otentiometers, switches and MUXes are used. In that way signal path and overall behaviour can be selected. Some extensions have been made in comparison to the current functionality, but additional development is necessary to make the design complete. Future versions of the COMET system could be significantly improved by considering the result of this thesis when developing the signal conditioning circuitry.

<p>The data acquisition system COMET developed by Saab AB contains a unit for signal conditioning and A/D conversion, called KSM. The varieties in signal conditioning constitutes of a number of specific PBAs and maintenance as well as reconfiguration of these are complicated not to mention costly. This thesis has aimed to investigating whether the signal conditioning circuits can be replaced by a general purpose, programmable solution. If so, how can this be done? </p><p>The development has been carried out by evaluating ideas through the use of a laboratory environment and has resulted in an analog design for laboratory purpose. A reconfigurable design is the result of this thesis as an alternative to the solution used today. In the proposed design mainly digital otentiometers, switches and MUXes are used. In that way signal path and overall behaviour can be selected. Some extensions have been made in comparison to the current functionality, but additional development is necessary to make the design complete. </p><p>Future versions of the COMET system could be significantly improved by considering the result of this thesis when developing the signal conditioning circuitry.</p>

Nous nous intéressons dans cette thèse à la problématique de recommandation de tags dans les systèmes de partage et de classification sociale des ressources, dits folksonomies. Les utilisateurs annotent les ressources à partager par des tags librement choisis. Or, la liberté de choix de tags les rends ambigus. Nous proposons une nouvelle approche topologique nommé TLTR (Two Level Tag Recommendation)pour la recommandation de tags. TLTR est basée sur une approche originale de compression des graphes. Le graphe d'une folksonomie est compressé en appliquant une méthode de clustering sur chacune des trois composantes d'une folksonomie, à savoir: l'ensemble des utilisateurs, des ressources et des tags. Nous proposons également une méthode de clustering topologique basée sur une approche centrée graine pour la détection des communautés dans les graphes multiplexes. Une approche topologique classique, en occurrence la méthode Folkrank, est appliquée sur le graphe réduit afin de sélectionner les clusters de tags les plus appropriés. Ces clusters sont ensuite utilisés pour construire un autre graphe contextuel extrait du graphe original représentant la folksonomie. La méthode Folkrank est à nouveau appliquée afin de calculer la liste de tags à recommander. Des expérimentations sur des grandes folksonomies, notamment, des jeux de données extraits du système de partage des références bibliographiques Bibsonomy montrent la pertinence de notre approche. / We focus in this thesis on the problem of tag recommendation in social sharing to classification systems called folksonomies. Users of a folksonomy annotate their resources with freely tags chosen. We propose here a new topological approach for tags recommendation called TLTR (Two Level Tag Recommendation). TLTR (Two Level Tag Recommendation) is based on an original approach of graph compression. The graph of a folksonomy is compressed by a clustering each of the three components, namely the set of users, resources and tags. A topological clustering method based on a seed-centered approach for community detection in multiplex graphs is proposed. A classical topological approach, namely Folkrank, is applied to the reduced graph to select the most appropriate clusters of tags. These clusters are then used to build another contextual graph extracted from the original graph representing the folksonomy. Folkrank method is applied again to compute the list of tags to recommend. Experiments on large folksonomy, including, data extracted from references system Bibsonomy show the relevance of our approach.

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An optical network technology is the network technology that meets given requirements for a fast and reliable long-distance information transmission. Optical fibres can offer undoubted features where other communication technologies are near their limits or stand in front of insurmountable problems. The intensive research of last years is focused on optical transmission features utilization in the optimal way. Especially an optical signal processing in active network devices without a need for electrical conversation is a topic of high interest. V-Mux is an optical network device that accomplishes above mentioned requirements for modern optical network devices. It is a device that multiplexes and drops an optical signal in its native light form into or from optical fibre. Basic micro electro-mechanical components, which the V-Mux is built from, are high end precise devices. The whole complex V-Mux has to meet strict rules and specifications as the components itself. That is why a control system has to be included in the production process to keep quality and right functionality. This diploma thesis is focused on a development of the testing system that will help in the automated control procedure in the V-Mux production. A brief introduction to optical network technologies and a description of the GPIB bus form a first part of the thesis. The next part focuses on the V-Mux itself and the proposal of the test station with its component description. The last part deals with a developing of the software for the V-Mux testboard and a user application that will be used for the test system initialization.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California / The Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems (PFRMS) Program Office continually undertakes Stockpile Reliability Testing (SRP) to ensure the validity of the accumulated weapons and increase the she lf life of these weapon systems. MLRS is a legacy weapon system that has been undergoing SRP testing for over 20 years. The PFRMS Program Office has a need for a miniature Tactical Telemetry System that will monitor the fuze performance of the MLRS Rocket during SRP testing. This paper will address a technical approach of how a small Tactical Telemetry System could be built to meet this requirement. The Tactical Telemetry system proposed in this paper will monitor fuze functions, operate across the wide environmental spectrum of the SRP tests, and physically fit in the nose area without altering the overall tactical rocket appearance or operation.

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Master's thesis deals with the assessment of quality of Ultra HDTV video sequences applying objective metrics. Thesis theoretically describes coding of selected codecs H.265/HEVC and VP9, objective video quality metrics and also subjective methods for assessment of the video sequences quality. Next chapter deals with the implementation of the H.265/HEVC and the VP9 codecs at selected video sequences in the raw format from which arises the test sequences database. Quality of these videos is measured afterwards by objective metrics and selected subjective method. These results are compared for the purpose of finding the most consistent correlations among objective metrics and subjective assessment.