La technique ultra large bande (UWB) par impulsions consiste à émettre des impulsions de courte durée et de faible énergie offrant ainsi la possibilité de transmettre de l'information à de hauts débits et à faible coût. Dans cette thèse nous nous sommes intéressés aux systèmes ultra large bande à accès multiple par répartition de codes de saut temporel (TH-UWB) dans un contexte asynchrone et dans un environnement de propagation à trajets multiples. Un récepteur rake a été mis en place. Nous avons calculé de manière analytique la variance de l'interférence multi-utilisateur (MUI) en sortie de ce récepteur. Ceci nous a permis d'identifier les paires dites optimales qui minimisent cette variance. Nous avons constaté qu'utiliser ces paires permet d'améliorer significativement le taux d'erreur binaire du système. Une démarche similaire a été appliquée aux systèmes DS-UWB et DS-CDMA, en effet ces systèmes s'expriment analytiquement de manière identique au système TH-UWB. Ainsi nous avons pu caractériser les paires optimales. Nous avons ensuite comparé les performances de ces différents systèmes lorsque la variance de la MUI est minimale. La variance de l'interférence entre symboles et entre trames (ISI / IFI) a été calculée analytiquement. Ceci nous a permis de dimensionner le récepteur rake et le temps de garde intelligemment. Nous avons également observé, en absence d'ISI / IFI et de bruit, un seuil sur la probabilité d'erreur. En modifiant légèrement le récepteur, nous avons éliminé ce seuil. Enfin nous avons établi les bornes de Cramer-Rao relatives à l'estimation des paramètres du canal (amplitudes et retards) en supposant que les trajets pouvaient se chevaucher.

Les simulations du lien radio des systèmes à étalement de spectre de troisième génération sont très lentes à exécuter à cause de la complexité des traitements réalisés. Cette complexité provient principalement de la simulation de la corrélation temporelle du canal multi-trajets et du récepteur en râteau qui fonctionne avec plusieurs échantillons par chip. Dans ce travail de thèse nous proposons principalement trois approches pour accélérer le temps de simulations: - La première consiste à exploiter la propriété de bande limitée du spectre Doppler du canal et à générer le canal par une chaîne de Markov de premier ordre suivie d'une interpolation. - La deuxième consiste à remarquer le fait que le spectre de l'énergie utile à la sortie du récepteur en râteau est aussi à bande limitée et à générer directement la sortie du récepteur par une chaîne de Markov d'ordre variable suivie d'une interpolation. - Lorsque les retards du canal ne sont pas des multiples de la durée d'un chip, le récepteur fonctionne avec plusieurs échantillons par chip permettant ainsi d'évaluer correctement les performances du système. La troisième approche consiste à trouver un canal multi-trajets équivalent au canal réel mais ayant des retards mutuellement indépendants et multiples de la durée d'un chip. Ceci permet d'éviter la simulation des filtres d'émission et de réception. Ces approches peuvent être combinées afin d'avoir des outils rapides de simulation du lien radio. Un autre aspect traité dans cette thèse est l'étude de l'effet de l'estimation usuelle du canal à partir des symboles pilotes sur les performances du système. Cette estimation a un impact important sur la boucle de contrôle de puissance pour les canaux ayant des retards inférieurs à la durée d'un chip.

High data rate applications are the trend in today's wireless technology. W-CDMA standard was designed to support such high data rates of up to 3.84 Mcps. The main purpose of this research was to analyze the feasibility of a fixed-point implementation of the W-CDMA downlink receiver algorithm on a general-purpose digital signal processor (StarCore SC140 by Motorola). The very large instruction word architecture of SC140 core is utilized to generate optimal implementation, to meet the real time timing requirements of the algorithm. The other main aim of this work was to study and evaluate the performance of the W-CDMA downlink structure with incorporated space-time transmit diversity. The effect of the channel estimation algorithm used was extensively studied too.

The profile of the poloidal velocity in the edge region of tokamak plasmas has been identified as playing a major role in the confinement of particles and energy. It has been suggested that a strongly sheared poloidal flow can reduce particle and energy losses by the stabilization of unstable modes and decorrelation of turbulence the edge region of the plasma. A Gundestrup probe, a Mach probe array, is used to measure both the parallel and perpendicular flow velocities in the Saskatchewan Torus-Modified (STOR-M) tokamak during several discharge conditions. It is observed that during Ohmic discharges there is no velocity shear and the direction of the parallel flow is independent of the direction of the toroidal magnetic field. During H-mode induced by a turbulent heating current pulse, a region of strong velocity shear develops in the plasma edge and an edge transport barrier develops. This results in a short period of improved particle and energy confinement with reduced fluctuation amplitudes. During electrode biasing experiments, a stainless steel biasing electrode is inserted into the plasma up to r = 82 mm and biased to +500 V relative to the vacuum chamber. It is observed that the particle confinement improves during the biasing phase while the energy confinement is degraded. A region of weak shear in the poloidal flow is observed in the plasma scrapeoff layer (SOL). The results from STOR-M are compared with results from data taken in the Czech Academy of Sciences Torus (CASTOR) tokamak during both Ohmic discharges and discharges with electrode biasing.

The direct sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) is one of the most promising multiplexing technologies for wireless communications. It is also a core technology used in the wideband CDMA (WCDMA) system for the third generation (3G) wireless communication systems. In practice, in the CDMA systems the incomplete orthogonal of the spreading codes between users may introduce the so-called multiple access interference (MAI). Usually, the near-far problem exists when the interfering users are assigned powers much higher than the desired user. Such that the system performance might degrade, dramatically, and thus limits the system capacity. To circumvent the above-mentioned problems many effective adaptive multiuser detectors, based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) and the minimum output energy (MOE) criteria subject to certain constraints have been proposed. In addition, to mitigate multipath fading effect, RAKE receiver was adopted due to the advantages of path diversity, thus, enhances the system performance. To implement the blind adaptive multiuser detector the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV), which is the constrained version of MOE, has been suggested. Further, the LCMV-based receivers exhibit high sensitivity to the channel mismatch caused by the unreliable estimation. To deal with this problem the constant modulus (CM) criterion was considered. In this dissertation, to deal with diverse phenomena encountered in practical channels, we first propose new blind adaptive multi-user detectors, based on the Min/Max criterion associated with the LCCM approach. For implementation the LC exponential window (EW) recursive least-square (RLS) algorithm is derived, and is referred to as the EW LCCM-RLS receiver. It can be used to effectively suppress the MAI and ISI, simultaneously, over multipath fading channels and are robust to mismatch problem caused by inaccuracies in the acquisition of timing and spreading code of the desired user. To reduce the complexity of the above-mentioned blind adaptive multi-user receiver with the LCCM-RLS algorithm, the so-called generalized sidelobe-canceller (GSC) structure is adopted, results in obtaining new CM-GSC-RLS algorithm. Moreover, to further improve the system performance for multipath fading and time-varying channel, the sliding window (SW) LCCM-RLS and SW CM-GSC-RLS algorithms are developed. It can be employed for multipath fading channel with the rapidly changing strong narrowband interference (NBI), which is joined suddenly to the CDMA systems. To look more inside the effect of selecting the initial value of the input signals autocorrelation matrix, some theoretical analyses for the SW LC-RLS as well as EW LC-RLS are provided. Since, unfortunately, the LCCM criterion is known to highly depend on the exact knowledge of the desired user amplitude that is not known exactly at receiver. In the final of this dissertation, a novel linearly constrained adaptive constant modulus RLS (LC-ACM-RLS) algorithm for blind DS-CDMA receiver is proposed. With this new proposed LC-ACM-RLS algorithm, the amplitude variation of the desired user, due to changing characteristics of the channel, can be tracked adaptively. Thus, better performance achievement, in terms of output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and bit error rate (BER), over the conventional LCCM-LMS and LCCM-RLS algorithms can be expected.

The technique of direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) cellular system has been the focus of increased attention. In this thesis, we will consider the environment of DS-CDMA systems, where the asynchronous narrow band interference due to other systems is joined suddenly to the CDMA system. The suddenly joined narrow band interference will make the system crush down. The main concern of this thesis is to deal with suddenly joined narrow band interference cancellation. An adaptive filtering algorithm based on sliding window criterion and variable forgetting factor is known to be very attractive for violent changing environment. In this thesis, a new sliding window linearly constrained recursive least squares (SW LC-RLS) algorithm and variable forgetting factor linearly constrained recursive least squares (VFF LC-RLS) algorithm on the modified minimum mean squared error (MMSE) structure [9] is devised for RAKE receiver in direct sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) system over multipath fading channels. Where the channel estimation scheme is accomplished at the output of adaptive filter. The proposed SW LC-RLS algorithm and VFF LC-RLS has the advantage of having faster convergence property and tracking ability, and can be applied to the environment, where the narrow band interference is suddenly joined to the system, to achieve desired performance. Via computer simulation, we show that the performance, in terms of mean square errors (MSE) and signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), is superior to the conventional LC-RLS and orthogonal decomposition-based LMS algorithms based on the MMSE structure [9].

In this thesis, we propose a cost-based CLEAN algorithm to accurately find dense multi-path parameters and improve the performance of selective RAKE receiver in indoor UWB systems. RAKE receiver can resolve the dense multi-path interference problems with the multi-path parameters. Because the weak paths are of lower valuable for system performance improvement, selective RAKE receiver combines only the strongest multi-path components and reduce the number of fingers to lower the complexity of RAKE receiver. However, selective RAKE receiver needs accurate multi-path detection to decide the suitable number and parameters of fingers. In order to improve the performance of selective RAKE receiver, the main issue in this thesis is to detect the best paths of channel with the CLEAN algorithm. CLEAN algorithm uses the correlation of the received signal and the template signal as the basis for searching paths. If there are closely adjacent paths, or if one of signal paths is relatively stronger, the detection error of paths may occur and thus affects the performance of the receiver. EP-based CLEAN algorithm uses the cost function and the evolutionary programming (EP) to search the multi-path delay times and gain coefficients for minimizing the cost function. Accurate multi-path detection and high resolution of adjacent paths can be obtained. However, EP-based CLEAN algorithm makes a time-consuming blind search. In the thesis, a CLEAN algorithm based on the cost function is proposed. The proposed cost-based CLEAN algorithm searches the delay times near the peaks of the cross-correlation for local minimum of the cost function, and then uses CLEAN algorithm to extract autocorrelation components and obtain the accurate multi-path detection. By testing the IEEE802.15.3a UWB channel models, and comparing with CLEAN algorithm, the cost-based CLEAN algorithm in the thesis can achieve better detection accuracy in multi-path searching, and improve the performance of selective RAKE receiver.

High data rate applications are the trend in today's wireless technology. W-CDMA standard was designed to support such high data rates of up to 3.84 Mcps. The main purpose of this research was to analyze the feasibility of a fixed-point implementation of the W-CDMA downlink receiver algorithm on a general-purpose digital signal processor (StarCore SC140 by Motorola). The very large instruction word architecture of SC140 core is utilized to generate optimal implementation, to meet the real time timing requirements of the algorithm. The other main aim of this work was to study and evaluate the performance of the W-CDMA downlink structure with incorporated space-time transmit diversity. The effect of the channel estimation algorithm used was extensively studied too.

This paper investigates how Aphra Behn's The Rover and Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside complicate understandings of femininity and masculine dominance over female sexuality. The paper looks specifically at the "rake," and how he instigates questions about female identity and sexual assault. The paper also looks at the rake in regards to adulterous relationships. Finally, the paper analyzes the use of the female perspective in The Rover to highlight the importance of framing discussions about femininity and female sexuality outside of male discourse.

Abstract High radio capacity is one of the main targets in wireless network planning. The characteristics of the broadband radio channel pose serious challenges for achieving this goal. This thesis views the capacity problem from two frameworks. In the first, the effective user capacity in advanced direct sequence wideband code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) radio networks is evaluated. Sensitivity to various imperfections in key system parameters is studied. The analysis is based on a mathematical foundation that presents complex signal models and enables evaluation of the performance losses due to parameter estimation errors and multipath fading. The effective number of users supported in a cell is restricted by the multiple access interference (MAI) in the same cell (intracell interference) and overall background noise. The studied wideband CDMA receiver structures comprise conventional rake receivers with both the maximal ratio combining (MRC) and equal gain combining (EGC) schemes that can be supplemented with either linear decorrelating or nonlinear successive cancellation-based multiuser detectors and M-antenna spatial diversity. The second framework focuses on direct sequence spread spectrum-based ultra wideband (UWB) indoor communications. Cochannel interference limited capacity is evaluated against the outage probability criterion in exponentially decaying lognormal multipath fading channels. Distance-dependence and spatial distribution of users is taken into account at different spatial cell configurations. Only moderate complexity partial rake receivers with noncoherent combining are employed. Total interference is composed of interpath, multipath, intracell, and intercell interference contributions. Lognormal sum approximations and simulations are used to evaluate distributions of the desired and interfering signals. The impact of the timing errors at the receiver monopulse correlation is studied. The numerical results for the wideband CDMA framework show that effective user capacity and sensitivity depend critically on the joint impact of nonidealities in system parameters (e.g., channel profile, severity of fading, receiver algorithms). User capacities of the studied multiuser enhanced receivers were more prone to these impairments than those of the simpler single user receivers. The results should be used for network planning and optimization. The numerical results of the UWB framework suggest that, even in the multipath rich channel, the optimal number of rake fingers can be less than half of the significant multipaths. Differences between circular, square, and hexagonal cell models proved to be minor with respect to link distance distributions. The derived link distance statistics are useful tools in the analytic piconet dimensioning and optimization.