ITC/USA 2013 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Ninth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 21-24, 2013 / Bally's Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV / High speed real-time data transportation is most important for telemetry systems, especially for large-scale distributed systems. This paper introduces a STDM (Sync Time Division Multiplexing) network structure for data transportation between devices in telemetry systems. The data in these systems is transported through virtual channels between devices. In addition, a proper frame format is designed based on PCM format to meet the needs of synchronization and real-time transportation in large-scale distributed telemetry systems.

<p>At Saab Aerosystems, situated in Linköping Sweden, there is a presentation and manoeuvre simulator simulating the fighter jet JAS-39 Gripen. This flight simulator is called PMSIM. In this thesis we study how to transfer sensor images generated by PMSIM to other simulators or desktop computers. The transmission is band-limited so some kind of image coding must be used. Because of this the greater part of this thesis is concerned with image coding. </p><p>To fulfill the real time requirement the image coding has to be quite simple and the transmission has to be fast. To achieve fast transmission the network protocol has to use as little overhead information as possible. Such a protocol has therefore been designed and implemented. </p><p>This report also includes a survey about real radio links. This survey investigates how the quality of the video stream can be affected by noise and other disturbing elements. </p><p>The work in this report revolves around the implementation of a video link. The purpose of this link is to transmit and display sensor images. The link consists mainly of the three following parts: image coder, network link and image player. The image coding has been focused on MPEG and wavelets. </p><p>The wavelet technique is not a well known coding principle for video applications. Although as a coding technique for still images the technique is well known. For instance it is used in the JPEG2000-standard. Experiments conducted and published in this report suggest that for some applications the wavelet technique can be a viable candidate, with respect to the MPEG technique, for a video coder.</p>

Real time applications over IP network became widely used in different fields; social video conference, online educational lectures, industrial, military, and online robotic medical surgery. Online medical surgery over IP network has experienced rapid growth in the last few years primarily due to advances in technology (e.g., increased bandwidth; new cameras, monitors, and coder/decoders (CODECs)) and changes in the medical care environment (e.g., increased outpatient care, remote surgeries). The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the impact of IP networks parameters; delay, jitter, throughput, and drop packet on the performance of real-time medical surgery videos sent across different IP networks; native IPv6, native IPv4, 6to4 and 6in4 tunneling transition mechanisms and compare the behavior of video packets over IP networks. The impact of each parameter over IP networks is examined by using different video codecs MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. This study has been carried out with two main parts; theoretical and practical part, the theoretical part of this study focused on the calculations of various delays in IP networks such as transmission, processing, propagation, and queuing delays for video packet, while the practical part includes; examining of video codecs throughput over IP networks by using jperf tool and examining delay, jitter, and packet drops for different packet sizes by using IDT-G tool and how these parameters can affect quality of received video. The obtained theoretical and practical results were presented in different tables and plotted into different graphs to show the performance of real time video over IP networks. These results confirmed that video codecs MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 were highly impacted by encapsulation and de-capsulation process except MPEG-4 codec, MPEG-4 was the least impacted by IPv4, IPv6, and IP transition mechanisms concerning throughput and wastage bandwidth. It also indicated that using IPv6-to-4 and IPv6-in-4 tunneling mechanisms caused more bandwidth wastage, high delay, jitter, and packet drop than IPv4 and IPv6.

At Saab Aerosystems, situated in Linköping Sweden, there is a presentation and manoeuvre simulator simulating the fighter jet JAS-39 Gripen. This flight simulator is called PMSIM. In this thesis we study how to transfer sensor images generated by PMSIM to other simulators or desktop computers. The transmission is band-limited so some kind of image coding must be used. Because of this the greater part of this thesis is concerned with image coding. To fulfill the real time requirement the image coding has to be quite simple and the transmission has to be fast. To achieve fast transmission the network protocol has to use as little overhead information as possible. Such a protocol has therefore been designed and implemented. This report also includes a survey about real radio links. This survey investigates how the quality of the video stream can be affected by noise and other disturbing elements. The work in this report revolves around the implementation of a video link. The purpose of this link is to transmit and display sensor images. The link consists mainly of the three following parts: image coder, network link and image player. The image coding has been focused on MPEG and wavelets. The wavelet technique is not a well known coding principle for video applications. Although as a coding technique for still images the technique is well known. For instance it is used in the JPEG2000-standard. Experiments conducted and published in this report suggest that for some applications the wavelet technique can be a viable candidate, with respect to the MPEG technique, for a video coder.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielGC_TESE_Capa_pag90.pdf: 3923138 bytes, checksum: b23776867381c62bd332c913640275ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-29 / The development of wireless sensor networks for control and monitoring functions has created a vibrant investigation scenario, covering since communication aspects to issues related with energy efficiency. When source sensors are endowed with cameras for visual monitoring, a new scope of challenges is raised, as transmission and monitoring requirements are considerably changed. Particularly, visual sensors collect data following a directional sensing model, altering the meaning of concepts as vicinity and redundancy but allowing the differentiation of source nodes by their sensing relevancies for the application. In such context, we propose the combined use of two differentiation strategies as a novel QoS parameter, exploring the sensing relevancies of source nodes and DWT image coding. This innovative approach supports a new scope of optimizations to improve the performance of visual sensor networks at the cost of a small reduction on the overall monitoring quality of the application. Besides definition of a new concept of relevance and the proposition of mechanisms to support its practical exploitation, we propose five different optimizations in the way images are transmitted in wireless visual sensor networks, aiming at energy saving, transmission with low delay and error recovery. Putting all these together, the proposed innovative differentiation strategies and the related optimizations open a relevant research trend, where the application monitoring requirements are used to guide a more efficient operation of sensor networks / O desenvolvimento de redes de sensores sem fio para fun??es de controle e monitoramento tem criado um pulsante cen?rio de investiga??o, abrangendo desde aspectos da comunica??o em rede at? quest?es como efici?ncia energ?tica. Quando sensores s?o equipados com c?meras para fun??es de monitoramento visual, um novo escopo de desafios ? lan?ado, uma vez que h? uma mudan?a significativa nos requisitos de monitoramento e transmiss?o. Em particular, sensores visuais coletam dados seguindo um modelo direcional de monitoramento, alterando conceitos j? estabelecidos de vizinhan?a e redund?ncia, por?m tornando poss?vel a diferencia??o de sensores pelas suas relev?ncias de monitoramento para a aplica??o. Nesse contexto, propomos que a relev?ncia de monitoramento dos sensores fontes sejam exploradas em conjunto com a codifica??o de imagens por transformada DWT, unindo assim dois diferentes escopos de relev?ncia para a cria??o de novos par?metros de QoS. Essa abordagem inovadora permite uma nova gama de otimiza??es da opera??o da rede, possibilitando aumento de desempenho com pequenas perdas na qualidade global de monitoramento. Al?m da defini??o de um novo conceito de relev?ncia e a proposi??o de mecanismos para suportar sua utiliza??o pr?tica, cinco diferentes otimiza??es da transmiss?o de imagens em redes de sensores visuais sem fio s?o propostas, visando economia de energia, transmiss?o com baixo atraso e recupera??o de erros. Em conjunto, as estrat?gias de diferencia??o e as otimiza??es relacionadas abrem uma importante vertente de pesquisa, onde os requisitos de monitoramento das aplica??es s?o utilizados para guiar uma opera??o mais eficiente da rede

Les applications multimédias, dans les réseaux de capteurs sans fil, véhiculent des données volumineuses, qui nécessitent un taux de transmission élevé et un traitement intensif et par conséquent une consommation d'énergie importante. Transmettre efficacement ces flux hétérogènes, tout en assurant leur fiabilité et garantir les exigences de QoS, avec les ressources limitées disponibles, en particulier dans les contextes critiques, demeure un verrou scientifique ouvert. C’est pourquoi, dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous nous sommes intéressés aux aspects liés : au routage, à la tolérance aux pannes et à la gestion des interférences dans les RCMSF.Compte tenu, du très faible nombre de protocoles de routage, qui ont approché la phase expérimentale et encore moins ceux qui l’ont abordé pendant la transmission des données en temps réel, nous avons développé dans ce contexte, un protocole routage géographique baptisé GNMFT (Geographic Non-interfering Multipath Fault-tolerant),En premier lieu, nous avons amélioré le mode de sélection des nœuds, utilisé par le transfert glouton, pour faire face au problème du Minimum-local, où une fonction objective multicritères (distance, énergie et puissance de réception) relative au choix du prochain saut a été définie. Puis, nous avons introduit une phase d’optimisation des chemins construits afin d’éliminer les boucles et une approche adaptative gérant les transmissions simultanées des différents trafics.Par la suite, nous nous sommes orientés vers la tolérance aux pannes, pour assurer la fiabilité des données transmises ainsi que la connectivité du réseau. A cet effet, nous avons modélisé le nombre des paquets perdus durant la livraison des paquets et proposé deux mécanismes : un curatif pour réparer les défaillances soudaines et un préventif afin d’anticiper l’épuisement des batteries. Les deux mécanismes sont combinés avec une stratégie de basculement dynamique lors de la construction des chemins alternatives.En dernier lieu, nous avons présenté un modèle d’interférence et un troisième mécanisme qui limite les interactions entre les liens adjacents. De plus, nous avons défini également un modèle de perte de chemins dans un environnement multi-paires (source,sink) et nous avons calculé le coefficient de probabilité d’erreurs basée sur une fonction de distance qui sépare les flux de données. Une nouvelle métrique a été ajouté dans la fonction objective, relative à la somme des bruits des nœuds actifs qui interférent sur les nœuds du ForwardingSet du nœud courant.Les résultats obtenus montrent l’efficacité des approches proposées qui ont été étudiées et validées à la fois par simulation et sur un banc d’essai expérimental. / Multimedia applications in WSNs convey large data (image, audio and video) that requires high transmission rate and intensive treatment and therefore high energy consumption. Effectively transmit these heterogeneous flows, while ensuring their reliability and guaranteeing QoS requirements, with the limited resources available, especially in critical contexts, remains an open scientific problem. That is why, in this thesis, we are interested in aspects related to : routing, fault tolerance and interference management in WMSNs.Given the very low number of routing protocols, that have approached the experimental phase and still less those who approached it during data transmission in real time, we developed in this context, a geographic routing protocol baptised GNMF (Geographic Non-interfering Multipath Fault-tolerant),First, we improved node's selection mode used by the greedy-forwarding, to deal with local minimum problem, where a multi-criteria objective function (distance, energy and reception power) related to next-hop choice has been defined. Then, we introduced an optimization phase of built paths to eliminate loops and an adaptive approach to manage simultaneous traffic transmissions.After that, we oriented towards fault tolerance, to ensure transmitted data reliability and network connectivity. To this end, we modeled the number of lost packets during package delivery and proposed two mechanisms. The curative is used when sudden failures occurs and the preventive to anticipate batteries depletion. Both are combined with a dynamic failover strategy during alternative paths construction.Finally, we presented an interference model and a third mechanism that limits interactions between adjacent links. In addition, we also defined a path loss model in a multipairs environment (source, sink) and computed the error probability coefficient based on a distance function that separates the data flows. A new metric has been added in the objective function, related to noise sum of the active nodes that interferes on forwarding set nodes of the current node.Obtained results show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches that have been studied and validated both by simulation and on an experimental testbed.