Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1983. / Also availalbe in microfilm.

Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Aero. / Includes bibliographical references. / M.S.

This project involved porting a Graphical Software Package (GSP) from the proprietary IDS-BO Gerber CAD system onto a more modern computer that would allow student access for further study and development. Because of the popularity of Unix as an "open systems environment", the computer chosen was an HP9000 using the HP-UX operating system. In addition, it was decided to implement a standard Graphical Kernel System (GKS) interface to provide further portability and to cater for the expected growth of the GKS as an international standard. By way of introduction, a brief general overview of computer graphics, some of the essential considerations for the design of a graphics package and a description of the work undertaken are presented. Then follows a detailed presentation of the two systems central to this project i) the lDS-8O Gerber proprietary CAD system, with particular attention being paid to the Graphical Software Package (GSP) which it uses and ii) the Graphical Kernel System (GKS) which has become a widely accepted international graphics standard. The major differences between the lDS-8O Gerber GSP system and the GKS system are indicated. Following the theoretical presentation of the GSP and GKS systems, the practical work involved in first implementing a "skeleton" GKS interface on the HP9000 Unix System, incorporating the existing Advanced Graphics Package (AGP) is presented. The establishment of a GKS interface then allows an lDS-8O Gerber GSP interface to be developed and mapped onto this. Detailed description is given of the methods employed for this implementation and the reasons for the data structures chosen. The procedures and considerations for the testing and verification of the total .system implemented on the HP9000 then follow. Original lDS-8O Gerber 2-D .applications software was used for the purpose of testing. The implementation of the data base that this software uses is also presented. Conclusions on system performance are finally presented as well as suggested areas for possible further work. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1989.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio University, June, 1999. / Title from PDF t.p.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1998. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 53 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-51).

APLAN is a computer software system developed to aid in an apparel company's management system. APLAN is designed to improve the efficiency of production management by combining the companies' main production activities in one system. This project was designed to use MYSQL as the database system. JSP (Java Server Pages) is an interface between MySQL and the web browser and the database access scheme is JDBC (JAVA Database Connectivity).

CAPES / Nesta tese são apresentados dois esquemas de comunicação cooperativa para redes cognitivas limitadas pelo máximo nível de interferência aceito na rede licenciada. Os esquemas são avaliados em função da probabilidade de outage, que representa a probabilidade de falha na comunicação. No primeiro esquema, a rede não licenciada é composta por uma fonte, um relay full-duplex dedicado e um destino. Contrastando com trabalhos anteriores, o modelo do sistema considera o enlace direto entre o transmissor e o destino não licenciados como informação útil. A análise apresentada inclui o efeito da interferência da rede licenciada, assim como, a auto-interferência no relay. Um esquema de alocação ótima de potência (OPA) é proposto. A estratégia OPA pode escolher entre dois modos de operação, a cooperação entre a fonte e relay ou transmissão direta da fonte. O esquema OPA proposto possui o melhor desempenho em termos de probabilidade de outage quando comparado com métodos concorrentes. No segundo esquema, o uso de codificação de rede é aplicado em um cenário cognitivo onde múltiplos usuários não licenciados cooperam entre si para enviar mensagens independentes ao destino não licenciado, ou seja, neste cenário não existem nós dedicados à transmissão da informação de um parceiro como no primeiro esquema. Os esquemas codificação de rede dinâmica (DNC) e codificação de rede dinâmica generalizada (GDNC) são avaliados em um cenário cognitivo, considerando um limite máximo de interferência na rede licenciada e uma potência máxima de transmissão para os nós não licenciados. A cooperação com codificação de rede é capaz de aumentar consideravelmente o desempenho da rede não licenciada quando comparado ao esquema decodifica-e-encaminha seletivo (SDF) e à transmissão direta sem cooperação. Adicionalmente, uma expressão analítica é derivada para a capacidade de -outage, sendo esta a máxima taxa de informação obtida pelos usuários não licenciados dada uma probabilidade de outage alvo. No intuito de maximizar a capacidade de -outage do esquema cognitivo GDNC, o número ótimo de pacotes de paridade é encontrado através do algoritmo de Dinkelbach. Uma comparação entre os dois esquemas propostos nesta tese, avaliando o uso de comunicação full-duplex no esquema com codificação de rede, é proposta como um direcionamento para trabalhos futuros. / In this work are presented two schemes of cooperative communication for cognitive radio networks limited by the maximum interference level acceptable at the licensed network. The schemes are evaluated in function of the outage probability, that is the probability of failure in the communication. In the first scheme, the unlicensed network is composed by a source, a dedicated full-duplex relay and a destination. Differently of previous works, the system model considers the direct link between the unlicensed transmitter and destination as useful information. The presented analysis includes the effect of the licensed interference, as well as, the self interference at the relay. Moreover, an optimal power allocation (OPA) scheme is proposed. The OPA strategy can choose between two modes of operation, cooperation between source and relay or source transmission only. The proposed OPA scheme has the best performance, when this is compared with concurrent schemes. In the second scheme, the use of network coding is applied in a cognitive scenario where multiple unlicensed users cooperate to send independent messages to the unlicensed destination, thus, in this scenario there are not dedicated nodes to transmission of partner information as in the first scheme. The dynamic network coding (DNC) and generalized dynamic network coding (GDNC) schemes are evaluated in a cognitive scenario, under a given maximum interference constraint set by the licensed network, as well as, the maximum transmit power limit of the unlicensed sources. The cooperation with network coding can provide significant gains in terms of performance, when compared to non cooperative or selective decode-and-forward (SDF) cooperative techniques. Also, a closed-form equation is obtained for the -outage capacity, which is the maximum information rate achieved by the secondary sources given a target outage probability. In order to maximize the -outage capacity of the cognitive GDNC, the optimum number of parity packets is found through Dinkelbach algorithm. A comparison between the two proposed schemes in this thesis, by analysing the use of full-duplex communication in the scheme with network coding, is proposed as a direction for future works.