Time Average Fourier Telescopy (TAFT) has been proposed as a means for obtaining high-resolution, diffraction-limited images over large distances through ground-level horizontal-path atmospheric turbulence. Image data is collected in the spatial-frequency, or Fourier, domain by means of Fourier Telescopy; an inverse two dimensional Fourier transform yields the actual image. TAFT requires active illumination of the distant object by moving interference fringe patterns. Light reflected from the object is collected by a “light-bucket” detector, and the resulting electrical signal is digitized and subjected to a series of signal processing operations, including an all-critical averaging of the amplitude and phase of a number of narrow-band signals. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This report documents the design, construction, and implementation of a differential-offset spread spectrum RFID system, to avoid the problem of anti-collision interference from multiple RFID tags. Currently in industry, this problem is handled by establishing a two way communication link between the tags and the interrogator. The proposed system eliminates the need for the excessive hardware use to create this link, and therefore drastically reduces the cost of each tag. Not only is this system cheaper to implement but it is faster, requires less power, and by the nature of the design contains an inherent encryption scheme for the data being transmitted. Specialized RFID tags were designed and fabricated in order to produce a pseudo random code unique to each tag. The design presented in this document allowed simultaneous interrogation of up to 255 tags within one sensing environment. Once queried, the tags then modulate the incoming signal from the interrogator with their own sequence, and reflect the signal back to the interrogator. What the interrogator then receives is a combination of backscatter from all of the tags within the sensing environment. Specialized software written in Matlab and LabView uses these unique sequences to isolate the data from a desired tag away from the sea of information being transmitted from every tag. Using this system, numerous applications for experiments and measurements can be devised. One such application this thesis focuses on is the use of this system to simultaneously measure signal strengths from multiple diversity antennas in order to optimize their position and orientation. Currently, the majority of antenna diversity measurements are taken by measuring the signal strength of a given configuration one antenna at a time. By using the anti-collision RFID system proposed above, the signal strength produced by both antennas can be measured and recorded simultaneously to provide a true representation of their combined performance. This measurement can be used to find the optimal configuration for multiple antennas. This thesis will fully explore the theories and procedures behind creating this system, and will provide the results and analysis of its performance.

Research in the field of random access protocols for narrow-band systems started as early as the 1970s with the introduction of the ALOHA protocol. From the research done in slotted narrow-band systems, it is well known that contention results in all the packets involved in the contention being unsuccessful. However, it has been shown that in the presence of unequal power levels, ore of the contending packets may be successful. Ibis is a phenomenon called capture. Packet capture has been shown to improve the performance of slotted narrow-band systems. Recently, much work has been done in the analysis of spread-spectrum ALOHA type code-division multiple access (CDMA) protocols. The issue of designing power control techniques to improve the performance of CDMA systems by reducing multiple access interference (MAl) has been a subject of much research. It has been shown that in the presence of power control schemes, the performance of spread-ALOHA CDMA systems is improved. However, it is also widely documented that the design of power control schemes capable of the ideal of compensation of radio propagation techniques is not possible for various reasons, and hence the imperfections in power control. None of the research known to the author has looked at capture in spread-ALOHA systems, and to a greater extent, looked at expressions for the performance of spreadALOHA systems in the presence of capture. In this thesis we introduce spread-ALOHA systems with capture as a manifestation of the imperfections in power control. We propose novel expressions for the computation of the perfonnance ofspread-ALOHA systems with capture. / Thesis (M.Sc.Eng.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2005.

Orientador: Celso de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T01:46:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mello_RodolphoContiGianiniFerreira_M.pdf: 1434278 bytes, checksum: c9d50dad0686c63ee7429ff495370ace (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Os fatores responsáveis pela vazão de dados em uma rede celular são o número de usuários alocados em uma célula e a taxa de dados de cada usuário. Desta forma, para alcançar melhores resultados em termos de vazão de dados, deve-se utilizar de técnicas que trabalhem com foco no produto destes dois parâmetros. Este trabalho consiste em uma análise comparativa entre diferentes sistemas CDMA sob a ótica da vazão de dados, tendo como foco sequências de espalhamento do tipo aleatórias e também de Walsh e detecção com filtro casado e com o detector multiusuário descorrelacionador (MUD-D - Multiuser Detector Decorrelator), além de considerar a presença de interferência interna e externa no sistema. O método utilizado para a análise e comparação consiste na modelagem matemática do enlace reverso de um sistema celular DS-CDMA em canal AWGN com controle perfeito de potência e com alguns parâmetros fixos, tais como, a taxa máxima de erro de bit ( ), a taxa mínima de dados por usuário (10 kbps, referente ao serviço de voz) e a potência máxima de transmissão de 0,5W por estação móvel. Este trabalho apresenta também uma análise comparativa entre um sistema DS-CDMA com filtro casado e outro com o detector MUD-D na presença de interferência externa. A análise comparativa do detector MUD-D com o filtro casado em ambiente com interferência externa e toda a análise da vazão de dados do sistema são contribuições do autor / Abstract: The factors responsible for the data throughput in a cellular network are the number of users allocated in a cell and the users' data rate. This way, to reach better results in terms of data throughput, one must use techniques that act with focus on the product of those two parameters. This work consists in a comparative analysis among different CDMA systems from the perspective of the data throughput, focusing on random and Walsh spreading sequences and detection method with matched filter and with the multi-user detector decorrelator (MUD-D), besides considering the presence of internal and external interference in the system. The analysis and comparison methods consist in the CDMA cellular system uplink mathematical modelling in an AWGN channel considering a perfect power control and some fixed parameters such as the maximum bit error rate ( ), minimum data rate per user (10 kbps, referring to the voice service) and maximum transmitting power of 0.5 W per mobile station. This work also presents a comparative analysis between a DS-CDMA system with matched filter and another with the MUD-D detector in the presence of external interference. The MUD-D and matched filter comparative analysis in a scenario with external interference and the whole system's data throughput analysis are the author's contribution / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Thesis (Ocean E.)--Joint program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-128). / Acoustic coded signaling offers potentially significant improvements over traditional "toneburst" methods in many underwater applications where error due to noise and multipath interference is a problem. In this thesis, the use of these spread spectrum techniques is analyzed for navigation of the REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle. The accuracy of the current system using Turyn and Barker sequences, as well as toneburst, is quantified, and the sources of the remaining error are examined. / by Benjamin Kerbin Evans. / Ocean E.

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors offer a wireless, passive sensor solution for use in numerous environments where wired sensing can be expensive and infeasible. Single carrier frequency SAW sensor embodiments such as delay lines, and resonators have been used in single sensor environments where sensor identification is not a necessity. The orthogonal frequency coded (OFC) SAW sensor tag embodiment developed at UCF uses a spread spectrum approach that allows interrogation in a multi-sensor environment and provides simultaneous sensing and sensor identi- fication. The SAW device is encoded via proper design of multiple Bragg reflectors at differing frequencies. To enable accurate device design, a model to predict reflectivity over a wide range of electrode metallization ratios and metal thicknesses has been developed and implemented in a coupling of modes (COM) model. The high coupling coefficient, reflectivity and temperature coefficient of delay (TCD) of YZ LiNbO3 makes it an ideal substrate material for a temperature sensor, and the reflectivity model has been developed and verified for this substrate. A new concept of pseudo-orthogonal frequency coded (POFC) SAW sensor tags has been investigated, and with proper design, the POFC SAW reduces device insertion loss and fractional bandwidth compared to OFC. OFC and POFC sensor devices have been fabricated at 250 MHz and 915 MHz using fundamental operation, and 500 MHz and 1.6 GHz using second harmonic operation. Measured device results are shown and compared with the COM simulations using the iii enhanced reflectivity model. Additionally, the first OFC devices at 1.05 GHz were fabricated on 128o YX LiNbO3 to explore feasibility of the material for future use in OFC sensor applications. Devices at 915 MHz have been fabricated on YZ LiNbO3 and integrated with an antenna, and have then been used in a transceiver system built by Mnemonics, Inc. to wirelessly sense temperature. The first experimental wireless POFC SAW sensor device results and predictions will be presented.