Thesis (M.S. in Telecommunication Systems Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Davidson, Kenneth L. Second Reader: Tulloch, A. W. "March 1990." Description based on signature page as viewed on August 26, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Atmospheric Refraction, Very High Frequency, Ultrahigh Frequency, Communication And Radio Systems, Tools, Parameters, Wind, Forecasting, Accuracy, Theses, Electromagnetic Radiation, Pressure, Radiosondes, Refraction, Pacific Ocean, Climatology, Troposphere, Humidity, Gradients, Shores, East(Direction), Computer Printouts, Television Display Systems, Weather, Guided Missiles, Synoptic Meteorology, Test And Evaluation, Data Bases. DTIC Identifier(s): IREPS (Integrated Refractive Effect Prediction System). Author(s) subject terms: Communications, IREPS, refraction. Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-71). Also available online.

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

With the introduction of IP based telephony services, the Internet has started to challenge the traditional PSTN networks as an infrastructure for providing real-time interactive services. This upcoming paradigm shift is not only driven by the desire to provide cost efficient solutions, but by basing the communication on IP we expect that the end-users will experience a greater set of attractive services over a single connection compared to what is provided by a PSTN today. Looking a little further ahead, mobile communication systems will also become IP based. Companies, universities and private persons have started to extend their local area networks to provide wireless access by attaching wireless access points (APs) to their LAN. Wireless ISPs (WISPs) are putting up wireless LAN (WLAN) APs at public hot spots, thereby providing a complement or even a competitive alternative to the wireless WANs (WWANs) being developed and deployed today. As more and more people start to communicate using WLAN access, they will naturally wish to use this infrastructure for interactive real-time applications, such as mobile telephony. This thesis concerns mobility and security support for IP telephony in public WLAN environments. The security issues addressed relate both to user requirements such as end-to-end confidentiality, and operator requirements such as network access control. Alternatives for how the voice media stream can be protected and the procedure to establish a secure call using SIP are described. Public WLAN architectures enabling service providers to share access network infrastructure are described and evaluated. To enforce access control the use of either IEEE 802.11i or L2TP/IPSec is suggested, since both meet the proposed security requirements, and both are standardized solutions available on modern systems. The case where mobile users perform handovers between APs on the same LAN (layer-2 handover) and across IP subnets (layer-3) is studied. For layer-2 handovers the properties of IEEE 802.11b handover mechanisms and its impact on voice traffic, and the effect of the network access control mechanism on the handover performance are examined. The mechanisms necessary to perform layer-3 handovers and their impact on handover performance are described. The analysis focus on “SIP mobility” and Mobile IPv6, since these mobility management schemes provide optimal routing, thus are well suited for IP telephony

Optical Packet Switching (OPS) has emerged as a promising candidate for the next-generation Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) based alloptical network. By enabling packet switching in the optical domain, OPS networks can provide cost-efficient and transparent transport services to higher layers. However, a commercial deployment of OPS requires not only a maturation of several key enabling technologies, but also a thorough investigation of a number of networking challenges related to OPS, since OPS networks are fundamentally different from today’s store-and-forward networks. This thesis addresses the latter issue by considering the following three OPS networking issues: · Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation at the WDM layer, with focus on packet loss rate (PLR) and delay-jitter differentiation. · Teletraffic analysis of OPS networks. · How to combat packet loss in OPS networks by using network layer packet redundancy. First, a crucial issue in OPS networks is packet loss at the network layer due to contention. Contention occurs when a packet is destined for a wavelength currently occupied by another packet. Several approaches to combat such packet loss have been proposed in recent literature, e.g. by utilizing wavelength conversion, buffering, deflection routing or traffic shaping. This thesis considers a novel approach to combat packet loss in OPS: The proposed Network Layer Packet Redundancy Scheme (NLPRS) allows redundancy packets to be injected into the OPS network, thus enabling reconstruction of lost data packets at the OPS egress node. Results show that the NLPRS is able to reduce the end-to-end data PLR several orders of magnitude in an asynchronous OPS ring network with and without wavelength conversion. Another crucial issue in OPS networks is QoS differentiation at the WDM layer. Due to the lack of optical random access memory, existing QoS differentiation schemes suitable for today’s WDM point-to-point architecture are not feasible to use in OPS networks. Hence, new schemes that utilize the WDM layer to provide QoS differentiation are needed. A preemption based QoS differentiation scheme, the Preemptive Drop Policy (PDP), has been proposed for asynchronous bufferless OPS. With the PDP, high priority arrivals are allowed to preempt and take over a busy wavelength currently occupied by a low priority packet in the case of contention. This results in a lower PLR for high priority traffic compared to low priority traffic. The PDP has been extended into the Adaptive PDP (APDP), which provides absolute guarantees to the PLR for high priority ivtraffic in OPS by using a measurement based preemption probability parameter adjustment. An access-restriction based QoS differentiation scheme, the Wavelength Allocation algorithm (WA), has been studied. In the WA, which provides QoS differentiation in asynchronous bufferless OPS networks with full range output wavelength converters, a certain number of wavelengths at an output fibre are exclusively reserved for high priority traffic. When QoS differentiation (with respect to the PLR) is introduced in asynchronous OPS, it has been shown that the average throughput decreases, often referred to as the throughput penalty of introducing QoS differentiation. The main cause for this throughput penalty is because network resources must be used in a non-optimal manner when employing QoS differentiation schemes that utilize the WDM layer to isolate the service classes. However, as shown in this thesis, the throughput penalty is only found in asynchronous OPS. For slotted OPS, the average throughput stays the same after the introduction of QoS differentiation. An evaluation framework suitable for quantifying the throughput penalty when introducing QoS differentiation has been proposed. Using this framework, three fundamental different QoS differentiation schemes for asynchronous OPS, including the PDP and the WA, have been evaluated. It has been shown that preemptive techniques result in the lowest throughput penalty, followed by access-restriction and dropping based techniques. This is because, when using preemption, packets are dropped only when the output port is congested. With access-restriction, packets are dropped when the output port is highly strained, and with statistically packet dropping, packets are dropped independently of the state of the output port. A QoS differentiation scheme for slotted OPS has been proposed and evaluated. The scheme isolates the service classes by ensuring that a certain number of high priority packets can be transmitted at an output port in a time-slot in the case of contention. Using the proposed scheme does not result in a reduced throughput when the service classes are isolated. QoS differentiation schemes for asynchronous OPS with a share pernode (SPN) contention resolution pool architecture consisting of Tunable Wavelength Converters (TWCs) and Fibre Delay Lines (FDLs) have been proposed. In particular, it has been shown that the PLR and delay-jitter may be independently differentiated in this switch architecture. Analytical models of some of the proposed QoS differentiation schemes have been derived, providing explicit results of the PLR. In addition, an analytical framework regarding packet arrivals to an output port in an optical packet switch has been derived for both asynchronous and slotted OPS. This framework is particularly useful for studying the effects of nonuniform traffic. Furthermore, it has been shown that both the Erlang and Engset traffic models are suitable to model packet arrivals to an output port in an asynchronous optical packet switch. Regarding the Engset traffic model, it has been shown how the blocking probability can be evaluated vusing either the Engset lost calls cleared (LCC) traffic model or the Engset overflow (OFL) traffic model. For all Engset based traffic models, the time-, call- and traffic congestion have been derived. A numerical evaluation of the presented traffic models reveals that there is a small, but non-negligible, deviation between the observed blocking probabilities, which depends on the number of input/output fibres and the system load.

Mobile network operators are currently faced with a number of challenges at the market. The revenues from voice services have decreased the last couple of years. Mobile broadband access services are being adopted and the demand is increasing. The increasing traffic volumes require investments in order to increase the network capacity. This development leads to a large interest in network solutions that can offer high capacity and low cost. Besides the use of more efficient radio access technology mobile network operators use strategies for network deployment and operation involving other market actors. Operators share networks with competitors or outsource network deployment and operation to other companies, e.g. suppliers of network equipment. In these examples the mobile operators cooperate about the networks, the relations to end-users are the same as if the operator would operate the network on its own. However, in other areas other actors enter the market for mobile services where mobile operators traditionally have been the dominant player. Handset manufacturers and Internet companies offer value added services and applications to the end-users. They also establish relations with customers of the mobile operators. Hence, mobile operators look into new technical solutions and services in order to reduce costs and find new services and sources of revenues. Many of the networking solutions and services require that the operator cooperates with some other actor. In this PhD thesis cooperation strategies of mobile network operators are analyzed including cooperation with competitors, customers and different types of partners. The partner can be a provider of a non-telecom service like public transportation, financial institutes or third parties taking intermediary roles. The main research questions in the thesis revolves around why and how mobile operators cooperate. The drivers for cooperation and the way the cooperation is organized is analyzed for a number of cases. Three types of services and markets are analyzed: - Public mobile broadband access services - Services and solutions for indoor wireless access - Mobile payment, ticketing and contactless services A number of technical solutions, business concepts and different types of cooperation and business scenarios have been investigated. Two overall research questions that are applicable for all cases of cooperation are identified for the analysis. - What are the main drivers for a specific type of cooperation? - In what ways can the actors organize the cooperation? / QC 20110121 / Affordable Wireless Broadband Access / Force

Abstract The rapid development within the field of measurement methods and techniques and software design that has taken place over the last years offers new possibilities for designers of measurement systems through the use of virtual instruments as building blocks. The concept of virtual instrumentation is developed within the interchangeable virtual instrument foundation. A closely related term is “synthetic instruments”, which is often used for essentially the same concept, but it is even more software oriented. Synthetic instruments as a research field are in an initial stage and a quick search on “Synthetic instruments” in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) explorer match close to 30 documents. IEEE explorer is a database that provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings, and all current IEEE Standards. This Master Thesis is a theoretical work extracted from study material, IEEE documents and web-resources referenced. The work gives the reader an overview of the Synthetic Instruments and their functionality with respect to hardware and software. The papers were analyzed based upon the various trends in the research, development and productizing phases. For this approach; kernel architecture of an ideal synthetic instrument has been introduced as a prototype around which current technologies and applications can be addressed. The major areas of focus in the architecture are the data conversion and signal conditioning; the knowledge of its working under current implemented technologies has been highlighted and discussed in regards to the software and hardware trends. The defense industry holds the major influence. The work was aimed towards giving a state-of-the art introduction to synthetic instrument technology; also in order to provide the work an introductory nature, only one hardware & software example has been discussed.

This thesis examines the possibility of installing a wireless communication system based on multiple antennas, on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The communication system is based on MIMO technology. This technology uses the fact that we can make use of several antennas at the transmitter and the receiver to create independent signal path which in turn can increase the roboustness of the communication link. Advantages and disadvantages of this new system arediscussed. However, this report concludes that the benefits of MIMO outweights the disadvantages. Furthermore a simulation environment for the MIMO system is designed and implemented, based on a specific scenario. Moreover, the results from the simulation also points to a benefit of the MIMO technology.

Quality of Service is a set of mechanisms created for differentiating users and data flows. Provisioning the QoS in service provider networks is always interesting for their business departments for they can offer and sell diverse services and to make more money. This thesis QoS for DSL subscribers of Pardis Online - the private ISP in Iran. The size of the network, the certain network connectivity limitations the ISP has in addition to the complexity of the services it provides, necessitate a comprehensive study to elucidate the different service types and requirements and then choosing a specific implementation of QoS in order to meet the ISP’s need. The internet bandwidth in the region that ISP operates is very expensive and the users suffer from the lack of bandwidth so the limited internet links are usually congested in the network. This document concludes with proposing a layered QoS that guarantees that the total bandwidth of an area in congested times is distributed to the users in that area proportionate to the subscribed band width. The resulting proposals are tested in the Lab and their performance under the simulated traffic is monitored and analyzed.

In this paper, we study the influence of the National Telecom Business Volume by the data in 2008 that have been published in China Statistical Yearbook of Statistics. We illustrate the procedure of modeling “National Telecom Business Volume” on the following eight variables, GDP, Consumption Levels, Retail Sales of Social Consumer Goods Total Renovation Investment, the Local Telephone Exchange Capacity, Mobile Telephone Exchange Capacity, Mobile Phone End Users, and the Local Telephone End Users. The testing of heteroscedasticity and multicollinearity for model evaluation is included. We also consider AIC and BIC criterion to select independent variables, and conclude the result of the factors which are the optimal regression model for the amount of telecommunications business and the relation between independent variables and dependent variable. Based on the final results, we propose several recommendations about how to improve telecommunication services and promote the economic development.

<p>Future wireless communication systems will utilize the spatial properties of the wireless channel to improve the spectral efficiency and thus increase capacity. This is realized by deploying multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver. Utilizing the spatial properties of the channel demands channel models that properly reflect these characteristics. Due to the unpredictable nature of the wireless channel, a common approach is to model its effects in a statistical fashion. A few large world wide cooperations, like the 3GPP or WINNER projects, have developed channel models intended for reference and standardization use. These models are partly based on bulk parameters which describe the characteristics of the channel over larger areas of several wavelengths. These parameters include shadow fading, angle spread, and delay spread among others, and are within the WINNER project called large scale (LS) parameters. Considering the variations of these parameters, it is likely that they are correlated between closely located areas. Therefore it is of key interest to model their correlation properties instead of randomizing them independently for each new simulation. In multi-cell scenarios, when considering macro diversity or evaluation other properties such as interference and/or handover schemes, the intra site correlation of the shadow fading parameters should be taken into account for proper simulations. Neglecting this correlation the interference could be over/under estimated, hence the system capacity can be over/under estimated. Further, reliable estimations of the interference levels will increase the frequency reuse, and may even permit reuse within the same cell, on spatially separated links. The thesis focuses on modelling the statistics and variations of these parameters to increase accuracy of channel models. Previous studies have looked at the autocorrelation properties of the shadow fading in outdoor environments and found it to follow an exponential decay. This means that an first order autoregressive function would be sufficient to model this effect. Research of the angular spread parameter is more scarce, and therefor this issue is studied herein. In addition to the autocorrelation properties the intra-site correlation between the different large scale parameters is of interest. It is herein found that the shadow fading is negatively correlated with angle spreads, while the angle spread at the base station and the angle spread at the mobile show positive correlation. Finally, the inter site correlation between one mobile and multiple base stations is studied as a function of the angular separation between the links. For closely located base station, ie with small angular separation as seen from the mobile, substantial inter-site correlation is found. It is further seen that the correlation of the shadow fading is more prominent than the correlation of angle spread.</p>