A quick and timely response to a customer request provides an important competitive advantage for a company. Experience reuse as intended by experience management facilitates an acceleration of the process of preparing offers. From a technology-oriented point of view, experience is "valuable, stored, specific knowledge that was acquired by a problem solving agent in a problem solving situation" . In the situation of creating an offer in response to a customer request, such valuable knowledge from a company’s experience might include past prices of products or services for a similar customer request. Especially in the telecommunication market such prices are volatile and depend on many impact factors such as the required technology, bandwidth of available lines, or the time period in which the telecommunication service is required. In the run-up for a large sports event, for instance, purchase prices might be significantly higher than after the event when the investment in new infrastructure has provided additional capacities and when there is less demand.

The last ten years have seen significant advances of multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) in wireless communication. MU-MIMO is now being introduced in several new generation wireless standards (e.g.,LTE-Advanced, 802.16m). The number of users is increasing with more and more applications. At the same time, high transmission data rate and communication reliability are required. Furthermore, there is a growing concern about green communication which relates to the effects of  the radiation emitted from wireless devices onthe human body. Therefore, the future MU-MIMO systems have to satisfy three main requirements: i) serving many autonomous users in the same time-frequency resource, ii) having high data rate and communication reliability, and iii) less energy consumption/radiation. These are seemingly contradictory requirements since the more users are served, the more interference the systems will suffer, or the more data rate is transmitted, the more power is required. MU-MIMO with very large antenna arrays seems to meet above demands and hence, it can be considered as a promising technology for next generation wireless systems. With very large antenna arrays (we mean arrays comprising say a hundred of antennas), the channel vectors are nearly-orthogonal and hence, multiuser interference can be significantly reduced. As a result, many users can be simultaneously served with high data rate. In particular, with coherent processing, transmit power can be reduced dramatically owing to array gain. In this thesis, we focus on the performance bounds of MU-MIMO with very large antenna arrays. We study the fundamental limits on the system performance when using large antenna arrays under practical constraints such as low complexity processing, imperfect channel state information, intercell interference, and finite-dimensional channels.

Home surveillance is a major concern in this day and age as with the rapid increase in the technology around us. There is a need to get updated with new possibilities to make our lives better and easy. Some cases and situations exhibit the need for home monitoring. So, we set out to discover a solution to this problem of home monitoring. Generally, we have issues with pets and kids alike such as approaching dangerous places like electric switches, stairs, and hot things. Not only a problem with kids and pets but also a chance of burglary and stranger's unusual activities. To overcome this problem we are designing and prototyping a system to keep an eye on kids, pets, and older people. This system is used in other applications like theft monitoring. The device can monitor the field all the time. In this way, this system helps in-home monitoring. The system consists of Arduino, which is the brain of the system, the PIR sensor, ESP32-CAM, and buzzer. The PIR sensor detects motion then gives input to the Arduino. Arduino gives output to the ESP32-CAM and buzzer. The ESP32-CAM can be activated and sends information to the user through the web Interface and the application. The user can see the video streaming on the PC screen or any other display. The buzzer can emit a high volume signal indicating that "there is an alert at the home".

A higher frequency radio channel both increase the possible data rate and de- crease the required antenna size to efficiently transmit data. Higher frequency also introduce larger weakness to signal loss due to atmospheric effects. Al- phasat satellite conduct experiments for future use of higher frequencies by the Aldo Paraboni Payload. Budapest University of Technology have receiv- ing antennas for both transmitted Alphasat signals in the Ka band and Q band. Meteorological surface data is also gathered in close proximity of the receiving antennas. The relationship between the meteorological data and attenuation on the received signal is studied. A focus lies on the effects of water vapor and clouds.  International Telecommunication Union prediction methods for clouds and atmospheric gases are applied on the meteorological data. This provide a foundation for the analysis of received attenuation on the Q band signal at frequency 39,402 GHz. The analysis aim to investigate if there is any rela- tionship between surface meteorological data and atmospheric effects such as cloud and atmospheric gases. Cross-correlation was used to find similarities between the parameters.  The analysed data is over the month of April 2018. During this month seven different rain events were indicated by the rain rate tipping bucket. These regions showed strong influence of rain on the surface temperature and hu- midity was used to identify other regions with no rain characteristics. Only four out of 16 regions above 2,5 dB had no characteristics similar to rain with four other regions showing indistinguishable source. These eight regions were most promising of being caused by cloud and atmospheric gases. The large quantity of attenuation events below 2,5 dB made further manual analysis difficult. ITU methods predicted a maximum attenuation of 3 dB for clouds and atmospheric gases. Future work could improve analysis on attenuation events below 2,5 dB by pattern recognition with the characteristics found in this work.

No description available.

Mobile networks are in the process of becoming the world’s leading medium for data traffic. This challenge has raised the bar for Quality of Services (QoS) provided by the mobile network operators. It requires methods and tools to verify the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and benchmark competitors by comparing metrics of QoS, e.g. the round-trip time and available bandwidth. For this purpose, Blixt™ has been developed, which is a property of InfoVista Sweden AB. Blixt™ is an Android application which measures the available bandwidth and the round-trip time for the latest generation of mobile networks. Blixt™ approach relies on a time-stamping protocol commonly known as Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP). This research work discusses how the packet probing parameters affect the accuracy of measurements and the level of intrusiveness. The performance of the technique was experimentally tested and compared to other tools and methods, namely, iPerf3, nPerf and FTP test.

The growing traffic and global bandwidth shortage for broadband cellular communi-cation networks has motivated to explore the underutilized millimeter wave frequencyspectrum for future communications. Fifth generation (5G) is the key to empow-ering new services and use cases for people, businesses, and society at large. Withunprecedented speed and flexibility, 5G carries more data with greater reliability andresponsiveness than ever before. As 5G new radio (NR) begins to take full advantageof the high-band spectrum, i.e, the millimeter wave frequencies, new challenges arecreated. While millimeter waves offer broader bandwidth and high spatial resolution,the drawback is that the millimeter waves experience higher attenuation due to pathloss and are more prone to absorption, interference and weather conditions, thereforelimiting cell coverage.This thesis is an attempt to increase the 5G cell coverage by implementing ananalogue beamforming router in a cell. Beamforming router acts like a relay, whichextends the range of the 5G cell whenever needed, according to the position of theUser Equipment (UE) based on the information received from the gNodeB (gNB,logical 5G radio node). This thesis is investigating the downlink Signal-to-Noise Ratio(SNR) gain and thus possible increase in the data rate. Simulation and validation ofthe overall performance is done using MATLAB. The outcome of this study may beused to increase the 5G cell coverage if it is implemented in a real.

Highly increased data traffic over the last few years has led to a need to improve the networkefficiency. One way to achieve this is by network coding. In this thesis two codes, namelyreplication code and regenerating codes, have been examined. Most other works in this area hasbeen theoretical, so we created a testbed to perform practical tests. Then these practical resultsare compared to the theoretical results with varying finite field size. It will be shown that thepractical studies verify the theoretical work. Furthermore, we observe the probability ofsuccessful repair after several stages of repair. More so, the achievability of exact repair of a failed node in a tandem network has beenexamined. This has been proven possible, and also the required finite field size is presented.Another issue at focus is the number of transfers required to achieve exact repair in such anetwork. The results show that 2*k transfers is required, which is comparable to functionalrepair.

With the dynamic changes in technological advancements, wireless communicationtechnologies has made a tremendous progress from simple to complex systems that are able tocommunicate across multiple networks platform. As these systems continue to prove theirproficiency and benefits, it is strongly asserted that wireless technologies will continue to play aneven more critical and vital role compared to wired connections in the future. The most relevant question now regarding the future of wireless technologies is whether it going todominate the wireline transmission or be a complementary to wireline where it’s difficult for anyreason to have wireline like wireless backhaul. With today’s wireless data rate speeds it would bedifficult to imagine it replacing wireline in the near future, but technically speaking it is feasible toachieve those data rates with use of wider spectrum. Moreover, wireless communication technologies particularly that of wireless mobile phonetechnology, is continuously more preferred in communication today, making it the first priority ofmodern day lifestyle. Modern communication system standards have therefore been subjected toevaluation and analysis to establish a more profound understanding of these various technologies.The proposed study presents an overview of various wireless communication systems such as:Global system for mobile communications (GSM), high-speed packet access (HSPA), long-termevolution (LTE), mobile WiMAX, ultra wideband (UWB) technology, ultra mobile broadband(UMB), wireless local area network (WLAN), Bluetooth wireless technology, and, Wi-Fi.

In this project, we investigate the performance of Raptor codes as candidatesfor channel coding for the wireless communication between access nodes.Very high data-rates are used, and processing uses more resources than transmission.Therefore, we need fast encoding and decoding algorithms for thechannel coding. Raptor codes have linear encoding and decoding times, andcan have very small overhead if they are properly designed. Hence, they arepossible candidates. We have implemented an encoding and decoding algorithm for Raptorcodes, as well as an environment for simulation. The system requirementsare expressed in terms of delay between the beginning of a transmission andthe successful decoding, and storage required during the transmission and processing.We have evaluated the performance of Raptor codes in terms of delayand storage as a function of system design parameters, in particular the numberof nodes in the network, and the size of the packets. We show that if thesize of the packets is properly chosen, Raptor codes can be useful for the application,and we explain the method for choosing the size of the packets. Wealso provide a way to calculate the delay and the storage for a given systemconfiguration, in order for example to determinate the larger number of nodesor the larger of users such that the delay and the storage are acceptable.