This thesis studies cooperative techniques that rely on femtocell user diversity to improve the downlink communication quality of macrocell users. We analytically analyze and evaluate the achievable performance of these techniques in the downlink of Rayleigh fading channels. We provide an approximation of both the bit-error rate (BER) and the data throughput that macrocell users receive with femtocell user cooperation. Using simulations, we show that under reasonable SNR values, cooperative schemes enhance the performances of macrocells by improving the BER, outage probability, and data throughput of macrocell users significantly when compared with the traditional, non-cooperative schemes. / Graduation date: 2012

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Broadcasting authorities presently measure intermodulation distortion by applying a three tone simulation of a composite video and sound signal to the transposer and then measuring the relative amplitude of the major in-band intermodulation product (nominally at vision carrier frequency plus 1,57 MHz in the 625 line I/PAL System) on a spectrum analyser. This method is slow and requires a skilful operator to achieve repeatable results. Furthermore it tests the common RF amplification equipment at one luminance level and one chrominance level and therefore does not subject the transposer equipment to operation over its full range. A new sampling measurement technique has been proposed which overcomes all these problems by selectively mixing, while transmitting a colour bar test pattern, the demodulated output video signal of the frequency transposer with a pulse train coinciding with a particular colour. This thesis describes the design of a very stable proportional timing generator and its application to the measurement of intermodulation distortion on frequency transposers. The timing generator, which locks automatically onto the video signal and produces narrow sampling pulses which coincide accurately with a particular section of each line over a 50°C temperature range, is applicable to all PAL and NTSC TV Systems. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1989.

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Wireless communication is a rapidly growing field with many of its aspects undergoing constant enhancement. The use of cross-layer design (CLD) in current technologies has improved system performance in terms of Quality-of-Services (QoS) guarantees. While multimedia transmission is difficult to achieve, CLD is capable of incorporating techniques to achieve multimedia transmission without high complexity. Many systems have incorporated some form of adaptive transmission when using a cross-layer design approach. Various challenges must be overcome when transmitting multimedia traffic; the main challenge being that each traffic type, namely voice; image; and data, have their own transmission QoS; delay; Symbol Error Rate (SER); throughput; and jitter requirements. Recently cross-layer design has been proposed to exchange information between different layers to optimize the overall system performance. Current literature has shown that the application layer and physical layer can be used to adequately transmit multimedia over fading channels. Using Reed-Solomon coding at the application layer and Rate Adaption at the physical layer allows each media type to achieve its QoS requirement whilst being able to transmit the different media within a single packet. The following dissertation therefore strives to improve traffic through-put by introducing an unconventional rate adaption scheme and by using power adaption to achieve Symbol Error Rate (SER) QoS in multimedia transmission. Firstly, we introduce a system which modulates two separate sets of information with different modulation schemes. These two information sets are then concatenated and transmitted across the fading channel. The receiver uses a technique called Blind Detection to detect the modulation schemes used and then demodulates the information sets accordingly. The system uses an application layer that encodes each media type such that their QoS, in terms of SER, is achieved. Simulated results show an increase in spectral efficiency and the system achieves the required Symbol Error Rate constraint at lower Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) values. The second approach involves adapting the input power to the system rather than adapting the modulation scheme. The two power adaptive schemes that are discussed are Water- Filling and Channel Inversion. Channel Inversion allows the SER requirement to be maintained for low SNR values, which is not possible with Rate Adaption. Furthermore, the system uses an application layer to encode each media type such that their QoS is achieved. Simulated results using this design show an improvement in through-put and the system achieves the SER constraint at lower SNR values. / Thesis (M.Sc.Eng.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2013.

Thesis (MScEng)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The high performance of present digital phase-locked loops makes it the preferred choice for the generation of stable, low noise, tunable local oscillators in wireless communications applications. Most transmitters use superheterodyn techniques for up-conversion of the modulated signal to the required transmission frequency. Another technique is to inject the modulation signal into a phase-locked loop and consequently generate a frequency modulated signal directly at the transmission frequency. The aim of this study is to obtain a synthesizer configuration for the effective generation of wideband FM, considering both passive and active loop filters. The selection is based on synthesizer output signal quality, settling time and loop response to the modulation signal. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die hoe werksverrigting van fase-sluit lusse maak dit die verkiesde keuse vir die generasie van stabiele, lae ruis, verstelbare ossillators vir draadlose kommunikasie toepassings. Meeste senders gebruik "superheterodyn" tegnieke vir die op-menging van die gemoduleerde sein na die verlangde uitsaai frekwensie. 'n Ander tegniek is om die modulasie sein in 'n fase-sluit Ius te voer en so doende 'n gemoduleerde sein direk by die transmissie frekwensie te genereer. Die doel van hierdie studie is om 'n sintetiseerder konfigurasie te verkry vir die effektiewe opwekking van 'n wyeband FM sein, deur beide passiewe en aktiewe Ius filters in konsiderasie te neem. Die seleksie geskiet gebaseer op sintetiseerder uittree sein kwaliteit, sluit tyd en Ius gedrag as gevolg van die modulasie sein.

Orientador: José Cândido Silveira Santos Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T14:30:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nunes_AdailtonAntonioGaliza_M.pdf: 941738 bytes, checksum: 0240eca4ba132d2f778db9941bcfaeee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O resumo poderá ser visualizado no texto completo da tese digital / Abstract: The abstract is available with the full electronic document / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Orientador: Michel Daoud Yacoub / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T07:34:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leonardo_ElvioJoao_D.pdf: 1695806 bytes, checksum: 1768ab9d1e09da8bf904b86bdff2c984 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O resumo poderá ser visualizado no texto completo da tese digital / Abstract: The abstract is available with the full electronic document / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

A Dissertation submitted in ful llment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering January, 2017 / Permutation codes provide the required redundancy for error correction in a noisy communication channel. Combined with MFSK modulation, the outcome produces an e cient system reliable in combating background and impulse noise in the com- munication channel. Part of this can be associated with how the redundancy scales up the amount of frequencies used in transmission. Permutation coding has also shown to be a good candidate for error correction in harsh channels such as the Powerline Communication channel. Extensive work has been done to construct permutation code books but existing decoding algorithms become impractical for large codebook sizes. This is because the algorithms need to compare the received codeword with all the codewords in the codebook used in encoding. This research therefore designs an e cient soft-decision decoder of Permutation codes. The decoder's decision mechanism does not require lookup comparison with all the codewords in the codebook. The code construction technique that derives the codebook is also irrelevant to the decoder. Results compare the decoding algorithm with Hard-decision plus Envelope Detec- tion in the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and Rayleigh Fading Channels. The results show that with lesser iterations, improved error correction performance is achieved for high-rate codes. Lower rate codes require additional iterations for signi cant error correction performance. The decoder also requires much less comup- tational complexity compared with existing decoding algorithms. / MT2017