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A novel printed diversity monopole antenna is presented for WiFi/WiMAX applications. The antenna comprises two crescent shaped radiators placed symmetrically with respect to a defected ground plane and a neutralization lines is connected between them to achieve good impedance matching and low mutual coupling. Theoretical and experimental characteristics are illustrated for this antenna, which achieves an impedance bandwidth of 54.5% (over 2.4-4.2 GHz), with a reflection coefficient <;-10 dB and mutual coupling <;-17 dB. An acceptable agreement is obtained for the computed and measured gain, radiation patterns, envelope correlation coefficient, and channel capacity loss. These characteristics demonstrate that the proposed antenna is an attractive candidate for multiple-input multiple-output portable or mobile devices

Yes / Reconfigurable antennas play important roles in smart and adaptive systems and are the subject of many research studies. They offer several advantages such as multifunctional capabilities, minimized volume requirements, low front-end processing efforts with no need for a filtering element, good isolation, and sufficient out-ofband rejection; these make them well suited for use in wireless applications such as fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) mobile terminals. With the use of active materials such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), varactor or p-i-n (PIN) diodes, an antenna’s characteristics can be changed through altering the current flow on the antenna structure. If an antenna is to be reconfigurable into many different states, it needs to have an adequate number of active elements. However, a large number of high-quality active elements increases cost, and necessitates complex biasing networks and control circuitry. We review some recently proposed reconfigurable antenna designs suitable for use in wireless communications such as cognitiveratio (CR), multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), ultra-wideband (UWB), and 4G/5G mobile terminals. Several examples of antennas with different reconfigurability functions are analyzed and their performances are compared. Characteristics and fundamental properties of reconfigurable antennas with single and multiple reconfigurability modes are investigated. / European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 SECRET-722424.

This dissertation addresses physical layer security concerns, resiliency of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems; the `de-facto' air-interface of most wireless broadband standards including LTE and WiMAX. The major contributions of this dissertation are: 1) developing jamming taxonomy, 2) proposing OFDM and MIMO equalization jamming attacks and countermeasures, 3) developing antijam (AJ) MIMO systems, and 4) designing null space projected overlapped-MIMO radar waveform for spectrum sharing between radar and communications system. First, we consider OFDM systems under various jamming attacks. Previous research is focused on jamming OFDM data transmissions. We focus on energy efficient attacks that can disrupt communication severely by exploiting the knowledge of target waveform. Specifically, these attacks seek to manipulate information used by the equalization algorithm to cause errors to a significant number of symbols, i.e., pilot tones jamming and nulling. Potential countermeasures are presented in an attempt to make OFDM waveform robust and resilient. The threats were mitigated by randomizing the location and value of pilot tones, causing the optimal attack to devolve into barrage jamming. We also address the security aspects of MIMO systems in this dissertation. All MIMO systems need a method to estimate and equalize channel, whether through channel reciprocity or sounding. Most OFDM-based MIMO systems use sounding via pilot tones. Like OFDM attacks, this research introduces MIMO channel sounding attack, which attempts to manipulate pilot tones to skew the channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. We describe methods of designing AJ MIMO system. The key insight is that many of the theoretical concepts learned from transmit beamforming and interference alignment (IA) in MIMO systems can be applied to the field of AJ and robust communications in the presence of jammers. We consider a realistic jamming scenario and provide a `receiver-only' and a transmitter `precoding' technique that allow a pair of two-antenna transceivers to communicate while being jammed by a malicious non-cooperative single-antenna adversary. Finally, we consider designing a collocated MIMO radar waveform, which employs a new MIMO architecture where antenna arrays are allowed to overlap. This overlapped-MIMO radar poses many advantages including superior beampattern and improvement in SNR gain. We combine this radar architecture with a projection-based algorithm that allows the radar waveform to project onto the null space of the interference channel of MIMO communications system, thus enabling the coexistence of radar and communications system. / Ph. D.

Yes / Fourth generation systems require the use of both amplitude and phase modulation to efficiently utilize the available spectrum and to obtain high data rates, hence imposing stringent requirements on the power amplifier in terms of efficiency and linearity and requires the power amplifier to operate linearly and efficiently. The B3G base station transceiver Doherty power amplifier was designed to operate over the frequency range of 3.47GHz to 3.53GHz mobile WiMAX band using Freescale¿s N-Channel Enhancement-Mode Lateral MOSFET Transistor, MRF7S38010HR3; The performances of the Doherty amplifier are compared with that of the conventional Class AB amplifier. The results of 43 dBm output power and 66% power added efficiency are achieved.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:31:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Pinto de Oliveira.pdf: 2067309 bytes, checksum: 3dc805f0ad9724f8d04d0359795ed071 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-13 / The objective of this work is to present the metrics of performance evaluation in Broadband Wireless Access (BWA). To achieve this goal it was necessary to build a Framework of network management customized to the equipment used. It was applied the knowledge in signals propagation of radio frequency (RF), radio planning of cellular systems, network management and statistical analyses. In the realization of the tests for the data collect it was configured a setup of tests with one Radio Base Station (BTS) and two Remote Stations (RS) located in the Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas (PUC Campinas). It was used a technology commercially named as Pre-Wireless Interoperability of Multiple Accesses (Pre-WiMAX), operating in 5.8 GHz. This technology uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) as multiplex technique and Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) as an access control to the media. In the development, it is presented a set of metrics related to the signals propagation by RF. The data collect was executed using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The performance evaluation has considered the measures realized and its analytic and statistic treatments for a long time. By using the results of the measures, it was built the metrics that allow the evaluation of the performance in this network type, such as: link efficiency, throughput, bit error rate (BER), frame error rate (FER) and packet error rate (PER), among others. The work, as a whole, presents a strategy of practical evaluation applicable to BWA networks, creating indicators for decision-makings. To validate and complement the work it was done an Quality of Service (QoS) evaluation according to the International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication sector (ITU-T) and the International Engineering Task Force (IETF) comparing the results with and without prioritization of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service . / O objetivo deste trabalho ? apresentar m?tricas de avalia??o de desempenho em Broadband Wireless Networks (BWA). Para atingir este objetivo foi necess?ria a constru??o de um Framework de ger?ncia de redes customizado aos equipamentos utilizados. Foram aplicados os conhecimentos de propaga??o de sinais de r?dio freq??ncia (RF), planejamento de sistemas celulares, gerenciamento de redes e an?lise estat?stica. Na realiza??o dos testes para a coleta de dados foi configurado um setup de testes com uma Esta??o R?dio Base (ERB) e duas Esta??es Remotas (ER), localizadas na Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas (PUC Campinas). Para a valida??o da metodologia foi utilizada uma tecnologia denominada comercialmente como Pre-Wireless Interoperability of Multiple Accesses (Pre-WiMAX), operando em 5.8 GHz. Esta tecnologia utiliza Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) como t?cnica de multiplexa??o e Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) como controle de acesso ao meio. No desenvolvimento ? apresentado um conjunto de m?tricas, referentes ? propaga??o de sinais por RF. A coleta de dados foi efetuada utilizando Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). A avalia??o de desempenho considerou as medidas realizadas e o seu tratamento anal?tico e estat?stico por longos per?odos de tempo. Com a utiliza??o dos resultados de medidas, foram constru?das as m?tricas que permitem avaliar o desempenho deste tipo de rede, tais como: efici?ncia de link, throughput, bit error rate (BER), frame error rate (FER), packet error rate (PER), entre outras. O trabalho como um todo apresenta uma estrat?gia de avalia??o pr?tica e aplic?vel a redes BWA, criando indicadores para tomadas de decis?o. Para validar e complementar o trabalho foi efetuada uma avalia??o de Quality of Service (QoS) segundo a International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication sector (ITU-T) e a International Engineering Task Force (IETF) com a compara??o de resultados sem e com prioriza??o do servi?o Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

自2007年國家通訊傳播委員會（NCC）發放六張無線寬頻接取執照（Wireless Broadband Access, WBA）後，至今台灣六家WiMAX營運商已全數開台，台灣WiMAX產業正式進入商轉營運階段。然而由於WiMAX為一新興產業，產業之遊戲規則仍待確立，加上其他4G等行動上網技術的競爭下，各家WiMAX營運商之背景與資源分部情形無法立即分出競爭勝負，還需端看營運商如何對自身資源作出適當的評估與利用，以發展合適之競爭策略，才能達到產業競爭優勢。 因此本研究從資源基礎理論的角度出發，透過個案研究法，以得到南區執照的威達雲端電訊進行研究，了解威達雲端在發展WiMAX產業上，對資源的運用。本研究擬探討之四個問題為：(1) 威達雲端電訊當初選擇進入WiMAX產業的評估與原因為何？ (2) 威達雲端電訊在發展WiMAX上的核心資源與資源缺口各為何？(3) 威達運端電訊在進入WiMAX此一新興產業時，如何針對本身資源的優劣勢發展出適當的競爭策略？(4) 威達雲端電訊相較於其他WiMAX營運商，有何競爭優勢？(5) LTE與WiMAX陣營在未來發展上各有何資源優勢，WiMAX營運商該如何面對LTE的挑戰？ 研究結果發現：(1) 威達雲端最大核心資源優勢為本身擁有大量內容及相關經驗、基礎顧客群，與光纖網路之布建。(2) 威達雲端主要資源缺口為資金、相關人才與電信發 展經驗與技術。(3) 威達雲端有效利用具延展性之資源，將資源做延伸與強化，進行多角化發展，推出新產品組合及服務，以達到綜效與擴大整體經濟規模。(4) 威達雲端進行策略聯盟等合作方式進行資源之補足，尤其是以吸取電信相關布建經驗與技術為主。(5) 相較於其他相關業者，威達雲端以較低成本提供WiMAX服務，並將WiMAX技術與其他資源結合，推出差異化之服務為其競爭之優勢。 / Since the National Communications Commission released six operating licenses of Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) in 2007, the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan have all completed deployment for commercial services by the end of 2010. However, as an emerging industry, WiMAX technology and its industry have not fully matured. Meanwhile, WiMAX is facing the rival fourth generation wireless technology . Under the circumstance, in order to create competitive advantages, WiMAX operators should lie primarily in the application of the bundle of valuable resources at the firm's disposal. Therefore, this paper, takes the Resource-Based Theory as the analysis structure, with reference to the case of licensed WiMAX operator “Vee Telecom Multimedia Co,” (or simply Vee) attempts to find out how the operator utilizes its core resource to carry out the competitive strategy. The purposes of this thesis include: (1) The reason why Vee chose to enter WiMAX industry; (2) The core resources and recourse gaps of Vee; (3) When entering the WiMAX industry, how Vee carry out the strategic deployment of its resources; (4) Compare to other WiMAX operators, what competitive advantages does Vee have; (5) What core resources do WiMAX and LTE operators have? How do WiMAX operators face the challenge of LTE technology? The results showed that (1) the core resources of Vee are contents, customer base, and the fiber network. (2) the resource gaps of Vee are funds, talent, experiences in telecommunications. (3) with the effective use of scalable resources, Vee extends and strengthens the resources to develop new products and services portfolio, in order to achieve synergies and increase economies of scale. (4) using strategic alliances and other cooperative approach to fill the resource gaps, especially the deployment experiences in telecommunications. (5) compared to other operators, Vee provides WiMAX services at a lower cost and offers differentiated services to gain its competitive advantage.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:08:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_mestrado_josemar.pdf: 1807801 bytes, checksum: b47a17ed3732deb7f34a3e310ec05477 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-29 / The multifractal modeling is more appropriate in describing some features finding in traffic flows in real networks than other models. This work investigates the behavior of the traffic modeling based policing algorithms found in the literature (Leaky Bucket, Fractal Leaky Bucket, Gaussian Multifractal Leaky Bucket) regarding the buffer utilization, the efficiency for the use of buffer efficiency in describing the accumulated traffic (envelope process), packet dropping and data loss (bytes). First, we compare the envelope process of the considered policing algorithms and the proposed algorithm MAPM (Multifractal Arrival Policing Mechanism), with traffic without policing. Next, it was calculated the system loss rate for a finity buffer system with and without policing algoritm. Using the deterministic Network Calculus, it is also estimated the average queue length (backlog) and delay of bytes by applying the concept of the Min-Plus algebra that presents some differences against the conventional algebra. The proposed policing algorithm was applied to a transmission system based on OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency - Division Multiplexing) / TDMA (Time Division Multiplexing Access) system, where it was evaluated the network performance of the considered policing algorithms. Simulations were carried out with real wireless network trace (Wi-Fi) and wired network trace in order to demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm proposed in relation to policing algorithms in the literature. The simulations shown the efficiency of the MAPM policing algorithm with traces from wired and wireless networks. We also propose the use of deterministic Network Calculus associated to multifractal envelope process to analyze the traffic behavior in terms of delay and backlog before policing algorithms application in the network. Finally we present the results of buffer utilization, link utilization, delay and backlog to a WiMAX system where the policing algorithm MAPM in general shown delay and backlog increasing in the traffic compared with anothers algorithms and low link utilization / A modelagem multifractal tem se mostrado mais apropriada para descrever algumas características encontradas nos fluxos de tráfego de redes reais que outros modelos, tais como o modelo de Poisson e Markov. Este trabalho investiga o comportamento dos algoritmos de policiamento baseados em modelagem de tráfego (Balde Furado, Balde Furado Fractal, Balde Furado Multifractal Gaussiano) em relação à utilização do buffer, eficiência em descrever o tráfego acumulado (processo envelope) e descarte de pacotes e perda de dados (bytes). Primeiramente, compara-se o processo envelope dos algoritmos de policiamento considerados e do algoritmo proposto neste trabalho, o MAPM (Multifractal Arrival Policing Mechanism), com o tráfego sem policiamento. Em seguida, a taxa de perda em um enlace simples com buffer finito com e sem algoritmo de policiamento é calculada. Utilizando o Cálculo de Rede Determinístico, estima-se o tamanho da fila (backlog) e retardo (delay) de bytes, conforme o conceito da álgebra Min-Plus. O algoritmo de policiamento proposto foi aplicado em um sistema de transmissão OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency - Division Multiplexing) / TDMA (Time Division Multiplexing Access) baseado no sistema WiMAX simplificado, onde se avaliou o desempenho da rede com os algoritmos de policiamento considerados. Realizam-se simulações com séries reais de tráfego de redes sem fio (Wi-Fi) e de redes com fio a fim de demonstrar a eficiência do algoritmo proposto em relação aos algoritmos de policiamento encontrados na literatura. As simulações realizadas evidenciam a eficiência do algoritmo MAPM em policiar séries reais de tráfego de redes com fio e redes sem fio. Propôs-se também, a utilização do Cálculo de Rede Determinístico associado ao processo envelope multifractal para se analisar o comportamento do tráfego em termos de retardo e backlog após a aplicação dos algoritmos de policiamento de rede. Por fim, são apresentados os resultados de retardo, backlog, utilização média do buffer e utilização do enlace para um sistema WiMAX onde o algoritmo de policiamento MAPM que apresentou em geral, acréscimo no retardo e backlog do tráfego em relação aos outros algoritmos e baixa utilização do enlace.

近十年來，由於無線網路的普及與人們對於即時服務的需求提高，導致人們迫切需要更好的服務品質，WiMAX是其中最被看好的一種無線網路傳輸技術。但在WiMAX無線網路中，標準的規格中並未規範connection admission control (CAC)、bandwidth request (BR)、bandwidth allocation、scheduling等機制，在本篇論文中，我們將上述機制設計並實作於MAC layer中。 本論文首先探討在設計connection admission control、bandwidth request、bandwidth allocation、scheduling會遇到的相關參數及相關議題。並進一步提出一個有效的方法以改善目前大部分設計在bandwidth allocation的公平性 (Fairness)及contention bandwidth request等效率差的問題。我們將設計一個MAC Layer co-function，稱之為Dynamic Polling Interval function (DPI function)。利用DPI function設計no contention bandwidth request改善傳統 contention bandwidth request的效率，以及利用DPI function的特性改善bandwidth allocation以及scheduling的公平性。最後我們將利用網路模擬器NS-2 (Network Simulater version 2)與測試實驗架構作不同效能的驗證比較並評估所提方法的有效性。 / Over the past decade, wireless network access and real-time services have become more popular than ever. People are eager to have better quality of service. Among all, WiMAX is one of the best wireless communication technigues . However, WiMAX standard does not specify those mechanisms of connection admision control (CAC)、bandwidth request (BR)、bandwidth allocation and scheduling . In this thesis, we propose the above mechanisms and imcorporate them as MAC layer functions. First, we discuss those related parameters and issues when designing connection admision control、bandwidth request、bandwidth allocation and scheduling. Second, we propose an efficient method to improve the fairness of bandwidth allocation and efficiency of contention bandwidth request. We design a MAC layer co-function called dynamic polling interval function (DPI function). We use the DPI function to design a no contention bandwidth request method to improve the efficiency of traditional bandwidth request method and use the features of DPI function to improve the fairness of bandwidth allocation and scheduling. At last , we use NS-2 (Network Simulator version 2) as our network simulator and compare the result of simulations to prove the efficiency of our proposed methods.