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Esta dissertação apresenta o desempenho da camada física de um sistema de comunicação sem fio baseado no padrão IEEE 802.16-2004 (WiMAX-fixo), em diferentes configurações e condições de operação. Para este propósito, foi elaborado um simulador da camada física WirelessMAN-OFDM implementado com o uso do aplicativo MATLAB® (versão R2008b) e de sua extensão SIMULINK®. Foram modeladas sete formas distintas para o canal de propagação, associando três tipos básicos de canal (sem desvanecimento, com desvanecimento seletivo e não seletivo em freqüência), duas configurações de mobilidade (sem mobilidade e mobilidade parcial) e duas condições para o ambiente de propagação (externo e interno). A propagação com desvanecimentos causados por multi-percursos empregou as especificações do ITU (International Telecommunications Union), fornecendo uma representação satisfatória de ambientes urbanos macro-celulares e possibilitando a comparação com outros sistemas de comunicação sem fio. Por meio da análise comparativa da taxa de erro de bit e da taxa de transferência efetiva de dados, estudou-se o desempenho dos esquemas de codificação e modulação especificados e a ação do controle adaptativo. O comportamento do WiMAX-fixo quando sujeito a perdas de propagação por multi-percursos e a condições de utilização caracterizadas por aplicações fixas e, adicionalmente, para aplicações parcialmente móveis, foi também avaliado. Assim, essa pesquisa permitiu uma visão complementar do padrão o que possibilitou a determinação de valores customizados para os níveis de SNR empregados no controle adaptativo, além da determinação das capacidades obteníveis nas condições de mobilidade parcial. / This thesis presents the physical layer performance of a wireless communications system based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard (fixed-WiMAX), in different configurations and operation conditions. For this purpose, a simulator of WirelessMAN-OFDM physical layer was designed and implemented using MATLAB® application (version R2008b) and its extension SIMULINK®. Seven different profiles for the propagation channel have been modeled, involving three basic types of channel (without fading, frequency-flat fading and frequency selective-fading), two mobility settings (without mobility and partial mobility) and two propagation environment conditions (outdoor and indoor). ITU (International Telecommunications Union) specifications were used for multipath fading propagation, providing a satisfactory representation of urban macro-cellular environments and allowing comparison with other wireless communication systems. Through comparative analysis of bit error rate and throughput, the performance of the specified modulation and coding schemes and the action of adaptive control were evaluated. The behavior of the fixed-WiMAX when subjected to a propagation environment with multipath fading and utilization conditions characterized by stationary applications and by partially mobile applications was also exploited. This research allowed a complementary vision of the standard which enabled the determination of customized values for the SNR levels employed in adaptive control, and furthermore the determination of the obtainable capacity under conditions of partial mobility.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:31:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CARLOS SALDANHA.pdf: 2117803 bytes, checksum: 2021a031c03613d9b6c2df0e8e8aba68 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-06-28 / Digital Inclusion is currently a concerning subject especially in those urgent countries. In Brazil there have been various initiatives and experiences regarding this subject, both from government parts (Federal, State and Urban) and through Non-Profitable Organizations and private companies. The approach to low-cost Broadband Internet has been one of the main barriers to the effectiveness on these initiatives. The goal of this current work is to find new concepts and connection management and voice services, data and video (triple play) in a unique wireless connection focusing on digital inclusion. The used wireless technology is the World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), whose frequency is of 5,8 GHZ, which permission is not required for its usage along with National Telecommunication Agency (ANATEL) and to the access point, the wireless fidelity technology (Wifi). Some main convergent WiMAX technology characteristics are described in this work with new Triple Play services to hold a multipoint-point enlacement, causing an establishment to link a case study between the School and PUC-Campinas in order to investigate the performance and application factors. The results on the efficiency of metropolitan wireless network (WMAN) as well as the Triple Play services were profitable, defining a new method on prediction of coverage area and user s quantity. / Inclus?o Digital ? hoje um tema de muita preocupa??o, principalmente nos pa?ses denominados emergentes. No Brasil existem diversas iniciativas e experi?ncias relativas a esse assunto, tanto por parte dos governos (Federal, Estadual e Municipal), como tamb?m por parte de ONG s e empresas privadas. O acesso ? Internet Banda Larga a baixo custo tem sido uma das principais barreiras para a efetiva??o dessas iniciativas. O prop?sito do presente trabalho ? definir novos conceitos e par?metros de conex?o e servi?os de voz, dados e v?deo (triple play) em uma ?nica conex?o sem fio com foco na inclus?o digital. A tecnologia de conex?o sem fio (wireless) utilizada ? o World Interoperability for Microwave Acess (WiMAX), de freq??ncia 5.8 GHz, que n?o requer licenciamento para a sua utiliza??o junto a Ag?ncia Nacional de Telecomunica??es (ANATEL) e para o ponto de acesso, a tecnologia wireless fidelity (WiFi). Neste trabalho est?o descritas as principais caracter?sticas da tecnologia WiMAX convergentes, com os novos servi?os Triple Play para a realiza??o de um enlace ponto-multiponto, estabelecendo-se um link para estudo de caso entre a Escola e a PUC-Campinas, para a investiga??o dos fatores de desempenho e aplica??es. Os resultados de efici?ncia da rede sem fio metropolitana (WMAN) com os servi?os Triple Play foram satisfat?rios, definindo-se um novo m?todo de predi??o da ?rea de cobertura e do n?mero de usu?rios.

Esta dissertação apresenta o desempenho da camada física de um sistema de comunicação sem fio baseado no padrão IEEE 802.16-2004 (WiMAX-fixo), em diferentes configurações e condições de operação. Para este propósito, foi elaborado um simulador da camada física WirelessMAN-OFDM implementado com o uso do aplicativo MATLAB® (versão R2008b) e de sua extensão SIMULINK®. Foram modeladas sete formas distintas para o canal de propagação, associando três tipos básicos de canal (sem desvanecimento, com desvanecimento seletivo e não seletivo em freqüência), duas configurações de mobilidade (sem mobilidade e mobilidade parcial) e duas condições para o ambiente de propagação (externo e interno). A propagação com desvanecimentos causados por multi-percursos empregou as especificações do ITU (International Telecommunications Union), fornecendo uma representação satisfatória de ambientes urbanos macro-celulares e possibilitando a comparação com outros sistemas de comunicação sem fio. Por meio da análise comparativa da taxa de erro de bit e da taxa de transferência efetiva de dados, estudou-se o desempenho dos esquemas de codificação e modulação especificados e a ação do controle adaptativo. O comportamento do WiMAX-fixo quando sujeito a perdas de propagação por multi-percursos e a condições de utilização caracterizadas por aplicações fixas e, adicionalmente, para aplicações parcialmente móveis, foi também avaliado. Assim, essa pesquisa permitiu uma visão complementar do padrão o que possibilitou a determinação de valores customizados para os níveis de SNR empregados no controle adaptativo, além da determinação das capacidades obteníveis nas condições de mobilidade parcial. / This thesis presents the physical layer performance of a wireless communications system based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard (fixed-WiMAX), in different configurations and operation conditions. For this purpose, a simulator of WirelessMAN-OFDM physical layer was designed and implemented using MATLAB® application (version R2008b) and its extension SIMULINK®. Seven different profiles for the propagation channel have been modeled, involving three basic types of channel (without fading, frequency-flat fading and frequency selective-fading), two mobility settings (without mobility and partial mobility) and two propagation environment conditions (outdoor and indoor). ITU (International Telecommunications Union) specifications were used for multipath fading propagation, providing a satisfactory representation of urban macro-cellular environments and allowing comparison with other wireless communication systems. Through comparative analysis of bit error rate and throughput, the performance of the specified modulation and coding schemes and the action of adaptive control were evaluated. The behavior of the fixed-WiMAX when subjected to a propagation environment with multipath fading and utilization conditions characterized by stationary applications and by partially mobile applications was also exploited. This research allowed a complementary vision of the standard which enabled the determination of customized values for the SNR levels employed in adaptive control, and furthermore the determination of the obtainable capacity under conditions of partial mobility.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AndersonMCS_DISSERT.pdf: 542550 bytes, checksum: cf969edd5c8c6cd5c0f0dcbf4f8113e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-26 / The modern society depends on an efficient communications system able to of transmitting and receiving information with a higher speed and reliability every time. The need for ever more efficient devices raises optimization techniques of microstrip devices, such as techniques to increase bandwidth: thicker substrates and substrate structures with EBG (Electromagnetic Band Gap) and PBG (Photonic Band Gap). This work has how aims the study of the application of PBG materials on substrates of planar structures in microstrip, more precisely in directional quadrature couplers and in rat-race and impedance of transformers. A study of the planar structures in microstrip and substrates EBG is presented. The PBG substrates can be used to optimize the radiation through the air, thus reducing the occurrence of surface waves and the resulting diffraction edge responsible for degradation of radiation pattern. Through specific programs in FORTRAN Power Station obtained the frequencies and couplings for each structure. Are used the program PACMO - Computer Aided Design in Microwave. Results are obtained of the frequency and coupling devices, ranging the frequency band used (cellular communication and Wimax systems) and the permittivity of the substrate, comparing the results of conventional material and PBG materials in the s and p polarizations. / A sociedade moderna depende de um eficiente sistema de comunica??es, capaz de transmitir e receber informa??es com uma velocidade e confiabilidade maiores a cada momento. A necessidade de dispositivos cada vez mais eficientes faz surgir t?cnicas de otimiza??o dos dispositivos em microfita, como por exemplo, t?cnicas para aumentar a largura de banda: substratos mais espessos e estruturas com substratos de Banda Eletromagn?tica Proibida - EBG (Electromagnetic Band Gap) e Banda Fot?nica Proibida - PBG (Photonic Band Gap). Este trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo da aplica??o de materiais EBG/PBG em substratos de estruturas planares em microfita, mais precisamente em acopladores direcionais em quadratura e em anel e em transformadores de imped?ncias. ? apresentado um estudo das estruturas planares em microfita e dos substratos EBG/PBG. Substratos PBG podem ser usados para otimizar a irradia??o pelo ar, reduzindo assim a ocorr?ncia de ondas superficiais e a conseq?ente difra??o de borda respons?vel pela degrada??o do diagrama de radia??o. Atrav?s de programas espec?ficos em FORTRAN obtiveram-se as freq??ncias e acoplamentos para cada estrutura. Foi utilizado o programa PACMO Projeto Auxiliado por Computador para Microondas. S?o obtidos resultados da freq??ncia e acoplamentos dos dispositivos, variando-se banda de freq??ncia utilizada (sistemas de comunica??o celular e Wimax) e a permissividade do substrato, comparando-se os resultados de materiais convencionais e materiais PBG nas polariza??es s e p.

Given the current developments and advances in the scientific and technological aspects of human knowledge and introducing new approaches in various fields of telecommunication technologies and industries, there has been an increasing growth in its players¿ plans and a positive change in their outlooks in order to achieve the target of "anywhere and anytime access". Recent developments of WiMAX (Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access) networks, as a sign of increasing needs and demands for new telecommunication services and capabilities, have led to revolutions in global telecommunication which should be perceived properly in terms of the commercial and technical aspects in order to enjoy the new opportunities. Most experts believe that WiMAX technology is a preliminary step to develop Fourth Generation networks known as 4G technologies. It has not only succeeded in the utilization of several of the latest telecommunication techniques in the form of unique practical standards, but also paved the way for the quantitative and qualitative developments of high-speed broadband access. IEEE 802.16 Standard introduces several advantages, and one of them is the support for Quality of Services (QoS) at the Media Access Control (MAC) level. For these purposes, the standard defines several scheduling classes at MAC layer to treat service flow in a different way, depending on QoS requirements. In this thesis, we have proposed a new QoS framework for Point-to-Multi Point (PMP) 802.16 systems operating in Time Division Duplexing (TDD) mode over a WirelessMAN-OFDM physical layer. The proposed framework consists of a Call Admission Control (CAC) module and a scheduling scheme for the uplink traffic as well as a simple frame allocation scheme. The proposed CAC module interacts with the uplink scheduler status and it makes its decision based on the scheduler queue status; on the other hand, the proposed scheduling scheme for the uplink traffic aims to support realtime flows and adapts the frame-by-frame allocations to the current needs of the connections, with respect to the grants boundaries fixed by the CAC module. Extensive OPNET simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed architecture.

Video surveillance applications have experienced an increase in demand over the last decade. Surveillance systems can easily be found in places such as commercial offices, banks and traffic intersections, parks and recreational areas. Surveillance applications have the potential to be implemented on a WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) network. Moreover, WiMAX devices have been used widely in the market and WiMAX-based video surveillance products have also been available. As a radio technology, WiMAX is a wireless broadband system that offers greater capacity than WiFi networks and wider coverage than cellular networks. The acceptance of WiMAX in the market, the availability of WiMAX products and its technology excellence, contribute to the possibility of implementing it for surveillance application. However, since WiMAX is designed to accommodate various applications with different quality of service (QoS) requirements, dedicated surveillance network implementation of WiMAX may not achieve optimum performance, as all Subscriber Stations (SSs) generate the same QoS requirements. In the medium access (MAC) layer, this thesis proposes a bandwidth allocation scheme that considers the QoS uniformity of the traffic sources. The proposed bandwidth allocation scheme comprises a simplified bandwidth allocation architecture, a packet-aware bandwidth request mechanism and packet-aware scheduling algorithms. The simplified architecture maximizes resources in the Base Station (BS), deactivates unnecessary services and minimizes the processing delay. The proposed bandwidth request mechanism reduces bandwidth grant and transmission delays. The proposed scheduling algorithms prioritize bandwidth granting access to a request that contains important packet(s). The proposed methods in the MAC layer are designed to be applied to existing devices in the market, without the necessity to change hardware. The transport protocol should be able to deliver video with sufficient quality while maintaining low delay connectivity. The proposed transport layer protocol is therefore designed to improve the existing user datagram protocol (UDP) performance by retransmitting packet loss selectively to increase the received video quality, and utilizing MAC support to achieve low delay connectivity. In order to overcome the limitations of the lower layers, this thesis employs a rateless code instead of transport layer redundancy in the application layer. Moreover, this thesis proposes post-decoding error concealment techniques as the last means to overcome packet loss. To evaluate the performances of the proposed methods, simulations are carried out using NS-2 simulator on Linux platform. The proposed methods are compared to existing works to measure their effectiveness. To facilitate the implementation of the transport layer protocols in practical scenarios, UDP packet modification is applied for each transport layer protocol.

This Thesis is an embodiment of some research work carried out towards achieving faster and more reliable handover techniques in a Mobile WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) network. Handover, also called handoff, is the critical mechanism that allows an ongoing session in a cellular mobile network like WiMAX to be seamlessly maintained without any call drop as the Mobile Station (MS) moves out of the coverage area of one base station (BS) to that of another. Mobile WiMAX supports three different types of handover mechanisms, namely, the hard handover, the Fast Base Station Switching (FBSS) and the Micro-Diversity Handover (MDHO). Out of these, the hard handover is the default handover mechanism whereas the other two are the optional schemes. Also, FBSS and MDHO provide better performance in comparison to hard handover, when it comes to dealing with the high-speed multimedia applications. However, they require a complex architecture and are very expensive to implement. So, hard handover is the commonly used technique accepted by the mobile broadband wireless user community including Mobile WiMAX users. The existing Mobile WiMAX hard handover mechanism suffers from multiple shortcomings when it comes to providing fast and reliable handovers. These shortcomings include lengthy handover decision process, lengthy and unreliable procedure of selecting the next BS, i.e., the target BS (TBS) for handover, occurrence of frequent and unwanted handovers, long connection disruption times (CDT), wastage of channel resources, etc. Out of these, reducing the handover latency and improving the handover reliability are the two issues that our present work has focused on. While the process of selecting the TBS for handover adds to the overall delay in completing the process of handover, choosing a wrong TBS for handover increases the chance of further unwanted handovers to occur or even a call drop to occur. The latter greatly hampers the reliability of a handover. In order to contribute to the solution of the above two problems of slow handover and unreliable handover, this Thesis proposes and investigates three handover techniques, which have been called Handover Techniques 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Out of these three techniques, the first two are fully MS-controlled while the third one is a dominantly serving BS-controlled. In Handover Techniques 1 and 2, which share between them some amount of commonness of ideas, the MS not only itself determines the need for a handover but also self-tracks its own independent movement with respect to the location of the (static) neighboring BSs (NBS). N both these handover techniques, the MS performs distance estimation of the NBSs from the signal strength received from the NBSs. But they (the two handover techniques) employ different kinds of “lookahead” techniques to independently choose, as the TBS, that NBS to which the MS is most likely to come nearest in the future. Being MS-controlled, both Handover Technique 1 and Handover Technique 2 put minimal handover-related workload on their respective SBSs who thus remain free to offer services to many more MSs. This interesting capability of the two handover techniques can increase the scalability of the WiMAX network considerably. In Handover Technique 3, which is a BS-controlled one with some assistance received from the MS, the SBS employs three different criteria or parameters to select the TBS. The first criterion, a novel one, is the orientation matching between the MS’s direction of motion and the geolocation of each NBS. The other two criteria are the current load of each NBS (the load provides an indication of a BS’s current QoS capabilities) and the signal strength received by the MS from each NBS. The BS assigns scores to each NBS against each of the three independent parameters and selects the TBS, which obtains the highest weighted average score among the NBSs. All three handover techniques are validated using simulation methods. While Handover Techniques 1 and 2 are simulated using Qualnet network simulator, for Handover Technique 3, we had to design, with barest minimum capability, our own simulation environment, using Python. Results of simulation showed that for Handover Techniques 1 and 2, it is possible to achieve around 45% improvement (approx) in the overall handover time by using the two proposed handover techniques. The emphasis in the simulation of the Handover Technique 3 was on studying its reliability in producing correct handovers rather than how fast handovers are. Five different arbitrary pre-defined movement paths of the MS were studied. Results showed that with orientation matching or orientation matching together with signal strength, reliability was extremely good, provided the pre-defined paths were reasonably linear. But reliability fell considerably when relatively large loads were also considered along with orientation matching and signal strength. Finally, the comparison between the proposed handover techniques in this Thesis and few other similar techniques in Mobile WiMAX proposed by other researchers showed that our techniques are better in terms providing fast, reliable and intelligent handovers in Mobile WiMAX networks, with scalability being an added feature.

近幾年無線寬頻網路崛起，寄望WiMAX可以取代最後一哩，雖然WiMAX有QoS的設計，但是對於Call Admission Control、Bandwidth Allocation、Scheduler並沒有實際定義，給予廠商彈性設計。本篇論文提出以機器學習的方式依據網路狀態動態配置頻寬，以符合實際頻寬需求。 由於BS在配置頻寬的時候並沒有SS佇列的訊息，使得BS無法配置適合的頻寬，達到較好的效能，尤其是有期限的rtPS封包最為明顯。在系統負載較高的環境下，容易導致封包遺失提升，吞吐量降低的情形發生。因此本研究提出了支持向量機的方式，收集大量Training Data，訓練成動態頻寬配置模組；以動態配置適合的頻寬給rtPS，使rtPS在負載高的環境下的封包遺失率降低，且延遲能夠維持一定水準。搭配適應性頻寬配置策略，在低負載的環境下可以保留少許頻寬給Non Real Time Traffic，在高負載環境下，先滿足Real Time Traffic為原則。模擬工具採用NS 2-2.29、長庚大學-資策會的WiMAX模組，以及台大林智仁老師開發的支持向量機函式庫libSVM。 / In recent years, the rise of wireless broadband access networks. Hope that WiMAX can solve the last mile problem. Although WiMAX has QoS design, but for call admission control, bandwidth allocation, scheduler are not defined in standard. In this paper, we proposed a machine learning approach dynamic bandwidth allocation based on network state. BS because of the bandwidth allocation at a time when there is no message of SS’s queue. Enables BS can not configure a more suitable bandwidth to achieve better performance. In particular, there is the deadline of rtPS packets. At the higher loading on the system environment, easily lead to packet loss raise, lower throughput situations happen. In this study, a support vector machine approach to collect a large number of training data. Training modules into a dynamic bandwidth allocation. We can dynamically allocate bandwidth to fit rtPS. Adaptive bandwidth allocation strategy, at the low loading environment can keep some bandwidth for non real time traffic. At a high loading environment must first meet the real time traffic. We use Network Simulator 2-2.29, CGU-III WiMAX module, libSVM library.