Our study investigates the performance of the WUSB standards and compares it to the Wimedia Standard. To the best of our knowledge, no technical contributions exist in the open literature at present simulating WUSB and its performance. The study showed that WUSB can achieve better throughput when bursting is enabled at the maximum burst size and it provides more accurate timing control of device activity than using the standard facilities of the WiMedia MAC. Our study also addresses protocol extensions and improvement to the original WUSB standard to support better Quality of Service (QoS). First improvement enables a di erent reservation mechanism along with contention based access to support higher priority security and medical system monitoring applications. Second improvement enables the host device to use an adaptive packet loss technique to change the packet size dynamically during the data transmission to achieve packet loss less than 10%. Third improvement enables redundancy in the cluster by adding a backup host to prevent mobility failures and changes. This backup host is chosen by a prede ned cost weighting function.

Our study investigates the performance of the WUSB standards and compares it to the Wimedia Standard. To the best of our knowledge, no technical contributions exist in the open literature at present simulating WUSB and its performance. The study showed that WUSB can achieve better throughput when bursting is enabled at the maximum burst size and it provides more accurate timing control of device activity than using the standard facilities of the WiMedia MAC. Our study also addresses protocol extensions and improvement to the original WUSB standard to support better Quality of Service (QoS). First improvement enables a di erent reservation mechanism along with contention based access to support higher priority security and medical system monitoring applications. Second improvement enables the host device to use an adaptive packet loss technique to change the packet size dynamically during the data transmission to achieve packet loss less than 10%. Third improvement enables redundancy in the cluster by adding a backup host to prevent mobility failures and changes. This backup host is chosen by a prede ned cost weighting function.

Our study investigates the performance of the WUSB standards and compares it to the Wimedia Standard. To the best of our knowledge, no technical contributions exist in the open literature at present simulating WUSB and its performance. The study showed that WUSB can achieve better throughput when bursting is enabled at the maximum burst size and it provides more accurate timing control of device activity than using the standard facilities of the WiMedia MAC. Our study also addresses protocol extensions and improvement to the original WUSB standard to support better Quality of Service (QoS). First improvement enables a di erent reservation mechanism along with contention based access to support higher priority security and medical system monitoring applications. Second improvement enables the host device to use an adaptive packet loss technique to change the packet size dynamically during the data transmission to achieve packet loss less than 10%. Third improvement enables redundancy in the cluster by adding a backup host to prevent mobility failures and changes. This backup host is chosen by a prede ned cost weighting function.

Our study investigates the performance of the WUSB standards and compares it to the Wimedia Standard. To the best of our knowledge, no technical contributions exist in the open literature at present simulating WUSB and its performance. The study showed that WUSB can achieve better throughput when bursting is enabled at the maximum burst size and it provides more accurate timing control of device activity than using the standard facilities of the WiMedia MAC. Our study also addresses protocol extensions and improvement to the original WUSB standard to support better Quality of Service (QoS). First improvement enables a di erent reservation mechanism along with contention based access to support higher priority security and medical system monitoring applications. Second improvement enables the host device to use an adaptive packet loss technique to change the packet size dynamically during the data transmission to achieve packet loss less than 10%. Third improvement enables redundancy in the cluster by adding a backup host to prevent mobility failures and changes. This backup host is chosen by a prede ned cost weighting function.

Broadband Internet access technologies and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) have enabled service providers to deliver high-definition video streams to the doorsteps of IPTV subscribers. On the other hand, how to distribute the high data rate, delay sensitive video traffic to almost all rooms in a typical household environment becomes a new challenge. There are several approaches proposed for IPTV in-home distribution, among which the wireless ones are very attractive due to their flexibility and affordability, but the physical and media access control (MAC) layer limitations in most existing wireless technologies still impend the success of video streaming over wireless networks. Recently, WiMedia Alliance has finalized its MB-OFDM based Ultra Wide Band (UWB) standards for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). WiMedia UWB supports two MAC protocols: Distributed Reservation Protocol (DRP) and Prioritized Channel Access (PCA), which are very suitable for high-quality video streaming. Based on our experimentation experience, the focus of our work is to develop an analytical model for WiMedia UWB MAC protocols using the renewal reward theorem framework and quantify the video streaming performance considering all practical features (PCA, Hard DRP, Soft DRP, TXOP) of WiMedia MAC protocols. We have done extensive simulation in \textit{NS-2} to validate the model and further evaluate the performance of WiMedia UWB MAC protocols.

L'ultra large bande (UWB) est une nouvelle technologie à fort potentiel pour les futurs réseaux personnels WPAN (wireless personal area networks) à très haut débit et faible portée. L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer un nouveau système UWB, de type LP-OFDM (linear precoded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) pour les applications WPAN, visant à améliorer la solution MB-OFDM (multiband OFDM), supportée par l'Alliance WiMedia.<br />Dans un premier temps, une étude analytique est menée sur l'apport de la composante de précodage au système UWB, cette composante se réduisant en pratique à une simple addition d'une matrice d'étalement fréquentiel. La fonction de précodage est ensuite optimisée et différentes stratégies d'allocation dynamique des ressources sont étudiées. En considérant une approche classique tenant compte du taux d'erreur symbole (TES) ainsi qu'une nouvelle approche tenant compte du taux d'erreur binaire (TEB) moyen, différents algorithmes d'allocation dynamique visant à maximiser la portée ou le débit du système, ou à minimiser le TEB moyen du système, sont proposés. Les résultats analytiques montrent l'avantage d'utiliser une composante de précodage pour les applications UWB dont le canal est très sélectif en fréquence.<br />Dans un second temps, une étude système complémentaire à l'étude analytique est réalisée pour le système LP-OFDM UWB. Une composante MIMO est ajoutée au système, d'une part pour augmenter la portée du système à bas et moyen débit, et d'autre part pour augmenter le débit du système qui peut atteindre dans ce cas 1 gigabit/s. Les résultats de simulation sur le système proposé montrent que ce système est plus performant que le système MB-OFDM pour les débits déjà proposés dans la norme, et qu'il offre un débit deux fois plus important que ceux de la norme avec même une meilleure performance en terme de TEB.

L'ultra large bande (UWB) est une nouvelle technologie à fort potentiel pour les futurs réseaux personnels WPAN (wireless personal area networks) à très haut débit et faible portée. L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer un nouveau système UWB, de type LP-OFDM (linear precoded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) pour les applications WPAN, visant à améliorer la solution MB-OFDM (multiband OFDM), supportée par l'Alliance WiMedia.<br />Dans un premier temps, une étude analytique est menée sur l'apport de la composante de précodage au système UWB, cette composante se réduisant en pratique à une simple addition d'une matrice d'étalement fréquentiel. La fonction de précodage est ensuite optimisée et différentes stratégies d'allocation dynamique des ressources sont étudiées. En considérant une approche classique tenant compte du taux d'erreur symbole (TES) ainsi qu'une nouvelle approche tenant compte du taux d'erreur binaire (TEB) moyen, différents algorithmes d'allocation dynamique visant à maximiser la portée ou le débit du système, ou à minimiser le TEB moyen du système, sont proposés. Les résultats analytiques montrent l'avantage d'utiliser une composante de précodage pour les applications UWB dont le canal est très sélectif en fréquence.<br />Dans un second temps, une étude système complémentaire à l'étude analytique est réalisée pour le système LP-OFDM UWB. Une composante MIMO est ajoutée au système, d'une part pour augmenter la portée du système à bas et moyen débit, et d'autre part pour augmenter le débit du système qui peut atteindre dans ce cas 1 gigabit/s. Les résultats de simulation sur le système proposé montrent que ce système est plus performant que le système MB-OFDM pour les débits déjà proposés dans la norme, et qu'il offre un débit deux fois plus important que ceux de la norme avec même une meilleure performance en terme de TEB.

This thesis presents a cross-layer design and optimization for emerging wideband wireless networks supporting multimedia applications, considering the interactions of the wireless channel characteristics, the physical and link layer protocols, and the user-perceived Quality-of-Service (QoS). As wireless channels are error-prone and broadcast in nature, both the error control mechanisms and the Media Access Control (MAC) protocols are critical for resource utilization and QoS provisioning. How to analyze, design and optimize the high-rate wireless networks by considering the characteristics of the propagation channels and wideband communication technologies is an open, challenging issue. In this thesis, we consider two important wideband wireless systems, the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and the Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. First, we propose the packet-level channel models based on Finite State Markov Chains (FSMCs) for the two systems, which present the statistical properties of the propagation channels and the transmission systems. Second, by incorporating the proposed packet-level channel models, we develop analytical frameworks for quantifying the performance of the high-rate wireless networks, combining the channel fading, physical- and link-layer error-control mechanisms and MAC protocols. Third, to mitigate the impact of channel fading and impairments, a cross-layer joint error-control mechanism is proposed. In addition, we also investigate the impact of channel fading on the video streaming applications, and propose a simple admission control algorithm to ensure QoS. As considering the physical-layer characteristics is critical for ensuring QoS and efficiency of resource utilization, the packet-level channel models, cross-layer analytical frameworks, networking protocols and simulation methodologies proposed in this dissertation are essential for future proliferation of high-rate wireless networks.

Computer networks are in the scope of the IEEE organization normalized by the 802 board which currently comprises six working groups for wireless communications. IEEE 802.11 for wireless local area networks, IEEE  802.15 for wireless personal area networks, IEEE 802.16 for wireless metropolitan area networks, IEEE 802.20 for mobile broadband wireless access, IEEE 802.21 for media independent handover and IEEE 802.22 for wireless regional area networks. This master's thesis focuses on a security analysis of particular standards, describes threats, vulnerabilities, current security measures and mutually compares wireless specifications from a security point of view. The conclusion is devoted to overall evaluation of the project, to its contributions, possible enhancements and continuation in the form of consequential studies.