Modern wireless telecommunication devices (GSM Mobile system) (cellular telephones and wireless modems on laptop computers) have the potential to interfere with implantable medical devices/prostheses and cause possible malfunction. An implant of resonant dimensions within a homogeneous dielectric lossy sphere can enhance local values of SAR (the specific absorption rate). Also antenna radiation pattern and other characteristics are significantly altered by the presence of the composite dielectric entities such as the human body. Besides, the current safety limits do not take into account the possible effect of hot spots arising from metallic implants resonant at mobile phone frequencies. Although considerable attention has been given to study and measurement of scattering from a dielectric sphere, no rigorous treatment using electromagnetic theory has been given to the implanted dielectric spherical head/cylindrical body. This thesis aims to deal with the scattering of a plane electromagnetic wave from a perfectly conducting or dielectric spherical/cylindrical implant of electrically small radius (of resonant length), embedded eccentrically into a dielectric spherical head model. The method of dyadic Green's function (DGF) for spherical vector wave functions is used. Analytical expressions for the scattered fields of both cylindrical and spherical implants as well as layered spherical head and cylindrical torso models are obtained separately in different chapters. The whole structure is assumed to be uniform along the propagation direction. To further check the accuracy of the proposed solution, the numerical results from the analytical expressions computed for the problem of implanted head/body are compared with the numerical results from the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method using the EMU-FDTD Electromagnetic simulator. Good agreement is observed between the numerical results based on the proposed method and the FDTD numerical technique. This research presents a new approach, away from simulation work, to the study of exact computation of EM fields in biological systems. Its salient characteristics are its simplicity, the saving in memory and CPU computational time and speed.

New wireless communication technology standards are being released every year. Wireless technologies merely differ from one another by their range and speed and can each be selected according to the type of application in use. Mobility and ubiquity are the main benefits that can be extracted by using those technologies. On the other hand, telemedicine is the use of communication technologies to provide medical care and thus avoid the usual face-to-face, physician-to-patient scenario. With telemedicine, a physician can treat a patient located at a remote site. Early telemedicine systems used technologies that were available at the time, such as the telephone. Integrating wireless technologies into telemedicine systems would surely provide a huge boost to the improvement of the delivery of healthcare. However, telemedicine and wireless technologies are both emerging scientific concepts. Scientific concepts always have to face challenges prior to popularisation. The more important barriers to the adoption of wireless telemedicine are security and privacy. Medical practitioners are doing their best to preserve the privacy of their patients. Disclosure of patients’ health information may lead to severe legal sanctions. Security flaws in a wireless telemedicine system would lead to privacy breaches. Patient privacy, which physicians have tried so hard to protect, would consequently be out of their control. This dissertation will achieve two goals. The first goal is to show how different wireless technologies could be integrated into telemedicine to provide different applications. The second goal is to design a fully wireless telemedicine system where the information of patients will flow securely. The model described in this dissertation shows a possible wireless telemedicine scenario using different types of wireless technologies. The model also proposes a solution to allow the secure flow of medical information in order to protect the privacy of patients. / Dr. E. Marais

The purpose of this study was to determine if light detection and ranging (LiDAR) imagery could provide a significantly more accurate data set for modeling near line-of-sight (LOS) propagation at higher frequencies, specifically 27.810 GHz. than a USGS digital elevation model (DEM). In addition, the study tested for significant differences in LiDAR elevation data created at various resolutions ranging from 1 to 100 meters. Finally, this study examined the effects of various classification thresholds for transforming continuous signal strength measurements into LOS or non-LOS (NLOS) classifications used in determining prediction accuracy. The capability to transmit information via higher frequency wireless equipment requires a near LOS path between the transmitter and the antenna receiving the signal. USGS DEMs, commonly used in GIS programs to predict communication viewsheds (commsheds), represent the bare earth topography and do not reflect surface features such as vegetation and buildings. In actuality these surface features can significantly influence near LOS paths and therefore a data set that contains these features can greatly improve the ability to predict commshed areas. LiDAR is a form of active imagery that records both the bare-earth as well as these surface features, at a high resolution, making it well suited for wireless modeling applications. Results indicate that signal strength threshold classification has a direct influence on the accuracy of predicted commsheds across all resolutions. Secondly, LiDAR resolutions lower than 40m as well as bare-earth DEMs were unsuccessful in predicting an accurate commshed while LiDAR resolutions coarser than 15m provided significant predictions of equal accuracy. These results indicate that high resolution LiDAR is needed to accurately model commsheds but signal strength threshold classification determines which of these higher resolutions are significant. / Master of Science

No / Antenna array technology has attracted the attention of the research community as a means to increase system capacity and improve the signal reception. Space division multiple access (SDMA) is a multi-access scheme based on the use of antenna arrays to separate users by exploiting their positions in space. Several works have been carried out to examine the improvement in the system capacity provided by SDMA. A theoretical model to determine the blocking probability for SDMA is derived. A closed-form linear system of equations is obtained whose numerical solution gives the blocking probability. The formulation is employed to assess the capacity gain improvement of a single-cell system under specific conditions. It is found from the results that SDMA is not efficient for low traffic loads, whereas it is so for high traffic.

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La diversité croissante des différents agents constituant les réseaux de communication actuels ainsi que la capacité accrue des technologies concurrentes dans l’environnement réseau a conduit à la prise en compte d’une nouvelle approche distribuée de la gestion du réseau. Dans cet environnement réseau évolué, le besoin en accroissement de la bande passante et en ressources rares, s’oppose à la réduction de la consommation énergétique globale.Dans notre travail nous nous intéressons à l’application de mécanismes distribués et de méthodes d’apprentissages visant à introduire d’avantage d’autonomie dans les réseaux hétérogènes, mobiles en particulier, tout en améliorant les performances par rapport aux débits et à la qualité de service. Notre étude se concentre principalement sur l’élaboration de mécanismes distribués stochastiques et énergétiquement efficaces en profitant des capacités de calcul de tous les agents et entités du réseau. Divers outils de la théorie des jeux nous permettent de modéliser et d’étudier différents types de systèmes dont la complexité est induite par la grande taille, l’hétérogénéité et le caractère dynamique des interconnexions. Plus spécifiquement, nous utilisons des outils d’apprentissage par renforcement pour aborder des questions telles que l’attachement distribué des utilisateurs permettant une gestion dynamique, décentralisée et efficace des ressources radio. Nous combinons ensuite les procédures de sélection d’accès à des méthodes d’optimisation distribuées du type gradient stochastique, pour adresser le problème de coordination des interférences intercellulaires (ICIC) dans les réseaux LTE-A. Cette approche se base sur un contrôle de puissance dynamique conduisant à une réutilisation fractionnaire des fréquences radios. Par ailleurs nous adressons dans les réseaux décentralisés non-hiérarchiques, plus précisément les réseaux tolérants aux délais (DTNs), des méthodes décentralisées liées à la minimisation du délai de transmission de bout en bout. Dans ce cadre nous nous intéressons, en outre des équilibres de Nash, à la notion d’équilibre évolutionnairement stables dans différents contextes de jeux évolutionnaires, jeux évolutionnaires décisionnels markoviens et jeux de minorité. Enfin, la majeure partie du travail effectué se rattachant aux tests et validations par simulations,nous présentons plusieurs éléments d’implémentations et d’intégrations liés à la mise en place de plateformes de simulations et d’expérimentations / Growing diversity of agents in current communication networks and increasing capacitiesof concurrent technologies in the network environment has lead to the considerationof a novel distributed approach of the network management. In this evolvednetwork environment the increasing need for bandwidth and rare channel resources,opposes to reduction of the total energy consumption.This thesis focuses on application of distributed mechanisms and learning methodsto allow for more autonomy in the heterogeneous network, this in order to improveits performances. We are mainly interested in energy efficient stochastic mechanismsthat will operate in a distributed fashion by taking advantage of the computationalcapabilities of all the agents and entities of the network. We rely on application ofGame theory to study different types of complex systems in the distributed wirelessnetworks with dynamic interconnectivity.Specifically, we use the stochastic reinforcement learning tools to address issuessuch as, distributed user-network association that allows achieving an efficient dynamicand decentralized radio resource management. Then, we combine access selectionprocedures with distributed optimization to address the inter-cells interferencescoordination (ICIC) for LTE-advanced networks using dynamic power control and designof fractional frequency reuse mechanisms. Moreover we address in non-hierarchicalnetworks, more precisely in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), decentralized methodsrelated to minimization of the end-to-end communication delay. In this framework weare interested, in addition to Nash equilibrium, to the notion of evolutionary stableequiliria in the different context of Evolutionary Games, Markov Decision EvolutionaryGames and Minority Games. As the major parts of our work includes testing andvalidations by simulations, eventually we present several implementations and integrationsmaterials for edition of simulation platforms and test beds

Detta arbete beskriver en examensuppsats i datateknik på Linnéuniversitetet. Röntgenavdelningen på SUS, Skånes Universitetssjukhus i Lund, använder en lättviktig flyttbar röntgenmaskin som väger endast cirka 90 kg, för röntgenundersökningar ute på äldreboenden. Bilderna överförs till sjukhusets PACS när maskinen är tillbaka på sjukhuset, genom att man kopplar in Dragon via kabel till sjukhusets nätverk. Målsättningen är att förbättra den trådlösa kommunikationen som för närvarande är för långsam och opålitlig, så att bilderna kan överföras till sjukhusets PACS direkt efter undersökningen. I detta arbete beskrivs vilka alternativ som kan användas. Samt om de mobila bredbandstjänster som finns tillgängliga i Region Skåne är bra nog för att kunna användas för uppgiften. Slutsatsen är att ett 3G HSDPA/HSUPA abonnemang kan vara tillförlitligt nog. Framför allt om extra redundans tillförs med dubbla SIM-kort som använder separata nät och att signalen förstärks med antenn placerad utomhus på transportfordonet. Transportfordonet används som brygga mellan Wifi och mobilt nätverk. Röntgenmaskinen kommunicerar med transportfordonet via Wifi. För de fall Wifi inte fungerar på grund av byggnader och omgivande miljö arbetades ett reservalternativ fram. Jag har också undersökt och jämfört DICOM protokollet mot FTP. Detta för att se om DICOM har en overhead som skulle motivera användet av FTP istället för sändning av bilder. Resultatet av jämförelsen visade att DICOM har 5-10 % overhead jämfört med FTP. / This abstract describes a degree project in computer engineering at Linnaeus University. The Department of Radiology at SUS, Skåne University Hospital in Lund, is using a lightweight portable x-ray machine that weights about 90 kg, for radiography services in nursing homes for elders. The images are transferred to hospital PACS when the machine returns to the hospital, this is done with Dragon connecting to hospital network via wire. The goal is to improve the currently too slow and unreliable wireless communication, so the images can be transferred to hospital PACS directly after examination. This report describes what alternatives can be used and investigates whether the mobile broadband services currently available in Skåne County are good enough to be relied on for the task. The conclusion is that a 3G HSDPA/HSUPA subscription can be used reliably enough, if extra redundancy is added via dual SIM cards using separate mobile networks and the signal is strengthen by an antenna placed outdoors on the transport vehicle. The transport vehicle is used as a bridge between Wifi and mobile networks. The mobile x-ray machine communicates with the transport vehicle via Wifi. In those cases Wifi does not work due to difficult building environments, a backup solution was worked out to be used. I also investigated and compared the DICOM protocol against FTP. This was to find out if DICOM has an overhead that would motivate using FTP instead for the transmission of the images, the result of the comparison showed that DICOM has an 5-10 % overhead compared with FTP. / Mobil röntgen Skånes Universitetssjukhus Lund

Evolving technology in wireless telecommunication, such as 5G, provides opportunities to utilize wireless communication more in an industrial setting where reliability and predictability are of great concern. More capable Industrial Internet of Things devices (IIoT) are, indeed, a catalyst for Industry 4.0. Still, before the IIoT devices can be deemed capable enough, a method to evaluate the IIoT systems unobtrusively—so that the evaluation does not affect the performance of the systems—must be established. This thesis aims to answer how the performance of a distributed control system can be unobtrusively evaluated, and also determine what the state-of-the-art is in latency measurements in distributed control systems. To answer the question, a novel diagnostics method for time-critical control systems in cloud-fog automation is proposed and extensively evaluated on real-life testbeds that use 5G, WiFi 6, and Ethernet in an edge-computing topology with real control systems. The feasibility of the proposed method was verified by experiments conducted with a diagnostics framework prototype developed in this thesis. In the proposed diagnostics framework, the controller application is monitored by a computing probe based on an extended Berkeley Packet Filter program. Network communication between the controller and control target is evaluated with a multi-channel Ethernet probe and custom-made software that computes several metrics related to the performance of the distributed system. The data from the unobtrusive probes are sent to a time-series database that is used for further analysis and real-time visualization in a graphical interface created with Grafana. The proposed diagnostics method together with the developed prototype can be used as a research infrastructure for future evaluations of distributed control systems.

Στην παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή προτείνονται τεχνικές για την βελτιστοποίηση της ποιότητας των παρεχομένων υπηρεσιών στους χρήστες σύγχρονων ασύρματων τηλεπικοινωνιακών συστημάτων που ως τεχνολογίες πρόσβασης έχουν την πολλαπλή πρόσβαση ορθογωνικής διαίρεσης συχνότητας και την πολλαπλή πρόσβαση διαίρεσης κώδικα. Οι τεχνικές που αναπτύχθηκαν αφορούν επαναληπτικούς αλγόριθμους κατανομής των διαθέσιμων ραδιοπόρων και εφαρμόζοναι κυρίως στην κατερχόμενη των ασύρματων συστημάτων. Ως παράμετροι της ποιότητας των παρεχόμενων υπηρεσιών θεωρούνται: το ελάχιστο απαιτούμενο επίπεδο ρυθμού μετάδοσης των δεδομέων, ο ρυθμός των λανθασμέων bit, και η ελάχιστη απαιτούμενη ποσότητα ραδιοπόρων σε κάθε χρήστη. Η αξιολόγηση των τεχνικών που προτείνονται γίνεται μέσω δεικτών της απόδοσής τους, οι οποίοι είναι: η πιθανότητα παραβίασης της ποιότητας της υπηρεσίας, ο δείκτης δικαιοσύνης του συστήματος, ο ρυθμός μετάδοσης δεδομένων στα άκρα της κυψέλης και η χωρητικότητα της κυψέλης. Για την εξαγωγή των δεικτών αυτών είναι απαραίτητα στατιστικά δεδομένα, τα οποία συλλέγονται μέσα από μεγάλο αριθμό προσομοιώσεων. / This doctoral thesis proposes QoS optimization techniques in modern wireless telecommunication systems, whereby orthogonal frequency division multiple access and code division are used. The proposed techniques are iterative resource allocation algorithms which are mainly suitable for the downlink of wireless networks. The minimum required level of data rate, the bit error rate and the minimum number of resources per user are considered as quality of service parameters. The validation of the proposed techniques is done through the performance of performance metrics like the : the quality of service violation probability, the system fairness index, the cell-edge data rate and the cell capacity. Statistical data are required which are collected through extensive simulation