This thesis proposes the design of the UAV-LMDS communication system for military and commercial use. The UAV-LMDS system is a digital, wireless communication system that provides service using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying at 60,000 ft. acting as communication hubs. This thesis provides background information on UAV-LMDS system elements, a financial analysis, theory, link budgets, system component design and implementation issues. To begin the design, we develop link budgets that are used to characterize system parameters. We present detailed antenna designs for the antennas aboard the UAV. We also present communication equipment block diagrams. Included are technical details on military and commercial geostationary satellites used to link transmissions in the system. Implementation issues in the military system are discussed. Mobility and the effects of vegetation in the propagation path are investigated and a co-channel interference study is done. This thesis shows that by using UAVs and LMDS, a viable, broadband, wireless communications system can be created for military and commercial use. / Master of Science

The Rich Communication Service (RCS) aims to be the default messaging protocol in mobile devices. The native integration of RCS opens up the possibility of RCS chatbots replacing single-purpose apps. This report analyzes this possibility through in-depth experimentation of the chatbot functionality, followed by user testing of the chatbot features. The report found that the RCS chatbot could replace mobile applications since many solve a specific task and follow a closed-loop system. The report also identified RCS as a solution to the accumulated unused apps users have on their mobile devices. This report also attempts to fill the research gap on the current situation of RCS and the reasons behind the different rollout rates of RCS globally. The examination of interviews with RCS stakeholders was the basis of a stakeholder analysis. This analysis found that the Mobile Network Operators have different standings regarding RCS. Some see potential, and some see issues with RCS hindering the global rollout. Furthermore, the reluctance from Apple and the high involvement of Google are reviewed and contrasted with the answers from the interviews. / Rich Communication Service (RCS) siktar på att bli det nya standardprotokollet för att skicka meddelanden mellan mobiler. RCS potentiella integration i mobilens egna meddelande applikation öppnar upp för möjligheten att RCS- chatbotar även kan ersätta enklare appar med begränsade användningsområden. Denna rapport undersöker den här möjligheten genom experimenterande med chatbotens funktionalitet följt av användartester på chatbotens olika funktioner. Rapporten fann att chatboten i RCS har goda möjligheter att ersätta enklare mobila applikationer då många löser specifika uppgifter som följer ett system med en sluten slinga. Rapporten identifierade även RCS som en lösning till den mängd oanvända appar som användare har i sina mobiler. Denna rapport försöker även fylla det forskningsgap som finns angående RCS nuvarande situation och anledningarna till de olika adoptionshastigheterna i världen. Granskning av de intervjuer som hölls med olika intressenter på marknaden blev grunden för den intressentanalys som presenteras. Denna analys visade att teleoperatörer har olika ställningar gentemot RCS. Vissa ser potential medan andra främst ser problem vilket hindrar spridningen av RCS. Dessutom analyserades Apples ovilja att anamma RCS samt Googles

Les services de téléphonie IP automatisent le traitement des stimuli de communication en utilisant des ressources réseaux. Cependant, l'ajout de services rend vulnérable le système de téléphonie car certaines propriétés de fonctionnement des services déployés ne sont pas garanties. Aucune solution de développement de services ne permet de simultanément garantir des propriétés de fonctionnement et d'exploiter des ressources réseaux. Cette thèse propose une approche fondée sur le concept des langages dédiés pour développer des services de communications. Deux nouveaux langages dédiés au domaine des communications ont été développés : SPL et Pantaxou. Le premier sert à router des messages de signalisation tandis que le second, plus généraliste, permet la coordination d'entités communicantes. Dans cette thèse, nous démontrons, grâce à SPL et Pantaxou, que les services de communications peuvent être développés avec un langage de programmation expressif tout en préservant des propriétés critiques du domaine. / IP telephony services use network resources to automate communication stimuli processing. However, deploying services on a telephony system leads to safety issues and programmers need to ensure some safety properties on their services. Several approaches allowing service development have quickly emerged. However, none of them is both expressive and safe. This thesis proposes a new approach that relies on domain-specific languages (DSL) to develop communication services. Two new DSLs have been designed for communication services, namely SPL (Session Processing Language) and Pantaxou. The first one allows to route signaling messages while the second one, more generalist, enables to define coordination logics of communicating entities. In this thesis, we demonstrate thanks to SPL and Pantaxou that communication services could be developed with an expressive programming language that preserves some critical domain properties.

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo construir um modelo para dilucidar o conteúdo e o alcance do aspecto material da hipótese de incidência do Imposto sobre a Prestação de Serviços de Comunicação (ICMS-Comunicação). Concluir-se-á que o referido imposto incidirá quando houver o oferecimento oneroso de uma utilidade para outrem, a partir de um conjunto de atividades preponderantemente imateriais, prestado com habitualidade e intuito de lucro, que não esteja previsto na Lista de Serviços do ISS e cuja atividade-fim seja implementar uma, ou mais de uma, das etapas do processo comunicacional, com exceção das prestações que envolvam processo comunicacional de curta distância e que, adicionalmente, não tenham por finalidade última implementar uma etapa de tal processo. A partir do referido modelo, e de suas consequências, analisar-se-á se ocorre, ou não, incidência de ICMS sobre a prestação onerosa de serviços de televisão por assinatura, de serviços conexos aos de comunicação, de produção, programação e empacotamento de comunicação audiovisual de acesso condicionado, de provedores de Internet, de exibição de filmes por meio desta (streaming), de telefonia IP, bem como de divulgação de publicidade por diferentes meios. / This dissertation aims to construct a pattern to elucidate the content and the scope of the material aspect of the incidence hypothesis of the tax on the provision of communication services. The conclusion will be that the above mentioned tax shall be imposed when occur an onerous offer of an utility for another person, from a set of mainly intangible activities, habitually provided with gainful intent, that is not provided in the List of Services of the tax on services, whose core activity is to implement one or more than one of the stages of the communication process, with the exception of the provision of services involving short distance communication process that, additionally, have no ultimate purpose to implement a step in such process. From the above pattern and from its consequences it will be examined whether the tax on the provision of communication services shall be imposed, or not, on the onerous provision of television services, of services related to communication, of production, programming and packaging of audiovisual media, of Internet providers, of streaming, of IP telephony, as well as of dissemination of publicity through different media.

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo construir um modelo para dilucidar o conteúdo e o alcance do aspecto material da hipótese de incidência do Imposto sobre a Prestação de Serviços de Comunicação (ICMS-Comunicação). Concluir-se-á que o referido imposto incidirá quando houver o oferecimento oneroso de uma utilidade para outrem, a partir de um conjunto de atividades preponderantemente imateriais, prestado com habitualidade e intuito de lucro, que não esteja previsto na Lista de Serviços do ISS e cuja atividade-fim seja implementar uma, ou mais de uma, das etapas do processo comunicacional, com exceção das prestações que envolvam processo comunicacional de curta distância e que, adicionalmente, não tenham por finalidade última implementar uma etapa de tal processo. A partir do referido modelo, e de suas consequências, analisar-se-á se ocorre, ou não, incidência de ICMS sobre a prestação onerosa de serviços de televisão por assinatura, de serviços conexos aos de comunicação, de produção, programação e empacotamento de comunicação audiovisual de acesso condicionado, de provedores de Internet, de exibição de filmes por meio desta (streaming), de telefonia IP, bem como de divulgação de publicidade por diferentes meios. / This dissertation aims to construct a pattern to elucidate the content and the scope of the material aspect of the incidence hypothesis of the tax on the provision of communication services. The conclusion will be that the above mentioned tax shall be imposed when occur an onerous offer of an utility for another person, from a set of mainly intangible activities, habitually provided with gainful intent, that is not provided in the List of Services of the tax on services, whose core activity is to implement one or more than one of the stages of the communication process, with the exception of the provision of services involving short distance communication process that, additionally, have no ultimate purpose to implement a step in such process. From the above pattern and from its consequences it will be examined whether the tax on the provision of communication services shall be imposed, or not, on the onerous provision of television services, of services related to communication, of production, programming and packaging of audiovisual media, of Internet providers, of streaming, of IP telephony, as well as of dissemination of publicity through different media.

The FCC allocated the spectrum of 402-405 MHz for MICS (Medical Implant Communication Services) applications in 1999. The regulations for MICS band apply to devices that support the diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions associated with implanted medical electronics. The implanted devices aid organs and control body functions of patients to support specific treatments, and monitor patients continuously so that necessary action can be taken in advance to avoid serious conditions. To enable to use MICS applications, several requirements must be satisfied. An implanted wireless device should have a small size, consume ultra-low power, and achieve the date rate of at least 200 kbps within 2 m distance. The major challenge is to realize ultra-low power devices. Thus the low-power design of the RF circuit is crucial for MICS applications as the power consumption of the wireless devices is mostly contributed by RF circuits. This thesis investigates low-power design of an LNA and a down-conversion mixer of a receiver for MICS applications. The key idea is to stack an LNA and a mixer, while the LNA operates in the normal super-threshold region and the mixer in the sub-threshold region. In addition, a gm-boosting technique with a capacitor cross-coupled at the LNA input stage is also adopted to achieve a low noise figure (NF) and high linearity, which is critical to the overall performance of the receiver. The mixer operating in the sub-threshold region significantly reduces power dissipation and relaxes the voltage headroom without sacrificing the LNA performance. The relaxed voltage headroom enables stack of the LNA and the mixer with a low supply voltage of 1.2 V. The proposed circuit is designed in 0.18 μm RF CMOS technology. The merged LNA and mixer consumes only 1.83 mW, and achieves 21.6 dB power gain. The NF of the block is 3.55 dB at 1 MHz IF, and the IIP3 is -6.08 dBm. / Master of Science

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Depuis plusieurs années, on observe une multiplication des services de communication en temps réel de type Over-The-Top (OTT). Ces solutions utilisent l¿Internet « best-effort » et s¿adaptent aux fluctuations du réseau. Néanmoins, il est discutable que l¿approche OTT soit suffisante pour fournir une qualité de service de communication acceptable quelles que soient les conditions réseaux. Dès lors, est-il possible d¿utiliser l¿assistance réseau pour améliorer la qualité de service des solutions OTT ?Pour traiter cette question, nous étudions tout d¿abord les solutions OTT, et particulièrement la technologie WebRTC. Nous identifions trois stratégies de couplage lâche qui permettent de tirer parti des mécanismes réseaux pour améliorer la qualité de service des solutions OTT.Nous vérifions la pertinence de ces stratégies dans le contexte de la gestion du trafic. On identifie deux approches de gestion du trafic adaptées à WebRTC : 1) qui assure des délais d¿attente courts quel que soit le trafic ou 2) qui isole le trafic sensible. On évalue ces solutions et leur impact sur WebRTC, pour les réseaux d¿accès filaire (uplink, ADSL et fibre). Les résultats obtenus montrent que les pratiques actuelles de gestion du trafic ne sont pas adaptées au trafic WebRTC. De plus, les solutions proposées assurent plus d¿équité entre le trafic WebRTC et TCP et elles permettent d¿éviter que le trafic WebRTC soit désavantagé et elles améliorent la qualité de communication.Enfin, ces solutions de la gestion du trafic sont positionnées dans le contexte des stratégies de couplage proposées. A partir de là, on fournit des recommandations pour améliorer la qualité WebRTC avec l¿assistance du NSP. / The number of real-time Over-The-Top (OTT) communication services has increased in the recent years. OTT solutions use the best-effort Internet delivery and rely on mechanisms built into the endpoints to adapt to underlying network fluctuations. Nevertheless, it is questionable if this approach is enough to provide acceptable quality of communication regardless the network conditions. Therefore, can network assistance be used to improve the quality of OTT real-time communication services?To address this question, we study OTT solutions with a focus on WebRTC. We identify three loose coupling strategies that leverage network mechanisms for improving OTT communication services quality.We verify the pertinence of these coupling strategies in the context of traffic management. We identify two approaches of traffic management solutions adapted to WebRTC traffic: 1) aiming at assuring lower queuing delays regardless the traffic or 2) isolating the sensitive traffic. We study the impact of identified traffic management solutions on WebRTC for wireline access networks (uplink, ADSL and fiber). The obtained results show that current Internet engineering practices are not well adapted to the WebRTC traffic, but are optimized for TCP traffic. Furthermore, the proposed solutions ensure more fairness between WebRTC and TCP flows and consequently enable avoiding WebRTC traffic starvation and improve the overall quality of the communication.In the final analysis, the evaluated traffic management solutions are positioned in the context of identified coupling strategies. Based on this assessment, we provide recommendations of improving WebRTC quality with the assistance of NSP.

Frågan om digitala verktyg i undervisning har aktualiseras till följd av en övergång till IT-baserad distansundervisning. Det som studien ämnade att undersöka var hur lärare på gymnasiet anammar och hanterar nya verktyg på kort tid och hur väl anpassade verktygen är för deras situation och omständigheter som följd av övergången till IT-baserad distansundervisning under 2020 och 2021.Frågeställningen blev därför hur har de digitala verktyg som används i IT-baserad distansundervisning anammats av lärare på gymnasiet under 2020 och 2021.Syftet är bland annat att ge gymnasieskolor ett beslutsunderlag när det efter pandemin ska fattas beslut om IT-baserad distansundervisning ska fortlöpa i någon form, bland annat baserat på hur de digitala verktygen fungerar och anammas av gymnasielärare. När det kommer till digitala verktyg är det framförallt Microsoft Teams och Google Meet som används som videokommunikationstjänst och Google Classroom, itslearning, Vklass och Schoolsoft som används som lärplattform. Överlag uppger respondenterna att verktygen fungerar relativt bra, särskilt vad det gäller om verktyget är användarvänligt, enkelt, funktionsrikt och problemfritt. När det gäller hur användare anammar de digitala verktygen upplever en klar majoritet av respondenterna att de i stor till mycket stor utsträckning har anammat de digitala verktyg som används i den IT-baserade distansundervisningen. Studien har dock ändå undersökt vad som kännetecknar de lärare som inte har tillräcklig acceptans för de digitala verktyg som används. / The issue of digital tools in teaching has become relevant as a result of a transition to IT-based distance learning. What the study intended to investigate was how teachers in high school adopt and handle new digital tools in a short time and how well adapted the tools are to their situation and circumstances as a result of the transition to IT-based distance education in 2020 and 2021.The question therefore became how have the digital tools used in IT-based distance education been adopted by teachers in high school in 2020 and 2021.The purpose is to provide high schools with a decision basis whether IT-based distance education is to proceed in some form after the pandemic, based on how the digital tools work and are adopted by high school teachers. When it comes to digital tools, it is primarily Microsoft Teams and Google Meet that are used as a video communication service and Google Classroom, itslearning, Vklass and Schoolsoft that are used as a learning platform. Overall, the respondents state that the tools work relatively well, especially when it comes to whether the tool is user friendly, simple, functional and problem free. When it comes to how users adopt the digital tools, a clear majority of the respondents feel that they have mostly adopted the digital tools used in the IT-based distance education. In addition, the study has examined what characterizes the teachers who do not have sufficient acceptance for the digital tools used.

Les services de communication, du courrier postal à la téléphonie, en passant par la voix et la vidéo sur IP (Internet Protocol), la messagerie électronique, les salons de discussion sur Internet, les visioconférences ou les télécommunications immersives ont évolué au fil du temps. Un système de communication voix-vidéo sur IP est réalisé grâce à deux couches architecturales fondamentales : la couche de signalisation et la couche média. Le protocole de signalisation est utilisé pour créer, modifier et terminer des sessions multimédias entre des participants. La couche de signalisation est divisée en deux sous-couches - la couche de service et celle de contrôle - selon la spécification de l’IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Deux systèmes de communication largement utilisés sont l’IMS et SIP Pair-à- Pair (P2P SIP). Les fournisseurs de services, qui se comportent en tant qu’intermédiaires entre appelants et appelés, implémentent les systèmes de communication, contrôlant strictement la couche signalisation. Or ces fournisseurs de services ne prennent pas en compte la diversité des utilisateurs. Cette thèse identifie trois barrières technologiques dans les systèmes de communication actuels et plus précisément concernant la couche de signalisation. I. Un manque d’ouverture et de flexibilité dans la couche de signalisation pour les utilisateurs. II. Un développement difficile des services basés sur le réseau et les sessions. III. Une complexification du la couche de signalisation lors d’un très grand nombre d’appels. Ces barrières technologiques gênent l’innovation des utilisateurs avec ces services de communication. Basé sur les barrières technologiques listées cidessus, le but initial de cette thèse est de définir un concept et une architecture de système de communication dans lequel chaque individu devient un fournisseur de service. Le concept, "My Own Communication Service Provider" (MOCSP) et le système MOCSP sont proposés, accompagné d’un diagramme de séquence. Ensuite, la thèse fournit une analyse qui compare le système MOCSP avec les systèmes de communication existants en termes d’ouverture et de flexibilité. La seconde partie de la thèse présente des solutions pour les services basés sur le réseau ou les sessions, mettant en avant le système MOCSP proposé. Deux services innovants, user mobility et partial session transfer/retrieval (PSTR) sont pris comme exemples de services basés sur le réseau ou les sessions. Les services basés sur un réseau ou des sessions interagissent avec une session ou sont exécutés dans une session. Dans les deux cas, une seule entité fonctionnelle entre l’appelant et l’appelé déclenche le flux multimédia pendant l’initialisation de l’appel et/ou en cours de communication. De plus, la coopération entre le contrôle d’appel réseau et les différents pairs est facilement réalisé. La dernière partie de la thèse est dédiée à l’extension de MOCSP en cas de forte densité d’appels, elle inclut une analyse comparative. Cette analyse dépend de quatre facteurs - limite de passage à l’échelle, niveau de complexité, ressources de calcul requises et délais d’établissement de session - qui sont considérés pour évaluer le passage à l’échelle de la couche de signalisation. L’analyse comparative montre clairement que la solution basée sur MOCSP est simple et améliore l’usage effectif des ressources de calcul par rapport aux systèmes de communication traditionnels / Different communication services from delivery of written letters to telephones, voice/video over Internet Protocol(IP), email, Internet chat rooms, and video/audio conferences, immersive communications have evolved over time. A communication system of voice/video over IP is the realization of a two fundamental layered architecture, signaling layer and media layer. The signaling protocol is used to create, modify, and terminate media sessions between participants. The signaling layer is further divided into two layers, service layer and service control layer, in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) specification. Two widely used communication systems are IMS, and Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol (P2P SIP). Service providers, who behave as brokers between callers and callees, implement communication systems, heavily controlling the signaling layer. These providers do not take the diversity aspect of end users into account. This dissertation identifies three technical barriers in the current communication systems especially in the signaling layer. Those are: I. lack of openness and flexibility in the signaling layer for end users. II. difficulty of development of network-based, session-based services. III. the signaling layer becomes complex during the high call rate. These technical barriers hinder the end-user innovation with communication services. Based on the above listed technical barriers, the first part of this thesis defines a concept and architecture for a communication system in which an individual user becomes the service provider. The concept, My Own Communication Service Provider (MOCSP) and MOCSP system is proposed and followed by a call flow. Later, this thesis provides an analysis that compares the MOCSP system with existing communication systems in terms of openness and flexibility. The second part of this thesis presents solutions for network-based, session based services, leveraging the proposed MOCSP system. Two innovative services, user mobility and partial session transfer/retrieval are considered as examples for network-based, session-based services. The network-based, sessionbased services interwork with a session or are executed within a session. In both cases, a single functional entity between caller and callee consistently enables the media flow during the call initiation and/or mid-call. In addition, the cooperation of network call control and end-points is easily achieved. The last part of the thesis is devoted to extending the MOCSP for a high call rate and includes a preliminary comparative analysis. This analysis depends on four factors - scalability limit, complexity level, needed computing resources and session setup latency - that are considered to specify the scalability of the signaling layer. The preliminary analysis clearly shows that the MOCSP based solution is simple and has potential for improving the effective usage of computing resources over the traditional communication systems