A melhora na eficiência do uso do espectro de radiofrequência é fundamental para permitir um desempenho adequado dos diversos sistemas sem fio cuja complexidade e requerimentos aumentam a cada dia. O panorama atual de atribuição de canais é estático, tolerando assim, que o espectro de radiofrequência seja usado de forma desequilibrada, gerando com isso, problemas de coexistência em algumas faixas e subutilização de recursos em outras. Para contornar esse problema, tem sido proposta a ideia de introduzir algoritmos de cognição nos dispositivos sem fio, a fim de permitir um modelo de alocação dinâmico adicional. Neste, os usuários secundários equipados com rádios cognitivos podem utilizar de forma dinâmica os canais subutilizados de usuários primários. Um usuário primário tem prioridade de uso do canal como consequência da atribuição estática, porém, o uso do canal por um usuário secundário qualquer é oportunista e limitando ao tempo de inatividade do usuário primário em um determinado local. As redes de sensores sem fio trabalham em uma banda concorrida e são sistemas que podem melhorar seu desempenho utilizando um mecanismo de acesso dinâmico aos canais, possibilitando o aproveitamento dos períodos de inatividade de usuários primários ou aumentando sua capacidade de coexistência na banda de operação atual. Segundo a literatura pesquisada são vários os desafios existentes para conseguir um método distribuído de acesso dinâmico aos canais que considere as restrições de trocas de sinalizações, consumo de energia e complexidade dos dispositivos de uma rede de sensores sem fio. Neste contexto, propõe-se uma metodologia de sensoriamento e acesso dinâmico aos canais para uma rede de sensores sem fio considerando a simplicidade dos dispositivos. Como fatores de inovação, optou-se pela definição de uma política de sensoriamento por clusters que permite realizar uma aprendizagem cooperativa por reforço da situação dos canais de operação. Além disso, a definição de um mecanismo de acesso dinâmico aos canais fundamentado no padrão IEEE 802.15.4 permite comunicação e coordenação distribuída de forma assíncrona. O funcionamento da metodologia proposta é avaliado e comparado usando simulações e experimentos mediante um estudo de caso específico. As comparações são realizadas com métodos de seleção de canal: fixa, cega ou baseada em recompensas por acesso. Os resultados mostram a eficiência no acesso dinâmico aos canais com aumentos na taxa de entrega de mensagens e na capacidade de coexistir com as redes primárias. / The efficiency improvement of the use of radiofrequency spectrum is fundamental to allow more complex and more optimal wireless systems. The current channel allocation is static. It tolerates unbalanced use of the radiofrequency spectrum generating coexistence problems in some bands and underutilization of resources in other bands. The introduction of cognitive algorithms into wireless devices has been proposed to overcome that problem, in order to allow an additional dynamic allocation model. In this, the secondary users equipped with cognitive radios will be able to use dynamically the underutilized channels of primary users. A primary user has channel usage priority related to the static allocation, on the other hand, the use of the channel by any secondary user is opportunistic and limited to the inactivity time of the primary user in a specific place. Wireless sensor networks work in a competitive band. These systems can improve their performance using a dynamic access to the channels and consequently to enable the utilization of inactivity periods of primary users or to increase the coexistence capability at their current operation band. According to the researched literature, several challenges exist to find a distributed method for dynamic access to the channels considering the restrictions on control signaling, energy consumption and computational complexity of wireless sensor network devices. In this context, a methodology of sensing and dynamic access to the channels in a wireless sensor network considering the restrictions of the devices is proposed. As innovation, we opted for the definition of a sensing policy by clusters that allows the cooperative reinforcement learning of the situation of channels. In addition, a mechanism for dynamic access to the channels based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard is defined to allow asynchronous and distributed coordination. The behavior of the proposed methodology is evaluated and compared using simulations and experiments through a specific case study. The comparisons are performed with channel selection methods: fixed, blind and access based. The results show good efficiency in the dynamic allocation of the channels, increasing the message delivery rate and the coexistence capability.

A melhora na eficiência do uso do espectro de radiofrequência é fundamental para permitir um desempenho adequado dos diversos sistemas sem fio cuja complexidade e requerimentos aumentam a cada dia. O panorama atual de atribuição de canais é estático, tolerando assim, que o espectro de radiofrequência seja usado de forma desequilibrada, gerando com isso, problemas de coexistência em algumas faixas e subutilização de recursos em outras. Para contornar esse problema, tem sido proposta a ideia de introduzir algoritmos de cognição nos dispositivos sem fio, a fim de permitir um modelo de alocação dinâmico adicional. Neste, os usuários secundários equipados com rádios cognitivos podem utilizar de forma dinâmica os canais subutilizados de usuários primários. Um usuário primário tem prioridade de uso do canal como consequência da atribuição estática, porém, o uso do canal por um usuário secundário qualquer é oportunista e limitando ao tempo de inatividade do usuário primário em um determinado local. As redes de sensores sem fio trabalham em uma banda concorrida e são sistemas que podem melhorar seu desempenho utilizando um mecanismo de acesso dinâmico aos canais, possibilitando o aproveitamento dos períodos de inatividade de usuários primários ou aumentando sua capacidade de coexistência na banda de operação atual. Segundo a literatura pesquisada são vários os desafios existentes para conseguir um método distribuído de acesso dinâmico aos canais que considere as restrições de trocas de sinalizações, consumo de energia e complexidade dos dispositivos de uma rede de sensores sem fio. Neste contexto, propõe-se uma metodologia de sensoriamento e acesso dinâmico aos canais para uma rede de sensores sem fio considerando a simplicidade dos dispositivos. Como fatores de inovação, optou-se pela definição de uma política de sensoriamento por clusters que permite realizar uma aprendizagem cooperativa por reforço da situação dos canais de operação. Além disso, a definição de um mecanismo de acesso dinâmico aos canais fundamentado no padrão IEEE 802.15.4 permite comunicação e coordenação distribuída de forma assíncrona. O funcionamento da metodologia proposta é avaliado e comparado usando simulações e experimentos mediante um estudo de caso específico. As comparações são realizadas com métodos de seleção de canal: fixa, cega ou baseada em recompensas por acesso. Os resultados mostram a eficiência no acesso dinâmico aos canais com aumentos na taxa de entrega de mensagens e na capacidade de coexistir com as redes primárias. / The efficiency improvement of the use of radiofrequency spectrum is fundamental to allow more complex and more optimal wireless systems. The current channel allocation is static. It tolerates unbalanced use of the radiofrequency spectrum generating coexistence problems in some bands and underutilization of resources in other bands. The introduction of cognitive algorithms into wireless devices has been proposed to overcome that problem, in order to allow an additional dynamic allocation model. In this, the secondary users equipped with cognitive radios will be able to use dynamically the underutilized channels of primary users. A primary user has channel usage priority related to the static allocation, on the other hand, the use of the channel by any secondary user is opportunistic and limited to the inactivity time of the primary user in a specific place. Wireless sensor networks work in a competitive band. These systems can improve their performance using a dynamic access to the channels and consequently to enable the utilization of inactivity periods of primary users or to increase the coexistence capability at their current operation band. According to the researched literature, several challenges exist to find a distributed method for dynamic access to the channels considering the restrictions on control signaling, energy consumption and computational complexity of wireless sensor network devices. In this context, a methodology of sensing and dynamic access to the channels in a wireless sensor network considering the restrictions of the devices is proposed. As innovation, we opted for the definition of a sensing policy by clusters that allows the cooperative reinforcement learning of the situation of channels. In addition, a mechanism for dynamic access to the channels based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard is defined to allow asynchronous and distributed coordination. The behavior of the proposed methodology is evaluated and compared using simulations and experiments through a specific case study. The comparisons are performed with channel selection methods: fixed, blind and access based. The results show good efficiency in the dynamic allocation of the channels, increasing the message delivery rate and the coexistence capability.

Orientadores: Michel Daoud Yacoub, Ugo Silva Dias / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T07:39:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Krishnan_Aravind_M.pdf: 14799172 bytes, checksum: ef1f7ee0181d66e5163ba0926643ca9e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Esta tese apresenta os resultados de medidas de campo conduzidas na freqüência de 5.5 GHz, com o objetivo de caracterizar os parâmetros do modelo de desvanecimento alpha-mu. Mais especificamente, uma quantidade de situações é investigada para se determinar a densidade de probabilidade e a função de autocorrelação destes parâmetros. O range de valores possíveis são então sugeridos baseado nos dados empíricos. Adicionalmente, as variações instantâneas da magnitude dos parâmetros correspondentes são mostradas em função do deslocamento do receptor ao longo do percurso. Os resultados provêem informações importantes sobre a utilidade prática do modelo alpha-mu mostrando, em seguida, que as estatísticas do sinal recebido se distanciam bem daquelas dos modelos conhecidos / Abstract: This thesis presents the results of field trial measurements conducted at a frequency of 5.5 GHz in order to characterize the parameters of the !-? fading model. More specifically, a number of situations are investigated in which the probability density function and the autocorrelation function of these fading parameters are described. The ranges of possible practical values of the parameters are then suggested as an outcome of the empirical data. In addition, the instantaneous magnitude variations of corresponding parameters are shown as a function of the receiver position along the path. The results provide important information about the practical usefulness of the !-? fading model, showing, in addition, that the received signal statistics greatly departs from the well known statistical models / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Orientadores: Maria Inês Monteiro, Izilda Esmenia Muglia Araujo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T01:12:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vedovato_CleuzaAparecida_M.pdf: 3883476 bytes, checksum: 64d4ccd4c16cc11e2c90a6cc5d7eb813 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Introdução: A logística da estruturação existente nos serviços de atendimento préhospitalar (APH) das empresas concessionárias deve oferecer o suporte inicial para a sequência do cuidado às vítimas em situações de emergência, independente do local da ocorrência. A adequada estruturação do serviço APH móvel nas rodovias direciona os planos de assistência que determinam a seqüência de cuidados às vitimas proporcionando melhor qualidade da sobrevida. Objetivos: Descrever a constituição das equipes de atuação nos serviços de atendimento móvel rodoviário da região de Campinas; verificar materiais e equipamentos presentes nas viaturas, para atendimento das ocorrências; verificar o conteúdo dos impressos de registros dos atendimentos feito pelas equipes e identificar como é realizada a comunicação do atendimento pré-hospitalar com o local do encaminhamento. Método: Estudo descritivo/exploratório que utilizou instrumentos pré-elaborados e validados por especialistas, aplicado aos coordenadores dos serviços de APH das concessionárias da malha rodoviária da região de Campinas, compreendendo todas as concessionárias. Os entrevistados foram indicados pelos responsáveis das empresas que responderam os instrumentos. As empresas foram denominadas de A, B, C e D para manutenção do sigilo. Os dados obtidos foram armazenados em banco de dados informatizados, por meio do programa MSExcel® 2000 e realizado a análise descritiva. Resultados: A amostra foi constituída por quatro coordenadores dos serviços de APH móvel das concessionárias prestadoras. A maioria dos profissionais que atuava nestes serviços era do sexo masculino, com média de idade de 34,75 ±6,9 anos, com tempo de formação de três a dezenove anos, tempo de permanência na empresa entre três e nove anos. O número médio de profissionais nas empresas foi de dez médicos, sete enfermeiros, 38 técnicos de enfermagem e a empresa D tinha 40 profissionais contratados como resgatistas. A distribuição da jornada de trabalho diária dos profissionais foi de 12 a 24 horas. Em média 20 funcionários participaram dos cursos de suporte básico de vida (BLS), seis do curso de suporte avançado de vida (ACLS), 18 do suporte de vida ao traumatizado préhospitalar (PHTLS) e 17 do suporte avançado de vida ao traumatizado (ATLS). Os itens: central de regulação, telefone gratuito e rádio de monitoramento estavam presentes em todas as Concessionárias. A frota de veículos é constituída, em média, por nove viaturas de atendimento básico e uma de suporte avançado, por concessionária. Todas as concessionárias da malha rodoviária de Campinas fazem registros dos atendimentos, em duas vias, arquivando a primeira via na empresa. Conclusão: As equipes de atuação nos serviços de atendimento móvel de urgência das rodovias da região de Campinas são constituídas por médicos, enfermeiros, técnicos e auxiliares de enfermagem e profissionais denominados resgatistas. Os recursos materiais presentes nas viaturas atendem ao disposto na Portaria 2048 de 5 de novembro de 2002, para o atendimento das ocorrências. Os impressos para registros dos atendimentos contem os itens que descrevem a situação do atendimento; são realizados pelos membros das equipes do APH das concessionárias e por ocasião do encaminhamento uma cópia é entregue no local de destino da vítima / Abstract: Introduction: The logistics of the structure existing in pre-hospital care services of the highway service companies should offer basic support for procedure to the victims in emergency situations, regardless of place of occurrence. The appropriate structure of the Mobile Emergency Medical Service in the highways leads to on how the victims will be assisted that determine the sequence of care to the victims by providing better quality of survival. Objectives: to discribe the composition of the staff in the mobile emergency medical service in highways the surrounding areas of Campinas, check up the materials and equipment which should be found in the vehicles in order to attend the emergency cases; then check the contents of the report issued by the staff and also identify how is performed the transference of pre-hospital emergency care to the local where the victim will be assisted. Method: A descriptive / exploratory survey which used a pre-developed and assigned by emergency care experts, submitted to the coordinators(responsible) of the highway service companies, total of four companies in the surrounding areas of Campinas. The interviewed members were given by the heads of the companies who answered the questionnaires. The companies were called A, B, C and D in order to maintain them confidentiality. The data were stored in a database computer, using software MSExcel ® 2000 and so, performed and descriptive analysis. Results: The sample consisted of four coordinators of the mobile emergency medical service providers. Most professionals who worked in these services were male, average age 34.75 ± 6.9 years, with training experience based on three to nineteen years, which is between three and nine years experience in the company. The average number of professionals in the companies was of ten doctors, seven nurses, 38 nursing technicians and Company D had 40 professionals rescuers hired as rescuers. The distribution of daily working schedule of the professionals was 12 to 24 hours. On average 20 professionals participated in the courses of basic life support (BLS), six of the advanced course life support (ACLS), 18 pre hospital trauma life support (PHTLS) and 17 advanced life support to traumatized (ATLS). The checked items of the regulation center ,toll- free telephone and radio monitoring were present in all concessionaries. The vehicle fleet consists the average of nine vehicles from primary care and an advanced support for each concessionaries. All of the highway concessionaires surrounding the area of Campinas make two copy records of the attendance, filing the first page in the company. Conclusion: The staff in the mobile emergency care of the roads in the region of Campinas consist of doctors, nurses, technicians and nursing assistants and professional rescuers. Material resources found in the vehicles is in accordance to the provisions of the federal law nr 2048 dated November 5, 2002 as to the emergency care. The issued records of attendance include all items which must be described in the assistance, and it is done by the staff of the Mobile Emergency Medical Service and in this occasion a copy of the pre-hospital emergency care should delivered to the local in which the victim was assisted / Mestrado / Enfermagem e Trabalho / Mestra em Ciências da Saúde

Orientador: João Marcos Travassos Romano / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T23:30:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ZanattaFilho_Danilo_D.pdf: 1987916 bytes, checksum: be6038a70235bda4b62a193a0296ffb7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O presente trabalho trata da utilização, em transmissão, de um arranjo de antenas na estação rádio-base de um sistema de comunicação celular. Na recepção, as soluções para explorar o arranjo são atualmente bem estabelecidas na literatura. Por outro lado, na transmissão, o problema se mantém aberto. Duas abordagens são possíveis: explorar o arranjo de antenas em beamforming ou em diversidade. Essas duas abordagens se opõem pelas hipóteses sobre a correlação dos canais, o que implica um maior ou menor espaçamento entre as antenas, de acordo com o ambiente de propagação. Na prática, essas hipóteses são muito difíceis de se respeitar. Nesta dissertação, pretendemos tratar esta questão na sua globalidade, conciliando diversidade e beamforming para melhor explorar o arranjo de antenas. Consideramos o contexto monousuário, assim como o caso multiusuário. No caso monousuário, propomos uma estrutura de transmissão composta por uma técnica de diversidade de transmissão clássica aplicada a antenas virtuais diretivas e idealmente independentes. Essas antenas virtuais são fabricadas por meio de filtros puramente espaciais aplicados às antenas reais. O conjunto desses filtros é chamado precoder e se intercala entre a diversidade de transmissão e o arranjo de antenas utilizado em transmissão. Esse precoder desempenha um duplo papel, o de realizar o beamforming e o de criar a diversidade por meio de antenas virtuais idealmente independentes, conciliando assim diversidade de transmissão e beamforming em transmissão. Duas abordagens são propostas para se obter o precoder , uma baseada na minimização da variância da potência recebida pelo móvel e a segunda baseada diretamente na minimização da taxa de erro. Comparadas às técnicas clássicas, as novas técnicas apresentam melhores desempenhos. Em seguida, propomos uma extensão dessa estrutura ao contexto multiusuário, para o qual técnicas de diversidade de transmissão ainda não foram propostas na literatura. Propomos a adaptação conjunta dos precoders, buscando minimizar a potência total de transmissão, respeitando as BERs alvo dos usuários. De maneira análoga ao caso monousuário, os precoders permitem conciliar beamforming e diversidade de transmissão. Comparada às técnicas clássicas de beamforming multiusuário, a nova abordagem introduz diversidade de transmissão ao enlace, apresentando melhores desempenhos / Abstract: This work deals with the use of an antenna array at the base station of a mobile communication system for transmission. In reception, solutions that exploit the antenna array are now well established. In transmission, however, the problem remains open. Two approaches are possible: exploit the array by using beamforming techniques or by using diversity techniques. These two approaches are based on opposing assumptions about the channels correlation, which implies a greater or smaller distance between antennas, depending on the environment. In practice, these assumptions are not verified. Here, we aim to deal with the problem as a whole for better exploiting the antenna array. This work treats the single-user case, as well as the multiuser scenario. In the single-user case, we propose a transmission scheme composed of a classical transmit diversity technique applied to virtual antennas, which are directive and ideally independent. These virtual antennas are produced by means of purely spatial filters applied to the real antennas. This set of filters is called precoder, and acts as the interface between the transmit diversity technique and the transmit antenna array. The precoder function is twofold; to beamform the transmit signal, and to create diversity by means of ideally independent virtual antennas, thus combining transmit diversity and transmit beamforming. We propose two approaches to obtain this precoder, one based on the minimization of the variance of the received power at the mobile, and the other directly based on the minimization of the error rate. Compared to more classical approaches, the performance of the new methods reveals their advantage. Then, we extend this scheme to a multiuser context, for which transmit diversity techniques have not yet been developed. We propose to jointly adapt the precoders by minimizing the total transmit power while satisfying the users¿ target BER. Similarly to the single-user case, the precoders allow to combine beamforming and transmit diversity. Compared to classical multiuser beamforming techniques, the new approach adds diversity to the link and obtains in return better performances / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

[pt] A utilização das linhas de potência para fins de comunicação vem recebendo grande atenção nos últimos anos, principalmente devido a grande demanda por serviços de telecomunicações. A grande virtude é que as linhas de potência para comunicação apresentam uma solução sem a necessidade de nova fiação. Além disso, apresentam saída de potência disponível em todos os cômodos de uma residência, onde o terminal de comunicação possa ser usado, são de fácil instalação e acima de tudo apresentam custo reduzido. Sendo assim a comunicação através de linhas de potência vem se mostrando uma solução viável na oferta de serviços de telecomunicações. Esta tese investigou os sistemas PLC no que diz respeito à estimação do canal. Foi desenvolvido um método paramétrico de estimação do canal PLC baseado no algoritmo EM (Expectation Maximization). Foi feita a avaliação de desempenho combinando modulação OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), estimação do canal PLC e equalização, sendo utilizado como referencias os equalizadores ZF (Zero Forcing) e MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error). / [en] The powerline communications systems have been receiving increasing attention in last few years. Power line communications presents a no new wires solution with the additional advantages of ubiquitous node availability, easy installation, and cost effectiveness. This thesis investigation the powerline estimation channel. It was presented parametric channel estimation method using EM (Expectation Maximization) algorithm. The performance using OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), PLC Channel estimation and equalization was availability. The performance was studied using two equalization techniques Zero- Forcing and Minimum Mean Square Error.

Thema der Arbeit sind die Phänomene Risiko und Krise als Herausforderung für das Kommunikationsmanagement von Organisationen in Wirtschaft Politik und Gesellschaft. Das Ziel ist ein theoretisch begründeter Handlungsrahmen, der als Grundlage für operative Maßnahmen der Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation dienen soll. Nach Klärung der Begriffe und kommunikativen Bedingungen geht es dabei um die Betrachtung von Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation als Spielhandlung. Es werden Verlaufsstrukturen aufgezeigt, die weitgehend auch die Handlungsspielräume der Akteure und deren Erwartungen sowie die der Zuschauer bestimmen. Neben einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit vorliegenden Modellen des Management von Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation liefert die Arbeit Ergebnisse einer standardisierten schriftlichen Befragung von Kommunikationsfachleuten aus dem Bereich der Unternehmenskommunikation. Ein wichtiges Ziel ist dabei, die offensichtlichen Differenzen in der Einschätzung zwischen Theorie und Praxis aufzudecken und zu quantifizieren. Den übergeordneten Handlungsrahmen der Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation bilden schließlich Überlegungen zur Bestandserhaltung und Anschlußfähigkeit von Kommunikationssystemen. Neben geeigneten Prozessen, Ritualen und Verfahren spielen Aspekte der Imagepflege dabei eine wichtige Rolle. / The phenomena risk and crisis as challenges facing the management of communications processes in business, politics, and society provide the subject for this work, the goal of which is a theoretically-based framework laying the groundwork for operative measures in communications with respect to risk and crisis situations. Having first defined relevant terms and conditions for communication, the work analyses risk and crisis communications from the standpoint of a game and illustrates the structures created as the game runs its course. These structures are crucial elements in determining not only participants' but also observers' freedom to act and the expectations they develop. In addition to a critical discussion of available models for the management of risk and crisis communications, the work contains the results of a standardized written polling of experts in the field of corporate communications. Crucial goals of this research were to identify and quantify apparent differences in the assessment of theory and practice. Observations as to how to maintain and ensure the continuation of communication systems provide the overlying framework for risk and crisis communications, for which aspects of image preservation, together with processes, rituals, and procedures, play an important role.

Meta-governance recently emerged in the field of governance as a new approach which claims that its use enables modern states to overcome problems associated with network governance. This thesis shares the view that networks are an important feature of contemporary politics which must be taken seriously, but it also maintains that networks pose substantial analytical and political challenges. It proceeds to investigate the potential possibilities and problems associated with meta-governance on both theoretical and empirical levels. The theoretical discussion examines meta-governance in relation to governmentality, and it puts forward the claim that meta-governance may be understood as a specific type of neo-liberal governmentality. The meta-governance perspective regards networks as a complementary structure to traditional administration that can be utilized in the implementation and realization of public policy, but which also preserves the self-regulating and flexible character of networks. This generates a contradiction between the goals of public management and the character of networks that requires further investigation. The combination of the specific dynamics of the political field of security, the diminishing role of sovereign powers, the emergence of security networks, and the meta-governance stance adopted by the Swedish state constitutes a situation that should have been favorable for the successful employment of meta-governance. The empirical investigation of meta-governance is divided into two parts. The first part reviews the historical process involved and shows how the Swedish government and public authorities have adopted a meta-governance stance. The second analyzes the specific instruments and strategies that have been deployed in the governance of security communications and in the management of Sweden’s new security communications system which is an important aspect of security networks. The historical study together with the analysis of the meta-governance tools deployed reveals that the meta-governors neither reached the goals specified, nor fulfilled the overall purpose of successful security communications. I argue on the basis of the theoretical and empirical findings obtained in the present study that it is very difficult to successfully employ meta-governance in respect to security and crisis management, and that we have sound reasons to suspect that meta-governance will run into similar difficulties in other political fields as well. I conclude that meta-governance is a far more difficult practice than has been anticipated by existing theories and policy recommendations. Turning to meta-governance as a way to govern and control organizations may in fact lead to further fragmentation and distortion of public politics.

Η έννοια της ψηφιακής αναμετάδοσης έχει μελετηθεί σαν ένα ϑεωρητικό πρόβλημα από την πλευρά της ϑεωρίας της πληροφορίας στις δεκαετίες του ’70 και ’80 όπου υπολογίστηκε η χωρητικότητα συστημάτων με ένα αναμεταδότη. Το σενάριο στο οποίο η επικοινωνία δύο τερματικών σταθμών πραγματοποείται με τη ϐοήθεια ενός τρίτου το οποίο αναλαμβάνει να αναμεταδόσει την πληροφορία, υλοποιήθηκε αρχικά στους δορυφόρους με ανακλαστική επανεκπομπή. Ενδιαφέρον, σύμφωνα με όσα γνωρίζουμε, προκαλεί το γεγονός ότι δεν υπήρχε έως πολύ πρόσφατα καμία εργασία σχετική με την ϑεωρία της αναμετάδοσης - πιο πιθανή αιτία η μη ύπαρξη σχετικών εφαρμογών. Με την ωριμότητα των ψηφιακών ασύρματων επικοινωνιών και λόγω των ϱαγδαία αυξανόμενων αναγκών για επικοινωνίες υψηλής απόδοσης, ϕαίνεται ότι έφτασε η ώρα για την ανάπτυξη ‘‘έξυπνης’’ αναμετάδοσης στο άμεσο μέλλον. Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή (DD) έρχεται να συμβάλλει προς την κατεύθυνση αυ- τή και να δώσει στους μελετητές των ψηφιακών επικοινωνιών νέες τεχνικές και εργαλεία αναλύοντας και μελετώντας στο ϕυσικό επίπεδο τα ασύρματα τηλεπικοινωνιακά συστήματα (ή δίκτυα) πολλαπλών αλμάτων με μη-αναγεννητικούς αναμεταδότες δηλ. συστήματα στα οποία το σήμα εκπέμπεται από τον πηγαίο κόμβο και ϕθάνει στον κόμβο προορισμού διαμέσου ενός ή περισσοτέρων αναμεταδοτών. Με την τεχνική αυτή καταπολεμούμε τους δύο ϐασικούς παράγοντες υποβάθμισης του εκπεμπόμενου σήματος που είναι η μειωμένη μέση ισχύς λήψης λόγω απόστασης ή/και εμποδίων, και οι διακυμάνσεις του σήματος στη λήψη του, εξαιτίας του ϕαινομένου των διαλείψεων. Βασικός σκοπός της DD είναι η αξιολόγηση των επιδόσεων των συστημάτων πολλαπλών αλμάτων, που λειτουργούν σε περιβάλλον διαλείψεων Rayleigh ή Nakagami-m, με δείκτες επιδόσεων όπως ο μέσος λό- γος σήματος προς ϑόρυβο (ΛΣΘ), η πιθανότητα διακοπής της επικοινωνίας (ΠDΕ) και η μέση πιθανότητα σφάλματος bit (ΜΠΣΒ). Για να επιτευχθούν τα παραπάνω στα πολυαλ- ματικά συστήματα, απαιτείται η στατιστική μελέτη του απ’ άκρο-σε-άκρο ΛΣΘ στην έξο- δο του κόμβου προορισμού για την εξαγωγή σημαντικών στατιστικών συναρτήσεων όπως της συνάρτησης πυκνότητας πιθανότητας (ΣΠΠ), της συνάρτησης αθροιστικής πιθανότητας (ΣΑΠ), της ϱοπο-γεννήτριας συνάρτησης (ΡΓΣ) και των ϱοπών. Οι δείκτες επίδοσης παρουσιάζονται είτε σε κλειστές μαθηματικές μορφές οι οποίες εξάγουν άμεσα αποτελέ- σματα, είτε σε αναλυτικές μορφές για τις οποίες η χρήση της αριθμητικής ολοκλήρωσης είναι απαραίτητη μέσω γνωστών μαθηματικών λογισμικών όπως MATHEMATICA ή MAPLE. Παράλληλα, όπου απαιτείται, παρουσιάζονται αποτελέσματα προσομοίωσης Monte Carlo για την επαλήθευση των αριθμητικών αποτελεσμάτων. Λαμβάνοντας υπόψην όλα τα παραπάνω, ερευνάται ένα σύστημα N αλμάτων σε περι- ϐάλλον διαλείψεων Nakagami-m και παράγονται τόσο σημαντικά αποτελέσματα για την επίδοσή τους όσο και ένα καινοτόμο στατιστικό ϑεώρημα για τη ΡΓΣ τυχαίων μεταβλητών Γάμμα. Η επίδοση των συστημάτων αυτών αξιολογείται για μη-αναγεννητικούς αναμε- ταδότες και συγκεκριμένα, τόσο για αναμεταδότες μεταβλητού κέρδους (ΑΜΚ) δηλ. το κέρδος τους εξαρτάται από την εκτίμηση της κατάστασης του καναλιού (ή κέρδος κανα- λιού) στην είσοδό τους, όσο και για αναμεταδότες σταθερού κέρδους (ΑΣΚ). Επίσης στη DD προτείνεται ένα νέος τύπου μη-αναγεννητικού αναμεταδότη, ο αναμεταδότης συνδυα- σμένου κέρδους (ΑΣυΚ), του οποίου η επίδοση εξετάζεται σε ένα σύστημα διπλού άλματος (δηλ. σ’ ένα σύστημα με έναν αναμεταδότη). Η επίδοσή του συγκρίνεται με αυτή του ΑΜΚ. Η επίδοση του ΑΣυΚ εμφανίζεται να είναι καλύτερη σε κάποιες περιπτώσεις απ’ αυτήν του ΑΜΚ. Ιδιαίτερη ϐαρύτητα δίνεται τέλος και στη μελέτη πολυαλματικών συστημάτων επικοινω- νίας με διαφορική συνεργασία χρηστών. Τα συστήματα αυτά διαφέρουν από τα συμβατικά πολυαλματικά διότι εκμεταλλεύονται τα πλεονεκτήματα της ‘‘εικονικής’’ διαφορικής εκ- πομπής στον πηγαίο κόμβο και τη διαφορική λήψη στον κόμβο προορισμού. Οι δείκτες επίδοσης εξετάζονται είτε για συστήματα διαφορικής συνεργασίας ενός χρήστη, είτε για πολλούς χρήστες με διαφορικό δέκτη συνδυασμού επιλογής ή μεγίστου λόγου στον κόμβο προορισμού, αντίστοιχα. / The concept of digital relaying has been studied as a theoretical problem from a network information theory perspective in 70’s and 80’s, and capacity regions of simple relaying channels have been evaluated. The scenario where the communication between two terminal is achieved with the help of a third terminal, was firstly implemented in bentpipe satellites. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no other analytical study on this concept until very recently due to the fact that there were no foreseeable applications at that time. With the maturity of digital wireless technologies and with the overwhelming demand for high data rate coverage, it seems that time has finally arrived for the implementation of intelligent relaying. The present PhD thesis contributes in that direction and gives to researchers of digital communications new techniques and smart tools by analyzing and studying multihop wireless communications systems in physical layer. In multihop systems, the source terminal transmits a signal which arrives to the destination terminal via a number of relays. By applying relayed transmission we mitigate two main reasons that causes Quality of Service degradation of the received signal, which are the low average receive power, induced by the presence of obstacles or by long distance, or due to the fluctuations in the received signal induced by fading effects. The main subject of this PhD is the evaluation of the performance metrics of multihop wireless communications systems, operating over Rayleigh or Nakagamim fading channels such as average signaltonoise ratio (SNR), outage probability and average biterror rate. To achieve this, the statistics of the equivalent endtoend SNR at the output of the destination terminal is required and specifically the probability density function, the cumulative distribution function, the moments and moment generating function (MGF). The performance metrics are presented either in closed forms giving direct results or in analytical ones where the results are extracted via numerical integration with the use of standard mathematical software packages such as MATHEMATICA or MAPLE. Additionally, Monte Carlo simulation results are also presented for the verification of the numerical results. Considering all the above, a multihop system with Nhops over Nakagamim environment is studied, and important performance results are derived. Also, a novel statistical result regarding the MGF of the product of rational powers of Gamma random variables is presented for the first time in the technical literature. The performance metrics of the multihop system are evaluated for nonregenerative relays and specifically, for both channel state information (CSI)based and fixed gain relays. Moreover, in this PhD thesis a new type of relay is presented, the combined gain relay (CGR), and its performance is studied in dualhop systems. The performance of the CGRs is compared to CSIbased ones whose amplification gain depends on the channel state at their input. It is interesting that CGR performs better in some situations than CSI ones. Finally, we concentrate on multihop wireless communications systems with cooperative diversity. Cooperative diversity systems differ from conventional multihop ones since exploits the benefits of virtual transmit diversity in the source terminal and diversity reception in the destination terminal. Performance analysis is conducted for cooperative diversity systems with one or more users (relays) and selection combiner or maximal ratio combiner at the destination terminal, correspondingly.

When placed between the antenna and receiver electronics of a cellular base transceiver station, a Cryogenic Receiver Front End (CRFE), consisting of a High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) filter and modern Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), can significantly improve the base stations' coverage and capacity. Due to CRFEs being hurried to the telecommunications industry in a competitive market, the development of CRFEs and their performance have been classified. This left it to be pondered whether HTS filters could really have been beneficial or if they were always just of academic interest. It is the main objective of this thesis to investigate if and under what circumstances high temperature RF-superconductivity can prove to be an important technological contribution to current and future wireless communications. This dissertation presents the analysis of an existing CRFE developed by Cryoelectra GmbH and its performance characteristics measured in a field trial held in rural China. With the aid of a CDMA Uplink Model developed by the author, the data was analysed and several novel engineering improvements were made to create an advanced CRFE which was economical to deploy. The analysis of results from a field trial in Beijing city using the CDMA Uplink Model led to the exploration of alternative filter technologies which could achieve similar results to the HTS filter technology. This culminated in the development of dielectric resonators filters which could be used as an alternative and as a supplement to the HTS filters used in the CRFE. The design of two novel dielectric resonator duplexers and two advanced multioperator combiner antenna sharing solutions followed the successful implementation of a high performance dielectric resonator filter. The performed investigation and development described in this thesis suggest that HTS filter technology for terrestrial wireless communications can be beneficial in current cellular networks, but due to its high cost is economical for use only under certain conditions. However, HTS filter technology may be of great importance in the design and implementation of spectrum friendly wireless communications systems in the future.