Η αυξανόμενη χρήση ασύρματων συσκευών προωθεί την υλοποίηση WLANs, διευκολύνοντας τον χρήστη να έχει πρόσβαση στις πηγές του δικτύου οποιαδήποτε στιγμή και από οποιοδήποτε σημείο. Όμως, ένα από τα προβλήματα που εισάγει η ασύρματη επικοινωνία είναι η ασφάλεια των μεταδιδόμενων δεδομένων όσον αφορά το ασύρματο κομμάτι της σύνδεσης, δηλαδή μεταξύ χρήστη και σημείου πρόσβασης ή μεταξύ δύο χρηστών. Το νεότερο πρωτόκολλο προστασίας που διευθετεί το θέμα της ασφάλειας είναι το IEEE 802.11i. Σκοπός αυτής της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η μελέτη και η υλοποίηση του μηχανισμού κρυπτογράφησης του πρωτοκόλλου CCMP σε γλώσσα περιγραφής υλικού VHDL, που αποτελεί το κύριο πρωτόκολλο προστασίας δεδομένων που ορίζει το πρωτόκολλο IEEE 802.11i. / The growing use of wireless applications boosts the evolution of WLANs, so that the user can have full access to the net sources regardless time and place. However, one of the biggest issues of wireless communications is the safety of the transported data between the station and the Access Point or between the two stations. IEEE 802.11i is the recent protocol for protection in WLANs. The goals of this thesis are the study and the development of the cryptographic protocol CCMP in VHDL. CCMP is the mandatory cryptographic protocol defined in IEEE 802.11i.

The ePUMA architecture is a novel master-multi-SIMD DSP platform aimed at low-power computing, like for embedded or hand-held devices for example. It is both a configurable and scalable platform, designed for multimedia and communications. Numbers with both integer and fractional parts are often used in computers because many important algorithms make use of them, like signal and image processing for example. A good way of representing these types of numbers is with a floating-point representation. The ePUMA platform currently supports a fixed-point representation, so the goal of this thesis will be to implement twelve basic floating-point arithmetic operations and two conversion operations onto an already existing datapath, conforming as much as possible to the IEEE 754-2008 standard for floating-point representation. The implementation should be done at a low hardware and power consumption cost. The target frequency will be 500MHz. The implementation will be compared with dedicated DesignWare components and the implementation will also be compared with floating-point done in software in ePUMA. This thesis presents a solution that on average increases the VPE datapath hardware cost by 15% and the power consumption increases by 15% on average. Highest clock frequency with the solution is 473MHz. The target clock frequency of 500MHz is thus not achieved but considering the lack of register retiming in the synthesis step, 500MHz can most likely be reached with this design.

Software development is notorious for failure, typically defined as over budget, late delivery and/or poor quality of new information systems (IS) on project completion. The consequences of such failure can be enormous, particularly financially. As such, there is consensus by practitioners and academics alike that this practice is unacceptable. Yet with a variety of accepted development methods and tools available for use by software developers and project managers, there is still no significant reduction in the size or frequency of failure reported. In an attempt to understand the conflicts which arise in the development environment in which developers and project managers must operate, the research area is the role and value of ethics in the development of managed software projects. A definition of ethics in this context was provided by the IEEE/ACM Code of Ethics. Research was additionally conducted to understand how other professions and business areas define and enforce ethics in their respective working environments. These were (UK) Law, Finance, Retail and, law practice in the European Union. Interpretive research was then conducted to enable software development practices to be understood from the view of developers and project managers in industry. Unethical practices were then identified in a large IT company based in west London via a single, six month in-depth case study, with the data collected analysed via a series of repertory grids. Analysis and triangulation of the data collected via interviews, document analysis and observations led to an improved understanding of the causes of the unethical practices found. Conclusions and recommendations are then provided relating to implications for (a) the company participating in the research, (b) the application of the IEEE/ACM Code in industry (c) theory for ethicists.

One of the most challenging issues facing vehicular networks lies in the design of an efficient MAC protocol due to mobile nature of nodes, delay constraints for safety applications and interference. In this thesis, I propose an efficient Multichannel QoS Cognitive MAC (MQOG). MQOG assesses the quality of channel prior to transmission employing dynamic channel allocation and negotiation algorithms to achieve significant increase in channel reliability, throughput and delay constraints while simultaneously addressing Quality of Service. The uniqueness of MQOG lies in making use of the free unlicensed bands. To consider fair effective sharing of resources I propose a Mobility Based Dynamic Transmit Opportunity (MoByToP) while modifying the 802.11e TXOP (Transmit Opportunity). The proposed protocols were implemented in OMNET++ 4.1, and extensive experiments demonstrated a faster and more efficient reception of safety messages compared to existing VANet MAC Protocols. Finally, improvements in delay, packet delivery ratios and throughput were noticed.

ABSTRACT PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS OF WIRELESS VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK KZ, S&uuml / heyla Ms.c, Department of Information Systems Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazife Baykal Co-Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Yusuf Murat Erten January 2006, 78 pages As the use of PC&rsquo / s and handheld devices increase, it expected that wireless communication would also grow. One of the major concerns in wireless communication is the security. Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the most secure solution that ensures three main aspect of security: authentication, accountability and encryption can use in wireless networks. Most VPNs have built on IP Security Protocol (IPSec) to support end-to-end secure data transmission. IPSec is a wellunderstood and widely used mechanism for wired network communication. Because, wireless networks have limited bandwidth and wireless devices have limited power and less capable CPU, the performance of the networks when VPN&rsquo / s are used is an important research area. We have investigated the use of VPNs in wireless LANs to provide end &ndash / to &ndash / end security. We have selected IPSec as the VPN protocol and investigated the effects of using IPSec on the throughput, packet loss, and delay of the wireless LANs. For this purpose, we have set up a test bed and based, our results on the actual measurements obtained from the experiments performed using the test bed. v The wireless LAN we have used is an 802.11g network and the results show that the performance of the network is adversely affected when VPN&rsquo / s are used but the degradation is not as bad as expected.

Zigbee is a relatively new wireless mesh networking standard with emphasis on low cost and energy conservation. It is intended to be used in wireless monitoring and control applications such as sensors and remotely operated switches where the end devices are battery powered. Because it is a recent technology there is not sufficient understanding on how network architecture and configuration affect power consumption of the battery powered devices. This research investigates the power consumption and delivery ratio of Zigbee wireless mesh and star networks for a single sink real time monitoring system at varying traffic rates and the beacon and non beacon mode operation of its underlying standard IEEE 802.15.4 in the star network architecture. To evaluate the performance of Zigbee, the network operation was simulated using the simulation tool NS-2. NS-2 is capable of simulating the entire network operation including traffic generation and energy consumption of each node in the network. After first running the simulation it was obvious that there were problems in the configuration of the simulator as well as some unexpected behaviour. After performing several modifications to the simulator the results improved significantly. To validate the operation of the simulator and to give insight on the operation of Zigbee, a real Zigbee wireless network was constructed and the same experiments that were conducted on the simulator were repeated on the Zigbee network. The research showed that the modified simulator produced good results that were close to the experimental results. It was found that the non beacon mode of operation had the lowest power consumption and best delivery ratio at all tested traffic rates. The operation of Zigbee mesh and star networks were compared to the results for IEEE 802.15.4 star networks in non beacon mode which revealed that the extra routing traffic sent by the Zigbee networking layers does contribute significantly to the power consumption, however even with the extra routing traffic, power consumption is still so low that it the battery life of the device would be limited by the shelf life of the battery, not by the energy consumption of the device. This research has successfully achieved its objectives and identified areas for future development. The simulator model for NS-2 could be improved to further increase the accuracy of the results as well as include the Zigbee routing layers and the experimental results could be improved by a more accurate power consumption data acquisition method.

Medium access control (MAC) plays a vital role in satisfying the varied quality of service (QoS) requirements in wireless networks. Many MAC solutions have been proposed for these networks, and performance evaluation, optimization and enhancement of these MAC protocols is needed. In this thesis, we focus on the analysis and optimization of MAC protocols for some recently emerged wireless technologies targeted at low-rate and multimedia applications.

Zigbee is a relatively new wireless mesh networking standard with emphasis on low cost and energy conservation. It is intended to be used in wireless monitoring and control applications such as sensors and remotely operated switches where the end devices are battery powered. Because it is a recent technology there is not sufficient understanding on how network architecture and configuration affect power consumption of the battery powered devices. This research investigates the power consumption and delivery ratio of Zigbee wireless mesh and star networks for a single sink real time monitoring system at varying traffic rates and the beacon and non beacon mode operation of its underlying standard IEEE 802.15.4 in the star network architecture. To evaluate the performance of Zigbee, the network operation was simulated using the simulation tool NS-2. NS-2 is capable of simulating the entire network operation including traffic generation and energy consumption of each node in the network. After first running the simulation it was obvious that there were problems in the configuration of the simulator as well as some unexpected behaviour. After performing several modifications to the simulator the results improved significantly. To validate the operation of the simulator and to give insight on the operation of Zigbee, a real Zigbee wireless network was constructed and the same experiments that were conducted on the simulator were repeated on the Zigbee network. The research showed that the modified simulator produced good results that were close to the experimental results. It was found that the non beacon mode of operation had the lowest power consumption and best delivery ratio at all tested traffic rates. The operation of Zigbee mesh and star networks were compared to the results for IEEE 802.15.4 star networks in non beacon mode which revealed that the extra routing traffic sent by the Zigbee networking layers does contribute significantly to the power consumption, however even with the extra routing traffic, power consumption is still so low that it the battery life of the device would be limited by the shelf life of the battery, not by the energy consumption of the device. This research has successfully achieved its objectives and identified areas for future development. The simulator model for NS-2 could be improved to further increase the accuracy of the results as well as include the Zigbee routing layers and the experimental results could be improved by a more accurate power consumption data acquisition method.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2005. / Supervisor: Terence D. Todd. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-186).

Diss. (sammanfattning) Västerås : Univ., 2007. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.