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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:25:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Everton Dias de Oliveira.pdf: 3326034 bytes, checksum: 1cbd1cf1a33f81db24d9e630a5cddb94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-14 / This paper presents the development of a system for monitoring surfasse temperature and air temperature in buildings in urban areas, using wireless data transmission with the IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 standards. This monitoring system includes the development of low sensors that can monitor the temperature of non-destructively, i.e. without the need to reform the building. Deals with the analysis of the use of wireless transmission networks with the IEEE 802.11 standard and the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, as a possible solution for temperature monitoring in buildings using wireless networks. Discusses the development of a technological application capable of performing the monitoring of the air temperature and surface buildings using standard wireless networks IEEE 802.15.4. It also presents a solution for temperature monitoring in intelligent buildings, using the IEEE 802.11 standard. / O presente trabalho apresenta, o desenvolvimento de um sistema para o monitoramento da temperatura de superf?cie e da temperatura do ar em edifica??es no meio urbano, utilizando transmiss?o de dados sem fio com os padr?es IEEE 802.11 e IEEE 802.15.4. Esse sistema de monitoramento compreende o desenvolvimento de sensores de baixo que possam monitorar a temperatura de forma n?o destrutiva, ou seja, sem a necessidade de reformas na edifica??o. Trata da an?lise da utiliza??o das redes de transmiss?o sem fio com o padr?o IEEE 802.11 e com o padr?o IEEE 802.15.4, como possibilidade de solu??o para o monitoramento da temperatura em edifica??es usando redes sem fio. Discorre sobre o desenvolvimento de uma aplica??o tecnol?gica capaz de realizar o monitoramento da temperatura do ar e de superf?cie em edifica??es usando redes sem fio padr?o IEEE 802.15.4. E tamb?m apresenta uma solu??o para o monitoramento da temperatura em edif?cios inteligentes, utilizando o padr?o IEEE 802.11.

Este trabalho estuda as potenciais melhorias na eficiência energética e vazão do método híbrido de requisição automática de retransmissão (Hybrid Automatic Retransmission Request, HARQ). A análise inclui as camadas física (PHY) e de acesso ao meio (MAC). É investigada a relação de compromisso gerada pelo HARQ, o qual demanda uma menor potência de transmissão para uma certa probabilidade de falha alvo ao custo de mais acessos ao canal. Uma vez que a competição para acesso ao canal na camada MAC é bastante custosa em termos de energia e atraso, os resultados mostram que a utilização do HARQ leva a uma grande melhoria de performance devido ao menor número de nós competidores – uma consequência da redução na potência de transmissão necessária. Contra-intuitivamente, esta análise leva à conclusão que retransmissões podem diminuir o atraso, melhorando a performance do sistema. Finalmente, são também investigados valores ótimos para o número de retransmissões permitidas, visando maximizar vazão ou/e eficiência energética. / This work studies the potential improvements in terms of energy efficiency and throughput of a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) mechanism. The analysis includes both the physical (PHY) and medium access (MAC) layers. We investigate the trade-off provided by HARQ, which demands reduced transmit power for a given target outage probability at the cost of more accesses to the channel. Since the competition for channel access at the MAC layer is very expensive in terms of energy and delay, our results show that HARQ leads to great performance improvements due to the decrease in the number of contending nodes – a consequence of the reduced required transmit power. Counter-intuitively, our analysis leads to the conclusion that retransmissions may decrease the delay, improving the system performance. Finally, we investigate the optimum values for the number of allowed retransmissions in order to maximize either the throughput or the energy efficiency.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:48:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LeonardoDO_DISSERT.pdf: 3357434 bytes, checksum: 75c2c837997e2220e8de164c844c9b5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-05 / Due to the constantly increasing use of wireless networks in domestic, business and industrial environments, new challenges have emerged. The prototyping of new protocols in these environments is typically restricted to simulation environments, where there is the need of double implementation, one in the simulation environment where an initial proof of concept is performed and the other one in a real environment. Also, if real environments are used, it is not trivial to create a testbed for high density wireless networks given the need to use various real equipment as well as attenuators and power reducers to try to reduce the physical space required to create these laboratories. In this context, LVWNet (Linux Virtual Wireless Network) project was originally designed to create completely virtual testbeds for IEEE 802.11 networks on the Linux operating system. This paper aims to extend the current project LVWNet, adding to it the features like the ability to interact with real wireless hardware, provides a initial mobility ability using the positioning of the nodes in a space coordinates environment based on meters, with loss calculations due to attenuation in free space, enables some scalability increase by creating an own protocol that allows the communication between nodes without an intermediate host and dynamic registration of nodes, allowing new nodes to be inserted into in already in operation network / Com o crescimento constante da utiliza??o de redes sem fio em ambientes dom?sticos, empresariais e at? industriais, aparecem novos desafios. A prototipa??o de novos protocolos nesses ambientes tipicamente ? restrita a ambientes de simula??o, onde existe a necessidade de uma dupla implementa??o, uma no ambiente de simula??o, onde se realiza uma prova de conceito inicial e outra em um ambiente real. Al?m disso, uma vez que se parta para ambientes reais, n?o ? trivial a cria??o de um testbed para redes sem fio de alta densidade, dada a necessidade de uso de v?rios equipamentos reais, e uso de atenuadores, redutores de pot?ncia, para tentar reduzir o espa?o f?sico necess?rio para cria??o desses laborat?rios. Nessa lacuna, o projeto LVWNet (Linux Virtual Wireless Network) foi inicialmente concebido para cria??o de testbeds completamente virtuais para redes IEEE 802.11 sobre o sistema operacional Linux. Este trabalho tem como objetivo extender o atual projeto LVWNet adicionando a ele os recursos de possibilitar a intera??o com hardwares wireless reais, dar um suporte inicial ? mobilidade atrav?s do posicionamento dos n?s em um ambiente de coordenadas no espa?o baseado em metros, j? com c?lculos de perda decorrente da atenua??o em espa?o livre, aumentar a escalabilidade com a cria??o de um mecanismo que permita a comunica??o direta entre os n?s sem necessidade de um host intermedi?rio al?m do registro din?mico de n?s, de modo que novos n?s podem ser inseridos na rede com a mesma j? em opera??o

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosMDV.pdf: 1914852 bytes, checksum: a7e99d6b563c17f13d6bf2747cf54976 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-07-03 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This paper presents the performanee analysis of traffie retransmission algorithms pro?posed to the HCCA medium aeeess meehanism of IEEE 802.11 e standard applied to industrial environmen1. Due to the nature of this kind of environment, whieh has eleetro?magnetic interferenee, and the wireless medium of IEEE 802.11 standard, suseeptible to such interferenee, plus the lack of retransmission meehanisms, refers to an impraetieable situation to ensure quality of service for real-time traffic, to whieh the IEEE 802.11 e stan?dard is proposed and this environment requires. Thus, to solve this problem, this paper proposes a new approach that involves the ereation and evaluation of retransmission al-gorithms in order to ensure a levei of robustness, reliability and quality of serviee to the wireless communication in such environments. Thus, according to this approaeh, if there is a transmission error, the traffie scheduler is able to manage retransmissions to reeo?ver data 10s1. The evaluation of the proposed approaeh is performed through simulations, where the retransmission algorithms are applied to different seenarios, whieh are abstrae?tions of an industrial environment, and the results are obtained by using an own-developed network simulator and compared with eaeh other to assess whieh of the algorithms has better performanee in a pre-defined applieation / Este trabalho apresenta a an?lise de desempenho de algoritmos de retransmiss?o de tr?fego propostos para o mecanismo de acesso ao meio HCCA do padr?o IEEE 802.11 e aplicados ao ambiente industrial. Devido ? natureza deste tipo de ambiente, que pos?sui interfer?ncias eletromagn?ticas, e ? do meio de transmiss?o sem fio do padr?o IEEE 802.11, suscept?vel a tais interfer?ncias, em conjunto com a aus?ncia de mecanismos de retransmiss?o, remete a uma situa??o impratic?vel para garantias de qualidade de servi?o ao tr?fego de tempo real, ao qual o padr?o IEEE 802.11 e se prop?e e este tipo de ambiente requer. Desta forma, para resolver este problema, este trabalho prop?e uma nova abordagem que engloba a cria??o e avalia??o de algoritmos de retransmiss?o com o intuito de garantir um nivel de robustez, confiabilidade e qualidade de servi?o ? comunica???o sem fio presente em tais ambientes. Assim, de acordo com esta abordagem, em caso de erros na transmiss?o, o escalonador de tr?fego poder? gerenciar retransmiss?es para que os dados perdidos possam ser recuperados. A avalia??o da abordagem proposta ? realizada atrav?s de simula??es, onde os algoritmos de retransmiss?o s?o aplicados a diferentes cen?rios, que s?o abstra??es de um ambiente industrial, e os resultados dessa avalia??o s?o obtidos com o aux?lio de um simulador de redes desenvolvido e compa?rados entre si para avaliar qual dos algoritmos possui melhor efici?ncia em determinada aplica??o

Notre travail s'inscrit dans le cadre des recherches sur le Sleeping mode. Notre contribution est structurée principalement autour deux axes : l'étude et l'évaluation de la performance des processus de mise en veille/réveil des points d'accès et la sélection du nombre minimal des points d'accès dans un milieu urbain dense. Dans un premier temps, nous étudions les processus de mise en veille/réveil des points d'accès dans un scenario classique de réseau domestique. Ce scenario suppose que le point d'accès mis en veille doit détecter la présence d'un utilisateur potentiel dans sa zone de couverture et réagir par conséquence d'une façon autonome pour se mettre en état de fonctionnement normal. Nous avons choisi quatre processus de réveil du point d'accès, et nous avons ensuite étudié chacun de ces processus, et proposé un protocole de communication qui permette à un utilisateur d'envoyer l'ordre au point d'accès de s'éteindre. Lorsque cela était possible, nous avons utilisé le protocole COAP qui est prévu pour établir des sessions de commande pour l'Internet des Objets. Nous avons ensuite mesuré les performances du point de vue de l'économie d'énergie qu'il permet de réaliser et du délai entre le moment où un utilisateur potentiel est détecté et le moment où le point d'accès devient opérationnel. Nous avons aussi étudié un réseau dense dans un milieu urbain (le centre ville de Rennes) où la zone de couverture d'un point d'accès pouvait être partiellement ou totalement couverte par d'autres points d'accès. Pour évaluer la redondance dans le réseau, nous avons collecté des informations réelles sur les points d'accès en utilisant l'application Wi2Me. Le traitement de ces informations nous a permis d'identifier les points d'accès existants dans la zone étudiée et leurs zones de couverture respectives démontrant ainsi la superposition de ces zones de couverture et le potentiel d'élimination d'un certain nombre de points d'accès sans affecter la couverture globale. Nous avons alors proposé un système centralisé qui collecte les données de couverture des points d'accès observée par les utilisateur. Nous avons donc utilisé ce simple fait pour centraliser la vue du réseau de plusieurs utilisateurs, ce qui permet d'avoir une vue assez précise de la disponibilité des points d'accès dans une zone géographie. Nous avons alors proposé une représentation de ces données de couverture à travers des matrices qui traitent les différentes erreurs de capture (coordonnées GPS non précises, réutilisation des noms de réseaux, etc). Enfin, nous avons ensuite proposé deux algorithmes permettant de sélectionner l'ensemble minimal des points d'accès requis fournissant une couverture identique à celle d'origine. / The main goal of the thesis is to design an Energy Proportional Network by taking intelligent decisions into the network such as switching on and off network components in order to adapt the energy consumption to the user needs. Our work mainly focuses on reducing the energy consumption by adapting the number of APs that are operating to the actual user need. In fact, traffic load varies a lot during the day. Traffic is high in urban areas and low in the suburb during day work hours, while it is the opposite at night. Often, peak loads during rush hours are lower than capacities of the networks. Thus they remain lightly utilized for long periods of time. Thus keeping all APs active all the time even when the traffic is low causes a huge waste of energy. Our goal is to benefit from low traffic periods by automatically switch off redundant cells, taking into consideration the actual number of users, their traffic and the bandwidth requested to serve them. Ideally we wish to do so while maintaining reliable service coverage for existing and new coming users. First we consider a home networking scenario. In this case only one AP covers a given area. So when this AP is switched off (when no users are present), there will be no other AP to fill the gap of coverage. Moreover, upon the arrival of new users, no controller or other mechanism exists to wake up the AP. Consequently, new arriving users would not be served and would remain out of coverage. The study of the state of the art allowed us to have a clear overview of the existing approaches in this context. As a result, we designed a platform to investigate different methods to wake up an AP using different technologies. We measure two metrics to evaluate the Switching ON/OFF process for the different methods. The first is the energy consumed by the AP during the three phases it goes through. The second is the delay of time for the AP to wake up and be operational to serve the new users. In the second case we consider a dense network such as the ones found in urban cities, where the coverage area of an AP is also covered by several other APs. In other words, the gap resulting from switching off one or several APs can be covered by other neighbouring ones. Thus the first thing to do was to evaluate the potential of switching off APs using real measurements taken in a dense urban area. Based on this collected information, we evaluate how many APs can be switched off while maintaining the same coverage. To this end, we propose two algorithms that select the minimum set of APs needed to provide full coverage. We compute several performance parameters, and evaluate the proposed algorithms in terms of the number of selected APs, and the coverage they provide.

Recent studies have shown that there are currently more than 1.08 billion of Smartphones in the world, with around 89% of them used throughout the day. On average each of these users transfers more than 450 Mbytes per month via either a cellular network or a Wi-Fi network. So far it has been up to the user to decide which one of these two networks to use at each particular moment. In this master’s thesis, the potential energy savings that could be achieved by means of automating the choice of network interface are explored. This way, the user equipment itself would be able to initiate handovers from one radio access technology to another depending on each particular service and on the environmental conditions, and hence it could extend its battery life. The work has focused in energy efficient vertical handovers (VHOs) between Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and Wi-Fi networks. The rapid growth and increasing interest in LTE networks have been the main reasons why these networks have been chosen over Third Generation Mobile Networks. Nevertheless this work can be easily extended to other radio access technologies such as WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) or UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System). During the thesis project, the potential energy savings via VHOs depending on the type of service have been studied, as well as the different processes involved in a handover decision process. In order to do so, an energy consumption profile of each interface has been built, the different services have been modeled, and a heterogeneous scenario with Wi-Fi and LTE networks has been simulated. The thesis presents how these savings change within each service and with the environmental conditions (network load, interferences). The results show that large energy savings can be achieved. Nevertheless, the potential savings for each different user device can significantly differ. The VHO decision process includes two main aspects that need further study: investigating energy efficient ways of discovering accessible Wi-Fi access points and measuring the available throughput in each network at the moment of the decision. In addition, within LTE-Advanced and HetNets (Heterogeneous Networks), a lot of research regarding how LTE operators can offload traffic to smaller networks is being performed. These smaller networks consist basically of LTE micro cells and Wi-Fi. Both the energy savings and the potential energy expenses of offloading different kinds of traffic to a Wi-Fi network were also studied in this master’s thesis project, using the same approach described in the previous two paragraphs. / Enligt beräkningar så finns det nu mer än 1.08 miljarder smarta telefoner i världen, och ungefär 89% av dem används varje dag. Varje användare överför mer än 450 megabyte per månad i genomsnitt, antingen via cellulära mobilnät eller Wi-Fi. För närvarande är det användaren som avgör vilket av dessa interface som ska användas vid varje tidpunkt. I detta examensarbete utvärderas vilka energibesparingar som kan uppnås genom att automatisera valet av nätverksinterface. På detta vis skulle den mobila enheten själv utföra handover från en radioaccessteknik till en annan beroende på aktiva tjänster och på radioomgivningen, och därmed utöka batteriets livstid. Detta examensarbete fokuserar på vertikal handover mellan LTE och Wi-Fi nätverk. Den snabba tillväxten och det ökande intresset för LTE är den främsta anledningen till att LTE har valts istället för 3G. Det är dock möjligt att med små förändringar generalisera arbetet till andra radioaccesstekniker, till exempel WiMAX eller UMTS. De potentiella energibesparingarna genom vertikala handovers för olika typer av tjänster har studerats, liksom de olika stegen i handover-beslutsprocessen. För detta syfte har en energikonsumtionsprofil skapats för varje interface, de olika tjänsterna har modellerats och ett scenario med Wi-Fi- och LTE-nätverk har simulerats. Denna rapport beskriver hur dessa energibesparingar ändras för varje tjänstetyp och med ändringar av omgivningen (nätverkslast och interferens). Resultaten har visat att stora energibesparingar kan uppnås, även om dessa besparingar kan variera mycket för olika UEs. Beslutet om vertikal handover inkluderar två huvudsakliga aspekter som kräver fortsatta studier: energieffektiva metoder för att upptäcka tillgängliga WiFi-accesspunkter som går att ansluta sig till och mätning av den upplevda datahastigheten i varje nätverk före beslutet om vertikal handover tas. Parallelt med detta examensarbete pågår omfattande studier om hur mobiloperatörer kan avlasta datatrafik till basstationer med kortare räckvidd. Dessa småskaliga nätverk förväntas bestå av LTE mikro/pico celler och/eller Wi-Fi nätverk. Detta examensarbete inkluderar även studier av de potentiella energibesparingar eller energikostnader för att avlasta olika slags trafik till Wi-Fi nätverk.

Les réseaux locaux sans fil (WLAN) constituent encore le moyen le plus populaire de connexion à domicile et au bureau. Initialement conçus pour le transfert de données, avec des débits relativement faibles, il y a eu ces dernières années de fortes évolutions technologiques avec de nouveaux standards et des débits allant jusqu’à plusieurs dizaines de Mbps voire même plusieurs Gbps (IEEE 802.11n/ac). La gestion de la QoS sur les réseaux locaux sans fil basés sur la technique d’accès aléatoire constitue une problématique et un défi majeur pour les prochaines années, surtout si l’on considère la volonté des opérateurs de faire transiter des flux tels que la voix ou la vidéo. De nouvelles améliorations sont aujourd’hui plus que nécessaires afin de prendre en compte la QoS. Après l’analyse de l’état de l’art, notre première contribution concerne un mécanisme d’agrégation adaptative qui permet une différentiation de la QoS pour chaque classe de service. Nous avons ensuite étudié la Qualité d’Expérience (QoE). Nous l’avons évaluée pour le service vidéo avec différentes conditions radio et de charge. Nous avons ensuite proposé un système de prédiction de la QoE utilisant les systèmes de réseaux de neurones aléatoires (Random Neural Networks). Cette solution est ensuite utilisée pour l’analyse de l’impact des différents paramètres MAC sur la QoE pour le service vidéo. Nous avons ensuite proposé deux améliorations du mécanisme MAC. La première amélioration consiste à sélectionner des valeurs appropriées pour le Backoff. La seconde amélioration permet de renforcer la propriétarisation des flux en agissant sur les valeurs du paramètre AIFSN (Arbitration Inter-Frame Space Number). Les analyses de performances montrent que la solution proposée permet d’améliorer considérablement la QoS, particulièrement en permettant un accès assez régulier, minimiser les collisions et d’accroitre l’efficacité de l’usage des ressources radio disponibles / Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) are today the most popular access networking solution at homes and offices. Although initially, WLANs were designed to carry best effort traffic, users today are adopting them for various multimedia services and applications that have stringent QoS requirements. WLAN standards based on CSMA/CA technique are not able to provide QoS guarantees and furthermore lead to bad performances when the number of competing stations/flows increases. Moreover, standard QoS solutions rely on centralized approaches (e.g. PCF, HCCA) that are not widely used on terminals. The distributed approach, based on concurrent access remains fundamental in WLAN. In this thesis, we propose solutions to improve both QoS and QoE (Quality of Experience) of multimedia services over WLAN. The main contributions include proposal of an aggregation scheme that relies on QoS differentiation for different service classes. We then evaluated the QoE of video services over IEEE 802.11n networks for various radio, MAC and load conditions. Based on this study, a random neural network solution is then proposed to automate video QoE prediction from system parameters. Furthermore, an enhancement to the distributed access mechanism in IEEE 802.11 networks is also proposed. First, we proposed to select appropriate and specific Backoff values according to QoS requirements. Second, a new flow prioritization based on AIFSN (Arbitration Inter-Frame Space Number) values, allocated according to traffic load and traffic types is proposed. Through analysis, we showed that these solutions can enhance QoS and provide regular access, minimize collisions and provide better resource utilization

Les techniques de communication coopératives ont été proposées pour améliorer la qualité des signaux reçus par les terminaux sans fil grâce au principe de diversité spatiale. Cette propriété est obtenue par une duplication du signal, envoyé par l’émetteur au niveau d’un terminal relais situé entre l’émetteur et le récepteur. Les travaux de recherche menés en communications coopératives concernent deux domaines principaux: certains traitent la transmission physique alors que d’autres sont étudient l’interaction de la couche physique avec les couches protocolaires supérieures, en particulier les niveaux MAC (Medium Access Control) et réseau. Si ces domaines de recherche sont généralement séparés, des études conjointes s’avèrent nécessaires pour obtenir des systèmes coopératifs implantables. C’est dans ce contexte que se situent les travaux de la thèse avec, comme cadre applicatif, les réseaux ad hoc. En premier lieu, dans la mesure où il n’existe pas de modèle complet de système coopératif, un cadre de modélisation original est proposé pour représenter le fonctionnement d’un système coopératif, sa mise en place et son fonctionnement. Une caractéristique du modèle est de faire abstraction des couches protocolaires. Cette façon de procéder permet d’analyser de façon similaire différentes solutions proposées dans la littérature. De plus, ce modèle facilite la conception de solutions coopératives, en particulier la conception du processus de mise en place du système de coopération qui initialise les rôles de relais, destinataire et source en fonctionnement coopératif. Le modèle de système coopératif est utilisé pour la conception d’une solution de transmission coopérative adaptative où le relais agit en tant que proxy entre la source et le destinataire. L’intérêt de notre proposition, ProxyCoop, par rapport à d’autres propositions, est d’être compatible avec le protocole IEEE 802.11 que ce soit dans son mode de base ou dans son mode optionnel. Pour chaque trame, le mode de transmission à la source est dynamiquement défini soit en mode proxy coopératif soit en mode non coopératif, et ce en fonction de la réception ou la non réception d’un acquittement du destinataire. Les résultats de simulation montrent, sous certaines conditions, une amélioration des performances en termes de nombre de trames effectivement reçues. Le nombre de retransmissions dues à des trames reçues erronées est diminué, et les transmissions en mode multi saut, coûteuses en temps et en bande passante sont également diminuées. Les conditions favorables à la coopération sont dépendantes de la qualité et de l’accessibilité du canal. Une méthode pour la mise en place du système coopératif est également proposée. Elle repose sur l’utilisation d’un protocole standard de routage pour réseaux ad hoc, AODV. Les évaluations de performances indiquent que la mise en place du système de coopération coûte peu en termes de bande passante, les performances du système (mise en place et fonctionnement) sont supérieures à celles d’un système non-coopératif, pour des conditions données. Finalement, l’application de la solution proposée à un réseau ad hoc spécifique, un réseau maillé (mesh) conforme au standard IEEE 802.11s illustre où et comment déployer la solution proposée. / Cooperative communication techniques have been proposed in order to improve the quality of the received signals at the receivers by using the diversity added by duplication of signals sent by relay terminals situated between each transmission pair. Researches related to cooperative communication can be categorized into two fields; Cooperative transmissions and Cooperative setup. The first research field concerns with cooperative transmission techniques in the physical layer while the second research field concerns with issues on inter-layer interaction between cooperative transmissions in the physical layer to protocols in the upper layers (especially the MAC layer and the network layer). These research topics have been separately concerned but, for implementations, they have to work together. Since there is not any existing common frame work to describe entire functions in cooperative communication, we proposed an original framework of cooperative network at the system level called “Cooperative Network Model”. The model does not reflect the protocol layering; thus, we can generalize the cooperation process and obtain an analysis that is available for many solutions. For validity, the proposed model can clearly illustrate and systematically describe existing cooperative setup protocols. In addition, the proposed cooperative network model facilitates us to find and to solve problems in cooperative designs; especially in cooperative setup, which is in charge on the initiation of the terminal’s role (i.e., a source, a relay, and a destination terminal). Thus, we believe that this model can facilitate the design and updating of existing and future propositions in this domain. The cooperative network protocol is used to design an adaptive cooperative transmission called Proxy Cooperative Transmission. In contrast to other adaptive cooperative transmission techniques, our proposition is compatible to both of the basic access mode and the optional access mode of IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. The transmission mode for each data frame is adaptively switched between a proxy cooperative mode and a non-cooperative mode based on the absence of acknowledge (ACK) frame. Simulation results show that transmission performance is improved by decreasing the number of re-transmissions due to frame errors; thus, chances of multi-hop mode transitions that are costly in time and bandwidth are alleviated. Then, in order to fulfill ProxyCoop communications in part of cooperative setup, we propose a cooperative setup method called “Proxy Cooperative Setup”. The proposition is based on a routing standard protocol for ad hoc networks, AODV, so that it could be easily deployed. The impacts of ProxyCoopSetup when it works with ProxyCoop transmissions have been studied. From simulation results, it shows that ProxyCoop transmissions with ProxyCoopSetup has similar performance to the ProxyCoop transmissions without ProxyCoopSetup. Finally, when the implementation of the proxy cooperative communication and how it can be integrated on existing networks have been considered, it is shown that the design of proxy cooperative communication is also valuable for the 802.11s WLAN Mesh Network environments.

The IEEE 802.11 networks are vulnerable to numerous wireless-specific attacks. Attackers can implement MAC address spoofing techniques to launch these attacks, while masquerading themselves behind a false MAC address. The implementation of Intrusion Detection Systems has become fundamental in the development of security infrastructures for wireless networks. This thesis proposes the designing a novel security system that makes use of metrics from multiple layers of observation to produce a collective decision on whether an attack is taking place. The Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence is the data fusion technique used to combine the evidences from the different layers. A novel, unsupervised and self- adaptive Basic Probability Assignment (BPA) approach able to automatically adapt its beliefs assignment to the current characteristics of the wireless network is proposed. This BPA approach is composed of three different and independent statistical techniques, which are capable to identify the presence of attacks in real time. Despite the lightweight processing requirements, the proposed security system produces outstanding detection results, generating high intrusion detection accuracy and very low number of false alarms. A thorough description of the generated results, for all the considered datasets is presented in this thesis. The effectiveness of the proposed system is evaluated using different types of injection attacks. Regarding one of these attacks, to the best of the author knowledge, the security system presented in this thesis is the first one able to efficiently identify the Airpwn attack.