Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-09-12T19:03:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 pedrodeassissobreirajunior.pdf: 1664123 bytes, checksum: ae5400f0030a2d345dee7ce28cd98b69 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-09-13T12:50:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 pedrodeassissobreirajunior.pdf: 1664123 bytes, checksum: ae5400f0030a2d345dee7ce28cd98b69 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-13T12:50:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 pedrodeassissobreirajunior.pdf: 1664123 bytes, checksum: ae5400f0030a2d345dee7ce28cd98b69 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-09 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho apresenta o estudo e avaliação experimental do controle de uma topologia de conversor CC-CC boost entrelaçado aplicado em sistemas de geração solar fotovoltaica. A análise comparativa das duas principais técnicas de rastreamento de máxima potência possibilitou elucidar se o método de controle por tensão ou corrente terminal do painel solar fotovoltaico apresentam diferença significativa na eficiência do processo de conversão de energia solar em eletricidade. A estrutura de conversor elevador de tensão entrelaçado possibilita mitigar o efeito do sombreamento parcial em arranjos fotovoltaicos, reduzir o dimensionamento dos elementos passivos e prover rápida resposta transitória. Resultados de simulação e experimentais usando um Controlador Digital de Sinais comprovam o potencial da estrutura estudada para o condicionamento de energia em arranjos solares fotovoltaicos. / This work presents the study and experimental evaluation of the control of an interleaved boost DC-DC converter topology used in solar photovoltaic generation systems. The comparative analysis of two major techniques for tracking maximum power point allowed to elucidate whether the method of control by terminal photovoltaic voltage or current show significant difference in the efficiency of converting solar energy into electricity. The boost interleaved converter allows mitigating the effect of partial shading on photovoltaic arrays, reducing sizing of passive elements and providing fast transient response. Simulation and experimental results using a Digital Signal Controller demonstrate the potential of the studied structure for power conditioning in photovoltaic solar arrays.

Digital filters play a key role in many DSP applications and FIR filters are usually selected because of their simplicity and stability against IIR filters.In this thesis eight architectures for multi-stream FIR filtering are studied. Primarily, three kinds of architectures are implemented and evaluated: one-toone mapping, time-multiplexed and pipeline interleaving. During implementation, practical considerations are taken into account such as implementation approach and number representation. Of interest is to see the performance comparison of different architectures, including area and power. The trade-off between area and power is an attractive topic for this work. Furthermore, the impact of the filter order and pipeline interleaving are studied.The result shows that the performance of different architectures differ a lot even with the same sample rate for each stream. It also shows that the performance of different architectures are affected by the filter order differently. Pipeline interleaving improves area utilization at the cost of rapid increment of power. Moreover, it has negative impact on the maximum working frequency.All the FIR filter architectures are synthesized in a 65nm technology.

[EN] The bidirectional DC-DC converters are being used more frequently in electric power systems. Bidirectional converters allows the incorporation of alternative and renewable energy sources at different voltage levels, by means of new power systems architectures now distributed not only centralized. The converters control is defined by function within the system, especially when there are large differences in voltage levels. It is desirable that the converter provide galvanic isolation, control current and / or voltage at one or both buses, and in some cases provide multi-port bidirectional conversion. One of the topologies with high power density is the single phase Dual Active Bridge (DAB). This thesis presents a study of a single phase DAB phase shifting controlled to meet the requirements of a bidirectional DC-DC converter for storage, parallel operation capability, high power density and fast dynamic response. The modularity of the DAB and the parallel operation arises from the conception of a control loop of Average Current Control (ACC), a double loop that controls the voltage and current of the high voltage side or controls the current and voltage at low voltage side. The dynamic response of a DAB to load steps are improved by means of a feedforward technique based on load current, an additional load-current feedforward control loop. An analytical study of the load-current feed-forward on DAB is presented and validated by means of both simulations and experimental results. The DAB topology exhibits a high input and output AC current ripple, especially at low voltage side. This thesis studies parallel connection by interleaving an average current control, based on two or more modules DAB operated synchronously but shifted in phase, in order to reduce the AC current and the capacitors size. The design has been validated by means of the implementation and testing on a 1 kW DAB converter at a switching frequency of 100 kHz. / [ES] Los convertidores DC-DC bidireccionales se están utilizando con mayor frecuencia en los sistemas de potencia eléctrica. Sus características permiten la incorporación de fuentes de energías alternativas y renovables de diferentes niveles de tensión, así como la propuesta de nuevas arquitecturas ahora distribuidas y no sólo centralizadas en los sistemas de potencia. El control de estos convertidores se realiza según su función dentro del sistema, en especial cuando hay grandes diferencias en los niveles de tensión. Es deseable que el convertidor ofrezca aislamiento galvánico, pueda tener funciones de control de corriente y/o de tensión en uno o en ambos puertos de conexión, y otros incluso tener más de dos puertos de intercambio de potencia eléctrica. Una de las topologías que ofrece la mejor densidad de potencia es la versión monofásica del puente activo dual DAB, de sus siglas del inglés "Dual Active Bridge". Se estudia en esta tesis doctoral un DAB monofásico con control por desplazamiento de fase para satisfacer los requerimientos de un convertidor DC-DC bidireccional con fines de almacenamiento, capacidad de operación en paralelo, alta densidad de potencia y rápida respuesta dinámica. La modularidad del DAB para operación en paralelo se plantea desde la concepción de un lazo de control de la corriente promedio ACC (Average Current Control), un lazo doble que controla la tensión y la corriente del lado de alta tensión ó controla la corriente y la tensión del lado de baja tensión. Para mejorar la dinámica del DAB se incluyó el análisis de una técnica de prealimentación basada en la inyección de la corriente de carga, load current feedforward. Esta mejora brinda una respuesta rápida ante variaciones de la carga. Un inconveniente que presenta el DAB por desplazamiento de fase es el alto rizado en las corrientes en los puertos de entrada y salida, especialmente en el lado de baja tensión. Se estudia para reducir este rizado el interleaving (entrelazado) con control de corriente media, basado en la conexión de dos o más módulos DAB en paralelo con disparos desfasados, logrando reducir el tamaño de los filtros. El diseño se ha validado mediante la construcción y experimentación en dos prototipos de potencia nominal de 1 kW con una frecuencia de conmutación de 100 kHz. / [CAT] Els convertidors DC/DC bidireccionals s'estan emprant amb major freqüència en els sistemes de potencia elèctrica. Les seues característiques permeten la incorporació de fonts d'energia alternatives i renovables de diferents nivells de tensió. També es permet la implementació en els sistemes de potència de les noves arquitectures distribuïdes i no només arquitectures centralitzades. El control d'aquests convertidors es realitza segons la seua funció dins del sistema, especialment quan hi ha grans diferències en els nivells de tensió. Es desitjable que el convertidor oferisca aïllament galvànic. A més pot tindre funcions de control de corrent i/o de tensió en un o ambdós ports de connexió. Altres convertidors poden tindre més de dos ports d'intercanvi de potència. Una de les topologies que proporciona la millor densitat de potència es la versió monofàsica del pont actiu dual DAB, de les seues sigles en anglès Dual Active Bridge. S'estudia en esta tesi doctoral un DAB monofàsic amb control per desplaçament de la fase per satisfer els requeriments d'un convertidor DC-DC bidireccional amb fins de emmagatzemament, capacitat d'operació en paral·lel, alta densitat de potència i ràpida resposta dinàmica. La modularitat del DAB per l'operació en paral·lel es planteja des de la concepció d'un llaç de control de la corrent mitjana ACC (Average Current Control), un llaç doble que controla la tensió i la corrent del costat d'alta tensió o controla la corrent i la tensió del costat de baixa tensió. Per millorar la dinàmica del DAB es va incloure l'anàlisi dúna tècnicade prealimentació basada en la injecció de la corrent de càrrega, LCFF (Load Current FeedForward). Esta millora brinda una resposta ràpida davant de variacions de la càrrega. Un inconvenient que presenta el DAB amb control per desplaçament de fase es l'alt arrissat de les corrents en els ports déntrada i eixida, especialment al costat de baixa tensió S'estudia per a reduir este arrissat l'entrellaçat (interleaving) de les corrents d'eixida amb la connexió dos o més modules DAB en paral·lel, aconseguint reduir la mida dels filtres. El disseny s'ha validat mitjançant la construcció i l'experimentació en dos prototips de potència nominal de 1 kW amb una freqüència de commutació de 100 kHz. / Guacaneme Moreno, JA. (2016). Control de puentes activos duales (DABs) en sistemas bidireccionales de alimentación con alta densidad de potencia [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/61627 / TESIS

The main objective of this thesis was to create a model of forward error correction (FEC) system used in ADSL modem, which will be able to check its individual settings using the test methods specified in Recommendation G.996.1. The work is divided into two basic parts – theoretical and practical. The first part describes the basic functional characteristics of ADSL system, with attention being paid to aspects affecting the activity and setting of the error protection system. There are also discussed the theoretical basics of FEC coding techniques used in ADSL. The work also contains a description of the method for testing DSL system resistance against impulsive interference, which is specified in Recommendation G.996.1. The practical part of this thesis contains a description of the proposed model of the FEC system. The model was implemented in the programming environment Matlab Simulink. The proposed model includes the simulation of FEC coding process, DMT modulation and transmission channel with the impulse interference and the background noise. The proposed program is able to calculate parameters for setting FEC system from the specified data transfer rates and the requirement for interleaving. In addition, allows you to set the parameters of transmission line and sources of impulse interference and of the background noise. Under the set of input characteristics of the transmission is calculated bit allocation and the resulting parameters are given to a computational core of the model. In the application can be performed two types of test tasks. The first one is based on the Recommendation G.996.1 and makes it possible to determine probability of errored second. The second test task is for the measurement of resistance of the transmission system against impulsive interference. The results of the simulations are summarized in the conclusion of work.

The paper deals with the channel coding and modulation in DVB-H and DVB-SH and with the simulation of the components in MATLAB. In the case of DVB-H the document also discuss the influence of different types of transmission channels on the transmission process. The first part of this work describes the channel coding and inner modulation in DVB-H and DVB-SH. The next part describes applications created in MATLAB for settings and simulation of the transmission in the standards DVB-H and DVB-SH. The last part of this document graphically presents selected results of the simulation of the transmission and discuss them.

Ce travail concerne l'étude théorique,l’analyse numérique et la validationexpérimentale d'une topologie de convertisseurd’électronique de puissance basée sur unconvertisseur multiniveau modulaire entrelacéavec transformateur moyenne fréquence.L’architecture est adaptée pour l’étage deconversion AC-DC dans les applications detransformateur d'électronique de puissance pourla connexion entre un réseau alternatif moyennetension et un réseau continu basse tension.L’entrelacement réduit les pertes par conductiondans les interrupteurs. Le transformateurmoyenne fréquence 10 kHz assure une isolationgalvanique et connecte le convertisseurmultiniveau modulaire entrelacé à unconvertisseur pont complet. Avec comme pointde départ la structure, le principe defonctionnement, la modélisation, la technique demodulation et le schéma de commande sontdiscutés. Une caractéristique du convertisseur estla génération simultanée de la tension du réseaubasse fréquence et de la tension primaire dutransformateur moyenne fréquence.L'équilibrage de la tension des condensateurs etla minimisation du courant de circulation sontcombinés dans un seul algorithme. La commanderégule le courant alternatif et la tension du buscontinu, du côté haute tension, ainsi que latension continue et le flux de puissance, du côtébasse tension. La validation expérimentale duconvertisseur est réalisée avec un prototype de720 W monophasé à l’échelle réduite. Lesrésultats démontrent la stabilité du système decommande lors d'opérations en régimepermanent et dynamiques (pas de charge,inversion du flux de puissance). / This work aims to present thetheoretical study, the numerical analysis and theexperimental validation of a power electronicsconverter topology based on an interleavedmodular multilevel converter with mediumfrequencytransformer. The architecture issuitable for the AC-DC stage in solid-statetransformer applications for the connectionbetween a medium-voltage AC grid and a lowvoltageDC grid. The interleaving reduces theswitch conduction losses. The 10 kHz mediumfrequencytransformer provides galvanicisolation and connects the interleaved modularmultilevel converter to a full-bridge converter.From the converter structure, the principle ofoperation, the modeling, the modulationtechnique, and the control scheme are discussed.One feature of the converter is the simultaneousgeneration of the low-frequency grid voltageand the medium-frequency transformer primaryvoltage. The capacitor voltage balancing and thecirculating currents minimization are combinedtogether in a single algorithm. The controlsystem regulates the AC current and the DC busvoltage, on the high-voltage side, and the DCvoltage and power flow, on the low voltage side.The experimental validation of the converter ismade with a scaled-down single-phase 720 Wprototype. The results demonstrate the controlsystem stability in steady-state and dynamic(load step, power flow inversion) operations.

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With the development of information technology, the market for power management of telecom and computing equipment keeps increasing. Distributed power systems are widely adopted in the telecom and computing applications for the reason of high performance and high reliability. Recently industry brought out aggressively high efficiency requirements for a wide load range for power management in telecom and computing equipment. High efficiency over a wide load range is now a requirement. On the other hand, power density is still a big challenge for front-end AC/DC converters. For DPS systems, front-end AC/DC converters are under the pressure of continuous increasing power density requirement. Although increasing switching frequency can dramatically reduce the passive component size, its effectiveness is limited by the converter efficiency and thermal management. Technologies to further increase the power density without compromising the efficiency need to be studied. The industry today is also at the beginning of transferring their design from analog control to full digital control strategy. Although issues are still exist, reducing components count, reducing the development cycle time, increasing the reliability, enhancing the circuit noise immunity and reducing the cost, all of these benefits indicate a great potential of the digital control. This thesis is focusing on how to improve the efficiency and power density by taking the advantages of the digital control. A novel Ï /2 phase shift two Channel interleaving PFC is developed to shrink the EMI filter size while maintain a good efficiency. A sophisticated power management strategy that associates with phase shedding and adaptive phase angle control is also discussed to increase the efficient for the entire load range without compromising the EMI filter size. The method of current sampling is proposed for Ï /2 phase shift two Channel interleaving PFC and multi-channel adaptive phase angle shift PFC is proposed to accurately extract the average total current information. A noise free current sampling strategy is also proposed that adjusting the sampling edge according to duty cycle information. An isolated ZVS dual boost converter is proposed to be the DC/DC stage of the front-end converter. This PWM converter has similar performance as the LLC resonant converter. It has hold up time extension capability without compromising the normal operation efficiency. It can achieve ZVS for all the switches. The current limit and SR implementation is much easier than LLC. State plane method, which potentially can be extent to other complex topologies, is used to fully study this circuit. All the operation modes are understood through the state plane method. The best operation mode is discovered for the front end applications. Light load efficiency is improved by the proposed pulse skipping method to guarantee the ZVS operation meanwhile reduce the switching frequency. Current limit operation is also proposed to restrict a best operation mode by fully taking the advantage of digital control that precisely control the circuit under the over current condition. High efficiency high power density is achieved by new topology, innovative interleaving, and the sophisticated digital control method. / Master of Science

New techniques,languages and paradigms have facilitated the creation of distributed applications in several areas. Perhaps the most promising paradigm is the one that incorporates the mobile agent concept. A mobile agent in a large scale network can be viewed as a software program that travels through a heterogeneous network, crossing various security domains and executing autonomously in its destination. Mobile agent technology extends the traditional network communication model by including mobile processes, which can autonomously migrate to new remote servers. This basic idea results in numerous benefits including flexible, dynamic customisation of the behavior of clients and servers and robust interaction over unreliable networks. In spite of its advantages, widespread adoption of the mobile agent paradigm is being delayed due to various security concerns. Currently available mechanisms for reducing the security risks of this technology do not e±ciently cover all the existing threats. Due to the characteristics of the mobile agent paradigm and the threats to which it is exposed, security mechanisms must be designed to protect both agent hosting servers and agents. Protection to agent-hosting servers' security is a reasonably well researched issue, and many viable mechanisms have been developed to address it. Protecting agents is technically more challenging and solutions to do so are far less developed. The primary added complication is that, as an agent traverses multiple servers that are trusted to different degrees, the agent's owner has no control over the behaviors of the agent-hosting servers. Consequently the hosting servers can subvert the computation of the passing agent. Since it is infeasible to enforce the remote servers to enact the security policy that may prevent the server from corrupting agent's data, cryptographic mechanisms defined by the agent's owner may be one of the feasible solutions to protect agent's data.Hence the focus of this thesis is the development and deployment of cryptographic mechanisms for securing mobile agents in an open environment. Firstly, requirements for securing mobile agents' data are presented. For a sound mobile agent application, the data in an agent that is collected from each visiting server must be provided integrity. In some applications where servers intend to keep anonymous and will reveal their identities only under certain cir- cumstances, privacy is also necessitated. Aimed at these properties, four new schemes are designed to achieve different security levels: two schemes direct at preserving integrity for the agent's data, the other two focus on attaining data privacy. There are four new security techniques designed to support these new schemes. The first one is joint keys to discourage two servers from colluding to forge a victim server's signature. The second one is recoverable key commitment to enable detection of any illegal operation of hosting servers on an agent's data. The third one is conditionally anonymous digital signature schemes, utilising anonymous public-key certificates, to allow any server to digitally sign a document without leaking its identity. The fourth one is servers' pseudonyms that are analogues of identities, to enable servers to be recognised as legitimate servers while their identities remain unknown to anyone. Pseudonyms can be deanonymised with the assistance of authorities. Apart from these new techniques, other mechanisms such as hash chaining relationship and mandatory verification process are adopted in the new schemes. To enable the inter-operability of these mechanisms, a security architecture is therefore developed to integrate compatible techniques to provide a generic solution for securing an agent's data. The architecture can be used independently of the particular mobile agent application under consideration. It can be used for guiding and supporting developers in the analysis of security issues during the design and implementation of services and applications based on mobile agents technology.

Optimising the throughput performance for wireless networks is one of the challenging tasks in the objectives of communication engineering, since wireless channels are prone to errors due to path losses, random noise, and fading phenomena. The transmission errors will be worse in a multihop scenario due to its accumulative effects. Network Coding (NC) is an elegant technique to improve the throughput performance of a communication network. There is the fact that the bit error rates over one modulation symbol of 16- and higher order- Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) scheme follow a certain pattern. The Scattered Random Network Coding (SRNC) system was proposed in the literature to exploit the error pattern of 16-QAM by using bit-scattering to improve the throughput of multihop network to which is being applied the Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC). This thesis aims to improve further the SRNC system by using Forward Error Correction (FEC) code; the proposed system is called Joint RLNC and FEC with interleaving. The first proposed system (System-I) uses Convolutional Code (CC) FEC. The performances analysis of System-I with various CC rates of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, and 1/8 was carried out using the developed simulation tools in MATLAB and compared to two benchmark systems: SRNC system (System-II) and RLNC system (System- III). The second proposed system (System-IV) uses Reed-Solomon (RS) FEC code. Performance evaluation of System IV was carried out and compared to three systems; System-I with 1/2 CC rate, System-II, and System-III. All simulations were carried out over three possible channel environments: 1) AWGN channel, 2) a Rayleigh fading channel, and 3) a Rician fading channel, where both fading channels are in series with the AWGN channel. The simulation results show that the proposed system improves the SRNC system. How much improvement gain can be achieved depends on the FEC type used and the channel environment.