Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [111]-[112]).

The problem of ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) on a TCP/IP based fixed-infrastructure network has been well studied and several working proposals exist. An allied problem is that of ensuring QoS on an ad-hoc wireless network, where the requirements are similar, but the operating conditions are different enough to warrant this problem to be dealt with separately and extensively. The QoS reservation and management schemes which work on a fixed infrastructure network perform poorly in ad-hoc wireless networks, mainly because of the difficulty in reserving bandwidth on a contention-based medium, and problems which arise from the possible motion of the hosts and the variability of the quality of the connection. This thesis is a proposal to use the concept of active nodes to set up and maintain QoS. Active nodes are nodes which can execute code on behalf on other remote applications. An algorithm for using active nodes to set up and maintain QoS parameters is proposed, and the use of buffer reservation schemes in reserving bandwidth is explained. The proposal is implemented on the network simulator NS-2, and we study the uses and limitations of this proposal, with specific reference to the performance under different operating conditions. / Graduation date: 2003

TASKMASTER is an experimental microcontroller node of a real-time control oriented network which was proposed by James H. Herzog and Tinggui Zhang to demonstrate the feasibility of a task oriented control structure in performing distributed control actions. This study is a continuation of research involving the TASKMASTER network. A high performance microcontroller the 32-bit Motorola MC68332 has been used in this study to implement a node of the TASKMASTER network. Use of the MC68332 with its powerful peripheral subsystems offers significant scope for improvement of the overall performance of the network in addition to strengthening its control processing capabilities. An 8-bit microcontroller the Intel 8052 has also been used to implement a node of the network. A high-level language C has been used for coding of the operating system of the network which previously has been coded in assembly. In addition to being more readable, use of a high-level language offers other significant advantages such as portability, smaller code development time and code debugging time and the ability to compare different microcontrollers on a common basis. A performance analysis and comparison between the two microcontrollers used and the language used in coding them was also performed using performance measures designed as part of this study. / Graduation date: 1994

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261).

As hardware becomes cheaper and cheaper, there is an increasing interest in the implementation of distributed control networks with microcontrollers. Such networks are usually inexpensive and of high performance. In this thesis work, a low-cost display control unit for COLAN, a control-oriented network, is designed. The system is based on the 8051 single-chip microprocessor and 82716 video controller. COLAN network users can remotely display and control the screen by sending commands to the display control node through the network. The emphasis of this thesis is in the implementation of the display control node, including hardware and software. It has been demonstrated that a basic set of display control functions has been developed, different type monitors can be supported, and on-screen instructions make the system easy to use. / Graduation date: 1991

In recent years, integrated circuit technology has spawned the development of many low cost and high performance microprocessors and microcontrollers. With these devices, there is an increasing interest in the implementation of distributed control networks, utilizing microprocessors in the control nodes. In this work, a low-cost liquid crystal display (LCD) unit utilizing a Hitachi HD44780 controller was designed to provide a visual display node for COLAN (Control Oriented Local Area Network). An Intel 8051 microprocessor was used to provide control services for the display and also to provide a communication interface to the network. The users in the COLAN network can remotely display and easily control the panel of LCDs by sending commands to the display control nodes through the local area network. This capability is especially useful to provide instructions to operators, provide synchronization for human interaction, and for use in locating faults in the system. The software necessary for implementing display and control functions has been developed, including file transfer and text transfer between supervisory nodes and display nodes. This software fits within the task structure associated with the COLAN communication protocols. The display node has been designed, fabricated, and tested in a system involving multiple COLAN nodes and a personal computer host. The emphasis of this work is in the implementation of the display control node and HD44780 controller including hardware and software developments. The hardware work includes designing and interfacing, and the software work includes high level and low level language programming. / Graduation date: 1993

A growing number of IEEE 802.11-based wireless LANs have been set up in many public places in the recent years. These wireless LANs provide convenient network connectivity to users. Although mobile nodes allowed roaming across wireless LANs, handoff latency becomes an obstacle when mobile nodes migrate between different IP networks. Advanced, the link-layer handoff process disrupts the association when a mobile node moves from one access point to another. Even without discussing the latency of Mobility Protocols, this link-layer handoff latency already made many real time applications can not meet their requirements. In this dissertation, it is proposed three schemes to solve the problems occurred in the different network layers. These schemes not only reduce the latency of whole handoff procedure but also have no violation to the existing specifications in the IEEE 802.11 standard and compatible with existing devices. L2-Optimize and AIL used to minimize the duration of link-layer handoff. With LASP, Mobility handoff can be reduced to an acceptable situation. Therefore, even real time applications can meet their requirements when users are roaming across wireless LANs.

In order to grapple with the continuously increasing demand on the multimedia traffic over high speed wireless LAN, we need a QoS-oriented MAC for wireless multimedia system. The IEEE 802.11's PCF is an optional capability, which is connection-oriented, and provides contention-free service, but some papers have proved that it is not efficient when use PCF to transmit voice. And there are no any efficient bandwidth allocation scheme for more high bandwidth requirement source like video in PCF. In this thesis, we will propose a efficient centralized scheduled access MAC approach in IEEE 802.11 to satisfy heterogeneous traffic mix. There are two main algorithms to achieve the goal, queue management algorithm for downlink and uplink to satisfy video traffic's high bandwidth requirement, polling list management method enhance the efficiency of the polling scheme for transmitting voice traffic. We evaluate the system performance by the network simulator OPNET, we use the MPEG-1 and ITU G.711 PCM standard as the video and voice traffic . The result shows that the centralized scheduled access MAC approach we propose has excellent efficient and compelling performance.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Norman F. Schneidewind. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Xin Yuan, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 3, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.