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Ultracold neutral plasmas provide a platform for studying transport properties in an idealized environment. In this dissertation, transport properties in a Ca$^+$/Yb$^+$ dual species ultracold neutral plasma and a Ca$^+$ magnetized ultracold neutral plasma are studied. In dual species plasmas, we study ion-ion temperature relaxation. We compare measured relaxation rates with atomistic simulations and a range of popular theories. Our work validates the assumptions and capabilities of molecular dynamic simulations and invalidates theoretical models in this regime. This work illustrates an approach for precision determinations of detailed material properties in Coulomb mixtures across a wide range of conditions. We also study plasma expansion in single species plasma in the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field. We find that the asymptotic expansion velocity falls exponentially with magnetic field strength, which disagrees with a previously published ambipolar diffusion model. In the parallel direction, plasma expansion is driven by electron pressure. However, in the perpendicular direction, no plasma expansion is observed at large magnetic field strengths.

No / Many studies have been conducted to investigate the performance of priority queuing (PQ) systems with constant service capacity. However, due to the time-varying nature of wireless channels in wireless communication networks, the service capacity of queuing systemsmay vary over time. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the performance of PQ systems in the presence of varying service capacity. In addition, self-similar traffic has been discovered to be a ubiquitous phenomenon in various communication networks, which poses great challenges to performance modelling of scheduling systems due to its fractal-like nature. Therefore, this paper develops a flow-decomposition based approach to performance modelling of PQ systems subject to self-similar traffic and varying service capacity. It specifically proposes an analytical model to investigate queue length distributions of individual traffic flows. The validity and accuracy of the model is demonstrated via extensive simulation experiments.

Esse trabalho é um estudo sobre circuitos resistivos que apresentam a característica da autossimilaridade em sua configuração. A construção desses circuitos é feita de uma maneira recursiva, de forma análoga a um fractal autossimilar. Os circuitos são analisados pelas suas resistências equivalentes, sendo obtida uma condição para convergência desse valor. Os conceitos auxiliares necessários ao tema desta dissertação abordam a representação de um circuito resistivo como um grafo, além de conceitos envolvendo fractais autossimilares. São propostas ao final de cada capítulo atividades interdisciplinares acessíveis a alunos de ensino médio, com conteúdos envolvendo resistência equivalente, sequências, conjuntos, e noções de área e perímetro. / This work is a study of resistive circuits which present a characteristic of self similarity in their configuration. The construction of these circuits is made in a self recursive way, analogously to a self similar fractal. The circuits are analyzed by their equivalent resistance, and a condition for convergence of this quantity is obtained. Auxiliary concepts that are necessary to this dissertation theme treat the resistive circuit as a graph, and concepts involving self similar fractals. It is proposed at the end of each chapter interdisciplinary activities that are accessible to high school students, with topics involving equivalent resistence, sequences, sets, and notions of area and perimeter.

Este trabalho visa dar uma contribuição para o aumento de eficiência no fluxo de projeto de sistemas integrados, especificamente na avaliação de desempenho da comunicação entre os seus blocos componentes. É proposto o uso de modelagem e simulação de hardware em alto nível, no nível de transações, denominado TLM, para aproveitar a redução de esforço e tempo que se pode oferecer ao projeto de sistemas integrados, diferentemente de enfoques convencionais em níveis mais baixos de descrição, como o nível de registradores (RTL). É proposta uma forma de análise do tráfego intrachip produzido na comunicação de elementos do sistema, visando-se o uso dos resultados obtidos para descrição de geradores de tráfego. A principal contribuição deste trabalho é a proposta da análise de séries de tráfego obtido durante simulação de plataformas de hardware descritas no nível TLM usando-se métodos estatísticos conhecidos da área de estudo de séries temporais. A análise permite ao projetista ter maior compreensão da natureza estatística do tráfego intrachip, denominada dependência de curta ou longa duração (SRD e LRD), para o posterior ajuste de modelos usados na geração de séries sintéticas que representem tal natureza. Os resultados da análise mostraram que o tráfego obtido por simulação TLM tem natureza similar em relação ao da do tráfego obtido por simulação num nível mais baixo de abstração, do tipo de precisão por ciclos, indicando que o tráfego TLM pode ser usado para a representação do tráfego intrachip. Outra contribuição deste trabalho é a proposta de ajuste de modelos paramétricos autossimilares usando-se a decomposição da série de tráfego original, tendo sido feita uma comparação dos resultados desta com o ajuste convencional feito a modelos sem decomposição. Estas contribuições foram agrupadas dentro de uma metodologia detalhada, apresentada neste documento, para a qual experimentos foram realizados. Os resultados a partir das séries sintéticas autossimilares geradas pelos modelos estimados, apresentaram semelhança nos indicadores de SRD e LRD em relação às séries originais TLM, mostrando ser favorável o uso futuro destas séries sintéticas na implementação de geradores de tráfego. / It is objective of this work to make a contribution to improve the efficiency of the integrated systems design flow, specifically on the evaluation of communication performance between component blocks. The use of high level hardware modeling and simulation, at the transaction level, known as TLM, is proposed, in order to take advantage of the reduction of effort and time for the integrated system design; that in contrast to the traditional approaches, which use lower hardware description level, such as register transfer level (RTL). A methodology to evaluate the intra-chip traffic produced by the communication between system elements is proposed. The main contribution of this work is the analysis of traffic time series obtained by simulation of hardware platforms modeled in TLM, using well-known statistical methods for time series analysis. The analysis allows the system developer to understand the statistical nature of the intra-chip traffic, also known as short and long range dependence (SRD and LRD), for later adjustment and accurate representation of the traffic nature in synthetic series. The analysis results have shown that traffic traces obtained by TLM simulation has similar statistical nature as the traffic traces obtained at lower abstraction level, as cycle accurate type, which indicates that TLM traffic could be used to represent intrachip traffic. Another contribution of this work is a fitting procedure to auto similar parametric models thought the decomposition of the original traffic, and its comparison to the results of the conventional fitting, when applied to models that are not decomposed. These contributions were grouped and included in the detailed methodology presented in this document, being a series of experiments carried out. The results related to self-similar synthetic series, obtained from the fitted models, have shown similarity to the SRD and LRD indicators of the original TLM series, what favors the use of synthetic series future for the implementation of traffic generators.

Recently there have been reports that certain physiological data seem to have the properties of long-range correlation and self-similarity. These two properties can be characterized by a long-range dependent parameter d, as well as a self-similar parameter H. In Peng et al (1995), the alteration of long-range correlations with life-threatening pathologies are studied by analyzing the heart rate data of different groups of subjects. The self-similarity properties of two well-known processes, namely the Fractional Brownian Motion (FBM) and the Fractional ARIMA (FARIMA), are of interest to see if it is suitable to be used to model the heart rate data in order to examine the health conditions of some patients. The Embedded Branching Process (EBP) method for estimating parameter $H$ and a goodness of fit test for examining the self-similarity of a process based on the EBP method are proposed in Jones and Shen (2004). In this work, the performance of the goodness of fit test are examined using simulated data from the FBM and FARIMA processes. A modification of the distribution of the test statistics under null hypothesis is proposed and has been modified to be more appropriate. Some simulation comparisons of different estimation methods of the parameter $H$ for some FARIMA processes are also presented and applied to heart rate data obtained from Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the traffic patterns in the mobile data networks. In this work, a simple Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) network was modeled in order to be used in simulations. For the purpose of using in the CDPD model, a synthetic bursty traffic model was produced and using different traffic patterns some performance investigations were made in CDPD network. During the whole work, OPNET simulation tool was used. The CDPD network modeled by OPNET simulation tool was compared with a CDPD model described in the literature and the differences were shown. The new model has some new features: 1) Burst transmission of MAC blocks. 2) Exponential backoff. 3) New packet structures. 4) Frame segmentation and encapsulation into MAC layer frames. Using OPNET, a traffic having higher level of burstiness was produced and applied to the CDPD network model. Under the bursty traffic, some CDPD performance parameters were collected and according to the collected results some suggestions were given.