Thesis (Ph.D)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Dr. John A. Copeland; Committee Member: Dr. George F. Riley; Committee Member: Dr. Henry L. Owen; Committee Member: Dr. Mary Ann Ingram; Committee Member: Dr. Patrick Traynor. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Wardi, Yorai, Committee Member ; Abler, Randy, Committee Member ; Copeland, John, Committee Member ; Owen, Henry, Committee Chair ; Ahamad, Mustaque, Committee Member.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006. / Thesis Advisor(s): Christopher Bellavita. "September 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1992. / Thesis Advisors: Matsushima, Rodney ; Sengupta, Kishore. "March, 1992." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 4, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-271). Also available in print.

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<p>This thesis explored how hearing and deaf users are brought together into one communication space where interaction between them is a semi-synchronous form of message exchange. The focus of this thesis was the means by which message delivery between two e</p>

<p>This thesis proposed and presented technical details of new probabilistic metrics of trust in the links wireless ad hoc networks for unobservable communications. In covert communication networks, only the end nodes are aware of the communication characteristics of the overall path. The most widely used protocols of ad hoc networks was overviewed. The routing protocols of ad hoc networks with trust considerations and select Destination Sequence Routing, a protocol that can be used in distributed ad hoc network settings for path discovery, was also reviewed. It establishes a path through which all packets sent by a source must pass to the destination. The end nodes are responsible for examining the statistics of the received packets and deriving inferences on path feature variations which are used for computing new trust metrics. When a path is judged not trustworthy based on the metrics, the Destination Sequence Routing is informed to undertake a new trusted path discovery between the end points. The thesis added a new feature based on the quality of service parameters of the path to create trust in the links in recognition of attacks.</p>

A wirelessly networked opportunistic digital array radar (WNODAR) is an integrated ship wide digital phased array, where the array elements are placed at available open areas over the entire surface of the platform. The array elements are self-standing digital transmit/receive (T/R) modules with no hardwire connections other than prime power. All control and digitized signals are passed wirelessly between the elements and a central signal processor. This research investigates the problem of integrating the array elements through the design of a wireless synchronization and geolocation network. Phase synchronization of array elements is possible using a simple synchronization circuit. A technical survey of geolocation techniques was performed, and performance curves for the WNODAR operating under different seastate conditions were obtained. Analysis and simulation results suggest that a position location scheme to correct for dynamic effects of hull deflection is not absolutely necessary for an array operating at a VHF or lower UHF frequency. Finally, a design of the demonstration T/R module is proposed. Based on projected communication requirements, the full-scale WNODAR demands a 3.7 Gb/s data transmission rate. The multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) approach has been identified as a promising solution to achieve gigabit transmission rates.

This dissertation is focused on multi-service and direct sequence code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) wireless cellular systems. The reverse link performance of a slotted DS/CDMA cellular system with multi-service traffic is analyzed. Services with/without packet retransmission to meet their Quality of Service, share the entire bandwidth. Packet failure probabilities and packet delay are obtained based on analyzing the mutual interaction among services. The impacts of power level allocation and power control error of services on capacity, throughput and delay are analyzed under given Quality of Service. The system capacity is maximized by appropriate power allocation. The impact of power control error on capacity is dependent on whether packet retransmission is allowed or not. Admission control policies for multi-service systems are proposed and analyzed. Both nonprioritized and prioritized admission control are studied. Services difference in terms of resource requirement and degree of importance are considered. Analytical models are developed. Blocking probability of each type of calls are found under given amount of traffic. Fair access by soft capacity is addressed. The cost of protecting certain type(s) of calls on the rest of calls is investigated. The impact of traffic distribution on the performance of the policies is also examined. In a hierarchical cellular system, user mobility estimation helps channel assignment so as to reduce the handoff rate and avoid high mobility users travel among small cells. Two different strategies are compared. It is found that when high mobility users are served by overlay macrocells, call drop rate is reduced. Speed estimation error only has limited impact on the system performance. User membership in a cellular CDMA network is simulated based on the estimation of the local mean value of the pilot signal from surrounding base stations. The base station providing strongest pilot local mean controls the mobile station. Simulation is conducted under different fading environments. Two performance measurements are simulated: the number of membership switchings per second and the probability of wrong base station selection. An optimum window length for filtering out Rayleigh fading is found. Simulation results are in good fit with those of analysis. / Graduate