Thesis (M.S.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering." Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).

Thesis (M.S. in Systems Technology)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Weir, Maurice D. Second Reader: Schwendtner, Thomas A. "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 16, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Frequency, integrated systems, high rate, students, electronic equipment, transmittance, spectra, pulses, graphics, attenuation, communication and radio systems, width, noise, data rate, vocabulary, bandwidth, modulation, multiplexing, radio transmission, radio waves, transmitting, fourier DTIC Indicator(s): Command control and communications, radio waves, theses. Author(s) subject terms: Command and control, C2, C3 systems, communications, frequency spectrum, bandwidth, Fourier analysis, multiplexing, modulation, radio wave propagation, transmission impairments Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-114). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010. / Directed by Jing Deng; submitted to the Dept. of Computer Science. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jul. 12, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-22).

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Magister Scientiae - MSc / A semi-synchronous environment consists of a combination of synchronous and asynchronous transport media used to transport messages from source to destination. This thesis explores an empirical solution for guaranteeing the delivery of messages in a multimodal semi-synchronous environment for a Deaf Telephony application. SoftBridge for Instant Messaging Bridging Application (SIMBA), is a communication platform that make use of a semi-synchronous framework to allow a hearing and Deaf person to communicate inside a single uniform space. SIMBA was modified to provide reliability for both synchronous and asynchronous transport media. In the process of modification, SIMBA was renamed to NaradaBrokering integrated in SIMBA (NIMBA). Within the literature various systems are analyzed and successes and failures are distilled to help formulate a good solution for the thesis question. To guarantee asynchronous messages sent, the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) paradigm was used with Forward Error Correction (FEC) used to guarantee the delivery of synchronous messages sent. The work forms part of a social study conducted at the Deaf Community of Cape Town (DCCT) community centre. Ethnography was used to identify the requirements for a Deaf Telephony application. Thus, this thesis is based on a socio- technical environment where the system is developed in a laboratory and tested in an actual community. Results show that these solutions are cceptable for a semi-synchronous communication environment. However, interviews conducted with a select group of Deaf participants showed that cell phones are currently too popular to be replaced by NIMBA as a primary communication device and service. This is due to the immense popularity of Short Message Service (SMS) among the Deaf and cell phone devices mobile capabilities. The overall goal of the thesis is to guarantee delivery for a semisynchronous environment with broader implications of showing how multimodal semi-synchronous services like Deaf Telephony can be made attractive to service providers concerned with reliability in the new Internet Protocol (IP) world of telecommunications. / South Africa

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Magister Scientiae - MSc / 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. / South Africa

This thesis provides in-depth information on the high speed optical transport requirements for the Square Kilometre Array. The stringent data rates as well as timing and synchronization requirements are dealt with respect to the optical fibre technology. Regarding the data transport, we draw a clear comparison between a typical telecommunication access network and a telescope network. Invoking simulations and experiments on the field and laboratory test bed, we successfully implement a suitable telescope network using vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) technology. Polarization effects on the KAT-7 telescope network, an operational prototype for the SKA is studied so as to estimate the expected effect in the MeerKAT telescope with transmission distances _ 12 km. The study further relates the obtained values to the expected impact on the distribution of the time and frequency reference in the MeerKAT array. Clock stability depends on the differential group delay (DGD) and polarization stability. On a 10:25 km link that includes the riser cable a DGD of 62:1 fs was attained. This corresponds to a polarization mode dispersion (PMD) coefficient of 19:4 fs=km1=2. This is a low PMD value considering telecommunication network. The PMD value is within the allowed budget in the telescope network. However, this may not be the case at longer baselines extending to over 1000 km as expected in SKA 2. The fibre's deployment contribution to the DGD is measured by comparing the deployed fibre to the undeployed of equal lengths. On the 10:25 km deployed single mode fibre, the maximum and mean DGDs measured were 217:7 fs and 84:8 fs respectively. The undeployed fibre of similar type and equal length, gave a maximum and minimum DGDs of 58:6 fs and 36:3 fs respectively. The deployment is seen to increase the maximum and minimum DGDs by factors of 3.7 and 2.3 respectively. This implies that fibre deployment is very critical in ensuring the birefringence is minimized. Polarization fluctuation recorded a maximum of 180o during the 15 hour real time astronomer use of the antenna. To ascertain the contribution of the riser cable, state of polarization (SOP) of the buried section of the single mode fibre in the link was established. A maximum SOP change of 14o over 15 hour monitoring was measured. From the stability realized on the buried section of the fibre, the change in polarization is contributed by the riser cable. The fluctuation in polarization can cause the phase of a clock signal to drift between the birefringent axes by an equal amount corresponding to DGD. We experimentally demonstrate how polarization stabilization can be attained using the polarization maintaining fibre. We also demonstrate the applicability of VCSEL technology in the SKA unidirectional data flow especially for shorter baselines < 100 km. The VCSEL is a low cost light source with attractive advantages such as low power consumption, high speed capabilities and wavelength tuneability. This work entails the use of traditional amplitude modulation commonly known as non-return-to-zero (NRZ) on-off keying (OOK) because of its simplicity and cost. For the MeerKAT typical distances, we show that even in a worst case scenario, the use of VCSEL on different fibres in MeerKAT distance is achievable. Using the impairment reduction approach, we successfully manage to achieve transmission distance beyond MeerKAT. Several in-line dispersion compensation mechanisms in telecommunication have been successfully employed. The work focused on the use of negative dispersion fibre to mitigate the chromatic dispersion effects in the optical fibre. The inverse dispersion fibre (IDF) is proposed for compensation in the conventional zero dispersion wavelength fibres, G.652 that are used at the third window. Similarly, the chromatic dispersion compensation of non-zero dispersion shifted fibre (NZDSF) is experimentally demonstrated using negative dispersion submarine reduced slope (SRS), G. 655 (-). With dispersion management, we demonstrate how transmissions beyond MeerKAT baselines can be achieved error free. A systematic investigation of the use of distributed Raman amplification to overcome the attenuation losses is provided. High on-off gains of up to 15 dB, 8 dB and 5 dB for bidirectional, forward and backward pumping respectively is achieved on a 25 km Raman optimized NZDSF-Reach fibre. Combined dispersion mitigation technique and low noise distributed Raman amplification, up to about 80 km transmission was achieved on a 4:25 Gbps modulated VCSEL using a single pump. Using bidirectional pumping, more than 100 km of transmission was achieved error free. The high gains enhance the VCSEL transmission distance. We further suggest a novel way of using the Raman pump to distribute the clock signal while amplifying the data signal streaming the astronomical data from the remote placed telescope receivers. In summary, the work presented in this thesis has demonstrated the potential use of VCSEL technology for data collection in the telescope array. We have studied the optical effects and mitigation so as to improve the clock and data transmission. This work is relevant and valuable in providing SKA with VCSELs, an option for extremely high network performance at reasonable costs.