Dissertations / Theses: 'Data transmission systems – Design and construction'

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Tandon, Prateek. "High-performance advanced encryption standard (AES) security co-processor design." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2003. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04082004-180433/unrestricted/tandon%5fprateek%5f200312%5fms.pdf.

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Lindsey, Michael Karel 1963. "Design and simulation of a network interface unit for a fiber optic PACS network using VHDL." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277207.

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This paper describes the design and simulation of a network interface unit (NIU) for a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) network called PACnet. PACnet is a dual fiber optic ring network under development at the Computer Engineering Research Laboratory of the University of Arizona. This network integrates voice, data, and image communications in a hospital environment and supports a throughput rate between 200-500 megabits per second. At each node in the network, an NIU implements the Data Link Layer and Physical Layer protocols of PACnet. The initial network interface unit design for PACnet was a functional description of NIU protocols and major components. In order to construct a demonstration prototype of PACnet,the NIU description must be refined and an architecture must be specified. The NIU design is specified and simulated using the hardware description language VHDL. Simulation results provide information on NIU timing characteristics and logic families required to implement the NIU.

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Siu, Yun-ming. "Design and performance analysis of data broadcasting systems /." Hong Kong : University of Hong kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B16027115.

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蕭潤明 and Yun-ming Siu. "Design and performance analysis of data broadcasting systems." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3123530X.

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Narasimhan, Sridhar. "Topological design of networks for data communication systems." Connect to resource, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1262631254.

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Yeo, Yong-Kee. "Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Buffer and Multicast-Enabled Switch Fabric for Optical Packet Switching." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14615.

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Optical packet switching (OPS) is one of the more promising solutions for meeting the diverse needs of broadband networking applications of the future. By virtue of its small data traffic granularity as well as its nanoseconds switching speed, OPS can be used to provide connection-oriented or connectionless services for different groups of users with very different networking requirements. The optical buffer and the switch fabric are two of the most important components in an OPS router. In this research, novel designs for the optical buffer and switch fabric are proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In particular, an optical buffer that is based on a folded-path delay-line tree architecture will be discussed. This buffer is the most compact non-recirculating optical delay line buffer to date, and it uses an array of high-speed ON-OFF optical reflectors to dynamically reconfigure its delay within several nanoseconds. A major part of this research is devoted to the design and performance optimization of these high-speed reflectors. Simulations and measurements are used to compare different reflector designs as well as to determine their optimal operating conditions. Another important component in the OPS router is the switch fabric, and it is used to perform space switching for the optical packets. Optical switch fabrics are used to overcome the limitations imposed by conventional electronic switch fabrics: high power consumption and dependency on the modulation format and bit-rate of the signals. Currently, only those fabrics that are based on the broadcast-and-select architecture can provide truly non-blocking multicast services to all input ports. However, a major drawback of these fabrics is that they are implemented using a large number of optical gates based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). This results in large component count and high energy consumption. In this research, a new multicast-capable switch fabric which does not require any SOA gates is proposed. This fabric relies on a passive all-optical gate that is based on the Four-wave mixing (FWM) wavelength conversion process in a highly-nonlinear fiber. By using this new switch architecture, a significant reduction in component count can be expected.

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Motahari, Bidgoli Seyed Mohammad Amin. "An Optical Design Configuration for Wireless Data Transmission." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2439.

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The concept of 2D barcodes is of great relevance for use in wireless data transmission between handheld electronic devices. In a typical setup, any file on a cell phone for example can be transferred to a second cell phone through a series of images on the LCD which are then captured and decoded through the camera of the second cell phone. In this research, a new approach for data modulation in 2D barcodes is introduced, and its performance is evaluated in comparison to other standard methods of barcode modulation. In the proposed method, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is used together with Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) over adjacent frequency domain elements to modulate intensity of individual pixels. It is shown that the bit error rate performance of the proposed system is superior to the current state of the art in various scenarios. A specific aim of this study is to establish a system that is proven tolerant to camera motion, picture blur and light leakage within neighboring pixels of an LCD. Furthermore, intensity modulation requires the input signal used to modulate a light source to be positive, which requires the addition of a dc bias. In the meantime, the high crest factor of OFDM requires a lower modulation index to limit clipping distortion. These two factors result in poor power efficiency in radio over fiber applications in which signal bandwidth is generally much less than the carrier frequency. In this study, it is shown that clipping a bipolar radio frequency signal at zero level, when it has a carrier frequency sufficiently higher than its bandwidth, results in negligible distortion in the pass band and most of the distortion power is concentrated in the baseband. Consequently, with less power provided to the optical carrier, higher power efficiencies and better receiver sensitivity will result. Finally, a more efficient optical integrated system is introduced to implement the proposed intensity modulation method which is optimized for radio over fiber applications.

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Shuman, John H. "Conceptual design analysis of switched multimegabit data service as a telecommunications strategy for USA Today newspaper." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232009-020128/.

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Zuo, Yongrong. "Power-efficient dual-rate gigabit transceiver design." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 121 p, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1037889461&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Payandehjoo, Kasra. "Study of nonlinear transmission lines and their applications." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99785.

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With the increasing market demand for wideband multifunctional electronic systems, real-time broadband measurement systems with few picoseconds switching rates are essential. Furthermore, stable millimeter wave sources are required to drive these wideband electronic systems. Nonlinear transmission lines (NLTLs) are high impedance transmission lines periodically loaded with reverse biased diode serving as varactors. Extremely high bandwidths are achievable because of the possibility to fabricate these structures monolithically, which is why pulses with ultra short transitions can be generated using NLTLs. Also, efficient wideband frequency conversion is made possible by NLTL technology.
In this thesis, a comprehensive study of NLTLs and their applications is presented. Sharpening of the edges of electrical pulses, voltage dependent true time delay, and harmonic generation in NLTLs are investigated through analytical studies as well as circuit simulations and experimental measurements. Designing the best possible mixers, frequency doublers, and edge sharpeners and optimizing them are not the objects of this thesis. The main objective is to study an alternative design approach by using NLTLs. To this end, analytical solution for the magnitude of the third harmonic along a nonlinear transmission line is derived for the first time. Also, for the first time the lowpass nature of the NLTL is combined with the solutions for the magnitudes of harmonics in order to improve the validity range of the predicted harmonics. An NLTL harmonic generator is fabricated and measurement results are reported.
Inspired by the distributed nature of nonlinear transmission lines, a novel filtering method is introduced for the suppression of the unwanted signals in different NLTL applications. The filtering method is applied to a nonlinear transmission line frequency multiplier in order to filter the third harmonic. The distributed filtering is also used to suppress the image signal in an NLTL mixer. The proposed filtering method is general and can be applied to other periodic structure as well (such as distributed amplifiers and distributed mixers). For implementing the filtering, compact complementary split ring resonators are proposed and designed for an NLTL frequency doubler.

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Zheng, Jun, and 鄭軍. "Performance analysis and algorithm design for data-driven IP/ATM labelswitching systems." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3124273X.

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Byers, Daniel James 1958. "Design of a high speed fiber optic network interface for medical image transfer." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276590.

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A high speed, 125 mega-bit per second data rate, data communication channel using fiber optic technology is described. Medical image data, generated by CT scanner or magnetic resonance imaging type imaging equipment, passes from standard American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufactures Association (ACR-NEMA) interface equipment to the High Speed Fiber Optic Network Interface (HSFONI). The HSFONI implements the ACR-NEMA standard interface physical layer with fiber optics. The HSFONI accepts data from up to 8 devices and passes data to other devices or to a data base archive system for storage and future viewing and analysis. The fiber components, system level, and functional level considerations, and hardware circuit implementation are discussed.

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Zheng, Jun. "Performance analysis and algorithm design for data-driven IP/ATM label switching systems." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22370584.

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Chiou, Ian Yiing-shyang. "Design and analysis of a voice/data internet transport system /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266691096329.

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Wu, Bin, and 吳斌. "Algorithm design in optical networking." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39329161.

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Labuschagne, Adriaan S. "The design of a telemetry system for Grumeti Reserves /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2542.

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Navalekar, Abhijit C. "Design of a high data rate audio band OFDM modem." Worcester, Mass. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2006. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-041806-174713/.

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Leyshock, Patrick Michael. "Optimizing Data Movement in Hybrid Analytic Systems." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2089.

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Hybrid systems for analyzing big data integrate an analytic tool and a dedicated data-management platform, storing data and operating on the data at both components. While hybrid systems have benefits over alternative architectures, in order to be effective, data movement between the two hybrid components must be minimized. Extant hybrid systems either fail to address performance problems stemming from inter-component data movement, or else require the user to explicitly reason about and manage data movement. My work presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a hybrid analytic system for array-structured data that automatically minimizes data movement between the hybrid components. The proposed research first motivates the need for automatic data-movement minimization in hybrid systems, demonstrating that under workloads whose inputs vary in size, shape, and location, automation is the only practical way to reduce data movement. I then present a prototype hybrid system that automatically minimizes data movement. The exposition includes salient contributions to the research area, including a partial semantic mapping between hybrid components, the adaptation of rewrite-based query transformation techniques to minimize data movement in array-modeled hybrid systems, and empirical evaluation of the approach's utility. Experimental results not only illustrate the hybrid system's overall effectiveness in minimizing data movement, but also illuminate contributions made by various elements of the design.

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De, Brandt T. "Development of an intelligent printer sharer." Thesis, Cape Technikon, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1134.

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Thesis (M.Diploma in Technology)--Cape Technikon, Cape Town, 1993
This thesis describes the design, development and implementation of an intelligent printer sharer, capable of servicing ten personal computers and two printers.

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Jury, Owen T. "The Design of Telemetry Acquisition and Analysis Vans for Testing Construction and Mining Equipment." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607566.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
Caterpillar Inc. has over 25 years of experience using instrument vans equipped with telemetry to support product testing. These vans provide the capability to instrument the product, to acquire telemetered data, and to analyze the data. They are being used in tests performed on construction and mining equipment at Caterpillar's proving grounds and at customer job sites throughout North America. This paper presents a design summary of the newest generation vans. It starts with an overview of the major subsystems and concentrates on the Caterpillar developed software that tightly integrates the various hardware and software components. This software greatly enhances the productivity of the system and makes it possible for the van to perform a large variety and quantity of tests required by our internal customers.

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Yoo, Seungyup. "Field effect transistor noise model analysis and low noise amplifier design for wireless data communications." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13024.

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Zaerr, Jon Benjamin 1963. "Development and evaluation of a dynamic phantom using four independently perfused in vitro kidneys as a tool for investigating hyperthermia systems." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291341.

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A dynamic phantom for use in investigating hyperthermia heating systems has been designed, constructed, and tested. A computer controlled the flow rate of 80% Ethanol to each of 4 preserved in vitro canine kidneys which acted as the phantom material. The flow rates were regulated with stepper motor controlled valves and measured with flow meters by the computer. This provided a flexible system for adjusting the perfusion as desired. The system was tested with step and ramp changes in perfusion under constant power ultrasound and with a temperature controlled perfusion algorithm, all of which yielded repeatable results. The dynamic phantom developed in this work shows potential for expediting investigations of hyperthermia controllers, temporal blood flow patterns, and inverse problems. Its computer based nature gives it great flexibility which would lend itself well to automated testing procedures.

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Musetha, Rendani D. "The design of CAN nodes for minimising cables on the SUNSAT's TCMD system." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49793.

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Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to investigate a design of a microcontroller based embedded system that will be used to minimise cable harness on the SUNSAT micro-satellite. The system is called CAN node. The CAN node(s) implements CAN (Controller Area Network) serial bus architecture protocol. The protocol is implemented on the two nodes to transport data from the TCMD tot he 0 ther trays 0 f SUNSAT. CAN node( s) design proj ect focuses on the TCMD tray, because it is the central point for data communication in SUNSAT and it acts as the eyes and hands of the satellite's operator. As a result most of the communication cables are located at this tray. The two nodes are called TX-node and RX-nodes. The TX-node is used to collect data from the TCMD tray and transmits them serially to RX-node. The RX-nodes receives the TCMD data from TX-node and transmits these data to their respective nodes. In application RX-nodes need to be ten, but only one is used for testing purpose. The design had its shortcomings, of which they are discussed in this thesis. The recommendations of an ideal system are also given to elaborate how the system should behave in the real situation. Despite its shortcomings, the CAN node(s) project has successfully proven that cable harness on the TCMD tray of SUNSAT can be minimised by using CAN technology.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie tesis is om die ontwerp van 'n mikro-beheerder gebaseerde stelsel wat die SUNSA T mikro-satelliet kabel harnas sal verklein, te ondersoek. Die stelsel word die CAN nodus genoem. Die CAN nodus implementeer die CAN (Controller Area Network) bus argitektuur protokol. Die protokol is op twee nodusse geïmplementeer om data vanaf die TCMD na ander laaie van SUNSAT te voer. Die CAN nodus ontwerp fokus op die TCMD laai, want dit is die sentrale punt vir data kommunikasie in SUNSA T en dit tree soos die oog en hande van die satelliet operateur op. As 'n gevolg, is die meeste van die kommunikasie kabels in hierdie laai. Die twee nodusse is genoem TXnodus en RX-nodus. TX-nodus word gebruik om die data van die TCMD af te kollekteer en dan versprei hulle tot hulle onderskeie nodusse. In die toepaslik moet daar tien RX-nodusse wees, maar net een is gebruik terwille van die toets. Die ontwerp het sy eie tekortkomings, wat in hierdie tesis bespreek word. Die rekommendasie van 'n ideale stelsel is ook gemaak om te bewys hoe die stelsel dit in 'n ware situasie moet gedra. Ongeag die tekortkomings daarvan, het die CAN-nodus projek suksesvol bewys dat die kabel harnas in die TCMD laai van SUNSAT kan verminder word deur die gebruik van die CAN tegnologie.

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Hanikat, Marcus. "Towards a Correct-by-Construction design flow : A case-study from railway signaling systems." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-299362.

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As technological advancements and manufacturing techniques continues to bring us more complex and powerful hardware, software engineers struggle to keep up with this rapid progress and reap the benefits brought by this hardware. In the field of safety-critical system development, where a thorough understanding and deterministic nature of the hardware often is required, the cost of development closely relates to the complexity of the hardware used. For software developers to be able to reap the benefits of the technological advancement in hardware design, a Correct-by-Construction with a model- based design flow seem promising. Even though there seem to be significant benefits in using a Correct-by-Construction workflow for developing safety- critical systems, it is far from exclusively used within the industry. Therefore, this thesis illustrates how a model-based design flow should be applied when developing safety-critical systems for usage in the rail transport sector. This thesis also explores the benefits Correct-by-Construction can bring to the development process of safety-critical systems. Within this thesis, two different modeling tools, ForSyDe and Simulink, were used to achieve a model-based design flow. The functionality of these tools is investigated to see how they can be used for developing safety-critical systems, meeting the EN 50128 standard. The result presented is an example of how these tools can be used within a model-based design flow which meets the EN 50128 standard for developing Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 4 systems. The thesis also compares the tools investigated and highlights their differences. Finally, future work required to create a complete Correct-by-Construction workflow that complies with the EN 50128 standard requirements for system development is identified.
Allt eftersom teknologiska framsteg och tillverkningstekniker fortsätter att ge oss tillgång till mer komplex och kraftfull hårdvara så kämpar mjukvaruingenjörer fibrilit med att kunna hänga med i denna utvecklingstakt och kunna utnyttja de nya möjligheterna som denna nya hårdvara ger. Inom fältet för säkerhetskritiska system, där en genomgående förståelse av och deterministiska egenskaper för hårdvara ofta krävs, så är kostnaden för utveckling nära relaterat till komplexiteten för hårdvaran som används. För att kunna ta till vara på de fördelar som dessa nya teknologiska framsteg för med sig så föreslås ofta användningen av utvecklingsprocessen Korrektvid- Konstruktion. Även fast det verkar finnas stora fördelar med att använda Korrekt-vid-Konstruktion som utvecklingsprocess så har det inte sett en bred användning inom industrin. På grund av detta så försöker denna avhandling svara på hur ett modelleringsbaserat utvecklingsflöde kan användas vid utveckling av säkerhetskritiska system för tågtransportsektorn. Arbetet undersöker även fördelarna med användningen av Korrekt-vid-Konstruktion vid utveckling av säkerhetskritiska system. Arbetet i denna avhandling undersöker hur två olika modeleringsverktyg, ForSyDe och Simulink, kan användas i ett modeleringsbasert utvecklingsflöde. Funktionaliteten för dessa modeleringsverktyg undersöks för att se hur dem kan användas för utveckling av säkerhetskritiska system på ett sätt som klarar av kraven i EN 50128 standarden. Resultaten som presenteras är ett exempel på hur dessa verktyg kan användas i ett modeleringsbaserat utvecklingsflöde som möter kraven i EN 50128 standarden för utveckling av SIL 4 system. Arbetet jämför även de undersökta modeleringsverktygen för att påvisa deras skillnader. Till sist så beskrivs det framtida arbete som krävs för att få till en komplett utvecklingsprocess som är Korrekt-vid-Konstruktion och även möter systemutvecklingskraven i EN 50128 standarden.

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Groom, Eddie L. "Ethernet controller design for an embedded system using FPGA technology." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2008m/groom.pdf.

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Long, John R. (John Robert) Carleton University Dissertation Engineering Electrical. "High frequency integrated circuit design in BICMOS for monolithic timing recovery." Ottawa, 1992.

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Dickinson, Alex. "Complexity management and modelling of VLSI systems." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd553.pdf.

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Roop, Parthasarathi Computer Science &amp Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Forced simulation : a formal approach to component based development of embedded systems." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Computer Science and Engineering, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20470.

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Application specific digital systems, called embedded systems, touch almost every aspect of modern human life. As a result, there is considerable interest in automating the design (called synthesis) of these systems. Further, given the time-to-market pressures and increasing system complexities, component reuse during synthesis is being touted as a key to success. This thesis proposes a formal framework for reusing system-level components during synthesis. Within the framework for component reuse, component matching is a key problem that must be addressed. Given the specification of a design function, and a device stored as a component in a library, component matching addresses the question of whether the device can implement the function. Often system-level components are multi-functional and generic, and it is rarely the case that the function is directly realizable by a device. Hence, an important aspect of matching is to decide whether the device can be dynamically adapted to match the function. This thesis proposes a formalization of the matching problem using formal models of the function and device, denoted by F and D respectively. D matches F provided there exists an interface I that adapts D dynamically to produce the same behaviour as F. None of the existing implementation verification techniques within formal methods can be used to test for the existence of an I between arbitrary pairs of F and D. In this thesis, a new simulation relation called forced simulation is proposed between the states of F and D. It is then formally established that the existence of a forced simulation relation is a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of I for a pair of F and d. Two kinds of forced simulation are proposed, one each for synchronous and asynchronous interactions with the environment. Based on forced simulation, a polynomial time algorithm for automatic matching of F and D is also developed. The distinguishing feature of the algorithm is that when successful, it generates an interface that automatically adapts the device to behave like the function. The algorithm is illustrated by reusing two rogrammable components from Intel and some typical embedded controllers.

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馮潤開 and Yun-hoi Fung. "Linguistic fuzzy-logic control of autonomous vehicles." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29812690.

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Schmelzer, Raymond Matthew. "Practical Wired Digital Communications Link Analysis." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3143.

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This thesis deals with the analysis of a Wired High Speed Serial Data Link (PAM2) which is commonly used throughout the data-communications and tele-communications industry. The goal of this study is to build a scalable simulation tool using Matlab that ultimately uses Receiver Bit Error Ratio (BER) as the metric for data link health. This study is also designed to aid in link specification development. The Matlab and theoretical development is broken up into three sections being Transmitter (TX), Channel (Hs) and Receiver (RX). Realistic noise impairments can be added to each section along the signal path creating signal stresses commonly seen in data center applications. The TX function is designed to create random and periodic timing jitter, voltage noise and deterministic pre-distortion filtering effects. For the channel response s-parameters are used as the model result for many commonly seen channel loss and reflection scenarios. The RX model uses signal to noise ratio and vertical eye margin to determine the equalized link BER. The study results show many tradeoffs between noises, RX Equalizer, RX gain and RX BER. The simulation results also reveal that there is no closed form solution for converging the modern closed-eye PAM2 detector.

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Naik, Pranab Sabitru. "Design and implementation of a fully automated real-time s-parameter imaging system." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B30708758.

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Saldanha, Carlos M. "An algebraic constraint system for computer-aided design in magnetics /." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64003.

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Guo, Lei. "Insights into access patterns of Internet media systems measurements, analysis, and system design /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1198696679.

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Shankar, Sanjeev. "Analysis of microprocessor based vehicular instrumentation and automatic passenger counting systems." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41570.

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Information on transit ridership and operations is a necessary condition as far as efficient management is considered. Transit managements on the acquisition of such a data base can confirm predictions about scheduling, receive warnings about potential dangers and plan future operations on a much broader and precise base. Data from passenger counts provide essential information to marketing and scheduling personnel by identifying peak load-points and the such. Using manual collection methods for such data is expensive and prone to human errors. Automatic Passenger Counting (APC) systems are viewed as an improved and economical technique for data collection. Such systems monitor the progress of a particular vehicle -- its position, number of passengers getting on and off, times and distances between stops -- and make this data available for processing. These are state of the art systems, mostly microprocessor based and often embracing a modular structure. The Red Pine system is such a system with different dedicated modules for each bank of tasks. Multitasking software is seen to be an powerful tool for such systems and simplify the architecture of the system hardware. A CHMOS hardware design, suited for multitasking softwares is provided. Interfacing software for the Red Pine system has been developed and is explained. Debugging testing and simulation of the Red Pine hardware is detailed. Modifications have been recorded and improvements suggested.

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Mukherjee, Tonmoy Shankar. "High performance, low-power and robust multi-gigabit wire-line design." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39515.

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The object of this research is to develop robust wire-line systems which demonstrate high performance while simultaneously consuming low power. The main focus of this work is the Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) system, which is the primary circuit of any modern wire-line transceiver. Different techniques starting from circuit-level to system-level have been investigated in this work to improve the performance of multi-gigabit CDRs. A 62 GHz bandwidth amplifier has been presented to address the need for a scalable amplifier for CDR needs. A new technique has been proposed to improve the radiation immunity of latches, to reduce the BER in CDRs occurring due to package radiations. An injection-lock based clock recovery method was investigated as an alternative to PLL based CDRs as they can be used for burst-mode wire-line communication. The investigation yielded the vulnerability of the method to jitter (false-locking and high jitter transfer), the attenuation of which is critical to commercial CDRs. A novel false-lock detector system has been proposed and demonstrated for the first time as a robust solution to the issue of false-locking of CDRs due to repetitive patterns. The implementation of the final CDR system required the use of an L-C tank VCO, the components of which are generic for all commercial CDRs. A new systematic layout technique for the VCO has been proposed and demonstrated in this work to substantially improve the layout area and the associated parasitics, approximately by 70 %. This new layout addresses a critical yet often neglected part of VCO design. Furthermore, a new concept has been proposed to optimize static dividers with respect to their power consumption and number of devices.

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Rudström, Åsa. "Co-Construction of Hybrid Spaces." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (together with KTH), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-748.

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When computational systems become increasingly mobile and ubiquitous, digital information and the use of computational systems may increasingly be immersed into the physical and social world of objects, people and practices. However, the digital, physical and social materials that make up these hybrid spaces have different characteristics and are hard to understand for users. In addition, users are themselves part in constructing and re-constructing the hybrid spaces.

The main question addressed in this thesis is whether making aspects of the digitally mediated hybrid spaces observable and accessible provides support to users. The observability may provide support for the specific task at hand or help in building an understanding for what the system does and how, an understanding that is needed to explain system output and to cope with service breakdowns. The fundament of the approach is to empower users of computational systems to actively make sense of the system themselves.

Two prototype services are described, Socifer and MobiTip. Their common denominator was to make digitally mediated parts of the hybrid spaces observable to users. Without disqualifying other kinds of information, the work focussed on digitally mediated social trails of other users.

Building on experience from the prototype work and an investigation into in seamful design, observability and awareness, I have investigated the effects of making a computational system’s social context observable to users in a way that

- is separated from the service’s main functionality in the interface, allowing it to become peripheral and non-obtrusive;

- uses simple models and little interpretation;

- to some extent opens up the service to allow for user appropriation of both service content and functionality; and

- is informative rather than proactive in order to empower the user rather than acting on the user’s behalf.

By designing systems that fulfil these criteria I claim that the user will be supported in performing the task at hand, with or without the service, and that with service use, the user will become more and more aware of the possibilities and limitations of the underlying technology. In addition, the digitally mediated hybrid spaces where physical, social and digital contexts meet constitute application domains in themselves, domains that users may enjoy exploring.

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Jensen, Deron Eugene. "System-wide Performance Analysis for Virtualization." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1789.

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With the current trend in cloud computing and virtualization, more organizations are moving their systems from a physical host to a virtual server. Although this can significantly reduce hardware, power, and administration costs, it can increase the cost of analyzing performance problems. With virtualization, there is an initial performance overhead, and as more virtual machines are added to a physical host the interference increases between various guest machines. When this interference occurs, a virtualized guest application may not perform as expected. There is little or no information to the virtual OS about the interference, and the current performance tools in the guest are unable to show this interference. We examine the interference that has been shown in previous research, and relate that to existing tools and research in root cause analysis. We show that in virtualization there are additional layers which need to be analyzed, and design a framework to determine if degradation is occurring from an external virtualization layer. Additionally, we build a virtualization test suite with Xen and PostgreSQL and run multiple tests to create I/O interference. We show that our method can distinguish between a problem caused by interference from external systems and a problem from within the virtual guest.

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Ogaili, Hamid Hawi Kadham. "Measuring the Effect of Vegetated Roofs on the Performance of Photovoltaic Panels in Combined Systems." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2299.

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Recent studies suggest that integration of photovoltaic panels with green roofs may improve the performance of both. While vegetation may provide a benefit by reducing the net radiation load on the underside of the photovoltaic (PV) panels, it may also affect convective cooling of panels, and consequently, panel efficiency. Both effects likely diminish with the height of the PV panel above the roof, although placing PV panels too close to the vegetation increases the risk of the plants growing over the edges of, and shading the PV panel. There is a gap in the literature with respect to evaluating these competing effects. The present study aims to fill this gap. Experiments were conducted over a two-month period during summer using two identical PV panels within an array of rooftop-mounted panels. These experiments were performed at two heights (18 cm and 24 cm) using three roofing types: white, black and green (vegetated). Results showed that the mean power output of the system in which the PV panel was mounted above a green roof was 1.2% and 0.8% higher than that of the PV-black roof and the PV-white roof at the 18 cm height. At the 24 cm height, the benefit of the green roof was slightly diminished with power output for the PV panel above a green roof being 1.0% and 0.7% higher than the black and white roof experiments, respectively. These power output results were consistent with measured variations in mean panel surface temperatures; the green roof systems were generally cooler by 1.5˚C to 3˚C. The panel surface mean heat transfer coefficients for the PV-green roof were generally 10 to 23% higher than for the white and black roof configurations, suggesting a mixing benefit associated with the roughness of the plant canopy. As expected, the results indicate that the best PV panel performance is obtained by locating the PV panel above a green roof. However, the relative benefits of the roof energy balance diminish with distance between the PV panel and the roof. Moreover, the results of this study showed that the mean power output of the PV panel above the white roof was 0.7% and 0.44% higher than that of the PV panel above the black roof at 18 cm and 24 cm heights, respectively. The results of the power output differences in all the experiments were statistically significant at the 95% confidence interval (P < 0.01).

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Johnson, Kevin Lee. "Prediction of operational envelope maneuverability effects on rotorcraft design." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47601.

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Military helicopter operations require precise maneuverability characteristics for performance to be determined for the entire helicopter flight envelope. Historically, these maneuverability analyses are combinatorial in nature and involve human-interaction, which hinders their integration into conceptual design. A model formulation that includes the necessary quantitative measures and captures the impact of changing requirements real-time is presented. The formulation is shown to offer a more conservative estimate of maneuverability than traditional energy-based formulations through quantitative analysis of a typical pop-up maneuver. Although the control system design is not directly integrated, two control constraint measures are deemed essential in this work: control deflection rate and trajectory divergence rate. Both of these measures are general enough to be applied to any control architecture, while at the same time enable quantitative trades that relate overall vehicle maneuverability to control system requirements. The dimensionality issues stemming from the immense maneuver space are mitigated through systematic development of a maneuver taxonomy that enables the operational envelope to be decomposed into a minimal set of fundamental maneuvers. The taxonomy approach is applied to a helicopter canonical example that requires maneuverability and design to be assessed simultaneously. The end result is a methodology that enables the impact of design choices on maneuverability to be assessed for the entire helicopter operational envelope, while enabling constraints from control system design to be assessed real-time.

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Wertlen, Ronald. "A P2P middleware design for digital access nodes in marginalised rural areas." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/254.

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This thesis addresses software design within the field of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICTD). Specifically, it makes a case for the design and development of software which is custom-made for the context of marginalised rural areas (MRAs). One of the main aims of any ICTD project is sustainability and such sustainability is particularly difficult in MRAs because of the high costs of projects located there. Most literature on ICTD projects focuses on other factors, such as management, regulations, social and community issues when discussing this issue. Technical matters are often down-played or ignored entirely. This thesis argues that MRAs exhibit unique technical characteristics and that by understanding these characteristics, one can possibly design more cost-effective software. One specific characteristic is described and addressed in this thesis – a characteristic we describe here for the first time and call a network island. Further analysis of the literature generates a picture of a distributed network of access nodes (DANs) within such network islands, which are connected by high speed networks and are able to share resources and stimulate usage of technology by offering a wide range of services. This thesis attempts to design a fitting middleware platform for such a context, which would achieve the following aims: i) allow software developers to create solutions for the context more efficiently (correctly, rapidly); ii) stimulate product managers and business owners to create innovative software products more easily (cost-effectively). A given in the context of this thesis is that the software should use free/libre open source software (FLOSS) – good arguments do also exist for the use of FLOSS. A review of useful FLOSS frameworks is undertaken and several of these are examined in an applied part of the thesis, to see how useful they may be. They form the basis for a walking skeleton implementation of the proposed middleware. The Spring framework is the basis for experiments, along with Spring-Webservices, JMX and PHP 5’s web service capabilities. This thesis builds on three years of work at the Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL), an experimental testbed in a MRA in the Mbashe district of the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Several existing products are deployed at the SLL in the fields of eCommerce, eGovernment and eLearning. Requirements specifications are engineered from a variety of sources, including interviews, mailing lists, the author’s experience as a supervisor at the SLL, and a review of the existing SLL products. Future products are also investigated, as the thesis considers current trends in ICTD. Use cases are also derived and listed. Most of the use cases are concerned with management functions of DANs that can be automated, so that operators of DANs can focus on their core business and not on technology. Using the UML Components methodology, the thesis then proceeds to design a middleware component architecture that is derived from the requirements specification. The process proceeds step-by-step, so that the reader can follow how business rules, operations and interfaces are derived from the use cases. Ultimately, the business rules, interfaces and operations are related to business logic, system interfaces and operations that are situated in specific components. The components in turn are derived from the business information model, that is derived from the business concepts that were initially used to describe the context for the requirements engineering. In this way, a logical method for software design is applied to the problem domain to methodically derive a software design for a middleware solution. The thesis tests the design by considering possible weaknesses in the design. The network aspect is tested by interpolating from formal assumptions about the nature of the context. The data access layer is also identified as a possible bottleneck. We suggest the use of fast indexing methods instead of relational databases to maintain flexibility and efficiency of the data layer. Lessons learned from the exercise are discussed, within the context of the author’s experience in software development teams, as well as in ICTD projects. This synthesis of information leads to warnings about the psychology of middleware development. We note that the ICTD domain is a particularly difficult one with regards to software development as business requirements are not usually clearly formulated and developers do not have the requisite domain knowledge. In conclusion, the core arguments of the thesis are recounted in a bullet form, to lay bare the reasoning behind this work. Novel aspects of the work are also highlighted. They include the description of a network island, and aspects of the DAN middleware requirements engineering and design. Future steps for work based on this thesis are mapped out and open problems relating to this research are touched upon.

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Altunbasak, Hayriye Celebi. "Layer 2 security inter-layering in networks." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11172006-130414/.

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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.

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Merugu, Shashidhar. "Network Design and Routing in Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7219.

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Peer-to-peer networks and mobile ad hoc networks are emerging distributed networks that share several similarities. Fundamental among these similarities is the decentralized role of each participating node to route messages on behalf of other nodes, and thereby, collectively realizing communication between any pair of nodes. Messages are routed on a topology graph that is determined by the peer relationship between nodes. Although routing is fairly straightforward when the topology graph is static, dynamic variations in the peer relationship that often occur in peer-to-peer and mobile ad hoc networks present challenges to routing. In this thesis, we examine the interplay between routing messages and network topology design in two classes of these networks -- unstructured peer-to-peer networks and sparsely-connected mobile ad hoc networks. In unstructured peer-to-peer networks, we add structure to overlay topologies to support file sharing. Specifically, we investigate the advantages of designing overlay topologies with small-world properties to improve (a) search protocol performance and (b) network utilization. We show, using simulation, that "small-world-like" overlay topologies where every node has many close neighbors and few random neighbors exhibit high chances of locating files close to the source of file search query. This improvement in search protocol performance is achieved while decreasing the traffic load on the links in the underlying network. In the context of sparsely-connected mobile ad hoc networks where nodes provide connectivity via mobility, we present a protocol for routing in space and time where the message forwarding decision involves not only where to forward (space), but also when to forward (time). We introduce space-time routing tables and develop methods to compute these routing tables for those instances of ad hoc networks where node mobility is predictable over either a finite horizon or indefinitely due to periodicity in node motion. Furthermore, when the node mobility is unpredictable, we investigate several forwarding heuristics to address the scarcity in transmission opportunities in these sparsely-connected ad hoc networks. In particular, we present the advantages of fragmenting messages and augmenting them with erasure codes to improve the end-to-end message delivery performance.

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Benavides, John A. (John Anthony). "Improving Digital Circuit Simulation: A Knowledge-Based Approach." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500480/.

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This project focuses on a prototype system architecture which integrates features of an event-driven gate-level simulator and features of the multiple expert system architecture, HEARSAY-II. Combining artificial intelligence and simulation techniques, a knowledge-based simulator was designed and constructed to model non-standard circuit behavior. This non-standard circuit behavior is amplified by advances in integrated circuit technology. Currently available digital circuit simulators can not simulate this behavior. Circuit designer expertise on behavioral phenomena is used in the expert system to guide the base simulator by manipulating its events to achieve the desired behavior.

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Mokbel, Hala. "Assessing the parametric building model capabilities in minimizing change orders." Link to electronic thesis, 2003. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-0203103-134504.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Keywords: Change orders; Change orders due to errors & omissions; 3D parametric building modeling; CAD systems; Project design coordination; Design documents. Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-102).

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Yee, Danny. "Channel coding for the relay channel." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20556.

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Smith, Brian Matthew 1975. "Capacities of erasure networks." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/17859.

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We have investigated, in various multiple senses, the “capacity” of several models of erasure networks. The defining characteristic of a memoryless erasure network is that each channel between any two nodes is an independent erasure channel. The models that we explore differ in the absence or presence of interference at either the transmitters, the receivers, or both; and in the availability of feedback at the transmitters. The crux of this work involves the investigation and analysis of several different performance measures for these networks: traditional information capacity (including multicast capacity and feeback capacity), secrecy capacity, and transport capacity.
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彭先覺. "Minimax equalizer design for data transmission systems." Thesis, 1992. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27618456817581962271.

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HSU, CHIN-CHIA, and 許晉嘉. "Software Design for Linux-based Data Transmission Systems." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94470564556995450614.

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Abstract This thesis is related to the design of Linux-based data transmission systems for different input/output interfaces, and also applied to the software design for both PCI-based and USB-based video image capturing systems. This software system consists of two major parts. The first part is related to Linux GTK+ application program which uses SDL(Simple DirectMedia Layer)function calls to complete the Windows video image show. The second part is related to the design of Linux PCI and USB device drivers which communicate with the hardware module. Finally, the software design method studied in this thesis is compared to that used in designing data transmission systems which are based on Microsoft Windows 2000.

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Chen, Shin-Hung, and 陳信宏. "Design of Low Data Transmission Rate Controllers for Networked Control Systems." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22723770380094393435.

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國立臺灣海洋大學
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In this thesis, for networked control systems with periodically sensed, we consider the data transmission rate reducing problem. Firstly, for a L2-gain rendering controller, we derive a deadband transmission condition for sensor nodes. The system will hold internal stability and L2-gain specification if the sensor transmits measured data under the condition. In this case the transmission rate will be significantly reduced since not every measured data should be transmitted. Secondly, when a data transmission fails, we calculate the re-transmission interval. The stability and L2-gain specification are still held if one successful transmission occurs. Finally, a deadband transmission condition for guaranteeing robust internal stability and robust L2-gain specification is derived if there are some uncertainties in the considered systems. Several examples are provided for illustration.

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Liu, Hongbo. "Cross-layer design for reliable and efficient data transmission over multiple antenna mobile infostation networks." 2008. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.17151.

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