Tesis sobre el tema "Uplift Rates"

Active continental margins are affected by complex feedbacks between tectonic, climate and surface processes, the intricate relations of which are still a matter of discussion. The Chilean convergent margin, forming the outstanding Andean subduction orogen, constitutes an ideal natural laboratory for the investigation of climate, tectonics and their interactions. In order to study both processes, I examined marine and lacustrine sediments from different depositional environments on- and offshore the south-central Chilean coast (38-40°S). I combined sedimentological, geochemical and isotopical analyses to identify climatic and tectonic signals within the sedimentary records. The investigation of marine trench sediments (ODP Site 1232, SONNE core 50SL) focused on frequency changes of turbiditic event layers since the late Pleistocene. In the active margin setting of south-central Chile, these layers were considered to reflect periodically occurring earthquakes and to constitute an archive of the regional paleoseismicity. The new results indicate glacial-interglacial changes in turbidite frequencies during the last 140 kyr, with short recurrence times (~200 years) during glacial and long recurrence times (~1000 years) during interglacial periods. Hence, the generation of turbidites appears to be strongly influenced by climate and sea level changes, which control on the amount of sediment delivered to the shelf edge and therewith the stability of the continental slope: more stable slope conditions during interglacial periods entail lower turbidite frequencies than in glacial periods. Since glacial turbidite recurrence times are congruent with earthquake recurrence times derived from the historical record and other paleoseismic archives of the region, I concluded that only during cold stages the sediment availability and slope instability enabled the complete series of large earthquakes to be recorded. The sediment transport to the shelf region is not only driven by climate conditions but also influenced by local forearc tectonics. Accelerating uplift rates along major tectonic structures involved drainage anomalies and river flow inversions, which seriously altered the sediment supply to the Pacific Ocean. Two examples for the tectonic hindrance of fluvial systems are the coastal lakes Lago Lanalhue and Lago Lleu Lleu. Both lakes developed within former river valleys, which once discharged towards the Pacific and were dammed by tectonically uplifted sills at ~8000 yr BP. Analyses of sediment cores from the lakes showed similar successions of marine/brackish deposits at the bottom, covered by lacustrine sediments on top. Dating of the transitions between these different units and the comparison with global sea level curves allowed me to calculate local Holocene uplift rates, which are distinctly higher for the upraised sills (Lanalhue: 8.83 ± 2.7 mm/yr, Lleu Lleu: 11.36 ± 1.77 mm/yr) than for the lake basins (Lanalhue: 0.42 ± 0.71 mm/yr, Lleu Lleu: 0.49 ± 0.44 mm/yr). I hence considered the sills to be the surface expression of a blind thrust associated with a prominent inverse fault that is controlling regional uplift and folding. After the final separation of Lago Lanalhue and Lago Lleu Lleu from the Pacific, a constant deposition of lacustrine sediments preserved continuous records of local environmental changes. Sequences from both lakes indicate a long-term climate trend with a significant shift from more arid conditions during the Mid-Holocene (8000 – 4200 cal yr BP) to more humid conditions during the Late Holocene (4200 cal yr BP – present). This trend is consistent with other regional paleoclimatic data and interpreted to reflect changes in the strength/position of the Southern Westerly Winds. Since ~5000 years, sediments of Lago Lleu Lleu are marked by numerous intercalated detrital layers that recur with a mean frequency of ~210 years. Deposition of these layers may be triggered by local tectonics (i.e. earthquakes), but may also originate from changes in the local climate (e.g. onset of modern ENSO conditions). During the last 2000 years, pronounced variations in the terrigenous sediment supply to both lakes suggest important hydrological changes on the centennial time-scale as well. A lower input of terrigenous matter points to less humid phases between 200 cal yr B.C. - 150 cal yr A.D., 900 - 1350 cal yr A.D. and 1850 cal yr A.D. to present (broadly corresponding to the Roman, Medieval, and Modern Warm Periods). More humid periods persisted from 150 - 900 cal yr A.D. and 1350 - 1850 cal yr A.D. (broadly corresponding to the Dark Ages and the Little Ice Age). In conclusion, the combined investigation of marine and lacustrine sediments is a feasible method for the reconstruction of climatic and tectonic processes on different time scales. My approach allows exploring both climate and tectonics in one and the same archive, and is largely transferable to other active margins worldwide.
An aktiven Kontinentalrändern wirken komplexe Rückkopplungen zwischen Tektonik, Klima- und Oberflächenprozessen, deren Zusammenhänge bisher nur in Grundzügen verstanden und Gegenstand aktueller Forschung sind. Der chilenische Kontinentalrand – mit den Anden als größtem Subduktionsorogen der Erde – bietet ein natürliches Labor zur Erforschung von Klima und Tektonik sowie deren Wechselbeziehungen. Um beide Prozesse genauer zu verifizieren, habe ich marine und lakustrine Sedimente entlang der südlichen Küste Zentralchiles (38-40°S) untersucht und die enthaltenen klimatischen und tektonischen Signale mit einer Kombination aus sedimentologischen, geochemischen und Isotopen-Analysen identifiziert. Die Untersuchung der marinen Trenchsedimente (ODP-Bohrung 1232, SONNE-Kern 50SL) konzentriert sich dabei auf Änderungen in der Ablagerungsfrequenz von turbiditischen Lagen, welche in der tektonisch aktiven Region süd-zentral Chiles als Anzeiger periodisch auftretender Erdbeben und somit als Archiv lokaler Seismizität gewertet werden. Für die letzten 140 000 Jahre zeigen die Daten deutliche Schwankungen der Turbiditfrequenzen: Während in Glazialzeiten in etwa ein Ereignis alle 200 Jahre zu verzeichnen ist, treten Turbidite in den Interglazialzeiten nur etwa alle 1000 Jahre auf. Die Häufigkeit der Turbidite scheint demnach nicht nur von der lokalen Seismizität, sondern auch von globalen Klima- und Meeresspiegelschwankungen abhängig zu sein. Beide bestimmen die Sedimentmenge, die den Kontinentalschelf und die Schelfkante erreicht, und damit letztendlich die Stabilität des Kontinentalhanges; so führen stabilere Hangverhältnisse in den Interglazialen zu geringeren Turbiditfrequenzen als in den Glazialen. Da die glazialen Turbidithäufigkeiten gut mit der Häufigkeit von historisch dokumentierten Erdebeben übereinstimmen, scheint in Abhängigkeit der größeren Sedimentmenge und der geringeren Hangstabilität nur in den Kaltzeiten die Gesamtzahl aller großen Erbeben durch Turbidite aufgezeichnet zu werden. Neben dem Klima bestimmt auch die lokale Forearc-Tektonik den Sedimenttransport zur Schelfregion. Erhöhte Hebung entlang tektonischer Strukturen kann zu Veränderungen im Gewässernetz führen und so die Sedimentzufuhr zum Pazifik modifizieren oder gar unterbinden. Zwei Beispiele für die tektonische Blockade von Flusssystemen entlang von Störungszonen sind die heutigen Küstenseen Lago Lanalhue und Lago Lleu Lleu. Beide Seen entwickelten sich aus ehemaligen Flusssystemen, die einst zum Pazifik hin entwässerten und vor etwa 8000 Jahren durch lokale tektonische Hebung entlang einer inversen Verwerfung aufgestaut wurden. Sedimentkernanalysen zeigen für beide Seen eine ähnliche Abfolge von zunächst marinem und darüber liegendem lakustrinen Material. Die genaue Datierung des marin-lakustrinen Übergangs und der Vergleich mit globalen Meeresspiegelkurven erlaubt die Berechnung lokaler holozäner Hebungsraten. Für die Schwellen, die beide Seen eindämmen, sind diese Raten deutlich höher (Lanalhue: 8.83 ± 2.7 mm/Jahr; Lleu Lleu: 11.36 ± 1.77 mm/Jahr) als für die Seebecken selbst (Lanalhue: 0.42 ± 0.71 mm/Jahr; Lleu Lleu: 0.49 ± 0.44 mm/Jahr). Die Schwellen scheinen deshalb Anzeiger einer bislang verdeckten Überschiebung zu sein, die Hebung und Verformung in der Region der beiden Seen beeinflusst. Seit ihrem Aufstauen werden in beiden Seen kontinuierlich lakustrine Sedimente abgelagert und so lokale/regionale Umwelt- und Klimaänderungen archiviert. Die Sedimentsequenzen zeigen einen Übergang von ariderem Klima im mittleren Holozän (8000 - 4200 Jahre vor heute) zu humideren Bedingungen im späten Holozän (seit 4200 Jahren). Dieser Trend stimmt mit anderen paläoklimatischen Daten der Umgebung überein, und wird als Zeichen einer Änderung in der Stärke bzw. Breitenlage der südhemisphärischen Westwinde interpretiert. Seit etwa 5000 Jahren sind die Sedimente des Lago Lleu Lleu durch regelmäßig auftretende detritische Lagen gekennzeichnet, die in ihrer Ursache sowohl tektonisch (z.B. durch Erdbeben) als auch klimatisch (z.B. durch Änderungen der El Niño Southern Oscillation) bedingt sein könnten. Seit etwa 2000 Jahren weisen in beiden Seen vermehrte Schwankungen im Terrigeneintrag auch auf kurzfristigere hydrologische Änderungen hin. Ein verminderter Eintrag lässt auf weniger humides Klima zwischen 200 B.C. - 150 A.D., 900 - 1350 A.D., und nach 1850 A.D. (in etwa der römischen, mittelalterlichen und gegenwärtigen Warmzeit) schließen; vermehrter Eintrag zwischen 150 - 900 A.D sowie 1350 - 1850 A.D. (in etwa den ‚Dark-Ages’ und der Kleinen Eiszeit) weist dagegen ein stärker humides Klima hin. Wie die Ergebnisse zeigen, ist die kombinierte Analyse von marinen und lakustrinen Sedimenten ein praktikabler Ansatz, um klimatische und tektonische Prozesse auf verschiedenen Zeitskalen in ein und demselben Archiv zu untersuchen. Die Methode lässt sich weitgehend auch auf andere aktive Kontinentalränder übertragen.

Controls on denudation in the eastern Bolivian Andes are evaluated by synthesis of new and existing denudation estimates from basin-morphometry, stream - powered fluvial incision, landslide mapping, sediment flux, erosion surfaces, thermochronology, foreland basin sediment volumes, and structural restorations. Centered at 17.5 °S, the northeastern Bolivian Andes exhibit high relief, a wet climate, and a narrow fold- thrust belt. In contrast, the southeastern Bolivian Andes have low relief, a semi-arid climate, and a wide fold-thrust belt. Basin -morphometry indicates a northward increase in relief and relative denudation. Stream-power along river profiles shows greater average incision rates in the north by a factor of 2 to 4. In the south, profile knickpoints with high incision rates are controlled by fold-thrust belt structures such as the surface expressions of basement megathrusts, faults, folds, and lithologic boundaries. Landslide and sediment-flux data are controlled by climate, elevation, basin morphology, and size and show a similar trend; short -term denudation-rate averages are greater in the north (1- 9 mm/yr) than the south (0.3-0.4 mm/yr). Long-term denudation-rate estimates including fission track, basin fill, erosion surfaces, and structural restorations also exhibit greater values in the north (0.2-0.8 mm/yr) compared to the south (0.04-0.3 mm/yr). Controls on long-term denudation rates include relief, orographic and global atmospheric circulation patterns of precipitation, climate change, glaciation, and fold-thrust belt geometry and kinematics. The denudation synthesis supports two conclusions: 1) denudation rates have increased towards the present 2) an along-strike disparity in denudation (greater in the north) has existed since at least the Miocene and has increased towards the present. Denudation rates and controls suggest that Bolivian mountain morphology is controlled by both its orientation at mid-latitude, and the feedbacks between uplift, kinematics, orographic effects on precipitation, glaciation, and the increased erosion that accompanies orogenesis.

The WCDMA air interface, used in the third generation mobile communication systems, is currently being evolved to improve the uplink, i.e. the radio links carrying traffic from the mobile user to the fixed network. An enhanced uplink concept is being developed to meet the expected needs from future applications like multimedia and video-streaming. This thesis studies interference management when high bit rates are introduced in the enhanced uplink. The study is performed through theoretical assessments and simulations using WCDMA system simulators.

An optimization scheme using a basic system throughput based scheduling is derived to attain a theoretical assessment of bit rate limits. The throughput optimization is achieved at the expense of user-experienced fairness. Users located on cell coverage area overlap show to be most complicated to manage.

The need for interference management is primary when the network deployment consists of small cells while coverage requirements are most essential when the cell size increases. By exploiting the benefits of directional antennas the antenna tilt can be tuned to increase performance resulting in increased bit rates, increased system throughput and increased resource efficiency. The improvements are attained without trade-offs and the different components of the study concur unanimously.

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--S.M.U., 2007.
Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 18, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: B, page: 4040. Adviser: Dinesh Rajan. Includes bibliographical references.

With the emergence and continuous growth of wireless data services, the value of wireless networks is not only defined by how many users it can support, but also by its ability to concentrate large amounts of data capacity at localized spots. Information theory provides a mathematical framework which quantifies the maximum achievable data rate over a communication channel. More importantly, information theoretic study for capacity of cellular systems suggests base station cooperation as a mean of overcoming inter-cell interference limitations. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the information theoretic capacity of the cellular uplink. In order to quantify the performance of the current and future engineering solutions, the designers need to know the rate limits that a particular multi-user cellular system can provide and how far from the limit, lays the efficiency of their design. The gap between the information theoretic limit and the performance of currently known systems will also determine if the current systems are already saturated or have a potential to provide higher rates. More specifically, the thesis focuses on extending the known formulations for the cellular uplink under BS cooperation by; 1) incorporating, modeling and investigating the various effects of the multi-user channel that correspond to a real-world communication system (e.g. path loss, multipath and shadow fading, thermal noise) to provide a fundamental limit for the capacity of the wireless cellular network, 2) evaluating the effect of various practical parameters of real-world cellular systems on capacity, such as inter site distance, number of UTs per-cell, UT distribution over the cells, UT transmit power, 3) investigating how multiple directional antennas for site sectorization may improve the networks communication rates and, 4) exploring the achieving communication rates of clustered cellular systems as a more feasible strategy to be implemented nowadays to find when clustered cooperation becomes more beneficial.

Cette recherche porte sur les interactions entre la tectonique, le climat et les processus géomorphologiques de la surface de la Terre à travers l'étude des terrasses fluviales au Venezuela et l’Albanie. Ces deux domaines ont été soumis à une surrection modérée, aux variations climatiques du Quaternaire et fournissent un large registre de terrasses fluviales. Ces contextes donnent l’opportunité d’étudier la dynamique de la formation des terrasses fluviales à l'échelle de temps 102-105 ans. Ainsi, une approche morpho-chronologique a été appliquée afin de parvenir à une meilleure compréhension de cette dynamique dans les rivières du Venezuela et de l’Albanie.Dans le système des rivières Pueblo Llano et Santo Domingo situé sur le flanc sud-est des Andes de Mérida au Venezuela, douze terrasses fluviales ont été identifiées pour les derniers 200 ka. Les mesures des concentrations du 10Be réalisées sur les dépôts fluviatiles et glaciaires ont permis d'estimer l'âge d’exposition de sept terrasses et d’un complexe de moraines frontales. Un modèle dynamique de terrasses soutenues par ces datations et des données géomorphologiques, stratigraphiques et sédimentologiques, indique que la formation de terrasses est principalement contrôlée par des variations climatiques de haute fréquence (103 à 104 ans) qui induisent un déséquilibre entre capacité de transport de l'eau et apport des sédiments. Néanmoins, le type de réponse a été très lié à l'altitude du site et l'influence des glaciers en amont. En effet, dans la partie supérieure du système, la succession des phases d'aggradation et d’incision a été synchronisée avec la succession des périodes froides-sèches et chaudes-humides, tandis que la partie inférieure du système montre une tendance opposée. Basé sur la restauration temporelle du taux d'incision de la partie inférieure du système, un taux de surrection de 1.1 mm/an au cours des dernières 70 ka a été estimé pour le flanc sud-est des Andes de Mérida. En outre, l'identification et la datation d'un complexe de moraines frontales situé à l'altitude de 2300 m au dessus du niveau de la mer met en évidence le fait que l'avancée glaciaire au cours du Dernier Maximum Glaciaire, dans d'autres domaines des Andes de Mérida, pourrait également avoir atteint des élévations inférieures à celles déjà signalés entre 2900 et 3500 m au dessus du niveau de la mer.En Albanie, les six principales rivières ont été analysées. De nouvelles données géomorphologiques et géochronologiques ont été intégrées aux données publiées afin de proposer un cadre stratigraphique et chronologique homogène à l’échelle régional pour les derniers 200 ka. Sur la base de ce cadre, l’âge de la formation de onze terrasses fluviales régionales a été établi. En Albanie, les processus de formation des terrasses ont également été principalement contrôlés par des variations climatiques de haute fréquence (103 à 104 ans). Néanmoins, les résultats montrent également que la réponse géomorphologique du système fluvial était probablement modulée par la taille des bassins versants et par les variations eustatiques. En effet, pour la période précédant le MIS 2, les terrasses de remplissage et d’abrasion ont été formées respectivement dans les grands et petits bassins versants. Pour la période après le début du MIS 2, une relation complexe entre les variations climatiques et eustatiques a favorisé le développement de terrasses d’abrasion partout en Albanie. Malgré des différences entre les réponses des rivières, la succession de phases d’aggradation ou d'abrasion latérale et de phases d'incision a été synchronisée avec la succession des périodes froides-sèches et chaudes-humides dans toutes les rivières de l'Albanie
This research addresses interactions between tectonics, climate and geomorphic processes at the surface of the Earth through the study of river terraces in Venezuela and Albania. Both areas have been exposed to moderate uplift, to Quaternary climatic variations and provide a wide record of river terraces. These contexts furnish opportunities to investigate the dynamics of terraces formation at 102-105 year time scale. Thus, a morphochronologic approach was applied in order to achieve greater understanding about this issue for the Venezuelan and Albanian rivers. In the Pueblo Llano and Santo Domingo rivers system located in the Southeastern flank of the Mérida Andes in Venezuela, twelve river terraces were identified for the last 200 ka. Analysis of 10Be concentration provides for the first time exposure ages for seven terraces and for one frontal moraine complex. A terraces model supported by these dating and geomorphologic, stratigraphic and sedimentologic data indicates that the formation of terraces was mainly controlled by high frequency (103-104 years) climatic variations through unsteady discharge of water and sediments. Nevertheless, the type of response was highly related to the altitude of the site and the influence of usptreams glaciers. As a matter of fact, in the upper reaches of the system, the succession of aggradation and incision phases were synchronized with the succession of cold-dry and warm-humid periods, while the lower reaches of the system show the opposite pattern. Based on the temporal restoration of the incision rate of the lower reaches of the system an uplift rate at 1.1 mm/a for the last 70 ka was estimated for the Southeastern flank of the MA. Additionally, the identification and dating of a frontal moraine complex located at elevation of 2300 m a.s.l. in the Pueblo Llano valley highlights the fact that the glacier advance during the Last Glacial Maximum, in other areas of the MA could have also reached lower elevation than those reported between 2900 and 3500 m a.s.l. In the Albania domain, the terrace records of the six main Albanian rivers were analyzed. New geomorphologic and geochronological data were integrated with published data in order to propose a regional homogeneous stratigraphic/chronologic framework for the last 200 ka. Based on this framework the timing of formation of eleven regional river terraces was established. In Albania, the processes of terraces formation were also mainly controlled by high frequency (103-104 years) climatic variations. Nonetheless, the results also show that the geomorphic responses of the fluvial systems were probably modulated by the size of the catchments and by eustatic variations. Indeed, for the pre-Marine Isotope Stage 2 (MIS 2) period, fill and strath terraces were formed in the large and small catchments, respectively. After the beginning of the MIS 2, a complex relation between climatic and eustatic variations only favored the development of strath terraces in large and small catchments. Despite of the differences between the rivers responses, the succession of aggradation or lateral erosion and incision phases were synchronized with the succession of cold-dry and warm-humid periods in all the rivers of Albania. Finally, the restoration of spatial and temporal variation of incision rate allowed: 1) identify the spatial variation of the mean long-term incision rate. It varies from less than 0.1 mm/a in Southern Albania to 1 mm/a in Northern Albania; 2) estimate vertical slip rates for eight active faults for the last 19 ka in Southern Albania. These vertical slip rates appear to decrease from ~2 to ~0.1 mm/a from the extensional domain in the Eastern Albania to the compressional domain in Western Albania

Les failles décrochantes se caractérisent par des géométries 3D relativement complexes, avec des changements abrupts de structures associés à une segmentation latérale. Ainsi, comprendre comment les failles décrochantes sont segmentées latéralement peut apporter des informations sur la répartition de la déformation et des contraintes le long de ces failles ou encore leur comportement sismique. Dans cette étude nous avons cherché à caractériser ces paramètres pour la faille du Levant. Dans un premier temps nous nous sommes intéressés au comportement sismique de cette faille au cours des derniers millénaires. Pour cela, nous avons réalisé une tranchée paléosismologique le long de la section sud de la faille où les données sur la sismicité historique restent limitées. Cela nous a permis de proposer un scénario de rupture pour la section entre le golfe d’Aqaba et le Mont Liban (~500 km). Le catalogue obtenu montre que la faille a connu plusieurs crises sismiques d’environ 200 ans, durant lesquelles l’ensemble de la faille rompt en cascade, séparées par des périodes de quiescence d’environ 350-400 ans, suggérant que la sismicité suit un modèle de clustering temporel. Ce catalogue nous a également permis d’estimer le déficit de glissement accumulé au cours des derniers 1600 ans. Ce déficit, est homogène pour toute la section de faille considérée, à 2 m de moyenne, ce qui pourrait suggérer l’imminence d’une crise sismique régionale, puisque que la compensation d’un tel déficit se traduirait par l’occurrence d’un séisme de Mw ~7.2 sur chaque section de faille. Dans une deuxième partie, nous avons étudié la répartition de la déformation à long terme dans une zone présentant une géométrie relativement complexe : le golfe d’Aqaba. Dans cette région, nous avons cartographié à partir de données de terrain et d’images satellites un certain nombre de structures secondaires sur les marges du golfe. Ainsi, même si la faille principale se trouve en mer, une partie de la déformation verticale est accommodée à terre. La confrontation des datations thermochronologiques et cosmogéniques réalisées le long de la côte Est du golfe montre une accélération des taux de soulèvement à partir de 5 Ma, qui est interprétée comme une conséquence de la migration du pôle d’Euler associé à la rotation de la plaque Arabique. Cette migration a favorisé un régime transtensif dans le golfe d’Aqaba, entrainant la réactivation de failles anciennes bordant la plaine côtière. Enfin, afin d’évaluer les mécanismes contrôlant la segmentation des failles décrochantes et leur évolution dans le temps, nous avons réalisé des expériences analogiques en boite à sable. Elles nous ont permis de mettre en avant (1) l’impact majeur de l’épaisseur du matériel cassant sur la longueur des segments et (2) la pérennité de la segmentation des failles décrochantes, puisque la segmentation observée sur le terrain obéit aux mêmes lois d’échelle que la segmentation observée aux stades initiaux de déformation dans les boites à sable
Strike slip faults are characterised by complex 3D geometries, with abrupt structural variations and a high degree of lateral segmentation. Hence, understanding the underlying mechanisms of lateral fault segmentation can shed light on the distribution of deformation and stress along these faults, as well as their seismic behaviour. In this study, we have tried to characterise some of these parameters for the Levant fault. We first investigated the seismic behaviour of this fault over the last few thousand years. To do this we realised a paleoseimological trench along the southern section of the fault, in a region where historical seismic data are limited. This allowed us to propose a rupture scenario for the section running from the Gulf of Aqaba to Mount Lebanon (~500km). The resulting catalogue highlights several seismic crises about 200 years long during which the whole fault ruptures in a cascade, interspaced with quiescent periods of about 350-400 years. This suggests that the seismic behaviour of the fault presents temporal clustering. Our catalogue also allowed for the estimation of the slip deficit accumulated over the last 1600 years in the considered section. This deficit is homogeneous along the fault and relatively high (2 m on average), which could suggest that a seismic crisis could happen over the entire region in a near future, as the compensation of such deficit would require the occurrence of a Mw 7.2 event on each section of the fault. After that we studied the distribution of long-term deformation in a region with a relatively complex geometry: the Gulf of Aqaba. In this region we mapped from field data and satellite images several secondary structures on the margins of the gulf. Indeed, even though the main fault is at sea, part of the vertical deformation is accommodated on land. The confrontation of thermochronological and cosmogenic datations along the eastern coast of the gulf shows an acceleration of the uplift rates. We interpret this as a consequence of the migration of the Euler pole associated with the rotation of the Arabian plaque, 5 ky ago. This migration led to an increase of the transtension in the Gulf of Aqaba, which reactivated ancient faults bordering the coastal plain. Finally, in order to quantify the mechanisms controlling the segmentation of strike slip faults and their temporal evolution, we realised sand box experiments. Our results highlight the importance of the thickness of the brittle material and its impact on the segment lengths. They also show the persistence of strike slip faults segmentation since the segmentation observed in the field obeys the same scaling laws as that observed at the early stages of deformation in sand box experiments

Cette thèse étudie le problème de planification des ressources pour les réseaux IoT longues portées basés sur les technologies NB-IoT et LoRa. Dans les deux cas, on suppose que les capteurs et les collecteurs sont distribués suivant des processus de points de Poisson spatial indépendants marqués par le caractère aléatoire du canal. Pour le NB-IoT, nous élaborons un modèle de dimensionnement statistique qui estime le nombre de ressources radio nécessaires en fonction du délai d’accès toléré, de la densité des nœuds actifs, des collecteurs et de la configuration de l’antenne. Pour le réseau LoRa, nous proposons une technique d’allocation de plusieurs sous-bandes pour atténuer le niveau élevé d’interférence induit par les nœuds qui transmettent avec le même facteur d’étalement. Pour allouer dynamiquement le facteur d’étalement et la puissance, nous présentons une approche d’apprentissage automatique avec multi-agents qui permet d’améliorer l’efficacité énergétique
In this thesis, we focus on radio resource planning issues for low power wide area networks based on NB-IoT and LoRa technologies. In both cases, the average behavior of the network is considered by assuming the sensors and the collectors are distributed according to independent random Poisson Point Process marked by the channel randomness. For the NB-IoT, we elaborate a statistical dimensioning model that estimates the number of radio resources in the network depending on the tolerated delay access, the density of active nodes, the collectors, and the antenna configuration with single and multi-user transmission. For the LoRa network, we propose a multi-sub band allocation technique to mitigate the high level of interference induced by nodes that transmit with the same spreading factor. To dynamically allocate the spreading factor and the power, we present a Q-learning multi-agent approach to improve the energy efficiency

碩士
國立臺灣大學
地質科學研究所
96
Chiayi area revealed by geodetic measurements and background seismicities, in the Southwestern Taiwan has been undergoing active intensive crustal deformation. We used the stream power erosion model of 9 rivers, easy and less time consuming, to characterize the occurrence and morphology of fluvial bedrock channels and to establish their relationships with tectonic activities. Besides, the stream-power erosion model also takes some hydrological factors such as water discharge, precipitation, and sediment export into consideration to quantify the influence of erosion process in the stream power erosion. Most of the selected rivers in our study area showed high values of concavity (0. 42 ≤ m/n ≤ 0.91), comparing to the global mean river concavity (m/n ratio 0.5), implying the high tectonic activity and high erosion rate in Chiayi area. The mean annual precipitation, water discharge and suspended sediment export concentrations (Cs) for a period of eighteen years (1984~2001) were calculated to figure out the reason for such high m/n ratio. The result showed that precipitation might be one of the important factors to result in high river concavity in the south of the study area. DEM resolution plays much less important role than sampling methods. Because both normalized steepness index (ks) and concavity index (θ) indices are related to lithologic variations, sediment flux, orographic precipitation and uplift rate, thus the normalized steepness index (ksn) is used to quantify the “real” uplift only. The result has pointed out that high uplift rate is predicted at southern part of Pachang river while low uplift rate is predicted at the northern part even though the sinuosity of all rivers are displaying the same pattern. Finally, the characteristics of river basin such as the lithology, structure, hydraulic geometry and so on are also been discussed. We conclude that the river concavity and normalized steepness index deduced from stream power erosion model not only could reflect the influence of tectonic activity and the erosion process but also associate with the drainage basin characteristics.

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國立清華大學
電機工程學系
96
This work addresses the problem of joint uplink and downlink bandwidth allocation in a WiMAX network consisting of a base station (BS) and a number of non-collaborative subscriber stations (SSs). Most of the existing bandwidth allocation mechanisms do not take into account joint rate allocation uplink and downlink streams. Besides, the selfish behaviors of SSs were seldom considered. The selfish users can affect the results of bandwidth allocation by misrepresenting their bandwidth demands to the BS, leading to unfair bandwidth allocation. The economists have studied this issue for a long time and proposed game theoretical approaches to solve this problem. The game theoretical approaches have been adopted by a few research works to solve the problems caused by the selfish users for video transport over WLANs. However, this mechanism is a negotiation process and often needs to take quite a few time to converge to a stable solution and may not completely prevent the negatively effects caused by these strategic users. To overcome these problems, we propose a Search Based Pricing Mechanism based on the game theoretical approaches to reduce the communication time and effectively mitigate the negative effect caused by strategic behavior. Our simulation results show that the proposed mechanism can reduce the communication time significantly as well as converges stably to optimal solutions in small number of iterations.

碩士
國立清華大學
通訊工程研究所
106
In uplink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) communication system, system sum rate and fairness are subject to resource allocation policy and receiver architecture. In this thesis, we study joint optimization of sum rate and fairness in uplink NOMA communication system by allocation of subbands and power to users. We also study in uplink NOMA communication with different receiver architecture. Compared to Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA), NOMA can provide number of users L in each subband which improves system sum rate, spectrum efficiency. With total resources number N X L that N represents number of total subbands, NOMA can provide massive connectivity. With larger number of users K, multi-user diversity can be exploited with proposed scheme. Users experience should be improved in 5G, there is challenge for resource allocation considered with users experience. Without proper allocation of target data rate for each user in uplink NOMA communication system, a user can always be in outage. In this work, we constrain the number of subbands Ns that each user can use, users in cell-edge would be guaranteed in resource allocation. Hence, the fairness performance improve compared to prior arts. We also apply the algorithm to improve system sum rate iteratively. We have optimized, compared and analyzed the sum rate and fairness performance with different combination of L and Ns in the uplink NOMA communication system.

Pushing wireless data traffic onto small cells is important for alleviating congestion in the over-loaded macrocellular network. However, the ultimate potential of such load balancing and its effect on overall system performance is not well understood. With the ongoing deployment of multiple classes of access points (APs) with each class differing in transmit power, employed frequency band, and backhaul capacity, the network is evolving into a complex and “organic” heterogeneous network or HetNet. Resorting to system-level simulations for design insights is increasingly prohibitive with such growing network complexity. The goal of this dissertation is to develop realistic yet tractable frameworks to model and analyze load balancing dynamics while incorporating the heterogeneous nature of these networks. First, this dissertation introduces and analyzes a class of user-AP association strategies, called stationary association, and the resulting association cells for HetNets modeled as stationary point processes. A “Feller-paradox”-like relationship is established between the area of the association cell containing the origin and that of a typical association cell. This chapter also provides a foundation for subsequent chapters, as association strategies directly dictate the load distribution across the network. Second, this dissertation proposes a baseline model to characterize downlink rate and signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) in an M-band K-tier HetNet with a general weighted path loss based association. Each class of APs is modeled as an independent Poisson point process (PPP) and may differ in deployment density, transmit power, bandwidth (resource), and path loss exponent. It is shown that the optimum fraction of traffic offloaded to maximize SINR coverage is not in general the same as the one that maximizes rate coverage. One of the main outcomes is demonstrating the aggressive of- floading required for out-of-band small cells (like WiFi) as compared to those for in-band (like picocells). To achieve aggressive load balancing, the offloaded users often have much lower downlink SINR than they would on the macrocell, particularly in co-channel small cells. This SINR degradation can be partially alleviated through interference avoidance, for example time or frequency resource partitioning, whereby the macrocell turns off in some fraction of such resources. As the third contribution, this dissertation proposes a tractable framework to analyze joint load balancing and resource partitioning in co-channel HetNets. Fourth, this dissertation investigates the impact of uplink load balancing. Power control and spatial interference correlation complicate the mathixematical analysis for the uplink as compared to the downlink. A novel generative model is proposed to characterize the uplink rate distribution as a function of the association and power control parameters, and used to show the optimal amount of channel inversion increases with the path loss variance in the network. In contrast to the downlink, minimum path loss association is shown to be optimal for uplink rate coverage. Fifth, this dissertation develops a model for characterizing rate distribution in self-backhauled millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks and thus generalizes the earlier multi-band offloading framework to the co-existence of current ultra high frequency (UHF) HetNets and mmWave networks. MmWave cellular systems will require high gain directional antennas and dense AP deployments. The analysis shows that in sharp contrast to the interferencelimited nature of UHF cellular networks, mmWave networks are usually noiselimited. As a desirable side effect, high gain antennas yield interference isolation, providing an opportunity to incorporate self-backhauling. For load balancing, the large bandwidth at mmWave makes offloading users, with reliable mmWave links, optimal for rate.
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This dissertation designs linear transceivers for the multiuser downlink in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The designs rely on an uplink/downlink duality for the mean squared error (MSE) of each individual data stream. We first consider the design of transceivers assuming channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. We consider minimization of the sum-MSE over all users subject to a sum power constraint on each transmission. Using MSE duality, we solve a computationally simpler convex problem in a virtual uplink. The transformation back to the downlink is simplified by our demonstrating the equality of the optimal power allocations in the uplink and downlink. Our second set of designs maximize the sum throughput for all users. We establish a series of relationships linking MSE to the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios of individual data streams and the information theoretic channel capacity under linear minimum MSE decoding. We show that minimizing the product of MSE matrix determinants is equivalent to sum-rate maximization, but we demonstrate that this problem does not admit a computationally efficient solution. We simplify the problem by minimizing the product of mean squared errors (PMSE) and propose an iterative algorithm based on alternating optimization with near-optimal performance. The remainder of the thesis considers the more practical case of imperfections in CSI. First, we consider the impact of delay and limited-rate feedback. We propose a system which employs Kalman prediction to mitigate delay; feedback rate is limited by employing adaptive delta modulation. Next, we consider the robust design of the sum-MSE and PMSE minimizing precoders with delay-free but imperfect estimates of the CSI. We extend the MSE duality to the case of imperfect CSI, and consider a new optimization problem which jointly optimizes the energy allocations for training and data stages along with the sum-MSE/PMSE minimizing transceivers. We prove the separability of these two problems when all users have equal estimation error variances, and propose several techniques to address the more challenging case of unequal estimation errors.