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Cleveland State University

Theses/Dissertations

2009

Wireless communication systems

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Experimental Study Of Multirate Margin In Software Defined Multirate Radio, Tianning Shen Jan 2009

Experimental Study Of Multirate Margin In Software Defined Multirate Radio, Tianning Shen

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Due to the recent development of spectrally-efficient modulation schemes, IEEE 802.11 Wifi and IEEE 802.16 WiMax radios support wireless communication at multiple bit rates. While high-rate transmission allows delivering more information in less time, the corresponding performance improvement is less than expected due to the PHY- and MAC-layer overheads, imposed by the 802.11/16 standards. This is particularly true in wireless ad hoc networks as there exist rate-distance and rate-hop count tradeoffs. The concept of multi-rate margin is proposed in this thesis, which exploits the difference in communication characteristics at different rates and serves as the fundamental ingredient for an opportunistic …


Multihop Transmission Opportunistic Protocol On Software Radio, Sachin C. Hirve Jan 2009

Multihop Transmission Opportunistic Protocol On Software Radio, Sachin C. Hirve

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The need of high speed communication motivates us to use high bit rate communication to transmit more information in as little time as possible. However, MAC layer protocol overheads dominate the transmission capability particularly at high rates and hinder high speed transmission. Opportunistic transmission has been proposed to help to overcome this disadvantage by transmitting packets back-to-back without inter-packet delays. Though this approach alleviates the problem in single-hop wireless LAN scenario, it doesn't help in multi-hop networks. This thesis presents an approach for multi-hop wireless networks, which is named as Multi-hop Transmission OPportunity (MTOP). It achieves better performance by ensuring …


Tracking In Wireless Sensor Network Using Blind Source Separation Algorithms, Anil Babu Vikram Jan 2009

Tracking In Wireless Sensor Network Using Blind Source Separation Algorithms, Anil Babu Vikram

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This thesis describes an approach to track multiple targets using wireless sensor networks. In most of previously proposed approaches, tracking algorithms have access to the signal from individual target for tracking by assuming (a) there is only one target in a field, (b) signals from different targets can be differentiated, or (c) interference caused by signals from other targets is negligible because of attenuation. We propose a general tracking approach based on blind source separation, a statistical signal processing technique widely used to recover individual signals from mixtures of signals. By applying blind source separation algorithms to mixture signals collected …