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Digital Communications and Networking

Theses/Dissertations

2002

Broadband communication systems

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Analysis Of Ultra Wide Band (Uwb) Technology For An Indoor Geolocation And Physiological Monitoring System, Cengiz Alabacak Mar 2002

Analysis Of Ultra Wide Band (Uwb) Technology For An Indoor Geolocation And Physiological Monitoring System, Cengiz Alabacak

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this research is to analyze the utility of UWB for indoor geolocation and to evaluate a prototype system, which will send information detailing a person’s position and physiological status to a command center. In a real world environment, geolocation and physiological status information needs to be sent to a command and control center that may be located several miles away from the operational environment. This research analyzes and characterizes the UWB signal in the various operational environments associated with indoor geolocation. Additionally, "typical usage scenarios" for the interaction between UWB and other devices are also tested and …


Performance Analysis Of A Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm In A Circuit-Switched Communications Network, Timothy M. Schwamb Mar 2002

Performance Analysis Of A Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm In A Circuit-Switched Communications Network, Timothy M. Schwamb

Theses and Dissertations

Military communications networks typically employ a gateway multiplexer to aggregate all communications traffic onto a single link. These multiplexers typically use a static bandwidth allocation method via time-division multiplexing (TDM). Inefficiencies occur when a high-bandwidth circuit, e.g., a video teleconferencing circuit, is relatively inactive rendering a considerable portion of the aggregate bandwidth wasted while inactive. Dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) reclaims unused bandwidth from circuits with low utilization and reallocates it to circuits with higher utilization without adversely affecting queuing delay. The proposed DBA algorithm developed here measures instantaneous utilization by counting frames arriving during the transmission time of a single …