Full-duplex wireless-over-fibre transmission incorporating a CWDM ring architecture with remote millimetre-wave LO delivery using a bi-directional SOA

We demonstrate the first full-duplex wireless-over-fibre transmission between a central station and a CWDM ring architecture with remote 40 GHz LO delivery using a bi-directional semiconductor optical amplifier. © 2005 Optical Society of America.

The cross layer RMPA handover: a reliable mobility pattern aware handover strategy for broadband wireless communication in a high-speed railway domain

Enhancing the handover process in broadband wireless communication deployment has traditionally motivated many research initiatives. In a high-speed railway domain, the challenge is even greater. Owing to the long distances covered, the mobile node gets involved in a compulsory sequence of handover processes. Consequently, poor performance during the execution of these handover processes significantly degrades the global end-to-end performance. This article proposes a new handover strategy for the railway domain: the RMPA handover, a Reliable Mobility Pattern Aware IEEE 802.16 handover strategy "customized" for a high-speed mobility scenario. The stringent high mobility feature is balanced with three other positive features in a high-speed context: mobility pattern awareness, different sources for location discovery techniques, and a previously known traffic data profile. To the best of the authors' knowledge, there is no IEEE 802.16 handover scheme that simultaneously covers the optimization of the handover process itself and the efficient timing of the handover process. Our strategy covers both areas of research while providing a cost-effective and standards-based solution. To schedule the handover process efficiently, the RMPA strategy makes use of a context aware handover policy; that is, a handover policy based on the mobile node mobility pattern, the time required to perform the handover, the neighboring network conditions, the data traffic profile, the received power signal, and current location and speed information of the train. Our proposal merges all these variables in a cross layer interaction in the handover policy engine. It also enhances the handover process itself by establishing the values for the set of handover configuration parameters and mechanisms of the handover process. RMPA is a cost-effective strategy because compatibility with standards-based equipment is guaranteed. The major contributions of the RMPA handover are in areas that have been left open to the handover designer's discretion. Our simulation analysis validates the RMPA handover decision rules and design choices. Our results supporting a high-demand video application in the uplink stream show a significant improvement in the end-to-end quality of service parameters, including end-to-end delay (22%) and jitter (80%), when compared with a policy based on signal-to-noise-ratio information.

Wireless parylene-based retinal implant

The degeneration of the outer retina usually causes blindness by affecting the photoreceptor cells. However, the ganglion cells, which consist of optic nerves, on the middle and inner retina layers are often intact. The retinal implant, which can partially restore vision by electrical stimulation, soon becomes a focus for research. Although many groups worldwide have spent a lot of effort on building devices for retinal implant, current state-of-the-art technologies still lack a reliable packaging scheme for devices with desirable high-density multi-channel features. Wireless flexible retinal implants have always been the ultimate goal for retinal prosthesis. In this dissertation, the reliable packaging scheme for a wireless flexible parylene-based retinal implants has been well developed. It can not only provide stable electrical and mechanical connections to the high-density multi-channel (1000+ channels on 5 mm × 5 mm chip area) IC chips, but also survive for more than 10 years in the human body with corrosive fluids.

The device is based on a parylene-metal-parylene sandwich structure. In which, the adhesion between the parylene layers and the metals embedded in the parylene layers have been studied. Integration technology for high-density multi-channel IC chips has also been addressed and tested with dummy and real 268-channel and 1024-channel retinal IC chips. In addition, different protection schemes have been tried in application to IC chips and discrete components to gain the longest lifetime. The effectiveness has been confirmed by the accelerated and active lifetime soaking test in saline solution. Surgical mockups have also been designed and successfully implanted inside dog's and pig's eyes. Additionally, the electrodes used to stimulate the ganglion cells have been modified to lower the interface impedance and shaped to better fit the retina. Finally, all the developed technologies have been applied on the final device with a dual-metal-layer structure.

Estudio y análisis de metodologías para la medida de la calidad de servicio (QoS) en internet para su implementación en la plataforma QoSMeter

[ES]En este documento se presenta un estudio sobre distintas metodologías para la medición de varios parámetros de calidad de servicio (QoS). El estudio se realiza de cara a una futura implementación de dichas metodologías en la plataforma QoSMeter del grupo NQaS, y a una posible contribución para la estandarización a nivel internacional de las mismas. El documento también recoge un análisis de la última contribución presentada en este campo por parte de la administración de la Federación Rusa, así como una contribución de la Universidad del País Vasco[6], como resultado en parte del estudio que se presenta, en el que se proponen mejoras a la contribución antes mencionada.

Diseño e implementación de una herramienta para la integración de datos de QoS en Internet publicados por el regulador español

[ES]Este proyecto tiene como objetivo el diseño e implementación de una herramienta para la integración de los datos de calidad de servicio (QoS) en Internet publicados por el regulador español. Se trata de una herramienta que pretende, por una parte, unificar los diferentes formatos en que se publican los datos de QoS y, por otra, facilitar la conservación de los datos favoreciendo la obtención de históricos, datos estadísticos e informes. En la página del regulador sólo se puede acceder a los datos de los 5 últimos trimestres y los datos anteriormente publicados no permanecen accesibles si no que son sustituidos por los más recientes por lo que, desde el punto de vista del usuario final, estos datos se pierden. La herramienta propuesta en este trabajo soluciona este problema además de unificar formatos y facilitar el acceso a los datos de interés. Para el diseño del sistema se han usado las últimas tecnologías en desarrollo de aplicaciones web con lo que la potencia y posibilidad de futuras ampliaciones son elevadas.