Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Multichannel communication systems'

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-111).
System architecture design, evaluation, and optimization are key issues to developing communication systems that meet the requirements of today and expectations of the future. In this thesis, we introduce the concept of multiple access communication and the need to use efficient transmission techniques to expand both present and future wireless communication networks. We will study two areas regarding multiple access on multichannel communication systems. First, we describe fundamental multiplexing techniques that we can build upon and investigate the performance of different candidate architectures for the transmission of messages from bursty sources on multiple channels. We will consider traditional protocols such as Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and Slotted ALOHA (S-ALOHA) alongside a channelized architecture, which is based on the idea of multiplexing by dividing total transmission capacity into a fixed number of frequency channels. We develop mathematical models that describe the overall delay for sending large messages of a fixed length arriving from bursty sources and analyze their performances. We will make real-world parameter assumptions in the context of wireless networks and analyze the performance to develop intuition about the effectiveness of the different architectures. Second, we will investigate channel capacity allocation among mixed traffic, i.e., multiple classes of users. We will consider a first-come first-serve (FCFS) access strategy, a non-preemptive priority scheme, a preemptive resume priority scheme, and several channel capacity allocation schemes. We develop models that describe the overall delay for sending messages and analyze their performance. Our focus will concentrate on two classes of users. This scenario is typical of classes of users with small and large messages to transmit. present quantitative results by making real-world parameter assumptions in the context of wireless networks and analyze the performance to develop intuition about the effectiveness of each architecture.
by Serena Chan.
M.Eng.

This research is an investigation into utilising randomised sampling in communication systems to ease the sampling rate requirements of digitally processing narrowband signals residing within a wide range of overseen frequencies. By harnessing the aliasing suppression capabilities of such sampling schemes, it is shown that certain processing tasks, namely spectrum sensing, can be performed at significantly low sampling rates compared to those demanded by uniform-sampling-based digital signal processing. The latter imposes sampling frequencies of at least twice the monitored bandwidth regardless of the spectral activity within. Aliasing can otherwise result in irresolvable processing problems, as the spectral support of the present signal is a priori unknown. Lower sampling rates exploit the processing module(s) resources (such as power) more efficiently and avoid the possible need for premium specialised high-cost DSP, especially if the handled bandwidth is considerably wide. A number of randomised sampling schemes are examined and appropriate spectral analysis tools are used to furnish their salient features. The adopted periodogram-type estimators are tailored to each of the schemes and their statistical characteristics are assessed for stationary, and cyclostationary signals. Their ability to alleviate the bandwidth limitation of uniform sampling is demonstrated and the smeared-aliasing defect that accompanies randomised sampling is also quantified. In employing the aforementioned analysis tools a novel wideband spectrum sensing approach is introduced. It permits the simultaneous sensing of a number of nonoverlapping spectral subbands constituting a wide range of monitored frequencies. The operational sampling rates of the sensing procedure are not limited or dictated by the overseen bandwidth antithetical to uniform-sampling-based techniques. Prescriptive guidelines are developed to ensure that the proposed technique satisfies certain detection probabilities predefined by the user. These recommendations address the trade-off between the required sampling rate and the length of the signal observation window (sensing time) in a given scenario. Various aspects of the introduced multiband spectrum sensing approach are investigated and its applicability highlighted.

Globally, the ever increasing consumer interest in multichannel audio is a major factor driving the research intent in soundfield reconstruction and compression. The popularity of the well commercialized 5.1 surround sound system and its 6-Channel audio has been strongly supported by the advent of powerful storage medium, DVD, as well as the use of efficient telecommunication techniques. However, this popularity has also revealed potential problems in the development of soundfield systems. Firstly, currently available soundfield systems have rather poor compatibility with irregular speaker arrangements. Secondly, bandwidth requirement is dramatically increased for multichannel audio representation with good temporal and spatial fidelity. This master???s thesis addresses these two major issues in soundfield systems. It introduces a new approach to analyze and sysnthesize soundfield, and compares this approach with currently popular systems. To facilitate this comparison, the behavior of soundfield has been reviewed from both physical and psychoacoustic perspectives, along with an extensive study of past and present soundfield systems and multichannel audio compression algorithms. The 1th order High Spatial Resolution (HSR) soundfield recording and reproduction has been implemented in this project, and subjectively evaluated using a series of MUSHRA tests to finalize the comparison.

In this work, we consider the channel assignment problem in single radio multi-channel mobile ad-hoc networks. Specifically, we investigate the granularity of channel assignment decisions that gives the best trade-off in terms of performance and complexity. We present a new granularity for channel assignment that we refer to as component level channel assignment. The strategy is relatively simple, and is characterized by several impressive practical advantages. We also show that the theoretical performance of the component based channel assignment strategy does not lag significantly behind the optimal possible performance, and perhaps more importantly we show that when coupled with its several practical advantages, it significantly outperforms other strategies under most network conditions.

Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is considered to be a viable technology for inter- vehicle communications for the purpose of improving road safety and efficiency. The En- hanced Distribution Channel Access (EDCA) mechanism and multichannel operations are introduced to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS). Therefore, it is necessary to create an accurate vehicular network simulator that guarantees the vehicular communications will work as described in the protocols. A comprehensive vehicular network simulator should consider the interaction between mobility models and network protocols. In this dissertation, a novel vehicular network simulation environment, VANET Toolbox, designed using discrete-event system (DES) is presented. The APP layer DES Module of the proposed simulator integrates vehicular mo- bility operations with message generation functions. The MAC layer DES module supports single channel and multichannel EDCA operations. The PHY layer DES module supports bit-level processing. Compared with packet-based simulator such as NS-3, the proposed PHY layer is more realistic and accurate. The EDCA scheme is evaluated and compared with the traditional Carrier-Sensing Mul- tiple Access (CSMA) scheme, with the simulations proving that data with different priorities can coexist in the same channel. The multichannel operation for the EDCA scheme is also analyzed in this dissertation. The multichannel switching operation and coordination may cause packet dropping or increased latency to the communication. The simulations show that with heavy network traffic, multichannel communication performs better than single channel communication. From the perspective of safety-related messages, the multichannel operation is able to isolate the interference from the non-safety messages in order to achieve a better packet delivery rate and latency. On the other hand, the non-safety messages can achieve high throughput with reasonable latency from multichannel communication under heavy load traffic scenario.

Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The increase in the complexity and functionality of new satellites leads to a growing demand for a digital communication system operating at a much higher bit rate than before. The main purpose of this thesis is to address precisely this problem. The theory as well as a practical high speed system are custom-developed. The goal of this thesis is not to reinvent the wheel, but to use off-the-shelf products as far as possible. This system demonstrates that a very high data rate is not out of reach for a developer with limited funds. The secondary goal is to understand the operation of this communication system. The emphasis is on the inaccuracies in the system. A design tool is created to act as a vehicle for understanding the influence of a single variable on the performance of the entire system.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die toename in die kompleksiteit en funksionaliteit van nuwe satelliete lei tot die groeiende behoefte aan 'n digitale kommunikasiestelsel wat teen "n heelwat hoër bis spoed funksioneer. Die hoofdoel van hierdie tesis is om juis hierdie probleem aan te spreek. Die teorie en 'n praktiese hoëspoed stelsel is ontwikkel. Die doel van die tesis is nie om die wiel te herontdek nie maar om sover moontlik bestaande produkte in die ontwerp van die stelsel te gebruik. Die stelsel demonstreer dat 'n hoëspoed datatempo nie buite die bereik van 'n ontwikkelaar met beperkte fondse is nie. 'n Verdere doelwit is om die funksionering van die kommunikasie stelsel te begryp. Klem is gelê op die onakkuraathede in die kommunikasiestelsel. Ontwikkeling sagteware is geskep as "n metode om die invloed van "n enkele veranderlike op die werkverrigting van die stelsel as geheel te begryp.

When designing architectures and protocols for data traffic requiring real-time services, one of the major design goals is to guarantee that traffic deadlines can be met. However, many real-time applications also have additional requirements such as high throughput, high reliability, or energy efficiency. High-performance embedded systems communicating heterogeneous traffic with high bandwidth and strict timing requirements are in need of more efficient communication solutions, while wireless industrial applications, communicating control data, require support of reliability and guarantees of real-time predictability at the same time. To meet the requirements of high-performance embedded systems, this thesis work proposes two multi-wavelength high-speed passive optical networks. To enable reliable wireless industrial communications, a framework in­corporating carefully scheduled retransmissions is developed. All solutions are based on a single-hop star topology, predictable Medium Access Control algorithms and Earliest Deadline First scheduling, centrally controlled by a master node. Further, real-time schedulability analysis is used as admission control policy to provide delay guarantees for hard real-time traffic. For high-performance embedded systems an optical star network with an Arrayed Waveguide Grating placed in the centre is suggested. The design combines spatial wavelength re­use with fixed-tuned and tuneable transceivers in the end nodes, enabling simultaneous transmis­sion of both control and data traffic. This, in turn, permits efficient support of heterogeneous traf­fic with both hard and soft real-time constraints. By analyzing traffic dependencies in this mul­tichannel network, and adapting the real-time schedulability analysis to incorporate these traffic dependencies, a considerable increase of the possible guaranteed throughput for hard real-time traffic can be obtained. Most industrial applications require using existing standards such as IEEE 802.11 or IEEE 802.15.4 for interoperability and cost efficiency. However, these standards do not provide predict­able channel access, and thus real-time guarantees cannot be given. A framework is therefore de­veloped, combining transport layer retransmissions with real-time analysis admission control, which has been adapted to consider retransmissions. It can be placed on top of many underlying communication technologies, exemplified in our work by the two aforementioned wireless stan­dards. To enable a higher data rate than pure IEEE 802.15.4, but still maintaining its energy saving properties, two multichannel network architectures based on IEEE 802.15.4 and encompassing the framework are designed. The proposed architectures are evaluated in terms of reliability, utiliza­tion, delay, complexity, scalability and energy efficiency and it is concluded that performance is enhanced through redundancy in the time and frequency domains.

The presence of acoustic noise in audio recordings is an ongoing issue that plagues many applications. This ambient background noise is difficult to reduce due to its unpredictable nature. Many single channel noise reduction techniques exist but are limited in that they may distort the desired speech signal due to overlapping spectral content of the speech and noise. It is therefore of interest to investigate the use of multichannel noise reduction algorithms to further attenuate noise while attempting to preserve the speech signal of interest. Specifically, this thesis looks to investigate the use of microphone arrays in conjunction with multichannel noise reduction algorithms to aid aiding in speaker identification. Recording a speaker in the presence of acoustic background noise ultimately limits the performance and confidence of speaker identification algorithms. In situations where it is impossible to control the noise environment where the speech sample is taken, noise reduction algorithms must be developed and applied to clean the speech signal in order to give speaker identification software a chance at a positive identification. Due to the limitations of single channel techniques, it is of interest to see if spatial information provided by microphone arrays can be exploited to aid in speaker identification. This thesis provides an exploration of several time domain multichannel noise reduction techniques including delay sum beamforming, multi-channel Wiener filtering, and Spatial-Temporal Prediction filtering. Each algorithm is prototyped and filter performance is evaluated using various simulations and experiments. A three-dimensional noise model is developed to simulate and compare the performance of the above methods and experimental results of three data collections are presented and analyzed. The algorithms are compared and recommendations are given for the use of each technique. Finally, ideas for future work are discussed to improve performance and implementation of these multichannel algorithms. Possible applications for this technology include audio surveillance, identity verification, video chatting, conference calling and sound source localization.

Les réseaux de capteurs acoustiques sous-marins (UW-ASN) sont les plus nouveaux achèvements technologiques en termes de communication. Les UW-ASN visent à observer et à explorer les lacs, les rivières, les mers et les océans. Récemment, ils ont été soumis à une attention particulière en raison de leur grand potentiel en termes d'applications prometteuses dans divers domaines (militaires, environnementaux, scientifiques ...) et aux nouvelles questions scientifiques qu'ils suscitent. Un problème majeur dans les UW-ASN est l'épuisement rapide de l'énergie, car une grande puissance est nécessaire pour la communication acoustique, tandis que le budget de la batterie des capteurs est limité. Par conséquent, les protocoles de communication énergétiques revêtent une importance primordiale pour faire usage judiciaire du budget énergétique disponible. Dans ce contexte, cette thèse vise à étudier les principales caractéristiques des capteurs acoustiques sous-marins difficiles afin de concevoir des protocoles de communication énergétiques, plus spécifiquement au niveau routage et MAC. Tout d'abord, nous abordons le problème des trous énergétiques dans UW-ASN. Le problème du « sink-hole » se produit lorsque les capteurs les plus proches du sink épuisent leur énergie plus rapidement en raison de leur charge plus lourde. En effet, ces capteurs, en particulier ceux qui sont à un seul saut du sinkstatique, agissent comme des relais pour tous les autres capteurs, ce qui leur épuise sévèrement l’énergie.A la couche de routage,en particulier, nous proposons de distribuer la charge transmise par chaque capteur parmi plusieurs voisins potentiels, en supposant que les capteurs peuvent ajuster leur gamme de communication entre deux niveaux lorsqu'ils envoient ou transmettent des données. Plus précisément, nous déterminons pour chaque capteur l'ensemble des prochains sauts avec les poids de charge associés qui entraînent un épuisement équitable d'énergie entre tous les capteurs du réseau. Ensuite, nous étendons notre stratégie de routage équilibrée en supposant que chaque capteur n'est pas seulement capable d'ajuster sa puissance d'émission à 2 niveaux mais aussi jusqu'à n niveaux où n> 2. Par conséquent, à la couche de routage, pour chaque valeur possible de n, nous déterminons pour chaque capteur l'ensemble des éventuels sauts avec les poids de charge associés qui mènent à une consommation d'énergie équitable chez tous les capteurs du réseau. En outre, nous obtenons le nombre optimal de puissances de transmission n qui équilibre la consommation d'énergie de tous les capteurs pour chaque configuration de réseau. En plus de cela, il convient de souligner que notre protocole de routage étendu utilise un modèle de canal à variation de temps plus réaliste qui tient compte de la plupart des caractéristiques fondamentales de la propagation acoustique sous-marine. Les résultats analytiques montrent que notre protocole de routage assure une réduction importante de la consommation d’énergie. Deuxièmement, pour atténuer les impacts de collision spectaculaires gaspillant l’énergie, nous concevons un protocole MAC multicanal (MC-UWMAC) évitant les collisions pour les UW-ASNs. MC-UWMAC fonctionne avec un canal de contrôle (décomposé en créneaux de temps) et un ensemble de canaux de données à bande passante égale. Les créneaux du canal de contrôle sont dédiés à l’échange RTS / CTS permettant à une paire de capteurs communicants de s'accorder sur l'heure de début de la communication sur un canal de données pré-alloué. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons deux nouvelles procédures associées d'allocation des créneaux du canal de contrôle et d'attribution des canaux de données sans nécessiter de frais de négociation supplémentaires. En conséquence, chaque capteur peut initier l'échange RTS / CTS uniquement à son créneau assigné, calculé à l'aide d'une procédure d'allocation basée sur une partition virtuelle de grille de la zone de déploiement. (...)
UnderWaterAcoustic Sensor Networks (UW-ASNs) are the newest technological achievement in terms of communication. Composed of a set of communicating underwater sensors, UW-ASNs are intended to observe and explore lakes, rivers, seas and oceans. Recently, they have been subject to a special attention due to their great potential in terms of promising applications in various domains (military, environmental, scientific...) and to the new scientific issues they raise. A great challenging issue in UW-ASNs is the fast energy depletion since high power is needed for acoustic communication while sensors battery budget is limited. Hence, energy-efficient networking protocols are of a paramount importance to make judicious use of the available energy budget while considering the distinguishing underwater environment characteristics. In this context, this thesis aims at studying the main challenging underwater acoustic sensors characteristics to design energy-efficient communication protocols specifically at the routing and MAC layers. First, we address the problem of energy holes in UW-ASNs. The sink-hole problem occurs when the closest nodes to sink drain their energy faster due to their heavier load. Indeed, those sensors especially the ones that are 1-hop away from the static sink act as relays to it on behalf of all other sensors, thus suffering from severe energy depletion. In particular, at the routing layer, we propose to distribute the transmission load at each sensor among several potential neighbors, assuming that sensors can adjust their communication range among two levels when they send or forward data. Specifically, we determine for each sensor the set of next hops with the associated load weights that lead to a fair energy depletion among all sensors in the network. Then, we extend our balanced routing strategy by assuming that each sensor node is not only able to adjust its transmission power to 2 levels but eventually up to n levels where n > 2. Consequently, at the routing layer, for each possible value of n, we determine for each sensor the set of possible next hops with the associated load weights that lead to a fair energy consumption among all sensors in the network. Moreover, we derive the optimal number of transmission powers n that balances the energy consumption among all sensors for each network configuration. In addition to that, it is worth pointing out that our extended routing protocol uses a more realistic time varying channel model that takes into account most of the fundamental characteristics of the underwater acoustic propagation. Analytical results show that further energy saving is achieved by our extended routing scheme. Second, to mitigate the dramatic collision impacts, we design a collision avoidance energy efficient multichannel MAC protocol (MC-UWMAC) for UW-ASNs. MC-UWMAC operates on single slotted control and a set of equal-bandwidth data channels. Control channel slots are dedicated to RTS/CTS handshaking allowing a communicating node pair to agree on the start time of communication on a pre-allocated data channel. In this thesis, we propose two novel coupled slot assignment and data channels allocation procedures without requiring any extra negotiation overhead. Accordingly, each node can initiate RTS/CTS exchange only at its assigned slot calculated using a slot allocation procedure based on a grid virtual partition of the deployment area. Moreover, for each communicating pair of nodes, one data channel is allocated using a channel allocation procedure based on our newly designed concept of singleton- intersecting quorum. Accordingly, each pair of communicating nodes will have at their disposal a unique 2-hop conflict free data channel. Compared with existing MAC protocol, MC-UWMAC reduces experienced collisions and improves network throughput while minimizing energy consumption

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2009.
Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on Aug. 14, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Communications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta." Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Engineering, in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017
The continuous evolution of wireless communications technologies has increasingly imposed a burden on the use of radio spectrum. Due to the proliferation of new wireless networks applications and services, the radio spectrum is getting saturated and becoming a limited resource. To a large extent, spectrum scarcity may be a result of deficient spectrum allocation and management policies, rather than of the physical shortage of radio frequencies. The conventional static spectrum allocation has been found to be ineffective, leading to overcrowding and inefficient use. Cognitive radio (CR) has therefore emerged as an enabling technology that facilitates dynamic spectrum access (DSA), with a great potential to address the issue of spectrum scarcity and inefficient use. However, provisioning of reliable and robust communication with seamless operation in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is a challenging task. The underlying challenges include development of non-intrusive dynamic resource allocation (DRA) and optimization techniques. The main focus of this thesis is development of adaptive channel assembling (ChA) and DRA schemes, with the aim to maximize performance of secondary user (SU) nodes in CRNs, without degrading performance of primary user (PU) nodes in a primary network (PN). The key objectives are therefore four-fold. Firstly, to optimize ChA and DRA schemes in overlay CRNs. Secondly, to develop analytical models for quantifying performance of ChA schemes over fading channels in overlay CRNs. Thirdly, to extend the overlay ChA schemes into hybrid overlay and underlay architectures, subject to power control and interference mitigation; and finally, to extend the adaptive ChA and DRA schemes for multiuser multichannel access CRNs. Performance analysis and evaluation of the developed ChA and DRA is presented, mainly through extensive simulations and analytical models. Further, the cross validation has been performed between simulations and analytical results to confirm the accuracy and preciseness of the novel analytical models developed in this thesis. In general, the presented results demonstrate improved performance of SU nodes in terms of capacity, collision probability, outage probability and forced termination probability when employing the adaptive ChA and DRA in CRNs.
CK2018

The last part considered a k-receiver broadcast channel with two unmatched degraded components, and degraded message sets where receiver Ys, s ∈ {1, ··· , k} requires messages (Ms, ··· , Mk). We established the capacity region for this class of broadcast channels by showing that superposition coding is optimal. In the process of proving the achievability, we showed a general superposition coding region for any broadcast channels with degraded message requirement.
The main contributions in this thesis consist of the following three parts: The first part studied the existing inner and outer bounds to the capacity region for 3-receiver broadcast channels with 2-degraded message sets, in an attempt to find the deficiencies with the current techniques of establishing the bounds. We produced a simple example where we were able to explicitly evaluate these bounds to show that they are indeed different. For a class of channels where the bounds differ, we used a new argument to show that the inner bound is tight and outer bound is weak.
The second part considered a broadcast channel consisting of k receivers that lie in a less noisy sequence. The capacity region for this scenario had been unknown since the mid 1970s, when k ≥ 3. We solved this open problem for the case k = 3. Indeed we proved that superposition coding is optimal for a class of broadcast channels with a sequence of less noisy receivers. This class contains the k = 3 case, thus resolving its capacity region.
This thesis focused on a fundamental problem of network information theory called broadcast channel, which models the communication from a single sender to multiple receivers (say, from a cellular tower to cell phone users in its coverage area). The goal is to determine the set of achievable communication data rates where each receiver can decode the messages it requires with high fidelity. From a purely theoretical standpoint, however, this problem of characterizing the feasible rate region (capacity region) had stumped researchers for over three decades.
Wang, Zizhou.
Advisers: Shua-Yen Robert Li; Nair Chandra M.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: B, page: .
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-70).
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Abstract also in Chinese.

Peer to peer networks are becoming increasingly popular among Internet users as the downloading peers share the storage and upload bandwidth load of the system. This makes it possible for a large number of users to share a data file available at a server without the server upload bandwidth becoming a bottleneck. The P2P technology is being widely used not only for file sharing but also for video on demand, live streaming and IPTV. The delay deadlines are more stringent in live streaming and IPTV than those in file sharing as the traffic is real time. The performance perceived by a user depends upon whether the video stream is being downloaded at the streaming rate. Coolstreaming is the first large scale P2P IPTV system. We model the multi-channel Coolstreaming system via an open queueing network. The peer dynamics at a channel is modelled by a closed queueing network working at a faster rate. We compute the expected number of substreams in the overlay of New Coolstreaming which are not being received at the proper rate. The computation of the Markov chain with a very large state space is handled using the two time scale decomposition. Further we characterize the end to end delay encountered by a video stream originating from the server and received at a user of New Coolstreaming. Three factors contribute towards the delay. The first factor is the mean path length in terms of overlay hops of the partnership graph. The second factor is the mean number of routers between any two overlay peers in the network layer and the third factor is the queueing delay at a router in the Internet. The mean shortest path length in terms of overlay peers in the New Coolstreaming graph is shown to be O(logn)where nis the number of peers in the overlay. This is done by modelling the overlay by a random graph. The mean shortest path in terms of routers in the Internet’s router level topology is seen to be at most O(logNI)where NIis the number of routers in the Internet. We also discuss a method by which we can get the mean delay at a router in the Internet. Thus, the mean end to end delay in New Coolstreaming is shown to be upper bounded by O(lognlogNIE[W])where E[W]is the mean delay at a router in the Internet.

This dissertation addresses the problem of providing a tool with an object-oriented architecture in order to allow the possibility of simulate the transmission of images and/or videos coded with Multiple Description over high-speed optical fibre channels. In order to solve the problem proposed the choice was a simulator, once the advantage of this solution when compared to a real experiment as several advantages. The solution presented on this dissertation presents several advantages when compared with the solutions already analysed that only allows to analyse some physical phenomena that occur on optical fibre, not filling the requirements pretended to simulate. The proposed solution was developed using an object-oriented architecture, providing the possibility of increment the number of scenarios possible to simulate. On this dissertation all of the development process is described, since the structure of the proposed solution, to the classes developed as long as the Graphical User Interface implemented. The simulation results presented were obtained using a Multiple Description Coding algorithm.
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