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Die Paarungsstörung mit Pheromonen ist ein etabliertes Verfahren der ökologischen Schädlingsbekämpfung in vielen Bereichen der Landwirtschaft. Um dieses Verfahren zu optimieren, ist es erforderlich, genauere Erkenntnisse über die Verteilung des Pheromons über den behandelten Agrarflächen zu erhalten. Die Messung dieser Duftstoffe mit dem EAG-System ist eine Methode, mit der man schnell und zuverlässig Pheromonkonzentrationen im Freiland bestimmen kann. Diese Arbeit beschreibt Beiträge, die zur Weiterentwicklung des Systems von großer Bedeutung sind. Die Steuerung des Messablaufs durch eine Ablaufdatei, die erst zur Laufzeit ins Programm geladen wird, ermöglicht eine zeitgenaue und flexible Steuerung des Messsystems. Die Auswertung der Messergebnisse wird durch Methoden der Gesamtdarstellung der Konzentrationsberechnung und durch rigorose Fehlerbetrachtung auf eine solide Grundlage gestellt. Die für die Konzentrationsberechnung erforderlichen Grundvoraussetzungen werden anhand experimenteller Beispiele ausführlich erläutert und verfiziert. Zusätzlich wird durch ein iteratives Verfahren die Konzentrationsberechnung von der mathematischen oder empirischen Darstellung der Dosis-Wirkungskurve unabhängig gemacht. Zur Nutzung einer erweiterten EAG-Apparatur zur Messung komplexer Duftstoffgemische wurde das Messsystem im Bereich der Steuerung und der Auswertung tiefgreifend umgestaltet und vollständig einsatztauglich gemacht. Dazu wurde das Steuerungssystem erweitert, das Programm für die Messwerterfassung neu strukturiert, eine Methode zur Konzentrationsberechnung für Duftstoffgemische entwickelt und in einer entsprechenden Auswertesoftware implementiert. Das wichtigste experimentelle Ergebnis besteht in der Durchführung und Auswertung einer speziellen Messung, bei der das EAG-System parallel mit einer klassischen Gaschromatograph-Methode eingesetzt wurde. Die Ergebnisse ermöglichen erstmals eine absolute Festlegung der Konzentrations-Messergebnisse des EAG-Messsystems für das Pheromon des Apfelwicklers. Bisher konnten nur Ergebnisse in Relativen Einheiten angegeben werden.
In this thesis a new family of codes for the use in optical high bit rate transmission systems with a direct sequence code division multiple access scheme component was developed and its performance examined. These codes were then used as orthogonal sequences for the coding of the different wavelength channels in a hybrid OCDMA/WDMA system. The overall performance was finally compared to a pure WDMA system. The common codes known up to date have the problem of needing very long sequence lengths in order to accommodate an adequate number of users. Thus, code sequence lengths of 1000 or more were necessary to reach bit error ratios of with only about 10 simultaneous users. However, these sequence lengths are unacceptable if signals with data rates higher than 100 MBit/s are to be transmitted, not to speak about the number of simultaneous users. Starting from the well known optical orthogonal codes (OOC) and under the assumption of synchronization among the participating transmitters - justified for high bit rate WDM transmission systems -, a new code family called ?modified optical orthogonal codes? (MOOC) was developed by minimizing the crosscorrelation products of each two sequences. By this, the number of simultaneous users could be increased by several orders of magnitude compared to the known codes so far. The obtained code sequences were then introduced in numerical simulations of a 80 GBit/s DWDM transmission system with 8 channels, each carrying a 10 GBit/s payload. Usual DWDM systems are featured by enormous efforts to minimize the spectral spacing between the various wavelength channels. These small spacings in combination with the high bit rates lead to very strict demands on the system components like laser diode, filters, multiplexers etc. Continuous channel monitoring and temperature regulations of sensitive components are inevitable, but often cannot prevent drop downs of the bit error ratio due to aging effects or outer influences like mechanical stress. The obtained results show that - very different to the pure WDM system - by orthogonally coding adjacent wavelength channels with the proposed MOOC, the overall system performance gets widely independent from system parameters like input powers, channel spacings and link lengths. Nonlinear effects like XPM that insert interchannel crosstalk are effectively fought. Furthermore, one can entirely dispense with the bandpass filters, thus simplifying the receiver structure, which is especially interesting for broadcast networks. A DWDM system upgraded with the OCDMA subsystem shows a very robust behavior against a variety of influences.
For many years, most distributed real-time systems employed data communication systems specially tailored to address the specific requirements of individual domains: for instance, Controlled Area Network (CAN) and Flexray in the automotive domain, ARINC 429 [FW10] and TTP [Kop95] in the aerospace domain. Some of these solutions were expensive, and eventually not well understood.
Mostly driven by the ever decreasing costs, the application of such distributed real-time system have drastically increased in the last years in different domains. Consequently, cross-domain communication systems are advantageous. Not only the number of distributed real-time systems have been increasing but also the number of nodes per system, have drastically increased, which in turn increases their network bandwidth requirements. Further, the system architectures have been changing, allowing for applications to spread computations among different computer nodes. For example, modern avionics systems moved from federated to integrated modular architecture, also increasing the network bandwidth requirements.
Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) [iee12] is a well established network standard. Further, it is fast, easy to install, and the interface ICs are cheap [Dec05]. However, Ethernet does not offer any temporal guarantee. Research groups from academia and industry have presented a number of protocols merging the benefits of Ethernet and the temporal guarantees required by distributed real-time systems. Two of these protocols are: Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) [AFD09] and Time-Triggered Ethernet (TTEthernet) [tim16]. In this dissertation, we propose solutions for two problems faced during the design of AFDX and TTEthernet networks: avoiding data loss due to buffer overflow in AFDX networks with multiple priority traffic, and scheduling of TTEthernet networks.
AFDX guarantees bandwidth separation and bounded transmission latency for each communication channel. Communication channels in AFDX networks are not synchronized, and therefore frames might compete for the same output port, requiring buffering to avoid data loss. To avoid buffer overflow and the resulting data loss, the network designer must reserve a safe, but not too pessimistic amount of memory of each buffer. The current AFDX standard allows for the classification of the network traffic with two priorities. Nevertheless, some commercial solutions provide multiple priorities, increasing the complexity of the buffer backlog analysis. The state-of-the-art AFDX buffer backlog analysis does not provide a method to compute deterministic upper bounds
iiifor buffer backlog of AFDX networks with multiple priority traffic. Therefore, in this dissertation we propose a method to address this open problem. Our method is based on the analysis of the largest busy period encountered by frames stored in a buffer. We identify the ingress (and respective egress) order of frames in the largest busy period that leads to the largest buffer backlog, and then compute the respective buffer backlog upper bound. We present experiments to measure the computational costs of our method.
In TTEthernet, nodes are synchronized, allowing for message transmission at well defined points in time, computed off-line and stored in a conflict-free scheduling table. The computation of such scheduling tables is a NP-complete problem [Kor92], which should be solved in reasonable time for industrial size networks. We propose an approach to efficiently compute a schedule for the TT communication channels in TTEthernet networks, in which we model the scheduling problem as a search tree. As the scheduler traverses the search tree, it schedules the communication channels on a physical link. We presented two approaches to traverse the search tree while progressively creating the vertices of the search tree. A valid schedule is found once the scheduler reaches a valid leaf. If on the contrary, it reaches an invalid leaf, the scheduler backtracks searching for a path to a valid leaf. We present a set of experiments to demonstrate the impact of the input parameters on the time taken to compute a feasible schedule or to deem the set of virtual links infeasible.
The present thesis deals with a novel approach to increase the resource usage in digital communications. In digital communication systems, each information bearing data symbol is associated to a waveform which is transmitted over a physical medium. The time or frequency separations among the waveforms associated to the information data have always been chosen to avoid or limit the interference among them. By doing so, n the presence of a distortionless ideal channel, a single receive waveform is affected as little as possible by the presence of the other waveforms. The conditions necessary to meet the absence of any interference among the waveforms are well known and consist of a relationship between the minimum time separation among the waveforms and their bandwidth occupation or, equivalently, the minimum frequency separation and their time occupation. These conditions are referred to as Nyquist assumptions. The key idea of this work is to relax the Nyquist assumptions and to transmit with a time and/or frequency separation between the waveforms smaller than the minimum required to avoid interference. The reduction of the time and/or frequency separation generates not only an increment of the resource usage, but also a degradation in the quality of the received data. Therefore, to maintain a certain quality in the received signal, we have to increase the amount of transmitted power. We investigate the trade-off between the increment of the resource usage and the correspondent performance degradation in three different cases. The first case is the single carrier case in which all waveforms have the same spectrum, but have different temporal locations. The second one is the multi carrier case in which each waveform has its distinct spectrum and occupies all the available time. Finally, the hybrid case when each waveform has its unique time and frequency location. These different cases are framed within the general system modelling developed in the thesis so that they can be easily compared. We evaluate the potential of the key idea of the thesis by choosing a set of four possible waveforms with different characteristics. By doing so, we study the influence of the waveform characteristics in the three system configurations. We propose an interpretation of the results by modifying the well-known Shannon capacity formula and by explicitly expressing its dependency on the increment of resource usage and on the performance degradation. The results are very promising. We show that both in the case of a single carrier system with a time limited waveform and in the case of a multi-carrier system with a frequency limited waveform, the reduction of the time or frequency separation, respectively, has a positive effect on the channel capacity. The latter, depending on the actual SNR, can double or increase even more significantly.
Seit Aufkommen der Halbleiter-Technologie existiert ein Trend zur Miniaturisierung elektronischer Systeme. Dies, steigende Anforderungen sowie die zunehmende Integration verschiedener Sensoren zur Interaktion mit der Umgebung lassen solche eingebetteten Systeme, wie sie zum Beispiel in mobilen Geräten oder Fahrzeugen vorkommen, zunehmend komplexer werden. Die Folgen sind ein Anstieg der Entwicklungszeit und ein immer höherer Bauteileaufwand, bei gleichzeitig geforderter Reduktion von Größe und Energiebedarf. Insbesondere der Entwurf von Multi-Sensor-Systemen verlangt für jeden verwendeten Sensortyp jeweils gesondert nach einer spezifischen Sensorelektronik und steht damit den Forderungen nach Miniaturisierung und geringem Leistungsverbrauch entgegen.
In dieser Forschungsarbeit wird das oben beschriebene Problem aufgegriffen und die Entwicklung eines universellen Sensor-Interfaces für eben solche Multi-Sensor-Systeme erörtert. Als ein einzelner integrierter Baustein kann dieses Interface bis zu neun verschiedenen Sensoren unterschiedlichen Typs als Sensorelektronik dienen. Die aufnehmbaren Messgrößen umfassen: Spannung, Strom, Widerstand, Kapazität, Induktivität und Impedanz.
Durch dynamische Rekonfigurierbarkeit und applikationsspezifische Programmierung wird eine variable Konfiguration entsprechend der jeweiligen Anforderungen ermöglicht. Sowohl der Entwicklungs- als auch der Bauteileaufwand können dank dieser Schnittstelle, die zudem einen Energiesparmodus beinhaltet, erheblich reduziert werden.
Die flexible Struktur ermöglicht den Aufbau intelligenter Systeme mit sogenannten Self-x Charakteristiken. Diese betreffen Fähigkeiten zur eigenständigen Systemüberwachung, Kalibrierung oder Reparatur und tragen damit zu einer erhöhten Robustheit und Fehlertoleranz bei. Als weitere Innovation enthält das universelle Interface neuartige Schaltungs- und Sensorkonzepte, beispielsweise zur Messung der Chip-Temperatur oder Kompensation thermischer Einflüsse auf die Sensorik.
Zwei unterschiedliche Anwendungen demonstrieren die Funktionalität der hergestellten Prototypen. Die realisierten Applikationen haben die Lebensmittelanalyse sowie die dreidimensionale magnetische Lokalisierung zum Gegenstand.
Die Architekturen vieler technischer Systeme sind derzeit im Umbruch. Der fortschreitende Einsatz von Netzwerken aus intelligenten rechnenden Knoten führt zu neuen Anforderungen an den Entwurf und die Analyse der resultierenden Systeme. Dabei spielt die Analyse des Zeitverhaltens mit seinen Bezügen zu Sicherheit und Performanz eine zentrale Rolle. Netzbasierte Automatisierungssysteme (NAS) unterscheiden sich hierbei von anderen verteilten Echtzeitsystemen durch ihr zyklisches Komponentenverhalten. Das aus der asynchronen Verknüpfung entstehende Gesamtverhalten ist mit klassischen Methoden kaum analysierbar. Zur Analyse von NAS wird deshalb der Einsatz der wahrscheinlichkeitsbasierten Modellverifikation (PMC) vorgeschlagen. PMC erlaubt detaillierte, quantitative Aussagen über das Systemverhalten. Für die dazu notwendige Modellierung des Systems auf Basis wahrscheinlichkeitsbasierter, zeitbewerteter Automaten wird die Beschreibungssprache DesLaNAS eingeführt. Exemplarisch werden der Einfluss verschiedener Komponenten und Verhaltensmodi auf die Antwortzeit eines NAS untersucht und die Ergebnisse mittels Labormessungen validiert.
For many years real-time task models have focused the timing constraints on execution windows defined by earliest start times and deadlines for feasibility.
However, the utility of some application may vary among scenarios which yield correct behavior, and maximizing this utility improves the resource utilization.
For example, target sensitive applications have a target point where execution results in maximized utility, and an execution window for feasibility.
Execution around this point and within the execution window is allowed, albeit at lower utility.
The intensity of the utility decay accounts for the importance of the application.
Examples of such applications include multimedia and control; multimedia application are very popular nowadays and control applications are present in every automated system.
In this thesis, we present a novel real-time task model which provides for easy abstractions to express the timing constraints of target sensitive RT applications: the gravitational task model.
This model uses a simple gravity pendulum (or bob pendulum) system as a visualization model for trade-offs among target sensitive RT applications.
We consider jobs as objects in a pendulum system, and the target points as the central point.
Then, the equilibrium state of the physical problem is equivalent to the best compromise among jobs with conflicting targets.
Analogies with well-known systems are helpful to fill in the gap between application requirements and theoretical abstractions used in task models.
For instance, the so-called nature algorithms use key elements of physical processes to form the basis of an optimization algorithm.
Examples include the knapsack problem, traveling salesman problem, ant colony optimization, and simulated annealing.
We also present a few scheduling algorithms designed for the gravitational task model which fulfill the requirements for on-line adaptivity.
The scheduling of target sensitive RT applications must account for timing constraints, and the trade-off among tasks with conflicting targets.
Our proposed scheduling algorithms use the equilibrium state concept to order the execution sequence of jobs, and compute the deviation of jobs from their target points for increased system utility.
The execution sequence of jobs in the schedule has a significant impact on the equilibrium of jobs, and dominates the complexity of the problem --- the optimum solution is NP-hard.
We show the efficacy of our approach through simulations results and 3 target sensitive RT applications enhanced with the gravitational task model.
This thesis has the goal to propose measures which allow an increase of the power efficiency of OFDM transmission systems. As compared to OFDM transmission over AWGN channels, OFDM transmission over frequency selective radio channels requires a significantly larger transmit power in order to achieve a certain transmission quality. It is well known that this detrimental impact of frequency selectivity can be combated by frequency diversity. We revisit and further investigate an approach to frequency diversity based on the spreading of subsets of the data elements over corresponding subsets of the OFDM subcarriers and term this approach Partial Data Spreading (PDS). The size of said subsets, which we designate as spreading factor, is a design parameter of PDS, and by properly choosing , depending on the system designer's requirements, an adequate compromise between a good system performance and a low complexity can be found. We show how PDS can be combined with ML, MMSE and ZF data detection, and it is recognized that MMSE data detection offers a good compromise between performance and complexity. After having presented the utilization of PDS in OFDM transmission without FEC encoding, we also show that PDS readily lends itself for FEC encoded OFDM transmission. We display that in this case the system performance can be significantly enhanced by specific schemes of interleaving and utilization of reliabiliy information developed in the thesis. A severe problem of OFDM transmission is the large Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio (PAPR) of the OFDM symbols, which hampers the application of power efficient transmit amplifiers. Our investigations reveal that PDS inherently reduces the PAPR. Another approch to PAPR reduction is the well known scheme Selective Data Mapping (SDM). In the thesis it is shown that PDS can be beneficially combined with SDM to the scheme PDS-SDM with a view to jointly exploit the PAPR reduction potentials of both schemes. However, even when such a PAPR reduction is achieved, the amplitude maximum of the resulting OFDM symbols is not constant, but depends on the data content. This entails the disadvantage that the power amplifier cannot be designed, with a view to achieve a high power efficiency, for a fixed amplitude maximum, what would be desirable. In order to overcome this problem, we propose the scheme Optimum Clipping (OC), in which we obtain the desired fixed amplitude maximum by a specific combination of the measures clipping, filtering and rescaling. In OFDM transmission a certain number of OFDM subcarriers have to be sacrificed for pilot transmission in order to enable channel estimation in the receiver. For a given energy of the OFDM symbols, the question arises in which way this energy should be subdivided among the pilots and the data carrying OFDM subcarriers. If a large portion of the available transmit energy goes to the pilots, then the quality of channel estimation is good, however, the data detection performs poor. Data detection also performs poor if the energy provided for the pilots is too small, because then the channel estimate indispensable for data detection is not accurate enough. We present a scheme how to assign the energy to pilot and data OFDM subcarriers in an optimum way which minimizes the symbol error probability as the ultimate quality measure of the transmission. The major part of the thesis is dedicated to point-to-point OFDM transmission systems. Towards the end of the thesis we show that the PDS can be also applied to multipoint-to-point OFDM transmission systems encountered for instance in the uplinks of mobile radio systems.
Der Trend zur Verfügbarkeit mehrerer Mobilfunknetze im gleichen Versorgungsgebiet nicht nur unterschiedlicher Operatoren, sondern auch unterschiedlicher Mobilfunkstandards in möglicherweise unterschiedlichen Hierarchieebenen führt zu einer Vielzahl von Koexistenzszenarien, in denen Intersystem- und Interoperator-MAI die einzelnen Mobilfunknetze beeinträchtigen können. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein systematischer Zugang zur Koexistenzproblematik durch die Klassifizierung der MAI erarbeitet. Eine MAI-Art kann dabei mehreren MAI-Klassen angehören. Durch die Einteilung in Klassen wird angestrebt, zum einen die eine MAI-Art beeinflussenden Effekte anhand der Zugehörigkeit zu bestimmten MAI-Klassen besser verstehen zu können. Zum anderen dient die Einteilung der MAI in Klassen zum Abschätzen der Gefährlichkeit einer MAI-Art, über die sich Aussagen machen lassen anhand der Zugehörigkeit zu bestimmten MAI-Klassen. Der Begriff Gefährlichkeit einer MAI-Art schließt neben der mittleren Leistung auch weitere Eigenschaften wie Varianz oder Ursache der MAI ein. Einfache Schlimmstfall-Abschätzungen, wie sie in der Literatur gebräuchlich sind, können leicht zu Fehleinschätzungen der Gefährlichkeit einer MAI-Art führen. Durch die Kenntnis der zugehörigen MAI-Klassen einer MAI-Art wird die Gefahr solcher Fehleinschätzungen erkennbar. Neben den Schlimmstfall-Abschätzungen unter Berücksichtigung der MAI-Klassen werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit auch Simulationen durchgeführt, anhand derer die Abschätzungen verifiziert werden. Dazu werden Werkzeuge in Form von mathematischen Modellen zum Berechnen der Leistung der verschiedenen MAI-Arten unter Einbeziehen der verschiedenen betrachteten Verfahren zum Mindern von MAI erarbeitet. Dabei wird auch ein Konzept zum Vermindern der erforderlichen Rechenleistung vorgestellt. Anhand der Untersuchung der Koexistenz der beispielhaften Mobilfunksysteme WCDMA und TD-CDMA wird gezeigt, daß sich das Auftreten extrem hoher Intersystem- bzw. Interoperator-MAI durch geeignete Wahl der Systemparameter wie Zellradien und Antennenhöhen, sowie durch Verfahren zum Mindern von MAI wie effizienten Leistungsregelungsverfahren und dynamische Kanalzuweisung meist vermeiden läßt. Es ist jedoch essentiell, daß die Koexistenzproblematik bereits in der Phase der Funknetzplanung adäquat berücksichtigt wird. Dabei ist eine Kooperation der beteiligten Operatoren meist nicht notwendig, lediglich besonders kritische Fälle wie Kollokation von BSen verschiedener TDD-Mobilfunknetze z.B. nach dem 3G-Teilstandard TD-CDMA müssen von den Operatoren einvernehmlich vermieden werden. Da bei der Koexistenz von Mobilfunknetzen in Makrozellen aufgrund ihres hohen Zellradius besonders hohe Interoperator-MAI für den Fall der Gleichstrecken-MAI auftreten kann, wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit ein neuartiges Konzept zum Vermindern dieser MAI basierend auf Antennentechniken vorgestellt. Das Konzept zeigt ein vielverspechendes Potential zum Mindern der Interoperator-MAI.
Photonic crystals are inhomogeneous dielectric media with periodic variation of the refractive index. A photonic crystal gives us new tools for the manipulation of photons and thus has received great interests in a variety of fields. Photonic crystals are expected to be used in novel optical devices such as thresholdless laser diodes, single-mode light emitting diodes, small waveguides with low-loss sharp bends, small prisms, and small integrated optical circuits. They can be operated in some aspects as "left handed materials" which are capable of focusing transmitted waves into a sub-wavelength spot due to negative refraction. The thesis is focused on the applications of photonic crystals in communications and optical imaging: • Photonic crystal structures for potential dispersion management in optical telecommunication systems • 2D non-uniform photonic crystal waveguides with a square lattice for wide-angle beam refocusing using negative refraction • 2D non-uniform photonic crystal slabs with triangular lattice for all-angle beam refocusing • Compact phase-shifted band-pass transmission filter based on photonic crystals