Digital signal processing for sensing in software defined optical networks

Optical networks are moving from static point-to-point to dynamic configurations, where transmitter parameters are adaptively changing to meet traffic demands. Dynamic network reconfigurability is achievable through software-defined transceivers, capable of changing the data-rate, overhead, modulation format and reach. Additionally, flexibility in the spectral allocation of channels ensures that the available resources are efficiently distributed, as the increase in fibre capacity has reached a halt. The complexity of such highly reconfigurable systems and cost of their maintenance increase exponentially. Implemented as part of digital signal processing of coherent receivers, sensing is an enabling technology for future software defined optical networks, as it makes possible to both control and optimise transmission parameters, as well as to manage faulty links and mitigate channel impairments in a cost-effective manner. Symbol-rate is one of the parameters most likely to adaptively change according to existing fibre impairments, such as optical signal-to-noise ratio or chromatic dispersion. A single-channel symbol-rate estimation technique is demonstrated initially, yielding a sufficient accuracy to distinguish between different typical error-correction overheads, in the presence of dispersion and white Gaussian noise. Further increasing the capacity over fibre to 1 Tb/s and beyond means moving towards superchannel configurations that employ Nyquist pulse shaping to increase spectral efficiency. Novel sensing techniques applicable to such information dense configurations, that can jointly monitor the channel bandwidth, frequency offset, optical signal-to-noise ratio and chromatic dispersion are proposed and demonstrated herein. Based on time-domain and frequency-domain functions derived from the theory of cyclostationarity, the performance of this joint estimator is investigated with respect to a wide range of parameters. The required acquisition time of the receiver is approximately 6.55 μs, three orders of magnitude faster compared to the round-trip time in core networks. The pulse shaping at the transmitter limits the performance of this estimator, unless the excess bandwidth is 30% of the symbol-rate, or more

Strategies for Devising Automatic Signal Recognition Algorithms in a Shared Radio Environment

In an increasingly congested and complex radio environment interference is to be expected, which poses problems for Automatic Signal Recognition (ASR) systems. This thesis explores strategies for improving ASR performance in the presence of interference. The thesis breaks the overall research question down into a number of subquestions and explores each of these in turn. A Phase-symmetric Cross Recurrence Plot is developed and used to show how a radio signal can be manipulated to separate information about the modulation from the information being carried. The Logarithmic Cyclic frequency Domain Profile is introduced to illustrate how a logarithmic representation can be used for analysing mixtures of signals with very different cyclic frequencies. After defining a canonical ASR system architecture, the concepts of an Ideal Feature and Interference Selectivity are introduced and applied to typical features used in ASR processing. Finally it is shown how these algorithmic developments can be combined in a Bayesian chain implementation that can accommodate a wide variety of feature extraction algorithms. It is concluded that future ASR systems will require features that can handle a wide range of signal types with much higher levels of interference selectivity if they are to achieve acceptable performance in shared spectrum bands. Intelligent segmentation is shown to be a requirement for future ASR systems unless features can be developed that have near ideal performance

Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructures 2nd Volume

The second volume of the book contains the manuscripts that were accepted for publication in the MDPI Special Topic "Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure" after a rigorous peer-review process. Authors from academia, government and industry contributed their innovative solutions, consistent with the interdisciplinary nature of cybersecurity. The book contains 16 articles, including an editorial that explains the current challenges, innovative solutions and real-world experiences that include critical infrastructure and 15 original papers that present state-of-the-art innovative solutions to attacks on critical systems

Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995)

The files on this record represent the various databases that originally composed the CD-ROM issue of "Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding" database, which is now part of the Dudley Knox Library's Abstracts and Selected Full Text Documents on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995) Collection. (See Calhoun record https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/57364 for further information on this collection and the bibliography). Due to issues of technological obsolescence preventing current and future audiences from accessing the bibliography, DKL exported and converted into the three files on this record the various databases contained in the CD-ROM. The contents of these files are: 1) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_xls.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.xls: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format; RDFA_Glossary.xls: Glossary of terms, in Excel 97-2003 Workbookformat; RDFA_Biographies.xls: Biographies of leading figures, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format]; 2) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_csv.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.TXT: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in CSV format; RDFA_Glossary.TXT: Glossary of terms, in CSV format; RDFA_Biographies.TXT: Biographies of leading figures, in CSV format]; 3) RDFA_CompleteBibliography.pdf: A human readable display of the bibliographic data, as a means of double-checking any possible deviations due to conversion

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen