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Fly-By-Wireless for Next Generation Aircraft: Challenges and Potential solutions
”Fly-By-Wireless” paradigm based on wireless connectivity in aircraft has the potential to improve efficiency and flexibility, while reducing weight, fuel consumption and maintenance costs. In this paper, first, the opportunities and challenges for wireless technologies in safety-critical avionics context are discussed. Then, the assessment of such technologies versus avionics requirements is provided in order to select the most appropriate one for a wireless aircraft application. As a result, the design of a Wireless Avionics Network based on Ultra WideBand technology is investigated, considering the issues of determinism, reliability and security
Vulnerability analysis of satellite-based synchronized smart grids monitoring systems
The large-scale deployment of wide-area monitoring systems could play a strategic role in supporting the evolution of traditional power systems toward smarter and self-healing grids. The correct operation of these synchronized monitoring systems requires a common and accurate timing reference usually provided by a satellite-based global positioning system. Although these satellites signals provide timing accuracy that easily exceeds the needs of the power industry, they are extremely vulnerable to radio frequency interference. Consequently, a comprehensive analysis aimed at identifying their potential vulnerabilities is of paramount importance for correct and safe wide-area monitoring system operation. Armed with such a vision, this article presents and discusses the results of an experimental analysis aimed at characterizing the vulnerability of global positioning system based wide-area monitoring systems to external interferences. The article outlines the potential strategies that could be adopted to protect global positioning system receivers from external cyber-attacks and proposes decentralized defense strategies based on self-organizing sensor networks aimed at assuring correct time synchronization in the presence of external attacks
To Proposed a Novel Technique to Remove Effective Collision by Clock Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Network
In wireless communication system, group of nodes forms wireless sensor network (WSN). During communication these nodes makes a suitable path for transferring the information. Size of WSN depends on the type and quality of service, the service coverage area, and the scalability of the service. Data centric, hierarchical routing and location based routing protocols are used in the wireless communication. These routing protocols utilizes diverse amount of energies. The consumption of energy is the major concern in WSN. The energy must be quantized for computational purposes. Giving greater probability to nodes with more energy, to be taken as cluster head, helps in better distribution of energy and more reliable message transmission. Apart from communication, lot of energy is consumed in synchronizing the WSN. In general, WSN has no central controller. In this work initially the cluster heads are chosen by election algorithm for each cluster then diffusion based technique is applied to synchronize cluster head clock. Results shows the synchronized cluster head can reduce the energy consumption, packet loss while increase the throughput
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Development and Demonstration of a TDOA-Based GNSS Interference Signal Localization System
Background theory, a reference design, and demonstration
results are given for a Global Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS) interference localization system comprising a
distributed radio-frequency sensor network that simultaneously
locates multiple interference sources by measuring their signals’
time difference of arrival (TDOA) between pairs of nodes in
the network. The end-to-end solution offered here draws from
previous work in single-emitter group delay estimation, very long
baseline interferometry, subspace-based estimation, radar, and
passive geolocation. Synchronization and automatic localization
of sensor nodes is achieved through a tightly-coupled receiver
architecture that enables phase-coherent and synchronous sampling
of the interference signals and so-called reference signals
which carry timing and positioning information. Signal and crosscorrelation
models are developed and implemented in a simulator.
Multiple-emitter subspace-based TDOA estimation techniques
are developed as well as emitter identification and localization
algorithms. Simulator performance is compared to the CramérRao
lower bound for single-emitter TDOA precision. Results are
given for a test exercise in which the system accurately locates
emitters broadcasting in the amateur radio band in Austin, TX.Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanic
Space-based Aperture Array For Ultra-Long Wavelength Radio Astronomy
The past decade has seen the rise of various radio astronomy arrays,
particularly for low-frequency observations below 100MHz. These developments
have been primarily driven by interesting and fundamental scientific questions,
such as studying the dark ages and epoch of re-ionization, by detecting the
highly red-shifted 21cm line emission. However, Earth-based radio astronomy
below frequencies of 30MHz is severely restricted due to man-made interference,
ionospheric distortion and almost complete non-transparency of the ionosphere
below 10MHz. Therefore, this narrow spectral band remains possibly the last
unexplored frequency range in radio astronomy. A straightforward solution to
study the universe at these frequencies is to deploy a space-based antenna
array far away from Earths' ionosphere. Various studies in the past were
principally limited by technology and computing resources, however current
processing and communication trends indicate otherwise. We briefly present the
achievable science cases, and discuss the system design for selected scenarios,
such as extra-galactic surveys. An extensive discussion is presented on various
sub-systems of the potential satellite array, such as radio astronomical
antenna design, the on-board signal processing, communication architectures and
joint space-time estimation of the satellite network. In light of a scalable
array and to avert single point of failure, we propose both centralized and
distributed solutions for the ULW space-based array. We highlight the benefits
of various deployment locations and summarize the technological challenges for
future space-based radio arrays.Comment: Submitte
Fault tolerant architectures for integrated aircraft electronics systems
Work into possible architectures for future flight control computer systems is described. Ada for Fault-Tolerant Systems, the NETS Network Error-Tolerant System architecture, and voting in asynchronous systems are covered
The 30/20 GHz flight experiment system, phase 2. Volume 2: Experiment system description
A detailed technical description of the 30/20 GHz flight experiment system is presented. The overall communication system is described with performance analyses, communication operations, and experiment plans. Hardware descriptions of the payload are given with the tradeoff studies that led to the final design. The spacecraft bus which carries the payload is discussed and its interface with the launch vehicle system is described. Finally, the hardwares and the operations of the terrestrial segment are presented
Overlapping Multi-hop Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks
Clustering is a standard approach for achieving efficient and scalable
performance in wireless sensor networks. Traditionally, clustering algorithms
aim at generating a number of disjoint clusters that satisfy some criteria. In
this paper, we formulate a novel clustering problem that aims at generating
overlapping multi-hop clusters. Overlapping clusters are useful in many sensor
network applications, including inter-cluster routing, node localization, and
time synchronization protocols. We also propose a randomized, distributed
multi-hop clustering algorithm (KOCA) for solving the overlapping clustering
problem. KOCA aims at generating connected overlapping clusters that cover the
entire sensor network with a specific average overlapping degree. Through
analysis and simulation experiments we show how to select the different values
of the parameters to achieve the clustering process objectives. Moreover, the
results show that KOCA produces approximately equal-sized clusters, which
allows distributing the load evenly over different clusters. In addition, KOCA
is scalable; the clustering formation terminates in a constant time regardless
of the network size
Energy-Efficient Boarder Node Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
This paper introduces the design, implementation, and performance analysis of the scalable and mobility-aware hybrid protocol named boarder node medium access control (BN-MAC) for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which leverages the characteristics of scheduled and contention-based MAC protocols. Like contention-based MAC protocols, BN-MAC achieves high channel utilization, network adaptability under heavy traffic and mobility, and low latency and overhead. Like schedule-based MAC protocols, BN-MAC reduces idle listening time, emissions, and collision handling at low cost at one-hop neighbor nodes and achieves high channel utilization under heavy network loads. BN-MAC is particularly designed for region-wise WSNs. Each region is controlled by a boarder node (BN), which is of paramount importance. The BN coordinates with the remaining nodes within and beyond the region. Unlike other hybrid MAC protocols, BN-MAC incorporates three promising models that further reduce the energy consumption, idle listening time, overhearing, and congestion to improve the throughput and reduce the latency. One of the models used with BN-MAC is automatic active and sleep (AAS), which reduces the ideal listening time. When nodes finish their monitoring process, AAS lets them automatically go into the sleep state to avoid the idle listening state. Another model used in BN-MAC is the intelligent decision-making (IDM) model, which helps the nodes sense the nature of the environment. Based on the nature of the environment, the nodes decide whether to use the active or passive mode. This decision power of the nodes further reduces energy consumption because the nodes turn off the radio of the transceiver in the passive mode. The third model is the least-distance smart neighboring search (LDSNS), which determines the shortest efficient path to the one-hop neighbor and also provides cross-layering support to handle the mobility of the nodes. The BN-MAC also incorporates a semi-synchronous feature with a low duty cycle, which is advantageous for reducing the latency and energy consumption for several WSN application areas to improve the throughput. BN-MAC uses a unique window slot size to enhance the contention resolution issue for improved throughput. BN-MAC also prefers to communicate within a one-hop destination using Anycast, which maintains load balancing to maintain network reliability. BN-MAC is introduced with the goal of supporting four major application areas: monitoring and behavioral areas, controlling natural disasters, human-centric applications, and tracking mobility and static home automation devices from remote places. These application areas require a congestion-free mobility-supported MAC protocol to guarantee reliable data delivery. BN-MAC was evaluated using network simulator-2 (ns2) and compared with other hybrid MAC protocols, such as Zebra medium access control (Z-MAC), advertisement-based MAC (A-MAC), Speck-MAC, adaptive duty cycle SMAC (ADC-SMAC), and low-power real-time medium access control (LPR-MAC). The simulation results indicate that BN-MAC is a robust and energy-efficient protocol that outperforms other hybrid MAC protocols in the context of quality of service (QoS) parameters, such as energy consumption, latency, throughput, channel access time, successful delivery rate, coverage efficiency, and average duty cycle.https://doi.org/10.3390/s14030507
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