Browsing Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Beard, Cory"
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Achieving Quality of Service in Group Scheduling in Cellular Networks
(2014-07-17)Cellular 3G/4G networks provide a wonderfully rich set of applications and social networking capabilities. From a QoS perspective, the traffic is basically divided into Real time and Non real time traffic which helps in ... -
Adaptive thermal comfort computation with Zigbee wireless sensor networks
(2013)The rapid development of wireless communications, scalable technology enabling large scale mass production of System-On-Chip boards, and low cost and low power sensors have made wireless sensor networks easy accessible and ... -
Analyzing Bit Error Rate using Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) Software Defined Radio in Indoor and Outdoor Environments
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Wireless Communications had radical growth because of the necessity of people being connected. However, interference, noise, and multiple fading have adverse effects to a reliable system. Bit Error Rate has its own ... -
Beamsteering and nullsteering in interference aware wireless networks with point to point beamforming
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013-03-19)The concept of beamforming and beamsteering has been gathering immense popularity since the idea's inception. Many in the field of Wireless Communication and in the defense community have tried and succeeded in utilizing ... -
Cooperative relaying in cellular networks for improving receiver diversity and cell radius
(2013)Wireless network sharing has been the principal idea in the recent developments of wireless communication systems not only for improvement in capacity, data rates and coverage area but when considering an emergency service ... -
Cooperative relaying using USRP and GNU radio
(2013)Wireless communication systems have shown a tremendous development in recent years. New technologies are born day to day. With today's technology, users can communicate with each other from any corner of the world. But ... -
Delay based approach to support low priority users in preemptive wireless networks
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-27)At times of serious disasters (natural or man-made), wireless networks are quickly congested due to the sheer volume and stress on network resources, and, preferential treatment is necessary for National Security/Emergency ... -
Demonstration of an Effective 4G LTE Network Simulator to Analyze Performance and Ensure Reliable Communication
(2015)With the growing population, technology is growing without any bounds. With these advancements, we have reached a footing where we cannot imagine the world without communications. This dependability on communications strikes ... -
An Energy Efficient Addressing Scheme For a Static Wireless Sensor Network
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)In this thesis, we propose architecture for a static wireless sensor network where sensors are arranged into a zones with the nodes at each zone interconnected with nodes in sub zones. We also provide an energy efficient ... -
Exploiting the ability of Self Organizing Networks for inter-cell interference coordination for emergency communications in cellular networks
(2014)In the current scenario, radio planning of wireless cellular networks and analysis of radio performance should be agile because it is expected that in the near future we will be reaching to the point where there will be ... -
A Framework for Ultra Reliable Low Latency Mission Critical Communication
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Mission-critical communication is one of the central design aspects of 5G communications. But there are numerous challenges and explicit requirements for development of a successful mission-critical communication system. ... -
Group scheduling for public safety communications in cellular networks
(2013)In today's world, use of wireless devices is on the rise. Hence, proper utilization of the available spectrum is very much needed. QOS requirements such as throughput and fairness are the key requirements of cellular ... -
Group scheduling in advanced cellular systems using directional antennas
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-09-28)Long Term Evolution has been the most popular technique all around the world, and Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output is widely considered a key technology for system capacity improvement in modern wireless networks. ... -
Group scheduling in cellular networks
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)With the ever increasing number of users and the usage of data in cellular networks, meeting the expectations is a very difficult challenge. To add to the difficulties, the available resources are very limited, so proper ... -
Interference aware wireless networks with point to point beamforming
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-03)Recent dramatic changes in the end-user devices and applications demand the idea of peer-peer packet transmissions without the help of base stations or wire-line backbone networks. This concept of distributed communication ... -
Longer Term Dynamics of Bit Error Rates using Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) Software Defined Radios for Indoor Environments
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)In a wireless channel, we encounter several problems like multipath fading, interference, reduced spectrum efficiency which makes the system less reliable. In our thesis, we made an analysis of performance of different ... -
Maximizing throughput while maintaining fairness and priority in wireless ad-hoc networks
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)Ad-Hoc wireless network, not a new field of research, has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years because of its applications in emergency rescue, surveying, military, sensor networking, entertainment and community ... -
Scheduling schemes for throughput optimization in wireless adhoc networks using directional antennas
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-09)This thesis presents a scheme for scheduling of wireless adhoc networks by using directional antennas using the concept of frequency reuse. The idea of wireless adhoc network communication is taken one step further by ... -
Self-Organizing Networks Prospects for Group Scheduling for Disaster Relief and Public Safety Communications in Cellular Networks
(2014)The demand for cellular communications is anticipated to continue its hasty growth in the forthcoming future, triggered by new bandwidth hungry applications such as voice over LTE, high-definition video streaming, and ...