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Wireless local area network (WLAN) has become
increasingly popular given its relatively low operational cost and
convenience in providing flexible Internet access. Users attach a
WLAN card to their computer in order to access the Internet.
USB dangle card has a compact sie, light weight and large
memory size, explaining why users prefer the USB dangle card
over PCMCIA card. USB dangle card uses a chip antenna,
planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA), or monopole antenna to
deliver wireless data. However, above antennas
suffer from a prohibitively costly chip antenna and excessively
large sized PIFA and monopole antenna. Besides, these
antennas are descreat components for RF system. Restated,
the total system requires an antenna space. For instance, PIFA
requires approximately *** to satisfy WLAN bandwidth
requirements. Additionally, RF system designers require
additional time of normally one month to tune antenna
characteristics.
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The conventionally adopted USB
dangle card with the above-mentioned antenna has a large
size, which is discouraging to customers purchasing
wireless products. The additional time
required to tune the characteristics of the antenna
increases material and personnel costs, explaining why the
USB dangle card is losing its competitiveness.
Therefore, a total RF system module must be
developed.
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A total RF system module can be developed.
To do so, given that the antenna is a descreat component,
antenna designed in package (AiP) can be used to achieve high
integration. A shielding case can then be integrated with the antenna
to prevent the radiation field from affecting the single component on the
RF circuit. As anticipated, the proposed RF system can
decrease overhead product costs, achieve high integration and avoid
the interference between the radiation signal and RF circuit signal.
The proposed module can contribute to efforts not only to
satisfy bandwidth requirement of WLAN systems, but also to develop
an antenna with EMC technology to shorten the tuning time. The total
RF system module increases the functions of the conventional RF
module. Additionally, the AiP technology developed in this project can
increase the value of package companies, e.g., ASE and SPIL. The
antenna with EMC technology can promote competitiveness of local
antenna manufacturers as well, thus satisfying domestic wireless
communication needs.
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Furthermore, the proposed method can contain several parameters that
not only control the trade-off between throughput optimization and
packet delay optimization, but also provide the ability to fine tune the
DBA for various scenarios. The predictive DBA method can also be
used accurately reflect a certain level of fairness among ONTs by
determining the effective traffic rate and packet delay.
Importantly, the proposed predictive DBA method can be more efficient
than SR-DBA with respect to increasing the PON efficiency in order to
reduce the amount of equipment in PON systems The proposed
method can also reduce overhead costs of the service providers
implementing PON networks., ultimately making next generation
network services less expensive and of high quality.
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As a novel network architecture, a wireless
sensor network (WSN) represents the maturity of hardware
and software technologies for electrical devices and
enhanced wireless network capabilities. Its applications
can be found in healthcare, the military, disaster support,
environmental monitoring and factory management.
However, many WSN architecture-related issues
have not been effectively addressed, including multi-hops,
multiple-access abilities, routing capabilities, and self-
organization. Numerous WSN nodes cooperating with
each other are necessary to alleviate the above difficulties.
For instance, monitoring a forested
area requires deploying at least one thousand WSN nodes.
Exactly how engineers configure those WSN nodes and
distribute them over such a large area are challenging
issues.
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Although capable of simulating all
WSN nodes to manage and configure the WSN, a pure
simulation model lacks authentic WSN behaviors. The
ability to devise an WSN-based experimental platform to
manage such a large number of WSN nodes will require an
excessive amount of time in deploying and configuring
thousands of WSN nodes. Such a predicament severely
restricts WSN studies. Therefore, a
simulation model integrated into WSN hardware devices
must be developed to create a more realistic observation.
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A simulation model integrated into WSN hardware
devices can be developed to create a more realistic observation.
To do so, a software simulation platform can be created.
Certain functions from the simulation model can then be provided to
easily create, terminate and configure a simulated WSN node.
Additionally, a mini kernel can be implemented in the simulation model
to provide an operating system that upper applications can operate.
Moreover, basic WSN protocols, e.g., IEEE 802.15.4 PHY/MAC and
Zigbee NWK/APP, can be equipped, enabling implementation of
unique algorithms based on the underlying protocols. Furthermore, API
drivers can be supplied for programmers to manipulate the underlying
hardware, similar to a RF transceiver. Finally, certain interfaces can be
provided to interact with and communicate among simulated WSN
nodes and actual WSN hardware nodes. Those interfaces can send
and receive data between simulated and/or practical WSN nodes.
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As anticipated, the proposed simulation model can enable
programmers to manipulate the hardware, as well as send or receive
data among WSN nodes. The proposed model can also provide a
kernel and basic WSN protocols for researchers to implement their
proposed algorithms and protocols to resolve or enhance wireless
sensor network issues, including multi-hops, multiple-access abilities,
routing capabilities and self-organization. Capable of
providing a more realistic observation than purely simulated ones, the
proposed simulation model can simplify efforts to deploy a large
number of WSN nodes. Researchers can only distribute some practical
WSN nodes to a small area and simulate the remaining area from the
proposed simulation model to verify their novel algorithms or protocols.
Doing so will enable researchers to concentrate on their major studies,
not expend considerable time on deployments and configurations of
WSN nodes.
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