The unprecedented growth of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) networks in recent years has boosted the use of both established and new multimedia applications. In order to satisfy the diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements entailed by these applications, an efficient traffi…
This dissertation studies digital signal processing techniques for communications over power lines. In spite of the availability of power line communication (PLC) equipment, this technology is far from utilizing the full potential of power line networks which are more pervasive …
This thesis reports on optical gain of up to 5.7 dB from a planar waveguide with core made of tetravalent chromium-doped calcium germanate single crystal.
Distribution of multimedia content through the Internet has become a trend in the present technology-aged community. Network supported multimedia applications involve many different transmission capabilities which are used to deliver content through streaming to a wide range of …
During this PhD study, metamaterials incorporating active devices such as varactors and non-Foster circuits, were researched and designed. Starting from the research on tuneable metamaterials, an electronically controlled leaky-wave (LW) antenna based on composite right/left han…
The aim of this research was to study a novel, broadband, low cost, low profile and a high-medium gain antenna in the UHF band. This has been achieved through numerical modelling, theoretical investigation and physical measurements. In this study two commercially available anten…
In this thesis the design and build of a high-speed, video-rate optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system is described. The system was designed for the purpose of imaging human skin in vivo, particularly that of patients suffering from conditions such as systemic scleros…
Enabling the information society by stimulating the creation of a broadband environment in Europe: analyses of evolution scenarios for future networ…
by Université libre de Bruxelles, Botterman, Maarten, Anderson, Robert H., (Robert Helms), Binst, Paul van, Cave, Jonathan, LIBICKI, MARTIN, RAND EUROPE LEIDEN (Netherlands)
How can Europe become, the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion"? Central to this goal are networks and networking: not only telecommunications but also inf…