Real-time simulators have been utilized to perform hardware-in-loop testing of protection relays and power system controllers for some years. However, hardware-in-loop testing of generator protection relays has until ...

Land Mobile Satellite Systems (LMSS) generally differ from other terrestrial wireless systems. The LMSS exhibit unique characteristics with regard to the physical layer, interference scenarios, channel impairements, ...

Wireless communication is a rapidly growing field with many of its aspects undergoing constant enhancement. The use of cross-layer design (CLD) in current technologies has improved system performance in terms of ...

Shannon showed that the codes with random-like codeword weight distribution are capable of approaching the channel capacity. However, the random-like property can be achieved only in codes with long-length codewords. On ...

Quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees have become critically important for the transmission of real-time multimedia traffic in next generation mobile wireless networks. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the ...

High capacity wireless and xed-line broadband services have a relatively small footprint over South Africa's vast expanse. This results in many rural areas, as well as military communication when deployed, relying on ...

The increased application of digital terrestrial microwave radio links in communication networks has renewed attention in techniques of estimating the probability of multipath fading distributions. Nevertheless, the ...

This thesis begins with a brief introduction of the basic principles of operation of SRMs, and explains how flux characteristics are derived from voltage and current measurements, and presents results obtained from an ...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been extensively studied in the past decade. The attractiveness of MIMO systems is due to the fact that they drastically reduce the deleterious e ects of multipath fading ...

An introduction to the fundamental concepts of X-ray physics and X-ray tube design is given. This discussion also includes a brief description of various X-ray tube types available commercially for a number of different ...