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On IP Networking Over Tactical Links
On IP Networking over Tactical Links Claude Bilodeau The work described in this document was sponsored by the Department of National Defence under Work Unit 5co. Defence R&D Canada √ Ottawa TECHNICAL REPORT DRDC Ottawa TR 2003-099 Communications Research Centre CRC-RP-2003-008 August 2003 On IP networking over tactical links Claude Bilodeau Communications Research Centre The work described in this document was sponsored by the Department of National Defence under Work Unit 5co. Defence R&D Canada - Ottawa Technical Report DRDC Ottawa TR 2003-099 Communications Research Centre CRC RP-2003-008 August 2003 © Her Majesty the Queen as represented by the Minister of National Defence, 2003 © Sa majesté la reine, représentée par le ministre de la Défense nationale, 2003 Abstract This report presents a cross section or potpourri of the numerous issues that surround the tech- nical development of military IP networking over disadvantaged network links. In the first sec- tion, multi-media services are discussed with regard to three aspects: applications, operational characteristics and service models. The second section focuses on subnetworks and bearers; mainly impairments caused by characteristics of the wireless environment. An overview of the Iris tactical bearers is provided as an example of a tactical IP environment. The last section looks at how IP can integrate these two elements i.e. multi-media services and impaired sub- network links. These three sections are unified by a common theme, quality of service, which runs in the background of the discussions. Résumé Ce rapport présente une coupe transversale ou pot-pourri de questions reliées au développe- ment technique des réseaux militaires IP pour des liaisons défavorisées. -
Digital Speech Processing— Lecture 17
Digital Speech Processing— Lecture 17 Speech Coding Methods Based on Speech Models 1 Waveform Coding versus Block Processing • Waveform coding – sample-by-sample matching of waveforms – coding quality measured using SNR • Source modeling (block processing) – block processing of signal => vector of outputs every block – overlapped blocks Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 2 Model-Based Speech Coding • we’ve carried waveform coding based on optimizing and maximizing SNR about as far as possible – achieved bit rate reductions on the order of 4:1 (i.e., from 128 Kbps PCM to 32 Kbps ADPCM) at the same time achieving toll quality SNR for telephone-bandwidth speech • to lower bit rate further without reducing speech quality, we need to exploit features of the speech production model, including: – source modeling – spectrum modeling – use of codebook methods for coding efficiency • we also need a new way of comparing performance of different waveform and model-based coding methods – an objective measure, like SNR, isn’t an appropriate measure for model- based coders since they operate on blocks of speech and don’t follow the waveform on a sample-by-sample basis – new subjective measures need to be used that measure user-perceived quality, intelligibility, and robustness to multiple factors 3 Topics Covered in this Lecture • Enhancements for ADPCM Coders – pitch prediction – noise shaping • Analysis-by-Synthesis Speech Coders – multipulse linear prediction coder (MPLPC) – code-excited linear prediction (CELP) • Open-Loop Speech Coders – two-state excitation -
Speech Signal Basics
Speech Signal Basics Nimrod Peleg Updated: Feb. 2010 Course Objectives • To get familiar with: – Speech coding in general – Speech coding for communication (military, cellular) • Means: – Introduction the basics of speech processing – Presenting an overview of speech production and hearing systems – Focusing on speech coding: LPC codecs: • Basic principles • Discussing of related standards • Listening and reviewing different codecs. הנחיות לשימוש נכון בטלפון, פלשתינה-א"י, 1925 What is Speech ??? • Meaning: Text, Identity, Punctuation, Emotion –prosody: rhythm, pitch, intensity • Statistics: sampled speech is a string of numbers – Distribution (Gamma, Laplace) Quantization • Information Theory: statistical redundancy – ZIP, ARJ, compress, Shorten, Entropy coding… ...1001100010100110010... • Perceptual redundancy – Temporal masking , frequency masking (mp3, Dolby) • Speech production Model – Physical system: Linear Prediction The Speech Signal • Created at the Vocal cords, Travels through the Vocal tract, and Produced at speakers mouth • Gets to the listeners ear as a pressure wave • Non-Stationary, but can be divided to sound segments which have some common acoustic properties for a short time interval • Two Major classes: Vowels and Consonants Speech Production • A sound source excites a (vocal tract) filter – Voiced: Periodic source, created by vocal cords – UnVoiced: Aperiodic and noisy source •The Pitch is the fundamental frequency of the vocal cords vibration (also called F0) followed by 4-5 Formants (F1 -F5) at higher frequencies. -
Mpeg Vbr Slice Layer Model Using Linear Predictive Coding and Generalized Periodic Markov Chains
MPEG VBR SLICE LAYER MODEL USING LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING AND GENERALIZED PERIODIC MARKOV CHAINS Michael R. Izquierdo* and Douglas S. Reeves** *Network Hardware Division IBM Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 [email protected] **Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 [email protected] ABSTRACT The ATM Network has gained much attention as an effective means to transfer voice, video and data information We present an MPEG slice layer model for VBR over computer networks. ATM provides an excellent vehicle encoded video using Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) and for video transport since it provides low latency with mini- Generalized Periodic Markov Chains. Each slice position mal delay jitter when compared to traditional packet net- within an MPEG frame is modeled using an LPC autoregres- works [11]. As a consequence, there has been much research sive function. The selection of the particular LPC function is in the area of the transmission and multiplexing of com- governed by a Generalized Periodic Markov Chain; one pressed video data streams over ATM. chain is defined for each I, P, and B frame type. The model is Compressed video differs greatly from classical packet sufficiently modular in that sequences which exclude B data sources in that it is inherently quite bursty. This is due to frames can eliminate the corresponding Markov Chain. We both temporal and spatial content variations, bounded by a show that the model matches the pseudo-periodic autocorre- fixed picture display rate. Rate control techniques, such as lation function quite well. We present simulation results of CBR (Constant Bit Rate), were developed in order to reduce an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) video transmitter the burstiness of a video stream. -
Benchmarking Audio Signal Representation Techniques for Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
sensors Article Benchmarking Audio Signal Representation Techniques for Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks Roneel V. Sharan * , Hao Xiong and Shlomo Berkovsky Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; [email protected] (H.X.); [email protected] (S.B.) * Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: Audio signal classification finds various applications in detecting and monitoring health conditions in healthcare. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have produced state-of-the-art results in image classification and are being increasingly used in other tasks, including signal classification. However, audio signal classification using CNN presents various challenges. In image classification tasks, raw images of equal dimensions can be used as a direct input to CNN. Raw time- domain signals, on the other hand, can be of varying dimensions. In addition, the temporal signal often has to be transformed to frequency-domain to reveal unique spectral characteristics, therefore requiring signal transformation. In this work, we overview and benchmark various audio signal representation techniques for classification using CNN, including approaches that deal with signals of different lengths and combine multiple representations to improve the classification accuracy. Hence, this work surfaces important empirical evidence that may guide future works deploying CNN for audio signal classification purposes. Citation: Sharan, R.V.; Xiong, H.; Berkovsky, S. Benchmarking Audio Keywords: convolutional neural networks; fusion; interpolation; machine learning; spectrogram; Signal Representation Techniques for time-frequency image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks. Sensors 2021, 21, 3434. https://doi.org/10.3390/ s21103434 1. Introduction Sensing technologies find applications in detecting and monitoring health conditions. -
A Practical Approach to Spatiotemporal Data Compression
A Practical Approach to Spatiotemporal Data Compres- sion Niall H. Robinson1, Rachel Prudden1 & Alberto Arribas1 1Informatics Lab, Met Office, Exeter, UK. Datasets representing the world around us are becoming ever more unwieldy as data vol- umes grow. This is largely due to increased measurement and modelling resolution, but the problem is often exacerbated when data are stored at spuriously high precisions. In an effort to facilitate analysis of these datasets, computationally intensive calculations are increasingly being performed on specialised remote servers before the reduced data are transferred to the consumer. Due to bandwidth limitations, this often means data are displayed as simple 2D data visualisations, such as scatter plots or images. We present here a novel way to efficiently encode and transmit 4D data fields on-demand so that they can be locally visualised and interrogated. This nascent “4D video” format allows us to more flexibly move the bound- ary between data server and consumer client. However, it has applications beyond purely scientific visualisation, in the transmission of data to virtual and augmented reality. arXiv:1604.03688v2 [cs.MM] 27 Apr 2016 With the rise of high resolution environmental measurements and simulation, extremely large scientific datasets are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. The scientific community is in the pro- cess of learning how to efficiently make use of these unwieldy datasets. Increasingly, people are interacting with this data via relatively thin clients, with data analysis and storage being managed by a remote server. The web browser is emerging as a useful interface which allows intensive 1 operations to be performed on a remote bespoke analysis server, but with the resultant information visualised and interrogated locally on the client1, 2. -
(A/V Codecs) REDCODE RAW (.R3D) ARRIRAW
What is a Codec? Codec is a portmanteau of either "Compressor-Decompressor" or "Coder-Decoder," which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. Codecs encode a stream or signal for transmission, storage or encryption and decode it for viewing or editing. Codecs are often used in videoconferencing and streaming media solutions. A video codec converts analog video signals from a video camera into digital signals for transmission. It then converts the digital signals back to analog for display. An audio codec converts analog audio signals from a microphone into digital signals for transmission. It then converts the digital signals back to analog for playing. The raw encoded form of audio and video data is often called essence, to distinguish it from the metadata information that together make up the information content of the stream and any "wrapper" data that is then added to aid access to or improve the robustness of the stream. Most codecs are lossy, in order to get a reasonably small file size. There are lossless codecs as well, but for most purposes the almost imperceptible increase in quality is not worth the considerable increase in data size. The main exception is if the data will undergo more processing in the future, in which case the repeated lossy encoding would damage the eventual quality too much. Many multimedia data streams need to contain both audio and video data, and often some form of metadata that permits synchronization of the audio and video. Each of these three streams may be handled by different programs, processes, or hardware; but for the multimedia data stream to be useful in stored or transmitted form, they must be encapsulated together in a container format. -
Multimedia Compression Techniques for Streaming
International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE) ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-8 Issue-12, October 2019 Multimedia Compression Techniques for Streaming Preethal Rao, Krishna Prakasha K, Vasundhara Acharya most of the audio codes like MP3, AAC etc., are lossy as Abstract: With the growing popularity of streaming content, audio files are originally small in size and thus need not have streaming platforms have emerged that offer content in more compression. In lossless technique, the file size will be resolutions of 4k, 2k, HD etc. Some regions of the world face a reduced to the maximum possibility and thus quality might be terrible network reception. Delivering content and a pleasant compromised more when compared to lossless technique. viewing experience to the users of such locations becomes a The popular codecs like MPEG-2, H.264, H.265 etc., make challenge. audio/video streaming at available network speeds is just not feasible for people at those locations. The only way is to use of this. FLAC, ALAC are some audio codecs which use reduce the data footprint of the concerned audio/video without lossy technique for compression of large audio files. The goal compromising the quality. For this purpose, there exists of this paper is to identify existing techniques in audio-video algorithms and techniques that attempt to realize the same. compression for transmission and carry out a comparative Fortunately, the field of compression is an active one when it analysis of the techniques based on certain parameters. The comes to content delivering. With a lot of algorithms in the play, side outcome would be a program that would stream the which one actually delivers content while putting less strain on the audio/video file of our choice while the main outcome is users' network bandwidth? This paper carries out an extensive finding out the compression technique that performs the best analysis of present popular algorithms to come to the conclusion of the best algorithm for streaming data. -
Original Paper Written & Signed by William F
/ I / I p. I I _., • CRYPTOGRAPHIC EQUIP~lliNT FOR EITHER -SINGLE-ORIGINATOR OR MULTI-ORIGINATOR COMMUNICATION 1. a. Progress in the cryptologic field-during the.past fevT yea.,:s has .led to a basic change in cryptologic philosophy, a change Which has already oeen recognized by and is of im., portant interest to the ASA. b. The t1~ust vrhich 'has heretofore been placed in the ordinary types of crypto-systems, the solution of which depends upon, or is directly or indirectly correlated with, the number of tests that have to be made to exhaust a multiplicity of , / hypotheses based upon keying possibilities, is daily decreasing. The beginning of this decreasing confidence i~ the degree of cryptographic security potentially offered by a vast number of permutations and combinations available of keying possibilities can be traced back to the advent of the application of ~abu~ lating machinery to the solution of cryptanalytic problems. _ Later, when specially designed cryptanalytic machines employ- ing electrical relays came to be constructed and applied, success fully to these problems, a real blow was struck at our former concepts of cryptographi·c security. And, now, the assurance that electronic cryptanalytic machinery can be a·pplied to ~?Peed up the solution 9f complex cryptographic systems is tend ing· slm1ly to undermine what faith was left in the systems or crypto-mechanisms currently considered as being the best there are, those using rotors with complicated stepping controls .. , ·· . c.- To sum this up, it can be said that, save for orie exception, cryptologic theory and practice during the past 'quar,ter of a c~ntury serves only to corroborat.E? the theoretical validity of·the century-old dictum first enunciated by Edgar Allan Poe: "Yet it may be r·oundly asserted that ht1.man ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot solve.11 2. -
Interview with James Mitchell
Interview with James Mitchell Interviewed by: David C. Brock Recorded February 19, 2019 Santa Barbara, CA CHM Reference number: X8963.2019 © 2019 Computer History Museum Interview with James Mitchell Brock: Yeah. So, yeah, maybe we can talk about your transition from Carnegie Mellon to PARC and how that opportunity came about, and what your thinking was about joining the new lab. Mitchell: I basically finished my PhD and left in July of 1970. I had missed graduation that year, so my diploma says 1971. But, in fact, I'd been out working for a year by then, and at PARC, you know, there were a number of other grad students I knew, and two of them had gone to work for a start-up in Berkeley that-- there were two Berkeley computer science departments, and the engineering one left to form this company called Berkeley Computer Corporation with Mel Pirtle running it and Butler Lampson kind of a chief technical officer and Chuck Thacker and so on, and anyway the people that I-- the two other grad students that had gone already that I knew, when I was going out, I was starting to go around and interview in early 1970 because I knew I was close to being finished, and it was in those days because there were so few people who had PhDs in computer science and every university was trying to build a department, and industrial research places like Bell Labs were trying to hire people and so on, anywhere you went with a new PhD you got an offer. -
Speech Compression
information Review Speech Compression Jerry D. Gibson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93118, USA; [email protected]; Tel.: +1-805-893-6187 Academic Editor: Khalid Sayood Received: 22 April 2016; Accepted: 30 May 2016; Published: 3 June 2016 Abstract: Speech compression is a key technology underlying digital cellular communications, VoIP, voicemail, and voice response systems. We trace the evolution of speech coding based on the linear prediction model, highlight the key milestones in speech coding, and outline the structures of the most important speech coding standards. Current challenges, future research directions, fundamental limits on performance, and the critical open problem of speech coding for emergency first responders are all discussed. Keywords: speech coding; voice coding; speech coding standards; speech coding performance; linear prediction of speech 1. Introduction Speech coding is a critical technology for digital cellular communications, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), voice response applications, and videoconferencing systems. In this paper, we present an abridged history of speech compression, a development of the dominant speech compression techniques, and a discussion of selected speech coding standards and their performance. We also discuss the future evolution of speech compression and speech compression research. We specifically develop the connection between rate distortion theory and speech compression, including rate distortion bounds for speech codecs. We use the terms speech compression, speech coding, and voice coding interchangeably in this paper. The voice signal contains not only what is said but also the vocal and aural characteristics of the speaker. As a consequence, it is usually desired to reproduce the voice signal, since we are interested in not only knowing what was said, but also in being able to identify the speaker. -
The People Who Invented the Internet Source: Wikipedia's History of the Internet
The People Who Invented the Internet Source: Wikipedia's History of the Internet PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See http://code.pediapress.com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:49:54 UTC Contents Articles History of the Internet 1 Barry Appelman 26 Paul Baran 28 Vint Cerf 33 Danny Cohen (engineer) 41 David D. Clark 44 Steve Crocker 45 Donald Davies 47 Douglas Engelbart 49 Charles M. Herzfeld 56 Internet Engineering Task Force 58 Bob Kahn 61 Peter T. Kirstein 65 Leonard Kleinrock 66 John Klensin 70 J. C. R. Licklider 71 Jon Postel 77 Louis Pouzin 80 Lawrence Roberts (scientist) 81 John Romkey 84 Ivan Sutherland 85 Robert Taylor (computer scientist) 89 Ray Tomlinson 92 Oleg Vishnepolsky 94 Phil Zimmermann 96 References Article Sources and Contributors 99 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 102 Article Licenses License 103 History of the Internet 1 History of the Internet The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. This began with point-to-point communication between mainframe computers and terminals, expanded to point-to-point connections between computers and then early research into packet switching. Packet switched networks such as ARPANET, Mark I at NPL in the UK, CYCLADES, Merit Network, Tymnet, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols. The ARPANET in particular led to the development of protocols for internetworking, where multiple separate networks could be joined together into a network of networks. In 1982 the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized and the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called the Internet was introduced.