Smoke signalling resistance: Aboriginal use of long-distance communication during Australia’s frontier wars

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Ray Kerkhove
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Distance Communication ◽  
Signalling Systems

AbstractThis essay reconstructs defensive/offensive mechanisms of Aboriginal communication networks and presents historical examples of their application as a means of resistance during Australia’s frontier wars. The principal focus is on smoke-signalling systems, especially in Queensland.

Communication and Empire

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Whittow
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Communication Work ◽  
Distance Communication ◽  
Western Half

The Roman world in the second century was remarkably homogeneous, and the ties that bound it together remarkably thick and apparently strong. But what happened when the western half went its own way, when imperial territories were limited to bits of Asia Minor and the Balkans, when the construction of new monumental buildings had slowed to a trickle or stopped entirely, when the epigraphic habit had died? How did political communication work in the Roman empire of the Middle Ages that we know as Byzantium? The answer requires conjuring up a picture of people on the move; of soldiers, priests, students, pilgrims, appellants, merchants, tax collectors, administrators, painters, and builders. And it requires thinking about the messages they received and passed on. Placing the Byzantine experience in comparative perspective to Song China, this chapter surveys the evidence of Byzantine political communication to investigate both the means of transmitting news and orders as well as the underlying networks of shared discourse and identity. It shows that the survival of the Byzantine state depended largely on its ability to create an imagined community as the nation-state of the Romans. The decline of Byzantium and the rise of Muslim identities in its former territories can thus be linked to a failure to maintain effective long-distance communication networks that projected a ‘Roman’ narrative across the entirety of the empire.

scholarly journals Beyond Neurons: Long Distance Communication in Development and Cancer

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McMillen ◽  
Madeleine J. Oudin ◽  
Michael Levin ◽  
Samantha L. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Cancer Metastasis ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Electrical Coupling ◽  
The Body ◽  
Molecular Signaling ◽  
Tunneling Nanotubes ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Distance Communication

Cellular communication is important in all aspects of tissue and organism functioning, from the level of single cells, two discreet populations, and distant tissues of the body. Long distance communication networks integrate individual cells into tissues to maintain a complex organism during development, but when communication between cells goes awry, disease states such as cancer emerge. Herein we discuss the growing body of evidence suggesting that communication methods known to be employed by neurons, also exist in other cell types. We identify three major areas of long-distance communication: bioelectric signaling, tunneling nanotubes (TNTs), and macrophage modulation of networks, and draw comparisons about how these systems operate in the context of development and cancer. Bioelectric signaling occurs between cells through exchange of ions and tissue-level electric fields, leading to changes in biochemical gradients and molecular signaling pathways to control normal development and tumor growth and invasion in cancer. TNTs transport key morphogens and other cargo long distances, mediating electrical coupling, tissue patterning, and malignancy of cancer cells. Lastly macrophages maintain long distance signaling networks through trafficking of vesicles during development, providing communication relays and priming favorable microenvironments for cancer metastasis. By drawing comparisons between non-neural long distance signaling in the context of development and cancer we aim to encourage crosstalk between the two fields to cultivate new hypotheses and potential therapeutic strategies.

SIGNAL PROCESSING IN LONG-DISTANCE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 895-904
Author(s):  
A. I. Litvin-Popovich ◽  
S.I. Pavlik
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Distance Communication

scholarly journals A Long-Distance Communication Architecture for Medical Devices Based on LoRaWAN Protocol

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 940
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Cristina Gaitan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Wide Area Network ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Communication Architecture ◽  
Low Energy Consumption ◽  
Distance Communication

Recent market studies show that the market for remote monitoring devices of different medical parameters will grow exponentially. Globally, more than 4 million individuals will be monitored remotely from the perspective of different health parameters by 2023. Of particular importance is the way of remote transmission of the information acquired from the medical sensors. At this time, there are several methods such as Bluetooth, WI-FI, or other wireless communication interfaces. Recently, the communication based on LoRa (Long Range) technology has had an explosive development that allows the transmission of information over long distances with low energy consumption. The implementation of the IoT (Internet of Things) applications using LoRa devices based on open Long Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) protocol for long distances with low energy consumption can also be used in the medical field. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed and developed a long-distance communication architecture for medical devices based on the LoRaWAN protocol that allows data communications over a distance of more than 10 km.

scholarly journals Quantum repeaters based on concatenated bosonic and discrete-variable quantum codes

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Rozpędek ◽  
Kyungjoo Noh ◽  
Qian Xu ◽  
Saikat Guha ◽  
Liang Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Variable ◽  
Quantum Codes ◽  
Discrete Variable ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Concatenated Code ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Optical Modes ◽  
Distance Communication ◽  
Quantum Repeaters ◽  
Quantum Error

AbstractWe propose an architecture of quantum-error-correction-based quantum repeaters that combines techniques used in discrete- and continuous-variable quantum information. Specifically, we propose to encode the transmitted qubits in a concatenated code consisting of two levels. On the first level we use a continuous-variable GKP code encoding the qubit in a single bosonic mode. On the second level we use a small discrete-variable code. Such an architecture has two important features. Firstly, errors on each of the two levels are corrected in repeaters of two different types. This enables for achieving performance needed in practical scenarios with a reduced cost with respect to an architecture for which all repeaters are the same. Secondly, the use of continuous-variable GKP code on the lower level generates additional analog information which enhances the error-correcting capabilities of the second-level code such that long-distance communication becomes possible with encodings consisting of only four or seven optical modes.

CONVERGENCE IMPROVEMENT OF ADAPTIVE LATTICE ALGORITHM WITH FUZZY BASED ADAPTIVE GAIN

1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
GEUN-TAEK RYU ◽  
DAE-SUNG KIM ◽  
DAE-YOUNG LEE ◽  
SUNG-HWAN HAN ◽  
HYEON-DEOK BAE
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Filters ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Forward Prediction ◽  
Adaptation Procedure ◽  
Distance Communication ◽  
One Step ◽  
Input Variables ◽  
Lattice Algorithm

The choice of the adaptive gain is important to the performance of LMS-based adaptive filters. Depending on application areas, the realization structure of the filters is also important. This letter presents an adaptive lattice algorithm which adjusts the adaptive gain of LMS using fuzzy if-then rules determined by matching input and output variables during adaptation procedure. In each lattice filter stage, this filter adjusts the adaptive gain as the output of the fuzzy logic which has two input variables, normalized squared forward prediction error and one step previous adaptive gain. The proposed algorithm is applied to echo canceling problem of long distance communication channel. The simulation results are compared with NLMS on TDL and lattice structures.

Basic communication sciences

1969 ◽  
Vol 308 (1493) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Keyword(s):  
Long Distance ◽  
Earth Station ◽  
Early Communication ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Radiated Power ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Distance Communication ◽  
Quality Of Transmission ◽  
Communication Equipment

The feasibility and utility of long-distance communication via Earth-orbiting satellites has been demonstrated during recent years and it is appropriate therefore to focus attention on the more important scientific studies and technical developments that will be needed if full use is to be made of this valuable mode of communication in the future. The early communication satellites (the Telstar and Relay series) were pioneers in a relatively unknown propagation environment. The satellites themselves were conceptually simple and the communication equipment consisted essentially of a frequency-changing transponder with an r. f. power output of a few watts and a bandwidth some tens of megahertz. Carrier frequencies in the range 2 to 6 GHz were employed; typically either 2 or 6 GHz was used for transmission and 4 GHz for reception at the Earth station. To obtain an adequate signal/noise ratio at the output of the Earth station receiver, frequency modulation was employed, the frequency deviations being greater than those used on terrestrial microwave links. Launcher limitations and other factors meant that the satellites had to be placed in inclined elliptical orbits (see figure 1) with maximum heights of only a few thousand miles. Nevertheless, these satellites demonstrated that some hundreds of frequency-division multiplex telephony circuits, or a television channel, could be achieved with generally satisfactory quality of transmission. It is to be noted, however, that the satellite transponders accommodated only one, or at the most two, r. f. carriers at any time, and that the transmission performance was at times marginal due to limitations of the satellite effective radiated power. Furthermore, these relatively low orbit satellites provided communication in periods of generally less than an hour at a time and required continuous tracking by the Earth station aerials, due to movement of the satellites relative to the Earth.

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