Development of a Datalogger for Submarine Glider: Integration of Fault-Tolerant Software Layers

Submarine gliders are specialized systems used in applications such as environmental monitoring of marine fauna, in the oil industry, among others. The glider launch and capture is a costly process that requires substantial technological and human resources, so the orderly and error-free storage of data is of fundamental importance due to the subsequent analysis. The amount of information being obtained from the seabed is increasing, this leads to the need to develop robust and low-cost ad-hocsystems for this type of application. The challenge is the integration of the different software layers in the storage system because the monitored variables must be ordered according to different glider operations such as calibration data update and navigation. Additionally, to avoid data corruption in the memory chip, error control coding must be used. The goal of this paper is to present a novel design of different layers of software integrated into a datalogger: reception, error control, and storage logic for the different glider operations. The design of the datalogger is based on a NAND flash memory chip and an MSP430 microcontroller. To correct bit-flipping errors, a BCH code that corrects 4 errors for every 255 bits is implemented into the microcontroller. The design and evaluation are performed for different glider operations, and for different lengths and correction capabilities of the BCH module. A test to calculate the storage time has been carried out. This test shows that in the case of 256 bytes per sample, at 30 samples per minute, and 1 GB of storage capacity, it is possible to collect data from the glider sensors for 84 days. The results obtained show that our device is a useful option for storing underwater sensor data due to its real-time storage, power consumption, small size, easy integration, and its reliability, where the bit error rate BER is of 2.4 ×10−11.

Secret Key Establishment Using Modified Quantization Log For Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network

Traditional cryptographic approaches such as symmetric and asymmetric cryptography are commonly employed to solve network security issues. The Secret Key Generation (SKG) system has the advantage of extracting secret keys from a wireless channel's physical layer information. It allows two wireless devices within the transmission range to extract a shared symmetric key without the use of a fixed key distribution infrastructure, allowing vehicular ad hoc networks to exchange information (VANET). This study aims to create a secure data communication system on the Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network using RSS Key Generation. Starting from the Modified Quantization Log, the results of the Modified Quantization Log show that the average KDRM between Alice and Bob is the average KDRM between Alice and Bob is 9.4%; meanwhile, the average KGR is 71.4 bps. This shows that the number of bit mismatches after the Modified Quantization Log process between the two valid users is already small, because they have used the pre-processing process in front of them, namely using the Kalman Filter and from the results of the BCH Code to be matched again so that it becomes the key. The next process is Universal Hash which is tested with the NIST test. The NIST Test parameters used are approximately entropy, frequency, block frequency, longest run, cumulative sum forward, and cumulative sum reverse. The existing results are appropriate; namely, the threshold in p whose value is above 0.01 is achieved. From the results of the Average Approximate Entropy, it is found that the largest value is obtained by the 40k10ms scheme, which is 0.7352.

Design And Implementation of An Ultra-Low Power Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem Encoding Based Body Channel Communication For Medical Applications

This paper proposes the Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) encoding based Body Channel Communication (BCC) for medical applications by ultra-low power consumption. The transmitter uses channel of 1-100 MHz frequency to enhance the transmitter frequency and time domain properties. The BCH based BCC transmitter uses two stage low power analog processing circuit and digital information restoration circuit. The analog processing circuit consists of capacitor coupled adjustable preamplifier. In addition to that a body channel communication (BCC) transceiver with BCH codes modulation is proposed. In the BCC transceiver side, sensed data are encoded into BCH code format, and then the chosen BCH codes restrict the maximum consecutive identical digit (CID) to rise the data transmission rate. In the BCC receiver side, we use an analog front-end (AFE) circuit board to amplify the attenuated signal from the transmitter and restore the signal to the digital waveform. After the 8x oversampling sampler and vote integrator recovery the clock and data, the BCH code demodulator demodulates the original data. The proposed BCC transceiver has higher data reliability because of the orthogonal characteristic of BCH codes. Moreover, the proposed BCH code concatenated method strengthens the jitter tolerance and improve the code rate. The proposed BCC transceiver was verified on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) board. The Proposed Data transceiver achieves data rate of 100 Mbps, Also, the BER value is < 10− 6 and < 10− 5 at 60 Mbps and 100 Mbps, respectively.

Millimeter-Wave Channel Modeling in a Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network Using Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) Code

The increase in capacity demand for vehicular communication is generating interest among researchers. The standard spectra allocated to VANET tend to be saturated and are no longer enough for real-time applications. Millimeter-wave is a potential candidate for VANET applications. However, millimeter-wave is susceptible to pathloss and fading, which degrade system performance. Beamforming, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) and diversity techniques are being employed to minimize throughput, reliability and data rate issues. This paper presents a tractable channel model for VANET in which system performance degradation due to error is addressed by concatenated Alamouti space-time block coding (ASTBC) and Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) coding. Two closed-form approximations of bit error rate (BER), one for BCH in Rayleigh fading and the second for BCH with ASTBC, are derived. These expressions comprise SNR and code rate and can be utilized in designing VANET architectures. The results show that the BER using concatenated ASTBC and BCH outmatches the conventional BER ASTBC expression. The analytical results are compared with numerical results, thereby showing the accuracy of our closed-form expressions. The performance of the proposed expressions is evaluated using different code rates.

BCH codes in UFMC: A new contender candidate for 5G communication systems

Nowadays, fifth generation (5G) wireless network is considered one of the most important research topics in wireless industry and it will be substituting with fourth generation (4G) in several aspects. Although the robustness of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system against channel delays which is the reason behind using it in LTE/LTE Advanced however, it is suffering from high peak to average power ration (PAPR) and out of band side lobes. So, universal filtered multi-carrier (UFMC) technique is considered a new modulation scheme for 5G wireless communication system to overcome on the common OFDM demits. In contrast, to achieve reliable data transmission in digital communication systems, using error correcting codes are considered an essential over noisy channels. In this paper, BCH code has been used for UFMC system over AWGN. The results showed that using BCH codes in UFMC contributed in enhancing BER performance while could decreasing both of PAPR and OOBE values better than conventional OFDM system.

Physical layer security and energy efficiency over different error correcting codes in wireless sensor networks

Despite the rapid growth in the market demanding for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), they are far from being secured or efficient. WSNs are vulnerable to malicious attacks and utilize too much power. At the same time, there is a significant increment of the security threats due to the growth of the several applications that employ wireless sensor networks. Therefore, introducing physical layer security is considered to be a promising solution to mitigate the threats. This paper evaluates popular coding techniques like Reed solomon (RS) techniques and scrambled error correcting codes specifically in terms of security gap. The difference between the signal to nose ratio (SNR) of the eavesdropper and the legitimate receiver nodes is defined as the security gap. We investigate the security gap, energy efficiency, and bit error rate between RS and scrambled t-error correcting codes for wireless sensor networks. Lastly, energy efficiency in RS and Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) is also studied. The results of the simulation emphasize that RS technique achieves similar security gap as scrambled error correcting codes. However, the analysis concludes that the computational complexities of the RS is less compared to the scrambled error correcting codes. We also found that BCH code is more energy-efficient than RS.

Generic BCH codes. Polynomial-norm error decoding

The classic Bose – Chaudhuri – Hocquenghem (BCH) codes is famous and well-studied part in the theory of error-correcting codes. Generalization of BCH codes allows us to expand the range of activities in the practical correction of errors. Some generic BCH codes are able to correct more errors than classic BCH code in one message block. So it is important to provide appropriate method of error correction. After our investigation it was found that polynomial-norm method is most convenient and effective for that task. The result of the study was a model of a polynomial-norm decoder for a generic BCH code at length 65.