ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

I am a PhD student at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. Here are some examples of my work from the last few years...

Current Research

My PhD Research Investigates modelling of MPEG-4 video traffic systems for network performance evaluation, and video transmission over lossy IP networks.

I will periodically upload extracts of my work to this page, such as journal papers, internal reports, and code examples.

I have recently commenced the second year of my PhD, and have so far had the following publications

" C. M. Arthur, D. Girma, "A Unified Method for Video Traffic Modelling on IP Networks". IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 38 No. 10, pp 492-494, May 2002. Download PDF

" C.M. Arthur, D. Girma, "An Experimental Platform for Video Traffic Analysis over Lossy IP Networks". To appear in proceedings of IEE EPMCC, April 2002, Glasgow.

Final Year Undergraduate Research Project

"MPEG4 Multimedia Traffic Modelling for Internet Videoconferencing"

Research Project Interim Report - January 2001

Submitted to my project supervisor on 21st December 2000, the interim report represents 15% of the total available project mark.

Interim Report Document - interim-report.pdf
Gannt Chart of work plan - gannt-chart.pdf
Curriculum Vitae - colin-arthur-cv.pdf

BENG (Hons) Undergraduate Reports

To give you a sample of some of the work we have covered in my BEng(Hons), I have put online copies of various lab reports and preparation tasks that I have submitted within the past three months.

A few weeks ago, when trying to find out information on the Superheterodyne receiver (part of our third year Communications class that is self-taught), I went to Lycos and did a search --- and of course, the first match that came up was for the homepage of the lecturer who takes that class! (which isn't much use, since he was expecting us to find out the information ourselves, and write it in our own words!!!)

So if any of this stuff saves any poor triple E students a few extra hours in the library, it's been worthwhile putting in online! Drop me an email and say Hi!

Fourth Year Classes

Digital Microelectronic System Design - VHDL
Lab Report
Submitted VHDL Code

Parallel Processing & Neurocomputing
Report on Amdahl's Law
Report on Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) systems

Third Year Classes

Class	Assignment	Description	Mark Awarded
19.325 Communications 2	Analogue Lab Prep	Overview of the superheterodyne receiver. Description of each element and how it works	A
	Digital Lab Prep	Descriptions of PAM, PCM, Quantisation & Companding	A
	Measurement of Superheterodyne Receiver Selectivity - formal lab report	Measurement of Superheterodyne Receiver Selectivity. Comparison of each element and how this affected selectivity and the operating range.	A+
19.346 Optoelectronics	Formal lab report - Investigation and design of ion exchange Planar Optical Waveguides	Analysis of a multi-mode waveguide, and the process required to manufacture a single mode guide.	85%
	Formal lab report - Optical Fibre Communications Systems	Experiment to consider the design, construction performance and principles behind an optical transmission system.	80%
19.348 Power Supply & Utilisation	Formal lab report - Transmission Network Design & Analysis	Use of power load flow simulation software to test proposed network layouts	unknown
19.349 Signal Processing	Formal lab report - Hypersignal & Digiscope Simulations	Consideration of two software simulation packages - Hypersignal and DigiScope. Through the use of design exercises and the analysis of certain signal processing concepts, it shall be possible to demonstrate some of the abilities of these packages and how designs implemented on these packages, can be applied to real applications.	unknown

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