M HKA museum of co-existence

M HKA museum of co-existence. This graduation project rethinks the open museum through co-existing. A public institution in today’s day and age should not only be used by regular museum visitors. According to me the institution also serves a role in the city and neighbourhood it sits in. Especially in Antwerp, a multicultural city with people...

A walled garden in Brussels: Ambiguity as the foundation for coexistence in the European quarter in Brussels

"Brussels was never destroyed by the wars, but rather by its own people" these words of Victor Bourgouis show the destructive vision of social and cultural spaces in Brussels. The city's vision of urban development is based on top-down politics, fed by the desire to be modern. This affection leads to the non-identification and displacement of...

Understanding Security and Privacy Characteristics ofHybrid-based IP-ICN Coexistence Architectures

Information-centric Networking (ICN) is the revolution of the internet due to its many benefit over the current internet infrastructure, namely caching, location-independent routing, and data-centric security. ICN ensures seamless data transfer due to its content-centric nature. Due to its content-centric nature, it is a must to ensure that...

Security and Privacy Features Supported by Different Overlay-based ICN/IP Coexistence Architectures

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a common approach to the Internet of the future. However, transitioning to the new Internet architecture right away is impractical if not impossible. Hence, there will be some period of coexistence of ICN and IP. This paper investigates the support of security and privacy features in the three most popular...

Improving Zigbee Performance of a Wireless Lighting System in a Smart Home Environment

The accelerating growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the development of many technologies for homes like a wireless lighting system. Unlike traditional lighting systems, these can be operated remotely using mobile devices and even with the help of a smart assistant, such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Zigbee is used as the...

Penn Garden: Reimagining the potential of a highly dense transportation hub

Penn Station, in the heart of Midtown Manhattan business district, is undergoing rapid growth in commute rates. While located underneath the Arena Madison Square Garden, challenges arise to counter the high congestion rates and bad way-finding followed by the dense program existing on the site. This graduation thesis projects explores a way to...

A Meta-Field: The Coexisting Groundscape in Between

How could public spaces tell us about the city? How does public space take part in our thoughts and affect behaviors? What makes the groundscape? What embodies its essence? And what will people perceive when lowering their gazes? I argue the process of making groundscape is not only constructing a horizontal layer of urban tissue but also...

The wild plant library: Approaching the urban wilderness

Mostar contains a multiplicity of ruined, abandoned and contested spaces, a consequence of the war in which it was involved between 1992 and 1996. But to define those spaces today we cannot think only of the violent changes that originated them. The fact that war ruins remained long after the end of the armed conflict, becoming blank spots in...

Designing for Coexistence: Or how to overcome the speciesistic bias in spatial design

Due to increasing human land use, the world’s biodiversity is declining. These losses of biodiversity in many places create problems for the resilience of the ecosystems in which we live. How we design our spaces has an impact on all the species that live in them. In order to protect and improve the biodiversity, spatial designers should change...

Embrace diversity: (un)divided Hebron: coexistence through architecture of water

Water scarcity and unequal distribution of water to different social groups is a problem around the world - mostly in arid and dry climatological conditions. In Israel and the Palestinian Territories water is used as a territorial tool in what I call 'spaces of conflict and opposition'. What could the role of e.g. an architect be in spaces of...

Living in the Places of Memory

GSVD based blind-beamforming technique for suppression of partially overlapping Bluetooth data packets from WiFi signals

WLAN 802.11 (WiFi) and WPAN 802.15 (Bluetooth) operate in the same 2.4GHz ISM band. OFDM WLANs are designed to provide very high data rates, resilience to multipath and extended operating range. One of the main barriers to actually achieving the high data rates is the interference from the Bluetooth systems which is one of the main sources of...

A “Transmission Time Reservation” method in a Wireless Lighting Control System

The lighting industry has been comprehensively developed and deployed during recent decades, especially with the rise of LED technology. As a related technique field, lighting control system has also draw more and more attention; therefore intelligent lighting control systems are needed. Nowadays, several famous lighting companies are working on...

Improving ZigBee Networks Robustness with Multi-channel Capability

Based on IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee is developed for low-power and low-data-rate wireless communication and it is building up remarkable position for wireless sensor network (WSN). As ZigBee is using the 2.4GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) unlicensed frequency band, coexistence issues arise as there are also other wireless technologies...