CMOS technology is scaling down to meet the performance, production cost, and power requirements of the microelectronics industry. The increase in the transistor leakage current is one of the most important negative side ...

High performance inductors are playing an increasing role in modern communication systems. Despite the superior performance offered by discrete components, parasitic capacitances from bond pads, board traces and packaging ...

Power consumption is one of the key considerations in any mobile electronics design. As technology roadmaps advance in the mobile and wearable markets, there will be an evident push for lower power consumption in terms of ...

A new revolution in electronics/optoelectronics has become possible in the past two decades due to the emergence of organic semiconductors. Among all the applications based on organic semiconductors, organic light-emitting ...

This thesis focuses on designing Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes for forward-error-correction. The target application is real-time multimedia communications over packet networks. We investigate two code design ...

Demand for high volumes of mobile data traffic with better quality-of-service (QoS) support and seamless network coverage is ever increasing, due to growth of the number of smart mobile devices and the applications that ...

The demand for efficient and cost-effective transmission and distribution of RF signal is increasing with the rapid development of wireless communication. This thesis studies the effect of using cost-effective vertical ...

Wireless ad hoc networks have been attracting more and more attentions in recent years from both academia and industry, because of their low deployment costs and broad applications. Due to the scarcity of the radio spectrum, ...

Scheduling in wireless networks plays an important role. The undeterministic nature of the wireless channel is usually considered as an undesirable property. Recently, the idea of opportunistic scheduling is introduced ...

Throughout the last decade, vehicle localization has been attracting significant attention in a wide range of applications, including Navigation Systems, Road Tolling, Smart Parking, and Collision Avoidance. To deliver on ...