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A description of the electricity system in Spain since 2005 and the economic potential for renewable energy technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-27)The energy system in Spain can be characterized as being high energy intensive when compared to the rest of Europe and because of its high dependence on imported resources (around 84%). The focus of this document is to ... -
Design a Reliable Model Predictive Control for Path Following with Application to the Autonomous Vehicle and Considering Different Vehicle Models
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-12)Despite many advances that aim to bring autonomous cars to market, several challenges remain to overcome before such technology is widely adopted. Among these is the need for a reliable cornering control that can work ... -
Design and Analysis of a MEMS Fabry-Perot Pressure Sensor
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)Accurate dynamic pressure measurements in the jet engine compressors are the key point in the detection of instabilities that are often precursors to surge or rotating stall. Localized pressure measurements are also very ... -
Design and Analysis of a Novel Split and Aggregated Transmission Control Protocol for Smart Metering Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Utility companies (electricity, gas, and water suppliers), governments, and researchers recognize an urgent need to deploy communication-based systems to automate data collection from smart meters and sensors, known as ... -
Design and Analysis of an Adjacent Multi-bit Error Correcting Code for Nanoscale SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-02)Increasing static random access memory (SRAM) bitcell density is a major driving force for semiconductor technology scaling. The industry standard 2x reduction in SRAM bitcell area per technology node has lead to a ... -
Design and Analysis of Beamforming in mmWave Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)To support increasing data-intensive wireless applications, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication emerges as the most promising wireless technology that offers high data rate connections by exploiting a large swath of ... -
Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number/Sequence Generators with Applications in RFID
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)This thesis is concerned with the design and analysis of strong de Bruijn sequences and span n sequences, and nonlinear feedback shift register (NLFSR) based pseudorandom number generators for radio frequency identification ... -
Design and Analysis of Experiments on Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-17)In the design and analysis of experiments, it is often assumed that experimental units are independent, in the sense that the treatment assigned to one unit will not affect the potential outcome of another unit. However, ... -
Design and Analysis of Green Mission-Critical Fiber-Wireless Broadband Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-19)In recent years, the ever-increasing environmental friendliness concern has made energy efficiency in telecom networks as an important theme in their operations. Meanwhile, mission-critical (MC) services and systems (such ... -
Design and Analysis of Intelligent Fuzzy Tension Controllers for Rolling Mills
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This thesis presents a fuzzy logic controller aimed at maintaining constant tension between two adjacent stands in tandem rolling mills. The fuzzy tension controller monitors tension variation by resorting to electric ... -
Design and Analysis of Life History Studies Involving Incomplete Data
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-26)Incomplete life history data can arise in study designs, coarsened observations, missing covariates, and unobserved latent processes. This thesis consists of three different projects developing statistical models and ... -
Design and Analysis of Low-power SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The explosive growth of battery operated devices has made low-power design a priority in recent years. Moreover, embedded SRAM units have become an important block in modern SoCs. The increasing number of transistor ... -
Design and Analysis of Medium Access Control Protocols for Broadband Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)The next-generation wireless networks are expected to integrate diverse network architectures and various wireless access technologies to provide a robust solution for ubiquitous broadband wireless access, such as wireless ... -
Design and Analysis of Metastable-Hardened, High-Performance, Low-Power Flip-Flops
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-17)With rapid technology scaling, flip-flops are becoming more susceptible to metastability due to tighter timing budgets and the more prominent effects of process, temperature, and voltage variation that can result in frequent ... -
Design and Analysis of Mobility Permit-based Traffic Management Schemes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-01)High demand for mobility has undeniably been causing numerous negative impacts on the economy, the society and the environment. As a potential solution to address this challenge, a rapid transition is taking place in the ... -
Design and Analysis of RC4-like Stream Ciphers
(University of Waterloo, 2005)RC4 is one of the most widely used ciphers in practical software applications. In this thesis we examine security and design aspects of RC4. First we describe the functioning of RC4 and present previously published ... -
Design and Analysis of Security Schemes for Low-cost RFID Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)With the remarkable progress in microelectronics and low-power semiconductor technologies, Radio Frequency IDentification technology (RFID) has moved from obscurity into mainstream applications, which essentially provides ... -
Design and applications of single-photon devices based on waveguides coupled to quantum emitters
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-28)Engineering photon-photon interactions is fundamentally challenging because photons in vacuum do not interact with each other. While their interactions can be mediated using optical nonlinearities, these effects are ... -
Design and Assessment of External Displays on Autonomous Vehicles for Pedestrian Safety
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-05)The most vulnerable group in road agents is pedestrians. In the Netherlands, from 2005 to 2009, the average lethality rate for vulnerable road users was 14 per 100 serious road injuries. Prior to autonomous vehicles (AV), ... -
Design and Characterization of a Transceiver Telescope for Quantum Communications with Satellites
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-30)Since the feasibility of free-space Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) was realized, a new race has begun amongst researchers to achieve the highest secure key rate and the most efficient protocols to form quantum communication ...