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Soft Handoff in MC-CDMA Cellular Networks Supporting Multimedia Services
(University of Waterloo, 2004)An adaptive resource reservation and handoff priority scheme, which jointly considers the characteristics from the physical, link and network layers, is proposed for a packet switching Multicode (MC)-CDMA cellular network ... -
Soft Lithography for Applications in Microfluidic Thermometry, Isoelectric Focusing, and Micromixers
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Microfluidics is gaining in importance due to its wide ranging benefits and applicability in chemical and biological analysis. Although traditional microfluidic devices are created with glass or silicon based fabrication ... -
Soft Materials under Air Blast Loading and Their Effect on Primary Blast Injury
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-07)Injury from blast is significant in both military and civilian environments. Although injuries from blast are well-documented, the mechanisms of injury are not well understood. Developing better protection requires knowledge ... -
Soft Tissue Thickness and Composition surrounding the Proximal Femur
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-17)Introduction: In Canada, approximately 30 000 hip fractures occur each year. Hip fractures are associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and quality of life changes. Trochanteric soft tissues have been shown to ... -
SoftMAC in Heterogeneous Wireless Network
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)Wireless networks are growing exponentially by the steady improvement of its speed and quality. IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) has been developed for mobile computing devices in LANs, in a short ... -
Software and FPGA-Based Hardware to Accelerate Machine Learning Classifiers
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-20)This thesis improves the accuracy and run-time of two selected machine learning algorithms, the first in software and the second on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device. We first implement triplet loss and triplet ... -
Software Approaches to Manage Resource Tradeoffs of Power and Energy Constrained Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-02)Power and energy efficiency have become an increasingly important design metric for a wide spectrum of computing devices. Battery efficiency, which requires a mixture of energy and power efficiency, is exceedingly important ... -
Software Architecture Recovery based on Pattern Matching
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Pattern matching approaches in reverse engineering aim to incorporate domain knowledge and system documentation in the software architecture extraction process, hence provide a user/tool collaborative environment for ... -
Software Bug Detection Using the N-gram Language Model
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Over the years many techniques have been proposed to infer programming rules in order to improve software reliability. The techniques use violations of these programming rules to detect software defects. This thesis ... -
Software Engineering for Big Data Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-24)Software engineering is the application of a systematic approach to designing, operating and maintaining software systems and the study of all the activities involved in achieving the same. The software engineering discipline ... -
A Software Framework for PCA-based Face Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)Face recognition, as one of the major biometrics identification methods, has been applied in different fields involving economics, military, e-commerce, and security. Its touchless identification process and non-compulsory ... -
Software Journeys
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)Getting familiar with the code is a challenging activity and therefore resource intensive. The larger the software code base, the larger the resource expenditure. We consider software development in the case of established ... -
Software Simulation of 5-Axis CNC Milling using Multidirectional Heightmaps
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)Machinists often simulate a part program to verify its correctness, since mistakes can cause damage to the part, machine, oneself, or others. A popular approach for part program simulation involves representing the stock ... -
Software Simulation of Numerically Controlled Machining
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The field of numerically controlled (NC) machining has long been interested with predicting and measuring the errors in machining. Creating a simulation of NC machining is one way of achieving this. This thesis ... -
A Software Testbed for Assessing Human-Robot Verbal Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)Verbal interaction provides a natural and social-style interaction mode by which robots can communicate with general public who is likely unknowledgeable in robotics. This interaction mechanism is also very important for ... -
A Software Toolchain for Physical System Description and Synthesis, and Applications to Microfluidic Design Automation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-11)Microfluidic circuits are currently designed by hand, using a combination of the designer’s domain knowledge and educated intuition to determine unknown design parameters. As no microfluidic circuit design software exists ... -
SOI RF-MEMS Based Variable Attenuator for Millimeter-Wave Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)The most-attractive feature of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology is that it enables the integration of a whole system on a single chip, leading to positive effects on the performance, reliability and cost. ... -
Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics and greenhouse gas mitigation in intercrop agroecosystems in Balcarce, Argentina
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-08)Through appropriate soil and crop residue management, soil can function as a sink for carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) for the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG). No research has yet investigated the potential of intercrop ... -
Soil Moisture Estimation by Microwave Remote Sensing for Assimilation into WATClass
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)This thesis examines the feasibility of assimilating space borne remotely-sensed microwave data into WATClass using the ensemble Kalman filter. WATClass is a meso-scale gridded hydrological model used to track water and ... -
Soil Oxygen Monitoring with Fibre Optode Sensors: Experimental Evaluation in Soil Columns under Fluctuating Water Table and Freeze Thaw Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)The biogeochemical functioning of natural and engineered environments is closely linked to spatial and temporal variations in molecular oxygen (O2) concentrations. A luminescence-based, Multi-Fibre Optode (MuFO) microsensor ...