Electrical and Computer Engineering
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Flexibility Provisions from Energy Storage Systems and Loads in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)Electric power systems are experiencing a movement toward increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RESs), while having to cope with the retirement of conventional generating units to facilitate an eco-friendly ... -
Data Reduction Algorithms in Machine Learning and Data Science
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-19)Raw data are usually required to be pre-processed for better representation or discrimination of classes. This pre-processing can be done by data reduction, i.e., either reduction in dimensionality or numerosity (cardinality). ... -
Investigating Input Offset Reduction with Timing Manipulation in Low Voltage Sense Amplifiers
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-18)Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs) are ubiquitous in modern computer systems. They provide a fast and relatively compact method of data storage. SRAM cells are read from and written to using analog differential bitline ... -
Failure Localization Aware Protection in All-Optical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)The recent development of optical signal processing and switching makes the all-optical networks a potential candidate for the underlying transmission system in the near future. However, despite its higher transmission ... -
An Adaptive Teachable Robot For Encouraging Teamwork
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Social robots used in education can take different roles, including tutor robots and peer robots. Peer robots (also called teachable robots) take the role of a novice in a teaching interaction while the students take the ... -
CMOS Front-End Circuits in 45-nm SOI Suitable for Modular Phased-Array 60-GHz Radios
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Next Fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies enabling ultra-wideband spectrum availability and increased system capacity can achieve multi-gigabit/s (Gbps) data rates suitable for ultra-high-speed internet access around ... -
Deep-Learning Framework for Estimating Behind the Meter Solar Generation and Electric Vehicle Penetration Level and Time-of-Use
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)The continual increase in the adoption of rooftop solar/photovoltaic (PV) generation and electric vehicles (EVs) presents challenges, as well as opportunities, in distribution power systems. Without monitoring or control, ... -
Deep SELECTOR-JPEG: ADAPTIVE JPEG IMAGE COMPRESSION FOR COMPUTER VISION IN IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND HUMAN VISION
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in many Computer Vision (CV) applications such as image classification. To meet storage/bandwidth requirements, the input images to these CV applications are ... -
Silicon Nanowire Networks as a Printable Semiconductor
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Printed flexible electronics is gaining in popularity and is used in applications such as flexible displays, wearable medical devices and the internet of things. Compared to traditional silicon device manufacturing ... -
HopliteRT Source Queuing Bound Correction
(2020)We present a correction to the analytical source queuing bound for HopliteRT [1], [2], which addresses the counter-example put forward in Section IV-D of [3] by taking the effect of the in-flight jitter suffered by data ... -
Remote Material Characterization using mmWave FMCW Radar with Complex Baseband
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)Material characterization has been a topic of interest for many years due to numerous applications in industry and research. Free space material characterization has seen lots of interest lately due to the non-invasive and ... -
Effects of Corona Discharges on Silicone Rubber Samples under Severe Environmental Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)Silicone rubber (SiR) material has been utilized as a replacement to ceramic insulators. The impetus for increasing SiR applications in outdoor insulators is its unique hydrophobicity. However, SiR insulators are subjected ... -
Impact of Distributed Battery Energy Storage on Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-07)The penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in electricity grids has increased worldwide over the past decade because of their decreasing costs, especially of Photovoltaic (PV) and wind generation resources with ... -
Least-Privilege Identity-Based Policies for Lambda Functions in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)We address least-privilege in a particular context of public cloud computing: identity-based policies for callback functions, called Lambda functions, in serverless applications of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud ... -
DER Utilization for Voltage-Sag Mitigation by Applying Different Network Partitioning Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Power quality (PQ) has been gaining increased attention in relation to Active Distribution Systems (ADSs), especially with regard to voltage-related PQ problems (i.e., voltage variation events). Voltage variation events, ... -
Energy Trading Platforms for Isolated and Inter-connected Microgrids Utilizing Adapted Blockchain
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)The rapid increase in microgrid technology development has led to a decentralized yet interconnected system that is highly flexible and dynamic. This will change the planning and operational strategies from being grid-connected ... -
Dynamic Resource Provisioning and Scheduling in SDN/NFV-Enabled Core Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)The service-oriented fifth-generation (5G) core networks are featured by customized network services with differentiated quality-of-service (QoS) requirements, which can be provisioned through network slicing enabled by ... -
Deep Learning Based Approaches for Imputation of Time Series Models
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-16)Market price forecasting models for Fresh Produce (FP) are crucial to protect retailers and consumers from highly priced FP. However, utilizing the data for forecasting is obstructed by the occurrence of missing values. ... -
A Novel Multi-Layer Framework for Dynamic Operation of Prosumers in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)Research in transactive energy systems, in recent years, has been primarily focused on the financial aspects of peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trade with little attention paid to the operational and practical aspects of how ... -
Light-weight verification of cryptographic API usage
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)A pluggable type system is a light-weight approach for compile-time program verification, which provides more powerful types to both developers and compilers. Developers use pluggable types to boost program understanding, ...