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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Implementation Analysis of Strassen-Like Matrix Multiplication Algorithms Based on Block Decomposition
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-11)Matrix multiplication is one of the most widely used operations in all computational fields of linear algebra. The complexity of the naive method for multiplying two n×n matrices requires O(n^3) arithmetic operations over ... -
Push-Pull Based High Efficiency and High Power Broadband Power Amplifiers for Wireless Base Stations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-11)The monthly data throughput by 2021 is forecasted to be ten times that of December 2015. As a result of the on going dramatic increase in demand, service providers are assigned new frequency bands to accommodate more ... -
Hybrid Semiconductor Detectors for High Spatial Resolution Phase-contrast X-ray Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-20)When conventional x-ray radiography presents inadequate absorption-contrast, higher sensitivity can be achieved using phase-contrast methods. The implementation of phase-contrast x-ray imaging using propagation-based ... -
Mining Event Traces from Real-time Systems for Anomaly Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-19)Real-time systems are a significant class of applications, poised to grow even further as autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT) become a reality. The computation and communication tasks of the underlying ... -
Time Synchronization in Distributed Systems without a Central Clock
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-11)Time synchronization and a common understanding of the concept of time is an essential and important aspect of modern computing. Among the drawbacks of current and popular methods, such as the Network Time Protocol, ... -
Cyber-Physical Security of Power Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-07)Smart grids have been witnessing continuous and rapid radical developments in the recent years. With the aim towards a more sustainable energy system, the share of distributed generation resources is ever-increasing and ... -
Next-Generation Solid-State Quantum Emitters
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-31)This thesis details two types of deterministic solid-state quantum emitters, an optically-driven quantum dot source in a tapered nanowire waveguide, and an electrically-driven source implemented by integrating a single-electron ... -
Improving Software Dependability through Documentation Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-31)Software documentation contains critical information that describes a system’s functionality and requirements. Documentation exists in several forms, including code comments, test plans, manual pages, and user manuals. The ... -
22-32 GHz Low-Noise Amplifier Design in 22-nm CMOS-SOI Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-29)This thesis explores the use of a 22-nm CMOS-SOI technology in the design of a two-stage amplifier which targets wide bandwidth, low noise and modest linearity in the 28 GHz band. A design methodology with a ... -
Hardware Implementations of the Lightweight Welch-Gong Stream Cipher Family using Polynomial Bases
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-28)In this thesis we develop a parametrized generic hardware implementation for the Welch-Gong (WG) stream cipher family for low power and low cost applications. WG stream ciphers operate over finite fields, and are comprised ... -
GoA: Actors with Locally Managed Memory for Go
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)Reasoning about concurrent programs and the way they manage memory can be difficult. Single-process programs can allocate memory without concern regarding data races or memory corruption, but multi-threaded programs must ... -
Partial Discharge Classification Using Acoustic Signals and Artificial Neural Networks and its Application in detection of Defects in Ceramic Insulators
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)Online condition monitoring of critical assets constitutes one method whereby the electrical insulation industry can help safeguard grids through the avoidance of system outages due to insulation failure. This thesis ... -
Partial Discharge Classification Using Acoustic Signals and Artificial Neural Networks and its Application in detection of Defects in Ceramic Insulators
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)Online condition monitoring of critical assets constitutes one method whereby the electrical insulation industry can help safeguard grids through the avoidance of system outages due to insulation failure. This thesis ... -
Parameterizing Enterprise WiFi Networks: The Use of Wide Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)We investigate the joint channel, power, and carrier sensing threshold allocation problem in IEEE 802.11ac enterprise networks in a single 160 MHz band and show that the current practice, which is to use narrower channels ... -
Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Resistor Network for Use in Superconducting Analog-to-Digital Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Superconducting micro-electronics (SME) technology is capable of realizing extremely high speed digital receivers performing direct digitization of microwave signals with very low power consumption. SME technology uses ... -
Remote vital signs monitoring using a mm-wave FMCW radar
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)A vision on the migration from contact standard health monitoring measurement devices to non-contact measurement technologies has gained a tremendous attention in literature and in industry. A promising method for realizing ... -
Disorder-based Electromagnetic Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Engineered complex media with unusual and exotic electrical properties, realized through subwavelength building blocks, are leading to the development of new applications and improved functionalities in a variety of fields. ... -
Multi-Purpose Designs in Lightweight Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-22)The purpose of this thesis is to explore a number of techniques used in lightweight cryptography design and their applications in the hardware designs of two lightweight permutations called sLiSCP and sLiSCP-light. Most ... -
Discretize and Conquer: Scalable Agglomerative Clustering in Hamming Space
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks in many machine learning and information retrieval applications. Roughly speaking, the goal is to partition data instances such that similar instances end up in the same group ... -
Leveraging Machine Learning to Improve Software Reliability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Finding software faults is a critical task during the lifecycle of a software system. While traditional software quality control practices such as statistical defect prediction, static bug detection, regression test, and ...
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