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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Fault Driven Supervised Tie Breaking for Test Case Prioritization
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-26)Regression test suites are an excellent tool to validate the existing functionality of an application during the development process. However, they can be large and time consuming to execute, thus making them inefficient ... -
A Modular and Scalable Architecture for Millimeter-Wave Beam-forming Antenna Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-24)As the demand for higher data rates increases, wireless technologies (e.g., satellite communications, fifth Generation (5G) wireless communications, and automotive radars) are migrating toward millimeter-wave (mm-W) ... -
Real Time Dynamic State Estimation: Development and Application to Power System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-24)Since the state estimation algorithm has been firstly proposed, considerable research interest has been shown in adapting and applying the different versions of this algorithm to the power transmission systems. Those ... -
Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Surfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-11)The concept of wireless power transfer (WPT) was successfully demonstrated in the early years of the 20th century. One promising application of using the WPT concept is the WPT transmission utilizing a large array of solar ... -
Graphene travelling wave amplifier for integrated millimeter-wave/terahertz systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-09)Terahertz (THz) technology offers exciting possibilities for various applications, including high resolution biomedical imaging, long-wavelength spectroscopy, security monitoring, communications, quality control, and process ... -
Incentive-Based Expansion Planning and Reliability Enhancement Models for Smart Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-01)Due to the rapid progress toward the implementation of smart grid technologies, electric power distribution systems are undergoing profound structural and operational changes. Climate concerns, a reduction in dependency ... -
E-beam Lithography using Dry Powder HSQ Resist Having Long Shelf Life and Nanogap Electrode Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-28)As the industry of nanofabrication developing, high-resolution e-beam lithography (EBL) becomes more and more important. In this thesis, it is discussed that the effective factors behind the resolution of EBL and how it ... -
Smart Roaming: How Operator Cooperation Can Increase Spectrum Usage Efficiency At practically No Cost
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)We propose Smart Roaming (SR), a cooperation technique between cellular telcos operating in the same region, that enables users to roam for performance reasons (instead of lack of coverage from their operator). Within a ... -
Methodologies for Evaluating User Centric Performance of Mobile Network Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Performance is an important attribute of mobile software applications, having a direct impact on end-user's experience. One of the obstacles that make software performance testing difficult to pursue is the lack of performance ... -
Flexibility Provisions from Energy Hubs for Sustainable Energy Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Power systems have some inherent level of flexibility built into the system, to meet the continuous mismatches between the supply and demand. Variability and uncertainty are not new to power systems as loads change over ... -
Ultrasensitive Microwave Near-Field Sensors For Detection, Imaging, and Material Characterization
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Affordable, sensitive, selective, fast-responding, label-free sensors are currently in high demand for many of today's applications and technologies, particularly in the food industry, bio-sensing applications, and quality ... -
Periodic Nonlinear Adaptive Control of Rapidly Time-Varying Linear Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)In adaptive control the goal is to deal with systems that have unknown and/or time-varying parameters. Most techniques are proven for the case in which any time-variation is slow, with results for systems with fast ... -
Facilitating Breast Conserving Surgery Using Preoperative MRI
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Breast cancer is currently considered the most widespread malignancy in women, which costs the lives of approximately 400,000 people annually worldwide. While extremely useful for early detection and diagnosis of breast ... -
An Application of Secure Data Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning on Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Machine learning algorithms over big data have been widely used to make low-priced services better over the years, but they come with privacy as a major public concern. The European Union has made the General Data Protection ... -
New Plug-in Electric Vehicles Charging Models Based on Demand Response Programs for System Reliability Improvement
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Recent years have seen a dramatic worldwide increase in the use of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Their tremendous social, economic, and environmental benefits have made PEVs highly promising alternatives to conventional ... -
Two Port Network Theory Based Design Method of Broadband Doherty Power Amplifier
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) is a widely used communication standard and it mainly features Carrier aggregation (CA). CA increases the user data rate and efficiently exploits the fragmented spectrum by combining various carrier ... -
Nanowire Alignment: Techniques, Quantification, and Applications in Large-Area Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Nanowire alignment is essential for their integration into large-area devices, as well as to obtain certain functionality such as the ability to polarize light and increase surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Various nanowire ... -
Influence of Interface on the Properties of Silicone Nanocomposites
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)The increase in voltage levels and electrical stresses of the electrical equipment have resulted in demands for electrical insulations that have high breakdown strength, low losses, high thermal conductivity, and high ... -
An Unsupervised Approach to Relatedness Analysis of Legal Language
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Learning distributed representations of sentences and analyzing semantic similarity between sentences is one of the essential works in the field of Natural Language Processing. In the domain of legal language, the future ... -
Using Random Digit Representation for Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) was introduced independently by Miller and Koblitz in 1986. Compared to the integer factorization based Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem, ECC provides shorter key length with the ...
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