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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Microwave Near-Field Imaging and Material Characterization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-27)In recent years, microwave imaging has attracted many researchers from various fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and industrial ones because of its high degree of penetration, non-ionizing and safe nature, ... -
Energy Consumption Analysis of XRP Validator
(2020)The XRP Ledger is an open-source payment system with a primary focus on providing an efficient cross-border payment network. The network achieves distributed consensus and prevents double-spending all while remaining ... -
A low-power dynamic comparator for low-offset applications
(Elsevier, 2019-11)In this paper, a low-power method for double-tail comparators is introduced. Using the proposed method, the power consumption of the pre-amplifier which is the dominant part is reduced considerably. Thanks to this method, ... -
Intelligent Microwaves-Based Modalities for Breast Cancer Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-13)Breast cancer is considered to be one of the major causes of mortality in women worldwide. Detection of breast tumors in their early stage is the key factor for possible successful treatment and can significantly reduce ... -
APPENDIX to DRAMbulism: Balancing Performance and Predictability through Dynamic Pipelining
(2020-03-02)Worst-case execution bounds for real-time programs are highly impacted by the latency of accessing hardware shared resources, such as off-chip DRAM. While many different memory controller designs have been proposed in the ... -
Image-based spatio-temporal model of drug delivery in a heterogeneous vasculature of a solid tumor — Computational approach
(Elsevier, 2019-05)The solute transport distribution in a tumor is an important criterion in the evaluation of the cancer treatment efficacy. The fraction of killed cells after each treatment can quantify the therapeutic effect and plays as ... -
Spatially-Distributed Interactive Behaviour Generation for Architecture-Scale Systems Based on Reinforcement Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-18)This thesis is part of the research activities of the Living Architecture System Group (LASG). LASG develops immersive, interactive art sculptures combining concepts of architecture, art, and electronics which allow occupants ... -
Electromagnetic Fault Injection On Two Microcontrollers: Methodology, Fault Model, Attack and Countermeasures
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-14)Cryptographic algorithms are being applied to various kinds of embedded devices such as credit card, smart phone, etc. Those cryptographic algorithms are designed to be resistant to mathematical analysis, however, passive ... -
Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS₂)-Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) Hybrid Ink for Printed Thin-Film Transistor Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-14)Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFTs) based on Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)-Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS₂) composite films as an active layer were prepared via inkjet printing. There have been many attempts to incorporate ... -
Fine-grained data access control with attribute-hiding policy for cloud-based IoT
(Elsevier, 2019-04-22)Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) is a promising approach to achieve fine-grained access control over the outsourced data in Internet of Things (IoT). However, in the existing CP-ABE schemes, the access ... -
Embedded Systems Security: On EM Fault Injection on RISC-V and BR/TBR PUF Design on FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-06)With the increased usage of embedded computers in modern life and the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), embedded systems security has become a real concern. Especially with safety-critical systems or devices ... -
Stereoscopic image quality assessment by deep convolutional neural network
(Elsevier, 2019-01)In this paper, we propose a no-reference (NR) quality assessment method for stereoscopic images by deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). Inspired by the internal generative mechanism (IGM) in the human brain, which ... -
Enhanced photo-stability of inverted organic solar cells via using polyethylenimine in the electron extraction layers
(Elsevier, 2019-10)The influence of using Polyethylenimine (PEI) in the electron extraction layers (EELs) on the photo-stability of inverted organic solar cells (OSCs) is investigated. Results show that introducing PEI in the commonly used ... -
P2TA: Privacy-preserving task allocation for edge computing enhanced mobile crowdsensing
(Elsevier, 2019-08)In conventional mobile crowdsensing (MCS) applications, the crowdsensing server (CS-server) needs mobile users’ precise locations for optimal task allocation, which raises privacy concerns. This paper proposes a ... -
A User-Centric Approach to Improve the Quality of UML-like Modelling Tools and Reduce the Efforts of Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-28)As software systems grow in size and complexity, their development and maintenance are becoming increasingly challenging. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has been proposed as a means to increase the developer's productivity ... -
Optimal Power-Sharing Control for MTDC Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)Power systems have been developing over the past few decades, especially in terms of increasing efficiency and reliability, as well as in meeting the recent rapid growth in demand. Therefore, High Voltage Direct Current ... -
Solutions to Mitigate Cross-Phase Modulation Impairment in Coherent Fiber-Optic Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)In this thesis, methods of exploiting and consequently, mitigating the nonlinearities in Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM) dominated ber-optic communication is suggested using the model provided by Ciena Corporation. An ... -
Learning a Motion Policy to Navigate Environments with Structured Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Navigating in uncertain environments is a fundamental ability that robots must have in many applications such as moving goods in a warehouse or transporting materials in a hospital. While much work has been done on navigation ... -
Design and Cryptanalysis of Lightweight Symmetric Key Primitives
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)The need for lightweight cryptographic primitives to replace the traditional standardized primitives such as AES, SHA-2 and SHA-3, which are unrealistic in constrained environments, has been anticipated by the cryptographic ... -
Virtual Assistant Design for Water Systems Operation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Water management systems such as wastewater treatment plants and water distributions systems are big systems which include a multitude of variables and performance indicators that drive the decision making process for ...
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