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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On Occupancy Based Randomized Load Balancing for Large Systems with General Distributions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-13)Multi-server architectures are ubiquitous in today's information infrastructure whether for supporting cloud services, web servers, or for distributed storage. The performance of multi-server systems is highly dependent ... -
Scalable Surfaces for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)The idea of collecting electromagnetic (EM) energy and converting it into various forms of useful power dates back to the early 20th century. Nikola Tesla's wireless power transfer experiments demonstrated the concept ... -
Low-Complexity Multi-User MIMO Algorithms for mmWave WLANs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)Very high throughput and high-efficiency wireless local area networks (WLANs) have become essential for today's significant global Internet traffic and the expected significant global increase of public WiFi hotspots. Total ... -
Hardware Implementation of Barrett Reduction Exploiting Constant Multiplication
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-01)The efficient realization of an Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem is contingent on the efficiency of scalar multiplication. These systems can be improved by optimizing the underlying finite field arithmetic operations which are ... -
Assessing user specifications of robot behaviour for material transport tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)Robots are an established component of many existing manufacturing processes. In the majority of cases, these robots operate in segregated areas, separated from human workers. However, as robots' capabilities in sensing ... -
Andreev Bound States in Topological-Insulator-Based Josephson Junction
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-24)The discovering and manipulating of Majorana fermions have been the frontier of condensed matter physics, not only because it is the first realization of Majorana’s theoretical prediction, but ... -
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Flux Qubits
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)This thesis presents circuit quantum electrodynamic (cQED) experiments done with artificial atoms coupled to a high quality factor superconducting microwave resonator. This work discusses the theoretical framework, design, ... -
Towards Synthetic Dataset Generation for Semantic Segmentation Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Recent work in semantic segmentation research for autonomous vehicles has shifted towards multimodal techniques. The driving factor behind this is a lack of reliable and ample ground truth annotation data of real-world ... -
New Convolutional Neural Network Topology with Compressed Information to Enhance Accuracy for Image Classification Task
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Source coding and deep learning are two major branches in the field of information processing. Source coding encodes information that can be summarised with patterns into certain representation without semantic consideration. ... -
Autonomous Driving: Mapping and Behavior Planning for Crosswalks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)As autonomous driving integrates with every day traffic, early adopters are initially skeptical and designers are overly cautious. With safety as the top priority, current systems are sometimes too slow at executing maneuvers. ... -
Development of SOI-based Thermally Actuated Micromirror
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Micromirror is a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) device used to steer light by tilting or displacing a reflective surface. It is applied in numerous scanning applications and display technologies such as Light ... -
Abstraction Mechanism on Neural Machine Translation Models for Automated Program Repair
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Bug fixing is a time-consuming task in software development. Automated bug repair tools are created to fix programs with little or no human effort. There are many existing tools based on the generate-and-validate (G&V) ... -
I/Q Imbalance Identification and Compensation for Millimeter-wave MIMO Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)Today’s fourth generation (4G) cellular mobile communication networks are tasked with providing service for an ever increasing number of mobile users and their demand for increased data rates. The fifth generation (5G) ... -
Usability of the Access Control System for OpenLDAP
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)This thesis addresses the usability of the Access Control System of OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP is a open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is a protocol that communicates with a ... -
Topological Insulator-Superconductor Heterostructures and Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)A 3D topological insulator has fully gapped insulating bulk state but a conducting surface. Such conducting “surface” states are formed with helical Dirac fermions, with spin-momentum strictly locked by spin-orbital coupling. ... -
Expanding the Microfluidic Design Automation Capabilities of Manifold: Electrophoretic Cross and Time-Domain Simulation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Lab-on-a-chip devices are finding applications in several different fields, from point-of-care diagnostics to genome sequencing. However, lab-on-a-chip is a multidimensional field that makes it difficult for designers to ... -
Enhancing System Reliability Utilizing Private Electric Vehicle Parking Lots Accounting for the Uncertainties of Renewables
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Integration of renewable energy sources into electric grids comes with significant challenges. The produced energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar is intermittent, non-dispatchable and uncertain. The uncertainty ... -
Quantum experiments with single-photon spin-orbit lattice arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)The thesis introduces two single-photon experiments with the lattice of spin-orbit arrays. The basic background knowledge has been introduced in Chapter 1. Chapters 2-4 describe the detailed techniques used in these two ... -
Bayesian Deep Learning and Uncertainty in Computer Vision
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-17)Visual data contains rich information about the operating environment of an intelligent robotic system. Extracting this information allows intelligent systems to reason and decide their future actions. Erroneous visual ... -
Multi-purpose Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-12)This thesis proposes a multi-purpose electromagnetic energy harvesting system that harnesses mechanical energy from diverse types of mechanical motion sources and converts it into low power electrical energy. The harvested ...
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