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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Transmission Protocol for Video-on-Demand Streaming in 5G Core Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-16)The fifth generation (5G) networks are expected to accommodate various applications with diversified quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. To this end, some new technologies are employed in 5G networks such as software-de ... -
Extracting Counterexamples from Transitive-Closure-Based Model Checking
(IEEE, 2019)We address the problem of how to extract counterexamples for the transitive-closure-based model checking (TCMC) technique. TCMC is a representation of the CTLFC (CTL with fairness constraints) model checking problem in ... -
Comprehensive study of physical unclonable functions on FPGAs: correlation driven Implementation, deep learning modeling attacks, and countermeasures
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-09)For more than a decade and a half, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been presented as a promising hardware security primitive. The idea of exploiting variabilities in hardware fabrication to generate a unique ... -
Decentralized Identity and Access Management Framework for Internet of Things Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-03)The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) domain is about connecting people and devices and systems together via sensors and actuators, to collect meaningful information from the devices surrounding environment and take actions ... -
Protection of Transmission Lines Connected to IG-Based Wind Farms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Over the last few decades, renewable energy sources have been attracting great attention due to the increased cost, limited reserves, and the adverse environmental impact of fossil fuels. Among them, wind energy is one of ... -
Frequency and Voltage Control of Islanded Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Islanded microgrids (MGs), characterized by distributed generators, power consumers, and energy storage systems (ESSs), are designed to signi cantly enhance self-sustainability of future distribution networks and to provide ... -
Temporospatial Context-Aware Vehicular Crash Risk Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)With the demand for more vehicles increasing, road safety is becoming a growing concern. Traffic collisions take many lives and cost billions of dollars in losses. This explains the growing interest of governments, academic ... -
Multi-signal Anomaly Detection for Real-Time Embedded Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)This thesis presents MuSADET, an anomaly detection framework targeting timing anomalies found in event traces from real-time embedded systems. The method leverages stationary event generators, signal processing, and distance ... -
Automated Design Space Exploration and Datapath Synthesis for Finite Field Arithmetic with Applications to Lightweight Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Today, emerging technologies are reaching astronomical proportions. For example, the Internet of Things has numerous applications and consists of countless different devices using different technologies with different ... -
Area and Energy Optimizations in ASIC Implementations of AES and PRESENT Block Ciphers
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-25)When small, modern-day devices surface with neoteric features and promise benefits like streamlined business processes, cashierless stores, and autonomous driving, they are all too often accompanied by security risks due ... -
Monolithically Integrated Phase Change Material GeTe-Based RF Components for Millimeter Wave Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-22)RF switches are the fundamental building blocks for realizing reconfigurable front-ends in communication devices. Currently available RF switches are dominated by semiconductor technology which, while performing adequately ... -
Dynamic Memory Bandwidth Allocation for Real-Time GPU-Based SoC Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-20)Heterogeneous SoC platforms, comprising both general purpose CPUs and accelerators such as a GPU, are becoming increasingly attractive for real-time and mixed-criticality systems to cope with the computational demand of ... -
On the Non-Orthogonal Layered Broadcast Codes in Cooperative Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-20)A multi-fold increase in spectral efficiency and throughput are envisioned in the fifth generation of cellular networks to meet the requirements of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) IMT-2020 on massive connectivity ... -
Resource Allocation in SDN/NFV-Enabled Core Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)For next generation core networks, it is anticipated to integrate communication, storage and computing resources into one unified, programmable and flexible infrastructure. Software-defined networking (SDN) and network ... -
Multi-Drone-Cell 3D Trajectory Planning and Resource Allocation for Drone-Assisted Radio Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Equipped with communication modules, drones can perform as drone-cells (DCs) that provide on-demand communication services to users in various scenarios, such as traffic monitoring, Internet of things (IoT) data collections, ... -
Multi-Robot Path Planning for Persistent Monitoring in Stochastic and Adversarial Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)In this thesis, we study multi-robot path planning problems for persistent monitoring tasks. The goal of such persistent monitoring tasks is to deploy a team of cooperating mobile robots in an environment to continually ... -
Image/Video Compression: Human and Computer Vision Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)As we start a new decade, image and video compression should further improve to satisfy each of the human and computer visions. Human and computer visions have different perspectives on the perceived images and videos, ... -
CDCL(Crypto) and Machine Learning based SAT Solvers for Cryptanalysis
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of conflict-driven clause-learning Boolean satisfiability (CDCL SAT) solvers over industrial problems from a variety of applications such as ... -
Stackelberg Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Hierarchical Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)This thesis explores the application of multi-agent reinforcement learning in domains containing asymmetries between agents, caused by differences in information and position, resulting in a hierarchy of leaders and ... -
On the Orchestration and Provisioning of NFV-enabled Multicast Services
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)The paradigm of network function virtualization (NFV) with the support of software-defined networking has emerged as a prominent approach to foster innovation in the networking field and reduce the complexity involved in ...
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