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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 ... -
Anomaly Detection and Fault Localization Using Runtime State Models
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)Software systems are impacting every aspect of our daily lives, making software failures expensive, even life endangering. Despite rigorous testing, software bugs inevitably exist, especially in complex systems. Existing ... -
Antennas and Metamaterials for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-14)The emergence of microwave energy harvesting systems, commonly referred to as rectenna or Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) systems, has enabled numerous applications in many areas since their primary goal is to recycle the ... -
Anti-Patterns for Automatic Program Repairs
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-23)Automated program repair has been a heated topic in software engineering. In recent years, we have witnessed many successful applications such as Genprog, SPR, RSRepair, etc. Given a bug and its test suite, which includes ... -
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 ... -
Appendix to: Dynamic Memory Bandwidth Allocation For Real-Time GPU-Based SOC Platforms
(2020)Appendix to: Dynamic Memory Bandwidth Allocation For Real-Time GPU-Based SOC Platforms -
An Application Layer Non-Repudiation Wireless System: A Cross-Layer Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Non-repudiation techniques are to ensure any communication taking place between two or more parties will be undeniable. Therefore it is crucial to include digital signatures of the involving parties while the communication ... -
Application of a Bi-Geometric Transparent Composite Model to HEVC: Residual Data Modelling and Rate Control
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-25)Among various transforms, the discrete cosine transform (DCT) is the most widely used one in multimedia compression technologies for different image or video coding standards. During the development of image or video ... -
Application of Complex Vectors and Complex Transformations in Solving Maxwell’s Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-20)Application and implication of using complex vectors and complex transformations in solutions of Maxwell’s equations is investigated. Complex vectors are used in complex plane waves and help to represent this type of waves ... -
Application of Nanocrystalline Silicon in Forward Bias Diodes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-13)Nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) is an attractive material for fabrication of low temperature, large area electronic devices due to superior properties versus the traditional amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and polycrystalline ... -
Application of Non-linear Optimization Techniques in Wireless Telecommunication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Non-linear programming has been extensively used in wireless telecommunication systems design. An important criterion in optimization is the minimization of mean square error. This thesis examines two applications: ... -
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 ... -
Application of Turbo-Codes in Digital Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2001)This thesis aims at providing results and insight towards the application of turbo-codes in digital communication systems, mainly in three parts. The first part considers systems of combined turbo-code and modulation. ... -
Application-Based Measures for Developing Cyber-Resilient Control and Protection Schemes in Power Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-04)Electric power systems are a part of the most-crucial infrastructure on which societies depend. In order to operate efficiently and reliably, the physical layer in large electric power networks is coupled with a cyber ... -
Applications of Game Theory and Microeconomics in Cognitive Radio and Femtocell Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Cognitive radio networks have recently been proposed as a promising approach to overcome the serious problem of spectrum scarcity. Other emerging concept for innovative spectrum utilization is femtocells. Femtocells are ... -
Applications of Lattice Codes in Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-20)In the last decade, there has been an explosive growth in different applications of wireless technology, due to users' increasing expectations for multi-media services. With the current trend, the present systems will not ... -
Applications of Lattices over Wireless Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)In wireless networks, reliable communication is a challenging issue due to many attenuation factors such as receiver noise, channel fading, interference and asynchronous delays. Lattice coding and decoding provide efficient ... -
Applying Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Practices and Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has been regarded as the "holy grail" of cryptography for its versatility as a cryptographic primitive and wide range of potential applications. Since Gentry published the first theoretically ... -
Appropriateness of Imperfect CNFET Based Circuits for Error Resilient Computing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-06)With superior device performance consistently reported in extremely scaled dimensions, low dimensional materials (LDMs), including Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET) based technology, have shown the potential ... -
Architectural Design and Test Case Analysis of a Simulator for Failure Localization
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-01)Failure localization involves identifying the suspicious locations of failures by analyzing the reported alarms recorded in the OTN control plane. To expedite the development of failure localization algorithms and reduce ...