Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Type "Master Thesis"
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17-21 GHz Low-Noise Amplifier with Embedded Interference Rejection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-06)The ever-growing demand for high performance wireless connectivity has led to the development of fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication standards as well as satellite communication (Satcom). Both 5G wireless ... -
22-32 GHz Low-Noise Amplifier Design in 22-nm CMOS-SOI Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-29)This thesis explores the use of a 22-nm CMOS-SOI technology in the design of a two-stage amplifier which targets wide bandwidth, low noise and modest linearity in the 28 GHz band. A design methodology with a ... -
2D Digital Filter Implementation on a FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)The use of two dimensional (2D) digital filters for real-time 2D data processing has found important practical applications in many areas, such as aerial surveillance, satellite imaging and pattern recognition. In the ... -
A 37-40 GHz Dual-Polarized 16-Element Phased-Array Antenna with Near-Field Probes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-21)With the development of fifth-generation (5G) communication networks, in order to meet the growing demand for high-speed and low-latency wireless communication services, channel capacity has become the main driving force ... -
A 39GHz Balanced Power Amplifier with Enhanced Linearity in 45 nm SOI CMOS
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-20)With the high data rate communication systems that come with fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, the shift of operation to millimeter-wave frequency becomes inevitable. The expected data rate in 5G is significantly ... -
45-nm SOI CMOS Bluetooth Electrochemical Sensor for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-21)Due to increasing rates of diabetes, non-invasive glucose monitoring systems will become critical to improving health outcomes for an increasing patient population. Bluetooth integration for such a system has been previously ... -
5G Fixed Wireless Access for Bridging the Rural Digital Divide
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)Despite the ubiquitous level of mobile and fixed broadband (FB) connectivity that exists for many people today, the availability of high quality FB services in rural communities is generally much lower than in urban ... -
60 Watts Broadband Push Pull RF Power Amplifier Using LTCC Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)The continuous increase in wireless usage forces an immense pressure on wireless communication in terms of increased demand and spectrum scarcity. Service providers for communication services had no choice but to allocate ... -
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) ... -
Accelerating Mixed-Abstraction SystemC Models on Multi-Core CPUs and GPUs
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-28)Functional verification is a critical part in the hardware design process cycle, and it contributes for nearly two-thirds of the overall development time. With increasing complexity of hardware designs and shrinking ... -
Access Network Selection in a 4G Networking Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-18)An all-IP pervasive networking system provides a comprehensive IP solution where voice, data and streamed multimedia can be delivered to users at anytime and anywhere. Network selection is a key issue in this converged ... -
Achievable Rate Regions of Two-Way Relay Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)With the fast development of communication networks, cooperative communication has been more widely used in many different fields, such as satellite networks, broadcast networks, internet and so on. Therefore relay channels ... -
Achieving Fairness in 802.11-Based Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Multi-hop wireless networks based on 802. 11 are being used more widely as an alternative technology for last-mile broadband Internet access. Their benefits include ease of deployment and lower cost. Such networks are ... -
Achieving Scalable, Exhaustive Network Data Processing by Exploiting Parallelism
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Telecommunications companies (telcos) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) monitor the traffic passing through their networks for the purposes of network evaluation and planning for future growth. Most monitoring ... -
Achieving Soft Real-time Guarantees for Interactive Applications in Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)The use of 802.11-based multi-hop wireless mesh networks for Internet access is extensive and growing. The primary advantages of this approach are ease of deployment and lower cost. However, these networks are designed for ... -
Adaptive Compensation of Nonlinear Impairments in Fiber-Optic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)Optical communication systems are vital for high rate telecommunication. Fiber-optic communication system is an excellent choice due to its low loss, high bandwidth, and robustness to electromagnetic interference. However, ... -
Adaptive Control of a First-Order System Providing Linear-Like Behaviour and Asymptotic Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-19)Adaptive control is an approach used to deal with systems having uncertain and/or time-varying parameters. In this thesis, we consider the problem of designing an adaptive controller for a discrete-time first-order plant. ... -
An Adaptive Digital Dynamic Range Controller
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)High fidelity digital audio sources are capable of reproducing a much wider dynamic range than most conventional consumer media (e.g. AM/FM radio and audio cassettes). The research presented here addresses the problem ... -
Adaptive Lattice Reduction in MIMO Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the use of lattice reduction methods such as the one proposed by Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) significantly improves the performance of the suboptimal solutions like ... -
Adaptive Path Following for an Underactuated Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulator
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)We investigate an adaptive path following problem for an underactuated nonholonomic mobile manipulator system and closed planar curves. As opposed to adapting to uncertain or unknown dynamics in the plant, we apply an ...