Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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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 ... -
Artificial Magnetic Materials for High Gain Planar Antennas
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-30)A new method is proposed to enhance the gain and efficiency of planar printed antennas. The proposed method is based on using artificial magnetic materials as a superstrate for planar printed antennas while maintaining the ... -
Artificial Magnetic Materials: Limitations, Synthesis and Possibilities
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Artificial magnetic materials (AMMs) are a type of metamaterials which are engineered to exhibit desirable magnetic properties not found in nature. AMMs are realized by embedding electrically small metallic resonators ... -
Assessment, Planning and Control of Voltage and Reactive Power in Active Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Driven by economic, technical and environmental factors, the energy sector is currently undergoing a profound paradigm shift towards a smarter grid setup. Increased intake of Distributed and Renewable Generation (DG) units ... -
Association Pattern Analysis for Pattern Pruning, Clustering and Summarization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Automatic pattern mining from databases and the analysis of the discovered patterns for useful information are important and in great demand in science, engineering and business. Today, effective pattern mining methods, ... -
Asynchronous Joint Source-Channel Communication: An Information-Theoretic Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Due to the increasing growth and demand for wireless communication services, new techniques and paradigms are required for the development of next generation systems and networks. As a first step to better differentiate ... -
Augmenting Vehicle Localization with Visual Context
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Vehicle self-localization, the ability of a vehicle to determine its own location, is vital for many aspects of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and telematics where it is often a building block in a more complex ... -
Authentication and Key Exchange in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-12)Over the past decade or so, there has been rapid growth in wireless and mobile applications technologies. More recently, an increasing emphasis has been on the potential of infrastructureless wireless mobile networks that ... -
Automated Compilation Framework for Scratchpad-based Real-Time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-31)ScratchPad Memory (SPM) is highly adopted in real-time systems as it exhibits a predictable behaviour. SPM is software-managed by explicitly inserting instructions to move code and data transfers between the SPM and the ... -
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 ... -
Automatic Document Topic Identification Using Hierarchical Ontology Extracted from Human Background Knowledge
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)The rapid growth in the number of documents available to various end users from around the world has led to a greatly increased need for machine understanding of their topics, as well as for automatic grouping of related ... -
Automatic Recognition and Generation of Affective Movements
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-17)Body movements are an important non-verbal communication medium through which affective states of the demonstrator can be discerned. For machines, the capability to recognize affective expressions of their users and generate ... -
Autoregressive models for text independent speaker identification in noisy environments
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)The closed-set speaker identification problem is defined as the search within a set of persons for the speaker of a certain utterance. It is reported that the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier achieves very high ... -
Backplane Circuit Design with Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors for Flexible Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-20)In recent years, rapid advancement in LED fabrication has enabled the possibility of using GaN micro-LEDs to be the light media in a display panel. It has superior performance in many aspects when compared with OLED ...