Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Behavioral Mimicry Covert Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Covert communication refers to the process of communicating data through a channel that is neither designed, nor intended to transfer information. Traditionally, covert channels are considered as security threats in computer ... -
Behavioral Modeling and Digital Predistortion of Wide- and Multi- Band Transmitter Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-17)The demands for high data rates and ubiquitous/broadband wireless access necessitate the development of radio systems that deploy wide- and multi-band signals. These signals lead to high spectral utilization with negative ... -
Beyond Natural Language Processing: Advancing Software Engineering Tasks through Code Structure
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)Machine learning-based approaches have been widely used to address natural language processing (NLP) problems. Considering the similarities between natural language text and source code, researchers have been working on ... -
Bimetal Temperature Compensation for Waveguide Microwave Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)Microwave communication devices have become ubiquitous in the past decade. As an increasing number of systems compete for spectrum, guard bands have shrunk to increase bandwidth efficiency. The frequency behaviour of ... -
Bimodal Gate Oxide Breakdown in Sub-100 nm CMOS Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-19)In the last three decades, the electronic industry has registered a tremendous progress. The continuous and aggressive downsizing of the transistor feature sizes (CMOS scaling) has been the main driver of the astonishing ... -
Blind Image Quality Assessment: Exploiting New Evaluation and Design Methodologies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-12)The great content diversity of real-world digital images poses a grand challenge to automatically and accurately assess their perceptual quality in a timely manner. In this thesis, we focus on blind image quality assessment ... -
Bounds and Approximations for Stochastic Fluid Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-12)The success of modern networked systems has led to an increased reliance and greater demand of their services. To ensure that the next generation of networks meet these demands, it is critical that the behaviour and ... -
Brain Tumor Diagnosis Support System: A decision Fusion Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)An important factor in providing effective and efficient therapy for brain tumors is early and accurate detection, which can increase survival rates. Current image-based tumor detection and diagnosis techniques are heavily ... -
Breast Cancer Detection Using Microwaves and Microwave-Thermography Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-16)The accelerated growth in Microwave Imaging (MWI) and Microwave Detection (MWD) is driven by microwave ability to penetrate materials that are considered opaque at a shorter wavelength. This elevates MWI potential to ... -
Broadband Doherty Power Amplifiers with Enhanced Linearity for Emerging Radio Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)The ever-increasing demand for utilizing wireless spectra has led to development of spectrally efficient radio systems. While these systems offer much higher data throughput, they employ more sophisticated modulation ... -
Building Scalable and Consistent Distributed Databases Under Conflicts
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-12)Distributed databases, which rely on redundant and distributed storage across multiple servers, are able to provide mission-critical data management services at large scale. Parallelism is the key to the scalability of ... -
CAD Techniques for Robust FPGA Design Under Variability
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-01)The imperfections in the semiconductor fabrication process and uncertainty in operating environment of VLSI circuits have emerged as critical challenges for the semiconductor industry. These are generally termed as process ... -
Capacity analysis in different systems exploiting mobility of VANETs
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Improving road safety and traffic efficiency has been a long-term endeavor for not only government but also automobile industry and academia. After the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) allocated a 75 MHz spectrum ... -
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 ... -
Centralized Rate Allocation and Control in 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) built with commodity 802.11 radios are a cost-effective means of providing last mile broadband Internet access. Their multihop architecture allows for rapid deployment and organic growth of ... -
Channel Access Management for Massive Cellular IoT Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)As part of the steps taken towards improving the quality of life, many of everyday life activities as well as technological advancements are relying more and more on smart devices. In the future, it is expected that every ... -
Channel Estimation and Equalization for Cooperative Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The revolutionary concept of space-time coding introduced in the last decade has demonstrated that the deployment of multiple antennas at the transmitter allows for simultaneous increase in throughput and reliability because ... -
Chaos synchronization and its application to secure communication
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-10)Chaos theory is well known as one of three revolutions in physical sciences in 20th-century, as one physicist called it: Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated ... -
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, ... -
Circuit-Theoretic Physics-Based Antenna Synthesis and Design Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-12)Performance levels expected from future-generation wireless networks and sensor systems are beyond the capabilities of current radio technologies. To realize information capacities much higher than those achievable through ...