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a-Si:H-Silicon Hybrid Low Energy X-ray Detector
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Low energy X-ray (< 20 keV) detection is a key technological requirement in applications such as protein crystallography or diffraction imaging. Silicon based optical cameras based on CCDs or CMOS imaging chips coupled to ... -
Abstraction and Refinement Techniques for Ternary Symbolic Simulation with Guard-value Encoding
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)We propose a novel encoding called guard-value encoding for the ternary domain {0, 1, X}. Among the advantages it has over the more conventional dual-rail encoding, the flexibility of representing X with either of <0, 0> ... -
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 ... -
Accommodating a High Penetration of PHEVs and PV Electricity in Residential Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Global warming is threatening the world’s delicate ecosystems to the point where the extinction of numerous species is becoming increasingly likely. Experts have determined that avoiding such a disaster requires an 80% ... -
Accommodating a High Penetration of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-12)The last few decades have seen growing concern about climate change caused by global warming, and it now seems that the very future of humanity depends on saving the environment. With recognition of CO2 emissions as the ... -
Accounting for the Effects of Power System Controllers and Stability on Power Dispatch and Electricity Market Prices
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Recently, the widespread use of power system controllers, such as PSS and FACTS controllers, has led to the analysis of their effect on the overall stability of power systems. Many studies have been conducted to allocate ... -
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 ... -
Active Matrix Flat Panel Bio-Medical X-ray Imagers
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-28)This work investigates the design, system integration, optimization, and evaluation of amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) active matrix flat panel imagers (AMFPI) for bio-medical applications. Here, two hybrid active pixel sensor ... -
Active Pixel Sensor Architectures for High Resolution Large Area Digital Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-02)This work extends the technology of amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film transistors (TFTs) from traditional switching applications to on-pixel signal amplification for large area digital imaging and in particular, is aimed ... -
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 Dual-Mode Arbitration for High-Performance Real-Time Embedded Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)Multi-core platforms can deliver substantial computational power together with minimum costs, compact size, weight, and power usage. However, multi-core architectures are shaking the very foundation of modern real-time ... -
Adaptive Fractal and Wavelet Image Denoising
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The need for image enhancement and restoration is encountered in many practical applications. For instance, distortion due to additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) can be caused by poor quality image acquisition, images ... -
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 ...