Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title
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Joint Compression and Digital Watermarking: Information-Theoretic Study and Algorithms Development
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a covertext in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or ... -
Joint Compression and Watermarking Using Variable-Rate Quantization and its Applications to JPEG
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-27)In digital watermarking, one embeds a watermark into a covertext, in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to a certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment ... -
Joint Source Channel Coding in Broadcast and Relay Channels: A Non-Asymptotic End-to-End Distortion Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)The paradigm of separate source-channel coding is inspired by Shannon's separation result, which implies the asymptotic optimality of designing source and channel coding independently from each other. The result exploits ... -
Just-In-Time Push Prefetching: Accelerating the Mobile Web
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-19)Web pages take noticeably longer to load when accessing the Internet using high-latency wide-area wireless networks like 3G. This delay can result in lower user satisfaction and lost revenue for web site operators. By ... -
Kernelized Supervised Dictionary Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)The representation of a signal using a learned dictionary instead of predefined operators, such as wavelets, has led to state-of-the-art results in various applications such as denoising, texture analysis, and face ... -
Key Agreement over Wiretap Models with Non-Causal Side Information
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-20)The security of information is an indispensable element of a communication system when transmitted signals are vulnerable to eavesdropping. This issue is a challenging problem in a wireless network as propagated signals ... -
Key Randomization Countermeasures to Power Analysis Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-25)It is essential to secure the implementation of cryptosystems in embedded devices agains side-channel attacks. Namely, in order to resist differential (DPA) attacks, randomization techniques should be employed to ... -
Language Evolution to Reduce Code Cloning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Domain-specific languages can significantly speed up the development of software applications. However, it usually takes a few iterations of the language design before it achieves such power. At the same time, many domains ... -
Large-Scale Demand Management in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Future energy grids are expected to rely extensively on controlling consumers' demands to achieve an efficient system operation. The demand-side of the power network is usually constituted of a large number of low power ... -
Large-scale Solar PV Investment Planning Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-14)In the pursuit of a cleaner and sustainable environment, solar photovoltaic (PV) power has been established as the fastest growing alternative energy source in the world. This extremely fast growth is brought about, mainly, ... -
Large-Scale Traffic Flow Prediction Using Deep Learning in the Context of Smart Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Designing and developing a new generation of cities around the world (termed as smart cities) is fast becoming one of the ultimate solutions to overcome cities' problems such as population growth, pollution, energy crisis, ... -
Laser annealing irradiated silicon single-photon avalanche photodiodes for quantum satellite receiver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-11)Single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) are a practical option for space-based quantum communications requiring single-photon detection. However, radiation damage to SPADs significantly increases their dark count rates ... -
Lattice Engineering with Surface Acoustic Waves
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Quantum simulators are special purpose quantum computers designed to examine problems that are impossible to test with classical computers. They can be used to simulate problems in atomic physics, condensed matter physics, ... -
Lattice-Based Motion Planning with Optimal Motion Primitives
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)In the field of navigation for autonomous vehicles, it is the responsibility of a local planner to compute reference trajectories that are then be followed by a tracking controller. These trajectories should be safe, ... -
Lattice-Based Precoding And Decoding in MIMO Fading Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-30)In this thesis, different aspects of lattice-based precoding and decoding for the transmission of digital and analog data over MIMO fading channels are investigated: 1) Lattice-based precoding in MIMO broadcast systems: A ... -
Layered Adaptive Modulation and Coding For 4G Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-21)Emerging 4G standards, such as WiMAX and LTE have adopted the proven technique of Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) to dynamically react to channel fluctuations while maintaining bit-error rate targets of the transmission. ... -
Leakage Power Modeling and Reduction Techniques for Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2006)FPGAs have become quite popular for implementing digital circuits and systems because of reduced costs and fast design cycles. This has led to increased complexity of FPGAs, and with technology scaling, many new ... -
Learning a Motion Policy to Navigate Environments with Structured Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Navigating in uncertain environments is a fundamental ability that robots must have in many applications such as moving goods in a warehouse or transporting materials in a hospital. While much work has been done on navigation ... -
Learning Inverse Dynamics for Robot Manipulator Control
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Model-based control strategies for robot manipulators can present numerous performance advantages when an accurate model of the system dynamics is available. In practice, obtaining such a model is a challenging task which ... -
A Learning Social Referencing Disambiguation Framework for Domestic Service Robots
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)The successful integration of domestic service robots into home environments can bring significant services and convenience to the general population and possibly mitigate important societal issues, such as care provision ...