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R-D Optimal Scalable Video Coding Using Soft Decision Quantization
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-22)In this thesis, we study the concept of scalable video coding as implemented in the extension to the H.264 video coding standard. Specifically, for the spatial and quality scalability scenarios, we propose an optimization ... -
R2Fix: Automatically Generating Bug Fixes from Bug Reports
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-08)Many bugs, even those that are known and documented in bug reports, remain in mature software for a long time due to the lack of the development resources to fix them. We propose a general approach, R2Fix, to automatically ... -
Radio Resource Management for Cellular CDMA Systems Supporting Heterogeneous Services
(University of Waterloo, 2002)A novel radio resource management (RRM) scheme, which jointly considers the system characteristics from the physical, link and network layers, is proposed for cellular code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. ... -
Radio Resource Management for Wireless Mesh Networks Supporting Heterogeneous Traffic
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-07)Wireless mesh networking has emerged as a promising technology for future broadband wireless access, providing a viable and economical solution for both peer-to-peer applications and Internet access. The success of wireless ... -
Radio Resource Management in a Heterogeneous Wireless Access Medium
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-01)In recent years, there has been a rapid evolution and deployment of wireless networks. In populated areas, high-rate data access is enabled anywhere and anytime with the pervasive wireless infrastructure such as the ... -
Radio Resource Management in LTE-Advanced Systems with Carrier Aggregation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-16)In order to meet the ever-increasing demand for wireless broadband services from fast growing mobile users, the Long Term Evolution -Advanced (LTE-A) standard has been proposed to effectively improve the system capacity ... -
Radiotherapy Cancer Treatment: Investigating Real-Time Position and Dose Control, the Sensor-Delayed Plant Output Estimation Problem, and the Nonovershooting Step Response Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-18)For over a century, physicians have prescribed x-ray radiation to destroy or impede the growth of cancerous tumours. Modern radiation therapy machines shape the radiation beam to balance the competing goals of maximizing ... -
Raman Characterization and Applications of Vertical Semiconductor Nanowires
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-17)Vertically oriented nanowires are gaining a considerable amount of attention for a wide variety of applications ranging from lasers to solar cells. Raman spectroscopy has also been developed into a powerful tool which has ... -
Randomized Lempel-Ziv Compression for Anti-Compression Side-Channel Attacks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-31)Security experts confront new attacks on TLS/SSL every year. Ever since the compression side-channel attacks CRIME and BREACH were presented during security conferences in 2012 and 2013, online users connecting to HTTP ... -
Randomized Resource Allocaion in Decentralized Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-24)Ad hoc networks and bluetooth systems operating over the unlicensed ISM band are in-stances of decentralized wireless networks. By definition, a decentralized network is com-posed of separate transmitter-receiver pairs ... -
Rank-switching, Open-row DRAM Controller for Mixed-Critical Real-Time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)In this thesis, we present a rank-switching open-row DRAM controller for mixed critical real time systems. This memory controller is optimized for multi-requestor and multi-rank memory systems. The key to improved performance ... -
Rapid Prototyping Technologies for Processing of Nanomaterials with Applications to Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-09)The focus of this thesis is on the processing of nanomaterials using rapid prototyping technologies. To develop the necessary skills in fabrication and electronics, a thin film microheater was developed and applied to ... -
Rate Distortion Theory for Causal Video Coding: Characterization, Computation Algorithm, Comparison, and Code Design
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-17)Due to the sheer volume of data involved, video coding is an important application of lossy source coding, and has received wide industrial interest and support as evidenced by the development and success of a series of ... -
RC Snubber Design using Root-Loci Approach for Synchronous Buck SMPS
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis presents an analytical approach using Root-Loci method for designing optimum passive series RC snubbers for continuous-current synchronous buck switch mode power supply (SMPS). Synchronous buck SMPS is ... -
Reactive RF Sputtering of VO2
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)There are multiple oxides that exhibit metal-to-insulator transition, VO2 is one of them. What makes it unique is that the transition occurs at near room temperature, thereby making the energy cost of switching very low. ... -
A Real Time Draggable Frame Capture System with Mobile Device
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)In this thesis, a real time draggable frame grabber media system is proposed. The user can simultaneously acquire the snapshot from a live video playing on a display by simply using an intuitive drag hand gesture with their ... -
Real Time Dynamic State Estimation: Development and Application to Power System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-24)Since the state estimation algorithm has been firstly proposed, considerable research interest has been shown in adapting and applying the different versions of this algorithm to the power transmission systems. Those ... -
Real Time Tracking System and Data Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)Today, for various purposes, vehicle tracking systems are used for determining the geographic location of vehicles and transmitting this information to a data center. For detecting the location, a GPS is used, and for the ... -
Real Time Vehicle Tracking System and Energy Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)Technology has been growing rapidly and various fields of technology can be combined to advance societies. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of these technologies that combines and connects a variety of things to come ... -
Real-Time FPGA-Based Testbed for Evaluating Digital Predistortion in Fully Digital MIMO Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)As one of the key enabling technologies of 5G networks, massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters use many transmit chains to ensure a very high data rate and acceptable signal quality. Realizing Massive ...