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Medium Access Control, Packet Routing, and Internet Gateway Placement in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-10)Road accidents represent a serious social problem and are one of the leading causes of human death and disability on a global scale. To reduce the risk and severity of a road accident, a variety of new safety applications ... -
Memory Efficient Scheduling for Multicore Real-time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-18)Modern real-time systems are becoming increasingly complex and requiring significant computational power to meet their demands. Since the increase in uniprocessor speed has slowed down in the last decade, multicore processors ... -
MEMS Actuation and Self-Assembly Applied to RF and Optical Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The focus of this work involves optical and RF (radio frequency) applications of novel microactuation and self-assembly techniques in MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems). The scaling of physical forces into the micro ... -
MEMS Switches Implemented in Different Technologies for RF Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Microfabrication technologies allow building micro-scale and nano-scale mechanical switches. Despite the fact that the solid-state switches exhibit superior performance as compared to their micro-mechanical competitors ... -
MEMS-Based Millimeter Front-end for Automotive Radar Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Automotive front-end radars are key components in modern vehicles. They are used in automatic cruise control (ACC) for advanced drive-assistance and security functions, including collision-avoidance systems. Automotive ... -
Message Forwarding and Scheduling in Delay Tolerant Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-15)Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) has recently received considerable attention from the research community. This type of networks is characterized by frequent disconnections due to propagation phenomena, node mobility, and ... -
Metamaterials for Decoupling Antennas and Electromagnetic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-25)This research focuses on the development of engineered materials, also known as meta- materials, with desirable effective constitutive parameters: electric permittivity (epsilon) and magnetic permeability (mu) to decouple ... -
Metasploit for Cyber-Physical Security Testing with Real-Time Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)Metasploit is a framework for cybersecurity testing. The Metasploit Framework introduced the Hardware Bridge API to enable security testing of cyber-physical systems. Cyber-physical systems and tests/attacks on the systems ... -
Metasurfaces for Antennas, Energy Harvesting and Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)Metamaterials are materials with artificial structures, engineered to produce electromagnetic properties not readily available in nature. Metamaterials have generated broad interest and utilization in various applications ... -
Method-Specific Access Control in Java via Proxy Objects using Annotations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-31)Partially restricting access to objects enables system designers to finely control the security of their systems. We propose a novel approach that allows granting partial access at method granularity on arbitrary objects ... -
Methodologies for Evaluating User Centric Performance of Mobile Network Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Performance is an important attribute of mobile software applications, having a direct impact on end-user's experience. One of the obstacles that make software performance testing difficult to pursue is the lack of performance ... -
A methodology for designing 2.45 GHz wireless rectenna system utilizing Dickson Charge Pump with Optimized Power Efficiency
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)In the present thesis, I have proposed methodology of two stages Dickson charge pump, which is capable of harvesting energy at 2.45 GHz RF signal to power any low powered device. Presented design uses a simple and inexpensive ... -
A Methodology for Reliable Detection of Anomalous Behavior in Smartphones
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)Smartphones have become the most preferred computing device for both personal and business use. Different applications in smartphones result in different power consumption patterns. The fact that every application has ... -
Methods for Nonlinear Impairments Compensation in Fiber-Optic Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-09)Fiber optic links are the backbone of the current high-speed tele- and data communi- cation networks. Two major factors which cause degradation in the performance of this type of communication systems are ber optic link ... -
Methods for Reducing Monitoring Overhead in Runtime Verification
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-18)Runtime verification is a lightweight technique that serves to complement existing approaches, such as formal methods and testing, to ensure system correctness. In runtime verification, monitors are synthesized to check a ... -
Microgrid Enabling Towards the Implementation of Active Distribution Systems: Planning, Operation, and Energy Trading
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-25)Recent years have perceived a substantial surge in interest in green technologies due to the growing awareness about the environmental concerns and the technologies’ development, which have resulted in considerable utilization ... -
Microgrid Enabling Towards the Implementation of Smart Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-21)Smart grids have emerged as dominant platforms for effectively accommodating high penetration of renewable-based distributed generation (DG) and electric vehicles (EVs). These smart paradigms play a pivotal role in the ... -
Microwave Medical Imaging Using Inverse Radon Transform and Quasi-Static Simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)The features of Microwave Imaging (MI) drive its potential to be widely implemented in different fields. Its high penetration depth, comfortable usage, non-ionizing nature, and low-cost operation have attracted researchers ... -
Microwave Near-Field Imaging and Material Characterization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-27)In recent years, microwave imaging has attracted many researchers from various fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and industrial ones because of its high degree of penetration, non-ionizing and safe nature, ... -
Microwave near-field probes to detect electrically small particles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-22)Microwave near-field probes (MNPs) confine evanescent fields to regions that are substantially smaller than the wavelength at the operation frequency. Such probes are able to resolve subwavelength features, thus providing ...