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An Architecture for Reliable Encapsulation Endpoints using Commodity Hardware
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-15)Customized hardware is expensive and making software reliable is difficult to achieve as complexity increases. Recent trends towards computing in the cloud have highlighted the importance of being able to operate continuously ... -
An Architecture for the AES-GCM Security Standard
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The forth recommendation of symmetric block cipher mode of operation SP800-38D, <em>Galois/Counter Mode of Operation</em> (GCM) was developed by David A McGrew and John Viega. GCM uses an approved symmetric key block ... -
Area and Energy Optimizations in ASIC Implementations of AES and PRESENT Block Ciphers
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-25)When small, modern-day devices surface with neoteric features and promise benefits like streamlined business processes, cashierless stores, and autonomous driving, they are all too often accompanied by security risks due ... -
An Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant for Microelectronic Circuits Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-14)For several decades, personal computers have been used as a tool to enhance training and education. Some of the early computer systems used in this field, referred to as Computer Based Training (CBT) and Computer Aided ... -
Artificial Magnetic Materials for High Gain Planar Antennas
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-30)A new method is proposed to enhance the gain and efficiency of planar printed antennas. The proposed method is based on using artificial magnetic materials as a superstrate for planar printed antennas while maintaining the ... -
Artificial Magnetic Materials: Limitations, Synthesis and Possibilities
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Artificial magnetic materials (AMMs) are a type of metamaterials which are engineered to exhibit desirable magnetic properties not found in nature. AMMs are realized by embedding electrically small metallic resonators ... -
Artificial Neural Networks for Microwave Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)Microwave detection techniques based on the theory of perturbation of cavity resonators are commonly used to measure the permittivity and permeability of objects of dielectric and ferrite materials at microwave frequencies. ... -
Assessing Mission-critical Vehicular Safety Applications under Various Network Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)Enabling communication among vehicles can facilitate the deployment of safety applications that can improve driving safety and reduce traffic-related fatalities. Assessing the reliability of these safety applications is ... -
Assessing user specifications of robot behaviour for material transport tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)Robots are an established component of many existing manufacturing processes. In the majority of cases, these robots operate in segregated areas, separated from human workers. However, as robots' capabilities in sensing ... -
Assessment of Battery Capacity Fading in Partially-Decoupled Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System Topologies for Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-16)Battery energy storage system (ESS) is a major component of an electric vehicle (EV), as it supplies the entire propulsion power, constitutes a significant share of the EV’s cost and weight, and plays a key role in EV ... -
Assessment of Germanane Field Effect Transistors: From Intrinsic Device to CMOS Circuit Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-02)Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and black phosphorus (BP) have been in the spotlight for next-generation complementary metal-oxide- semiconductor (CMOS) technology due ... -
Assessment of Germanane Field-Effect Transistors for CMOS Technology
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-10-13)Using self-consistent atomistic quantum transport simulations, the device characteristics of n-type and p-type germanane (GeH) field-effect transistors (FETs) are evaluated. While both devices exhibit near-identical off-state ... -
Assessment of High-Frequency Performance Limit of Black Phosphorus Field-Effect Transistors
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-05-18)Recently gigahertz frequencies have been reported with black phosphorus (BP) field-effect transistors (FETs), yet the high-frequency performance limit has remained unexplored. Here we project the frequency limit of BP FETs ... -
An Assessment of, and Improvements to, the Digital Forensics Acquisition Process of a Law Enforcement Agency
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-17)Forensics addresses the collection and analysis of evidence. Digital forensics is forensics in the context of digital devices. It is a rapidly evolving field employed in various organizations such as law enforcement, ... -
Assessment, Planning and Control of Voltage and Reactive Power in Active Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Driven by economic, technical and environmental factors, the energy sector is currently undergoing a profound paradigm shift towards a smarter grid setup. Increased intake of Distributed and Renewable Generation (DG) units ... -
Association Pattern Analysis for Pattern Pruning, Clustering and Summarization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Automatic pattern mining from databases and the analysis of the discovered patterns for useful information are important and in great demand in science, engineering and business. Today, effective pattern mining methods, ... -
Astra Version 1.0: Evaluating Translations from Alloy to SMT-LIB
(2019-06-13)We present a variety of translation options for converting Alloy to SMT-LIB via Alloy’s Kodkod interface. Our translations, which are implemented in a library that we call Astra, are based on converting the set and relational ... -
Asynchronous Joint Source-Channel Communication: An Information-Theoretic Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Due to the increasing growth and demand for wireless communication services, new techniques and paradigms are required for the development of next generation systems and networks. As a first step to better differentiate ... -
An Attack and a Defence in the Context of Hardware Security
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-27)The security of digital Integrated Circuits (ICs) is essential to the security of a computer system that comprises them. We present an improved attack on computer hardware that avoids known defence mechanisms and as such ... -
Attack on WiFi-based Location Services and SSL using Proxy Servers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)Wireless LANs are very common in any household or business today. It allows access to their home or business network and the Internet without using wires. Their wireless nature allows mobility and convenience for the user ...