Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title
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Model-based Evaluation: from Dependability Theory to Security
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-16)How to quantify security is a classic question in the security community that until today has had no plausible answer. Unfortunately, current security evaluation models are often either quantitative but too specific (i.e., ... -
Model-guided Code Assistance for Framework Application Development
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)<p>Object-oriented frameworks are currently widely used in software application development. Unfortunately, they are known to be generally difficult to use because of the difficulty in understanding the concepts and ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Emergency Messaging Delay in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-01)Road crashes, occurring at a high annual rate for many years, demand improvements in transportation systems to provide a high level of on-road safety. Implanting smart sensors, communication capabilities, memory storage ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Price-Responsive Loads in the Operation of Smart Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-23)In this thesis, a demand elasticity model is developed and tested for the dispatch of high voltage power systems and microgrids. The price obtained from dispatching a network in a base-case scenario is used as input to a ... -
Modeling and Control of Low-Voltage DC Microgrid With Photovoltaic Energy Resources
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)The use of DC microgrids is a promising concept that could improve power system reliability and stability in the future. The advantages of microgrids in general include an increase in energy efficiency through lowered ... -
Modeling and Control of the Hybrid Power Flow Controller for Steady-state and Dynamic Studies and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-19)Flexible ac transmission system (FACTS) controllers offer new opportunities to better control power systems, and can address some of the critical challenges faced by the grid, especially in the context of smart grids. ... -
Modeling and Controller Design of a Wind Energy Conversion System Including a Matrix Converter
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-30)In this thesis, a grid-connected wind-energy converter system including a matrix converter is proposed. The matrix converter, as a power electronic converter, is used to interface the induction generator with the grid and ... -
Modeling and Design of Photoconductive and Superconductive Terahertz Photomixer Sources
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Terahertz technology is a fast growing field with variety of applications in biology and medicine, medical imaging, material spectroscopy and sensing, monitoring and spectroscopy in pharmaceutical industry, security, and ... -
Modeling and Evaluating Energy Performance of Smartphones
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)With advances in hardware miniaturization and wireless communication technologies even small portable wireless devices have much communication bandwidth and computing power. These devices include smartphones, tablet ... -
Modeling and Mitigation of Soft Errors in Nanoscale SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-05)Energetic particle (alpha particle, cosmic neutron, etc.) induced single event data upset or soft error has emerged as a key reliability concern in SRAMs in sub-100 nanometre technologies. Low operating voltage, small node ... -
Modeling and Operation of Ground Source Heat Pumps in Electricity Markets Considering Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-17)Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) systems have grown in popularity and acceptance worldwide as an attractive option to replace conventional Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) technologies due to their capacity ... -
Modeling and Performance Analysis of Relay-based Cooperative OFDMA Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-09)Next generation wireless communication networks are expected to provide ubiquitous high data rate coverage and support heterogeneous wireless services with diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. This translates ... -
Modeling and Simulations of Molybdenum Diselenide (MoSe₂) Phototransistors
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-10)Since the first demonstration of graphene, two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted gigantic attentions from the electronic device community. Various 2D materials showing metallic, semiconducting, and insulating ... -
Modeling Management Metrics for Monitoring Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Software systems are growing rapidly in size and complexity, and becoming more and more difficult and expensive to maintain exclusively by human operators. These systems are expected to be highly available, and failure ... -
Modeling of a-Si:H n-i-p detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)The widespread use of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) devices prompted the need for models to identify challenges and solutions early on in the design process.Hydrogenated amorphous silicon photodiodes are ... -
Modeling of a-Si:H TFT I-V Characteristics in the Forward Subthreshold Operation
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin-film transistors (TFTs) are widely used as switching elements in LCD displays and large area matrix addressed senor arrays. In recent years, a-Si:H TFTs have been used ... -
Modeling of Compressed Air Energy Storage for Power System Performance Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-16)In the effective integration of large renewable generation for grid scale applications, pumped-storage hydro and Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) are currently economically and technically feasible alternatives to ... -
Modeling of Renewable Resources in Distribution System Planning and Operation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-03)In recent decades, interest in placing renewable resources in conventional power systems has increased because of their ability to reduce fossil fuel consumption, which leads to the preservation of the environment. The ... -
Modeling Power Consumption of Applications Software Running on Servers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-18)Reducing power consumption in computational processes is important to software devel- opers. Ideally, a tremendous amount of software design efforts goes into considerations that are critical to power efficiencies of ... -
Modeling, Design and Test of an Integrated Optical Neural Recording Device
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-20)It has long been a goal of neuroscientists to understand how electrophysiological activity in the nervous system corresponds to, and causes, specific physiological actions. Such knowledge could be used to develop cures for ...