Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title
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Pressure Wave Velocity Using High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging for Urodynamic Study
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-16)Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) is a noncancerous urologic condition in aging males where an overgrowth of the prostate gland occurs. It notably leads to lower urinary tract symptoms ranging from inconvenient nocturia ... -
Price Forecasting and Optimal Operation of Wholesale Customers in a Competitive Electricity Market
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-05)This thesis addresses two main issues: first, forecasting short-term electricity market prices; and second, the application of short-term electricity market price forecasts to operation planning of demand-side Bulk ... -
Pricing in a Multiple ISP Environment with Delay Bounds and Varying Traffic Loads
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-15)In this thesis, we study different Internet pricing schemes and how they can be applied to a multiple ISP environment. We first take a look at the current Internet architecture. Then the different classes that make up the ... -
Primary and Secondary Frequency Control Techniques for Isolated Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Isolated microgrids have been shown to be a reliable and efficient solution to provide energy to remote communities. From the primary control perspective, due to the low system inertia and fast changes in the output power ... -
Primary Frequency Control with Flywheel Energy Storage Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Over the last decade, concerns about greenhouse gas emissions have increased. Different strategies have been developed to minimize those effects, leading to the development of renewable energy sources worldwide. In recent ... -
Prioritized Unit Propagation and Extended Resolution Techniques for SAT Solvers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)NP-complete problems like the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) Problem are ubiquitous in computer science, mathematics, and engineering. Consequently, researchers have developed algorithms such as Conflict-Driven Clause-Learning ... -
Privacy-Preserving and Regulation-Enabled Mechanisms for Blockchain-based Financial Services
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)With the success of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, blockchain technology has attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry. As a distributed ledger technology, blockchain provides decentralization and ... -
Privacy-Preserving Multi-Quality Charging in V2G network
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-08)Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) network, which provides electricity charging service to the electric vehicles (EVs), is an essential part of the smart grid (SG). It can not only effectively reduce the greenhouse gas emission but ... -
Private Allocation of Public Goods
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-13)We study the problem of designing a truthful mechanism for fair allocation of divisible public goods. We consider a setting with n agents and m items. Each item is associated with a size, and the total size of the allocated ... -
Probing Ising Superconductivity and Light-Induced Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)2H-NbSe2 is a superconducting transition metal dichalcogenide that retains its superconductivity in its two-dimensional (2D) form. Owing to strong spin orbit coupling, 2D 2H-NbSe2 demonstrates unconventional superconductivity ... -
Problem Determination In Message-Flow Internet Services Based On Statistical Analysis of Event Logs
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-23)In a message-flow Internet service where messages travel through multiple nodes, event log analysis is one of the most important methods to identify the root causes of problems. Traditional approaches for event log analysis ... -
Problem-Resolution Dissemination
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)The current problem-solving paradigm for software developers revolves around using a search engine to find knowledge about the problem and its solutions. This approach provides the developer with search results that are ... -
Problems in Cloud Security, Access Control and Logic Locking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-22)In this thesis, we study problems related to security in three different contexts: cloud scheduling, access control, and logic locking to protect digital ICs. The first set of problems relates to security in cloud ... -
Processing Exact Results for Queries over Data Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-11)In a growing number of information-processing applications, such as network-traffic monitoring, sensor networks, financial analysis, data mining for e-commerce, etc., data takes the form of continuous data streams rather ... -
Progressive Lossless Image Compression Using Image Decomposition and Context Quantization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Lossless image compression has many applications, for example, in medical imaging, space photograph and film industry. In this thesis, we propose an efficient lossless image compression scheme for both binary images and ... -
Prolonging Network Lifetime of Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Wireless Sensor Networking is envisioned as an economically viable paradigm and a promising technology because of its ability to provide a variety of services, such as intrusion detection, weather monitoring, security, ... -
Prostate Segmentation and Regions of Interest Detection in Transrectal Ultrasound Images
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)The early detection of prostate cancer plays a significant role in the success of treatment and outcome. To detect prostate cancer, imaging modalities such as TransRectal UltraSound (TRUS) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging ... -
Protection of Direct-Current Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-30)The overwhelming advancement in power electronics converters throughout the past few decades is leading to an increasing interest in the integration of Direct-Current (DC) systems to the existing AC ones on the generation, ... -
Protection of Renewable Energy Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-22)The recent progress in renewable energy (RE) technologies has led to the erection of RE power plants (REPPs) up to the order of several hundred megawatts. Unlike their predecessors, which generally appeared in the form of ... -
The Protection of Transmission Lines Connected to DFIG-Based WTGs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Recently, many countries have proposed various plans to address the issue of climate change, and increasing the capacity of renewables is one of the major common components of such plans. The uncertainty and variability ...