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Behavioral Modeling and Digital Predistortion of Wide- and Multi- Band Transmitter Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-17)The demands for high data rates and ubiquitous/broadband wireless access necessitate the development of radio systems that deploy wide- and multi-band signals. These signals lead to high spectral utilization with negative ... -
Behavioral Modeling of Unmatched Nonlinear Devices Driven with Modulated Signal Stimuli using Volterra Series
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-24)The accurate simulation of nonlinear radio frequency (RF) circuits under unmatched impedance conditions depends heavily on the device model used. Recently, measurement-based models under unmatched conditions were proposed ... -
Behavioural Modeling and Linearization of RF Power Amplifier using Artificial Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-11)Power Amplifiers (PAs) are the key building blocks of the emerging wireless radios systems. They dominate the power consumption and sources of distortion, especially when driven with modulated signals. Several approaches ... -
Behind-the-Meter Compressed Air Energy Storage Feasibility and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-30)In many jurisdictions, commercial and industrial (C&I) customers are charged for their energy consumption as well as the power drawn from the grid at peak load hours. In Ontario, the demand-based charge component of the ... -
Beyond Natural Language Processing: Advancing Software Engineering Tasks through Code Structure
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)Machine learning-based approaches have been widely used to address natural language processing (NLP) problems. Considering the similarities between natural language text and source code, researchers have been working on ... -
Bimetal Temperature Compensation for Waveguide Microwave Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)Microwave communication devices have become ubiquitous in the past decade. As an increasing number of systems compete for spectrum, guard bands have shrunk to increase bandwidth efficiency. The frequency behaviour of ... -
Bimodal Gate Oxide Breakdown in Sub-100 nm CMOS Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-19)In the last three decades, the electronic industry has registered a tremendous progress. The continuous and aggressive downsizing of the transistor feature sizes (CMOS scaling) has been the main driver of the astonishing ... -
Bit Serial Systolic Architectures for Multiplicative Inversion and Division over GF(2<sup>m</sup>)
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Systolic architectures are capable of achieving high throughput by maximizing pipelining and by eliminating global data interconnects. Recursive algorithms with regular data flows are suitable for systolization. The ... -
Bit-vector Support in Z3-str2 Solver and Automated Exploit Synthesis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-30)Improper string manipulations are an important cause of software defects, which make them a target for program analysis by hackers and developers alike. Symbolic execution based program analysis techniques that systematically ... -
Blind Image Quality Assessment: Exploiting New Evaluation and Design Methodologies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-12)The great content diversity of real-world digital images poses a grand challenge to automatically and accurately assess their perceptual quality in a timely manner. In this thesis, we focus on blind image quality assessment ... -
Blind M-FSK Modulation in the ISI Channel
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Channel estimation has received considerable attention over the years for its contribution to more reliable signal decoding. General wireless communication environment would cause multi-path fading for signals that propagate ... -
Block co-polymer self-assembly
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-26)Contemporary electronic industry heavily relies on its capability to fabricate electronic devices with small feature size. The race to fabricate higher number of electronic devices per area has faced critical miniaturization ... -
Blockchain Based Election Architecture using XRPL
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)The advent of blockchain technology in 2008 has inspired researchers to explore its applications in various fields including health, inventory management and voting. Governments around the world have been looking for secure ... -
Blockchain for Transparent Data Management Toward 6G
(Elsevier, 2021-07)The wealth of user data acts as a fuel for network intelligence toward the sixth generation wireless networks (6G). Due to data heterogeneity and dynamics, decentralized data management (DM) is desirable for achieving ... -
Bluenose II: Towards Faster Design and Verification of Pipelined Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)The huge demand for electronic devices has driven semiconductor companies to create better products in terms of area, speed, power etc. and to deliver them to market faster. Delay to market can result in lost opportunities. ... -
Bootstrapping Secure Multicast using Kerberized Multimedia Internet Keying
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)We address bootstrapping secure multicast in enterprise and public-safety settings. Our work is motivated by the fact that secure multicast has important applications in such settings, and that the application setting ... -
Bottom-Gate TFTs With Channel Layer Deposited by Pulsed PECVD
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) is a promising material for Thin-Film Transistors (TFTs) offering potentially higher mobilities and improved stability over hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H). The slow growth rate ... -
Bounded Model Checking of Industrial Code
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)Abstract: Bounded Model Checking(BMC) is an effective and precise static analysis technique that reduces program verification to satisfiability (SAT) solving. However, with a few exceptions, BMC is not actively used in ... -
Bounds and Approximations for Stochastic Fluid Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-12)The success of modern networked systems has led to an increased reliance and greater demand of their services. To ensure that the next generation of networks meet these demands, it is critical that the behaviour and ... -
Brain Tumor Diagnosis Support System: A decision Fusion Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)An important factor in providing effective and efficient therapy for brain tumors is early and accurate detection, which can increase survival rates. Current image-based tumor detection and diagnosis techniques are heavily ...