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Smart Charging of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in Distribution Systems Considering Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-05)Distribution feeders and equipment are designed to serve peak loads, and in the absence of Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) loads, day-ahead dispatch of feeders is typically performed by optimizing feeder controls for ... -
Smart Distribution Power Systems Reconfiguration using a Novel Multi-agent Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-22)The few past years have witnessed a huge leap in the field of the smart grid communication networks in which many theories are being developed, and many applications are being evolved to accommodate the implementation of ... -
Smart Operation of Centralized Temperature Control System in Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Smart Grid has emerged a very important concept in modern power systems. The integration of different loads such as residential, commercial and industrial into the smart grid and their optimal operation has a significant ... -
Smart Operation of Four-Quadrant Electric Vehicle Chargers in Distribution Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-10)Many policies and programs adopted in the context of climate change mitigation and substitution of fossil fuels are contributing to the continuous development and growth of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in urban mobility systems, ... -
Smart PEV Charging Station Operation and Design Considering Distribution System Impact
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)Penetration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) into the market is expected to be large in the near future. Also, as stated by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, the province is investing $20 million from Ontario's ... -
Smart Planning and Operation in Cellular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Cellular networks are less and less regular as operators add base stations (BSs) to increase coverage and performance. Given these facts, we explore the network planning and operation stages of the downlink of a multi-cell ... -
Smart Roaming: How Operator Cooperation Can Increase Spectrum Usage Efficiency At practically No Cost
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)We propose Smart Roaming (SR), a cooperation technique between cellular telcos operating in the same region, that enables users to roam for performance reasons (instead of lack of coverage from their operator). Within a ... -
Smartphone-enabled Biotelemetric System For a Smart Contact Lens
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)Diabetes describes a disordered metabolic state with an overabundance of glucose in the bloodstream, due to insu cient production or utilization of insulin to allow tissue cells from consuming glucose. People with unmanaged ... -
Snapshotting Mechanisms for Persistent Memory-Mapped Files
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)In this research, we explore ways to enhance the reliability of persistent memory systems. Using Montage (ICPP'21) as our reference model, we identify areas of potential improvement, especially concerning the risk of data ... -
SNGF Selected Node Geographic Forwarding Routing Protocol for VANETs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-31)This thesis presents a protocol for intervehicle communication for use in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET). VANET is a natural extension of mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) in which the restrictions related to power and ... -
A Soft Computing Based Approach for Multi-Accent Classification in IVR Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-04)A speaker's accent is the most important factor affecting the performance of Natural Language Call Routing (NLCR) systems because accents vary widely, even within the same country or community. This variation also occurs ... -
Soft Error Resistant Design of the AES Cipher Using SRAM-based FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-17)This thesis presents a new architecture for the reliable implementation of the symmetric-key algorithm Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Since FPGAs are prone to soft errors ... -
Soft Handoff in MC-CDMA Cellular Networks Supporting Multimedia Services
(University of Waterloo, 2004)An adaptive resource reservation and handoff priority scheme, which jointly considers the characteristics from the physical, link and network layers, is proposed for a packet switching Multicode (MC)-CDMA cellular network ... -
SoftMAC in Heterogeneous Wireless Network
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)Wireless networks are growing exponentially by the steady improvement of its speed and quality. IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) has been developed for mobile computing devices in LANs, in a short ... -
Software and FPGA-Based Hardware to Accelerate Machine Learning Classifiers
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-20)This thesis improves the accuracy and run-time of two selected machine learning algorithms, the first in software and the second on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device. We first implement triplet loss and triplet ... -
Software Approaches to Manage Resource Tradeoffs of Power and Energy Constrained Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-02)Power and energy efficiency have become an increasingly important design metric for a wide spectrum of computing devices. Battery efficiency, which requires a mixture of energy and power efficiency, is exceedingly important ... -
A Software Testbed for Assessing Human-Robot Verbal Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)Verbal interaction provides a natural and social-style interaction mode by which robots can communicate with general public who is likely unknowledgeable in robotics. This interaction mechanism is also very important for ... -
A Software Toolchain for Physical System Description and Synthesis, and Applications to Microfluidic Design Automation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-11)Microfluidic circuits are currently designed by hand, using a combination of the designer’s domain knowledge and educated intuition to determine unknown design parameters. As no microfluidic circuit design software exists ... -
SOI RF-MEMS Based Variable Attenuator for Millimeter-Wave Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)The most-attractive feature of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology is that it enables the integration of a whole system on a single chip, leading to positive effects on the performance, reliability and cost. ... -
Solutions to Mitigate Cross-Phase Modulation Impairment in Coherent Fiber-Optic Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)In this thesis, methods of exploiting and consequently, mitigating the nonlinearities in Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM) dominated ber-optic communication is suggested using the model provided by Ciena Corporation. An ...