Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title
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Strategic Trip Planning: Striking a Balance Between Competition and Cooperation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-15)In intelligent transportation systems, cooperative mobility planning is considered to be one of the challenging problems. Mobility planning as it stands today is an in- dividual decision-making effort that takes place in ... -
Strengthening Physical Unclonable Functions using Composition
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)We explore the idea of composing PUFs with the intent that the resultant PUF is stronger than the constituent PUFs. Prior work has proposed a construction, which sub- sequent work has shown to be weak. We revisit this prior ... -
StringFuzz: A Fuzzer for String SMT Solvers
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)We introduce StringFuzz, a software tool for automatically testing string SMT solvers. String SMT solvers are specialised software tools for solving the Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) problem with string contraints, ... -
Strong Induction in Hardware Model Checking
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)Symbolic Model checking is a widely used technique for automated verification of both hardware and software systems. Unbounded SAT-based Symbolic Model Checking (SMC) algorithms are very popular in hardware verification. ... -
Struck-at Fault Tolerance with Emerging Technology RAM in the NeuroSim MLP Neural Network System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)After decades of technology advancements, benefits from conventional dimensional scaling and effective scaling such as strain and high-k gate dielectrics are diminishing. In the post-Moore era, interests gathers around ... -
STT-MRAM characterization and its test implications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-24)Spin torque transfer (STT)-magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) has come a long way in research to meet the speed and power consumption requirements for future memory applications. The state-of-the-art STT-MRAM ... -
Studies of Magnetic Logic Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-20)Magnetic nanoscale devices have shown great promise in both research and industry. Magnetic nanostructures have potential for non-volatile data storage applications, reconfigurable logic devices, biomedical devices and ... -
Studies on processing additives introduced to increase the efficiency of organic solar cells: selection and mechanistic effects
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-20)Polymeric bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted significant interest as a low cost and renewable technology to harvest solar energy. Despite these advantages, their generally low power ... -
Studies on Trade-off Between Throughput and Reliability in Wireless Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-20)In the first part of the thesis, we study the trade-off between the transmission reliability and data rate in high signal-to-noise ratio regime in ad-hoc wireless networks. Bandwidth allocation plays a significant role ... -
A Study of Electrode Material Performance During Food Processing by Pulsed Electric Fields
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-11)Upon the application of high-field pulses across a liquid food product (such as milk, juices, or beer), electric charge accumulates across the membrane of any microbial cell present in the processing zone between the two ... -
A Study of Energy-efficient Routing Supporting Coordinated Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)A wireless ad hoc network is a collection of wireless computing devices that self-configure to form a network independently of any fixed infrastructure. Many wireless ad hoc network devices such as smartphones and tablets ... -
A Study of High Frequency Voltage Effects in Medium Voltage Cable Terminations
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)High-power voltage sourced converters(VSC’s) are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern transmission systems. These systems primarily use switching schemes generating kHz range harmonics, which may be magnified by one ... -
Study of Implementation of CNN on Low-power Platform for Smart Traffic Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Accompanied with the rise of smart city and the development of IoT (Internet of Things), people are looking forward to monitoring and regulating the traffic in a smarter way. Since the deep neural network has shown its ... -
A Study of Linux Perf and Slab Allocation Sub-Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Today, modern processors are equipped with a special unit named PMU that enables software developers to gain access to micro-architectural level information such as CPU cycles count and executed instructions count. The PMU ... -
A Study of Medium and High Voltage Form-Wound Coil Turn-to-Turn Insulation of Converter Fed Rotating Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-09)Converter fed medium voltage motors are increasingly being employed in industrial processes due to their higher efficiency and greater flexibility with respect to speed control. The increased use of motor adjustable speed ... -
A Study of Mobility Models in Mobile Surveillance Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)This thesis explores the role mobile sensor's mobility model and how it affects surveillance system performance in term of area coverage and detection effectiveness. Several algorithms which are categorized into three ... -
A study of Nanofilled Silicone Dielectrics for Outdoor Insulation
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-04)Polymeric insulators are now a common replacement for conventional porcelain and glass string insulators on overhead distribution and transmission lines. The use of this mature technology represents many advantages to the ... -
A Study of Random Duplication Graphs and Degree Distribution Pattern of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-21)The motivation of this thesis is to find the reason why protein-protein interaction networks present a unique degree distribution pattern, where the majority of the proteins are sparsely connected, while densely-connected ... -
A Study of Ranking Routes for Electrical Transmission Lines using Weighted Sum Model and Fuzzy Inference System
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)Selecting a route is the first step in building a new electrical transmission line. The most common practice in selecting a route involves ranking possible route options, which is a complex process demanding many decision ... -
A Study of Stress Grading System of Medium Voltage Motor Fed by Adjustable Speed Drives
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-25)The demand for medium voltage (MV) induction motors with an adjustable speed drive (ASD) has grown significantly over the past decade for many industrial applications. This is mainly because the applications of adjustable ...