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User Interface Design and Validation for the Automated Rehabilitation System
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-27)In current physical rehabilitation protocols, patients typically perform exercises with intermittent feedback or guidance following the initial demonstrations from the physiotherapist. Although many patient-centered systems ... -
A User-Centric Approach to Improve the Quality of UML-like Modelling Tools and Reduce the Efforts of Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-28)As software systems grow in size and complexity, their development and maintenance are becoming increasingly challenging. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has been proposed as a means to increase the developer's productivity ... -
A User-level, Reliable and Reconfigurable Transport Layer Protocol
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-20)Over the past 15 years, the Internet has proven itself to be one of the most influential inventions that humankind has ever conceived. The success of the Internet can be largely attributed to its stability and ease of ... -
Using Random Digit Representation for Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) was introduced independently by Miller and Koblitz in 1986. Compared to the integer factorization based Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem, ECC provides shorter key length with the ... -
Using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme and Symmetric Key Encryption to Achieve Data Privacy in Databases
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)The Internet has become an essential tool for communication and information access, and with growing demand, new challenges and usage continue to surface. A complimentary tool that came to exist in recent years is Cloud ... -
Using Temporal Evidence and Fusion of Time-Frequency Features for Brain-Computer Interfacing
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a new method of human-machine interaction. It involves the extraction of information from the electroencephalogram (EEG) through signal processing and pattern recognition. The ... -
Using Wireless Communications To Enable Decentralized Analysis and Control of Smart Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-16)The smart grid is a multidisciplinary approach that aims to revolutionize the whole electricity supply chain including generation, transmission and distribution systems in order to overcome the multiple challenges currently ... -
Utilizing Channel State Information for Enhancement of Wireless Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-25)One of the fundamental limitations of mobile radio communications is their time-varying fading channel. This thesis addresses the efficient use of channel state information to improve the communication systems, with a ... -
UWB Radio-over-Fiber System Using Direct Modulated VCSEL
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-06)The demand for efficient and cost-effective transmission and distribution of RF signal is increasing with the rapid development of wireless communication. This thesis studies the effect of using cost-effective vertical ... -
Validation and Parameter Estimation of a Behaviour-Modification Model
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-09)In this thesis, an attempt at validating and identifying parameters of a quantitative model of attitudes and behaviours is presented. The model, established in earlier work, describes the dynamics of a subject's attitude ... -
(VANET IR-CAS): Utilizing IR Techniques in Building Context Aware Systems for VANET
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-18)Most of the available context aware dissemination systems for the Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) are centralized systems with low level of user privacy and preciseness. In addition, the absence of common assessment models ... -
Varactor-Based Tunable Planar Filters and Post-Fabrication Tuning of Microwave Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-25)Post-fabrication tuning of filters is usually realized by adding number of elements for tuning the frequency and/or controlling the couplings between the resonators. The task of these tuning elements is to control resonators ... -
Variability-Aware Design of Static Random Access Memory Bit-Cell
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-03)The increasing integration of functional blocks in today's integrated circuit designs necessitates a large embedded memory for data manipulation and storage. The most often used embedded memory is the Static Random Access ... -
Variability-Aware Design of Subthreshold Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-10)Over the last 10 years, digital subthreshold logic circuits have been developed for applications in the ultra-low power design domain, where performance is not the priority. Recently, devices optimized for subthreshold ... -
Variable Splitting as a Key to Efficient Image Reconstruction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-25)The problem of reconstruction of digital images from their degraded measurements has always been a problem of central importance in numerous applications of imaging sciences. In real life, acquired imaging data is typically ... -
Verification of Pipelined Ciphers
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-29)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the formal verification technique of completion functions and equivalence checking by verifying two pipelined cryptographic circuits, KASUMI and WG ciphers. Most of current methods ... -
Vertical Handoff between 802.11 and 802.16 Wireless Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Heterogeneous wireless networks will be dominant in the next-generation wireless networks with the integration of various wireless access networks. Wireless mesh networks will become to a key technology as an economically ... -
Vertical Semiconductor Nanowires: Engineering Light at Nanoscale
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-01)Vertical semiconductor nanowires have gained considerable attention in the last decade for their attractive optical and electronic properties. Their high surface to volume ratio and their ability to confine charge carriers ... -
Vertical Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)The prospect of producing nanometer channel-length thin film transistors (TFTs) for active matrix addressed pixelated arrays opens up new high-performance applications in which the most amenable device topology is the ... -
Video Quality Assessment: Exploring the Impact of Frame Rate
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Technology advancements in the past decades has led to an immense increase in data traffic over various networks. Videos constitute a major percentage of this traffic and their share is projected to increase at an accelerating ...