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Deep Representation Learning and Prediction for Forest Wildfires
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)An average of 8000 forest wildfires occurs each year in Canada burning an average of 2.5M ha/year as reported by the Government of Canada. Given the current rate of climate change, this number is expected to increase each ... -
Deep SELECTOR-JPEG: ADAPTIVE JPEG IMAGE COMPRESSION FOR COMPUTER VISION IN IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND HUMAN VISION
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in many Computer Vision (CV) applications such as image classification. To meet storage/bandwidth requirements, the input images to these CV applications are ... -
Deep-Learning Framework for Estimating Behind the Meter Solar Generation and Electric Vehicle Penetration Level and Time-of-Use
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)The continual increase in the adoption of rooftop solar/photovoltaic (PV) generation and electric vehicles (EVs) presents challenges, as well as opportunities, in distribution power systems. Without monitoring or control, ... -
Degraded Reference Image Quality Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)Images/videos are playing a more and more important role in the 21st century. The perceived quality of visual content often degrades during the process of acquisition, storage, transmission, display and rendering. Since ... -
Delay-Throughput Analysis in Distributed Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-17)A primary challenge in wireless networks is to use available resources efficiently so that the Quality of Service (QoS) is satisfied while maximizing the throughput of the network. Among different resource allocation ... -
Demand Response and Battery Energy Storage Systems in Electricity Markets: Frameworks & Models
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)Ensuring a balance between the generation and demand is one of the most challenging tasks in power systems because of contingencies, sudden load changes, forecasting errors and other disturbances, occurring from time to ... -
Dependence of dark spot growth on cathode/organic interfacial adhesion in Organic Light Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Organic Light Emitting Devices(OLEDs) have several advantages over traditional semiconductor devices such as the possibility of being printable, the potential for low cost fabrication, and the potential ease of integration ... -
Deployment and Debugging of Real-Time Applications on Multicore Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)It is essential to enable information extraction from software. Program tracing techniques are an example of information extraction. Program tracing extracts information from the program during execution. Tracing helps ... -
DER Utilization for Voltage-Sag Mitigation by Applying Different Network Partitioning Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Power quality (PQ) has been gaining increased attention in relation to Active Distribution Systems (ADSs), especially with regard to voltage-related PQ problems (i.e., voltage variation events). Voltage variation events, ... -
Derivative Compressive Sampling with Application to Inverse Problems and Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)In many practical problems in applied sciences, the features of most interest cannot be observed directly, but have to be inferred from other, observable quantities. In particular, many important data acquisition devices ... -
Design and Analysis of a Novel Split and Aggregated Transmission Control Protocol for Smart Metering Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Utility companies (electricity, gas, and water suppliers), governments, and researchers recognize an urgent need to deploy communication-based systems to automate data collection from smart meters and sensors, known as ... -
Design and Analysis of an Adjacent Multi-bit Error Correcting Code for Nanoscale SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-02)Increasing static random access memory (SRAM) bitcell density is a major driving force for semiconductor technology scaling. The industry standard 2x reduction in SRAM bitcell area per technology node has lead to a ... -
Design and Analysis of Beamforming in mmWave Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)To support increasing data-intensive wireless applications, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication emerges as the most promising wireless technology that offers high data rate connections by exploiting a large swath of ... -
Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number/Sequence Generators with Applications in RFID
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)This thesis is concerned with the design and analysis of strong de Bruijn sequences and span n sequences, and nonlinear feedback shift register (NLFSR) based pseudorandom number generators for radio frequency identification ... -
Design and Analysis of Green Mission-Critical Fiber-Wireless Broadband Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-19)In recent years, the ever-increasing environmental friendliness concern has made energy efficiency in telecom networks as an important theme in their operations. Meanwhile, mission-critical (MC) services and systems (such ... -
Design and Analysis of Intelligent Fuzzy Tension Controllers for Rolling Mills
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This thesis presents a fuzzy logic controller aimed at maintaining constant tension between two adjacent stands in tandem rolling mills. The fuzzy tension controller monitors tension variation by resorting to electric ... -
Design and Analysis of Low-power SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The explosive growth of battery operated devices has made low-power design a priority in recent years. Moreover, embedded SRAM units have become an important block in modern SoCs. The increasing number of transistor ... -
Design and Analysis of Medium Access Control Protocols for Broadband Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)The next-generation wireless networks are expected to integrate diverse network architectures and various wireless access technologies to provide a robust solution for ubiquitous broadband wireless access, such as wireless ... -
Design and Analysis of Metastable-Hardened, High-Performance, Low-Power Flip-Flops
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-17)With rapid technology scaling, flip-flops are becoming more susceptible to metastability due to tighter timing budgets and the more prominent effects of process, temperature, and voltage variation that can result in frequent ... -
Design and Analysis of Security Schemes for Low-cost RFID Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)With the remarkable progress in microelectronics and low-power semiconductor technologies, Radio Frequency IDentification technology (RFID) has moved from obscurity into mainstream applications, which essentially provides ...