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Distance Measurement-Based Cooperative Source Localization: A Convex Range-Free Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)One of the most essential objectives in WSNs is to determine the spatial coordinates of a source or a sensor node having information. In this study, the problem of range measurement-based localization of a signal source ... -
Distributed Medium Access Control for QoS Support in Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-01)With the rapid growth of multimedia applications and the advances of wireless communication technologies, quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia services in heterogeneous wireless networks has been an important ... -
Distributed Power Control and Medium Access Control Protocol Design for Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)In the past decade, the development of wireless communication technologies has made the use of the Internet ubiquitous. With the increasing number of new inventions and applications using wireless communication, more ... -
Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)Research on multisensor data fusion aims at providing the enabling technology to combine information from several sources in order to form a unifi ed picture. The literature work on fusion of conventional data provided ... -
Distributed Secondary Control of Hybrid ac/dc Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-25)This thesis focuses on studying hybrid ac/dc-microgrids, composed of an ac-microgrid and a dc-microgrid, connected by Interlinking Converters (ICs). Specifically, this work is focused on developing distributed secondary ... -
Distributed Target Engagement in Large-scale Mobile Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)Sensor networks comprise an emerging field of study that is expected to touch many aspects of our life. Research in this area was originally motivated by military applications. Afterward sensor networks have demonstrated ... -
Distributed Task Allocation and Task Sequencing for Robots with Motion Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-20)This thesis considers two routing and scheduling problems. The first problem is task allocation and sequencing for multiple robots with differential motion constraints. Each task is defined as visiting a point in a subset ... -
Distribution System Planning and Reliability Assessment under High DG Penetration
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-11)With power system restructuring, continuous growth of demand, and deregulation, small, scattered generators referred to as Distributed Generation (DG) are predicted to play a key role in the power distribution system. ... -
Distribution System Planning in Smart Grids to Accommodate Distributed Energy Resources and Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-05)Major changes in planning paradigms have taken place in power systems in recent years because of deregulation of the power industry, environmental policy changes, advancements in technology, and the transformation of the ... -
Distribution System Planning with Distributed Generation: Optimal versus Heuristic Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-04)Distribution system design and planning is facing a major change in paradigm because of deregulation of the power industry and with rapid penetration of distributed generation (DG) sources. Distribution system design and ... -
Diversity and Reliability in Erasure Networks: Rate Allocation, Coding, and Routing
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Recently, erasure networks have received significant attention in the literature as they are used to model both wireless and wireline packet-switched networks. Many packet-switched data networks like wireless mesh networks, ... -
Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff and Capacity Results in Relayed Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-18)This dissertation studies the diversity multiplexing tradeoff and the capacity of wireless multiple-relay network. In part 1, we study the setup of the parallel Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) relay network. An ... -
Diversity Techniques in Free-Space Optical Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Free-space optical (FSO) communication offers significant technical and operational advantages such as higher bandwidth capacity, robustness to electromagnetic interference, a high degree of spatial confinement (bringing ... -
A Doherty Power Amplifier with Extended Bandwidth and Reconfigurable Back-off Level
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-22)Emerging wireless standards are designed to be spectrally efficient to address the high cost of licensing wireless spectra. Unfortunately, the resulting signals have a high peak-to-average ratio that reduces the base station ... -
Domain Knowledge Guided Testing and Training of Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)The extensive impact of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on various industrial applications and research areas within the last decade can not be overstated. However, they are also subject to notable limitations, namely their ... -
Double Layer Formation and Cation Pseudo-Intercalation Supercapacitor Carbon Nanotube Composite Electrodes With Enhanced Electrochemical Performances
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)Among electrochemical energy storage solutions, redox-free supercapacitors exhibit the highest power densities and best cycle life, easily reaching over one million cycles. Despite these attributes, Li-ion batteries are ... -
Driving Manoeuvre Recognition using Mobile Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Automobiles are integral in today's society as they are used for transportation, commerce, and public services. The ubiquity of automotive transportation creates a demand for active safety technologies for the consumer. ... -
Dual Conditions for Local Transverse Feedback Linearization
(IEEE, 2019-01-21)Given a control-affine system and a controlled invariant submanifold, the local transverse feedback linearization problem is to determine whether or not the system is locally feedback equivalent to a system whose dynamics ... -
Dual-band Power Amplifier for Wireless Communication Base Stations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)In wireless communication systems, multiple standards have been implemented to meet the past and present demands of different applications. This proliferation of wireless standards, operating over multiple frequency bands, ... -
Duality relations in finite queueing models
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)Motivated by applications in multimedia streaming and in energy systems, we study duality relations in fi nite queues. Dual of a queue is de fined to be a queue in which the arrival and service processes are interchanged. ...