Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title
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A Fuel-Cell Vehicle Test Station
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Due to concerns about energy security, rising oil prices, and adverse effects of internal combustion engine vehicles on the environment, the automotive industry is quickly moving towards developing efficient “green” vehicles. ... -
A Fully Decentralized Approach for Solving the Economic Dispatch Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-14)A practical formulation of the economic dispatch problem is based on treating the problem as a non-convex optimization problem in which the practical non-convex cost functions are taken into consideration. Formulating the ... -
Fully Integrated 60 GHz Power Amplifiers in 45nm SOI CMOS
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)With the rapid growth of consumer demand for high data rates and high speed communications, the wireless spectrum has become increasingly precious. This has promoted the evolution of new standards and modulation schemes ... -
Fundamental Limits of Rate-Constrained Multi-User Channels and Random Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)This thesis contributes toward understanding fundamental limits of multi-user fading channels and random wireless networks. Specifically, considering different samples of channel gains corresponding to different users/nodes ... -
Fusing Terahertz and Mid Infrared Technologies to Recycle E-waste Black Plastics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)Plastic is a unique material, it is lightweight, resilient, non-reactive, waterproof, and low-cost. Due to its versatility and use in everyday products and consumption, it has become a huge environmental concern. In 2015, ... -
Fuzzy Authorization for Cloud Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)It is widely accepted that OAuth is the most popular authorization scheme adopted and implemented by industrial and academic world, however, it is difficult to adapt OAuth to the situation in which online applications ... -
Fuzzy GMM-based Confidence Measure Towards Keywords Spotting Application
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-08)The increasing need for more natural human machine interfaces has generated intensive research work directed toward designing and implementing natural speech enabled systems. The Spectrum of speech recognition applications ... -
A Game-Theoretic Decision-Making Framework for Engineering Self-Protecting Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Targeted and destructive nature of strategies used by attackers to break down a software system require mitigation approaches with dynamic awareness. Making a right decision, when facing today’s sophisticated and dynamic ... -
GaN Micro-LED Integration with Thin-Film Transistors for Flexible Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-13)The research presented provides a systematic attempt to address the major challenges for the development of flexible micro-light-emitting diode (LED) displays. The feasibility of driving GaN-based micro-LEDs with a-Si:H-based ... -
Gaussian Interference Channels: Examining the Achievable Rate Region
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Interference is assumed to be one of the main barriers to improving the throughput of communication systems. Consequently, interference management plays an integral role in wireless communications. Although the importance ... -
Gaussian Two-Way Channel with Constellation-based Input
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Achieving a higher transmission rate had always been a goal in the field of communications. Having a two-way channel in which two nodes transmit and receive data at the same time, is an important tool to achieve this goal. ... -
A General Pluggable Type Inference Framework and its use for Data-flow Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)Java's pluggable type systems provide valuable compile-time guarantees, but annotating the program with pluggable types can be a significant burden on programmers. Checker Framework Inference, a framework that aims to ... -
A Generalized 2-D Multiport Model for Planar Circuits with Slots in Ground Plane
(University of Waterloo, 2005)With increasing complexity of microwave integrated circuits and tendency towards building integrated modules, real estate in printed circuit boards becomes more at premium. On the other hand, building MIC's on a ... -
A Generalized Optimal Planning Platform for Microgrids of Remote Communities Considering Frequency and Voltage Regulation Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)Access to electricity is a key factor behind development and expansion of modern societies, and electric power systems are the backbone infrastructure for economic growth of nations and communities. However, more than a ... -
Generalized Rate-Distortion Functions of Videos
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-15)Customers are consuming enormous digital videos every day via various kinds of video services through terrestrial, cable, and satellite communication systems or over-the-top Internet connections. To offer the best possible ... -
Generating Accurate Dependencies for Large Software
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-11)Dependencies between program elements can reflect the architecture, design, and implementation of a software project. According a industry report, intra- and inter-module dependencies can be a significant source of latent ... -
Generation Capacity Expansion Planning in Deregulated Electricity Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)With increasing demand of electric power in the context of deregulated electricity markets, a good strategic planning for the growth of the power system is critical for our tomorrow. There is a need to build new resources ... -
Generation Scheduling in Microgrids under Uncertainties in Power Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Recently, the concept of Microgrids (MG) has been introduced in the distribution network. Microgrids are defined as small power systems that consist of various distributed micro generators that are capable of supplying a ... -
Generative Adversarial Networks for ECG generation, translation, imputation and denoising
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being used in medical applications. One challenge present in AI in medicine is not having high quality datasets available for training machine learning models. In this work, I explore ... -
Global Sampled-Data Regulation of a Class of Fully Actuated Invariant Systems on Simply Connected Nilpotent Matrix Lie Groups
(IEEE, 2021-02-09)We examine a regulator problem for a class of fully actuated continuous-time invariant systems on Lie groups, using a discrete-time controller with constant sampling period. We present a smooth discrete-time control law ...