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Impact Analysis Models of Renewable Energy Uncertainty on Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-19)In the recent years, governments have encouraged the utilization of renewable energy by providing incentives to investors, and enhancing traditional practices in the sector. For example, in Ontario, Canada, local distribution ... -
Impact of data quality on ML models: Improving data quality with Outlier Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)In the dynamic landscape of Machine Learning (ML) applications, data quality comes out to be an important factor that impacts the performance of ML models. Through this thesis, we present a study that proposes innovative ... -
Impact of Demand Response and Battery Energy Storage System on Electricity Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-19)The calls for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emissions from conventional electricity generation have been dramatically growing in the recent years owing to their negative environmental ... -
Impact of Distributed Battery Energy Storage on Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-07)The penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in electricity grids has increased worldwide over the past decade because of their decreasing costs, especially of Photovoltaic (PV) and wind generation resources with ... -
Impact of Elasticity in Domestic Appliances on Aggregate Residential Power Demands
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-05)Power grids in today's developed societies are designed to meet consumer demands in a highly reliable manner. In order to guarantee reliability to consumers, the grid is required to be sized for infrequently occurring ... -
The Impact of Harmonics on the Power Cable Stress Grading System
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-22)With the continuous growth of non-linear power electronic components and the increasing penetration of the distributed generation (DG), the potential for degradation in the power quality of the existing grid exists. There ... -
The Impact of Lithium Ion on the Application of Resistive Switching Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-10)With the development of the times, people have higher and higher requirements for storage equipment. Many new storage devices have emerged, such as Magnetoresistive random-access memory(MRAM) and Resistive random-access ... -
Impact of Mechanical Stress on the Electrical Stability of Flexible a-Si TFTs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-11-01)The development of functional flexible electronics is essential to enable applications such as conformal medical imagers, wearable health monitoring systems, and flexible light-weight displays. Intensive research on thin-film ... -
Impact of PEV Charging Loads on Distribution System Operations and Optimal Siting and Sizing of PEV Charging Stations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-11)Smart grid has emerged as a promising paradigm to promote and deliver a clean, modern and efficient electricity grid to all customers, and it allows Local Distribution Companies (LDC) to integrate renewable sources more ... -
Impact of Residential Prosumer Ownership of Plug-in Electric Vehicles on Voltage Quality and Transformer Aging: Modeling, Assessment and Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-28)In the context of increasing concerns related to climate change, there has been a substantial change to both the transportation and residential sectors. While the transportation sector has previously been limited to ... -
Impact of Second-Life Batteries on Enhancing the Integration of Renewable Energy Resources
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-02)The current distribution systems are typically not designed to accommodate a high level of renewable sources. Customer impact assessment studies are usually required by the distribution utility prior to the connection of ... -
Impact of Technology Scaling on Leakage Reduction Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)CMOS technology is scaling down to meet the performance, production cost, and power requirements of the microelectronics industry. The increase in the transistor leakage current is one of the most important negative side ... -
The Impacts of Solvents, Heat Treatments and Hole Injection Layers on the Electroluminescent Lifetime of Organic Light-Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-15)Since their invention over three decades ago, organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have attracted tremendous interest for display and solid-state lighting applications and have already been commercialized in smartphones, ... -
Impedance Matching Networks for Wireless Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)Impedance matching implies maximum power transfer from source to load as well as minimum signal reflection from the load, in an RF system. This explains the importance of impedance matching networks and their continuously ... -
Implementation Analysis of Strassen-Like Matrix Multiplication Algorithms Based on Block Decomposition
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-11)Matrix multiplication is one of the most widely used operations in all computational fields of linear algebra. The complexity of the naive method for multiplying two n×n matrices requires O(n^3) arithmetic operations over ... -
An Implementation of 5G-AKA and a Usability Analysis of OpenLDAP Access Control Lists (ACLs)
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)We address two pieces of work: (i) an implementation of the Authentication and Key Agreement protocol suite from the 5th generation cellular communications standards (5G-AKA) that we intend to make available as open-source, ... -
An Implementation of a Predictable Cache-coherent Multi-core System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)Multi-core platforms have entered the realm of the embedded systems to meet the ever growing performance requirements of the real-time embedded applications. Real-time applications leverage the hardware parallelism from ... -
Implementation of an IEEE 802.15.4 Based MAC/PHY on a FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)The IEEE 802.15.4 standard defines the implementation of a Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). While the current version of the standard was ratified in 2006, there is still no readily available Medium Access ... -
Implementation of Antenna Switching Diversity and Its Improvements over Single-Input Single-Output System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)This dissertation study the effectiveness of antenna switching diversity for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems such as in IEEE 802.11. One of the ways to exploit the multiple antenna configurations ... -
Implementation of DNN-HMM Acoustic Models for Phoneme Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-14)Gaussian Mixture Model-Hidden Markov Models (GMM-HMMs) are the state-of-the-art for acoustic modeling in speech recognition. HMMs are used to model the sequential structure and the temporal variability in speech signals. ...