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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. ... -
Implementation of Energy Hub Management System for Residential Sector
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)This thesis is concerned with the implementation of a proposed Energy Hub Management System (EHMS) mathematical model for residential appliances under Time of Use (TOU) based electricity rate structure. The objective is ... -
Implementation of OFDM Encryption and a New Frequency Hopping System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)As the rapid growth of wireless communication, physical layer security becomes important recently. Unlike wired transmissions, the nature of wireless transmissions makes the transmitted signals over the channel easily to ... -
Implementation of Time Memory Trade-off attack using MPI on GPC
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-14)Time memory trade-off (TMTO) is a computationally intensive cryptographic attack originally introduced by Hellman in 1980. Since then many different improvements and implementations were researched and developed. In this ... -
Implementing FPGA-optimized Systolic Arrays using 2D Knapsack and Evolutionary Algorithms
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)Underutilization of FPGA resources is a significant challenge in deploying FPGAs as neural network accelerators. We propose an FPGA-optimized systolic array architecture improving the CNN inference throughput by orders ... -
Implementing MLOps on Edge-Cloud Systems: A New Paradigm for Training at the Edge
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)Owing to the rise in data from the Internet of Things~(IoT) devices and the increasing demand for intelligent decision-making on the network's edge, there has been a significant surge in interest in the intersection of ... -
Implementing Real-Time Video Deblocking in FPGA Hardware
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-10)Video compression techniques are commonly used to meet the increasing demands for the storage and transmission of digital video content. Popular video compression techniques such as MPEG video encoding make use of ... -
Improved and Practical Energy Management Systems for Isolated Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-10)There are many remote communities around the world which do not have interconnection with the power grid because of technical and/or economic constraints, and thus have to manage their energy requirements independently, ... -
Improved LaneNet for Lane Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-18)Lane detection is a critical component in autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), enabling accurate lane tracking and vehicle positioning. While traditional lane detection methods based on ...