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Investigation on the Compress-and-Forward Relay Scheme
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)The relay channel plays an integral role in network communication systems. An intermediate node acts as a relay to facilitate the communication between the source and the destination. If the rate of codewords is less than ... -
Investigations into Impedance Tuners for the Next Generation of Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)Novel communication systems, including 5G and the upcoming 6G cellular networks and software defined/cognitive radio technologies, call for compact, multi-band, and reconfigurable circuit components. Specifically, stringent ... -
Investment Planning Models and Optimal Incentive Design for System Planners and Investors to Integrate Renewables
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-14)Emissions from fossil fuel based energy sources is a global concern with respect to environmental degradation. Thus, a diversification of energy sources in the supply mix of power systems to include renewable sources of ... -
IP Mobility Support in Multi-hop Vehicular Communications Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-28)The combination of infrastructure-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, namely the multi-hop Vehicular Communications Network (VCN) , appears as a promising solution for the ubiquitous access to IP services in ... -
Issues in Implementation of Public Key Cryptosystems
(University of Waterloo, 2006)A new class of moduli called the low-weight polynomial form integers (LWPFIs) is introduced. LWPFIs are expressed in a low-weight, monic polynomial form, <em>p</em> = <em>f</em>(<em>t</em>). While the generalized ... -
Joint Compression and Digital Watermarking: Information-Theoretic Study and Algorithms Development
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a covertext in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or ... -
Joint Compression and Watermarking Using Variable-Rate Quantization and its Applications to JPEG
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-27)In digital watermarking, one embeds a watermark into a covertext, in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to a certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment ... -
Joint Source Channel Coding in Broadcast and Relay Channels: A Non-Asymptotic End-to-End Distortion Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)The paradigm of separate source-channel coding is inspired by Shannon's separation result, which implies the asymptotic optimality of designing source and channel coding independently from each other. The result exploits ... -
Just-In-Time Push Prefetching: Accelerating the Mobile Web
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-19)Web pages take noticeably longer to load when accessing the Internet using high-latency wide-area wireless networks like 3G. This delay can result in lower user satisfaction and lost revenue for web site operators. By ... -
Kernelized Supervised Dictionary Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)The representation of a signal using a learned dictionary instead of predefined operators, such as wavelets, has led to state-of-the-art results in various applications such as denoising, texture analysis, and face ... -
Key Agreement over Wiretap Models with Non-Causal Side Information
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-20)The security of information is an indispensable element of a communication system when transmitted signals are vulnerable to eavesdropping. This issue is a challenging problem in a wireless network as propagated signals ... -
Key Randomization Countermeasures to Power Analysis Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-25)It is essential to secure the implementation of cryptosystems in embedded devices agains side-channel attacks. Namely, in order to resist differential (DPA) attacks, randomization techniques should be employed to ... -
Language Evolution to Reduce Code Cloning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Domain-specific languages can significantly speed up the development of software applications. However, it usually takes a few iterations of the language design before it achieves such power. At the same time, many domains ... -
Large-Scale Demand Management in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Future energy grids are expected to rely extensively on controlling consumers' demands to achieve an efficient system operation. The demand-side of the power network is usually constituted of a large number of low power ... -
Large-scale Solar PV Investment Planning Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-14)In the pursuit of a cleaner and sustainable environment, solar photovoltaic (PV) power has been established as the fastest growing alternative energy source in the world. This extremely fast growth is brought about, mainly, ... -
Large-Scale Traffic Flow Prediction Using Deep Learning in the Context of Smart Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Designing and developing a new generation of cities around the world (termed as smart cities) is fast becoming one of the ultimate solutions to overcome cities' problems such as population growth, pollution, energy crisis, ... -
Laser annealing irradiated silicon single-photon avalanche photodiodes for quantum satellite receiver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-11)Single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) are a practical option for space-based quantum communications requiring single-photon detection. However, radiation damage to SPADs significantly increases their dark count rates ... -
Lattice Engineering with Surface Acoustic Waves
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Quantum simulators are special purpose quantum computers designed to examine problems that are impossible to test with classical computers. They can be used to simulate problems in atomic physics, condensed matter physics, ... -
Lattice-Based Motion Planning with Optimal Motion Primitives
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)In the field of navigation for autonomous vehicles, it is the responsibility of a local planner to compute reference trajectories that are then be followed by a tracking controller. These trajectories should be safe, ... -
Lattice-Based Precoding And Decoding in MIMO Fading Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-30)In this thesis, different aspects of lattice-based precoding and decoding for the transmission of digital and analog data over MIMO fading channels are investigated: 1) Lattice-based precoding in MIMO broadcast systems: A ...