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An Evaluation of Smartphone Resources Used by Web Advertisements
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-17)
With the rapid advancement of mobile devices, people have become more attached to them than ever. This rapid growth combined with millions of applications (apps) make smartphones a favourite means of communication among ...
Adaptive Power Control for Energy Harvesting Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-06)
Sustaining energy requirement for wireless devices is the main barrier in building autonomous communication systems and service-free networks. Specifically, in large-scale networks where normally wired energy infrastructures ...
Reconfiguration and Self-healing Mechanisms in Distribution Systems with High Distributed Generation (DG) Penetration
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-16)
Recently, interest in Smart Grid (SG) as a tool for modernization and automation of the current distribution system has rapidly increased. This interest can be explained by the common belief that SG technologies greatly ...
Local Phase Coherence Measurement for Image Analysis and Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)
The ability of humans to perceive significant pattern and structure of an image is something which humans take for granted. We can recognize objects and patterns independent of changes in image contrast and illumination. ...
Development of an Efficient Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-13)
The popularity of the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles has contributed to global warming problem and degradation of air quality around the world. Furthermore, the vehicles’ massive demand on gas has played a role ...
Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistor Models and Pixel Circuits for AMOLED Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-08)
Hydrogenated amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H) Thin Film Transistor (TFT) has many advantages and is one of the suitable choices to implement Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays. However, the aging of ...
A Study of Electrode Material Performance During Food Processing by Pulsed Electric Fields
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-11)
Upon the application of high-field pulses across a liquid food product (such as milk, juices, or beer), electric charge accumulates across the membrane of any microbial cell present in the processing zone between the two ...
Comparison between Static and Dynamic Modeling Approaches for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-13)
In order to accommodate growing traffic demands, next generation cellular networks must become highly heterogeneous to achieve capacity gains. Heterogeneous cellular networks composed of macro base stations and low-power ...
Objective Quality Assessment and Optimization for High Dynamic Range Image Tone Mapping
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-06)
Tone mapping operators aim to compress high dynamic range (HDR) images to low dynamic range ones so as to visualize HDR images on standard displays. Most existing works were demonstrated on specific examples without being ...
Novel Approaches and Architecture for Survivable Optical Internet
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)
Any unexpected disruption to WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) based optical networks which carry data traffic at tera-bit per second may result in a huge loss to its end-users and the carrier itself. Thus survivability ...