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4G LTE Network Data Collection and Analysis Along Public Transportation Routes
With the advancements in wireless network technologies over the past few decades and the deployment of 4G LTE networks, the capabilities and services provided to end-users have become seemingly endless. Users of smartphones ... -
Multi-Sensor Based Land Vehicles’ Positioning in Challenging GNSS Environments
The car industry has a growing demand for reliable, continuous, and accurate positioning information for various applications, including routing to a specific destination, asset tracking, and, eventually future self-driving. ... -
Self-supervised ECG Representation Learning for Affective Computing
This work investigates the use of self-supervised learning for ECG-based affective computing. We propose a novel self-supervised ECG representation learning framework to address the limitations of fully-supervised learning. ... -
Technologies to improve power density of power electronic systems
Advanced power electronic supplies with high power density are strongly demanded in a wide range of power levels. This thesis proposes high power density and thermal management solutions for three levels of power system ... -
An Approach to Represent and Transform Application Specific Constraints for an Intrusion Detection System.
While the need for newer and more efficient network security techniques is increasing, refining the existing and proven techniques can also have potential benefits and outcomes. One of the aspects of such improvements in ... -
Novel Current Sensor-less MPPT Algorithm for Solar Applications
This thesis presents a novel Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique for photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. The proposed method eliminates the need for current sensing by injecting high-frequency perturbations and ... -
A Time-Domain Modeling of Multi-Element Resonant Converter With Capacitive Output Filter
In this thesis, an analytical based design tool has been proposed for the multi-elements resonant converters. A computer program has been written using the generalized equations in MATLAB App Designer. The MATLAB App ... -
Electrical and Thermal Design of High Efficiency and High Power Density Power Converters
This thesis investigates high power density power converters from two approaches: electrical circuit and module design, and thermal management and mitigation. Three specific topics are studied in this thesis: Point-of-Load ... -
Robust Multisensor-based Framework for Efficient Road Information Services
Next-generation intelligent transportation systems of future road traffic monitoring will be required to provide reports of road conditions. Monitoring road surface conditions benefits drivers and the community. Road surface ... -
Velocity Acquisition Methods for Stable Haptic Simulation Systems
Haptic simulation systems enable the perception of virtual environments through the sense of touch. These systems are composed of a haptic device through which an operator interacts with the virtual environment that is ... -
Multifunction Radio Frequency System Design Using Nonlinear Models
Multifunction radio frequency (RF) systems provide a general-purpose hardware platform for designers to implement arbitrary waveform transmission and reception. In this thesis, a multifunction RF transceiver is designed, ... -
Pre-compensation of nonlinear distortion of a silicon microring modulator in short reach systems
Silicon photonics has attracted significant attention due to its compatibility with CMOS technology and the potential for both discrete and integrated devices. As a critical component in silicon-based communication systems, ... -
Driver Behavior Modelling and Risk Profiling Using Large-Scale Naturalistic Driving Data
Driver risk profiling is an emerging scheme in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Conventionally, a risk score of a driver is calculated on a per-trip basis according to the number of harsh braking, ... -
Scalar Quantization Algorithms for the Robust Transmission of Correlated Sources Over One- and Two-Way Channels
The problem of lossy transmission of correlated sources over discrete two-way channels (TWCs) is considered. The objective is to develop a robust low delay and low complexity source-channel coding scheme without using error ... -
Imperceptible Structured Light Projection Mapping for Augmented Reality
A novel method is proposed to imperceptibly embed structured light patterns in projected content and decode them to extract a real time range image stream suitable for dynamic projection mapping applications. A commercially ... -
Optimal payoff to ensure opacity in Discrete-Event Systems
Opacity is a property of systems which guarantees that an outside observer cannot distinguish some behaviour of the system (secrets) from other behaviours (non-secrets). Many companies and government agencies like to make ... -
Efficient Structured Light Pattern Using Inverse Rectification
This thesis presents inverse rectification, a novel method for establishing correspondence in depth estimation. The rectifying homography of the projector-camera pair is used to warp a pattern of vertical dash features. ... -
Procedures to Analyze and Design Decentralized, Distributed Sensor Networks for Change Detection
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has reinvigorated interest into the distributed quickest change detection problem within wireless sensor networks. Although a number of system designs addressing this problem ... -
Narrowband jamming mitigation in vector-based GPS software defined receiver
The last decade has witnessed a growing demand for reliable, continuous and accurate positioning and navigation with the growth of a wide range of new applications that rely predominately on Global Navigation Satellite ... -
High-Throughput Dense Wireless Networks in Unlicensed Spectrum
Dense deployment of wireless local area networks (WLANs) will support the prolific data traffic in future wireless networks beyond fifth generation (B5G), either as small cells for cellular data offloading or last-miles ...
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