Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Theses
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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 ... -
BitDrones: Design of a Tangible Drone Swarm as a Programmable Matter Interface
This thesis details the design and functionality of BitDrones, a programmable matter interface (PMI) composed of micro cuboid drones. Each self-levitating BitDrone represented a tangible voxel and possessed four degrees ... -
Analysis, Design & Control of Low-Q LLC DC-DC Resonant Converter for Wide Input Voltage and Load Range Applications
Constant frequency LLC converters reported in literature guarantees optimal efficiency only at nominal operating conditions and lose zero voltage switching (ZVS) at reduced load and high-end of the input voltage range. ... -
Fabrication and Optimization of Organic FET and Organic Electrolyte Gated FET Devices for Applications as Label-free Biosensors
Organic Thin-Film Transistors are carbon-based semiconductor devices. Their simple fabrication makes them an ideal candidate for disposable, wearable technologies; an implementation being aptamer-based biosensors. This ... -
Analysis of Relaxed User Orthogonality for Wireless Multi-user MIMO Downlink Transmission
Efficient resource allocation at the physical layer of wireless communication systems is closely linked to performance. Time and space are examples of such resources. In a densely-deployed multi-antenna, multi-user wireless ... -
A Smart Agent Framework for Personalized Service Composition
End-users face a massive amount of services when selecting and composing the desired services to meet their personal preferences. For example, people frequently use the Internet to perform on-line activities (e.g., on-line ... -
Application-specific parsing of text-based network protocols
Application-specific parsing can be used to extract application data presented in a format that is customized to a particular application. Effective parsing of application data found in network traffic sets a solid ground ... -
Optimization of a Generated Intrusion Detection System
As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the opportunities for malicious attacks and vulnerabilities grows equally. Constant monitoring of networks is required to prevent attacks, even in networks without any ... -
Performance analysis of attack-resistant trust computation schemes in multi-hop vehicular ad-hoc networks
With the development of the autopilot technology, the autonomous vehicles mainly rely on the in-car cameras to monitor the surrounding environments. A wider view will make the autonomous vehicles safer while driving. In ... -
Dielectric Resonator Antenna on Printed Circuit Board
With the increased demand for high efficiency wireless communication systems, there is a requirement to develop the antenna systems that are effective and dependable. Instead of a traditional metallic antenna, a dielectric ... -
Microwave Overlay Capacitor Fabrication on Printed Circuit Boards
A technique for making varactors in the form of parallel plate overlay capacitors, using barium strontium titanate (BST): a ferroelectric, polymer composite thick film, has been developed in this work. BST was selected due ... -
Implications of Fiber Nonlinearities on Coherent Optical Fiber Communications
A primary objective of optical system design is to satisfy the ever-increasing capacity demand for communication services. Fulfilling this target by increasing the cardinality of modulation formats is at the expense of a ...
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