Microprocessor systems have been advancing at a phenomenal rate, with each new generation introducing improved fabrication processes and architectural innovations. Unfortunately, traditional fabrication techniques cannot ...

Ultrasound is a favorable tool for intra-operative surgical guidance due to its fast imaging speed and non-invasive nature. However, deformations of the anatomy caused by breathing, heartbeat, and movement of the patient ...

Processor design has evolved over the years to take advantage of new technology and innovative concepts in order to improve performance. Diminishing returns for improvements based on current techniques such as exploiting ...

Transmission impairments degrade the quality of optical signals, ultimately limiting the achievable transmission distance. Optical 3R regenerators provide an effective means of coping with transmission impairments by ...

Space-time block coding is a technique used to exploit diversity in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) environment. Orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) are desirable because they can achieve full transmit ...

Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems have gained an enormous amount of attention as one of the most promising research areas in wireless communications. However, while MIMO systems have been extensively explored ...

Delivering high bandwidth to the individual household or small business is currently a major bottleneck in the high speed network, a problem referred to as the last mile issue. Multimode fibre is widely deployed in the ...

The Ergonomics Research Group at Queen’s University, supported by the Workplace and Safety Insurance Board, has been developing an on-line system to estimate peak and cumulative joint loading in the workplace. This study ...

Opportunistic Beamforming is a promising scheme with potential usage in a variety of applications ranging from cellular audio/video communications to wireless mesh-networks. However, some aspects in this scheme are open ...

The increasing demand on multimedia communication over wired and wireless networks imposes a continuous pressure on developing more robust coding schemes. Recently, joint source-channel coding with multiple description ...