Browsing Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Theses by Title
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Modeling and evaluation of multi-core multithreading processor architectures in SystemC
(2007-08-13)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 ... -
Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Non-Adiabatic Optical Fiber Taper
(2014-09-18)Mode coupler is an important category of device in the eld of optical sensing and communication. Non-adiabatic ber taper has attracted much attention in recent years as mode coupling device due to its simple fabrication ... -
Modeling cooperative gene regulation using Fast Orthogonal Search
(2008-08-22)A number of computational methods have suggested means by which gene transcription – the process through which RNA is created from DNA – is activated, but there are factors at work that no model has been able to fully ... -
Modifying the Three-Phase Synchronous Reference Frame Phase-Locked Loop to Remove Unbalance and Harmonic Errors
(2008-12-17)As an increasing number of distributed power generation systems (DPGS) are being connected to the utility grid, there is a growing requirement for the DPGS to be able to ride through short grid disturbances. This requires ... -
Molecular Code Division Multiple Access: Gaussian Mixture Modeling
(2016-04-19)Communications between nano-devices is an emerging research field in nanotechnology. Molecular Communication (MC), which is a bio-inspired paradigm, is a promising technique for communication in nano-network. In MC, molecules ... -
MOSFET Current Source Gate Drivers and Topologies for High Efficiency and High Frequency Voltage Regulator Modules
(2009-04-23)With fast development of semiconductor industry, the transistors in microprocessors increase dramatically, which follows the Moore’s law. As a result, the operating voltages of the future microprocessors follow the trend ... -
MOSFET Current Source Gate Drivers, Switching Loss Modeling and Frequency Dithering Control for MHz Switching Frequency DC-DC Converters
(2008-02-29)The power density of a switching converter is dependent on the size of the power circuit components. Converters are operated in the hundreds of kHz to achieve high power density since the size of the converter reactive ... -
MRI-Guided Prostate Motion Tracking using Multislice-to-Volume Registration
(2010-07-13)MRI-guided prostate needle biopsy requires compensation for organ motion between target planning and needle placement. Two questions are studied and answered in this work: is rigid registration sufficient in tracking the ... -
Multi-scale thermal and circuit analysis for nanometre-scale integrated circuits
(2008-09-27)Chip temperature is increasing with continued technology scaling due to increased power density and decreased device feature sizes. Since temperature has significant impact on performance and reliability, accurate thermal ... -
Multi-Sensor 3D Model Reconstruction in Unknown Environments
Safe exploration and remote visualization for dangerous and unknown environments have been of a growing demand for several applications. Exploration of dangerous environments can be life threating if it directly involves ... -
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. ... -
Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for Vehicular Navigation Applications
(2012-08-08)Global position system (GPS) is widely used in land vehicles but suffers deterioration in its accuracy in urban canyons; mostly due to satellite signal blockage and signal multipath. To obtain accurate, reliable, and ... -
Multi-Sensor Fusion of Automotive Radar and Onboard Motion Sensors for Seamless Land Vehicle Positioning in Challenging Environments
Positioning services for land vehicle navigation have long relied on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) including GPS; however, GNSS cannot maintain an accurate position while travelling under bridges, around tall ... -
Multi-User Multi-Antenna Cooperative Cellular Systems
(2013-06-25)To meet the very high data rate requirements for wireless Internet and multimedia services, cooperative systems with multiple antennas have been proposed for future generation wireless systems. In this thesis, we focus ... -
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, ... -
Multimode Devices in Communication and Sensing Systems
(2014-05-13)Multimode devices play an increasingly important role in both communication and sensing systems. Mode division multiplexing (MDM) in multimode fiber (MMF) is becoming a promising method to further increase the capacity of ... -
Multiple Description Coding : proposed methods and video application
(2007-08-29)Multiple description coding (MDC) has received a lot of attention recently, and has been studied widely and extended to many demanding applications such as speech and video. MDC is a coding technique that generates ... -
Multiple Receiver Wireless Power Charger for Mobile Electronic Devices in Near Field
Portable consumer electronics like mobile phones, laptops, tablets and other devices have flooded the markets these days. While providing the convenience of keeping in touch with friends and family at the touch of a button, ... -
Multiple-input multiple-output wireless system designs with imperfect channel knowledge
(2008-07-25)Empowered by linear precoding and decoding, a spatially multiplexed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system becomes a convenient framework to offer high data rate, diversity and interference management. While most ... -
Multiuser Transmit and Receive Beamforming for One-dimensional Signalling
Internet of things (IoT), which enables connectivity of billions of devices to the Internet, is expected to be the next revolution in wireless ecosystem. Due to lack of available spectrum, it is imperative for wireless ...