Browsing Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Theses by Title
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Chemical Detection and Sensing Using Optical Interferometry
(2013-09-20)Chemical detection, including analysis of gases and liquids, is a large field in environmental research and industry. It requires sensitive, rapid, and inexpensive chemical sensors. Many industrial materials such as coatings ... -
A Cloud-based Framework for Security Analysis of Browser Extensions
(2016-05-19)In today's internet world, web browsers are an integral part of our day-to-day activities. Therefore, web browser security is a serious concern for all of us. Browsers can be breached in different ways. Because of the over ... -
A CMOS QPSK Demodulator Frontend for GPON
(2010-06-30)This thesis examines the design of a QPSK demodulator frontend for GPON transceiver at end user's side. Since lowering the cost of the terminal transceivers in an access network like GPON is a key requirement, CMOS technology ... -
Cognition in Large Scale Information-Centric Sensor Networks: Novel Deployment and Data Delivery Solutions
(2015-04-30)Smart Cities, enabled by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), have emerged as one of the most promising applications of the Internet of Things (IoT). These Smart City environments require that the underlying sensor network ... -
Cognitive Diversity Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2010-08-25)Energy efficiency and network lifetime are key factors in characterizing wireless sensor networks due to the nodes having a finite and exhaustible source of energy. Due to the nodes limited energy, it is vital to have the ... -
Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks: A Local Control Approach
(2013-02-06)Cognitive radio is an important technology which aims to improve the spectrum resource utilization and allows a cognitive radio transceiver to detect and sense spectrum holes without causing interference to the primary ... -
Cognitive Solutions for Resource Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2013-02-05)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an important technology that can be used to provide new data sets for many applications ranging from healthcare monitoring to military surveillance. Due to the increasing popularity of ... -
Communication-efficient decentralized sequential detection
(2016-10-14)The problem of decentralized sequential detection is studied in this thesis, where local sensors are memoryless, receive independent observations, and no feedback from the fusion center. In addition to traditional criteria ... -
Communications Over Multiple Best Singular Modes of Reciprocal MIMO Channels
(2010-07-22)We consider two transceivers equipped with multiple antennas that intend to communicate i.e. both of which transmit and receive data in a TDD fashion. Assuming that the responses of the physical communication channels ... -
Comparative Performance Study of LTE Uplink Schedulers
(2011-05-09)Long Term Evolution (LTE) constitutes a significant milestone in the evolution of 3G systems towards fourth generation (4G) technologies. The performance targets promised by LTE makes it an ideal solution to accommodate ... -
A Comparison and Outline of Tolerances in Performing Optical Time Division Multiplexing using Electro-Absorption Modulators
(2010-05-18)As high bandwidth applications continue to emerge, investigation in technologies that will increase transmission capacity become necessary. Of these technologies, Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) has been presented ... -
A Component Ranking Framework for More Reliable Software
(2013-09-10)Software components are meant to be reusable and flexible by design. These characteristics and others continue attracting software developers to adapt a component (typically designed elsewhere) into their systems. However, ... -
Components and Techniques for High-Speed Optical Communications
(2011-07-05)Electroabsorption modulators (EAMs) are fundamental components in optical communication systems. Their response is governed by a set of parameters inherent to their internal structure and by the external electrical components ... -
Composing Heterogeneous Services From End Users' Perspective
(2014-07-02)As the Internet becomes more pervasive, the content and services are increasing in quantity as well as improving in quality. This trend is fostered by the advancement of technologies, such as RESTful services, Web 2.0, and ... -
A Comprehensive Multi-Level Control System for Micro-Grids Operating in Islanded Mode
This thesis presents a new control architecture tailored for single-phase Microgrids (MGs) operating in the islanded mode. The main feature of the proposed control architecture is its capability to improve the transient ... -
A Configurable Router for Embedded Network-on-Chip Support in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
(2008-09-27)The scaling of VLSI technology has allowed extensive integration of processing resources on a single chip. Consequently, programmable chips is able to have a high logic and memory capacity for implementation of complex ... -
Contributions to the Theory, Design and Optimization of Microwave Bandpass Filters
(2010-04-14)Bandpass microwave filters are often modeled as a set of coupled discrete and localized resonators. This model is adequate in the narrow-band case. It, however, fails to describe accurately compact structures where stray ... -
Control of a Nonlinear Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for Regeneration Using Digital Signal Processing
(2014-08-18)Transmission impairments degrade the quality of optical signals and limit the transmission reach. Phase modulated signals are susceptible to both amplitude and phase noises. Optical regenerators based on nonlinear Mach ... -
Control of a Single-Phase Grid-Connected Voltage Source Inverter with LCL Filter
(2013-10-02)This thesis presents new control approaches for improving the performance, stability, and efficiency of a single-phase grid-connected voltage source inverter (VSI) with an LCL filter that is used in renewable energy power ... -
Control of Dual-User Teleoperation Systems Design, Stability Analysis, and Performance Evaluation
(2010-11-23)Teleoperation systems broaden human ability to perform a task in a real or virtual, local or remote environment. An emerging application of such systems is in dual-user teleoperation or haptic simulation systems in which ...