• Efficient similarity-driven emission angle selection for coherent plane-wave compounding 

  Akbar, Haroon Ali (2018-10-09)

  Typical ultrafast plane-wave ultrasound imaging involves: 1) insonifying the medium with several plane-wave pulses emitted at different angles by a linear transducer array, 2) sampling the returning echo signals, after ...
• GPGPU design space exploration using neural networks 

  Jooya, Ali (2018-09-28)

  General Purpose computing on Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) gained atten- tion in 2006 with NVIDIA’s first Tesla Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) which could perform high performance computing. Ever since, researchers have ...
• Enhanced usability, resilience, and accuracy in mobile keystroke dynamic biometric authentication 

  Alshanketi, Faisal (2018-09-27)

  With the progress achieved to this date in mobile computing technologies, mobile devices are increasingly being used to store sensitive data and perform security-critical transactions and services. However, the protection ...
• Machine learning in indoor positioning and channel prediction systems 

  Zhu, Yizhou (2018-09-18)

  In this thesis, the neural network, a powerful tool which has demonstrated its ability in many fields, is studied for the indoor localization system and channel prediction system. This thesis first proposes a received ...
• Modeling of compact antennas for wireless communication in complex environment 

  Rahman, Md. Mizanur (2018-09-14)

  Demand for low-profile and compact antennas has greatly increased due to miniaturization of electronic devices. High performance for these antennas is also desired. The conflicting nature of the requirements of high ...
• Cloud intrusion detection based on change tracking and a new benchmark dataset 

  Aldribi, Abdulaziz (2018-08-30)

  The adoption of cloud computing has increased dramatically in recent years due to at- tractive features such as flexibility, cost reductions, scalability, and pay per use. Shifting towards cloud computing is attracting not ...
• Systolic design space exploration of EEA-based inversion over binary and ternary fields 

  Hazmi, Ibrahim (2018-08-29)

  Cryptographic protocols are implemented in hardware to ensure low-area, high speed and reduced power consumption especially for mobile devices. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is the most commonly used public-key ...
• Power line communication channel models for home area networks 

  Fang, Xinyu (2018-08-29)

  Smart meters (SMs) are key components of the smart grid (SG) as they gather electrical usage data from residences and businesses.Home area networks (HANs) are used to provide two-way communications between SMs and devices ...
• Design of multi-core dataflow cryptprocessor 

  Alzahrani, Ali Saeed (2018-08-28)

  Embedded multi-core systems are implemented as systems-on-chip that rely on packet store-and-forward networks-on-chip for communications. These systems do not use buses nor global clock. Instead routers are used to move ...
• Machine-type-communication in 5G cellular system 

  Li, Yue (2018-08-28)

  The rapid development of Machine-Type-Communication (MTC) has brought big challenges to cellular networks such as super-dense devices and high-shadowing channels which may substantially decrease the spectrum efficiency and ...
• Direction of arrival estimation technique for narrow-band signals based on spatial Discrete Fourier Transform 

  Zaeim, Ramin (2018-08-24)

  This work deals with the further development of a method for Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation based on the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of the sensor array output. In the existing DFT-based algorithm, relatively ...
• Multi-dimensional digital signal integration with applications in image, video and light field processing 

  Sevcenco, Ioana Speranta (2018-08-16)

  Multi-dimensional digital signals have become an intertwined part of day to day life, from digital images and videos used to capture and share life experiences, to more powerful scene representations such as light field ...
• A novel fully progressive lossy-to-lossless coder for arbitrarily-connected triangle-mesh models of images and other bivariate functions 

  Guo, Jiacheng (2018-08-16)

  A new progressive lossy-to-lossless coding method for arbitrarily-connected triangle mesh models of bivariate functions is proposed. The algorithm employs a novel representation of a mesh dataset called a bivariate-function ...
• Improving processor power demand comprehension in data-driven power and software phase classification and prediction 

  Khoshbakht, Saman (2018-08-14)

  The single-core performance trend predicted by Moore's law has been impeded in recent years partly due to the limitations imposed by increasing processor power demands. One way to mitigate this limitation in performance ...
• Migration-based image reconstruction methods for plane-wave ultrasound imaging 

  Albulayli, Mohammed (2018-08-08)

  Ultrasound imaging plays an important role in biomedical diagnostics due its safety, noninvasive nature, and low cost. Conventional ultrasound systems typically form an image frame by scanning the region of interest ...
• Field theory analysis and design of circular waveguide components 

  Balaji, Uma (2018-07-31)

  RF/microwave terrestrial point-to-point and satellite communication systems employ a large number of waveguide components operating at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies. Accurate design of these components for ...
• A multiple-antenna-multiple-equalizer system for CDMA indoor wireless systems 

  Subramanian, Srikanth (2018-07-31)

  A multiple-antenna-multiple-equalizer (MAME) system is proposed for overcoming cochannel interference (CCI) in code-division multiple access (CDMA) indoor wireless systems. The main advantage of the MAME system is the ...
• Talking with Antigone 

  Schraefel, Monica M. C. (2018-07-25)

  This project considers the role of conversation in writing by women, specifically, the role of conversational spaces for women’s construction of self within the symbolic. It does this through a consideration of narrative ...
• Broadband acoustical superresolution imaging of breaking ocean waves 

  Andrew, Rex Kelley (2018-07-19)

  An acoustic array was deployed in the nearsurface layer in Saanich Inlet, B.C. to image breaking waves using only the naturally occurring acoustical radiation from the breaking region over the band [160 Hz, 2000 Hz]. The ...
• Analysis of self-resonant bent antennas 

  Ali, Mohammod (2018-07-19)

  The primary focus of this dissertation is on the analyses of self-resonant bent antennas. The need for the accurate characterization of such antennas due to their growing importance in present day wireless communications ...

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