• Analysis of algorithms for filter bank design optimization 

  ElGarewi, Ahmed (2019-09-06)

  This thesis deals with design algorithms for filter banks based on optimization. The design specifications consist of the perfect reconstruction and frequency response specifications for finite impulse response (FIR) ...
• Multi-label classification with optimal thresholding for multi-composition spectroscopic analysis 

  Gan, Luyun (2019-08-30)

  Spectroscopic analysis has several applications in physics, chemistry, bioinformatics, geophysics, astronomy, etc. It has been widely used for detecting mineral samples, gas emission, and food volatiles. Machine learning ...
• Detecting ransomware in encrypted network traffic using machine learning 

  Modi, Jaimin (2019-08-29)

  Ransomware is a type of malware that has gained immense popularity in recent time due to its money extortion techniques. It locks out the user from the system files until the ransom amount is paid. Existing approaches ...
• Double-nanohole optical trapping: fabrication and experimental methods 

  Lalitha Ravindranath, Adarsh (2019-08-29)

  Arthur Ashkin's Nobel Prize-winning single-beam gradient force optical tweezers have revolutionized research in many fields of science. The invention has enabled various atomic and single molecular studies, proving to be ...
• A new ransomware detection scheme based on tracking file signature and file entropy 

  Jethva, Brijesh (2019-08-26)

  Ransomware is a type of malware that hijack victims’ computers, by encrypting or locking corresponding files, and demanding the payment of some ransom in cryptocurrency for the restoration of the files. The last few years ...
• Power allocation and cell association in cellular networks 

  Ho, Danh Huu (2019-08-26)

  In this dissertation, power allocation approaches considering path loss, shadowing, and Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading are proposed. The goal is to improve power consumption, and energy and throughput efficiency based ...
• Analysis and design of IoT-capable cellular networks with spatiotemporal modelling 

  Gharbieh, Mohammad (2019-08-20)

  A plethora of application scenarios are rapidly emerging within the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) in possibly every industrial and market vertical. Accordingly, the wireless infrastructure should be able to ...
• Construction of ternary convolutional codes 

  Ansari, Muhammad Khizar (2019-08-14)

  Error control coding is employed in modern communication systems to reliably transfer data through noisy channels. Convolutional codes are widely used for this purpose because they are easy to encode and decode and so have ...
• Signal processing techniques for modern radar systems 

  Elhoshy, Mostafa Kamal Kamel (2019-08-07)

  This dissertation considers radar detection and tracking of weak fluctuating targets using dynamic programming (DP) based track-before-detect (TBD). TBD combines target detection and tracking by integrating data over ...
• Design of an 8x8 cross-configuration Butler matrix with interchangeable 1D and 2D arrays 

  Bartlett, Chad (2019-07-23)

  An ever-increasing demand for wider bandwidths in communication, radar, and imaging systems has emerged. In order to facilitate this growing demand, progressive research into millimeter-wave technologies has become vital ...
• License-free communication using digital mobile radio standards and spread spectrum 

  McQuay, Colter James Alexander (2019-07-17)

  The concept of using spread spectrum and open radio standards to provide license-free, short range Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication is explored. This research makes use of the Time Compression Overlap Add (TC-OLA) algorithm ...
• Photoluminescence characterization of cadmium zinc telluride 

  Alshal, Mohamed (2019-07-11)

  The demand for wide bandgap semiconductors for radiation detector applications has significantly increased in recent years due to an ever-growing need for safeguard measures and medical imaging systems amongst other ...
• Fast prime field arithmetic using novel large integer representation 

  Alhazmi, Bader Hammad (2019-07-10)

  Large integers are used in several key areas such as RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) public-key cryptographic system and elliptic curve public-key cryptographic system. To achieve higher levels of security requires larger key ...
• Agentless endpoint security monitoring framework 

  Ghaleb, Asem (2019-05-28)

  Existing endpoint security monitors use agents that must be installed on every computing host or endpoint. However, as the number of monitored hosts increases, agents installation, con figuration and maintenance become ...
• Computer vision-based tracking and feature extraction for lingual ultrasound 

  Al-Hammuri, Khalid (2019-04-30)

  Lingual ultrasound is emerging as an important tool for providing visual feedback to second language learners. In this study, ultrasound videos were recorded in sagittal plane as it provides an image for the full tongue ...
• Customer-driven cost-performance comparison of a real-world distributed system 

  Turner, Nicholas James Nickerson (2019-04-30)

  Many modern web applications run on distributed cloud systems, which allows them to scale their resources to match performance requirements. Scaling of resources at industry scales, however, is a financially-expensive ...
• Experimental evaluation of low-loss/non-dispersive terahertz waveguides 

  Smith, Robert Levi (2019-04-30)

  Low-loss waveguides with minimal dispersion are desired throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. These properties are difficult to achieve in the Terahertz (THz) region due to material and geometric constraints. This thesis ...
• Performance modelling of reactive web applications using trace data from automated testing 

  Anderson, Michael (2019-04-29)

  This thesis evaluates a method for extracting architectural dependencies and performance measures from an evolving distributed software system. The research goal was to establish methods of determining potential scalability ...
• Epitaxial growth and optical properties of Mg3N2, Zn3N2, and alloys 

  Wu, Peng (2019-04-24)

  Zinc nitride and magnesium nitride are examples of the relatively unexplored II3V2 group of semiconductor materials. These materials have potential applications in the electronics industry due to their excellent optical ...
• Studies on applications of neural networks in modeling sparse datasets and in the analysis of dynamics of CA3 in hippocampus 

  Keshavarz Hedayati, Babak (2019-04-23)

  Neural networks are an important tool in the field of data science as well as in the study of the very structures they were inspired from i.e. the human nervous system. In this dissertation, we studied the application of ...

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