• Authentication of Configuration Updates for Remote Field Programmable Gate Arrays with the use of Physical Unclonable Function 

  Salem, Fares (2023-11-14)

  Security has become a significant concern in our lives with the proliferation of connected devices and the emergence of embedded systems where the attack surface is getting wider every day. New security challenges and ...
• Space-Air-Ground FSO Transmission System Design for Reliable and Very-High-Throughput Satellite Communications 

  Zaghloul, Ramy (2023-11-06)

  Recent advances demonstrate satellite communications (SatComs) as a potent enabler for future Terabits/s wireless networks and bridging the digital divide. Existing SatCom systems, however, are mostly dependent on radio ...
• SeniorSentry: Safeguarding AgeTech Devices and Sensors Using Contextual Anomaly Detection and Supervised Machine Learning 

  Nandikotkur, Achyuth (2023-11-01)

  With the ever-growing reliance on IoT-enabled sensors to age in place, a need arises to protect them from malicious activities by detecting attacks or other anomalies. In this work, we first confirm the presence of ...
• Efficient Federated Learning over Heterogeneous Machines 

  Zhao, Lei (2023-08-31)

  Decentralized data scattered among large number of different machines, therefore, there are two major challenges in large-scale machine learning, i.e., vast amount of data transmission over the communication network causing ...
• Novel Adaptive Transmission for Effective URLLC Support in 5G and Beyond Wireless Systems: Reinforcement Learning based Designs 

  Saatchi, Negin Sadat (2023-08-31)

  The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has transformed industrial processes by connecting devices and enabling real-time data exchange. However, the increasing demands of future IIoT applications necessitate a trustworthy, ...
• Supervised and Unsupervised Deep Learning Methods for Underwater Image Enhancement 

  Rico Espinosa, Alejandro (2023-08-31)

  Large amounts of underwater imagery are constantly collected for environmental monitoring studies, as they are essential for estimating marine biodiversity and abundance. However, this collected data has variable quality ...
• Improving surface plasmon resonance sensor and nanoaperture optical tweezers for biomolecule analysis 

  Babaei, Elham (2023-08-30)

  This thesis explores innovative approaches to improve sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors and nanoaperture optical tweezers (NOT) technique for biomolecule analysis. A significant enhancement in the ...
• Local Descriptor Image Matching Acceleration and its Hardware Implementation 

  Soleimani, Parastoo (2023-08-30)

  Computer vision algorithms have been used in an increasing number of applications during the past decades. One of the foremost challenges for using computer vision algorithms in practical applications is computational ...
• Addressing Data Limitations in Defect Detection: A Case Study of Inspection in Automated Fiber Placement 

  Ghamisi, Assef (2023-08-25)

  This thesis introduces novel automated visual defect detection approaches that effectively address the challenges of data scarcity and imbalance. In the manufacturing industry, conventional defect detection systems rely ...
• Performance of OFDM and DFT-s-OFDM in the THz-Band Communications Channels 

  Khorram, Erfan (2023-05-18)

  The terahertz (THz) band is a promising frequency band that ranges from 300 GHz to 10 THz and being considered for the next generation of wireless networks due to the large available bandwidth and achievable ultra fast ...
• Efficient Ultrasound Image Enhancement Using Lightweight CNNs 

  Anjidani, Farid (2023-05-18)

  Plane-wave ultrasound imaging allows for very high frame rates. During image reconstruction, conventional delay-and-sum beamforming can be replaced by the quicker Fourier-domain remapping method. Typically, after Fourier-domain ...
• Advanced Persistent Threat Detection using Anomaly Score Calibration and Multi-class Classification 

  Soh, Ornella Lucresse (2023-04-27)

  Organisations worldwide continue to face a diverse range of attacks. Traditionally, these have been attacks of opportunity that quickly act upon weaker targets whenever possible. However, in the past decade, advanced ...
• Detection and Analysis of Long-Term Threats using Large Dynamic Uncertain Graph Models 

  Quinan, Paulo Gustavo (2023-04-27)

  In the past decade, new types of long-term threats, such as the advanced persistent threat (APT), have emerged. Their complexity brings many challenges for detection, prevention and posterior forensic analysis of intrusions. ...
• Modes and model systems: computational studies in biophysics, electromagnetics and plasmonics 

  DeWolf, Timothy Stephen (2023-04-18)

  This work has three parts. In the first part, we show that the measured resonances observed in proteins using Extraordinary Acoustic Raman (EAR) spectroscopy are in fact low-frequency acoustic modes, or protein collective ...
• Improving Image Matching using an Ensemble of Local Descriptors and Hardware Design 

  Ghaffari, Sina (2023-04-12)

  Image matching is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision, and has many applications such as object recognition, structure from motion, and 3D reconstruction. In this work, we aim to accelerate image matching ...
• Analytical Methods for Quantification of Light-Matter Interactions in Subwavelength Metal Nanostructures 

  Pati, Amrita (2023-01-16)

  The thesis presents analytical techniques to determine mode propagation characteristics in subwavelength metallic slits and plasmonic slot waveguides. These metal-insulator-metal geometries have been successfully applied ...
• High-throughput exploration of multinary perovskite compositions for solar cell applications 

  Moradi, Shahram (2023-01-16)

  A photovoltaic (PV) device or a solar cell converts sunlight directly to electricity. Mechanistically, a solar cell is a sandwich of multiple material layers. The interaction of photons with the absorber layer in the middle ...
• Security Analysis of Rolling Code-based Remote Keyless Entry Systems 

  Ghanem, Ahmed (2022-12-22)

  Providing privacy and security is a critical issue in smart- homes. Many residents are concerned about unauthorized access to their homes. This work focuses on the security analysis of remote keyless entry systems (RKES) ...
• A Lightweight Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Healthcare Applications with Robustness to Desynchronization Attacks 

  Shihab, Shamim Akhtar (2022-12-15)

  Remote healthcare monitoring system is currently gaining a lot of interest due to their potential to save lives by providing patients with continuous monitoring and quick responses when they are in critical medical ...
• Malicious URL Detection using Machine Learning 

  Siddeeq, Abubakar (2022-10-17)

  Malicious URL detection is important for cyber security experts and security agencies. With the drastic increase in internet usage, the distribution of such malware is a serious issue. Due to the wide variety of this ...

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