Browsing Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS) by thesis submitted date"2019"
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Modelling, Optimisation and Control of Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Systems
With growing energy demands of the society and depleting reserves of conventional energy sources, renewable energy is the need of the hour. Out of the various renewable energy sources available, solar photovoltaic (PV) ... -
Multisource Subnetwork Level Transfer in Deep CNNs Using Bank of Weight Filters
The convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the most successful models for many pattern recognition problems in the areas of computer vision, speech, text and others. One concern about CNNs has always been their ... -
On Linear Codes in Projective Spaces
The projective space $\mathbb{P}_q(n)$ of order $n$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ is defined as the collection of all subspaces of the ambient space $\mathbb{F}_q^n$. The Grassmannian $\mathcal{G}_q(n, k)$ is the set ... -
On Media-Based Modulation for Wireless Communications
Traditionally, symbols chosen from complex modulation alphabets such as QAM and PSK are used to convey information bits, and complex fades introduced by the channel are viewed as detrimental effects that cause amplitude ... -
On Streaming Codes, Regenerating Codes and Locality-Aided Decoding
This thesis presents results relating to the application of error-correcting codes with different aims and in different settings; to achieve low-latency communication, to improve decoding performance and to enable the ... -
Optimal Code Constructions for Some Multi-sender Index Coding Problems
An instance of the multi-sender index coding problem consists of a set of senders collectively having all the messages demanded by a set of receivers. Each receiver knows a subset of messages a priori, called its side ... -
Optimizing Dense Matrix Computations with PolyMage
Linear algebra computations and other arbitrary affine accesses are ubiquitous in applications from domains like scientific computing, digital signal processing (DSP), and deep neural networks. Libraries such as OpenBLAS, ... -
Power Electronic Converters for Condition Monitoring and Voltage Equalization of Batteries
Power converters are used in battery-based storage systems in many applications. Apart from the task of regulating the charging and discharging, the power electronic converters can also help to monitor battery condition ... -
Practically Efficient Secure Small Party Computation over the Internet
Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) with small population has drawn focus specifically due to customization in techniques and resulting efficiency that the constructions can offer. Practically efficient constructions ... -
Precoding and Channel Estimation Schemes for MIMO VLC Systems
Increase in the usage of smartphones and growing demand for data have resulted in congestion in the RF spectrum. To ease the overcrowding of RF spectrum, there is a need for wireless communication systems that can ... -
Pronunciation assessment and semi-supervised feedback prediction for spoken English tutoring
Spoken English pronunciation quality is often influenced by the nativity of a learner, for whom English is the second language. Typically, the pronunciation quality of a learner depends on the degree of the following four ... -
Protocols for quantum information processing on graph states
Quantum entanglement is a unique phenomenon that occurs in quantum systems and ensures the feasibility of tasks considered impossible in the classical world. Two such important tasks are superdense coding and quantum ... -
Recommendations in Complex Networks: Unifying Structure into Random Walk
Making recommendations or predicting links which are likely to exist in the future is one of the central problems in network science and graph mining. In spite of modern state-of- the-art approaches for link prediction, ... -
Safe Operating Area Reliability of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs)
Gallium Nitride (GaN) based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are extensively considered for power switching and RF applications by the virtue of their unique properties. However, despite of its attractive ... -
Signcryption in a Quantum World
With recent advancements and research on quantum computers, it is conjectured that in the foreseeable future, sufficiently large quantum computers will be built to break essentially all public key cryptosystems currently ... -
Soft Switched Multilevel Unidirectional High Frequency Link DC to AC Converter for Medium Voltage Grid Integration of Solar Photovoltaics
Grounding the frame of photovoltaic (PV) panel is a necessity for the safety of humans. This leads to the formation of large capacitance between PV cells and ground. Hence, to reduce leakage current due to parasitic ... -
Spatio-temporal Memories: Theory and Algorithms
This thesis is primarily focused on building a systematic theory for spatio-temporal memories based on unsupervised learning and exploring its applications. Also, contributions are made in the area of supervised learning ... -
Spectral Efficiency Improvement in Spatial Modulation Systems
A novel energy efficient Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique is called Spatial Mod- ulation (SM). It uses only one radio frequency (RF) chain that reduces the hardware complexity and cost of the system. The ... -
Studies on Multilevel Twenty-Four Sided Polygonal Voltage Space Vector Structure Generation With a Single DC Link for Variable Speed Drive Applications
Multilevel voltage source inverters have become a widely accepted and cost-effective power converter technology for applications requiring high-power medium-voltage control. The demand of power level requirement has ... -
Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Rigid Registration
In this thesis, we consider the rigid registration problem, which arises in applications such as sensor network localization, multiview registration, and protein structure determination. The abstract setup for this problem ...