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Analysis and Optimization of Cooperative Amplify-and-Forward Relaying with Imperfect Channel Estimates
(2018-03-17)
Relay-based cooperation promises significant gains in a wireless network as it provides an inde-pendent path between a source and a destination. Using simple single antenna nodes, it exploits the spatial diversity provided ...
Delay Minimization of an M/M/1 Point-to-Point Link Model Subject to Throughput and Power Constraints
(2018-02-15)
In this thesis, we address the problem of minimizing the average delay of data pack-ets served by a transmitter on a static, point-to-point link. The transmitter dynamically chooses state-dependent admission and transmission ...
Optimization Algorithms for Deterministic, Stochastic and Reinforcement Learning Settings
(2018-05-30)
Optimization is a very important field with diverse applications in physical, social and biological sciences and in various areas of engineering. It appears widely in ma-chine learning, information retrieval, regression, ...
Incentive Design for Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing Markets
(2018-05-23)
With the ever-increasing trend in the number of social interactions getting intermediated by technology (the world wide web) as the backdrop, this thesis focuses on the design of mechanisms for online communities (crowds) ...
Fast Actively Secure OT Extension for Short Secrets
(2018-05-25)
Oblivious Transfer (OT) is one of the most fundamental cryptographic primitives with wide-spread application in general secure multi-party computation (MPC) as well as in a number of tailored and special-purpose problems ...
Hard Drive Failure Prediction : A Rule Based Approach
(2011-07-12)
The ability to accurately predict an impending hard disk failure is important for reliable storage system design. The facility provided by most hard drive manufacturers, called S.M.A.R.T. (self-monitoring, analysis and ...
Large Scale Graph Processing in a Distributed Environment
(2018-05-25)
Graph algorithms are ubiquitously used across domains. They exhibit parallelism, which can be exploited on parallel architectures, such as multi-core processors and accelerators. However, real world graphs are massive in ...