Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS): Recent submissions
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Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Selection and Rate Adaptation in Time Varying Channels
(2017-11-09)Opportunistic selection and rate adaptation play a vital role in improving the spectral and power efficiency of current multi-node wireless systems. However, time-variations in wireless channels affect the performance of ... -
Algorithm And Architecture Design for Real-time Face Recognition
(2017-10-31)Face recognition is a field of biometrics that deals with identification of subjects based on features present in the images of their faces. The factors that make face recognition popular and favorite as compared to other ... -
Precise Analysis of Private And Shared Caches for Tight WCET Estimates
(2017-10-31)Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) is an important metric for programs running on real-time systems, and finding precise estimates of a program’s WCET is crucial to avoid over-allocation and wastage of hardware resources and ... -
Provable Methods for Non-negative Matrix Factorization
(2017-10-31)Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is an important data-analysis problem which concerns factoring a given d n matrix A with nonnegative entries into matrices B and C where B and C are d k and k n with nonnegative ... -
Interference Modeling in Wireless Networks
(2017-10-26)Cognitive radio (CR) networks and heterogeneous cellular networks are promising approaches to satisfy the demand for higher data rates and better connectivity. A CR network increases the utilization of the radio spectrum ... -
Reduced Switch Count Multilevel Inverter Topologies for Open End Induction Motor Drives
(2017-10-18)MU LT I L E V E L inverters are becoming the preferred choice for medium voltage high power applications. Multilevel inverters have a number of inherent advantages over conventional two level inverters. The output voltage ... -
DSA Image Registration And Respiratory Motion Tracking Using Probabilistic Graphical Models
(2017-10-18)This thesis addresses three problems related to image registration, prediction and tracking, applied to Angiography and Oncology. For image analysis, various probabilistic models have been employed to characterize the image ... -
Classical Binary Codes And Subspace Codes in a Lattice Framework
(2017-10-10)The classical binary error correcting codes, and subspace codes for error correction in random network coding are two different forms of error control coding. We identify common features between these two forms and study ... -
Source And Channel Coding Techniques for The MIMO Reverse-link Channel
(2017-09-28)In wireless communication systems, the use of multiple antennas, also known as Multiple-Input Multiple-Output(MIMO) communications, is now a widely accepted and important technology for improving their reliability and ... -
Methods for Text Segmentation from Scene Images
(2017-09-27)Recognition of text from camera-captured scene/born-digital images help in the development of aids for the blind, unmanned navigation systems and spam filters. However, text in such images is not confined to any page layout, ... -
Plan Bouquets : An Exploratory Approach to Robust Query Processing
(2017-09-26)Over the last four decades, relational database systems, with their mathematical basis in first-order logic, have provided a congenial and efficient environment to handle enterprise data during its entire life cycle of ... -
Data Fusion Based Physical Layer Protocols for Cognitive Radio Applications
(2017-09-26)This thesis proposes and analyzes data fusion algorithms that operate on the physical layer of a wireless sensor network, in the context of three applications of cognitive radios: 1. Cooperative spectrum sensing via binary ... -
Bitrate Reduction Techniques for Low-Complexity Surveillance Video Coding
(2017-09-26)High resolution surveillance video cameras are invaluable resources for effective crime prevention and forensic investigations. However, increasing communication bandwidth requirements of high definition surveillance videos ... -
Reactive Power Planning And Operation of Power Systems with Wind Farms for Voltage Stability Improvement
(2017-09-23)In recent years, the electric power industry around the world is changing continuously due to transformation from regulated market structure to deregulated market structure. The main aim of the transformation of electric ... -
Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks : Performance Evaluation And Trade-offs
(2017-09-23)Wireless sensor networks(WSNs) have a diverse set of applications such as military surveillance, health and environmental monitoring, and home automation. Sensor nodes are equipped with pre-charged batteries, which drain ... -
Optimal Control of Information Epidemics in Homogeneously And Heterogeneously Mixed Populations
(2017-09-23)Social networks play an important role in disseminating a piece of information in a population. Companies advertising a newly launched product, movie promotion, political campaigns, social awareness campaigns by governments, ... -
Neuronal Dissimilarity Indices that Predict Oddball Detection in Behaviour
(2017-09-23)Our vision is as yet unsurpassed by machines because of the sophisticated representations of objects in our brains. This representation is vastly different from a pixel-based representation used in machine storages. It is ... -
Retweet Profiling - Study Dissemination of Twitter Messages
(2017-09-23)Social media has become an important means of everyday communication. It is a mechanism for “sharing” and “resharing” of information. While social network platforms provide the means to users for resharing/reblogging (aka ... -
Distributed Algorithms for Power Allocation Games on Gaussian Interference Channels
(2017-09-20)We consider a wireless communication system in which there are N transmitter-receiver pairs and each transmitter wants to communicate with its corresponding receiver. This is modelled as an interference channel. We propose ... -
Feature Adaptation Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Wireless Sensor Networks And Road Traffic Control
(2017-09-20)Many sequential decision making problems under uncertainty arising in engineering, science and economics are often modelled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). In the setting of MDPs, the goal is to and a state dependent ...