Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS): Recent submissions
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Variability Aware Device Modeling and Circuit Design in 45nm Analog CMOS Technology
(2018-05-10)Process variability is a major challenge for the design of nano scale MOSFETs due to fundamental physical limits as well as process control limitations. As the size of the devices is scales down to improve performance, the ... -
Algorithms for Product Pricing and Energy Allocation in Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks
(2018-05-09)In this thesis, we consider stochastic systems which arise in different real-world application contexts. The first problem we consider is based on product adoption and pricing. A monopolist selling a product has to appropriately ... -
Algorithmic and Combinatorial Questions on Some Geometric Problems on Graphs
(2018-05-08)This thesis mainly focuses on algorithmic and combinatorial questions related to some geometric problems on graphs. In the last part of this thesis, a graph coloring problem is also discussed. Boxicity and Cubicity: These ... -
Compact Modeling of Short Channel Common Double Gate MOSFET Adapted to Gate-Oxide Thickness Asymmetry
(2018-05-08)Compact Models are the physically based accurate mathematical description of the cir-cuit elements, which are computationally efficient enough to be incorporated in circuit simulators so that the outcome becomes useful for ... -
Efficient Algorithms for Structured Output Learning
(2018-05-08)Structured output learning is the machine learning task of building a classifier to predict structured outputs. Structured outputs arise in several contexts in diverse applications like natural language processing, computer ... -
Cooperative Communication and QoS in Infrastructure WLANs
(2018-05-08)IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs operating in the infrastructure mode are extremely popular and have seen widespread deployment because of their convenience and cost efficiency. A large number of research studies have investigated ... -
Grassmannian Fusion Frames for Block Sparse Recovery and Its Application to Burst Error Correction
(2018-05-01)Fusion frames and block sparse recovery are of interest in signal processing and communication applications. In these applications it is required that the fusion frame have some desirable properties. One such requirement ... -
On Network Coding and Network-Error Correction
(2018-04-24)The paradigm of network coding was introduced as a means to conserve bandwidth (or equivalently increase throughput) in information flow networks. Network coding makes use of the fact that unlike physical commodities, ... -
Quantum Algorithmic Engineering with Photonic Integrated Circuits
(2018-04-24)Integrated quantum photonics show monolithic waveguide chips to be a promising platform for realizing the next generation of quantum optical circuits. This work proposes the implementation of quantum page Rank algorithm ... -
Outlier Detection with Applications in Graph Data Mining
(2018-04-24)Outlier detection is an important data mining task due to its applicability in many contemporary applications such as fraud detection and anomaly detection in networks, etc. It assumes significance due to the general ... -
Multi-Antenna Communication Receivers Using Metaheuristics and Machine Learning Algorithms
(2018-04-23)In this thesis, our focus is on low-complexity, high-performance detection algorithms for multi-antenna communication receivers. A key contribution in this thesis is the demonstration that efficient algorithms from ... -
Fast, Scalable, Contention-Based Algorithms for Multi-Node Selection in OFDMA and Cooperative Wireless Systems
(2018-04-23)Opportunistic selection algorithms have grown in importance as next generation wireless systems strive towards higher data rates and spectral efficiencies. For example, in orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA), ... -
Design and Development of a Passive Infra-Red-Based Sensor Platform for Outdoor Deployment
(2018-04-23)This thesis presents the development of a Sensor Tower Platform (STP) comprised of an array of Passive Infra-Red (PIR) sensors along with a classification algorithm that enables the STP to distinguish between human intrusion, ... -
Design and Analysis of Integrated Optic Waveguide Delay Line Phase Shifters for Microwave Photonic Application
(2018-04-23)Microwave Photonics(MWP) has been defined as the study of photonic devices which operate at microwave frequencies and also their applications to microwave and optical systems. One or more electrical signals at microwave ... -
Lightning Threat to Cables on Tall Towers and the Question of Electrical Isolation
(2018-04-23)Electromagnetic effects of lightning currents during a direct hit to tall communication towers, other instrumented towers and chimneys can be hazardous to associated cables, as well as, electrical and electronics systems. ... -
Substrate Independent Non-covalent Based Surface Functionalization Using Poyelectrolyte Multilayers for Bio-applications
(2018-04-23)The electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly of polyelectrolyte’s has shown applications in thin film coatings, micro patterning, nano-bioreactors and capsules for drug delivery. The film architecture can be precisely ... -
On the Tradeoff Of Average Delay, Average Service Cost, and Average Utility for Single Server Queues with Monotone Policies
(2018-04-23)In this thesis, we study the tradeoff of average delay with average service cost and average utility for both continuous time and discrete time single server queueing models without and with admission control. The continuous ... -
Improving Last-Level Cache Performance in Single and Multi-Core Processsors
(2018-04-23)With off-chip memory access taking 100's of processor cycles, getting data to the processor in a timely fashion remains one of the key performance bottlenecks in current systems. With increasing core counts, this problem ... -
Low-Complexity Receiver Algorithms in Large-Scale Multiuser MIMO Systems and Generalized Spatial Modulation
(2018-04-18)Multi-antenna wireless systems have become very popular due to their theoretically predicted higher spectral efficiencies and improved performance compared to single-antenna systems. Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output ... -
Model-Checking in Presburger Counter Systems using Accelerations
(2018-04-18)Model checking is a powerful technique for analyzing reach ability and temporal properties of finite state systems. Model-checking finite state systems has been well-studied and there are well known efficient algorithms ...