Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS): Recent submissions
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Device Applications of Epitaxial III-Nitride Semiconductors
(2018-05-14)Through the history of mankind, novel materials have played a key role in techno- logical progress. As we approach the limits of scaling it becomes difficult to squeeze out any more extensions to Moore’s law by ... -
Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling of Temporal Coherence for Entity-Driven Video Analytics
(2018-05-14)In recent times there has been an explosion of online user-generated video content. This has generated significant research interest in video analytics. Human users understand videos based on high-level semantic ... -
Efficient Design of Embedded Data Acquisition Systems Based on Smart Sampling
(2018-05-10)Data acquisition from multiple analog channels is an important function in many embedded devices used in avionics, medical electronics, robotics and space applications. It is desirable to engineer these systems to reduce ... -
Investigations on Dynamics and Control of a Rimless Wheel Based 2D Dynamics Walker using Pulsed Torque Actuation
(2018-05-10)Wheeled systems are energy efficient on prepared surfaces like roads and tracks. Legged systems are capable of traversing different terrains but can be lossy. At low speeds and on off-road surfaces, legged systems using ... -
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 ...