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Topics in Network Utility Maximization : Interior Point and Finite-step Methods
(2018-03-12)Network utility maximization has emerged as a powerful tool in studying flow control, resource allocation and other cross-layer optimization problems. In this work, we study a flow control problem in the optimization ... -
Topics In Performance Modeling Of IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks
(2011-07-11)This thesis is concerned with analytical modeling of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) that are based on IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Such networks are popularly known as WiFi networks. We have ... -
Topics on Safety and Security of Power Systems
In this thesis, we investigate some of the problems concerning the safety and security of power systems. Since the operational safety of the power system itself is a vast area of research, we choose to investigate the ... -
Towards a Unified Framework for Design of MEMS based VLSI Systems
(2018-02-12)Current day VLSI systems have started seeing increasing percentages of multiple energy domain components being integrated into the mainstream. Energy domains such as mechanical, optical, fluidic etc. have become all pervasive ... -
Towards Development Of Low Cost Electrochemical Biosensor For Detecting Percentage Glycated Hemoglobin
(2014-07-11)There is an ever growing demand for low cost biosensors in medical diagnostics. A well known commercially successful example is glucose biosensors which are used to diagonize and monitor diabetes. These biosensors use ... -
Transceiver Design Based on the Minimum-Error-Probability Framework for Wireless Communication Systems
(2018-06-19)Parameter estimation and signal detection are the two key components of a wireless communication system. They directly impact the bit-error-ratio (BER) performance of the system. Several criteria have been successfully ... -
Transmit Antenna Selection in Underlay Spectrum Sharing: Role of Power Adaptation, Interference Constraint, and Channel State Information
Spectrum sharing is essential to support high wireless data rates and a large number of wireless connections by the future technologies in the limited spectrum that is available. In underlay spectrum sharing a secondary ... -
True Random Number Generators based on Amplified Spontaneous Emission
Low-cost, high-speed quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are imperative to develop in order to have a widespread application in areas ranging from cryptography and stochastic simulations to banking and internet. ... -
Ultrawideband and wide-angle scan antenna element and small active phased arrays
Wideband, wide-scan active phased arrays (APA) are widely used for multi-function radars, communication and electronic warfare. Although considerable research is available on the design and analysis of such antenna elements ... -
Underwater Acoustic Communications: Algorithms for Delay-Scale Spread Wideband Channels
In wideband wireless communication systems, the relative motion of the transmitter, receiver, or scatterers in the medium causes the Doppler effect, which stretches or compresses the transmitted waveforms, resulting in ... -
Van der Waals Heterojunctions for Emerging Device Applications
Low-dimensional systems are an exciting platform for exploring new physics and realizing novel devices. The intriguing features, such as the existence of strongly bound multiparticle complexes and thickness-dependent band ... -
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 ... -
Variational Bayes Algorithms for mmWave and Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems with Low Resolution ADCs
In this thesis, we develop novel low-complexity algorithms for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under practical non-idealities and theoretically analyze their performance. The first problem we consider ... -
Vision-driven Tele-Operation for Robot Manipulation
It’s worth the time to acknowledge just how amazingly well we humans can perform tasks with our hands. Starting from picking up a coin to buttoning up our shirts. All these tasks for robots are still at the very forefront ... -
Who Spoke What And Where? A Latent Variable Framework For Acoustic Scene Analysis
(2016-09-15)Speech is by far the most natural form of communication between human beings. It is intuitive, expressive and contains information at several cognitive levels. We as humans, are perceptive to several of these cognitive ... -
Why only two ears? Some indicators from the study of source separation using two sensors
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-02-10)In this thesis we develop algorithms for estimating broadband source signals from a mixture using only two sensors. This is motivated by what is known in the literature as cocktail party effect, the ability of human beings ... -
Wide-Band Radio-Frequency All-Pass Networks for Analog Signal Processing
(2018-01-10)There is an ever increasing demand for higher spectral usage in wireless communication, radar and imaging systems. Higher spectral efficiency can be achieved using components that are aware of system environment and adapt ... -
Wideband Microstrip Patch Antennas and their Modifications for Practical Applications
Printed antennas play an significant role in satellite, mobile, and other wireless communications networks, military systems and several more emerging applications in- cluding radar sensing and imaging. Several of these ...