Browsing Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE) by thesis submitted date"2016"
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Algorithms for Homogeneous Quadratic Minimization And Applications in Wireless Networks
(2017-11-09)Massive proliferation of wireless devices throughout world in the past decade comes with a host of tough and demanding design problems. Noise at receivers and wireless interference are the two major issues which severely ... -
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 ... -
Conformal Active Sheets
(2017-12-16)Stretchable Electronics is an emerging class of electronics that allow electronics to be bent, conform, ex and stretch while still retaining its full functionality. Other than bending, existing and conforming, adding ... -
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 ... -
Design and Characterization of SRAMs for Ultra Dynamic Voltage Scalable (U-DVS) Systems
(2017-11-29)The ever expanding range of applications for embedded systems continues to offer new challenges (and opportunities) to chip manufacturers. Applications ranging from exciting high resolution gaming to routine tasks like ... -
Designing Solutions to Some of the Issues in Ubiquitous Networks
The inception of ubiquitous computing goes back to late eighties, when the Research at the Xerox Palo Alto Research (PARC) started designing ubiquitous environment under the guidance of Mark Weiser. Ubiquitous computing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Fast Solvers for Integtral-Equation based Electromagnetic Simulations
(2018-01-10)With the rapid increase in available compute power and memory, and bolstered by the advent of efficient formulations and algorithms, the role of 3D full-wave computational methods for accurate modelling of complex ... -
Functional Index Coding, Network Function Computation, and Sum-Product Algorithm for Decoding Network Codes
(2018-01-10)Network coding was introduced as a means to increase throughput in communication networks when compared to routing. Network coding can be used not only to communicate messages from some nodes in the network to other nodes ... -
Integrated Interfaces for Sensing Applications
(2017-12-13)Sensor interfaces are needed to communicate the measured real-world analog values to the base¬band digital processor. They are dominated by the presence of high accuracy, high resolution analog to digital converters (ADC) ... -
Modeling, Performance Analysis and Design of Wireless Networks for Embedded Sensing Applications
The general theme of this thesis is modeling, performance analysis, and design of wireless networks under standardized CSMA/CA MAC protocols. In particular, we consider two widely used MAC protocols, namely, IEEE 802.15.4, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Photonic Crystal Ring Resonators for Optical Networking and Sensing Applications
(2017-12-03)Photonic bandgap structures have provided promising platform for miniaturization of modern integrated optical devices. In this thesis, a photonic crystal based ring resonator (PCRR) is proposed and optimized to exhibit ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...