Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE): Recent submissions
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Engineering van der Waals Heterojunctions for Electronic and Optoelectronic Device Applications
Efficient preparation and characterization of layered materials and their van der Waals heterojunctions lay the foundation for various opportunities in both fundamental studies and device applications. The vast library ... -
Precoding and Channel Estimation Schemes for MIMO VLC Systems
Increase in the usage of smartphones and growing demand for data have resulted in congestion in the RF spectrum. To ease the overcrowding of RF spectrum, there is a need for wireless communication systems that can ... -
Spectral Efficiency Improvement in Spatial Modulation Systems
A novel energy efficient Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique is called Spatial Mod- ulation (SM). It uses only one radio frequency (RF) chain that reduces the hardware complexity and cost of the system. The ... -
On Some Questions Involving Prefix Codes
Let A be a finite alphabet and A be the set of all finite sequences of the elements of A. A word is any member of A . A prefix code X is a set of words satisfying the prefix property, i.e., no word in the set is a prefix ... -
Mask Estimator Approaches For Audio Beamforming
Beamforming is a family of algorithms and performs a spatial filtering operation that makes it possible to map the distribution of the sources at a certain distance from the microphones and therefore locate the ... -
Codes for distributed storage, private information retrieval and low-latency streaming
This thesis presents results on error correcting codes for settings such as: (a) distributed storage, (b) private information retrieval, and (c) low-latency streaming. It also presents two new decoding algorithms for Polar ... -
Analysis and Mitigation of SideLobe Degradation due to Quantized control in mmWave 5G Phased Arrays
Antenna arrays are one of the most important parts of the RF communication systems. With the advancement in the eld of 5G mobile communication, electronically steerable arrays, particularly phased arrays have undergone ... -
Equivalent Circuit Analyses and Methods to Enhance Bandwidth of Klystron Reentrant Cavities
Klystron is used as an amplifier at microwave frequency range. Klystrons use cylindrical or rectangular reentrant cavities in their interaction structure. Characteristics of reentrant cavity can be defined using parameters ... -
Spatial Analysis and Reconstruction of Reverberant Speech
Speech signal includes the spoken message and a lot more information such as speaker emotion, identity, language, speaking location characteristic etc., which makes the human interaction lively, desirable and more useful. ... -
A Method of Designing Museum Services Handling System for Ubiquitous Visitors
Advances in mobile computing technologies have enabled the personal ubiquitous computing environment for ubiquitous visitors. In the case of museum services, a ubiquitous visitor is free to access his/her interested exhibit ... -
Efficient Transceiver Techniques for Media-based Modulation Systems
Conventionally, information bits are conveyed in a communication system by transmitting symbols from a complex modulation alphabet such as QAM or PSK. The wireless fading channel is viewed as a signal distorting medium ... -
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 ... -
Insights into Network Coding Using Tools From Linear Algebra and Matroid Theory
Traditionally, the transmission of information through a network was carried out using store-and-forward techniques. This entails managing information bits in a network analogous to commodity flow, without mixing or combining ... -
Design and Analysis of Integrated Optic Waveguide Grating for Sensor and Communication Applications
Waveguide gratings are widely being used for multitude of applications owing to high sensitivity, immunity to electromagnetic interference, multiplexing capabilities, light weight and compactness. Waveguide gratings on ... -
On Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation for Wireless Communications
Future wireless communication systems are envisioned to support diverse requirements that include high mobility application scenarios such as high-speed trains, and vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-toinfrastructure communications. ... -
Real-Time Status Updates Over Erasure Channels
Real-time decision making relies on the availability of accurate data and, as such, delivering status updates in a timely fashion is of paramount importance. In this thesis, we first look at the interplay between average ... -
Functional Safety Analysis Techniques for Integrated Circuits Used in Cyber-Physical Systems
Integrated Circuits (ICs) are used to realize multitude of real life systems. These real life systems have ICs interacting with physical systems (this combination being referred to as cyber-physical systems or hybrid ... -
Investigation of Multi-Axis Beam Steering using Diffraction Grating
Optical beam-steering is becoming a key optical functionality in free space optical links used for communication and sensing. For example, in recent times, compact, wide-angle, fast, multi-axis beam steering is used ... -
On Linear Codes in Projective Spaces
The projective space $\mathbb{P}_q(n)$ of order $n$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ is defined as the collection of all subspaces of the ambient space $\mathbb{F}_q^n$. The Grassmannian $\mathcal{G}_q(n, k)$ is the set ... -
Load Modulated Arrays for Multi-antenna Wireless Communications
Conventional multi-antenna transmitters use a separate RF chain (consisting of DACs, mixers, filters) and a power amplifier (PA) for each antenna element, and use modulation alphabets such as QAM/PSK for transmission. The ...