Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE): Recent submissions
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Physical Layer Impairments Aware Transparent Wavelength Routed and Flexible-Grid Optical Networks
(2018-06-26)Optical WDM network is the suitable transport mechanism for ever increasing bandwidth intensive internet applications. The WDM technique transmits the data over several different wavelengths simultaneously through an ... -
Power Scaling Mechanism for Low Power Wireless Receivers
(2018-06-26)LOW power operation for wireless radio receivers has been gaining importance lately on account of the recent spurt of growth in the usage of ubiquitous embedded mobile devices. These devices are becoming relevant in all ... -
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 ... -
On Design and Analysis of Energy Efficient Wireless Networks with QoS
(2018-06-13)We consider optimal power allocation policies for a single server, multiuser wireless communication system. The transmission channel may experience multipath fading. We obtain very efficient, low computational complexity ... -
An Efficient Network Management System using Agents for MANETs
(2018-06-11)Network management plays a vital role to keep a network and its application work e ciently. The network management in MANETs is a crucial and the challenging task, as these networks are characterized by dynamic environment ... -
Fusion of Sparse Reconstruction Algorithms in Compressed Sensing
(2018-06-08)Compressed Sensing (CS) is a new paradigm in signal processing which exploits the sparse or compressible nature of the signal to significantly reduce the number of measurements, without compromising on the signal reconstruction ... -
Analysis, Diagnosis and Design for System-level Signal and Power Integrity in Chip-package-systems
(2018-05-25)The Internet of Things (IoT) has ushered in an age where low-power sensors generate data which are communicated to a back-end cloud for massive data computation tasks. From the hardware perspective this implies co-existence ... -
Frequency Synthesis for Cognitive Radio Receivers and Other Wideband Applications
(2018-05-25)The radio frequency (RF) spectrum as a natural resource is severely under-utilized over time and space due to an inefficient licensing framework. As a result, in-creasing cellular and wireless network usage is placing ... -
Lattice Codes for Secure Communication and Secret Key Generation
(2018-05-22)In this work, we study two problems in information-theoretic security. Firstly, we study a wireless network where two nodes want to securely exchange messages via an honest-but-curious bidirectional relay. There is no ... -
Fully Integrated CMOS Transmitter and Power Amplifier for Software-Defined Radios and Cognitive Radios
(2018-05-18)Software Defined Radios (SDRs) and Cognitive Radios (CRs) pave the way for next-generation radio technology. They promise versatility, flexibility and cognition which can revolutionize communications systems. However they ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...