Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
On the Tradeoff Of Average Delay, Average Service Cost, and Average Utility for Single Server Queues with Monotone Policies
(2018-04-23)In this thesis, we study the tradeoff of average delay with average service cost and average utility for both continuous time and discrete time single server queueing models without and with admission control. The continuous ... -
Low-Complexity Receiver Algorithms in Large-Scale Multiuser MIMO Systems and Generalized Spatial Modulation
(2018-04-18)Multi-antenna wireless systems have become very popular due to their theoretically predicted higher spectral efficiencies and improved performance compared to single-antenna systems. Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output ... -
First-Spike-Latency Codes : Significance, Relation to Neuronal Network Structure and Application to Physiological Recordings
(2018-04-12)Over the last decade advances in multineuron simultaneous recording techniques have produced huge amounts of data. This has led to the investigation of probable temporal relationships between spike times of neurons as ... -
Relay Selection for Geographical Forwarding in Sleep-Wake Cycling Wireless Sensor Networks
(2018-04-11)Advances in wireless communication and microelectronics have led to the development of low-power compact sensor nodes (popularly called motes) that are capable of sensing, computing, and communication. A large number of ... -
Analysis of Multi-Conductor Coupled Microstrip Lines with an Aperture in the Ground Plane for Compact Broadband Microwave Components
(2018-04-11)In recent years, the wireless industry has witnessed tremendous development for the defense and commercial segments. The explosive growth in the modern radio frequency and microwave systems leads to an increased interest ... -
Low-Complexity Decoding and Construction of Space-Time Block Codes
(2018-04-11)Space-Time Block Coding is an efficient communication technique used in multiple-input multiple-output wireless systems. The complexity with which a Space-Time Block Code (STBC) can be decoded is important from an ... -
Timer-Based Selection Schemes for Wireless Networks
(2018-04-05)Opportunistic selection is a practically appealing technique that is often used in multi-node wireless systems such as scheduling and rate adaptation in cellular systems and opportunistic wireless local area networks, ... -
Reverse Channel Training in Multiple Antenna Time Division Duplex Systems
(2018-04-02)Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication using multiple antennas has received significant attention in recent years, both in the academia and industry, as they offer additional spatial dimensions for high-rate ... -
NoC Design & Optimization of Multicore Media Processors
(2018-03-22)Network on Chips[1][2][3][4] are critical elements of modern System on Chip(SoC) as well as Chip Multiprocessor(CMP)designs. Network on Chips (NoCs) help manage high complexity of designing large chips by decoupling ... -
Analysis and Optimization of Cooperative Amplify-and-Forward Relaying with Imperfect Channel Estimates
(2018-03-17)Relay-based cooperation promises significant gains in a wireless network as it provides an inde-pendent path between a source and a destination. Using simple single antenna nodes, it exploits the spatial diversity provided ... -
Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radios using Distributed Sequential Detection
(2018-03-17)Cognitive Radios are emerging communication systems which efficiently utilize the unused licensed radio spectrum called spectral holes. They run Spectrum sensing algorithms to identify these spectral holes. These holes ... -
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 ... -
Precoding for Interference Management in Wireless and Wireline Networks
(2018-02-27)Multiple users compete for a common resource like bandwidth to communicate data in interference networks. Existing approaches in dealing with interference limit the rate of communication due to paucity of shared resources. ... -
Modelling and Performance Analysis of New Coolstreaming for P2P IPTV
(2018-02-23)Peer to peer networks are becoming increasingly popular among Internet users as the downloading peers share the storage and upload bandwidth load of the system. This makes it possible for a large number of users to share ... -
SOI Based Integrated-Optic Microring Resonators for Biomedical Sensing Applications
(2018-02-23)Integrated Silicon Photonics has emerged as a powerful platform in the last two decades amongst high-bandwidth technologies, particularly since the adop- tion of CMOS compatible silicon-on-insulator(SOI) substrates. Microring ... -
Low Power and Low Area Techniques for Neural Recording Application
(2018-02-23)Chronic recording of neural signals is indispensable in designing efficient brain machine interfaces and to elucidate human neurophysiology. The advent of multi-channel micro-electrode arrays has driven the need for ... -
Influence Dynamics on Social Networks
(2018-02-15)With online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter becoming globally popular, there is renewed interest in understanding the structural and dynamical properties of social networks. In this thesis we study several ... -
Delay Minimization of an M/M/1 Point-to-Point Link Model Subject to Throughput and Power Constraints
(2018-02-15)In this thesis, we address the problem of minimizing the average delay of data pack-ets served by a transmitter on a static, point-to-point link. The transmitter dynamically chooses state-dependent admission and transmission ... -
Computational Models of Perceptual Space : From Simple Features to Complex Shapes
(2018-02-15)Dissimilarity plays a very important role in object recognition. But, finding perceptual dissimilarity between objects is non-trivial as it is not equivalent to the pixel dissimilarity between the objects (For example, two ...