Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE): Recent submissions
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Imitation Learning Techniques for Robot Manipulation
Robots that can operate in unstructured environments and collaborate with humans play a major role in raising productivity and living standards as societies age. Unlike the robots currently used in industrial settings for ... -
Hypothesis Testing under Communication Constraints - Theory and an Application in IoT
Applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) often demand enabling low-compute devices to perform distributed inference and testing by communicating over a low bandwidth link. This gives rise to a plethora of new problems ... -
Optimal Redundancy in Distributed Systems for Latency and Repair
Distributed systems are employed in many modern storage and computing architecture for greater reliability and cost-efficiency. There are several important considerations in the design and implementation of such distributed ... -
Probabilistic Forwarding of Coded Packets for Broadcasting over Networks
Motivated by applications in sensor networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), in this dissertation, we consider the problem of energy-efficient broadcasting from a source node in a large dense network. Flooding, as a ... -
Sequential Controlled Sensing to Detect an Anomalous Process
In this thesis, we study the problem of identifying an anomalous arm in a multi-armed bandit as quickly as possible, subject to an upper bound on the error probability. Also known as odd arm identification, this problem ... -
Support Recovery from Linear Measurements: Tradeoffs in the Measurement-Constrained Regime
In this thesis, we study problems under the theme of discovering joint sparsity structure in a set of high-dimensional data samples from linear measurements. Our primary focus is on the regime where the number of samples ... -
Integrated Optical Double Ring Resonators with MEMS for Pressure and Acceleration Sensing
Silicon Photonics has become a signi ficant area of research in last three decades because of its high speed operation, low power consumption and the most important feature, resistant to electro-magnetic interferences. ... -
On Reduced-State Optimal Scheduling for Decentralized Medium Access Control of Wireless Data Collection Networks
In the Internet of Things (IoT), devices such as sensors and actuators will almost invariably be connected to the Internet via wireless networks. The sensor and actuator devices in such systems will be resource challenged ... -
Integrated optic devices on thin film lithium niobate for few-mode optical communications
Mode division multiplexing is a remarkable strategy to meet the explosively increasing bandwidth requirements in optical communication systems and interconnects. This scheme harnesses the orthogonality of modes to scale ... -
Risk Estimation Strategies for Speech Signal Denoising
In automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, the recognition performance is severely affected by noise in the input speech signal [2]. One can improve the performance of ASR systems in noisy environments by denoising ... -
Adjacent Independent Row (Air) Matrices and Index Coding
An index coding problem, comprises a transmitter that has a set of independent messages and a set of receivers. Each receiver knows a subset of messages, called its side-information, and demands another subset of messages, ... -
Correlation-aware Splitting Algorithms for Opportunistic Selection
Opportunistic selection is a key technique to improve the performance of wireless systems. In it, the best set of users among the available ones is selected on the basis of their instantaneous channel gains or local ... -
Compositionality of Object Representations in Brains and Machines
Compositionality in object vision can be defined as the principles governing the relationship between whole objects and their constituent attributes. It is known that object information falling on the retina is processed ... -
Erasure Codes for Distributed Storage: Tight Bounds and Matching Constructions
The reliable storage of Big Data across a spatially distributed network of nodes, calls for erasure-correcting codes that in addition to protecting against data loss, can also efficiently handle node repair. The need for ... -
Index Coding, Error Correcting Index Codes And Matroids
In the problem of index coding, there is a central source sending messages to a set of receivers which demand messages over a noiseless broadcast channel. Each receiver knows a subset of messages which is referred to as ... -
Designing Solutions to Counter the Attacks in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
The open medium, dynamic topology and distributed operation in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) leads to high risks. Many solutions are proposed to protect a MANET from attacks, ranging from attack identification to ... -
Design, Development, Deployment and Performance Evaluation of Pyroelectric Infra-Red and Optical Camera based Intrusion Detection Systems in an Outdoor Setting
The primary contribution of this thesis is the comprehensive design, development, and deployment of a pyroElectric, InfraRed-sensor-based IntruSion classification (EIRIS) platform, along with attendant detection and ... -
Coded Caching in Multi-access Networks
Caching is a promising technique that can reduce the amount of data transmitted over latency-prone links, effectively trading affordable memory for expensive bandwidth resources. The frequently demanded content is stored ... -
Bayesian Techniques for Joint Sparse Signal Recovery: Theory and Algorithms
This thesis contributes new theoretical results, solution concepts, and algorithms concerning the Bayesian recovery of multiple joint sparse vectors from noisy and underdetermined linear measurements. The thesis is written ... -
Design and Evaluation of Parallel Coded Systems
In this computer era, we all live in a place where the demand for data and computing is increasing day by day. Since the need for faster data retrieval and faster computation brings us a reliability as the solution, we ...