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A Negative Dielectrophoresis Based Method of Detecting Pancreatic Cancer Antigen CA 242 in Serum
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Patients with pancreatic cancer in metastasis rarely survive, thus the need for diagnostic tools for early stage detection. Current techniques such as ELISA and SPR are complex and expensive and cannot detect cancer in its ... -
Network Convergence in Multicarrier Hybrid Cellular Network
(North Dakota State University, 2014)In a multicarrier communication system with known channel state information at transmitter (CSIT), it is well-known that the water-filling power allocation scheme is optimal in achieving the Shannon capacity. However, in ... -
A New Generation of Particle-Based Radio Frequency (RF) Switches for Portable and High-Frequency Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Reconfigurable and tunable designs which provide multi-functionality are highly desirable in wireless communication systems. Amongst different methodologies to design RF switching, a directly connected biasing circuitry ... -
A New Method of Dynamic Reliability Management for Chip Multi-Processors
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This work presents a new dynamic reliability management controller which successfully extends the expected lifetime of Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs). This is achieved by migrating tasks within the CMP, effectively reducing ... -
A New Methodology for the Design and Tuning of Robust PID Controllers in Electric Drives
(North Dakota State University, 2014)AC induction motor-drive systems are the backbone for numerous industrial applications, such as aerospace, medical equipment, and nuclear power plants. The control performance of electric drives is sensitive to several ... -
A New Printed Quasi-Landstorfor Antenna
(North Dakota State University, 2011)In this thesis, a new type of printed quasi-Landstorfer antenna is present ed. The proposed antenna utilizes parasitic radiators to realize a higher gain. The antc1ma is measured to have a resonant frequency of 2.45 GHz ... -
Nonlinear Compensation in Optical Communications Systems using the Nonlinear Fourier Transform
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Nonlinear effects in optical fibers impose a capacity limit for optical communication systems. In this dissertation, the nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT) is investigated as a method to mitigate and compensate for those ... -
A Novel Batteryless Pacemaker: Design, Development, and In Vivo Study in an Ovine Model
(North Dakota State University, 2017)A standard pacemaker can improve a patient's quality of life and may even prolong it, but conventional pacemakers contain leads and batteries, which have their own complications. Hence, the need for a pacemaker with leadless ... -
Novel K2W7O22/Ti3C2 Nanocomposite-Based Sensor Device for Breath Acetone Analysis in Diabetic Patients
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Acetone in exhaled breath is gaining attention as a non-invasive means of quantifying blood glucose levels in Diabetics. This calls for development of novel biosensors for the detection of trace concentrations of acetone ... -
On Authentication of Long Messages in Short Time for Resource Constrained Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis is a collection of three different research contributions targeted towards providing faster message authentication for long messages which have been recently accepted or submitted for publication. The first ... -
On Measuring the Robustness of Cloud Computing Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The diverse computing services offered by the cloud computing paradigm have escalated the interest in cloud deployment to a great extent. Cloud systems need to be resilient to uncertainties and perturbations. However, the ... -
On the Secrecy Capacity of Fading Gaussian Wire-Tap Channel
(North Dakota State University, 2014)We consider the so called “wire-tap channel”, where a transmitter sends secret information to its receiver in the presence of an eavesdropping receiver with similar signal processing capability as the desired receiver. It ... -
Perceptual Video Quality Model and its Application in Wireless Multimedia Communications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)With the exponential growth of video traffic over wireless networked and embedded devices such as mobile phones and sensors, mechanisms are needed to predict the perceptual quality of video in real time and with low ... -
Performance Enhancement of Pipeline ADCs
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The pipeline ADC is mainstream architecture in wireless communication and digital consumer products because of its speed, resolution, dynamic performance, and power consumption. However, there are three areas of concern ... -
Personalized Health Insurance Services Using Big Data
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Cloud computing paradigm has significantly affected the healthcare sector like various other business domains. Persistently growing healthcare data over the Internet has called for the development of methodologies to ... -
A Phase Correction Technique Based on Spatial Movements of Antennas in Real-Time (S.M.A.R.T.) for Designing Self-Adapting Conformal Array Antennas
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This research presents a real-time adaptive phase correction technique for flexible phased array antennas on conformal surfaces of variable shapes. Previously reported pattern correctional methods for flexible phased array ... -
Phasor Measurement Unit Placements for Complete Observability using Linear-Time, Quadratic-Time, and Subquadratic-Time Heuristics
(North Dakota State University, 2010)A phasor measurement unit (PMU) is considered to have the potential to improve the efficiency of electric power systems by monitoring, control, and protection. Through measurements of all bus voltages, incoming and ... -
A PMSG-Based Wind Energy Conversion System Assisted by Photovoltaic Power
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This work discusses a hybrid power conversion scheme consisting of a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG)-based wind energy system and photovoltaic panels. The two energy sources are integrated with a battery to ... -
A Polynomial Time Procedure Converting Error Correcting Codes to Semantically Secure Wiretap Codes
(North Dakota State University, 2018)We furnish a procedure based on universal hash families that can convert an error correcting code of rate R to a semantically secure wiretap code of rate R−ξ where ξ is some parameter derived from the eavesdropper’s channel. ... -
Power Efficient Embedded Memory Design for Mobile Video Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis mainly addresses the issue of low-power technology for streaming media applications. In order to ensure high output video quality under low-voltage supply, the proposed 8-bit pixel memory is sized by different ...