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An Active Power Supply Filter with Ultra Wide Bandwidth
(North Dakota State University, 2016)An active transformerless common mode filter is designed for use with switching mode power supplies with a switching frequency greater than 1MHz. The filter utilizes an amplifier in a voltage sensing current adjusting ... -
Adaptive Beamforming for Antennas on General Wedge- and Cylindrical-Shaped Surfaces
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Adaptive beamforming antennas capable of accommodating the growing number of wireless subscribers throughout the world has become an essential part of modern wireless systems. In this work, the beamforming of a conformal ... -
Analyses, Mitigation and Applications of Secure Hash Algorithms
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Cryptographic hash functions are one of the widely used cryptographic primitives with a purpose to ensure the integrity of the system or data. Hash functions are also utilized in conjunction with digital signatures to ... -
Analysis and Characterization of Cloud Based Data Center Architectures for Performance, Robustness, Energy Efficiency, and Thermal Uniformity
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Cloud computing is anticipated to revolutionize the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector and has been a mainstream of research over the last decade. Today, the contemporary society relies more than ever ... -
An Analysis and Improvement of Brushless DC Motor Control System
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Trapezoidal Back-EMF (Brushless DC) motors are gaining increasing importance in automotive industries, HVAC applications, home appliances etc. Traditionally, Brushless DC motors are commutated electronically using position ... -
The Analysis of Noise Voltage Coupling Between Right-Handed and Meta-Materials Transmission Lines on Printed Circuit Boards
(North Dakota State University, 2013)An important consideration of RF circuitry in terms of Electromagnetic Compatibility is the correct modeling of the coupling between printed transmission lines. This is very important because the coupled noise voltages ... -
Analysis of Power Line Communication Channel Model using Communication Techniques
(North Dakota State University, 2013)With the advent of technology, human dependency on power (electricity) and communication has grown beyond leaps and bounds. Many efforts have been made to continuously improve and increase the efficiency in both areas. ... -
Analysis of Secrecy in Multi-User Wireless Network
(North Dakota State University, 2018)We consider an Ergodic Fading Broadcast Channel with one Legitimate receiver and one Eavesdropper (BCoLoE) having arbitrary fading statistics, where the instantaneous Channel State Information (CSI) are known only at the ... -
Automating the design of deep learning models using neural architecture search for medical image classification
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Designing Deep Learning (DL) models for medical image classification tasks poses significant challenges, demanding substantial expertise owing to the intricate nature and critical importance of the undertaking. Creating a ... -
An Autonomous Reconfigurable Antenna
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Today’s wireless communications involve more antenna capabilities while occupying the same amount of space. Antennas are able to operate at multiple frequencies [1]-[2], change polarizations [6], have selectable radiation ... -
Bit Optimized Reconfigurable Network (BORN): A New Pathway Towards Implementing a Fully Integrated Band-Switchable CMOS Power Amplifier
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The ultimate goal of the modern wireless communication industry is the full integration of digital, analog, and radio frequency (RF) functions. The most successful solution for such demands has been complementary metal ... -
Calculating Cardiovascular Lumped-Parameter Model Values by Injecting Small Volume Perturbations in an Isovolumic Heart
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Diagnosing cardiac patient problems contains many uncertainties, and to fully diagnose the patient's condition usually requires a lengthy drug regimen to see what works and what does not. Compounding this problem is that ... -
The Capacity Region of the Gaussian Z-Interference Channel with Gaussian Input and Weak Interference
(North Dakota State University, 2016)We consider a wireless communication scenario with two transmit-receive pairs where each of the transmitters has a message for its corresponding receiver and only one of the receivers face interference from the undesired ... -
Capacity Region of Two Interfering Mimo Multiple Access Channels With Strong Interference
(North Dakota State University, 2015)We consider a communication network, where two mutually interfering 2-user MIMO Multiple Access Channels (MAC) operate simultaneously via the same time-frequency space, and characterize the capacity region of this network ... -
The Capillary-Centric Model of Coupling-As-Thermodynamics
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Models of ventricular-arterial coupling (VAC) have historically described the heart as a function of its energetic interaction with the arterial system. However, these models either represent the dynamic, adaptive ... -
Carbon Microfiber Material for Electromagnetic (Shielding) Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Electromagnetic shielding is becoming more and more important with the abundance of wireless devices. Therefore a need has arisen for more versatile, flexible and low-cost solutions for shielding. For these requirements, ... -
Cardiac Output Improvement in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Mechanical circulatory support devices (MCSDs) have gained widespread clinical acceptance as an effective heart failure (HF) therapy. The concept of harnessing the kinetic energy (KE) available in the forward aortic flow ... -
Characterization of a Structure Consisting of Magnetostatic Responsive Microscopic Particles and Its Applications In Antennas
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Wireless communication systems often require that a single antenna work at different frequencies. Thus the recon gurable antennas are useful in frequency agile environments to receive a signal over multiple bands. Research ... -
Characterization of Inflationary and Deflationary Auscultatory Blood Pressure Measurements
(North Dakota State University, 2022)This document is a paper-based dissertation. The dissertation is a collection of articles written by the author in the pursuit to develop a novel method to measure blood pressure (BP). The introduction chapter describes ... -
Cloud Based Recommendation Services for Healthcare
(North Dakota State University, 2016)With the inception of portable computing devices, enormous growth in the healthcare data over the Internet has been observed. Consequently, the Web based systems come across several challenges, such as storage, availability, ...