Browsing Electrical & Computer Engineering Doctoral Work by Title
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Design and Analysis of New Printed Wideband Antennas for Wireless Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2014)In this study a simple method to develop a wideband antenna is proposed. With this new technique a dipole antenna with a 48% frequency bandwidth is transformed to achieve a 120% frequency bandwidth for a voltage standing-wave ... -
Detection and Quantification of Rare Analytes in Biological Samples using Dielectrophoretic Spectroscopy
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Novel techniques for Dielectrophoresis (DEP) crossover frequency calculation, positive dielectrophoretic spectroscopy and negative dielectrophoretic spectroscopy are proposed in this dissertation. A novel automated immunoassay ... -
Development of Performance Optimized Rotation Tolerant Viola-Jones Based Blackbird Detection, a Throughput Optimized Asynchronous Mac Implementation, and Automated Wheat Lodging Estimation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The research described in this doctoral dissertation focuses on three main topics:1) performance optimization of the Viola-Jones Algorithm (VJA) for red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) detection, 2) further increasing ... -
Dynamic State Estimation Assisted Power System Monitoring and Protection
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The advent of phasor measurement units (PMUs) has unlocked several novel methods to monitor, control, and protect bulk electric power systems. This thesis introduces the concept of “Dynamic State Estimation” (DSE), aided ... -
Efficient Message Dissemination Framework for Diverse Wireless Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Wireless networks exhibit diversity, ranging from mostly disconnected delay tolerant networks and partially connected mobile ad hoc networks, to mostly connected cellular networks. Besides having useful applications, ... -
Embracing Visual Experience and Data Knowledge: Efficient Embedded Memory Design for Big Videos and Deep Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Energy efficient memory designs are becoming increasingly important, especially for applications related to mobile video technology and machine learning. The growing popularity of smart phones, tablets and other mobile ... -
Energy Efficient Data Centers for On-Demand Cloud Services
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The primary objective of the Data Centers (DCs) is to provide in-time services to the cloud customers. For in-time services, DCs required an uninterruptable power supply at low cost. The DCs’ power supply is directly linked ... -
Energy Efficient Resource Scheduling Methodologies for Cluster and Cloud Computing
(North Dakota State University, 2015)One of the major challenges in the High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, Data Centers, and Cloud Computing paradigms is intelligent power management to improve energy efficiency. The key contribution of the presented ... -
Enhanced Augmented Reality Framework for Sports Entertainment Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Augmented Reality (AR) superimposes virtual information on real-world data, such as displaying useful information on videos/images of a scene. This dissertation presents an Enhanced AR (EAR) framework for displaying useful ... -
Equivalence Verification for NULL Convention Logic and Latency-Insensitive Circuits
(North Dakota State University, 2016)NULL convention logic and latency-insensitive circuits are delay-tolerant circuits that can be synthesized from a synchronous speci cation. These design paradigms can use existing CAD ows to implement circuits that are ... -
Fault Tolerant and Adaptive Systems with Focus on Networks-On-Chips
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The first step in design of reliable systems is the ability to evaluate the reliability of the system. This is an important step in the process of designing reliable systems because design techniques that proactively improve ... -
Formal Modeling and Verification Methodologies for Quasi-Delay Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Pre-Charge Half Buffers (PCHB) and NULL convention Logic (NCL) are two major commercially successful Quasi-Delay Insensitive (QDI) asynchronous paradigms, which are known for their low-power performance and inherent ... -
Formal Verification Methodologies for NULL Convention Logic Circuits
(North Dakota State University, 2020)NULL Convention Logic (NCL) is a Quasi-Delay Insensitive (QDI) asynchronous design paradigm that aims to tackle some of the major problems synchronous designs are facing as the industry trend of increased clock rates and ... -
A Formal Verification Methodology for Real-time FPGA
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Real-time systems in safety-critical and mission-critical domains have stringent or hard timing constraints. The correctness of such systems is of prime importance to avoid any unacceptable consequences like a big financial ... -
Formal Verification Techniques for Safety Critical Medical Device Software Control
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Safety-critical medical devices play an important role in improving patients health and lifestyle. Faulty behaviors of such devices can cause harm or even death. Often these faulty behaviors are caused due to bugs in ... -
High Performance Static Random Access Memory Design for Emerging Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Memory wall is becoming a more and more serious bottleneck of the processing speed of microprocessors. The mismatch between CPUs and memories has been increasing since three decades ago. SRAM was introduced as the bridge ... -
High Power Density and High Efficiency DC-DC Converters Based on Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
(North Dakota State University, 2019)As the rapid development of semiconductor technologies, more and more power electronic devices are used in our daily life. The power converters are widely used in many emerging areas, such as renewable energy and clean ... -
High-Power, High-Efficiency, Multi-Functional CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit for Wireless Communication of Unmanned Aircraft System
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Recently the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has become very popular due to its current and projected opportunities in diversified applications from surveillance to security to militry. The Federal Aviation Administration ... -
High-Power-Density Converter for Renewable Energy Application
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Due to the energy crisis and environmental pollution, renewable sources are more and more important. Power electronics technology is widely applied in these emerging applications and its function is to make the power ... -
Impact of Inverter-Based Resources on Grid Dynamics
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The increasing integration of renewable energy resources such as wind and solar into the electric power grid through power electronic inverters has changed grid dynamics and posed challenges to grid planning, ...