Browsing Electrical & Computer Engineering Doctoral Work by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Towards Secure Cloud Storage Services
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Cloud computing is anticipated to revolutionize the Information and Communication Technology sector and has been a mainstream of research over the last decade. The cloud computing, upsurges the capabilities of the hardware ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Conformal Antennas and Arrays with Layers Consisting of Copper and Graphene-based Conductors for Redundancy Properties
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Graphene is a new promising material with unique electrical, mechanical, optical and thermal characteristics. The use of graphene in the design of an antenna and other electromagnetic passive devices would be beneficial ... -
Investigation of the Effects of Radio Frequency Exposure on Mice
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Video summarizing a Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Timed Refinement for Verification of Real-Time Object Code Programs
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Real-time systems such as medical devices, surgical robots, and microprocessors are safety- critical applications that have hard timing constraint. The correctness of real-time systems is important as the failure may result ...