Browsing Electrical & Computer Engineering Doctoral Work by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
A Compact Cylindrical-Shape Microstrip Structure with Cloaking Properties for Mutual Coupling Reduction in Array Antennas
(North Dakota State University, 2014)A cylindrical-shaped microstrip structure with cloaking properties is presented as a shielding device to reduce the mutual coupling between two patch antennas. The surface comprises of a number of 2-port microstrip (2-PM) ... -
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 ... -
Contextualization in Large-Scale Social Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Social computing-based applications provide a coherent medium through which people can be interactive and socialize by developing a Web-based communication channel that integrates different Social Networking Services (SNSs) ... -
Creation and Implementation of the Innovation-Based Learning Framework: A Learning Analytics Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2022)To meet the national and international call for creative and innovative engineers, many engineering departments and classrooms are striving to create more authentic learning spaces where students are actively engaging with ... -
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 ...