Browsing Electrical & Computer Engineering Masters Theses by Title
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Intelligent and Efficient Embedded Video Memory Design in the Era of Big Data
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The growing popularity of smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices has created an exponential demand for video applications in today’s society. Mobile device users want their devices to achieve a long battery lifetime ... -
Intelligent Efficient On-Chip Memory for Mobile Video Streaming
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The growing popularity of powerful mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet devices has resulted in the exponential growth of demand for video applications. User experience and battery life are both crucial topics ... -
The Interaction of Radio Frequency and Lambda DNA
(North Dakota State University, 2016)By exposing an aqueous DNA solution to a spectrum of radio frequency (RF) energy this research identifies frequencies, if any, where DNA interacts with RF energy. Interaction is determined by the amount of RF energy either ... -
Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Demagnetization Fault Modeling and Analysis by Using Dynamic Phasors Model
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) has been widely used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) since the high power density and efficiency. However, the primary drawback of IPMSM is the demagnetization phenomenon ... -
Islanding Detection Using Data Mining Techniques
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Connection of the distributed generators (DGs), poses new challenges for operation and management of the distribution system. An important issue is that of islanding, where a part of the system gets disconnected from the ... -
Joint Compression and Encryption
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This research work proposes two techniques of joint compression and encryption using Shanon Fano Elias coding and Arithmetic coding respectively. The first scheme proposed is called Adaptive Shannon-Fano-Elias code where ... -
Large spacecraft medium voltage DC (MVDC) power and propulsion system
(North Dakota State University, 2024)This thesis introduces a medium voltage direct-current (MVDC) system for large spacecrafts with megawatt (MW)-scale power and propulsion systems for interplanetary transport. The proposed MVDC system comprises a nuclear ... -
Lithium Ionic Conductivity and Stability Of Cubic Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolyte A First-Principles Study
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Garnet structured cubic LLZO crystal (Li56La24Zr16O96) is one of the most promising solid electrolytes for next-generation solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations have been employed to ... -
Low-Cost Passive UHF RFID Tags on Paper Substrates
(North Dakota State University, 2014)To reduce the significant cost in the widespread deployment of UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, an UHF RFID tag design is presented on paper substrates. The design is based on meander-line miniaturization ... -
Minimum Entropy Generation in the Cardiovascular System
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This study was performed under the motivation to find a scheme that could describe the complex behavior of cardiovascular homeostasis. This is hypothesized to be manifested in a thermodynamic description of the cardiovascular ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...