Browsing Electrical & Computer Engineering Masters Theses by Title

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    • Joint Compression and Encryption 

      Ghosh, Ahana (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 ...

    • Lithium Ionic Conductivity and Stability Of Cubic Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolyte A First-Principles Study 

      Saha, Sudipto (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 

      Sajal, Sayeed Zebaul Haque (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 

      Schaible, Niccole Stephanie (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 

      Afrose, Sharmin (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 

      Soufizadeh Balaneji, Nasim (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 

      Yamamoto, Alexandre Yasuo (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 

      Al Aziz, Masud (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 

      Ama, Obinna Henry (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 

      Sule, Rucha Subodh (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 

      Hossan, Mohammad Kamal (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 

      Sadikaj, Ylli (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 

      Saula, Oluwasijibomi (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 

      Mondal, Abrez (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 ...

    • A Polynomial Time Procedure Converting Error Correcting Codes to Semantically Secure Wiretap Codes 

      Kubischta, Eric (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      We furnish a procedure based on universal hash families that can convert an error correcting code of rate R to a semantically secure wiretap code of rate R−ξ where ξ is some parameter derived from the eavesdropper’s channel. ...

    • Power Efficient Embedded Memory Design for Mobile Video Applications 

      Wang, Xin (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis mainly addresses the issue of low-power technology for streaming media applications. In order to ensure high output video quality under low-voltage supply, the proposed 8-bit pixel memory is sized by different ...

    • A Precision Slip Frequency Detector 

      Horvik, Eivind (North Dakota State University, 1957)
      The problem of measuring low values of slip of induction machines is present in most Electrical Engineering laboratories. A rather high accuracy of the determination is necessary for theoretical calculations of motor ...

    • Provable Data Possession Using Sigma Protocols 

      Mohan, Akshaya (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      A Provable Data Possession (PDP) scheme allows a client which has stored data at an untrusted server to verify that the server possesses the original data that it stored without retrieving the entire file. In this thesis ...

    • Refinementbased Verification of Elastic Pipelined System with Early Evaluation 

      Cai, Yangwei (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This thesis presents a formal verification procedure to check correctness of the synchronous elastic pipelined system that incorporates early evaluation against its synchronous parent system. Note that the goal of the ...

    • Secure Data Sharing in Cloud 

      Dhamotharan, Revathi (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Cloud storage is widely used for sharing data due to low cost maintenance. But, it is also necessary to secure data on cloud. Secure Data Sharing in Cloud focuses mainly on: a) privacy and confidentiality, b) key management ...