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Title: Design Considerations for Intermittently Connected Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Rajib, Md Majharul Islam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequ...

Title: Perceiving guaranteed collision-free robot trajectories in unknown and unpredictable environments
Author: Vatcha, Rayomand
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: The dissertation introduces novel approaches for solving a fundamental problem: detecting a collision-free robot trajectory based on sensing in real-world environments that are mostly unknown and unpredictable, i.e., obstacle geometries and their ...

Title: Privacy Preservation in Mobile Computing and Networking: Accessing, Sharing and Broadcasting
Author: Bo, Cheng
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The ever increasing proliferation of mobile devices has led to unprecedented concern on privacy infringement, and various security threat and privacy leakage emerged from the water in the last few years. Although the rich functionality has allowed...

Title: DYNAMIC ROUTING WITH CROSS-LAYER ADAPTATIONS FOR MULTI-HOP WIRELESS NETWORKS
Author: PAL, AMITANGSHU
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: In recent years there has been a proliferation of research on a number of wirelessmulti-hop networks that include mobile ad-hoc networks, wireless mesh networks,and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Routing protocols in such networks are oftenrequi...

Title: Architecture Estimation from Sparse Images using Grammatical Shape Priors for Cultural Heritage
Author: Sui, Yunfeng
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: The estimation and reconstruction of 3D architectural structures is of great interest in computer vision, as well as cultural heritage. This dissertation proposes a novel approach to solve the difficult problem of estimating architectural structur...

Title: HARDWARE DESIGN OF MESSAGE PASSING ARCHITECTURE ON HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM
Author: Gao, Shanyuan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Heterogeneous multi/many-core chips are commonly used in today's top tier supercomputers. Similar heterogeneous processing elements --- or, computation accelerators --- are commonly found in FPGA systems. Within both multi/many-core chips and FPGA...

Title: Geometric Analysis Tools for Mesh Segmentation
Author: Zhou, Beibei
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Surface segmentation, a process which divides a surface into parts, is the basis for many surface manipulation applications which include model metamorphosis, model simplification, model retrieval, model alignment and texture mapping. This dissert...

Title: EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED RENDEZVOUS SCHEMES AND SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT FOR COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS
Author: Li, Ji
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: Cognitive radio emerges as a technology to realize the dynamic spectrum access bydynamically configuring its transmission parameters. In a cognitive radio network(CRN), there are two types of users: primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs).PU...

Title: Design and validation of a scalable digital wireless channel emulator using an FPGA computing cluster
Author: Buscemi, Anthony
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: A Digital Wireless Channel Emulator (DWCE) is a system that is capable of emulating the RF environment for a group of wireless devices. The use of digital wireless channel emulators with networking radios is hampered by the inability to efficientl...

Title: A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
Author: Liu, Pengcheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...

Title: THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION FOR DATA COLLECTION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author: Chen, Siyuan
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Wireless sensor networks are widely used in many application domains in recent years. Data collection is a fundamental function provided by wireless sensor networks. How to eciently collect sensing data from all sensor nodes is critical to the per...

Title: Topology Design for Time-Varying Networks
Author: Huang, Minsu
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Traditional wireless networks seek to support end-to-end communication through either a single-hop wireless link to infrastructure or multi-hop wireless path to some destination. However, in some wireless networks (such as delay tolerant networks,...

Title: Social and Location Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Author: Zhu, Ying
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Computer engineering
Description: Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) are a special type of wireless mobile networks, which may lack continuous network connectivity. Routing in DTNs is very challenging, as it must handle network partitions, long delays, and dynamic topology in such net...

Title: Towards ai-empowered wireless networks: from edge to core
Author: janakaraj, prabhu
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Wireless multi-hop networks have been widely exploited for deploying cost-efficient network backbones including wireless community mesh networks, high-speed urban networks, global wireless internet infrastructure, battlefield networks, and public ...