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Topology Inference in Store, Code, and Forward Networks
This thesis presents a technique for active topology inference in store, code, and forward networks. Many techniques exist and are well suited for store-and-forward and cut-through switching. However, these simpler techniques ... -
Beyond Cryptography : A Multi-layer Approach to Communication Privacy
Recent developments in the field of physical-layer security are beginning to challenge commonly-held assumptions of how security can be obtained in a communication system. Conventional security practices almost always rely ... -
Cancer screening and detection using terahertz dielectric spectroscopy
The sensitivity of terahertz absorption to water, biological tissue structure content, and the degree of hydration of diseased tissues are exploited to distinguish between normal and malignant human skin tissues. This can ... -
Friendly Security Code-Based Image and Audio
The intent of our research is the development of the CAPTCHA system and improve the accessibility and usability of the CAPTCHA system. Accessibility is one of the two vital components of a CAPTCHA system. In the current ... -
Patch antennas loaded with different resonator elements
Nowadays, the tuning in the bandwidth and frequency is present in all the different devices and applications that we are using in our daily life. The development of 4G LTE networks and Wi-Fi are driving a dramatic increase ... -
A fast and scalable hardware architecture for K-means clustering for big data analysis
The exponential growth of complex, heterogeneous, dynamic, and unbounded data, generated by a variety of fields including health, genomics, physics, and climatology pose significant challenges in data processing and desired ... -
Characterize the Difficulties that International Computer Science Students Face
International Computer Science students, who form the majority of students in Engineering colleges in the U.S (Anderson, 2013), face a lot of difficulties and barriers that are unknown and unexpressed. Hiding these ... -
X band substrate integrated horn array antenna for future advanced collision avoidance system
A novel compact lightweight substrate integrated waveguide based antenna array is designed, fabricated and characterized in the X-Band spectrum. One of the possible applications for such a design is in the use of future ... -
Probabilistic Open Set Recognition
Real-world tasks in computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning often touch upon the open set recognition problem: multi-class recognition with incomplete knowledge of the world and many unknown inputs. An ... -
Toward secure sensitive data in the cloud
Cloud storage and computation have many exciting features such as low cost, scalability, and unbounded resources. These features attract many individuals and organizations to migrate their sensitive data, including biometric ... -
Automatically creating multilingual lexical resources
Bilingual dictionaries and WordNets are important resources for natural language processing tasks such as information retrieval and machine translation. However, lexical resources are usually available only for resource-rich ... -
Reduced Order Physics Based Model of Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors
Abstract This dissertation investigates the development and use of a reduced-order model of an Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitor. Electric vehicles have a requirement to source high currents when accelerating and to ... -
Moving MapReduce into the Cloud : Elasticity, Efficiency and Scalability
Moving MapReduce into the cloud and leveraging the elastic resource allocation of cloud computing offer an opportunity for efficiency and affordable big data analytics. However, due to the virtualization overhead, the ... -
Toward secure, trusted, and privacy-enhanced biometrics in the cloud
Biometric technology has been used for decades as a strong method to identify and authenticate individuals. As for its effectiveness and accuracy, biometric technology has gained popularity in a wide range of fields and ... -
Optimizing large-scale scientific applications through the integration of higher-level semantics and analytical performance modeling
The emergence of multi-core architectures makes it essential for optimizing compilers to automatically extract parallelism for large scientific applications composed of many subroutines residing in different files. Inlining ... -
Gas manipulation and diagnostics of aerospace flows using optical lattices
Optical lattices, the optical interference pattern created by the superposition of two counterpropagating laser pulses, have in recent years become a promising gas manipulation and diagnostic instrument. Recently, optical ... -
Crossover user interface for inclusive computing
This research investigates the effectiveness of creating crossover user interfaces to allow users with different (dis)abilities to manage computing systems. This research decreases the impact of relying on assistive tools ... -
Reduced-order physics-based model of lithium-ion batteries
This dissertation introduces a method to produce a physics-based one-dimensional discrete-time state-space reduced-order model (ROM) of a lithium-ion cell. The resulting ROM can predict the five variables of a standard ... -
Voltage controlled oscillators tuned with bst ferroelectric capacitors
VCOs are the integral parts of all phase-locked loops, clock recovery circuits and frequency synthesizers. Despite continuous improvements, the design of VCOs remains the main challenge to circuit designers due to very ... -
Electrically tunable liquid crystal millimeter wave devices
This work explores several tunable millimeter wave microstrip devices using a liquid crystal (LC) substrate. The LC substrate can change permittivity by applying an electric bias field which enables tunable behavior. Novel ...