Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Electrical Engineering"
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Performance Optimization of Wireless Mesh Networks
(2009-04-01)
Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communication network consisting of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. The components of a mesh network are mesh clients, mesh routers for forwarding packets to mesh gateways that ...
Photovoltaic effect and quadratic electro-optic modulation in specific iodine-doped nonconjugated conductive polymers
(2014-10-10)
In this thesis, photovoltaic effect and quadratic electro-optic modulation in specific iodine-doped nonconjugated conductive polymers (NCP) have been reported. Exceptionally large quadratic electro-optic effects in specific ...
Physics, Compact Modeling and TCAD of SiGe HBT for Wide Temperature Range Operation
(2011-11-29)
One of the remarkable characteristics of SiGe HBT is the ability to operate over a wide temperature range, from as low as sub 1K, to as high as over 400 K. The SiGe HBT investigated and measured in this work is a ...
Physics, Modeling and Design Implications of RF Correlated Noise in SiGe HBTs
(2013-05-01)
Accurate noise compact modeling and
efficient noise extraction techniques are required for RF circuit design.
Understanding the impact of noise sources and the noise propagation is also necessary for
device and circuit ...
Pine Seedling Detection and Registration
(2009-11-20)
Pine seedling nurseries across the United States depend on antiquated techniques and equipment to manage the country’s supply of pine seedling stock. This research is directed towards the development of a method to ...
Planar Magnetics Design for Low Voltage High Power DC-DC Converters
(2014-05-20)
Planar magnetic technology is widely used in a variety of applications from telecommunications to power electronics. In particular, the use of planar inductors and transformers in power electronics have burgeoned as a ...
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Designing Dual-Voltage Energy Efficient Circuits
(2011-11-14)
In this work, we propose a technique to use dual supply voltages in digital designs in
order to get a reduction in energy consumption. Three new algorithms are proposed for nd-
ing and assigning low voltage in dual ...
Power Control for Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks with Full-duplex Transmissions
(2014-03-31)
Radio communication, one of core contents in wireless communication, is facing a great crisis of running out of resource. Unlike other energy crisis which can be solved by using all kinds of alternative energy, the only ...
Power-Aware System-on-Chip Test Optimization through Frequency and Voltage Scaling
(2014-04-29)
A System-on-Chip (SoC) is a complete system that has been integrated onto a single chip. An SoC is often designed by embedding reusable blocks called cores. With shrinking device sizes, SoC cores are growing in number and ...
Pre-bond TSV Test Optimization and Stacking Yield Improvement for 3D ICs
(2014-12-10)
Through silicon via (TSV) based three-dimensional IC (3D IC) exhibits various advantages over traditional two-dimensional IC (2D IC), including heterogeneous integration,reduced delay and power dissipation, compact device ...
A Pre-distortion Technique for OTA-C Filter Design
(2010-11-16)
The growing demand of continuous filters in portable electronic equipment, wireless receivers and continuous-time (CT) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has spawned a strong research interest from industry and academia. ...
Preemptive Self-healing System (PSS) Against Rogue AP
(2015-12-08)
Rogue Access Points (APs) are critical threats in the information infrastructure. Once victim’s devices connect to Rogue APs, adversary can launch multiple stage attacks (e.g. Memory-Scraping). Traditional defense methods ...
Protocol Design and Performance Issues in Cognitive Radio Networks
(2010-09-24)
A cognitive radio is a frequency agile wireless communication device based on software defined radio that enables dynamic spectrum access. cognitive radio represents a significant
paradigm change in spectrum regulation ...
Pulsed Breakdown Phenomena in Partial Vacuum
(2012-08-06)
In this thesis, the pulse generation and pulsed breakdown phenomena have been studied in detail. Pulsed power is widely used in food processing, biotechnology, military defense, and industrial applications. The first ...
Quantification Techniques for Arterial Blood Flow and the Left Atrium
(2014-07-29)
Cardiovascular dysfunction is a major cause of morbidity and mortally. As such, the characterization of the heart and surrounding vessels has a high clinical significance. The advent of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging ...
Query-Localized Route Repair Mechanism for Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Algorithm
(2009-02-24)
Ad-hoc networking is a concept in computer communications, which allows applications
to communicate with each other by forming a temporary network, without any form of
centralized administration. With the increasing ...
Radiated Emissions Extrapolation Issues
(2010-03-24)
In this thesis, the complicated problem of extrapolating radiated emissions from one range to another is tackled. A model employing a Method of Moments (MoM) formulation is presented to compare alongside measurements which ...
Radio Frequency Module on Small Gasoline Engine Application
(2013-04-04)
Radio frequency communications applications are typically more applied than plain research in many aspects. A new application for radio frequency communications has been investigated for controlling the small gasoline ...
Reactive Power Compensatioin Device Design with Utilization of an Integrated Circuit Controller
(2011-04-06)
Reactive power compensation is necessary to increase the efficiency of current and future global electrical infrastructure. There are many methods for the design and implementation of reactive power compensators. This ...
Real-Time Vehicle License Plate Detection and Tracking Using Multilayer Back-Propagation Neural Networks with and without Hough Transform
(2015-05-08)
There are many applications of vehicle tag detection systems using image properties, which include image density, corner detection and blob analysis but using neural networks in real time for both detection and tracking ...