Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Electrical Engineering"
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Reconfigurable RF Receiver Frontends for Multi-Standard Radios
(2011-04-15)
Several Wireless Communication Standards have been developed over the past few decades to address the growing and varying needs of the users. For example, while cellular access technologies such as GSM and CDMA have satisfied ...
Reconstruction of Parametric Image Maps in Single- and Multiple-Coil Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(2009-07-28)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a standard tool to measure the hemodynamic response which is related to activation patterns in the human and animal brain. In conventional anatomical MRI, the decay and ...
Reducing ATE Test Time by Voltage and Frequency Scaling
(2014-03-20)
During wafer sort, the fabricated chips are subjected to tests that verify if they meet the design specification. Test application time plays a critical role while verifying large volume of dice in a given period of time. ...
Registration and Tracking of Objects with Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles
(2009-04-15)
For this research, an autonomous leader-follower vehicle caravan is being designed using computer vision. The focus of this research is to investigate computer vision methods of identifying objects detected by the leader ...
Relay Positioning for Energy Efficiency and Improved Performance of Cooperative Wireless Networks
(2014-03-31)
Cooperative communications in wireless networks have gained much interest due to their
ability to mitigate the effect of fading in wireless networks by achieving spatial diversity. One
of the techniques used in cooperative ...
Reliability and Modeling of 32nm SOI Transistors at Cryogenic Temperatures
(2016-05-26)
With conventional transistor scaling rules and performance trends coming to an end,
new methods are being explored to continue the advancements of electronic devices. One
such method is to operate the devices in cryogenic ...
Reliability, Scalability and Security in Smart Utility Networks
(2014-05-01)
With the rapid increase in deployment of smart meters across North America, resource
consumption data of utilities such as water, gas and electricity is being collected at a much higher
granular level. The huge amount ...
Resonant Frequencies in Aviation Platforms
(2015-03-09)
This thesis examines the coupling effects of electromagnetic fields to the interior of aviation platforms during electromagnetic vulnerability (EMV) testing and the potential of resonant frequency field enhancements. ...
Resource Allocation and Performance Optimization in Wireless Networks
(2014-03-31)
In the past few years, demand has kept increasing for higher data rates in wireless networks due to the increases in the numbers of mobile subscribers and multimedia applications. Femtocell and free space optics(FSO) ...
Resource Allocation and Precoding in Cognitive Radio and Relay Networks
(2012-11-16)
In this dissertation, two promising technologies which improve the spectrum efficiency
in wireless networks are investigated: cognitive radio (CR) and relay technology. Cognitive
radio, as a promising technology to ...
Resource Sharing in a WiFi-WiMAX Integrated Network
(2009-12-15)
Resource allocation is a challenging issue in integrated wireless environments due to
factors like difference in participating network protocols, design of hierarchical network
architecture, user mobility and multiple ...
RF Design and Analysis of a Novel Elliptical Reduced Surface Wave Antenna for Wireless Applications
(2010-04-02)
The Reduced Surface Wave (RSW) antenna is a relatively new class of microstrip patch
antenna. An RSW antenna has the ability to drastically reduce both surface and lateral wave
radiation, which leads to an increase in ...
RFIC Design for Software-Defined Radio Receiver Frontend
(2013-11-11)
This thesis presents an RF receiver frontend with a 4-path passive mixer for software defined radio (SDR) applications. By utilizing frequency translation property of the passive mixer, the out of band interference experiences ...
RLCH: Reliable Link lifetime based Cluster Head election in MANET
(2012-07-16)
Clustering has been widely considered in wireless ad hoc networks as a useful mechanism for solving the scalability problems, improving the stability, increasing the network’s energy efficiency, etc. The idea behind ...
A Robot Mounted Electromagnetic Induction System for Identification of a UXO Free Corridor
(2009-11-11)
This thesis gives a complete overview of a time domain electromagnetic induction system developed for identification of a UXO free corridor. An EMI sensor typically consists of the transmitter and receiver coils to induct ...
Robot Navigation for RFID-based Inventory Counting
(2016-05-06)
A mathematical model for a robot navigation system searching for RFID tags in a retail store is constructed. It is based on the Traveling Salesman Problem optimization algorithm. A software simulation is performed in MATLAB. ...
Salt and Light Water Purification System
(2012-04-09)
The need for a proposed solution to help mitigate the world’s water crisis is presented. This need is not a new development in the 21st century, nor is the process of using electricity and chemicals to sanitize water. ...
SCL: A Cross-Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
(2012-01-08)
Wireless Sensor Networks are a new class of distributed systems that are used to collect information from the physical area they inhabit. They usually consist of a large number of low-power wireless sensor nodes or motes ...
Secondary Bus Performance in Reducing Cache Writeback Latency
(2011-04-08)
For single as well as multi core designs, effective strategies to minimize cache access latencies have been proposed by a number of researchers over the last decade. Such designs include the Miss Status Holding Registers, ...
Secure Design Considerations for Embedded Systems
(2015-12-04)
A guide is presented for embedded system designers that details secure design considerations for modern embedded systems. The guide focuses on adapting traditional software design practices to include adapted methodologies ...