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Generation Planning And Market Operation Strategies In The Southwest Power Pool Energy Imbalance Service Market
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
The transition of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) from its traditional operation under tariff towards the new market environment has significant impact on the utilities in the SPP footprint, both in terms of planning and ...
Region Of Interest (ROI) Based Rate Control For H.263 Compatible Video Conferecing
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This dissertation presents a region of interest (ROI) based H.263 [10] [13] compatible video codec, which integrates the idea of object-based coding from MPEG-4 Visual [9] [15] into the traditional block-based H.263 codec. ...
Self-organization And Resource Allocation In Wireless Sensor Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
In this dissertation, we utilize clustering to organize wireless sensors into an energy-efficient hierarchy. We propose a Medium-Contention Based ClusterHeadship Auction (MCCHA) scheme, through which sensors self-organize ...
Models And Algorithms To Determine Cerebral Activation Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
The specific aims of this dissertation were to develop: (1) Correlations between experimental protocols and oxygenated, deoxygenated, and total hemoglobin concentrations in the brain (2) Mathematical models to associate ...
Performance Analysis Of DPSK Systems With MIMO Employing EGC Over Wireless Fading Channels
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)
The proliferation of digital wireless communication services has increased the congestion of the available radio spectrum. In addition to that, wireless communications are encountered by multipath channel fading. To alleviate ...
Parallel Interference Cancellation Multiuser Detectors For DS-CDMA Communication Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
A non-linear sub-optimal multiuser detector in the form of
parallel interference cancellation (PIC) has been studied. The
main objective of this thesis is to develop an analytical model
for PIC performance analysis and ...
Discrete-time Control Algorithms And Adaptive Intelligent Systems Designs
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-10-08)
In this work, approximate dynamic programming (ADP) designs based on adaptive critic structures are developed to solve the discrete-time optimal control problems in which the state and action spaces are continuous. This ...
Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime Analysis And Energy Efficient Techniques
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)
Wireless microsensor networks is one of the most important technologies for the 21st century. In distributed sensor networks energy-aware techniques are used to reduce energy consumption. Various sensor network applications ...
CCBDI Readout Circuit For YbaCuO Micromachined Microbolometers
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)
Semiconducting YBaCuO (Yttrium-Barium-Copper-Oxide) as a new uncooled microbolometer material is evaluated for CMOS compatibility. By not requiring cryogenic cooling, the self-supporting semiconducting YBaCuO micromachined ...
Polymer-based RF MEMS Devices
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)
The radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical system (RF MEMS) technology is rapidly transitioning from the research stage to commercial applications. Reducing material and fabrication costs, realizing IC compatibility, and ...