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  • Massive MIMO Channel Characterization

    Creator:
    Assiri, Mohammad
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    It has been estimated that data traffic from the different mobile devices that range from smartphones to machine-to-machine (M2M) devices will exceed 15.9 exabyte per month by the year 2018. With this immense data growth, the current wireless communication systems suffer from the scarcity of the radio spectrum and eventually...
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    : Massive MIMO Channel Characterization Abstract approved: Mario E. Magaña It has been estimated that

  • Inertial control of a beamforming antenna array for use in cellular phones

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    Schmidt, Patrick (Patrick Lane)
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    This research explores the viability and effectiveness of using an inertial navigation system (INS) to control a beamforming array of microstrip patch antennas with the aim of reducing users' exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The system reduces radiated power directed toward a cellular phone user to below 10% of the total...
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    , Professor Mario E. Magaña, who has provided me with guidance every step of the way and without whom this

  • Network coding in relay networks

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    Alban, Eduardo
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    Transmission over wireless networks presents multiple technical challenges due to noise, interference, fading, power constraints and bandwidth limitation. Different solutions have been propposed to overcome these issues and some of them are treated here. Cooperative diversity has been proposed as an implementation for networks where terminals are restricted to using...
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    . Title: Network Coding in Relay Networks Abstract approved: Mario E. Magaña Transmission over

  • Multiple Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for a Six-body System Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters Array

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    Xu, Zhicheng
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    This research presents the design of three nonlinear model predictive controllers (NMPCs) for floating oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converters (WECs) array to maximize generated power, augmented with the control of the high-speed stop valves (HSSVs). Key to this design is the development of a high-fidelity discretized model for...
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    Converters Array Abstract approved: Mario Edgardo Magaña This research presents the design of three

  • Global Hierarchical Control of a Park of Spar Buoy-type Floating Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters

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    Gaebele, Daniel T.
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    Converting energy from ocean waves is a challenging area for control theory application because of the nonlinear dynamics in various time scales. Generally, wave energy converter (WEC) control is applied in order to maximize power absorption, in the most common wave conditions, and subject to the devices’ physical constraints. Commonly,...
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    Energy Converters Abstract approved: Mario E. Magaña Converting energy from ocean waves is a

  • The Partitioning Technique of Power System to Improve the Observability of Sub-System for Multi-area State Estimation

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    Lyu, Tao
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    An accurate state estimation plays an essential role in power system operation and planning in energy management systems. However, existing multi-area state estimation researches have not focused on the importance of system clustering. The clustering mechanism divides or partitions a system according to user-defined criteria. Few published research works have...
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    Estimation Abstract approved: Mario Edgardo Magaña An accurate state estimation plays an essential role

  • Coding Techniques for Achieving Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks

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    Qassim, Yousef M.
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    In this dissertation, we explored multiple coding techniques to reduce energy consumption, improve performance, and secure wireless sensor networks specifically and ad-hoc networks in general. With the introduction of Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G technologies, wireless sensor networks are quickly emerging as an important and key technology in the...
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    , and Jawad for believing in me and being there when I needed them. I like to thank Prof. Mario Magaña

  • Distributed Dynamic Multi-Area State Estimation with Fusion Technique

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    Guo, Jia
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    As the power system grows larger and more complex, real-time monitoring and control become very significant in order to achieve reliable operation of the power system. Before any security assessment can be made or control actions are taken, the reliable estimate of the existing state of the system must be...
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    : Distributed Dynamic Multi-Area State Estimation with Fusion Technique Abstract approved: Mario E. Magaña

  • Channel Estimation in TDD MU-MIMO Systems using Sub-Linear Sparse Signal Recovery Algorithms

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    Barry, David G.
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    Massive Multiple-User Miltiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) wireless communication systems incorporate promising advanced strong technologies for upcoming 5G communications. To obtain some of the high spectrum and energy e ciencies bonuses brought by MU-MIMO systems, the ability to obtain Channel State information, especially on the receiver side (CSI), is important. To minimize...
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    : Mario E. Magaña Massive Multiple-User Miltiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) wireless communi

  • Multi-User Massive MIMO Channel Estimation Based on Kalman Filters

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    Yao, Zhaoda
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    In wireless communication, channel state information (CSI) is essential for data detection. Fast fading coefficients estimation is important in order to acquire accurate CSI. Kalman filters (KF) are widely used for real time parameter estimation and can be used to estimate the fast fading coefficients of a mobile communication channel....
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    Mario E. Magaña In wireless communication, channel state information (CSI) is essential for data

  • Channel Estimation in TDD Massive MIMO Systems with Subsampled Data at BS

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    Tian, Yichuan
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    Massive MIMO is a promising technique for future 5G communications due to its high spectrum and energy efficiency. To realize its potential performance gain, accurate channel state information at transmitter side (CSIT) is essential. Frequency division duplex (FDD) is widely employed by the most cellular systems today. However, it requires...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Mario E. Magaña Massive MIMO is a promising technique for future 5G communications due to

  • Grid Voltage Frequency Estimation Using an Adaptive Complex Master-Slave Unscented Kalman Filter

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    Muñoz Constantine, Juan Pablo
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    Due to the popularity of electronically controlled loads and the widespread use of alternative energy sources such as wind turbines and solar cells, the power quality at the distribution level must be carefully monitored. One of the many different means to monitor power quality is through frequency measurements. Nonlinearities cause...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Mario E. Magaña Due to the

  • Compensation method of the excess loop delay in continuous-time delta-sigma ADCs based on model matching approach

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    Guo, Jia
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    Continues-Time (CT) Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) have one important constrain, namely the excess loop delay. Most previous excess lop delay compensation methods need to know the exact value of the excess loop delay in advance. However, the value of the excess loop delay is a uniformly distribution random variable....
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    : Mario E. Magaña

  • Adaptive broadband wireless interference mitigation architecture applying higher order statistics algorithm for computer platform

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    Wang, Qiwei
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    The broadband wireless interference in a computer platform is resulted by multiple electro-magnetic emission sources. This non-Gaussian interference is proved to be double-sided K-distributed in previous research. With the limitation of transmission power and dimension of the device, interference mitigation is an efficient way to improve received signal bit error...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Mario E. Magaña The broadband wireless interference in a computer platform is resulted by

  • A frequency-domain approach to simulating wave energy converter hydrodynamics

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    Simmons, Asher
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    Wave energy converter (WEC) devices are complicated systems containing hydrodynamic, mechanical, and electrical elements. WEC design efforts are primarily focused in the time-domain, using frequency-based energy analyses and numerical problem solving approaches that are staples in hydrodynamic design efforts to form the basic information set used in these time-domain development...
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    Professor Magaña and Professor Brekken for their excellent academic support; Dr. Margaret Simmons and Mr

  • Non-data aided parametric based carrier frequency estimators for bursty GMSK communication systems

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    Kandukuri, Ajay
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    Estimating the carrier frequency from a modulated waveform is one of the most important functions of a coherent signal receiver. Good performance and low bit error rates are obtained by coherent demodulation. Therefore, exact knowledge of the received signal carrier frequency is critical for communication systems. Also due to the...
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    and a feeling of gratitude to my major professor, Dr. Mario E. Magana, for his guidance, support and

  • Optimal communications system design for array-based electric generation

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    Orozco, Ricardo
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    The world's demand for energy is an ongoing challenge, which has yet to be overcome. The efforts to find clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels have been hampered by the lack of investment in technology and research. Among these clean energy alternatives are ocean waves and wind. Wind power is...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Mario Edgardo Magaña The world’s demand for energy is an ongoing challenge, which has

  • Loss tangent and dielectric constant of solder mask materials measured with split-post dielectric resonators

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    Barnes, Guy E.
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    A constant push from society for more information with richer content simultaneously available at the consumers fingertips have pushed the speeds of electronics to extremes. Bus lines on circuit boards responsible for data communication are being pushed to their limit to meet these demands. As data busses are pushed to...
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    like to thank Dr. Mario E. Magana for encouraging me to attend graduate school. Dr. Magana has been

  • A wireless communications systems based on space time block coding and QAM transmission

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    Kanivichaporn, Pichalinee
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    Modern applications in wireless communications systems demand the capability of high transmission rate. Engineers have to find optimum solutions to transmit the signal over fading environments. In this study, we propose the combination of space-time diversity techniques and optimum QAM constellation design, in order to further improve performance. Specifically, we...
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    possibility to complete this thesis. I am deeply indebted to my major advisor, Dr. Mario E. Magana whose help

  • Variable sampling compensation of networked control systems with delays using neural networks

    Creator:
    Lopez-Echevarria, Daniel
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    In networked control systems (NCS) information or packets usually flow from a sensor or a set of sensors to a remotely located controller. Then the controller processes the received information and sends a series of control commands to the actuators through a communication network which could be either wireless or...
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    Networks. Abstract approved: Mario E. Magaña In networked control systems (NCS) information or packets