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  • Revenue-based spectrum management via Markov decision process

    Creator:
    Zhu, Pingan
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    We consider the problem of wireless spectrum management in cognitive wireless networks that maximizes the revenue for a spectrum operator. Specifically, we study the problem on how a wireless spectrum operator can optimally allocate its limited spectrum to various classes users/devices who pay differently for their spectrum per unit time....
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    , representing Mathematics Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Chair of

  • A comparison of box-cox and additive exponential models to estimate the depreciation of farm machinery

    Creator:
    Wu, Jing
    Abstract:
    Farm machinery continues to increase in its importance to the agricultural sector. Depreciation, the decline in value of a durable asset over time, represents one of the largest costs of agricultural production. The general objectives of this study were to update and expand the number of Remaining Value (RV) functions...
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    . Director of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Jing W Author Redacted for privacy

  • Delay Performance Evaluation of the IEC 61850 Standard in Power Transmission Substations

    Creator:
    Safdar, Salman
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    Substations are a crucial element at the transmission and distribution level of electric power systems. The primary substation equipment (power transformers and high voltage switching equipment) is used to transfer and transform electric energy by stepping up or down the voltage in transmission substations. Secondary equipment (such as IEDs, Intelligent...
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    Engineering Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Quantum dots-fullerene based molecular beacons for highly sensitive DNA detection

    Creator:
    Liu, Ye
    Abstract:
    We demonstrated a low-cost and high-sensitivity DNA detection method using quantum dot-fullerene based molecular beacons (MBs) and magnetic nanoparticles. The MB tethered magnetic nanoparticles can be well dispersed in analytes for efficient DNA capture and concentrated by an external magnetic field for enhanced fluorescence signal detection. The detection requires only...
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    Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean of the Graduate

  • Using Change Representations to Analyze Properties of Variational Software

    Creator:
    Wang, Xiangyu
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    Appropriate representations of variational software simplify the analysis of their properties.This thesis proposes tailored representations of two kinds variational softwares: difference files of merge commits in Git and feature models. For the former, we use the Choice Edit Model, which is based on the choice calculus, to represent changes introduced...
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    . APPROVED: Major Professor, representing Computer Science Director of the School of Electrical Engineering

  • Leveraging Compressive Sampling and Machine Learning for Adaptive and Cooperative Wideband Spectrum Sensing

    Creator:
    Zaid, Adem
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    This thesis proposes a novel technique that exploits spectrum occupancy behaviors inherent to wideband spectrum access to enable efficient cooperative spectrum sensing. The proposed technique reduces the number of required sensing measurements while accurately recovering spectrum occupancy information. It does so by leveraging compressive sampling theory to exploit the block-like...
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    Engineering and Computer Science Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of

  • Interactive design and transition point analysis of 3D linear symmetric tensor fields

    Creator:
    Sharma, Ritesh
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    3D symmetric tensor fields have a wide range of applications, such as in solid and fluid mechanics, medical imaging, meteorology, molecular dynamics, geophysics and computer graphics. There has been much research carried out in this field, yet our knowledge of the tensor field is still at its initial stage to...
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    : Major Professor, representing Computer Science Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and

  • Comparison of Direct Drive Hydraulic and Dual-Stator Spoke Array Vernier Permanent Magnet Machines For Ocean Wave Energy Conversion

    Creator:
    Azam, Ridwan
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    Recently, there has been peaked interest in developing high energy producing and optimized power take-off topologies for Wave Energy Converters (WEC). As large as the potential of the oceans may seem, harnessing that energy and effectively converting it to electricity in significant amounts is a challenge. Currently, there are no...
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    of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean of the Graduate School I

  • Energy-Aware Gossip Techniques for Wireless Broadcasting

    Creator:
    Li, Tingzhi
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    The current state of research on gossip techniques for wireless broadcasting is very limited because past research efforts have mostly focused on using gossip techniques for multicast communication. On the other hand, those research efforts that have focused on using gossip techniques for wireless broadcast communications ignore energy efficiency and...
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    Engineering Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean of the Graduate

  • 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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    Electrical and Computer Engineering Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science