Upcoming deployments of cellular networks will see an increasing use of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, roughly between 20-100 GHz. The goal of this dissertation is to investigate some key design issues in dense urban ...

Simulation is a powerful and efficient tool for studying wireless networks. Despite the widespread use of simulation, particularly in the study of IEEE 802.11-style networks (e.g., WLAN, mesh, and ad hoc networks), doubts ...

This report presents a survey of the state-of-the-art methods for building recommendation systems. The report mainly concentrates on systems that use the available side information in addition to a fraction of known affinity ...

Networks-on-Chip (NoC) have been proposed to meet many challenges of modern Systems-on-Chip (SoC) design and manufacturing. At the architectural level, a clean separation of computation and communication helps integration ...

As software systems are growing in complexity and size, reliability becomes a major concern. A large degree of industrial and academic efforts for increasing software reliability are directed towards design, testing and ...

This dissertation explores the cost of programmability in computing devices as measured relative to fixed-function devices implementing the same functionality using the same physical fabrication technology. The central ...

Accurately determining one’s location has long been a persistent problem in navigation and has reappeared in recent years in the field of mobile computing. The ability to determine a device’s location indoors is needed for ...

In this thesis, a solution is presented for real-time volume measurement of the left ventricle by the admittance catheter technique. New theory is implemented that incorporates information about the complex nature of muscle ...

The traditions of real-time and embedded system engineering have evolved into a new field of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). The increase in complexity of CPS components and the multi-domain engineering composition of CPSs ...

I propose compact models of single-gate (SG) and double-gate (DG) JFETs predicting the current-voltage characteristics for both long and short channel devices. In order to make the current equation continuous through all ...