Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Electrical and Computer Engineering (UMKC)"
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Addressing On-Chip Power Conversion and Dissipation Issues in Many-Core System-on-a-Chip based on Conventional Silicon and Emerging Nanotechnologies
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)Integrated circuits (ICs) are moving towards system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. SOC allows various small and large electronic systems to be implemented in a single chip. This approach enables the miniaturization of design ... -
Advanced Design and Analysis of UWB U-slot Microstrip Patch Using Theory of Characteristic Modes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Ultra wide band is rapidly advancing as a high data rate wireless communication technology. As is the case in conventional wireless communication systems, an antenna also plays a very crucial role in UWB systems. ... -
An Investigation into the Contribution of Hybrid Renewable Energy System to Utility Grid in the Regions with Arid Climate
(2019)Increasing the emissions of carbon have a negative impact on our environment, since the beginning of industrial revolution. There is a wide consensus that climate change occurred due to human behavior, mainly from burning ... -
Characteristic Mode Analysis of Crumpled Graphene Flakes and A New Green’s Functions Evaluation Method for Layered Media
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Graphene flakes (GFs) in real composites are rarely perfectly flat, and often exhibit complicated crumpled shapes. Therefore, the goal of this work was to quantify the electromagnetic scattering characteristics of individual ... -
Cooperative wireless relay networks and the impact of fade duration
(2020)In wireless communication networks, the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) parameters are mostly based on the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Other parameters such as site selection during call initiation, handoff, relay ... -
Cost Optimization and Load Balancing of Intra and Inter Data Center Networks to Facilitate Cloud Services
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)For cloud enterprise customers that require services on demand, data centers (DC) must allocate and partition data center resources in a dynamic fashion. We consider the problem of allocating data center resources for ... -
Design Guidelines, Scan Behavior and Characteristic Mode Analysis for a Class of Ultra-Wideband Microstrip Patch Antennas
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Ultra-wideband (UWB), low-profile microstrip patch antennas and phased arrays have their niche in many wireless communication and medical applications. In recent years, the U-slot patch antenna established itself as a ... -
Developing and Utilizing Multivariate Stochastic Wireless Channel Models
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Developing accurate channel models is paramount in designing efficient mobile communication systems. The focus of this dissertation is to understand the small-scale fading characteristics, develop mathematical tools that ... -
Development of Aerial-Ground Sensing Network: Architecture, Sensor Activation, and Spatial Path-Energy Optimization
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The advent of autonomous navigation, positioning, and in general robotics technologies has enabled the maturity of small to miniature-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs; or colloquially called drones) and their wide ... -
Energy and Data Conversion Circuits for Low Power Sensory Systems
(2013)This dissertation focuses on the problem of increasing the lifetime of wireless sensors. This problem is addressed from two different angles: energy harvesting and data compression. Energy harvesting enables a sensor to ... -
Finding and Mitigating Geographic Vulnerabilities in Mission Critical Multi-Layer Networks
(2016)In Air Traffic Control (ATC), communications outages may lead to immediate loss of communications or radar contact with aircraft. In the short term, there may be safety related issues as important services including power ... -
Framework for Automatic Identification of Paper Watermarks with Chain Codes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)In this dissertation, I present a new framework for automated description, archiving, and identification of paper watermarks found in historical documents and manuscripts. The early manufacturers of paper have introduced ... -
Graphene Nanotechnology the Next Generation Logic, Memory and 3D Integrated Circuits
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Floating gate transistor is the basic building block of non-volatile flash memory, which is one of the most widely used memory gadgets in modern micro and nano electronic applications. Recently there has been a surge ... -
In-Flight Learning Based Flight Control of an Unmanned Aircraft System
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) popularity has increased substantially in the last few years. UAVs capabilities continue to improve as a result of advances in battery technology, communication, navigation systems and ... -
Investigation of Interconnect and Device Designs for Emerging Post-MOSFET and Beyond Silicon Technologies
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)The integrated circuit industry has been pursuing Moore’s curve down to deep nanoscale dimensions that would lead to the anticipated delivery of 100 billion transistors on a 300 mm² die operating below 1V supply in the ... -
Learning Efficient Deep Feature Extraction For Mobile Ocular Biometrics
(2020)Ocular biometrics uses physical traits from eye regions such as iris, conjunctival vasculature, and periocular for recognizing the person. Ocular biometrics has gained popularity amongst research and industry alike for its ... -
Multi-Modal Ocular Recognition in presence of occlusion in Mobile Devices
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)The existence eyeglasses in human faces cause real challenges for ocular, facial, and soft-based (such as eyebrows) biometric recognition due to glasses reflection, shadow, and frame occlusion. In this regard, two operations ... -
A Multimodal Biometric Authentication for Smartphones
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Biometrics is seen as a viable solution to ageing password based authentication on smartphones. Fingerprint biometric is leading the biometric technology for smartphones, however, owing to its high cost, major players in ... -
Ocular motion classification for mobile device presentation attack detection
(2020)As a practical pursuit of quantified uniqueness, biometrics explores the parameters that make us who we are and provides the tools we need to secure the integrity of that identity. In our culture of constant connectivity, ... -
Practical Memristor Emulator Circuit Development Techniques for Analog Applications
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)Emerging memristor technology is drawing widespread attention during recent time due to its potential diverse applications in nanoelectronic memories, logic and neu romorphic computer architectures, digital and analog ...