Browsing Masters Degrees (Electronic Engineering) by Title
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Effect of amplifier non-linearity on the performance of CDMA communication systems in a Rayleigh fading environment
(2010-08-31)The effect of amplifier non-linearity on the performance of a CDMA communications system -
Efficient method of estimating Direction of Arrival (DOA) in communications systems.
(2021)In wireless communications systems, estimation of Direction of Arrival (DOA) has been used both for military and commercial purposes. The signal whose DOA is being estimated, could be a signal that has been reflected from ... -
Energy efficient cooperative spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio networks.
(2017)The demand for spectrum is increasing particularly due to the accelerating growth in wireless data traffic generated by smart phones, tablets and other internet access devices. Most of prime spectrum is already licensed. ... -
An experimental investigation into the joining of bulk high temperature superconductors.
(2005)Current melt texturing processes can only produce high-quality High Temperature Superconducting (HTSC) domains of a few centimetres in size. Increasing the size of the domain by a joining technique is investigated. The ... -
Experiments in thin film deposition : plasma-based fabrication of carbon nanotubes and magnesium diboride thin films.
(2004)A simple, low-cost plasma reactor was developed for the purpose of carrying out thin film deposition experiments. The reactor is based largely on the Atmospheric Pressure Nonequilibrium Plasma (APNEP) design with a simple ... -
Extending WiFi access for rural reach
(2007)WiFi can be used to provide cost-effective last-mile IP connectivity to rural users. In initial rollout, hotspots or hotzones can be positioned at community centres such as schools, clinics, hospitals or call-centres. ... -
A flexible statistical framework for the characterization and modelling of noise in powerline communication channels.
(2015)One communication medium that has received a lot of interest in recent years is the power line channel, especially for the delivery of broadband content. This channel has been traditionally used to carry electrical power ... -
Frequency synchronization in multiuser OFDM-IDMA systems.
(2013)Various multiuser schemes have been proposed to efficiently utilize the available bandwidth while ensuring an acceptable service delivery and flexibility. The multicarrier CDMA became an attractive solution to the major ... -
Hierarchical modulation with signal space and transmit diversity in Nakagami-m fading channel.
(2013)Hierarchical modulation (HM) is a promising scheme for wireless image and video transmission, exploiting the benefits of unequal error protection to ensure enhanced system performance. However, there is a limiting factor ... -
High gain wideband microstrip patch antennas with defected ground structure for Sub-6 GHz 5G communications.
(2021)5G communication utilizes the two frequency ranges i.e. frequency range 1 (FR1) and frequency range 2 (FR2). The FR1 is the low frequency band with the frequency range from 450 MHz to 6 GHz. As FR1 contains the frequency ... -
High ratio wavelet video compression through real-time rate-distortion estimation.
(2003)The success of the wavelet transform in the compression of still images has prompted an expanding effort to exercise this transform in the compression of video. Most existing video compression methods incorporate techniques ... -
Human action recognition using spatial-temporal analysis.
(2019)In the past few decades’ human action recognition (HAR) from video has gained a lot of attention in the computer vision domain. The analysis of human activities in videos span a variety of applications including security ... -
Human face shaped microstrip patch antennas for ultra-wideband applications.
(2019)Abstract available in pdf. -
Human motion reconstruction fom video sequences with MPEG-4 compliant animation parameters.
(2005)The ability to track articulated human motion in video sequences is essential for applications ranging from biometrics, virtual reality, human-computer interfaces and surveillance. The work presented in this thesis focuses ... -
The hybrid list decoding and Chase-like algorithm of Reed-Solomon codes.
(2005)Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are powerful error-correcting codes that can be found in a wide variety of digital communications and digital data-storage systems. Classical hard decoder of RS code can correct t = (dmin -1) /2 ... -
Hybrid media streaming architecture, focussing on quantification of scalability of media streaming architectures, including streaming protocal evaluation.
(2013)An analysis of media streaming architectures is performed in this dissertation drawing focus to the advantages and disadvantages of the various architectures. Detailed examination is given to scalability of decentralized ... -
The impact of network changes on power quality and compensation device perfomance.
(2012)This dissertation describes the impact of changing network configuration on power quality and performance of existing compensation devices in the transmission network. The underlying theory was assessed and thereafter the ... -
The implementation of a CDMA system on a FPGA-based software radio.
(2000)This dissertation exammes two of the rlsing technologies in the world of wireless, cellular communications - CDMA and the software radio. This thesis covers many of the issues related to these two emerging field s of ... -
Implementation of a testbed for MISO OFDM communication systems.
(2012)The thesis presents an implementation of a multiple input single output orthogonal frequency division multiplex (MISO OFDM) communication system testbed. The project was developed in order to evaluate whether the channel ... -
Implementation of a WCDMA AAA receiver on an FPGA based software radio platform.
(2001)WCDMA promises to achieve high-speed internet, high quality image transmission and high-speed data services with larger system capacity. However, Multiple Access Interference is one of the major causes of transmission ...