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Performance Evaluation of Passive Cavitation Mapping for Estimating Ultrasound-Induced Cavitation Dose
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-28)The development of targeted drug delivery technologies to increase the specificity and efficacy of cancer treatments and reduce the reliance on systemic chemotherapy drugs have long been areas of research. Recent advances ... -
Performance Limit and Design Strategy of Black Phosphorus Field-Effect Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Recently, a novel two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor of few-layer black phosphorus (BP) or phosphorene has been explored extensively for future electronic device applications. BP field-effect transistors (FETs) exhibited ... -
Performance Limit Projection of Germanane Field-Effect Transistors
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-03-13)Here we explore the performance limit of monolayer germanane (GeH) field-effect transistors (FETs). We first plotted an electronic band structure of GeH using density functional theory (DFT) and then tight-binding parameters ... -
Performance Limits of Microwave and Dual Microwave/Millimeter Wave Band Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-11)Traditionally, wireless networks communicate over the conventional microwave band (sub-6 GHz) as it supports reliable communication over a large geographic area. The ever increasing demand for bandwidth to support the ... -
Performance Modeling, Design and Analysis of Transport Mechanisms in Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-25)Recently, wireless access to Internet applications and services has attracted a lot of attention. However, there is no single wireless network that can meet all mobile users’ requirements. Con-sequently, integrated ... -
Performance of IR Models on Duplicate Bug Report Detection: A Comparative Study
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-06)Open source projects incorporate bug triagers to help with the task of bug report assignment to developers. One of the tasks of a triager is to identify whether an incoming bug report is a duplicate of a pre-existing ... -
Performance of Massive MIMO with Interference Decoding
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-06)In a massive MIMO system, base stations (BS) utilize a large number of antennas to simultaneously serve several (single or multi-antenna) users at once, where the number of BS antennas is normally assumed to be significantly ... -
Performance of Multi-antenna Wireless Systems with Channel Estimation Error
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-14)Wireless services and applications have become extremely popular and widely employed over the past decades. This, in turn, has led to a dramatic increase in the number of wireless users who demand reliable services with ... -
Performance Prediction Upon Toolchain Migration in Model-Based Software
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)Changing the development environment can have severe impacts on the system behavior such as the execution-time performance. Since it can be costly to migrate a software application, engineers would like to predict the ... -
Performance Test Selection Using Machine Learning and a Study of Binning Effect in Memory Allocators
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Performance testing is an essential part of the development life cycle that must be done in a timely fashion. However, checking for performance regressions in software can be time-consuming, especially for complex systems ... -
Periodic Adaptive Control for First-Order Discrete-Time Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-24)In adaptive control the goal is to deal with systems that have unknown and/or time- varying parameters. An adaptive controller typically consists of an LTI compensator together with an identifier or a tuner which is used ... -
Periodic Adaptive Stabilization of Rapidly Time-Varying Linear Systems
(Springer, 2019-06-19)Adaptive control deals with systems that have unknown and/or time-varying parameters. Most techniques are proven for the case in which any time variation is slow, with results for systems with fast time variations limited ... -
Periodic Nonlinear Adaptive Control of Rapidly Time-Varying Linear Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)In adaptive control the goal is to deal with systems that have unknown and/or time-varying parameters. Most techniques are proven for the case in which any time-variation is slow, with results for systems with fast ... -
Personalized Defect Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Academia and industry expend much effort to predict software defects. Researchers proposed many defect prediction algorithms and metrics. While previous defect prediction techniques often take the author of the code into ... -
PEV Charging Infrastructure Integration into Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-05)Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) represent a huge step forward in a green transportation system, contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emission, and reduce the dependence on fossil fuel. With the increasing popularity ... -
Phase Retrieval Methods for Polychromatic Propagation-Based Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-18)X-ray imaging, based on conventional attenuation methods, is employed in various industrial, medical and scientific imaging application. Phase-contrast X-ray imaging is an emerging modality that has shown promise to image ... -
Phase Shifter and LNA Design for Satellite Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-20)Phased arrays are being used in satellite communication systems in order to provide wireless data to mobile vehicles, ships and even aircrafts. This thesis focuses on the design of phase shifter, which is designed for the ... -
Phase-Locked Loop Stability Based on Stochastic Bounds
(Springer, 2015-08-11)In this paper we study the stability of a phase-locked loop (PLL) in the presence of noise. We represent the noise as Brownian motion and model the circuit as a nonlinear stochastic differential equation, with the noise ... -
A Phase-shifted Fiber Bragg Grating Based Humidity Sensor
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)A humidity fiber optic sensor based on phase-shifted (PS) Fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) is demonstrated. Compared to the standard FBG sensors, the peak of the PS-FBG slips into 2 narrow peaks and forms a sharp dip in the ... -
Phased-Array Antenna-in-Package Technology for Emerging Millimeter Wave Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-22)The ever-increasing data rates for wireless technologies (e.g., satellite communications, fifth generation (5G) wireless communications, and automotive radars) has directed the interests towards millimeter wave (mm-Wave) ...