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Energy Efficiency and Differentiated QoS in Next Generation PONs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-10)Energy conservation in next generation Passive Optical Network system (NG-PON) has gained more and more attention. NG-PON system can not only deliver best-effort data traffic, but also real-time data traffic, e.g. voice ... -
Energy Efficient Cooperative Communications for Wireless Body Area Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-21)It is expected that Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) will greatly improve the quality of our life because of its myriad applications for our human beings. However, one of the challenges is to design energy efficient ... -
Energy Efficient Design for Deep Sub-micron CMOS VLSIs
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Over the past decade, low power, energy efficient VLSI design has been the focal point of active research and development. The rapid technology scaling, the growing integration capacity, and the mounting active and leakage ... -
Energy Efficient Energy Analytics
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)Smart meters allow for hourly data collection related to customer's power consumption. However this results in thousands of data points, which hides broader trends in power consumption and makes it difficult for energy ... -
Energy Efficient Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-02)The delay tolerant networks (DTNs) is characterized by frequent disconnections and long delays of links among devices due to mobility, sparse deployment of devices, attacks, and noise, etc. Considerable research efforts ... -
Energy Efficient Techniques For Algorithmic Analog-To-Digital Converters
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-20)Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are key design blocks in state-of-art image, capacitive, and biomedical sensing applications. In these sensing applications, algorithmic ADCs are the preferred choice due to their ... -
Energy Harvesting in Flexible and Semi-transparent Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)The goal of this study is to design, characterize, and fabricate efficient hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) photovoltaic (PV) modules, and semi-transparent solar cells on thin, mechanically flexible, optically ... -
Energy Management and Demand Response of Industrial Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-26)Energy management is an important concept that has come to the forefront in recent years under the smart grid paradigm. Energy conservation and management can help defer some capacity addition requirements in the long-term, ... -
Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Microgrids are defined as a cluster of loads and micro-resources operating as a single controllable entity that provides both power and heat to its local area. Typically, these rely on conventional diesel generators, but ... -
Energy Management Strategies for Residential Distribution System Using Smart Meter Data
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)Energy management (EM) strategies for a power distribution system have attracted attention in the past few decades. EM within smart residential distribution systems is a long-standing challenge that involves effective ... -
An Energy Management System for Isolated Microgrids Considering Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)The deployment of Renewable Energy (RE)-based generation has experienced a sustained global growth in the recent decades, driven by many countries' interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil ... -
Energy Management Systems for Multi-Microgrid Networks Under Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-08)Environmental concerns have motivated a gradual transformation of power systems in recent years, mainly focused on replacing fossil fuel-based energy sources with Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) such as solar and wind ... -
Energy Performance Analysis of Software Applications on Servers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-10)The power cost of running a data center is a significant portion of its total annual operating budget. Although the hardware subsystems, namely, processors, memory, disk, and network interfaces of a server actually consume ... -
Energy Performance Testing of Smartphones: A First Look at Energy Bugs in Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-17)Smartphones have revolutionized the way people live their daily lives, the way they communicate with each other and the way they access information on-line. A decade ago, desktop computers and laptops were the primary ... -
Energy Storage Solutions for Wind Generator Connected Distribution Systems in Rural Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-16)Environmental awareness and uncertainty about continued supply of fossil fuel has given rise to the renewable energy movement. Wind based power generation has been at the forefront of the motion to integrate distributed ... -
Energy Trading Platforms for Isolated and Inter-connected Microgrids Utilizing Adapted Blockchain
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)The rapid increase in microgrid technology development has led to a decentralized yet interconnected system that is highly flexible and dynamic. This will change the planning and operational strategies from being grid-connected ... -
An Energy-Efficient Bit Allocation Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-09)In wireless sensor networks (WSN), a large number of sensor nodes which are capable of sensing, data processing and communicating are densely deployed in an area to measure some physical phenomenon. Generally, wireless ... -
An Energy-Efficient System with Timing-Reliable Error-Detection Sequentials
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)A new type of energy-efficient digital system that integrate EDS and DVS circuits has been developed. In these systems, EDS-monitored paths convert the PVT variations into timing variations. Nevertheless, the conversion ... -
Energy-Efficient Turbo Decoder for 3G Wireless Terminals
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Since its introduction in 1993, the turbo coding error-correction technique has generated a tremendous interest due to its near Shannon-limit performance. Two key innovations of turbo codes are parallel concatenated ... -
Enforcing Abstract Immutability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-01)Researchers have recently proposed a number of systems for expressing, verifying, and inferring immutability declarations. These systems are often rigid, and do not support "abstract immutability". An abstractly immutable ...