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SCALABLE PARALLEL METHODS FOR ANALYZING METAGENOMICS DATA AT EXTREME SCALE
(2015)The field of bioinformatics and computational biology is currently experiencing a data revolution. The exciting prospect of making fundamental biological discoveries is fueling the rapid development and deployment of ... -
AUTOMATED FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF SMART HOME RESIDENTS
(2015)This dissertation proposes smart home-based intelligent techniques that perform automated assessment of a resident's well-being by monitoring their behavior inside the home. We hypothesize that the everyday behavior of ... -
Computational approaches for the prediction of apicoplast-targeted proteins
(2013)Motivation:The cells of eukaryotic organisms contain subunits called organelles. The apicoplast is a unique organelle found in a group of parasites, known as Apicomplexa, that are responsible for a wide range of serious ... -
Design Techniques and Tradeoffs of FinFET SRAM Memories
(2013)Nine novel eight-transistor (8T) FinFET SRAM cell schemes using different shorted gate (SG) or low power (LP) FinFET configurations are studied and evaluated comprehensively in terms of leakage current, delay, read and ... -
Electromagnetic Modeling Based on Directional Time-Distance Energy Transfer Analogies
(2013)A new electromagnetic model is established based on an average rate of directional time-distance energy transfers. A directional time-distance energy transfer is defined as an energy carrier mediator (boson) exchange. ... -
On-Chip Network-Enabled Many-Core Architectures for Computational Biology Applications
(2013)Large-scale integration of multiple cores on a single chip is the current answer to the challenge of attaining higher computation throughput while restricting power consumption within acceptable limits. Network-on-Chip ... -
WIDE AREA VOLTAGE MONITORING AND OPTIMIZATION
(2013)With the continual global increase in the demand for electricity, power systems are becoming more complex. In addition, factors such as power market deregulation, unscheduled voltage regulation, transmission line outages ... -
Real-Time Optimal Control of Large Scale Power Systems with Application to Improving Transient Stability Response
(2013)Electric power systems are large nonlinear dynamical systems and therefore require unique control designs compared to the linear systems engineers often encounter. A special characteristic of the power system is structural ... -
Towards Autonomous Management of Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing Multi-Parent Recursive Area Hierarchies
(2013)Large scale, duty-cycled, wireless sensor networks distributed across a large geographic area have been proposed for applications ranging from anomaly detection to vehicle tracking. In order to support the requirements of ... -
A Collaborative Defense Framework Against DDoS Attacks in Networks
(2013)Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose one of the most serious security threats to the Internet. In this work, we aimed to develop a collaborative defense framework against DDoS attacks in networks. We focus on ... -
HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOW-POWER CARBON NANOTUBE FET SRAM WITH TOLERANCE TO METALLIC CNTS
(2013)In this dissertation, an in-depth study of the design of Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell using Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology is presented. Due to their superior transport properties, low voltage bias and improved ... -
METABOLITE IN SILICO IDENTIFICATION SOFTWARE (METISIS): A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO TANDEM MASS SPECTRAL IDENTIFICATION OF METABOLITES
(2012)Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomics has gained importance in the life sciences, yet it is not supported by software tools for high throughput identification of metabolites based on their fragmentation ... -
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF PACKET CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS ON MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURE
(2012)Packet classification (PC) is the core mechanism used by network devices such as edgerouters, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to classify incoming traffic based on the classificationpolicy. In decision-tree-based ... -
The Study of RF Burns and AMI Exposure Using the FDTD Method
(2012)One of my research topic is about the human body exposure to AMI. Power utilities are increasingly deploying residential meters that communicate wirelessly. These meters may employ multiple antennas and radiate at different ... -
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND DESIGN TRADE-OFFS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS ON CHIP
(2012)Massive levels of integration are making modern multi-core chips all pervasive in several domains. High performance, robustness, and energy-efficiency are crucial for the widespread adoption of such platforms. Networks-on-Chip ... -
TOPICS IN STABILIZATION UNDER CONSTRAINTS AND SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEMS
(2012)All physical systems are operating under a variety of constraints. Control designs without taking these constraints into account will result in performance deterioration and even instability. A major part of the thesis is ... -
A MODULAR PIPELINED MEDIUM GRAIN RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR CORE
(2012)This research focuses on a modular and scalable implementation of a MIPS compliant processor core for a medium-grain reconfigurable hardware. The core of this research is built upon the design of four autonomous modular ... -
REAL TIME VOLTAGE STABILITY MONITORING AND CONTROL USING SYNCHROPHASORS
(2012)One new real-time Voltage Stability Monitoring framework and its corresponding Advanced Voltage Control scheme provide the possibility of improvement in voltage stability, security and control in power systems. They take ... -
Uncertainty in Complex Dynamical Networks: Modeling, Estimation, and Design
(2012)As modern infrastructure networks become more and more complex and intricate, new research problems concerning network dynamics are arising (both in particular in application domains, and more broadly in systems and control ... -
Dynamic Content Generation for the Evaluation of Network Applications
(2012)Generating application-level content within network simulations and/or testbed environments tends toward an ad-hoc process reliant primarily on evaluator expertise. Such ad-hoc approaches are laborious and often fail to ...