Advanced wireless systems, also called fourth generation (4G) wireless systems, such as Mobile Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), are developed to provide broadband wireless access in true sense. ...

Robotic research has been costly and tremendously time consuming; this is due to the cost of sensors, motors, computational unit, physical construction, and fabrication. There are also a lot of man hours clocked in for ...

The demand for large scale broadband networks is gaining immense popularity for convenient access of information. A common concern of transmitting data through a wireless medium is the effects of noise on the signal. ...

The analysis of influence in social network is drawing more and more attention. It can be applied in different areas such as political campaigns and marketing. In this work, the analysis of influence in Twitter, based on ...

Ontology is a formal explicit description of concepts in the knowledge domain. In recent years, developing ontology in different domains is a hot topic for many researchers, especially in the medical field because of the ...

With the advancements in magnetic materials and semiconductor technology, permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is becoming more and more popular in high power industrial applications due to its high energy density, ...

Fiber to the home (FTTH) technology is an attractive solution for providing high bandwidth from the Central Office (CO) to residences and small-and medium-sized businesses. The emergence of Internet Protocol-based communication ...

With improvements on automation, computer, electronics and other technologies, applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have expanded from pure military field to civilian areas. As a multirotor aircraft, a quadrotor ...

Compressed sensing is a novel technique where one can recover sparse signals from the undersampled measurements. Mathematically, measuring an N-dimensional signal...

This thesis described the investigation, construction and testing of two sets of RF coils for their applications in novel lung MRI imaging techniques. In the first part of the thesis, a quadrature-driven birdcage coil for ...