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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
- 1CAO, Yun
- 1Christopher Ceroici
- 1Der, Eric T.
- 1Khodarahmi, Ehsan
- 1Mazrouei Sebdani, Mahmood
- 1Okeke, Obumneme Godfrey
- 2Jing, Yindi (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Krzymien, Witold A. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Moez, Kambiz (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Tellambura, Chintha (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Ardakani, Masoud (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Daneshmand, Mojgan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Fall 2015
Although underlay networks mitigate the dual problems of spectrum congestion and spectrum under-utilization, the bi-directional (primary-to-secondary and secondary-to-primary) interference issues must be addressed to improve their reliability, coverage and capacity. To address these problems,...
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Fall 2015
One of the major challenges of broadband cellular systems is delivering high data rates to the users, especially those at the cell edges. In this thesis, transceiver designs and scheduling algorithms for enhancing cell-edge user experience in emerging and future broadband wireless cellular...
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Fall 2024
The rising demand for high-data-rate services has led to increased congestion in traditional low-GHz RF wireless communication channels. To alleviate this bandwidth shortage, higher-frequency bands like millimeter-wave and sub-THz frequencies are used. However, these higher-frequency signals...
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Miniaturized Microwave, Millimeter-wave, and sub-Terahertz Tunable Guided Wave Structures for Wireless Communication Beamforming Applications
DownloadSpring 2024
In order to meet the growing demands for faster and more reliable wireless communication networks, as well as to connect the billions of new devices that will require on demand access to the internet, the telecommunication industry seeks to expand the current wireless communication infrastructure...
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Fall 2012
Multiple-inputmultiple-output (MIMO) systems, characterized by multiple antenna transceivers, add a ‘space’ dimension to signal processing for wireless communication. Conventionally, the degrees of freedom (DoFs), i.e., the number of independent data streams that can be transmitted or received,...
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Novel 3D Ultrasound Imaging Techniques Using Top-Orthogonal-to-Bottom-Electrode (TOBE) Arrays
DownloadFall 2019
Ultrasound imaging is a safe, affordable and reliable diagnostic tool widely used in medical professions. While 2D ultrasound imaging is used extensively in clinical environments, 3D ultrasound imaging has not yet seen wide clinical acceptance. This is partly due to the practical limitations on...
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Fall 2015
The ever increasing demands for mobile network access have resulted a significant growth in bandwidth usage. By improving the system spectral efficiency, multi-way relay networks (MWRNs) provide promising approaches to address this challenge. In this thesis, we propose a novel linear beamforming...
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Transmission and Reception Techniques for Cooperative and Large-Scale MIMO Wireless Systems
DownloadFall 2014
Current and future broadband cellular systems have to employ efficient techniques for the transmission and reception of high speed data. Equipping transmitters and receivers with multiple-antennas is a major step in this direction as it has the potential of providing a substantial spatial...