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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.
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Items in this Collection
- 22Tellambura, Chintha (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Ardakani, Masoud (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Jiang, Hai (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Cockburn, Bruce (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Jiang, Hai (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Krzymien, Witold (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Abdeyazdan, Zohreh
- 1Ataeeshojai, Mahtab
- 1Atapattu, Saman U. B.
- 1CAO, Yun
- 1Dhungana, Yamuna
- 1Ghaderipoor, Alireza
- 3Wireless communications
- 2Backscatter communication
- 2Beamforming
- 2Cognitive Radio
- 2Cognitive radio
- 2MIMO
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Fall 2010
This thesis consists of two studies on joint bandwidth and power allocation strategy for wireless communication networks. In the first study, joint bandwidth and power allocation strategy is proposed for wireless multi-user networks without relaying and with decode-and-forward relaying. It is...
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Fall 2013
This thesis investigates detection technologies for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and cooperative communications. The exploitation of detection methods and relay strategies to achieve near-optimal performance (measured by symbol error rate or minimum mean squared error) and...
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Massive MIMO for Future Wireless Networks: Energy Efficiency, Interference Management and Symbiotic IoT Networks
DownloadSpring 2023
Due to the dramatic increase in wireless data traffic and the energy consumption of wireless networks, spectral- and energy-efficient wireless networks are imperative. Using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver structures and cell den- sification through small cell (SC) deployment...
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Spring 2016
The unprecedented escalation in the data traffic demand due to rapid proliferation of smart phones and tablets cannot be fulfilled with the advancement in radio link technologies only as the radio link efficiency is fast approaching its limit. This problem motivates new paradigms of network...
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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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Parallel Implementations of Detection Algorithms for MIMO Systems on The Graphics Processing Unit
DownloadSpring 2014
In this thesis, the acceleration of detection algorithms for multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) wireless systems is investigated. First we use the graphics processing unit (GPU), which provides thousands of parallel threads, to accelerate our detectors. The simulation environment for the...
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Fall 2011
Wireless relays offer benefits such as coverage extension and improving robustness. Selection of relays may provide further benefits. The best relays are selected based on the channel state information. However, due to feedback or scheduling delays, in practise, the relay and/or the source node can...
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Fall 2009
Cooperative wireless communication uses relays to enhance the capacity and reliability of data transmission. Adaptive transmission is typically used in conventional non-cooperative communications to exploit the time-varying nature of the wireless channel. In this thesis, we combine these two...
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Fall 2009
Regarding the problems of resource allocation in OFDMA-based wireless communication systems, much of the research effort mainly focuses on finding efficient power control and subcarrier assignment policies. With systems employing multicast transmission, the available schemes in literature are not...
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Spring 2022
The fifth-generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks aim to increase the current data rates to more than 10 Gbit/s. Thus, the spectrum crunch necessitates increasing spectral efficiency (SE). Key non-orthogonal technologies for this goal are (I) full-duplex wireless, (II) generalized...