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Adams, William Arthur.

Spring 2013

Ramezani, Mahdi

One of the most stunning results of information theory is the channel coding theorem addressing the maximum rate of reliable communication over a noisy channel, known as channel capacity. In this thesis, we consider two problems emerging from the classic channel coding theorem. First, we study...

Spring 2020

Arteaga Torres, Josue

Animals must assess the risk of mortality due to starvation or predation when making foraging decisions. This decision-making can be guided by cues from the environment, conspecifics, heterospecifics, or by predators themselves. Information theory predicts that high certainty cues should be...

Spring 2014

Duan, Ping

Detection and diagnosis of plant-wide abnormalities and disturbances are major problems in large-scale complex systems. To determine the root cause(s) of specific abnormalities, it is important to capture the process connectivity and investigate the fault propagation pathways, in which causality...

Spring 2018

Shahabinejad, Mostafa

Distributed storage systems (DSSs) traditionally replicate data blocks to achieve storage reliability. Considering the rapid growth of data volume as well as costly maintenance of storage components in DSSs, the replication method is becoming unattractive because of its very large storage...

Fall 2024

Van Os, Jessica D.

Canada has set a goal to reach net-zero electricity. For Alberta, this remains a significant challenge. Although Alberta has achieved considerable greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions by eliminating coal and expanding its renewable fleet, a unique electricity market and the dominance of natural...

Fall 2012

Yazdani, Raman

For successful correction of errors in a digital communication system, information about the channel, such as timing, noise power, fading gain, etc., should normally be available at the receiver. To this end, most receivers use channel parameter estimation and timing recovery modules. However,...