We investigate a cross-layer communication technique which jointly lever- ages diversity gain from cooperative communications relaying and optimal throughput characteristics of backpressure networking. In particular, ...

Considered in this thesis is the class of time-inhomogeneous Markov chains whose transition probabilities are proportional to nonnegative powers of a small, time-varying parameter. A new notion of order of recurrence is ...

This thesis describes techniques for bandwidth enhancement for low-profile antennas. The first method involves the use of coupled resonators. In particular, two cavity-backed slot antennas are coupled through an aperture ...

Finally, kernel canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is developed to model nonlinear or high-order correlations between signals from two sources. Kernel CCA uses kernel principal component analysis (PCA), which elegantly ...

This thesis describes the use of the eigenvalue method for computing the modes of cavity resonators. A matrix formulation of the integral equation describing the modes of a resonator is a powerful and flexible method of ...

In this dissertation, we analyze the interaction between intelligent and selfish agents in non-cooperative environments with a specific focus on the transmission of some private information among them. We seek to quantify ...

In this thesis, we propose BER-optimal analog-to-digital converters (ADC) where quantization levels and thresholds are set non-uniformly to minimize the bit-error rate (BER). This is in contrast to present-day ADCs which ...