# Browse Dissertations and Theses - Electrical and Computer Engineering by Contributor "Basar, Tamer"

• (2014-01-16)
This dissertation studies the asymptotics of two multi-user channel problems. The fingerprinting channel is associated with digital fingerprinting, which is an emerging technology to protect multimedia from unauthorized ...

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• (2007)
The low priority TCP variant is called Competitive and Considerate Congestion Control (4CP). 4CP enables provisioning of per-flow average bandwidth guarantees and thus some quality of service to "normal" traffic (TCP flows), ...

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• (2015-08-26)
Modern control systems can be viewed as interconnections of spatially distributed multiple subsystems, where the individual subsystems share their information with each other through an underlying network that inherently ...

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• (2012-05-22)
Throughput and latency are two important QoS metrics in communication networks. Ideally, we would like to deliver a large amount of data from a source to its destination within a short time period. During the past decades, ...

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• (1995)
This thesis develops and utilizes the cost-to-come methodology for the construction of minimax controllers for nonlinear systems with partial-state information (PSI), which are subjected to deterministic uncertainty. It ...

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• (1991)
In this thesis, we study multiple decision maker problems where the decision makers are coupled through a small parameter $\epsilon$. The class of systems considered exhibit the common feature that when the weak coupling ...

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• (2008)
The final problem studied in the thesis is the problem of fault-tolerant control in Petri nets. In particular, we aim at providing tolerance against faults that may compromise the functionality of a given controller (modeled ...

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• (2011-08-25)
Together with the massive and rapid evolution of computer networks, there has been a surge of research interest and activity surrounding network security recently. A secure network has to provide users with confidentiality, ...

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• (2003)
Developments in information technology have necessitated dynamic distributed real-time allocation of computational and network resources. We consider the use of market mechanisms to regulate a set of autonomous agents that ...

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• (2013-05-24)
In this thesis, we provide mathematical formulations for and investigate a number of problems that arise in the security of some emerging wireless technologies. First, we address the problem of secure communication between ...

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• (2013-08-22)
Modern critical infrastructures are highly integrated systems composed of many complex interactions between different system modules or agents including cyber and physical components as well as human factors. Their growing ...

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• (2014-09-16)
We propose a framework to infer influences between agents in a network using only observed time series. The framework is general---it does not require any particular class of models for the dynamics. It includes graphical ...

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• (2004)
This thesis advances the development of the Ice Management System (IMS), which has been previously proposed as an additional layer of safety against aircraft icing accidents, by presenting and validating a conceptual design ...

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• (2011-05-25)
In many sensor network applications, one is interested only in computing some relevant \textit{function} of the sensor measurements. In this thesis, we study optimal strategies for in-network computation and communication ...

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• (2015-01-21)
This thesis focuses on designing efficient mechanisms for controlling information spread in networks. We consider two models for information spread. The first one is the well-known distributed averaging dynamics. The second ...

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• (2014-05-30)
This dissertation involves L1 adaptive control development and analysis in the presence of quantization and system delays, addressing quantized uncertain systems and delayed uncertain systems. We discuss three cases of ...

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• (2012-02-06)
This thesis concerns the control of networked systems under actuation constraints. Focusing mostly on linear vector state space systems, we investigate how limits on the frequency of system actuation affect control policies. ...

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• (2007)
This dissertation addresses optimal linear and nonlinear pricing policy design for a monopolistic network service provider with various types of public and private information on user types. In the communication network ...

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• (2011-05-25)
A cyber-physical system is a system which encompasses computing, communication, and physical entities with emphasis on their interactions. In this work, we study two different aspects of cyber-physical systems: mechanisms ...

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• (1996)
The class of uncertainties that may be present in dynamical systems includes, but is not limited to, unknown disturbance inputs, unpredictable abrupt structural changes, unknown parameters, and unmodeled fast dynamics. A ...

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