# Browse Dissertations and Theses - Electrical and Computer Engineering by Contributor "Srikant, Rayadurgam"

• (2020-05-11)
Caches are segments of memory that store requested information in a system subject to a set of decision rules, defined as the caching algorithm. One of the most popular caching algorithms is the least recently used algorithm ...

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• (2017-04-07)
Optimization is an important discipline of applied mathematics with far-reaching applications. Optimization algorithms often form the backbone of practical systems in machine learning, image processing, signal processing, ...

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• (2019-11-26)
Propagation delay refers to the length of time it takes for a signal to travel from point A to point B. Many existing systems, including Global Positioning System (GPS) localization, vehicular imaging, and microphone array ...

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• (2018-06-15)
Bilinear inverse problems (BIPs), the resolution of two vectors given their image under a bilinear mapping, arise in many applications. Without further constraints, BIPs are usually ill-posed. In practice, parsimonious ...

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• (2020-07-07)
The focus of the dissertation is on learning causal diagrams beyond Markov equivalence. The baseline assumptions in causal structure learning are the acyclicity of the underlying structure and causal sufficiency, which ...

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• (2014-01-16)
Traditionally, wireless network protocols have been developed for performance. Subsequently, as attacks are identified, patches or defenses have been developed. This has led to an arms race,'' where one is never confident ...

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• (2012-02-06)
This dissertation is concerned with the design and analysis of algorithms that address two related issues in communication networks, namely erasures and broadcast. Erasures are an appropriate model for communication channels ...

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• (2017-12-07)
The smart grid vision has led to the development of advanced control and management frameworks using distributed generation (DG) and storage resources, commonly referred to together as distributed energy resources (DERs). ...

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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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• (2021-04-07)
This thesis focuses on the study of allocation mechanisms and pricing schemes for the design and analysis of competitive electricity markets. Motivated by the increasing demand-side participation in high- and low-voltage ...

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• (2017-04-14)
Energy efficiency has become the most important performance metric of integrated circuits used in many applications ranging from mobile devices to high-performance processors. The power problem permeates both computing and ...

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• (2016-09-13)
Despite the substantial literature on recommendation systems, there have been few studies in distributed settings, where peers provide recommendations locally. Motivated by word of mouth type of social behavior and the ...

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• (2010-05-19)
The context for this work is cooperative multi-agent systems (MAS). An agent is an intelligent entity that can measure some aspect of its environment, process information and possibly influence the environment through its ...

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• (2018-04-05)
Online resource allocation problems consider assigning a limited number of available resources to sequentially arriving requests with the objective to maximize rewards. With the emergence of e-business, applications such ...

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• (2018-07-09)
A distributed system is composed of independent agents, machines, processing units, etc., where interactions between them are usually constrained by a network structure. In contrast to centralized approaches where all ...

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• (2005)
We then consider the problem of fair end-to-end resource allocation in wireless networks. First, we consider the problem of allocating resources (time slots, frequency, power, etc.) at a base station to many competing ...

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• (2020-07-17)
Temporal dynamical systems are pervasively used in data science to model high-dimensional data generating processes. For instance, event data are often modeled with point processes, while time series data are often captured ...

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• (2008)
Much attention has been given to design of network algorithms for the Internet, assuming a fixed number of end hosts. While this is a crucial first step, the analysis is in no way complete. The current design goals such ...

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• (2010-05-19)
The purpose of this dissertation is to design algorithms that provide quality of service and enforce cooperation in wireless ad hoc networks. Using a simple network model, we first study the performance of some previously ...

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• (2007)
Some of our work is control-theoretic in nature and studies the effects of delays in obtaining information about the available resources. Some work is game-theoretic and studies the economic impact of choice in terms of ...

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