Since channel characteristics of a practical code division multiple access (CDMA) system are usually unknown and difficult to model accurately, we focus on the design of non-parametric adaptive receivers with two general ...

In the design of a robust control system, one needs a nominal model together with a quantitative bound on the uncertainty that results from under-modeling and disturbances. In this thesis we do not intentionally seek a ...

The theory of continuous wave difference frequency generation (DFG) is studied for a mixing of two waves in a nonlinear medium, the absorption effect of the material is included and optimization conditions are studied. ...

Due to the growing disparity between processor speed and main memory speed, techniques that improve cache utilization and hide memory latency are often needed to help applications achieve peak performance. Compiler-directed ...

To satisfy the quality of service requirements of real-time multimedia applications, networks must employ resource reservation and admission control. In this paper, we describe a new Measurement-Based Admission Control ...

In this thesis, we develop an approximation to the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) which is unique in that it does not require an exact scaling relationship between the levels of the transform, but asymptotically ...

Current simulators for shared-memory multiprocessor architectures involve a large tradeoff between simulation speed and accuracy. Most simulators assume much simpler processors than the current generation of processors ...

Distributed shared memory (DSM) systems provide a shared memory programming paradigm on top of a physically distributed network of computers. The DSM system removes the necessity for programmers to move data explicitly ...

Earlier work revealed that the transverse thermal conductivity of thin films of amorphous SiO$\sb2$ and $\rm Si\sb3N\sb4$ deposited on monocrystalline silicon decreased substantially when the film thickness was less than ...

In this thesis, the method of "classification with empirically observed statistics"--also known as empirical classification, empirical detection, universal classification, and type-based detection--is configured and applied ...