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HUMAN DETECTION AND TRACKING ENHANCING SECURITY SYSTEMS AT PORTS OF ENTRY
(2011)
The dissertation undertakes the critical application of establishing smarter surveillance systems to improve security measures in various environments. Human detection and tracking are two image processing methods that ...
Robust Optical Wireless Links over Turbulent Media using Diversity Solutions
(2011)
Free-space optic (FSO) technology, i.e., optical wireless communication (OWC), is widely recognized as superior to radio frequency (RF) in many aspects. Visible and invisible optical wireless links solve first/last mile ...
Distributed Computation and Optimization over Networks
(2011)
This dissertation is devoted to the development of efficient, robust, and scalable distributed algorithms, which enable agents in a large-scale, multi-hop network to cooperatively compute a global quantity, or solve an ...
Unified security frameworks for integrated WiMAX and optical broadband access networks
(2011)
This dissertation proposes the integration of optical and Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) broadband access networks in order to combine the strengths of optical and wireless technologies and ...
A Building Block Apporach to Port Security
(2011)
With the ever present threat to commerce, both politically and economically, technological innovations provide a means to secure the transportation infrastructure that will allow efficient and uninterrupted freight-flow ...
Problems in the design and operation of uncertain complex engineering systems
(2011)
In this dissertation, we consider two problems. The first one is a general approach to the optimal design of uncertain dynamical systems, where the uncertainty is represented by a random parameter. The problem is formulated ...
Applications of Gaussian Mixture Model to Weather Observations
(2011)
The estimation of weather parameters such as attenuation and rainfall rates from weather radar data has been based mainly on deterministic regression models. The applications of a Bayesian approach to weather parameters ...
Distributed Computation and Optimization over Networks
(2011)
This dissertation is devoted to the development of efficient, robust, and scalable distributed algorithms, which enable agents in a large-scale, multi-hop network to cooperatively compute a global quantity, or solve an ...
NON-CONTACT SENSOR FOR THE REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT OF STIFFNESS OF ASPHALT PAVEMENTS DURING COMPACTION
(2011)
The development of a non-contact sensor capable of determining the quality of asphalt pavements during their construction is addressed in this dissertation. Adequate compaction of asphalt pavement during its construction ...
Pricing in Multi-Service Communication Networks: A Game-theoretic Approach
(2011)
The promise of multi-class communication networks is gradually becoming a reality. The term multi-class means that the network provides different classes of service that can support diverse application requirements and ...