This thesis studies the dynamics of decision-making in a repeated auction game used as a basis for designing distributed resource management and task assignment mechanisms. We study the problem of coordinating a group of independent agents in a dynamic environment…

This thesis studies and develops quality-of-service (QoS)-aware power allocation and frequency provisioning schemes for multicarrier wireless systems in a frequency-selective fading environment. We first develop an optimal subcarrier power allocation algorithm to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of a single-user…

Having a complete knowledge about average traffic rates on different links in a network is highly desirable for network operators, particularly when performing tasks such as capacity planning and traffic engineering, or when making decisions on network redesigning.In this thesis,…

Specularity is a very common phenomenon in the real world and confounds many computer vision tasks such as stereo. The first purpose of this thesis is to design a real-time algorithm of specularity detection. After that, with the knowledge of…

This thesis focuses on Mean Field Game (MFG) theory with applications to consensus, flocking, leader-follower and major-minor agent systems. The MFG methodology addresses a class of dynamic games with a large number of minor agents in which each agent interacts…

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes are one of the most powerful classes of error-control codes known to date. These codes have been considered for many recent digital communication applications. In this dissertation, we propose stochastic decoding of state-of-the-art LDPC codes and…

This thesis presents a theoretical and experimental study of the nonlinear behaviour of analog synthesizers' effects. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate and complete current research on nonlinear system modelling, both in and out of the field of…

Energy detection has emerged as a prime technique for wideband spectrum sensing in cognitive radio applications. Much of the present research in the area of energy detection assumes that the occupancy of any particular frequency subband is independent of the…

In this thesis we present two integrated solutions suitable for measuring the timing jitter of digital signals in SoCs and data acquisition systems (mainly sampling ADCs). The presented methods are also suitable for time measurement in a variety of timing-based…

This thesis presents a study of optimal threshold designs for energy-detection based spectrum sensing in a cognitive-radio network with a pair of Primary-User (PU) transmitter-receiver and a pair of Secondary-User (SU) transmitter-receiver uniformly distributed in their corresponding transmission and interference…