Dissertations

2024
Thesis

Today’s wireless networks are evolving rapidly, experiencing an unprecedented surge in traffic volume, radio density, and spectral efficiency demands. This thesis addresses the critical challenges arising from this evolution of next-generation (NextG) wireless networks, focusing on three primary objectives: achieving high data rates, ultra-low…

2024
Thesis

Error correction codes are essential for reliability and capacity in wireless networks. By correcting errors in real-time, they reduce re-transmissions, conserve bandwidth, and enhance network performance. However, these advantages come at the price of high decoding complexity and high latency which compels network designers to make sub-optimal…

2023
Thesis

A central design challenge for future generations of wireless networks is to meet users’ ever-increasing demand for capacity, throughput, and connectivity. Recent advances in the design of wireless networks to this end, including the NextG efforts underway, call in particular for the use of Large and Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO…

2023
Thesis

Mobile video applications have gained increasing popularity and become part of everyone’s daily experience. The quality of video has a significant impact on both the quality of users’ experience for video streaming and the accuracy of video analytic systems, which further impacts the application revenue. The challenge to building a consistently…

2015
Thesis

Wireless networks are ubiquitous nowadays and play an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. Many emerging applications including augmented reality, indoor navigation and human tracking, rely heavily on Wi-Fi, thus requiring an even more sophisticated network. One key component for the success of these applications is accurate…