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Virtual Clicker - A Tool for Classroom Interaction and Assessment
(Virginia Tech, 2011-12-02)
Actively engaging students in the classroom and promoting their interaction, both amongst themselves and with the instructor, is an important aspect to student learning. Research has demonstrated that student learning ...
Implementation of Real-Time Software Receiver for Gps or Glonass L1 Signals
(Virginia Tech, 2010-01-22)
<p>A 12 channel real-time GPS L1 C/A-code software receiver has been implemented on a
Desktop with 1.84GHz Intel CPU. The software receiver has the capability to acquire new
satellites coming in, keep tracking of satellites ...
Optimizations of Battery-Based Intrusion Protection Systems
(Virginia Tech, 2008-04-29)
As time progresses, small mobile devices become more prevalent for both personal and industrial use, providing malicious network users with new and exciting venues for security exploits. Standard security applications, ...
Design and Implementation of Convex Analysis of Mixtures Software Suite
(Virginia Tech, 2012-08-07)
Various convex analysis of mixtures (CAM) based algorithms have been developed to address real world blind source separation (BSS) problems and proven to have good performances in previous papers. This thesis reported the ...
Concatenation of Space-Time Block Codes with ConvolutionalCodes
(Virginia Tech, 2004-02-12)
Multiple antennas help in combating the destructive effects of fading as well as improve the spectral efficiency of a communication system. Receive diversity techniques like maximal ratio receive combining have been popular ...
SUNSHINE: Integrate TOSSIM and P-Sim
(Virginia Tech, 2011-09-23)
Simulators are important tools for wireless sensor network (sensornet) design and evaluation. However, existing simulators only support evaluations of protocols and software aspects of sensornet design. Thus they cannot ...
Analysis of an Embedded Singularity Chipless RFID Tag
(Virginia Tech, 2011-06-30)
The objective of this research is to explore the feasibility of a chipless RFID tag that stores a data signature in the form of complex frequency plane singularities. To this end an existing chipless RFID tag, the notched ...
Learning Strategies in Multi-Agent Systems - Applications to the Herding Problem
(Virginia Tech, 2001-11-30)
<p> "Multi-Agent systems" is a topic for a lot of research, especially research involving strategy, evolution and cooperation among various agents. Various learning algorithm schemes have been proposed such as reinforcement ...
Simulating Nitric Oxide in the lower thermosphere using a 3D model
(Virginia Tech, 2012-12-02)
Nitric oxide (NO), despite being a minor species, influences the chemistry, composition and energy balance of the earth's atmosphere above 90 kilometers. Variations in its density have been shown to strongly correlate with ...
Autonomous Aerial Localization of Radioactive Point Sources via Recursive Bayesian Estimation and Contour Analysis
(Virginia Tech, 2011-06-16)
The rapid, accurate determination of the positions and strengths of sources of dangerous radioactivity takes high priority after a catastrophic event to ensure the safety of personnel, civilians, and emergency responders. ...