Browsing AUS Theses & Dissertations by Series "Master of Science in Computer Engineering (MSCoE)"
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On Studying the Effectiveness of Extended Finite State Machine Based Test Selection Criteria
(2015-07)Automatic test derivation from formal specifications offers a rigorous discipline to functional conformance testing. In various application domains, such as communication protocols and other reactive systems, the specification ... -
Optimal Routing Protocol in Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks
(2011-01)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted research interest in recent years due to the significance of the field of applications and the advances in sensor technology. In areas where catastrophic events occur such as ... -
Optimization of Energy Consumption in Cloud Computing Datacenters
(2018-06)In recent years, cloud computing has emerged as a practical paradigm for providing IT resources, infrastructure and services. This has led to the establishment of large scale datacenters that have substantial energy demands ... -
Optimizing Energy Consumption of Cloud Computing IaaS
(2017-05)Cloud computing infrastructures are designed to support the accessibility and availability of various services to consumers over the Internet. Datacenters hosting Cloud applications consume massive amounts of power, ... -
Parallel Algorithms for Distinguishing Nondeterministic Finite State Machines
(2015-02)Many methods are used for the development of experiments and conformance tests based on the specification given in the form Finite State Machines (FSMs). In FSM-based testing, we have an FSM or a black-box Implementation ... -
Parallel Implementations for Eliminating Finite State Machine Mutants
(2017-05)In this thesis, the mutants’ elimination problem considered in finite state machine (FSM) based mutation testing, fault diagnosis, and in the assessment of the effectiveness of test suites is targeted. Given a test suite ... -
Performance Degradation of 100Gb/s PM-QPSK and 400 Gb/s PM-16QAM Coherent Communication Systems Due to Optical Filter Cascade and Chromatic Dispersion
(2013-01)In the near future, data rates of 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s will be used to match the increase in bandwidth demand for capacity. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems transmit multiple wavelengths simultaneously at ... -
Predicting Compression Modes and Split Decisions for HEVC Video Coding Using Machine Learning Techniques
(2017-05)The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard presents a substantial video compression efficiency improvement at the expense of increasing the computational complexity. This enhancement is primarily due to the introduction ... -
Predicting COVID-19 in the UAE Using Machine Learning
(2022-08)As of 17th August 2022, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have recorded over 1 million Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic with over 2000 deaths and the numbers are still increasing. To combat Covid-19, UAE has ... -
Predicting Hypoglycemia in Diabetic Patients using Machine Learning Techniques
(2014-06)Diabetes is a chronic disease that needs continuous blood glucose monitoring and self-management. The improper control of blood glucose levels in diabetic patients can lead to serious complications such as kidney and heart ... -
Residential Area Energy Consumption Big Data Analytics and Visualization
(2018-06)As Internet of Things (IoT) technology and open source file distributed system applications are evolving, home appliances can be monitored and controlled via an IoT-based home gateway. These gateways collect energy consumption ... -
Scheduling IoT Requests to Minimize Latency in Fog Computing
(2017-06)Delivering services for Internet of Things (IoT) applications that demand real-time and predictable latency is challenge. Several IoT applications require stringent latency requirements due to the interaction between the ... -
Security Assessment of Low-Resource Edge Devices for IoT Systems
(2020-04)The rapid adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies is creating a large number of systems that employ low cost technologies to automate and control everyday operations in smart cities. This resulted in new security ... -
Sensor-based Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition
(2014-06)Arabic sign language is the most common way of communication between the deaf and the hearing individuals in the Arab world. Due to the lack of knowledge of Arabic sign language among the hearing society, deaf people tend ... -
Sentiment Mining of Arabic Twitter Data
(2014-01)Social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter and social media hosting websites such as Flickr and YouTube have become increasingly popular in recent years. One key factor to their attractiveness worldwide is ... -
Testing and Assessment of Protocols and Systems Modeled as Extended Finite State Machines
(2013-06)Developing and selecting an appropriate test suite is an important issue for testing implementations of protocols and other reactive software systems. Many methods are known for the derivation of test suites based on a ... -
Virtualizing and Scheduling FPGA Resources in Cloud Computing Datacenters
(2021-04)Cloud service providers are consistently leveraging their computing infrastructures by adding reconfigurable hardware platforms such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to their existing infrastructures. Adding FPGAs ... -
WiMAX Models for the Smart Grid
(2014-03)The smart grid is the integration of the 21st century information and communications technologies with the 20th century traditional power grid. Such integration empowers the electricity utilities and their consumers to ...