Front propagations described by static Hamilton-Jacobi equations can be used to simulate folded geological structures. Simulations of geological folds are a key ingredient in the Compound Earth Simulator (CES), an industrial ...

Video streaming has gone a long way from its early years in the 90’s. Today, the prevailing technique to stream live and video on demand (VoD) content is adaptive HTTP segment streaming as used by the solutions from for ...

Radio frequency (RF) micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) capacitive switches are expected to be a very promising technology for many microwave and wireless applications since they can provide low loss, low-power consumption, ...

The topic of this dissertation is bitrate adaptive media streaming to receivers in mobile wireless networks. This work was motivated by the recent explosion in popularity of media streaming to mobile devices. Wireless ...

Micro-scale energy harvesting from motion has received increasing research interest. The energy harvesters can be used as replacements for batteries in low-power wireless electronic devices. Conventional vibration energy ...

Recent advances in telecommunication and networking have a potential to influence healthcare management and healthcare delivery processes in a manner that was not possible several years ago. Numerous wireless and mobile ...

Concurrency is a ubiquitous phenomenon in modern software ranging from distributed systems communicating over the Internet to communicating processes running on multi-core processors and multi-processors. Therefore modern ...

There are strong indications that musical sound and body motion are related. For instance, musical sound is often the result of body motion in the form of sound-producing actions, and muscial sound may lead to body motion ...

In today’s society, we are dependent on a number of services provided by interconnected systems. These services may be anything from electricity to services provided by social media platforms. Interconnected systems are ...

Due to varying demands by customers, some software systems need to be configurable and need to have optional features. Customers then configure their system according to their special needs and select the features they ...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) has emerged as a very promising technology for short-range communication systems. The ultrashort duration of UWB waveforms gives rise to the potential ability to provide high-precision ranging and ...

The aim of this thesis, and the research behind it, is to shed some light on the topic of scaling of IS, specifically scaling of Health Information Infrastructures (HII). There are both theoretical and practical motivations ...

This thesis presents the study of the dynamics of global/local interplay of standards related to the development and implementation of Health Information Systems (HIS) with a primary focus on Tajikistan. These standards ...

This thesis addresses the use of radar for heartbeat and respiration monitoring. Medical radar can be used for detecting vital signs at distances up to several meters. A medical radar works by transmitting electromagnetic ...