Electronic & Electrical Eng (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Delay-Doppler Domain Multiplexing: A Practical Prospect
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2025)Providing reliable communication to high-mobility users is one of the main challenges in next-generation wireless networks. The joint effects of high mobility and high data rate requirements result in doubly-selective ... -
Selected Publications in Nanomaterials Science and Engineering
(Trinity College Dublin, School of Engineering, Electronic & Electrical Eng, 2025)This submission for a ScD degree is based on a selection of 69 publications grouped into the themes of Electrical Transport in Nanomaterials (23 papers, group A), Structural and Electronic Properties of Nanomaterials (26 ... -
Randomness, reflections, and the roots of acoustic impulse responses : applications and effects in spatial audio
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2015)This thesis is concerned with the analysis of acoustic impulse responses, particularly with a view to understanding and improving applications and algorithms related to virtual auditory environments. The chief contributions ... -
Exploring Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Telecommunication Networks
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2025)Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to become a key technology in future telecommunication networks due to its profound ability to solve complex tasks in a data-driven and, in some cases, model-free manner. Although AI ... -
Reducing the Signaling Overhead of Contemporary and Future Wireless Networks
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2025)Signaling overhead reduction has always been a challenging task in the design of wireless networks. New applications and services in future networks, such as autonomous vehicles, and deployment of higher frequency bands, ... -
Distribution design for Bayesian knowledge processing in multiple participant systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2017)Knowledge processing in an optimal way is of great importance in decision making. In this thesis, we propose a consistent Bayesian mechanism for processing knowledge via the design of the probability distribution. Bayes' ... -
Spectrum sharing techniques for radar bands
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2017)Facing increasing difficulties at providing additional spectrum to commercial broadband providers, regulators have begun shifting their efforts towards the study and development of innovative spectrum access models that ... -
Decoding the neurophysiology of auditory scene analysis with EEG
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2016)How humans solve the cocktail party problem remains unknown; that is, our ability to attend to a single speaker in a noisy environment, such as a cocktail party. However, progress has been made recently thanks to the ... -
Video Compression Artifact Suppression Using Perceptual Criteria
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2025)This thesis explores the application of perceptually motivated optimization techniques in training neural networks for suppressing video compression artifacts. These techniques aim to align optimization criteria with the ... -
Embedding spectrum sharing into LTE-Advanced
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2016)Society needs more spectrum. It is required to support continuous data growth, a greater number of mobile connections, smarter devices with more powerful computing capabilities and the emergence of new applications/technologics. ... -
Scaling wireless network capacity through ultra-dense small-cell deployment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2017)Cell densification is foreseen as one of the main solutions to the capacity crunch problem of wireless networks. Based on the deployment of large number of low power base stations, this solution leverages the density of ... -
On the effects of resource sharing on mobile network deployment decisions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2016)The explosion of data demand, market saturation, increasing competition and consiquent rapid price drops in mobile communications contributed to lower profit margins for mobile network operators, forcing them to seek ways ... -
Reading between the lines : modelling and recognition of paralinguistic phenomena
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2016)The ability to understand the paralinguistic content of speech is central to the design of more natural human computer interfaces [106]. In this thesis we explore the detection of two types of speaker traits, emotion and ... -
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for open access and long-reach Passive Optical Networks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2017)Passive Optical Networks (PONs) are one of the most popular technologies to deploy Fibre To The X - where x can be Home, Building, Curb Cell, etc. - due to their lower cost when compared to point-to-point solutions. However, ... -
Inreach: A Choreographic Process of Transversality
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. CTVR/The Telecommunications Research Centre, 2016)This dissertation is based on artistic research practice and participant observation over a five year period (2010-15) with CTVR, the national telecommunications research centre in Ireland. CTVR's research focuses on future ... -
Few-Shot Learning and Learnable Frontends for Remote Monitoring of Bird Populations
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2024)In response to changing ecological and environmental factors, automated monitoring of bird populations has become imperative for conservation efforts and as an indicator of change in its own right. This is particularly ... -
Segmental evaluation of Text-to-Speech synthesis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2024)Advancements in speech synthesis technology have mandated the need for reliable methods for its evaluation. Present day evaluation, dominated by subjective listening tests, provides at best, a general overall picture of ... -
Compact Beamforming Antennas for IoT-Enabled Directional Modulation and Localization
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2024)In recent years, there has been a considerable focus in various research domains directed towards the miniaturization of wireless communication devices. This increasing demand for highly compact systems is a growing trend ... -
Probabilistic Behavioural Modelling of Non-Linear Devices
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2023)Behavioural device models are black-box models which depend only on measured data and are independent of the underlying physics behind the working of the device. Behavioural device models are widely used to model non-linear ... -
Automated Creation of Intra-Video Social Comments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2023)Live video comments, or ?danmu?, are an emerging social feature on Asian online video platforms. These time-synchronous comments are overlaid on the video playback and uniquely enrich the viewing experience, engaging ...
