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MS Thesis Defense: Optimizations of Caching Networks: Fairness and Application to Mobile Networks Yuezhou Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: In-network caching is playing a more and more important role in today's network architectures, because of the explosive growth of data traffic due to the proliferation of mobile devices and demands for high-volume media content, as well as the development of low-latency applications, such as VR/AR and cloud gaming. The replication of popular contents in the caches that located closer to…

MS Thesis Defense: A novel simple power analysis (SPA) attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Tianhong Xu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), as a widely used public-key cryptography, is vulnerable to simple power analysis(SPA) attacks. There are many countermeasures against simple power analysis(SPA) attacks on ECC implementation, the Always-add algorithm is one of the most popular countermeasures. This research proposes a new SPA attack which is effective to the ECC encrypting implemented with Always-add algorithm, it uses…

PhD Dissertation Defense: Low Power Designs using Approximate Computing and Emerging Memories at Nanoscales Linbin Chen Location: Zoom Link Abstract: A power efficient integrated circuit design is essential for mobile and embedded computer systems. This dissertation proposes several novel low power designs using approximate computing and emerging memories for computers with arithmetic circuits and large on-chip caches. Initially, low power approximate designs are proposed both for fixed point radix-2 and high-radix division at circuit-level. Then, an approximate parallel CORDIC algorithm…

MS Thesis Defense: Modulations to Exploit the THz Band Duschia Bodet Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Terahertz (THz)-band (0.1-10 THz) communication has been envisioned as a key technology to enable wireless Terabit-per-second (Tbps) links. At THz frequencies, the path-loss is governed by the spreading loss and the molecular absorption loss. The latter also determines the available transmission bandwidth, which drastically shrinks with distance. As a result, traditional modulation schemes cannot fully take advantage the THz channel, and new modulation schemes are…

University Distinguished Professor Vincent Harris is presenting "Rare Earth Element-Based Magnets: Science, Supply and Sustainability in 2021 and Beyond" as part of the Jefferson Science Fellowship Program of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Registration is required in advance of the lecture: Register here Rare earth elements (REEs) and their supply chain have become topics of great interest to the U.S. diplomatic and national security communities. Presently, China dominates REE markets in all facets of processing from earth extraction…