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  • A novel approach to reduce spurious switching activity in high-level synthesis. (c2009) 
    Aaraj (El), Elie; Engineering; 1983-06-23; 200104573; Dr. Zahi Nakad; Dr. Wissam Fawaz; MSE in Computer Engineering (2010-09-24)
    Optimizing area and timing have long been considered to be the main design challenges in high-level synthesis. A lot of research has been conducted in this area and many techniques to improve performance have been suggested. ...
  • Free-space-optical communications over turbulent channels. (c2009) 
    Bkassiny, Mario; Engineering; 1985-03-06; 200301360; Dr. Samer Saab; Dr. Wissam Fawaz; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Chadi Abou Rjeily (2010-12-20)
    Local Area Networks (LAN’s) are being expanded over large geographic areas and they are used in many business fields. Thus, communication links between buildings are to be optimized in order to achieve high transmission ...
  • Stochastic-based production costing model. (c2010) 
    Hamdan, Hassan A.; Engineering; 1985-02-23; 200300436; Dr. Samer Saab; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Raymond Ghajar (2010-12-20)
    The Lebanese Electric Power System (LEPS) suffers from technical and financial deficiencies that required the development of a policy paper to rescue the power sector from the current drastic situation to a new sustainable, ...
  • Proposal and analysis of novel availability aware protection schemes in WDM optical networks. (c2009) 
    Sawwah, Timothy I.; Engineering; 1983-09-15; 200104062; Dr. Zahi Nakad; Dr. Raymond Ghajar; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Wissam Fawaz (2010-12-20)
    With the frequent occurrence of fiber cuts in optical core networks and the tremendous loss that a failure may cause, the design of survivable optical networks is becoming of extreme importance to optical network operators. ...
  • Cooperative diversity for free space optical communications. (c2010) 
    Slim, Ahmad; Engineering; 1985-11-12; 200400106; Dr. Samer Saab; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Chadi Abou Rjeily (2011-01-07)
    In this work, we investigate the cooperative diversity technique as a candidate solution for combating turbulence-induced fading over Free-Space Optical (FSO) links. In particular, a one-relay cooperative diversity scheme ...
  • The elderly care center. (c1996) 
    Sakr, Elie; Architecture and Design; Dr. C. Issa; Mr. R. Chamoun; MSE in Civil and Environment Eng; Mr. J. Kiprianos (2011-04-18)
  • Fire station, Beirut. (c1997) 
    Mattouk, Patrick Elias; Architecture and Design; MSE in Civil and Environment Eng (2011-04-18)
  • Towards an event-driven scheduling of the setup of optical connections. (c2011) 
    Sinno, Abdelghani; Engineering; 1986-01-01; 200401089; Dr. Chadi Abou Rjeily; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Wissam Fawaz (2011-10-04)
    Supporting the diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of the everemerging Internet applications is one challenging task for optical networks' operators. To come to grips with this challenge, we propose a QoS-Aware ...
  • IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh network. (c2008) 
    Khabbaz, Maurice; Engineering; Dr. Samer Saab; Dr. Chadi Abou Rjeily; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Wissam Fawaz (2011-10-06)
    The IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) gained widespread popularity as a layer-2 protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). While the continuous lack of accurate analytical 802.11 MAC models as well as the ...
  • Achieving full transmit diversity for PPM constellations with any number of Antennas via double position and symbol permutations. (c2008) 
    Baba, Zeina; Engineering; 1985-05-26; 200600677; Dr. Samer Saab; Dr. Wissam Fawaz; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Chadi Abou Rjeily (2011-10-11)
    Encoding and decoding techniques present in the literature, mainly designed for radio frequency (RF) applications, face many problems when applied in optical wireless (OW) communications. These schemes seem to have lacks ...
  • Efficient area optimization in high level synthesis using priority-driven simulated annealing. (c2009) 
    Abi Saad, Maria; Engineering; 1983-11-15; 200104136; Dr. Zahi Nakad; Dr. Wissam Fawaz; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Iyad Ouaiss (2011-10-24)
    One of the major enhancements that can be made to the synthesis process is reducing the overall area of a design in order to either decrease the manufacturing costs or introduce more functionality to the design. Optimizing ...
  • EDF-based connection setup management in WDM optical networks. (c2009) 
    Bardan, Raghed A. El; Engineering; 1985-11-02; 200301531; Dr. Iyad Ouaiss; Dr. Chadi Abou-Rjeily; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Wissam Fawaz (2011-10-24)
    The worldwide network domain tendency to evolve towards dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) enabled wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks is imminent. WDM has drastically increased the transmission capacity ...
  • Novel pseudo random bit generator for improved security. (c2008) 
    Hobeika, Jad G.; Engineering; 1983-12-08; 200105062; Dr. Iyad Ouaiss; Dr. Chadi Abu Rjeilly; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Samer Saab (2011-10-24)
    Due to the emergence of new sensitive communication applications like eCommerce and online banking; secure communication, electronic identification and authentication are becoming a must. Cryptography is the technique ...
  • Enhanced technology mapping for FPGAs with exploration of cell configurations. (c2011) 
    Zgheib, Grace Joseph; Engineering; 1986-04-27; 200401077; Dr. Zahi Nakad; Dr. Wissam Fawaz; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. lyad Ouaiss (2011-11-04)
    In the state of the art Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), logic circuits are synthesized and mapped on clusters of look-up tables. However, when additions need to be performed, an adder along with a carry-chain is ...
  • A parallel ant colony optimization to globally optimize area in high-level synthesis. (c2011) 
    Kozhaya, David Elias; Engineering; 1986-11-05; 200400516; Dr. Zahi Nakad; Dr. Wissam Fawaz; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Iyad Ouaiss (2011-11-29)
    Data path synthesis is still regarded by researchers as one of the hardest problems in high level synthesis, the process of transforming a hardware descriptive language model, which describes the behavior of a given ...
  • Power and temperature aware functional unit binding in high level synthesis. (c2011) 
    Bassil, Layale; Engineering; 1982-05-11; 200101242; Dr. Zahi Nakad; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Iyad Ouaiss (2011-11-29)
    This project elaborates on the possibility of optimizing the power consumed by the functional units by optimizing the functional unit binding technique. Functional unit binding maps the operations in each control step ...
  • Environmental impact assessment (EIA) manual for Lebanon. (c1996) 
    Nemer, Randa; Engineering; MSE in Civil and Environment Eng; Dr. A. Sfeir (2012-01-31)
  • Delay-tolerant codes for the decode-and-forward cooperation in wireless networks. (c2009) 
    Marmar, Ali Rida H.; Engineering; 1984-07-19; 200203202; Dr. Samer Saab; Dr. Wissam Fawaz; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Chadi Abou Rjeily (2012-03-08)
    With the great growth of wireless devices and communication, there is a huge demand for higher data rates. To respond to this growing demand, fourth generation (4G) wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) might adopt cooperation ...
  • Enhancement of blocking performance in all-optical WDM networks. (c2012) 
    Joun, Carla J.; Engineering; 199513460; MSE in Computer Engineering; Dr. Wissam Fawaz (2012-06-01)
    Optical networking is a promising solution to the growing bandwidth requirements of today’s communication networks. The continuous challenge is to look for technological advances to improve network capacity, reliability, ...
  • Numerical simulation of damage to massive stone columns due to earthquakes. (c2012) 
    Merchak, Ursula Aref; Engineering; 1989-04-17; 200601474; Dr. Camille Issa; Dr. Gebran Karam; MSE in Civil and Environment Eng; Dr. Mazen Tabbara (2013-02-28)
    Large seismic events have historically occurred in the Middle East and particularly in Lebanon causing severe deterioration and destruction of historical monuments. In 1202 and 1759, Lebanon experienced two of the strongest ...

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