The work presented in this thesis covers four major topics of research related to the grid integration of wave energy. More specifically, the grid impact of a wave farm on the power quality of its local network is investigated. ...

With the rapid growth of the Internet and digital communications, the volume of sensitive electronic transactions being transferred and stored over and on insecure media has increased dramatically in recent years. The ...

With the proliferation of mobile wireless communication and embedded systems, the energy efficiency becomes a major design constraint. The dissipated energy is often referred as the product of power dissipation and the ...

Previous research has identified several exact methods for the evaluation of the probability of detection for energy detectors operating on Nakagami-m faded channels. However, these methods rely on discrete summations ...

The method by which individual decisions are combined in cooperative cognitive radio networks is crucial to minimising the overall probabilities of false alarm and missed detection. In this paper, general expressions ...