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Geometric Issues in Spatial Indexing

We address a number of geometric issues in spatial indexes. One area of interest is spherical data. Two main examples are the locations of stars in the sky and geodesic data. The first part of this dissertation addresses some of the challenges in handling spherical data with a spatial database.

Study of steganographic techniques for digital images

Steganography, meaning hidden writing, is the technique of concealing secret information into another cover-media, such as audio, video, image and text, in such a manner that the very existence of the information is camouflaged. Unlike the goal of cryptography, which prevents the data from illicit access and modification by transforming the secret data into messy and meaningless bit-streams, the aim of steganography is to conceal their very existence such that the embedded data is inaudible or invisible to the grabbers.

Berlin – Amsterdam in less than five hours – Solutions for the acceleration of rail passenger traffic

Since the 1970s and 1980 important links in the European rail network have slowly been enhanced or made suitable for high speed trains. The main reasons why these links were enhanced are to increase the link capacity, to raise speed in slow areas and to improve long distance accessibility. Some 40 years later the European rail network provides fast medium distance passenger transport within distinct nations, but also on international links.

Multiuser detection and power control in CDMA systems

Currently, code-division multiple access (CDMA) technique continues to be a dominant air-interface technology for personal wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems based on CDMA is always subject to multiple access interference (MAI) problem due to the difficulty in maintaining orthogonality of CDMA signals in a mobile environment.