Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Securing Critical Infrastructure: A Ransomware Study, Blaine M. Jeffries
An Exploration of Error-correcting Codes for use in Noise-prone Satellite Environments, Min W. Kang
Plasmonic Grating Geometrics and Wavelength-dependent Focus Depth in Infrared Detectors, Patrick R. Kennedy
Non-Destructive Characterization of Rotated Uniaxial Anisotropic Materials, Alexander G. Knisely
Dual Source Excitation Rectangular Waveguide Design and Evaluation for the Measurement of Electromagnetic Material Properties, Daniel K. Koch
Passive Radiolocation of IEEE 802.11 Emitters using Directional Antennae, Bradford E. Law
Bandwidth Analysis of a Tightly-packed Crossed-dipole Array for Satellite Communications, Lawrence J. Lee
Target Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks, Robert P. Loibl
Quality of Service Impacts of a Moving Target Defense with Software-defined Networking, Samuel A. Mayer
Special Perturbations on the Jetson TX1 and TX2 Computers, Tyler M. Moore
Navigation using Vector and Tensor Measurements of the Earth's Magnetic Anomaly Field, Lauren A. Mount
Effects of Position Uncertainty on Passive Multistatic SAR Resolution Measures, Duy K. Nguyen
Mitigating the Effects of Boom Occlusion on Automated Aerial Refueling through Shadow Volumes, Zachary C. Paulson
RSS-based Device-free Passive Detection and Localization using Home Automation Network Radio Frequencies, Tiffany M. Phan
Assessment of Structure from Motion for Reconnaissance Augmentation and Bandwidth Usage Reduction, Jonathan B. Roeber
Digital Forensics Event Graph Reconstruction, Daniel J. Schelkoph
Stereo Vision: A Comparison of Synthetic Imagery vs. Real World Imagery for the Automated Aerial Refueling Problem, Nicholas J. Seydel
Satellite Communications in the V and W Band: Tropospheric Effects, Bertus A. Shelters
Enabling Auditing and Intrusion Detection of Proprietary Controller Area Networks, Brent C. Stone
Integrity Monitoring for Automated Aerial Refueling: A Stereo Vision Approach, Thomas R. Stuart
Expected Coverage (ExCov): A Proposal to Compare Fuzz Test Coverage within an Infinite Input Space, Evan V. Swihart
Near Earth Space Object Detection Utilizing Parallax as Multi-hypothesis Test Criterion, Joseph C. Tompkins
Segmented Control of Electrostatically Actuated Bimorph Micromirrors, Kullen W. Waggoner
Securing Data in Transit using Two Channel Communication, Clark L. Wolfe
Mitigating Interference with Knowledge-Aided Subarray Pattern Synthesis and Space Time Adaptive Processing, Yongjun Yoon
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Tree Locality-Sensitive Hash for Secure Software Testing, Camdon J. Cady
Increasing Cyber Resiliency of Industrial Control Systems, Andrew J. Chaves
A Location-Aware Middleware Framework for Collaborative Visual Information Discovery and Retrieval, Andrew J.M. Compton
Multi-PLC Exercise Environments for Training ICS First Responders, Joseph K. Daoud
Experimental Validation of a Heterogeneous Radar Clutter Statistical Estimation Method, Elliot R. Erstein
Small Fixed-wing Aerial Positioning Using Inter-vehicle Ranging Combined with Visual Odometry, Benjamin M. Fain
Active Response Using Host-Based Intrusion Detection System and Software-Defined Networking, Jonathon S. Goodgion
AutoProv: An Automated File Provenance Collection Tool, Ryan A. Good
Combined Stereo Vision and Inertial Navigation for Automated Aerial Refueling, Daniel T. Johnson
A Framework for Understanding, Prioritizing, and Applying Systems Security Engineering Processes, Activities, and Tasks, Stephen Khou
Biologically Inspired Network (BiONet) Authentication using Logical and Pathological RF-DNA Credential Pairs, Tyrone A.L. Lewis Sr.
Framework for Industrial Control System Honeypot Network Traffic Generation, Htein A. Lin
A Sandbox in Which to Learn and Develop Soar Agents, Daniel Lugo
A Stochastic Model of Plausibility in Live-Virtual-Constructive Environments, Jeremy R. Millar
A Framework for Categorization of Industrial Control System Cyber Training Environments, Evan G. Plumley
Engineered Surfaces to Control Secondary Electron Yield for Multipactor Suppression, James M. Sattler
Applying Cyber Threat Intelligence to Industrial Control Systems, Matthew P. Sibiga
Satellite Communications in the V and W Band: Natural and Artificial Scintillation Effects, David A. Smith
Sound Based Positioning, David L. Weathers
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Multi-Objective Approach to Tactical Maneuvering Within Real Time Strategy Games, Christopher D. Ball
Physical Layer Defenses Against Primary User Emulation Attacks, Joan A. Betances
Image-Based Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function of Human Skin in the Visible and Near Infrared, Jeffrey R. Bintz
Design and Analysis of a Retroreflective Array for IR Application, Michael E. Bollinger
Exposing Inter-Virtual Machine Networking Traffic to External Applications, Charles E. Byrd
Integrity Determination for Image Rendering Vision Navigation, Sean M. Calhoun
Absolute Positioning Using the Earth's Magnetic Anomaly Field, Aaron J. Canciani
EEG-Based Classification and Advanced Warning of Epileptic Seizures, Lauren E. Clisby
Toward Automated Aerial Refueling: Relative Navigation with Structure from Motion, Kevin W. Colson
Geosynchronous Binary Object Detection, Patrick B. Cunningham
Deception in Game Theory: A Survey and Multiobjective Model, Austin L. Davis
Preprocessing Techniques to Support Event Detection Data Fusion on Social Media Data, Brandon T. Davis
Towards Automated Aerial Refueling: Real Time Position Estimation with Stereo Vision, Bradley D. Denby
Integrated Circuit Wear-out Prediction and Recycling Detection using Radio-Frequency Distinct Native Attribute Features, Randall D. Deppensmith
Satellite Ephemeris Correction via Remote Site Observation for Star Tracker Navigation Performance Improvement, Jorge E. Diaz
Characterization of Quad-Copter Positioning Systems and the Effect of Pose Uncertainties on Field Probe Measurements, James C. Dossett
Synaptic Annealing: Anisotropic Simulated Annealing and its Application to Neural Network Synaptic Weight Selection, Justin R. Fletcher
Jamming Cognitive Radios, Travis J. Freeman
A Misuse-Based Intrusion Detection System for ITU-T G.9959 Wireless Networks, Jonathan D. Fuller
Airborne Directional Networking: Topology Control Protocol Design, Barry C. Geise
Cross-Subject Continuous Analytic Workload Profiling Using Stochastic Discrete Event Simulation, Joseph J. Giametta
Dynamic Honeypot Configuration for Programmable Logic Controller Emulation, Kyle A. Girtz
Statistic Whitelisting for Enterprise Network Incident Response, Nathan E. Grunzweig
A Practical Wireless Exploitation Framework for Z-Wave Networks, Joseph L. Hall
Improving the Cybersecurity of Cyber-Physical Systems Through Behavioral Game Theory and Model Checking in Practice and in Education, Seth T. Hamman
Optical Theory Improvements to Space Domain Awareness, Tyler J. Hardy
POCO-MOEA: Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Solve the Controller Placement Problem, Scott I. Harned
Data Driven Device Failure Prediction, Paul L. Jordan
Tunable Terahertz Metamaterials with Germanium Telluride Components, Christopher H. Kodama
Using Phase Screens To Synthesize Electromagnetic Gaussian-Schell Model Sources With Desired Amplitude, Coherence, and Polarization, Christopher K. Kokoczka
A Temporal Framework for Hypergame Analysis of Cyber Physical Systems in Contested Environments, Nicholas S. Kovach
Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Array Based High Frequency Direction Finding on an Airborne Platform, Tyrel K. Kvasager
Whitelisting System State In Windows Forensic Memory Visualizations, Joshua A. Lapso
Improvements to Micro-Contact Performance and Reliability, Tod V. Laurvick
Non-Linear Optimization Applied to Angle-of-Arrival Satellite Based Geo-Localization for Biased and Time Drifting Sensors, Daniel E. Levy
Characterization for the Development of the Hybrid Multi-Junction Silicon Germanium Solar Cell, Jimmy J. Lohrman
Real-Time Implementation of Vision-Aided Monocular Navigation for Small Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Systems, Timothy I. Machin
Visual-INS Using a Human Operator and Converted Measurements, Turner J. Montgomery
Interference Suppression Using Knowledge-Aided Subarray Pattern Synthesis, David A. New
Multihop Rendezvous Algorithm for Frequency Hopping Cognitive Radio Networks, John A. Pavlik
Implementation and Performance of Factorized Backprojection on Low-cost Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Hardware, Alec C. Rasmussen
Analysis of Software Design Patterns in Human Cognitive Performance Experiments, Alexander C. Roosma
Hardware Development and Error Characterisation for the AFIT RAIL SAR System, Dayne A. Schmidt
Position and Volume Estimation of Atmospheric Nuclear Detonations from Video Reconstruction, Daniel T. Schmitt
Comparison of Methods for Radio Position of Non-Emitting Dismounts, Collin J. Seanor
A Comparative Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Adapters for Wireless Range Finding, Andrew P. Seitz
Electromagnetic Characterization of Materials Using a Dual Chambered High Temperature Waveguide, Jeffrey S. Sovern
Comparison of Radio Frequency Distinct Native Attribute and Matched Filtering Techniques for Device Discrimination and Operation Identification, Barron D. Stone
Dynamic Network Security Control Using Software Defined Networking, Michael C. Todd
A Novel Machine Learning Classifier Based on a Qualia Modeling Agent (QMA), Sandra L. Vaughan
Improving Real-World Performance of Vision Aided Navigation in a Flight Environment, Donald T. Venable
Field-based Phase Retrieval Using Under-sampled Data, Tatsuki L. Watts
An OpenEaagles Framework Extension for Hardware-in-the-Loop Swarm Simulation, Derek B. Worth
Analysis of Small Muscle Movement Effects on EEG Signals, Erhan E. Yanteri
Framework for Evaluating the Readiness of Cyber First Responders Responsible for Critical Infrastructure Protection, Jungsang Yoon