Live with Water: A sustainable water-oriented urban development pattern, the Lake Chao Basin as a study case

In the past few decades, urbanisation in China has been witnessed with great speed. While this has brought a rocketing economy and improved citizens’ average living standards, it does not come without any expense. Such intensive urban sprawling and industrialization in China has added up a great risk to upcoming climate challenges, especially...

Return, Keep and Interweave: An adaptive landscape infrastructure system for the low-lying flooding zone in Miami-Dade County

Facing a lot of challenges brought by climate change, this thesis aims to explore long-term landscape-based solutions for the vulnerable low-lying area in Miami-Dade County to increase the adaptation towards Climate Change through the integration of flood impact mitigation and environment enhancement on spatial-social-ecological aspects. Public...

Network Coded Flooding

Prior work of network coding is mainly focusing on multicast traffic. In this thesis, we propose a new network coding based communication algorithm called Network Coded Flooding (NCF) which is related to network wide broadcast. This designed algorithm is an integration of network coding and one of the commonly used broadcasting techniques in...