Theses and Dissertations
Military Innovation in the Third Age of U.S. Unmanned Aviation, 1991–2015
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Military innovation studies have largely relied on monocausal accounts—rationalism, institutionalism,
or culture—to explain technologically innovative and adaptive outcomes in defense organizations. None of
these ...
TECHNOLOGY TRUST: THE IMPACT OF ANTHROPOMORPHIC SYSTEM INFORMATION ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS USED IN HIGH-RISK APPLICATIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-03)
Autonomous systems provide the military with advanced capabilities permitting the execution of increasingly dangerous and difficult missions. A human in the loop is still required to decide how and when to deploy these ...
MEDIA EFFECTS ON CYBER INTRUSIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-03)
In this current hyperconnected era, many could argue that multifaced daily news events, arranged into univocal storylines, generate effects well beyond the media environment. Empirically speaking, most explorations of media ...
ADVERSARIAL MACHINE LEARNING FOR PHYSICAL-LAYER AUTHENTICATION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
In this dissertation, we propose the use of adversarial machine learning to characterize wireless radio transmitters for the purpose of physical-layer authentication. Wireless communication systems are quickly evolving to ...
Model-based human systems integration
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
The practice of Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a multi-domain activity residing at the confluence of
several disciplines. HSI currently lacks an accepted unifying theoretical perspective that joins HSI domain
resources ...
DESIGN OF A TAILORABLE PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY FRAMEWORK INCLUDING ALTERNATING SPACE-TIME CODING AND GRAY CODE HOPPING
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
A physical layer security framework is developed that may be tailored to a particular wireless communications link. Alternating space-time coding and Gray code hopping techniques are presented that may be implemented ...
C-DIFFERENTIALS AND GENERALIZED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROPERTIES OF VECTORIAL BOOLEAN AND P-ARY FUNCTIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-06)
This dissertation investigates a newly defined cryptographic differential, called a c-differential, and its relevance to the nonlinear substitution boxes of modern symmetric block ciphers. We generalize the notions of ...
TEMPORAL CONNECTIVITY AS A MEASURE OF ROBUSTNESS IN NONORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS WIRELESS NETWORKS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-06)
Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is recognized as an important technology to meet the performance requirements of fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. Through the technique of overloading, NOMA ...
WILDFIRE-FAVORABLE OFFSHORE WIND EVENTS IN CALIFORNIA: GLOBAL-SCALE CLIMATE TELECONNECTIONS TO EXTREME WEATHER AND POTENTIAL SUBSEASONAL TO SEASONAL PREDICTABILITY
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
Wildfire-favorable offshore wind events (OWEs) in California, such as Santa Ana (SA) and Diablo wind events, are extreme weather events that can contribute to severe societal impacts. We analyzed the large-scale weather ...
THE BOMBER WILL ALWAYS GET THROUGH: THE ORIGIN OF THE B-21 STEALTH BOMBER
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-06)
The aim of this dissertation is to explain why and how the United States decided to build the B-21 stealth bomber. The B-21 Raider is the most recent endeavor to find a worthy successor (though not, strictly speaking, a ...
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