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Future Internet, Volume 12, Issue 11

November 2020 - 30 articles

Cover Story: Fast communication, especially at a large distance, is of high importance. Recently, the increased data demand and crowded radio frequency spectrum have become crucial issues. As an alternative to wire communication systems, free-space optical communication (FSO) was developed. It allows efficient voice, video, and data transmission. Due to large bandwidth, FSO can be used in various applications. The rapid development of high-speed connection technology allows reducing repair downtime and gives the ability to quickly establish a backup network in an emergency. In this paper, the communication history from mirrors and optical telegraph to modern wireless systems, in particular free-space optical communication, and outline of future development directions of optical communication are discussed. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,730 Views
21 Pages

21 November 2020

In recent years we have been assisting a radical change in the way devices are connected to the Internet. In this new scope, the traditional TCP/IP host-centric network fails in large-scale mobile wireless distributed environments, such as IoT scenar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,286 Views
15 Pages

Digital Competence and Gender: Teachers in Training. A Case Study

  • Mario Grande-de-Prado,
  • Ruth Cañón,
  • Sheila García-Martín and
  • Isabel Cantón

20 November 2020

The ICTs are simultaneously an important tool and subject in teacher training. It, therefore, follows that digital competence is fundamental and constitutes a significant educational challenge, particularly the digital divide or gap by gender. The ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,748 Views
18 Pages

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for Cyber-Physical Systems

  • João Oliveira,
  • Gonçalo Carvalho,
  • Bruno Cabral and
  • Jorge Bernardino

20 November 2020

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are a prominent component of the modern digital transformation, which combines the dynamics of the physical processes with those of software and networks. Critical infrastructures have built-in CPS, and assessing its risk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,158 Views
30 Pages

20 November 2020

The pandemic declared by the World Health Organization due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) awakened us to a reality that most of us were previously unaware of—isolation, confinement and the massive use of information and communication techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,502 Views
28 Pages

Pulverization in Cyber-Physical Systems: Engineering the Self-Organizing Logic Separated from Deployment

  • Roberto Casadei,
  • Danilo Pianini,
  • Andrea Placuzzi,
  • Mirko Viroli and
  • Danny Weyns

19 November 2020

Emerging cyber-physical systems, such as robot swarms, crowds of augmented people, and smart cities, require well-crafted self-organizing behavior to properly deal with dynamic environments and pervasive disturbances. However, the infrastructures pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,911 Views
13 Pages

Portfolio Learning Based on Deep Learning

  • Wei Pan,
  • Jide Li and
  • Xiaoqiang Li

18 November 2020

Traditional portfolio theory divides stocks into different categories using indicators such as industry, market value, and liquidity, and then selects representative stocks according to them. In this paper, we propose a novel portfolio learning appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,996 Views
14 Pages

17 November 2020

Text detection is a prerequisite for text recognition in scene images. Previous segmentation-based methods for detecting scene text have already achieved a promising performance. However, these kinds of approaches may produce spurious text instances,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,766 Views
13 Pages

Geospatial Assessment of the Territorial Road Network by Fractal Method

  • Mikolaj Karpinski,
  • Svitlana Kuznichenko,
  • Nadiia Kazakova,
  • Oleksii Fraze-Frazenko and
  • Daniel Jancarczyk

17 November 2020

This paper proposes an approach to the geospatial assessment of a territorial road network based on the fractals theory. This approach allows us to obtain quantitative values of spatial complexity for any transport network and, in contrast to the cla...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,154 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2020

As the intelligent car-networking represents the new direction of the future vehicular development, automotive security plays an increasingly important role in the whole car industry chain. On condition that the accompanying problems of security are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,126 Views
20 Pages

An Interoperable UMLS Terminology Service Using FHIR

  • Rishi Saripalle,
  • Mehdi Sookhak and
  • Mahboobeh Haghparast

16 November 2020

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is an internationally recognized medical vocabulary that enables semantic interoperability across various biomedical terminologies. To use its knowledge, the users must understand its complex knowledge struc...

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