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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
6 Citations
3,976 Views
18 Pages

An Analysis of the Supply of Open Government Data

  • Alan Ponce and
  • Raul Alberto Ponce Rodriguez

29 October 2020

An index of the release of open government data, published in 2016 by the Open Knowledge Foundation, shows that there is significant variability in the country’s supply of this public good. What explains these cross-country differences? Adoptin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Citations
17,536 Views
20 Pages

29 October 2020

The advent of social media, particularly Twitter, raises many issues due to a misunderstanding regarding the concept of freedom of speech. One of these issues is cyberbullying, which is a critical global issue that affects both individual victims and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,137 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2020

A deep belief network (DBN) is a powerful generative model based on unlabeled data. However, it is difficult to quickly determine the best network structure and gradient dispersion in traditional DBN. This paper proposes an improved deep belief netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,637 Views
20 Pages

A Knowledge-Driven Multimedia Retrieval System Based on Semantics and Deep Features

  • Antonio Maria Rinaldi,
  • Cristiano Russo and
  • Cristian Tommasino

28 October 2020

In recent years the information user needs have been changed due to the heterogeneity of web contents which increasingly involve in multimedia contents. Although modern search engines provide visual queries, it is not easy to find systems that allow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,508 Views
17 Pages

28 October 2020

Digital Evidence is becoming an indispensable factor in most legal cases. However, technological advancements that lead to artifact complexity, are forcing investigators to create sophisticated connections between the findings and the suspects for ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,646 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2020

This paper revisits the receptive theory in the context of computational creativity. It presents a case study of a Paranoid Transformer—a fully autonomous text generation engine with raw output that could be read as the narrative of a mad digit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
5,518 Views
19 Pages

Ensemble Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection Using a Novel Network Attack Dataset

  • Ahmed Mahfouz,
  • Abdullah Abuhussein,
  • Deepak Venugopal and
  • Sajjan Shiva

26 October 2020

Due to the extensive use of computer networks, new risks have arisen, and improving the speed and accuracy of security mechanisms has become a critical need. Although new security tools have been developed, the fast growth of malicious activities con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,910 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2020

Several studies address the topic of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) adoption in irrigated agriculture. Many of these studies testify on the growing importance of ICT in influencing the evolution of the sector, especially by bringing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,751 Views
11 Pages

Learning a Hierarchical Global Attention for Image Classification

  • Kerang Cao,
  • Jingyu Gao,
  • Kwang-nam Choi and
  • Lini Duan

22 October 2020

To classify the image material on the internet, the deep learning methodology, especially deep neural network, is the most optimal and costliest method of all computer vision methods. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn a comprehensive feature...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,736 Views
18 Pages

From Mirrors to Free-Space Optical Communication—Historical Aspects in Data Transmission

  • Magdalena Garlinska,
  • Agnieszka Pregowska,
  • Karol Masztalerz and
  • Magdalena Osial

22 October 2020

Fast communication is of high importance. Recently, increased data demand and crowded radio frequency spectrum have become crucial issues. Free-Space Optical Communication (FSOC) has diametrically changed the way people exchange information. As an al...

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