2021 June-2 - 137 articles
Machine learning has become an important research area in many domains and real-world applications. The prevailing assumption in traditional machine learning techniques, that training and testing data should be of the same domain, is a challenge. In...
Considering the fatality of phishing attacks, the data-driven approach using massive URL observations has been verified, especially in the field of cyber security. On the other hand, the supervised learning approach relying on known attacks has limit...
Small cells deliver cost-effective capacity and coverage enhancement in a cellular network. In this work, we present the interplay of two technologies, namely Wi-Fi offloading and small-cell cooperation that help in achieving this goal. Both these te...
The wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices for modern power electronics require intensive efforts for the analysis of the critical aspects of their operation. In recent years, silicon carbide (SiC) based field effect transistor have been extensivel...
In analog circuit, the component parameters have tolerances and the fault component parameters present a wide distribution, which brings obstacle to classification diagnosis. To tackle this problem, this article proposes a soft fault diagnosis method...
Accurate state of health (SOH) prediction of lithium-ion batteries is essential for battery health management. In this paper, a novel method of predicting the SOH of lithium-ion batteries based on the voltage and temperature in the discharging proces...
The use of Key Enabling Technologies (KET), in the definition of innovative systems, is a crucial point for smart industries and sustainability. The proposed work combines innovations from different fields, including industrial sustainability on the...
Electric power systems are subject to failures, due to both deliberate and fortuitous events. This paper addresses the first case in which a disruptive agent aims at maximizing the damage to the network (expressed through the total cost of operation)...
Human missions on other planets require constructing outposts and infrastructures, and one may need to consider relocating such large objects according to changes in mission spots. A multi-robot system would be a good option for such a transportation...
The need for studies connecting machine explainability with human behavior is essential, especially for a detailed understanding of a human’s perspective, thoughts, and sensations according to a context. A novel system called RYEL was developed based...
Recently, intelligent control techniques have received considerable attention. In most studies, the systems’ model is assumed to be without any delay, and the effects of faults and failure in actuators are ignored. However, in real practice, sensor m...
Traffic in current networks is constantly increasing due to the growing popularity of various network services. The currently deployed backbone optical networks apply wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques in single-core single-mode fibers...
The present paper focuses on the high-pressure metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) upside-down vertical reactor (where the inlet of cold gases is below a hot susceptor). This study aims to investigate thermo-kinetic phenomena taking place durin...
Consider a two-dimensional rectangular region guarded by a set of sensors, which may be smart networked surveillance cameras or simpler sensor devices. In order to evaluate the level of security provided by these sensors, it is useful to find and eva...
In home and building automation applications, wireless sensor devices need to be connected via unreliable wireless links within a few hundred milliseconds. Routing protocols in Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) need to support reliable data transmi...
This paper presents a comprehensive review based on the features and drawbacks of the quasi-switched boost inverter (qSBI) topologies. The qSBI derived configurations are well suitable for low power applications due to their reduced number of compone...
Electric motors have been widely used as fundamental elements for driving kinematic chains on mechatronic systems, which are very important components for the proper operation of several industrial applications. Although electric motors are very robu...
In this paper, a novel control algorithm with the capacity of fault tolerance and anti-disturbance is discussed for the systems subjected to actuator faults and mismatched disturbances. The fault diagnosis observer (FDO) and the disturbance observer...
A phased array radar has been developed toward an effective means for integrating multiple functionalities into one radar platform. The radar system necessitates the ability to operate at multiple frequencies simultaneously. In this paper, a triple-b...
Elliptic curve cryptography is the most widely employed class of asymmetric cryptography algorithm. However, it is exposed to simple power analysis attacks due to the lack of unifiedness over point doubling and addition operations. The unified crypto...
The development of offshore wind farms (WF) is inevitable as they have exceptional resistance against climate change and produce clean energy without hazardous wastes. The offshore WF usually has a bigger generation capacity with less environmental i...
Microwave photonic filters (MPFs) with the capabilities of bandwidth reconfigurability and frequency tunability in the GHz range are of great interest in high-speed communications systems. In this paper, we propose a new reconfigurable multiband micr...
Fifth generation Vehicular Cloud Computing (5G-VCC) systems support various services with strict Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Network access technologies such as Long-Term Evolution Advanced Pro with Full Dimensional Multiple-Input Multiple-...
With the spread of devices equipped with touch panels, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops, the opportunity for users to perform touch interaction has increased. In this paper, we constructed a device that generates multi-touch interactions to...
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas with four and eight elements having connected grounds are designed for ultra-wideband applications. Careful optimization of the lines connecting the grounds leads to reduced mutual coupling amongst the r...
A future smart car will be more than a means of transportation, as it will not only move people to a destination without requiring them to drive but will enable people to work or enjoy a trip with entertainment. For this, smart vehicles need to deal...
Discovering periodic-frequent patterns in temporal databases is a challenging problem of great importance in many real-world applications. Though several algorithms were described in the literature to tackle the problem of periodic-frequent pattern m...
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are used as low-cost cryptographic primitives in device authentication and secret key creation. SRAM-PUFs are well-known as entropy sources; nevertheless, due of non-deterministic noise environment during the po...
In this paper, we investigate the coexistence of the 5G communication network with a fixed-satellite service (FSS) in the 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz frequency bands. We analyze a distance protection scheme for the FSS Earth station (ES) and 5G base stations...
Car accidents are one of the top ten causes of death and are produced mainly by driver distractions. ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) can warn the driver of dangerous scenarios, improving road safety, and reducing the number of traffic accid...
This paper presents a single-pole 32-throw (SP32T) switch with an operating frequency of up to 6 GHz for 5G communication applications. Compared to the traditional SP32T module implemented by the waveguide package with large volume and power, the pro...
The pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter is an obvious choice for any industrial and power sector application. Particularly, industrial drives benefit from the higher DC-link utilization, acoustic noise, and vibration industrial standards. Many PWM...
The incorporation of real and reactive power control of solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters has received significant interest as an onsite countermeasure to the voltage rise problem. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the involvement of ac...
Fair digital signature of contracts and agreements is an essential process in any electronic commerce scenario, and therefore also in data marketplaces, where the relationships and agreements among the different parties (consumers and providers) are...
At present, the tactile perception is essential for robotic applications when performing complex manipulation tasks, e.g., grasping objects of different shapes and sizes, distinguishing between different textures, and avoiding slips by grasping an ob...
A smart grid improves power grid efficiency by using modern information and communication technologies. However, at the same time, due to the dependence on information technology and the deep integration of electrical components and computing informa...
In recent years the ever-expanding internet of things (IoT) is becoming more empowered to revolutionize our world with the advent of cutting-edge features and intelligence in an IoT ecosystem. Thanks to the development of the IoT, researchers have de...
The evolution of power electronics led to rapid development in wireless charging technology; as a result, a single active switch topology was introduced. The present market utilizes inductive wireless power transfer (IPT); because of the disadvantage...
Induction motors are very robust, with low operating and maintenance costs, and are therefore widely used in industry. They are, however, not fault-free, with bearings and rotor bars accounting for about 50% of the total failures. This work presents...
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive form of glioma, exhibiting very poor survival. Genomic input, in the form of RNA sequencing data (RNA-seq), is expected to provide vital information about the characteristics of the genes that affect the...
DC/DC converters are widely used in photovoltaic (PV) systems to maximize the power drained from solar panels. As the power generated by a PV panel depends on the temperature and irradiance level, a converter needs to constantly modify its input resi...
This paper presents an invisible and robust watermarking method and its hardware implementation. The proposed architecture is based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT) algorithm. Novel techniques are applied as well to reduce the computational cos...
This paper presents a switched capacitor low-pass filter in a 28-nm fully depleted silicon on insulator CMOS technology for 77-GHz automotive radar applications. It is operated at a power supply as low as 1 V and guarantees 5-dB in-band voltage gain...
We focus on the efficient modeling and optimization of the flow restoration in the spectrally-spatially flexible optical networks (SS-FONs) realized using a single mode fiber bundle. To this end, we study a two-phase optimization problem, which consi...
There are many cases in which the separation of different sources from single channel recordings is important, for example, in fluorescence spectral overlap compensation, electrical impedance signaling, intramuscular electromyogram decomposition or i...
Invoice factoring is a handy tool for developing businesses that face liquidity problems. The main property that a factoring system needs to fulfill is to prevent an invoice from being factored twice. Distributed ledger technology is suitable for imp...
This paper presents a proposal for potential bioelectrochemical power to gas stations. It consists of a two-level voltage source converter interfacing the electrical grid on the AC side and an electromethanogenesis based bioelectrochemical system (EM...
Data are important and ever growing in data-intensive scientific environments. Such research data growth requires data storage systems that play pivotal roles in data management and analysis for scientific discoveries. Redundant Array of Independent...
Maritime safety issues have aroused great attention, and it has become a difficult problem to use the sky-wave over-the-horizon radar system to locate foreign targets or perform emergency rescue quickly and timely. In this paper, a distributed multi-...
The development of e-textiles is fostering research in wireless energy transmission. This paper presents a purely textile 2.4 GHz WiFi band 2 × 2 rectenna array for RF energy harvesting. It utilizes the electromagnetically coupled microstrip patch an...
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