2021 July-1 - 104 articles
With the increasing use of mobile devices, malware attacks are rising, especially on Android phones, which account for 72.2% of the total market share. Hackers try to attack smartphones with various methods such as credential theft, surveillance, and...
The increase of data-rates that are provided by free-space optical (FSO) communications is essential in our data-driven society. When used in satellite and interplanetary networks, these optical links can ensure fast connections, yet they are suscept...
Device-to-Device (D2D) communications will be used as an underlay technology in the Fifth Generation mobile network (5G), which will make network services of multiple Service Providers (SP) available anywhere. The end users will be allowed to access...
This paper examined the impact of optical fiber sensor design, and its integration to PVC (polyvinyl chloride) sheet piles, on deflection and strain monitoring. Optical fiber sensors based on Brillouin light backscattering (BLS) were prepared, as the...
Controlling the water quality of water supplies has always been a critical challenge, and water resource monitoring has become a need in recent years. Manual monitoring is not recommended in the case of large water surfaces for a variety of reasons,...
The suitability of GaN PCSSs (photoconductive semiconductor switches) as high voltage switches (>50 kV) was studied using a variety of commercially available semi-insulating GaN wafers as the base material. Analysis revealed that the wafers’ physi...
Emerging applications in fields such as extended reality require both a high throughput and low latency. The millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum is considered because of the potential in the large available bandwidth. The present work studies mmWave Wi...
Introducing efficient automatic violence detection in video surveillance or audiovisual content monitoring systems would greatly facilitate the work of closed-circuit television (CCTV) operators, rating agencies or those in charge of monitoring socia...
As a student-centered learning model, flipped classroom has been increasingly preferred among educators since it has changed the traditional teacher-centered learning model. This study conducted experiments and observations on the flipped classroom f...
This paper presents a novel inkjet-printed near-field ultra-high-frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag/sensor design with uniform magnetic field characteristics. The proposed tag is designed using the theory of characteristics mod...
In this paper, a unified and open linear technology simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (LTSPICE) memristor library is proposed. It is suitable for the analysis, design, and comparison of the basic memristors and memristor-based circu...
Grid-tied energy storage will play a key role in the reduction of carbon emissions. Systems based on Li-ion batteries could be good candidates for the task, especially those using lithium titanate negative electrodes. In this work, we will present th...
With the fast development of IoT and 5G technologies, opportunity social networks composed of portable mobile devices have become a hot research topic in recent years. However, arbitrary node movement in opportunity networks and the absence of end-to...
In this article, a deadbeat predictive control (DB-PC) strategy for permanent-magnet synchronous generators (PMSGs)-based modern wind turbines is proposed. The main advantages of the DB-PC technique are its excellent dynamics and its constant switchi...
Service-oriented architecture provides the ability to combine several web services in order to fulfil a user-specific requirement. In dynamic environments, the appearance of several unforeseen events can destabilize the composite web service (CWS) an...
The energy storage system (ESS) is developing into a very important element for the stable operation of power systems. An ESS is characterized by rapid control, free charging, and discharging. Because of these characteristics, it can efficiently resp...
It is necessary to reduce the crosstalk noise in high-speed signaling channels. In the channel routing area, the tabbed routing pattern is used to mitigate far-end crosstalk (FEXT), and the electrical length is controlled with a time domain reflectom...
The continuous stability of hybrid microgrids (MGs) has been recently proposed as a critical topic, due to the ever-increasing growth of renewable energy sources (RESs) in low-inertia power systems. However, the stochastic and intermittent nature of...
This paper suggests an algorithm for extracting the location of a building from satellite imagery and using that information to modify the roof content. The materials are determined by measuring the conditions where the building is located and detect...
In this paper, a feasibility study of a microwave antenna-based sensor is proposed for in vitro experiments for monitoring blood glucose levels. The proposed device consists of a square-ring incorporated within a fully textile monopole antenna to abs...
The aim of this work is to investigate the influence of circuit elements on the properties of the selected power factor correction (PFC) topology. Active or passive PFC serves to increase the power factor (PF) and reduce the total harmonic distortion...
In the previous three decades, many Radiation-Hardened-by-Design (RHBD) Flip-Flops (FFs) have been designed and improved to be immune to Single Event Upsets (SEUs). Their specifications are enhanced regarding soft error tolerance, area overhead, powe...
Iterative subcarrier regularization (ISR) has been recently proposed as a receiver-side remedy for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) nonlinearity. It allows the power amplifier of OFDM transmitters to operate at a lower input back-off...
Inverse halftoning acting as a special image restoration problem is an ill-posed problem. Although it has been studied in the last several decades, the existing solutions can’t restore fine details and texture accurately from halftone images. Recentl...
This paper presents a detailed and accurate small-signal analysis model for a four-terminal low-voltage direct current (LVDC) distribution network with distributed secondary control strategy. To tackle the contradiction between power sharing accuracy...
Nonlinear autoregressive exogenous (NARX), autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) networks have been widely used to predict the appearance value of future points for time series data. However, in recent year...
Many charge controlled models of memristor have been proposed for various applications. First, the original linear dopant drift model suffers discontinuities close to the memristor layer boundaries. Then, the nonlinear dopant drift model improves the...
Rapid growth of network traffic causes the need for the development of new network technologies. Artificial intelligence provides suitable tools to improve currently used network optimization methods. In this paper, we propose a procedure for network...
Reliable multicast distribution is essential for some applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) alarm information and important file distribution. Traditional IP reliable multicast usually relies on multicast source retransmission for recovery lo...
In this paper, we consider decision trees that use two types of queries: queries based on one attribute each and queries based on hypotheses about values of all attributes. Such decision trees are similar to the ones studied in exact learning, where...
Accelerated development of mobile networks and applications leads to the exponential expansion of resources, which causes problems such as trek and overload of information. One of the practical approaches to ease these problems is recommendation syst...
Models of hybrid meander structures with additional shields are presented in this paper. The influence of additional shields and their grounding positions on the electromagnetic characteristics of the hybrid meander structures was investigated. Three...
A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) consists of vehicles, roadside units, and other infrastructures that communicate with each other with the goal of improving road safety, reducing accidents, and alleviating traffic congestion. For safe and secure op...
The system of a greenhouse is required to ensure a suitable environment for crops growth. In China, the Chinese solar greenhouse plays a crucial role in maintaining a proper microclimate environment. However, the greenhouse system is described with c...
This work investigates the different sensitivities of an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) based on fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI). Using computer-aided design (TCAD) tools, the sensitivity of a single-gate FDSOI based ISFET...
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown their superiority for speech enhancement. Nevertheless, most previous attempts had convolutional layers as the backbone, which may obscure long-range dependencies across an input sequence due to the c...
High performance and complex system-on-chip (SoC) design require a throughput and stable timing monitor to reduce the impacts of uncertain timing and implement the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) scheme for overall power reduction. This...
Lithium-ion batteries are the most used these days for charging electric vehicles (EV). It is important to study the aging of batteries because the deterioration of their characteristics largely determines the cost, efficiency, and environmental impa...
Neural machine translation (NMT) is one of the text generation tasks which has achieved significant improvement with the rise of deep neural networks. However, language-specific problems such as handling the translation of honorifics received little...
Power electronic converters for power factor correction (PFC) play a key role in single-phase electrical power systems, ensuring that the line current waveform complies with the applicable standards and grid codes while regulating the DC voltage. Its...
Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind provide an effective solution for reducing dependency on conventional power generation and increasing the reliability and quality of power systems. Presented in this paper are design and implementation...
This technical paper proposes a new waveform combining the low-rate and high-rate data streams to detect the region-of-interest signal in a high-mobility environment using optical camera communication. The proposed technique augments the bit rate of...
Pedestrian detection for complex scenes suffers from pedestrian occlusion issues, such as occlusions between pedestrians. As well-known, compared with the variability of the human body, the shape of a human head and their shoulders changes minimally...
Spectral efficiency is a major concern for future 6G wireless communication systems. Thus, an appropriate scheme is needed to provide channel capacity improvement for multiple transmitters and receiver-based wireless communication systems without con...
Competitions are being widely used to motivate students in diverse learning processes, including those in computer programming. This paper presents a methodology for designing and assessing competitive learning scenarios that allow students to develo...
The fabrication of printed electronic devices via molten metal droplet jetting has enormous potential in flexible electronic device applications due to the extremely high electrical conductivity and excellent substrate adhesion of printed features. H...
The greater integration of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems into low-voltage (LV) distribution networks has posed new challenges for the operation of power systems. The violation of voltage limits attributed to reverse power flow has been recognized a...
It is well known that many chronic diseases are associated with unhealthy diet. Although improving diet is critical, adopting a healthy diet is difficult despite its benefits being well understood. Technology is needed to allow an assessment of dieta...
This paper develops a model predictive controller (MPC) for constrained nonlinear MIMO systems subjected to bounded disturbances. A linear parameter varying (LPV) model assists MPC in dealing with nonlinear dynamics. In this study, the nonlinear proc...
The unpredictable situation from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally and the severity of the third wave has resulted in the entire world being quarantined from one another again. Self-quarantine is the only existing solution to stop the spread of the...
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