2021 December-2 - 139 articles
This paper presents a new signal demodulator for ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag chips. The demodulator is used to demodulate amplitude shift keying (ASK) modulated signals with the advantages of high noise immuni...
The next-generation networks (5G and beyond) require robust channel codes to support their high specifications, such as low latency, low complexity, significant coding gain, and flexibility. In this paper, we propose using a fountain code as a promis...
Multi-sensory interaction aids learning, inclusion, and collaboration because it accommodates the diverse cognitive and perceptual needs [...]
The goal of this study was to develop a new model and conduct confirmatory factor analysis to learn more about how students use M-learning in higher education. The study is theoretically based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology...
Phonological-based features (articulatory features, AFs) describe the movements of the vocal organ which are shared across languages. This paper investigates a domain-adversarial neural network (DANN) to extract reliable AFs, and different multi-stre...
A 2.5-GS/s 12-bit four-way time-interleaved pipelined-SAR ADC is presented in 28-nm CMOS. A bias-enhanced ring amplifier is utilized as the residue amplifier to achieve high bandwidth and excellent power efficiency compared with a traditional operati...
In this paper, 3D printed surfaces are presented to study this technology’s application in generating beam tilt for the electromagnetic waves in the Ku-band. Additionally, the input source is maintained by a feed horn that is additively manufac...
For many applications deployed in manufacturing networks, communication latency has been a significant barrier. Despite the constant development of improved communication protocols and standards during Industry 4.0, the latency problem persists, lowe...
As the acquisition, transmission, storage and conversion of images become more efficient, image data are increasing explosively. At the same time, the limitations of conventional computational processing systems based on the Von Neumann architecture...
Deep learning methods are currently used in industries to improve the efficiency and quality of the product. Detecting defects on printed circuit boards (PCBs) is a challenging task and is usually solved by automated visual inspection, automated opti...
In this study, a model based on the improved grey wolf optimizer (GWO) for optimizing RVFL is proposed to enable the problem of poor accuracy of Oil layer prediction due to the randomness of the parameters present in the random vector function link (...
Elevators are an essential indoor transportation tool in high-rise buildings. The world is advocating the design concept of safety, energy-saving, and intelligence. We focus on improving operation speed and utilization efficiency of the elevator grou...
In parallel with the rapid adoption of transport layer security (TLS), malware has utilized the encrypted communication channel provided by TLS to hinder detection from network traffic. To this end, recent research efforts are directed toward malware...
Plagiarism of integrated-circuit (IC) layout is a problem encountered both in academia and in industry. A procedure was proposed that compares IC layouts based on the physical representation of particular electrical nets, i.e., on the shape of the fe...
There is a need for the optimal positioning of protective devices to maximize customers satisfaction per their demands. Such arrangement advances the distribution system reliability to maximum achievable. Thus, radial distribution system (RDS) reliab...
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are commonly used methods in computational intelligence. Most prevalent DNN-based image classification methods are dedicated to promoting the performance by designing complicated network architectures and requiring large a...
Current parking systems employ a single gateway-centered solution (i.e., cloud) for data processing which leads to the possibility of a single point of failure, data loss, and high delays. Moreover, the parking-spot selection process considers criter...
In recent years, cross-platform co-simulation has become an important development direction of the real-time simulation of power systems. Model segmentation is at the core of the realization of cross-platform joint simulation and parallel real-time s...
The pathway toward the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is dependent upon increasing Renewable Energy Sources (RESs), demand response, and electrification of public and private transportation. Energy management techniques are necessary to coordi...
Product information has been propagated online via forums and social media. Lots of merchandise are recommended via an expert system method and is considered for purchase by online comments or product reviews. For predicting people’s opinions o...
In the last decades, flying ad-hoc networks (FANET) have provided unique features in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This work intends to propose an efficient algorithm for secure load balancing in FANET. It is performed with the combin...
Several decades of eye related research has shown how valuable eye gaze data are for applications that are essential to human daily life. Eye gaze data in a broad sense has been used in research and systems for eye movements, eye tracking, and eye ga...
Current challenges in soft robotics include sensing and state awareness. Modern soft robotic systems require many more sensors than traditional robots to estimate pose and contact forces. Existing soft sensors include resistive, conductive, optical,...
Real medical datasets usually consist of missing data with different patterns which decrease the performance of classifiers used in intelligent healthcare and disease diagnosis systems. Many methods have been proposed to impute missing data, however,...
The management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to be critical for reducing its dramatic effects. Social sensing can analyse user-contributed data posted daily in social-media services, where participants are seen as Social Sensors. Individual...
Since 3D NAND was introduced to the industry with 24 layers, the areal density has been successfully increased more than ten times, and has exceeded 10 Gb/mm2 with 176 layers. The physical scaling of XYZ dimensions including layer stacking and footpr...
With the increasing incidence of severe skin diseases, such as skin cancer, endoscopic medical imaging has become urgent for revealing the internal and hidden tissues under the skin. Diagnostic information to help doctors make an accurate diagnosis i...
The continuous scaling of electronic components has led to the development of high-performance microprocessors which are even suitable for safety-critical applications where radiation-induced errors, such as single event effects (SEEs), are one of th...
Modern auto-vehicles are built upon a vast collection of sensors that provide large amounts of data processed by dozens of Electronic Control Units (ECUs). These, in turn, monitor and control advanced technological systems providing a large palette o...
Pedestrian detection is at the core of autonomous road vehicle navigation systems as they allow a vehicle to understand where potential hazards lie in the surrounding area and enable it to act in such a way that avoids traffic-accidents, which may re...
Nowadays, interest in electric propulsion is increasing due to the need to decarbonize society. Electric drives and their components play a key role in this electrification trend. The electrical machine, in particular, is seeing an ever-increasing de...
This paper focuses on the instability problem of the medium-voltage DC (MVDC) distribution system and proposes an impedance phase reshaping (IPR) method. To obtain the load impedance model of the MVDC distribution system, the input impedance of the i...
This paper presents a 4 × 4 multi-input multi-output antenna array for ultra-wideband applications. The single element of the array is comprised of a modified co-planar waveguide-fed double overt-leaf shaped patch radiator. The co-planar ground...
We have performed different simulation experiments in relation to hardware neural networks (NN) to analyze the role of the number of synapses for different NN architectures in the network accuracy, considering different datasets. A technology that st...
AFL is the most widely used coverage-guided fuzzer, which relies on rough execution information to assign seeds energy, which can lead to waste. We track the program executed by AFL and discover that the hit counts of each edge might vary greatly whe...
Accurate prediction of power business communication bandwidth is the premise for the effectiveness of power communication planning and the fundamental guarantee for regular operation of power businesses. To solve the problem of scientifically and rea...
The work aims to design a trilayer composite dedicated to electromagnetic shielding over a large frequency range, from 1 Hz to 20 GHz. Analytical and numerical models are used to determine the shielding effectiveness (SE) of this composite in the cas...
Dopamine detection by using N2/O2 annealing in a Pt/Ti/n-Si structure is investigated for the first time. To achieve repeatable and stable dopamine detection, a Pt membrane is annealed at elevated temperatures of 500 to 700 °C. N2/O2 gas ambient...
Our paper proposes a method for constructing a system for predicting defects and failures of power equipment and the time of their occurrence based on the joint solution of regression and classification problems using machine learning methods. A dist...
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) consists of finding the shortest way between cities, which passes through all cities and returns to the starting point, given the distance between cities. The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is the issue of defining...
In CMOS integrated circuit (IC) design, operational amplifiers are one of the most useful active devices to enhance applications in analog signal processing, signal conditioning and so on. However, due to the CMOS technology downscaling, along the ve...
Climate change and pollution fighting have become prominent global concerns in the twenty-first century. In this context, accurate estimates for polluting emissions and their evolution are critical for robust policy-making processes and ultimately fo...
In order to meet regulatory standards in the domain of safety-critical systems, these systems have to include a set of safety mechanisms depending on the Safety Integrity Level (SIL). This article proposes an approach for how such safety mechanisms m...
With the rapid development of satellite technology and the high transmission efficiency of LEO satellites, LEO satellite communication has received increasing attention. However, the frequent switching of satellite-earth links imposes a great challen...
Nowadays, the development, implementation and deployment of smart meters (SMs) is increasing in importance, and its expansion is exponential. The use of SMs in electrical engineering covers a multitude of applications ranging from real-time monitorin...
The self-supervised monocular depth estimation paradigm has become an important branch of computer vision depth-estimation tasks. However, the depth estimation problem arising from object edge depth pulling or occlusion is still unsolved. The graysca...
In this study, a novel control approach for a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) is developed and applied to improve the system’s dynamic response and performance for providing high energy quality while avoiding harmonic accumulations. Becau...
With the rapid development of wireless communication technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless body area networks (WBAN) have been thriving. This paper presents a triband patch antenna with multiple slots for conformal and wearable applic...
In this paper, we designed a beacon-based hybrid routing protocol to adapt to the new forms of intelligent warfare, accelerate the application of unmanned vehicles in the military field, and solve the problems such as high maintenance cost, path fail...
Fractional-order chaotic systems have more complex dynamics than integer-order chaotic systems. Thus, investigating fractional chaotic systems for the creation of image cryptosystems has been popular recently. In this article, a fractional-order memr...
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