Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 1

E-learning has traditionally emphasised educational resources, web access, student participation, and social interaction. Novel virtual spaces, e-lectures, and digital laboratories have been developed with synchronous or asynchronous practices throug...

The accurate identification of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) parameters is the basis for high-performance drive control. The traditional PMSM multiparameter identification method experiences problems with the uncertainty of the identifica...

Due to the dynamic mobility feature, the proactive flow rule cache method has become one promising solution in software-defined networking (SDN)-based access networks to reduce the number of flow rule installation procedures between the forwarding no...

New current mode grounded memcapacitor emulator circuits are reported in this paper, based on a single voltage differencing transconductance amplifier-VDTA and two grounded capacitors. The proposed circuits possess a single active component matching...

The Measurement Lab (MLab) provides a large and open collection of Internet performance measurements. We make use of it to look at the state of the German Internet by a structured analysis, in which we carve out expressive results from the dataset to...

The increased demand for better accuracy and precision and wider data size has strained current the floating point system and motivated the development of the POSIT system. The POSIT system supports flexible formats and tapered precision and provides...

In the area of synthetic sensors for flow angle estimation, the present work aims to describe the verification in a relevant environment of a physics-based approach using a dedicated technological demonstrator. The flow angle synthetic solution is ba...

In a bipolar DC distribution network, the unbalanced load resistance, line resistance and renewable energy source will cause an unbalanced current for each node of the neutral line and lead to its unbalanced voltage. This is a unique power quality pr...

Traditional centralized access control faces data security and privacy problems. The core server is the main target to attack. Single point of failure risk and load bottleneck are difficult to solve effectively. And the third-party data center cannot...

Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies play a pivotal role in IoT applications, owing to their capability to meet the key IoT requirements (e.g., long range, low cost, small data volumes, massive device number, and low energy consumption)....

Many wheelchair people depend on others to control the movement of their wheelchairs, which significantly influences their independence and quality of life. Smart wheelchairs offer a degree of self-dependence and freedom to drive their own vehicles....

Next-generation communication systems and wearable technologies aim to achieve high data rates, low energy consumption, and massive connections because of the extensive increase in the number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and wearable devices. These de...

Fifth-generation will support significantly faster mobile broadband speeds, low latency, and reliable communications, as well as enabling the full potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) [...]

Collaborative robots are a new type of lightweight robots that are especially suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises. They offer new interaction opportunities and thereby pose new challenges with regard to technology acceptance. Despite ackn...

To solve the problems of high computational complexity and unstable image quality inherent in the compressive sensing (CS) method, we propose a complex-valued fully convolutional neural network (CVFCNN)-based method for near-field enhanced millimeter...

Computer vision-based automation has become popular in detecting and monitoring plants’ nutrient deficiencies in recent times. The predictive model developed by various researchers were so designed that it can be used in an embedded system, kee...

Current small satellite platforms such as CubeSats require robust and versatile communication subsystems that allow the reconfiguration of the critical operating parameters such as carrier frequency, transmission power, bandwidth, or filter roll-off...

Due to refraction, absorption, and scattering of light by suspended particles in water, underwater images are characterized by low contrast, blurred details, and color distortion. In this paper, a fusion algorithm to restore and enhance underwater im...

Deep learning methods have been applied to malware detection. However, deep learning algorithms are not safe, which can easily be fooled by adversarial samples. In this paper, we study how to generate malware adversarial samples using deep learning m...

A memristor is a vital circuit element that can mimic biological synapses. This paper proposes the memristive version of a recently proposed map neuron model based on the phase space. The dynamic of the memristive map model is investigated by using b...

Detecting stress when performing physical activities is an interesting field that has received relatively little research interest to date. In this paper, we took a first step towards redressing this, through a comprehensive review and the design of...

Radar target detection (RTD) is a fundamental but important process of the radar system, which is designed to differentiate and measure targets from a complex background. Deep learning methods have gained great attention currently and have turned out...

Temperature has an important effect on the battery model. A dual-polarization equivalent circuit model considering temperature is established to quantify the effect of temperature, and the initial parameters of the model are identified through experi...

A pipe is a ubiquitous product in the industries that is used to convey liquids, gases, or solids suspended in a liquid, e.g., a slurry, from one location to another. Both internal and external cracking can result in structural failure of the industr...

The healthcare industry is being transformed by the Internet of Things (IoT), as it provides wide connectivity among physicians, medical devices, clinical and nursing staff, and patients to simplify the task of real-time monitoring. As the network is...

This study presents a dual-band power amplifier (PA) with two output ports using a simplified three-port, frequency-dividing matching network. The dual-band, dual-output PA could amplify a dual-band signal with one transistor, and the diplexer-like o...

Nowadays, cloud computing is one of the important and rapidly growing services; its capabilities and applications have been extended to various areas of life. Cloud computing systems face many security issues, such as scalability, integrity, confiden...

Objective: This study sought to address one of the challenges of psychiatry-computer aided diagnosis and therapy of anorexia nervosa. The goal of the paper is to present a method of determining the intensity of five emotions (happiness, sadness, anxi...

Smart homes assist users by providing convenient services from activity classification with the help of machine learning (ML) technology. However, most of the conventional high-performance ML algorithms require relatively high power consumption and m...

Smart agriculture has taken more attention during the last decade due to the bio-hazards of climate change impacts, extreme weather events, population explosion, food security demands and natural resources shortage. The Egyptian government has taken...

This paper reviews the research trends that link the advanced technical aspects of recommendation systems that are used in various service areas and the business aspects of these services. First, for a reliable analysis of recommendation models for r...

Persistent and inconsistent unsteadiness with nonvertiginous dizziness (persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD)) could negatively impact quality of life. This study highlights that the use of virtual reality (VR) systems offers bimodal benefi...

Acne is a skin issue that plagues many young people and adults. Even if it is cured, it leaves acne spots or acne scars, which drives many individuals to use skincare products or undertake medical treatment. On the contrary, the use of inappropriate...

A new procedure for the design and optimization of the rotor laminations of a synchronous reluctance machine is presented in this paper. The configuration of the laminations is symmetrical and contains fluid-shaped barriers. The parametrization princ...

The usage of images in different fields has increased dramatically, especially in medical image analysis and social media. Many risks can threaten the integrity and confidentiality of digital images transmitted through the internet. As such, the pres...

This work proposes a methodology to estimate the statistical distribution of the probability that a 6T bit-cell starts up to a given logic value in SRAM memories for PUF applications. First, the distribution is obtained experimentally in a 65-nm CMOS...

In this study, we developed an analytical model of slot-loaded rectangular microstrip patch antennas based on the simulation results by varying slot parameters. The dominant resonant frequency predicted by such a model is in strong agreement with the...

Due to the outbreak of lung infections caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), humans have to face an unprecedented and devastating global health crisis. Since chest computed tomography (CT) images of COVID-19 patients contain abundant patholog...

Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge (SNARks) are receiving a lot of attention as a core privacy-enhancing technology for blockchain applications. Polynomial commitment schemes are important building blocks for the construction of SNARks....

In this paper, an intelligent control scheme is proposed to suppress vibrations between the pantograph and the catenary by regulating the contact force to a reference value, thereby achieving stable current collection. In order to reduce the computat...

Large electrolytic capacitors used in grid-connected and stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) applications for power decoupling purposes are unreliable because of their short lifetime. Film capacitors can be used instead of electrolytic capacitors if the en...

It is becoming increasingly apparent that a significant amount of the population suffers from mental health problems, such as stress, depression, and anxiety. These issues are a result of a vast range of factors, such as genetic conditions, social ci...

The radar penetrating technique has aroused a keen interest in the research community, due to its superior abilities for through-the-wall indoor human motion monitoring. Micro-Doppler signatures in this situation play a significant role in recognitio...

Multiuser Detection (MUD) is quite challenging in uplink grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access wireless communication networks in which users sporadically transmit data. The reason for this is that the base station (BS) must perform detection of...

An analysis of multiple scattering by two Perfect Electric Conducting (PEC) spheres using translation Addition Theorem (AT) for spherical vector wave functions is presented. Specifically, the Cruzan formalism is used to represent the AT for spherical...

A high Q planar chipless RFID tag with high sensitivity is proposed for communication applications. In particular, the tag structure is composed of a complementary spiral structure (CSS) that is able to provide high sensitivity and compactness. A sem...

Forests are an enduring component of the natural world and perform a vital role in protecting the environment. Forests are valuable resources to control global warming and provide oxygen for the survival of human life, including wood for households....

The feasibility of power transfer enhancement, through simultaneous AC–DC power transmission in a two-terminal transmission network, has been proposed earlier by the authors, and the concept is well established. To meet the increase in demand f...

There is a surge in the total energy demand of the world due to the increase in the world’s population and the ever-increasing human dependence on technology. Conventional non-renewable energy sources still contribute a larger amount to the tot...

With a deep connection to the internet, the controller area network (CAN) bus of intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) has suffered many network attacks. A deep situation awareness method is urgently needed to judge whether network attacks will occur...