2022 October-1 - 286 articles
Smart contracts are decentralized applications running on blockchain platforms and have been widely used in a variety of scenarios in recent years. However, frequent smart contract security incidents have focused more and more attention on their secu...
In the modern era, the trading methods and strategies used in the financial market have gradually changed from traditional on-site trading to electronic remote trading, and even online automatic trading performed by pre-programmed computer programs....
Accurate vehicular positioning is important for intelligent and connected vehicles (ICVs). However, in urban canyons, vehicles that rely solely on global navigation satellite system (GNSS) are susceptible to factors such as signal blocking and multi-...
An appropriate pulse-coding algorithm is the key to achieving an efficient switched-mode power amplification in all-digital transmitters. A five-level RF-PWM method with third and fifth harmonic elimination is proposed to relax the requirements of th...
This paper presents a very low profile and simple antenna design for dual beam and dual-band operation to be employed in future 5G mobile phones operating in the millimeter-wave bands of 26.75–30.31 and 35.83–41.22 GHz. The two distinct r...
This paper presents a multi-band low-noise amplifier (LNA) in the 45-nm CMOS silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process. The LNA consists of three stages, with the differential cascode amplifier as the core structure. The first stage is mainly responsible fo...
With the growing emphasis on medical testing, people are seeking more technologies to detect indexes of the human body quickly and at a low cost. The electrochemical biosensors became a research hotspot due to their excellent properties. In this stud...
Wireless communication channel scenario classification is crucial for new modern wireless technologies. Reducing the time consumed by the data preprocessing phase for such identification is also essential, especially for multiple-scenario transitions...
Financial management is a critical aspect of firms, and entails the strategic planning, direction, and control of financial endeavors. Risk assessment, fraud detection, wealth management, online transactions, customized bond scheme, customer retentio...
Intelligence is a direction of development for vehicles and transportation. Accurate vehicle positioning plays a vital role in intelligent driving and transportation. In the case of obstruction or too few satellites, the positioning capability of the...
In this paper, a compact 8 × 8 MIMO antenna design for 5G terminals is proposed. The 8 × 8 MIMO antenna consists of two quad-element antenna pairs, each of which includes two symmetrical T-shaped monopole mode elements and two symmetrical...
In this paper, we proposed an image inpainting algorithm, including an interpolation step and a non-local tensor completion step based on a weighted tensor nuclear norm. Specifically, the proposed algorithm adopts the triangular based linear interpol...
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal plays a key role in the diagnosis of arrhythmia, which will pose a great threat to human health. As an effective feature extraction method, deep learning has shown excellent results in processing ECG signals. However, m...
Due to its ability to supply reliable, robust and scalable computational power, cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular in industry, government, and academia. High-speed networks connect both virtual and real machines in cloud computing data...
Data are an important part of machine learning. In recent years, it has become increasingly common for researchers to study artificial intelligence-aided design, and rich design materials are needed to provide data support for related work. Existing...
Class D power amplifiers, one of the most critical devices for application in sound systems, face severe challenges due to the increasing requirement of smartphones, digital television, digital sound, and other terminals. The audio power amplifier ha...
A Mueller-Muller Phase Detector (MM PD) technology based on duo-binary four-level pulse amplitude modulation (DB PAM-4) with low complexity and high phase-detection density is presented. The proposed low complexity includes low phase-detection comple...
Information-centric networking (ICN) is a new network architecture that routes content based on names to improve transmission performance. Therefore, the efficiency of name resolution and routing becomes a critical issue in ICN. The bloom filter-base...
Short-term load forecasting (STLF), especially for regional aggregate load forecasting, is essential in smart grid operation and control. However, the existing CNN-based methods cannot efficiently extract the essential features from the electricity l...
The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare in general and in obstetrics and gynecology in particular has great potential. Specifically, machine learning methods could help improve the health and well-being of pregnant women, closely monitoring...
As an infrastructure platform for launching large-scale cyber attacks, botnets are one of the biggest threats to cyberspace security today. With the development of network technology and changes in the network environment, network attack intelligence...
Photo-realistic representation in user-specified view and lighting conditions is a challenging but high-demand technology in the digital transformation of cultural heritages. Despite recent advances in neural renderings, it is still necessary to capt...
In recent years, deep learning models have achieved great success in the field of semantic segmentation, which achieve satisfactory performance by introducing a large number of parameters. However, this achievement usually leads to high computational...
With the growing use of quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology, digital circuits designed at the Nanoscale have a number of advantages over CMOS devices, including the lower utilization of power, increased processing speed of the circuit,...
Super smart grids (SSGs) are a wide area transmission network that mainly uses renewable energy resources (RERs), contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions and supporting the power infrastructure of multiple countries. The SSGs...
Compared with a single-input-single-output (SISO) wireless communication system, the benefit of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology originates from its extra degree of freedom (DOF), also referred to as scattering channels or spatial ele...
The integration of wireless communication, e.g., in real- or quasi-real-time applications, is related to many challenges such as energy consumption, communication range, quality of service, and reliability. The improvement of wireless sensor networks...
This paper proposes a system of 6G Internet of Things (IoT) based on downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology, where the base station (BS) allows signals of the same frequency to serve users at different distances. In particular, we...
Background: In the dental field, many people undergo an extreme fear of injections, which is referred to as trypanophobia. The medical procedures that involve injections in the dental field to create numbness raises a certain level of discomfort to a...
Due to the battery capacity limitation of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), the importance of minimizing energy consumption has been increasing in recent years. In the mean time, for improving vehicle energy efficiency, platooning has attracted atten...
With the improvement of software copyright protection awareness, code obfuscation technology plays a crucial role in protecting key code segments. As the obfuscation technology becomes more and more complex and diverse, it has spawned a large number...
People with Alzheimer’s disease are at risk of malnutrition, overeating, and dehydration because short-term memory loss can lead to confusion. They need a caregiver to ensure they adhere to the main meals of the day and are properly hydrated. T...
Communication for hearing-impaired communities is an exceedingly challenging task, which is why dynamic sign language was developed. Hand gestures and body movements are used to represent vocabulary in dynamic sign language. However, dynamic sign lan...
This paper presents the high-output-impedance current-mode multiphase sinusoidal oscillators (MSO) using voltage differencing current conveyor (VDCC)-based lossy integrators, which consist of one VDCC, one grounded capacitor, and two grounded resisto...
Mobile crowdsensing is considered as a promising technology to exploit the computing and sensing capabilities of the decentralized wireless sensor nodes. Typically, the quality of information obtained from crowdsensing is largely affected by various...
The need for more precise frequency measurements in electric power systems is increasing because of the growing penetration of renewable energy and the subsequent reduction in inertia, which gives rise to more intense frequency fluctuations. Phase-lo...
In this paper, we design and compare seven meaningful hybrid one-bit full adders topologies that are optimized in terms of energy-delay trade-offs to operate in multibit ripple carry adders. The goal is to provide the designer with a simple and power...
This paper studied the robust beamforming for dense transmission systems with imperfect channel state information (CSI). The objective was to maximize the minimum signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) in the constraint of the per base statio...
Internet of things (IoT) has revolutionized how we utilize technology over the past decade. IoT’s rapid growth affects several fields, including the healthcare sector. As a result, the concept of smart healthcare or electronic healthcare (e-hea...
Renewable energy sources and EV growth brings new challenges for grid stabilization. Smart grid techniques are required to reconfigure and compensate for load fluctuation and stabilize power losses and voltage fluctuation. Numerical tools are availab...
Due to recent developments in IT technology, various IoT devices have been developed for use in various environments, such as card smart TVs, and smartphones Communication between IoT devices has become possible. Various IoT devices are found in home...
In 2022, as a result of the historically exceptional high temperatures that have been observed this summer in several parts of China, particularly in the province of Sichuan, residential demand for energy has increased. Up to 70% of Sichuan’s e...
This paper discusses a design methodology to efficiently determine the best combination of rectenna (rectifier and antenna) to minimize the input power under a given output condition for microwave wireless power transfer (MWPT) without any other exte...
We examine whether the novel systems programming language named Rust can be utilized alongside JavaScript in Node.js and Web-based applications development. The paper describes how JavaScript can be used as a high-level scripting language in combinat...
The aviation industry is associated with high precision and accuracy standards of the manufactured components, and thus the need to ensure precise quality control. Measurement processes, depending on the manufactured components, take place before, du...
As industrial computerized tomography (ICT) is widely used in the non-destructive testing of a solid rocket motor (SRM), the problem of how to automatically discriminate defect types and measure defect sizes with high accuracy in ICT images of SRM gr...
Knowledge graph-based question answering is an intelligent approach to deducing the answer to a natural language question from structured knowledge graph information. As one of the mainstream knowledge graph-based question answering approaches, infor...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) play an important role in the implementation of new Industry 4.0 solutions, acting as the backbone infrastructure to host distributed intelligence capabilities and promote the collective intelligence that emerges from the...
As the Internet of Things becomes more and more mainstream, sensors are widely used in the field of motion monitoring. In this paper, we propose a lightweight and sensitive triboelectric nanogenerator (LS-TENG) consisting of transparent polytetrafluo...
The subject matter of the above paper presents part of the research carried out as part of the robotization of the manufacturing processes of aircraft engine components. The paper concerns robotic deburring of the V2500 diffuser’s sharp edges....
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