2022 December-1 - 228 articles
Fiber optic networks (FONs) are considered the backbone of telecom companies worldwide. However, the network elements of FONs are scattered over a wide area and managed through a centralized controller based on intelligent devices and the internet of...
An X-band active phased array horn antenna with high power capacity and high peak power is proposed in this paper. At the horn aperture, the baffles are loaded to suppress higher-order modes and eliminate blind spots during beam scanning. Straight wa...
With the growing cost of electrical energy, the necessity of energy-saving implementation in industries based on energy audits has become a major focus area. Energy audit results indicate energy-saving potential in an application and require the phys...
Mode 4 of 3GPP Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) uses a new Sensing-Based Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SB-SPS) algorithm to manage its radio resources. SB-SPS applies a probabilistic approach to provide the resource allocation in the system. The...
We studied the influence of the arsenic pressure during low-temperature GaAs overgrowth of InAs quantum dots on their optical properties. In the photoluminescence spectrum of quantum dots overgrown at a high arsenic pressure, we observed a single bro...
The passage of electric signals throughout the human body produces an electromagnetic field, known as the human biofield, which carries information about a person’s psychological health. The human biofield can be rehabilitated by using healing...
Traffic flow prediction is a significant component for the new generation intelligent transportation. In the field of air transportation, accurate prediction of airport flight flow can help airlines schedule flights and provide a decision-making basi...
Human pose estimation is a very important research topic in computer vision and attracts more and more researchers. Recently, ViTPose based on heatmap representation refreshed the state of the art for pose estimation methods. However, we find that Vi...
Stock volatility is an important measure of financial risk. Due to the complexity and variability of financial markets, time series forecasting in the financial field is extremely challenging. This paper proposes a “model fusion learning algori...
Due to strong survivability and flexible scheduling, multi-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)-assisted communication networks have been widely used in civil and military fields. However, the open accessibility of wireless channels brings a huge risk of pr...
Phased array antennas play an indispensable role in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. The Antenna-in-package (AiP) system combines advanced antenna and packaging technology, making it highly valuable for various cellular, radar and automative...
The widespread use of mobile devices has popularized the idea of indoor navigation. The Wi-Fi fingerprint method is emerging as an important alternative indoor positioning method for GPS usage difficulties. This study utilizes RSSI signals with three...
SARS-CoV-2, a severe acute respiratory syndrome that is related to COVID-19, is a novel type of influenza virus that has infected the entire international community. It has created severe health and safety concerns all over the globe. Identifying the...
Video data have become the main data traffic on the Internet, and their traffic is increasing explosively every year, thus increasing the pressure of video transmission. Video coding technology has become the key to compressing original videos. As an...
We apply probability theory for the analysis of the exponentially decaying transient response of a resistor inductor electric circuit with partially known value of the inductance due to its failure. The inductance is known to be within a continuous i...
This paper proposes a compact three-mode base station capable of performing radar sensing, communication, and wireless power transfer (WPT) in collaboration with indoor sensor networks. With regard to the wireless sensor node, the base station transm...
To solve the two-workshop integrated scheduling problem with the same device resources, existing algorithms pay attention to the horizontal parallel processing of the process tree and ignore the tightness between vertical serial processes. A scheduli...
The advancement of multi-level cell technology that enables storing multiple bits in a single NAND flash memory cell has increased the density and affordability of solid-state drives (SSDs). However, increased latency asymmetry between read and write...
Meticulous learning of human emotions through speech is an indispensable function of modern speech emotion recognition (SER) models. Consequently, deriving and interpreting various crucial speech features from raw speech data are complicated responsi...
In response to the problems of low accuracy and poor noise immunity of the traditional fault diagnosis method for rolling bearing fault diagnosis due to the complex and variable operating conditions of rolling bearings and the large noise interferenc...
Recent research has introduced the notion of an Intelligent Reflective Surface (IRS) so as to boost the source–destination communication environment. IRS refers to a plane that consists of a number of passive elements that have a smaller size t...
Wavefront-modulated beams such as vortex beams have attracted much attention in the field of target recognition due to the introduced degrees of freedom. However, traditional wavefront-modulated beams are doughnut shaped, and are not suitable for rad...
The public network access to smart grids has a great impact on the system‘s safe operation. With the rapid increase in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, cyber-attacks caused by multiple sources and flexible loads continue to rise, which re...
Large disturbances frequently happen in isolated AC/DC Hybrid Microgrids. Unfortunately, constant power loads (CPLs) with negative impedance characteristics are equivalent to positive feedback, resulting in an increase in large disturbances. The syst...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become very popular during the last decade by providing new solutions to modern industry and to entire societies. At the same time, the rise of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has provided various benefits by...
This paper presents the modified HEVC Screen Content Coding (SCC) that was adapted to be more efficient as an internal video coding of the MPEG Immersive Video (MIV) codec. The basic, unmodified SCC is already known to be useful in such an applicatio...
Federated learning has been attracting increasing amounts of attention for its potential applications in disease diagnosis within the medical field due to privacy preservation and its ability to solve data silo problems. However, the inconsistent dis...
A nano-scale quantum-dot cellular automaton (QCA) is one of the most promising replacements for CMOS technology. Despite the potential advantages of this technology, QCA circuits are frequently plagued by numerous forms of manufacturing faults (such...
Despite the huge advances in digital communications in the last decade, physical documents are still the most common media for information transfer, especially in the official context. However, the readily available document processing devices and te...
The demand for a large-scale distributed system, such as a smart grid, which includes real-time interconnection, is rapidly increasing. To provide a seamless connected environment, real-time communication and optimal resource allocation of cluster mi...
To solve the problem of filter bandwidth in 5G communication, it is urgent to develop an acoustic resonator with a large effective electromechanical coupling coefficient (Keff2). In this paper, the dependence between the resonance area and the perfor...
Ultra-high frequency (UHF) signal detection is one of the most effective methods for spatial orientation and partial discharge fault diagnosis. However, when the background noise, especially Gaussian white noise and narrow-band interference, is very...
A microgrid generates a large amount of power data during daily operation, which needs to be safely transferred, stored, and deleted. In this paper, we propose a secure storage and deletion verification scheme that combines blockchain and edge comput...
This paper describes a material complex permittivity extraction technique based on four measurements of two identical coaxial (circular and rectangular) lines, distinguished by their lengths. The paper presents a combination of propagation parameters...
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to underwater routing protocols due to its powerful ability of distributed decision making. However, the traditional RL has slow convergence speed and low learning efficiency in underwater. Me...
Recently, pattern recognition in audio signal processing using electroencephalography (EEG) has attracted significant attention. Changes in eye cases (open or closed) are reflected in distinct patterns in EEG data, gathered across a range of cases an...
Emotion recognition, and more particularly facial expression recognition (FER), has been extensively used for various applications (e.g., human–computer interactions). The ability to automatically recognize facial expressions has been facilitat...
This paper presents the validation of a novel approach for a true-random number generator (TRNG) based on a ring oscillator–physical unclonable function (RO-PUF) for FPGA devices. The proposal takes advantage of the different noise sources that...
Anti-sorting signal design is an important direction of radio frequency (RF) stealth signal design. The RF stealth signal design is based on the anti-sorting signal design principle, which is essentially the failure principle of the radar signal sort...
Automatic modulation classification (AMC), which plays a significant role in wireless communication, can recognize the modulation type of the received signal without large amounts of transmitted data and parameter information. Supported by deep learn...
Performance scale application (PSA) usage in the classroom is underutilized, despite the rapid progress of mobile phone and e-learning technology. Lack of self-learning, evaluation, satisfaction, and inability to choose appropriate specialties influe...
In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been used in a wide range of indoor localization-based applications. Although promising, the existing works are dependent on a large number of anchor nodes to achieve localization, which brings the issue...
Aiming at the problem that the storage space and network bandwidth of expressway surveillance video are occupied largely due to data redundancy and sparse information, this paper proposes a deep compression method of expressway video depth based on c...
FDSOI (Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator) devices have a good performance in anti-single-event circuits. However, the bipolar amplification effect becomes a severe problem due to the buried oxide. The previous models for Single Event Transient (SET...
The innovative development of logistics has become a powerful starting point and strong support for the construction of smart cities. An accurate evaluation of logistics service quality can promote intelligent transformation, and upgrading logistics...
Internet of Things (IoT) environments can extensively use embedded devices. Without the participation of consumers; tiny IoT devices will function and interact with one another, but their operations must be reliable and secure from various threats. T...
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is used to check the electrical activity of the heart over a limited short-term or long-term period. Short-term observations are often used in hospitals or clinics, whereas long-term observations (often called continuous or...
The task of investing in financial markets to make profits and grow one’s wealth is not a straightforward task. Typically, financial domain experts, such as investment advisers and financial analysts, conduct extensive research on a target fina...
Devices which are part of the Internet of Things (IoT) have strong connections; they generate and consume data, which necessitates data transfer among various devices. Smart gadgets collect sensitive information, perform critical tasks, make decision...
Despite being the most widely used authentication mechanism, password-based authentication is not very secure, being easily guessed or brute-forced. To address this, many systems which especially value security adopt Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)...
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