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Electronics, Volume 3, Issue 4

December 2014 - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,825 Views
23 Pages

19 December 2014

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), besides the original applications typically related to traffic safety, we nowadays can observe an increasing trend toward infotainment applications, such as IPTV services. Quality of experience (QoE), as observe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,916 Views
14 Pages

10 December 2014

Power consumption is the major constraint for modern microprocessor designs. In particular, static power consumption becomes a serious problem as the transistor size shrinks via semiconductor technology improvement. This paper proposes a technique th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,861 Views
14 Pages

Kronecker-Based Fusion Rule for Cooperative Spectrum Sensingwith Multi-Antenna Receivers

  • Sadiq Ali,
  • Magnus Jansson,
  • Gonzalo Seco-Granados and
  • José A. López-Salcedo

10 December 2014

This paper considers a novel fusion rule for spectrum sensing scheme for a cognitive radio network with multi-antenna receivers. The proposed scheme exploits the fact that when any primary signal is present, measurements are spatially correlated due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,362 Views
25 Pages

17 November 2014

In this paper, we propose a collision avoidance algorithm for multi-vehicle systems, which is a common problem in many areas, including navigation and robotics. In dynamic environments, vehicles may become involved in potential collisions with each o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
13,069 Views
15 Pages

The Diabetes Assistant: A Smartphone-Based System for Real-Time Control of Blood Glucose

  • Patrick Keith-Hynes,
  • Benton Mize,
  • Antoine Robert and
  • Jérôme Place

14 November 2014

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease in which the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed and insulin must be injected daily to enable the body to metabolize glucose. Standard therapy for T1DM involves self-mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,055 Views
12 Pages

Towards Realizing High-Throughput, Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Flexible Electronic Systems

  • Xiaohui Lin,
  • Harish Subbaraman,
  • Zeyu Pan,
  • Amir Hosseini,
  • Chris Longe,
  • Klay Kubena,
  • Paul Schleicher,
  • Phillip Foster,
  • Sean Brickey and
  • Ray T. Chen

14 November 2014

High-rate roll-to-roll (R2R) tracker systems are utilized for large volume flexible electronic device manufacturing, and the current alignment mechanism between layers is mainly achieved by relying on passive techniques. In this paper, we present a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,950 Views
11 Pages

RF Infrastructure Cooperative System for in Lane Vehicle Localization

  • Nabil Houdali,
  • Thierry Ditchi,
  • Emmanuel Géron,
  • Jérôme Lucas and
  • Stéphane Holé

5 November 2014

This paper presents a sensor which can be included in an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) that is compliant with the Vehicle to Infrastructure communication standard (V2I). This system allows estimation of the vehicle lateral position in real...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,114 Views
12 Pages

30 September 2014

Silicon VDMOS power MOSFET technology is being supplanted by UMOS (or trench) power MOSFET technology. Designers of spaceborne power electronics systems incorporating this newer power MOSFET technology need to be aware of several unique threats that...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,596 Views
4 Pages

30 September 2014

Organic electronics, such as displays, photovoltaics and electronics circuits and components, offer several advantages over the conventional inorganic-based electronics because they are inexpensive, flexible, unbreakable, optically transparent, light...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,764 Views
18 Pages

Garment-Integrated Bend Sensor

  • Guido Gioberto and
  • Lucy E. Dunne

26 September 2014

Garment-integrated sensors equip clothes with a smart sensing capability, while preserving the comfort of the user. However, this benefit can be to the detriment of sensing accuracy due to the unpredictability of garment movement (which affects sens...

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