2020 November - 237 articles
An inductively coupled wireless power transfer system is proposed in this paper, which is designed to comply with the battery’s load characteristics. A loosely coupled transformer with high coupling coefficient is proposed. A heterogeneous comp...
This study set out to invent an Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based smart Acer mono sap collection electric device to make efficient use of the labor force by reducing inefficient activities of old manual work to record sap exudati...
Future many-core systems need to handle high power density and chip temperature effectively. Some cores in many-core systems need to be turned off or ‘dark’ to manage chip power and thermal density. This phenomenon is also known as the da...
The recent development of color coding in tactile pictograms helps people with visual impairments (PVI) appreciate the visual arts. The auditory sense, in conjunction with (or possibly as an alternative to) the tactile sense, would allow PVI to perce...
Software-defined networking (SDN) enables flexible fine-grained networking policies by allowing the SDN controller to install packet handling rules on distributed switches. The behaviour of SDN depends on the set of forwarding entries installed at th...
This paper focuses on the main reasons of low efficiency in a current-fed DC-DC resonant converter applied to photovoltaic (PV) isolated systems, comparing the effects derived by the overlapping time in the gate-signals (gate-source voltage) combinin...
In this paper, a novel method to quantitatively analyze insulator degradation in a single layer solenoid is proposed. The suggested method employs renormalization of scattering parameters to efficiently detect changes of permittivity in a degraded so...
The existing face image completion approaches cannot be utilized to rationally complete damaged face images where their identity information is completely lost due to being obscured by center masks. Hence, in this paper, a reference-guided double-pip...
An integrated simulation tool called Video Delivery Simulation Framework over Vehicular Networks (VDSF-VN) is presented. This framework is intended to allow users to conduct experiments related to video transmission in vehicular networks by means of...
One of the common problems faced by Telecommunication (TLC) companies is the lack of power supply, usually for those appliances with scarce chances of grid connection often placed in remote zones. This issue is more and more critical if the radio net...
Underwater acoustics has been implemented mostly in the field of sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) procedures for submarine communication, the examination of maritime assets and environment surveying, target and object recognition, and measurement...
Gallium nitride (GaN) devices are becoming more popular in power semiconductor converters. Due to the absence of the freewheeling substrate diode, the reverse conduction region is used in GaN transistors to conduct the freewheeling current. However,...
It has been recently proposed to enhance the performance of random access procedure (RAP) by downsizing the current four step RAP (4s-RAP) to two step RAP (2s-RAP) in order to address ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC) in 5G and beyond...
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has become one of the major causes for temporal reliability degradation of nanoscale circuits. Due to its complex dependence on operating conditions, it is a tremendous challenge to the existing timing ana...
The efficiency of electric motors is being improved every day and projects with design variations can improve their performance. Among electric motors, the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM) is being increasingly used, because of its growing...
A model for detecting unauthorized Apps use events by combined analysis of situation information in an offline service and user behavior in an online environment is proposed. The detection and response to abnormal behavior in the O2O service environm...
Given the complexity of real-world datasets, it is difficult to present data structures using existing deep learning (DL) models. Most research to date has concentrated on datasets with only one type of attribute: categorical or numerical. Categorica...
AlGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors with fin structures (AlGaN/GaN MIS-FinFETs) were fabricated and characterized by changing fin width and using different dielectric layers. The FinFET with 20 nm-thick SiO2 dielectric la...
A power efficient static frequency divider in commercial 55 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology is reported. A standard Current Mode Logic (CML)-based architecture is adopted, and optimization of layout, biasing and transistor sizes allows achieving a maximum...
The microgrid includes a distribution system with low voltage, controllable load, and distributed energy resources (DER). The DERs have been increased in the recent power network to address global environmental concerns, which creates challenges in f...
In recent years, intelligent design technology that is based on interactive evolutionary algorithms, namely interactive evolutionary design (IED) systems, has received extensive attention in the computer science, design, and other related literature....
Currently, deploying fixed terrestrial infrastructures is not cost-effective in temporary circumstances, such as natural disasters, hotspots, and so on. Thus, we consider a system of caching-based UAV-assisted communications between multiple ground u...
The most cost-effective electrical energy is produced by photovoltaic (PV) systems, and with the smallest carbon footprint, making it a sustainable renewable energy. They provide an excellent alternative to the existing fossil fuel-based energy syste...
In recent times, several machine learning models have been built to aid in the prediction of diverse diseases and to minimize diagnostic errors made by clinicians. However, since most medical datasets seem to be imbalanced, conventional machine learn...
This paper presents a non-isolated DC–DC boost topology with a high-voltage-gain ratio for renewable energy applications. The presented converter is suitable for converting the voltage from low-voltage sources, such as photovoltaic panels, to h...
To solve the battery power supply problem with wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a novel bidirectional wireless charging system is proposed, in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can fly to the WSNs to charge sensors through high-frequency wireles...
Long-range (LoRa) technology is a low power wide area network (LPWAN) technology that is currently being used for development of Internet of things (IoT)-based solutions. Transit transport, mainly in medium-sized cities where transit vehicles do not...
The term “Internet of Things” was originally coined when radio frequency identification (RFID) technology was being developed to refer to applications where RFID tagged objects and sensors enabled computers to achieve effective situationa...
The fault classification of a small sample of high dimension is challenging, especially for a nonlinear and non-Gaussian manufacturing process. In this paper, a similarity-based feature selection and sub-space neighbor vote method is proposed to solv...
In the last decade, we have seen rapid development of electronic technologies that are transforming our daily lives [...]
Security of currently deployed public-key cryptography algorithms is foreseen to be vulnerable against quantum computer attacks. Hence, a community effort exists to develop post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms, most notably the NIST PQC standar...
Argumentation-oriented discourse analysis usually focuses on what is being said and how, following the text under analysis quite literally, and paying little attention to the things in the world to which the text refers. However, to perform argumenta...
Electronic card payments are getting more and more popular, mainly because of their simplicity, convenience, processing time and high level of security. The fact that a single payment card is issued for a particular cardholder makes it possible to li...
Deep neural networks are vulnerable to the adversarial example synthesized by adding imperceptible perturbations to the original image but can fool the classifier to provide wrong prediction outputs. This paper proposes an image restoration approach...
In this paper, a new pixel structure using low-temperature polycrystalline silicon and oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) for low-power liquid crystal displays (LCDs) is proposed. The extremely low off-state current of oxide semiconductor TFTs...
For almost one decade, the academic community has been working in the design and analysis of new lightweight primitives. This cryptography development aims to provide solutions tailored for resource-constrained devices. The U.S. National Institute of...
Currently, the 1st generation and 2nd generation solar water heating tanks’ design is unsatisfactory in the current use situation. When hot water is used with the hot water being consumed, thus cold water will be added into the same tank at the...
In this paper, identification of sensitive variables is attempted for second-order (flat/partially flat) and fourth-order partially flat converters with dynamic loads. The sensitivity nature of each state variable to the output speed variable of the...
Long distances in the vicinities of railways are not exploited in terms of wind energy. This paper presents a scalable power electronics approach, aimed to harness the wind potential in a railway infrastructure. The key aspect of this proposal relies...
We consider the problem of simultaneous diagonalization of Hermitian matrices for the desired and co-channel interference terms of millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user multiple-input multiple-output systems. The joint unitary eigenvectors and the corr...
In this paper, we propose an on-chip learning method that can overcome the poor characteristics of pre-developed practical synaptic devices, thereby increasing the accuracy of the neural network based on the neuromorphic system. The fabricated synapt...
This paper contributes to the development of evolutionary machine learning (EML) for optimal polar-space fuzzy control of cyber-physical Mecanum vehicles using the flower pollination algorithm (FPA). The metaheuristic FPA is utilized to design optima...
The integration of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in cognitive radio (CR) networks has demonstrated how to enhance spectrum efficiency and achieve massive connectivity for future mobile networks. However, security is still a challenging issue...
This paper presents experimental results of investigations on narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) uplink channel performance under extreme pathloss conditions, approaching the boundary maximum coupling loss (MCL) defined for cellular IoT systems....
The design of single-stage OTAs for accurate switched-capacitor circuits involves challenging trade-offs between speed and power consumption. The addition of a Slew-Rate Enhancer (SRE) circuit placed in parallel to the main OTA (parallel-type SRE) co...
A new circuit structure of LLC converter is studied and implemented to achieve wide zero-voltage switching range and wide voltage operation such as consumer power units without power factor correction and long hold up time demand, battery chargers, p...
To improve the voltage gain of step-up converters, the cascaded technique is considered as a possible solution in this paper. By considering the concept of cascading two Z-source networks in a conventional boost converter, the proposed topology takes...
In this article, a fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) with integrated chirp generation circuit block for a 76~81 GHz frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar system is presented. Thanks to the switched inductor voltage-controlled oscillator...
The demand for low resource devices has increased rapidly due to the advancements in Internet-of-things applications. These devices operate in environments that have limited resources. To ensure security, stream ciphers are implemented on hardware du...
This paper presents a novel physical implementation methodology for high-speed Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) digital integrated circuits for harsh radiation environment applications. An improved distributed approach is presented to constrain redunda...
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