By benefiting from one-bit sampling, the system deployment of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be greatly simplified. However, it usually requires a high oversampling rate to avoid the apparent degradation in imagery, which counteracts the storage-...
Bit-related trauma is a welfare issue in equestrian sports; therefore, a proper understanding of how the bit behaves inside the mouth is of importance. The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of bit design (snaffle bits/single/dou...
As the number of users using multimedia sharing services increases, the need to ensure the minimum data rate of wireless users increases. Meanwhile, in the cooperative cognitive radio (CR) network, it is important to provide the quality-of-services f...
The paper presents the results of the study of the influence of symmetry in the design of bit-stream digital converters. We have shown realizations of the symmetry-based approach at different levels: at the level of basic elements, functional convert...
This paper provides an analysis of existing single-digit binary adders from the point of view of their implementation on fans built based on metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor—MOSFETs. The synthesis of a single-digit adder with a...
Finite-bit channel-state-information (CSI) feedback couples the number of retained coefficients with their encoding precision. This study combines representation-specific payload accounting, an exact orthogonal principal component analysis (PCA) erro...
Besides oral temperature, meteorological parameters are expected to be relevant for mouthpiece temperature, potentially influenced by the material, surface area and weight of the bit. This study measured the temperature of the mouthpieces at the corn...
The evolution of microelectronics increased the information acquired by today’s biomedical sensor systems to an extent where the capacity of low-power communication interfaces becomes one of the central bottlenecks. Hence, this paper mathematic...
As oil and gas exploration extends to deep, ultra-deep, and unconventional reservoirs, high drilling costs persist. Drill bit performance, as the critical rock-breaking component, directly governs efficiency and economics. While optimal bit selection...
Bit commitment is a cryptographic task in which Alice commits a bit to Bob such that she cannot change the value of the bit after her commitment and Bob cannot learn the value of the bit before Alice opens her commitment. According to the Mayers&ndas...
The bit–rock interaction is a key point in the fracture process observed in excavation applications, which makes its analysis relevant. As the discrete element method (DEM) has been successfully applied to study rock breakage behavior, we apply...
The bit independence criterion was proposed to evaluate the security of the S-boxes used in block ciphers. This paper proposes an algorithm that extends this criterion to evaluate the degree of independence between the bits of inputs and outputs of t...
Deep and ultra-deep shale gas resources have great potential, but well drilling faces many challenges. The Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) bit has become the primary rock-breaking instrument for oil and gas drilling. Reasonable bit structure de...
This study investigates bit error rate (BER)-constrained power allocation for uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems in which a base station employs one-bit analog-to-digital converters. Although one-bit quantization significantly reduc...
Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) should be secured as per requirements to protect content in open environments such as the cloud and internet. Integrity and undetectability of steganographic images are amongst the main concerns in any RDH scheme. As steg...
Down-the-hole (DTH) hammer drilling has high rock-breaking efficiency and a decisive advantage in hard rock drilling, which can reduce the cost of geothermal drilling. However, when the drill bit rotation speed and the DTH percussion frequency do not...
Measurement while drilling (MWD) technology provides a novel methodology for the in situ determination of geomechanical properties by monitoring bit–rock interaction parameters during drilling, offering real-time lithological distribution ident...
Reducing the auxiliary drilling time and improving the drilling efficiency are not only important technical means to enhance the development and deep exploration of oil and gas reserves, but also have significant implications for ensuring energy secu...
In this letter, it is proposed that cryogenic quantum bits can operate based on the nonlinearity due to the quantum capacitance of two-dimensional Dirac materials, and in particular graphene. The anharmonicity of a typical superconducting quantum bit...
As the development of Internet of Things (IoT), the data exchanged through the network has significantly increased. To secure the sensitive data with user’s personal information, it is necessary to encrypt the transmitted data. Since resource-c...
This paper develops a unified finite-bit distributed optimization framework for UAV swarms operating over bandwidth-limited communication graphs. We consider strongly convex and smooth global objectives decomposed over local UAV cost functions and st...
Recent advancements in the field of communications and cryptology have attracted significant research efforts in studying randomness of bit sequences. Randomised bit sequences play a vital role in sensor applications by ensuring security (i.e., prote...
It is very challenging to design the capacity-approaching labeling schemes for large constellations, such as 32-QAM, in delayed bit-interleaved coded modulation (DBICM). In this paper, we investigate the labeling design for 32-QAM DBICM with various...
Steganography is the art and practice of communication using hidden messages. The least significant bits (LSB) based method is the well-known type of steganography in the spatial domain. Usually, achieving the larger embedding capacity in LSB-based m...
Drilling is one of the most commonly used techniques in hydrogeological exploration and is employed to obtain rock samples and create boreholes. During conventional drilling, it is necessary to raise all the drilling tools in the borehole when switch...
Traditional mechanical parts have been increasingly replaced by in-vehicle electronic control units (ECUs) that communicate via control area networks (CAN). For security reasons, the Database CAN (DBC) file, which defines the contents of CAN messages...
In this paper, we propose a bit depth compression (BDC) technique, which performs bit packing by dynamically determining the pack size based on the pattern of the bit depth level of the sensor data, thereby maximally reducing the space wastage that m...
Probabilistic computing is an emerging computational paradigm that uses probabilistic circuits to efficiently solve optimization problems such as invertible logic, where traditional digital computations are difficult to solve. This paper proposes a t...
We study the structural properties of networks formed by random sets of bit strings—namely the ordered arrays of binary variables representing, for instance, genetic information or cultural profiles. Two bit strings are connected by a network l...
The breakdown of the drill bit or rapid decrease of the rate of penetration during the drilling process results in a delay in the progress of drilling. Scientists and engineers are increasingly focusing on research to extend the bit life and improve...
Genome sequences of the monkeypox virus (MPXV) causing the current outbreak are being reported from an increasing number of countries. We present a letter-to-numerical sequence study via GenomeBits signal mapping in order to characterize the evolutio...
Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are challenging for conventional computers because their solution spaces grow exponentially. To reduce exhaustive-search burden, hardware approaches have explored stochastic traversal of energy landscapes, i...
Well structures with ultra-long sections have become one of the most applied technologies in the field of shale gas development. While there have been many technical challenges, enhancing the breaking efficiency and stability of polycrystalline diamo...
We propose a novel variant of the gradient descent bit-flipping (GDBF) algorithm for decoding low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the binary symmetric channel. The new bit-flipping rule is based on the reliability information passed from neigh...
To ensure the comfort of ridden horses, equipment including bridles and bits should be suitable and fit correctly. Horse owners employ a variety of equestrian professionals with varying degrees of responsibility regarding bridle and bit fit. This stu...
Drill bits are the main rock-breaking tools in the petroleum and gas industry. Their performance directly affects the quality, efficiency, and cost of drilling. Drill bit manufacturing mainly employs traditional mold forming processes such as milling...
Quantized neural networks (QNNs) are widely used to achieve computationally efficient solutions to recognition problems. Overall, eight-bit QNNs have almost the same accuracy as full-precision networks, but working several times faster. However, the...
A new multi−carrier orthogonal double bit rate differential chaotic shift keying (MC−ODBR−DCSK) communication system is presented in this paper. With two composite signals generated by an orthogonal chaotic signal generator as refer...
This paper deals with the development of a novel mesoscopic model of polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) drill bits that can be implemented in complex drill string models for simulations to analyse the influence of rock inhomogeneities or the impac...
The hard rock stratum will seriously affect the efficiency of deep-sea drilling and greatly increase the cost of drilling operations due to its complexity. In ocean drilling operations, the design of the bit is critical. Therefore, the core bit shoul...
With the broadband, noise-like, and non-periodic characteristics of chaotic signals, chaotic digital modulation schemes have received extensive attention. A new short reference orthogonal double bit rate differential chaotic shift keying (SR-ODBR-DCS...
Stick–slip vibration (SV) of drill string systems is the main cause of fatigue failure of PDC bits under complex drilling conditions. Exploring its mechanism is helpful for identifying the causes of bit failure and developing preventive measure...
To incur the memory interface and faster access of static RAM for near-threshold operation, a stable local bit-line static random-access memory (SRAM) architecture has been proposed along with the low-voltage pre-charged and negative local bit-line (...
In recent years, polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) drill bits have seen significant advancements. They have replaced over 90% of the workload traditionally handled by roller cone bits and have become the predominant choice in energy drilling due...
A roller bit is a drilling tool widely used in oil and gas exploitation. The roller bit is applied to cutting the rock stratum, and its working life and rotational speed are important factors affecting the drilling efficiency. Moreover, a bearing sea...
Due to the cloud coverage of remote-sensing images, the ground object information will be attenuated or even lost, and the texture and spectral information of the image will be changed at the same time. Accurately detecting clouds from remote-sensing...
As the machine learning-related technology has made great progress in recent years, deep neural networks are widely used in many scenarios, including security-critical ones, which may incura great loss when DNN is compromised. Starting from introduci...
Hard alloy end mills are commonly employed for milling zirconia prostheses in dentistry. Nano-diamond-coated milling bits ensure high processing efficiency, accuracy, extended tool life, and reduced processing costs. This study aims at comparing vari...
Bit-pattern matching is an important technological capability, used in many fields such as network intrusion detection (NID) and packet classification systems. Essentially, it involves the matching of an input bit pattern to a bit-pattern entry of a...
This paper focuses on the hardware components of smartphones, namely, the use of displays and cameras in mobile devices as transmitters and receivers to establish a near-field multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communication (V...
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