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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We discuss chaos and its quality as measured through the 0-1 test for chaos. When the 0-1 test indicates deteriorating quality of chaos, because of the finite precision representations of real numbers in digital implementations, then the process may...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A traditional successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm produces error propagation in the decoding process. In order to improve the SC decoding performance, it is important to solve the error propagation. In this paper, we propose a new algorit...
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...
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...
Research on drilling response characteristics of two-wing polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bit in different rocks is an important way to further understand the mechanism of rock-breaking, improve drilling efficiency, and identify the rock format...
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...
Many factors affect screw withdrawal resistance (SWR), including screw size, embedment depth, the pre-drilled hole’s diameter, dimensional accuracy, and the furniture pieces’ material properties being joined. While prior research has exte...
We propose an entanglement-based quantum bit string commitment protocol whose composability is proven in the random oracle model. This protocol has the additional property of preserving the privacy of the committed message. Even though this property...
Joint angle and frequency estimation is an important branch in array signal processing with numerous applications in radar, sonar, wireless communications, etc. Extensive attention has been paid and numerous algorithms have been developed. However, e...
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...
Neural networks (NNs) are increasingly used in embedded systems driven by artificial intelligence (AI) features. Such systems are now developed for many critical applications with strong dependability constraints and trustworthiness requirements. The...
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...
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...
In this paper, a mobile robot motion planning method with modified BIT* (batch informed trees) and MPC (Model Predictive Control) is presented. The conventional BIT* was modified here by integrating a stretch method that improves the path points conn...
Omnidirectional images have gained significant popularity and drawn great attention nowadays, which poses challenges to omnidirectional image processing in solving the bottleneck of storage and transmission. Projecting onto a two-dimensional image pl...
This paper proposes a different approach to pinpoint the causes for which an unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment protocol cannot be realized, beyond the technical details on which the proof of Mayers’ no-go theorem is constructed. We have a...
Image security is a hot topic in the era of Internet and big data. Hyperchaotic image encryption, which can effectively prevent unauthorized users from accessing image content, has become more and more popular in the community of image security. In g...
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...
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...
In this paper, a 3-bit circularly polarized reconfigurable reflectarray is proposed. The array consists of 64 units in an 8 × 8 configuration, with each unit containing a circular metal patch loaded with phase-delay lines and eight PIN diodes....
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...
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