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Microwave line-of-sight radio relay (RR) systems are a constitutive part of a telecom operator transport network, as an alternative to optical transmission systems when the latter are not technically possible or rational to implement. Nowadays, RR li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Electronics: Advances in Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
186 Views
17 Pages

28 September 2026

Efficient stimulation of heterogeneous sandstone reservoirs requires a comprehensive understanding of cross-layer hydraulic-fracture propagation and its controlling mechanisms. Taking the Jurassic Lianggaoshan Formation in the Sichuan Basin as the ge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Fracturing Technology for Oil and Gas Reservoir Stimulation (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,553 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2017

In order to achieve and maintain a high quality factor (high-Q) for the micro resonant pressure sensor, this paper presents a new wafer level package by adopting cross-layer anodic bonding technique of the glass/silicon/silica (GSS) stackable structu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue MEMS and Nano-Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
447 Views
30 Pages

27 June 2026

Breakthrough innovation—central to industrial competitiveness and the ongoing clean-energy transition—remains persistently constrained by information homogenization and weak cross-domain integration in single-layer innovation networks. Te...

(This article belongs to the Section Complex Systems and Cybernetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
640 Views
22 Pages

Material Model Test Study on Multi-Layer Superimposed Coalbed Methane Production Layer Fracturing

  • Bo Wang,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Jiahao Wang,
  • Dawei Liu,
  • Hai Huang,
  • Ping Wang and
  • Liming Lin

13 April 2026

The lithology of multilayer superposed coal-measure reservoirs is highly interbedded, and the mechanical contrast between adjacent layers is significant, resulting in strong uncertainty in the initiation and propagation behavior of hydraulic fracture...

(This article belongs to the Section Petroleum and Low-Carbon Energy Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
573 Views
17 Pages

1 June 2026

This paper studies long-term value-driven scheduling in multi-layer industrial networks where useful external reward is released mainly at milestone transitions. The delayed feedback causes supervision degeneracy before milestones, because many traje...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,427 Views
20 Pages

In emerging Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the demand for higher communication performance and enhanced wireless connectivity is increasing fast. To address the issue, in our recent work, we proposed a dynamic programming algorithm with polynomial tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber-Physical Systems: Data Processing and Communication Architectures)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
940 Views
24 Pages

Latency in IOT-Enabled Digital Twin Systems for Smart Manufacturing: A Review of the Taxonomy and Measurement

  • Jorge Arturo Pinedo Gaucin,
  • Barbara Alexandra Anaya Sánchez,
  • Luis Asunción Pérez-Domínguez,
  • David Luviano-Cruz,
  • Roberto Romero López,
  • Nelly Rigaud Téllez,
  • Diana Ortiz-Muñoz and
  • Judith Gallegos Padilla

15 June 2026

The application of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to Digital Twin (DT) in smart manufacturing has opened significant opportunities for real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and closed-loop control; however, the inherent latency that exis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions in Smart Manufacturing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
833 Views
31 Pages

To address the challenge of balancing computational efficiency with fine-grained feature capture in complex field environments when using existing deep learning methods for tomato leaf disease detection, this paper proposes a novel lightweight classi...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,133 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2025

Vehicle re-identification (Re-ID) is a critical task in the fields of intelligent transportation and urban surveillance. This task faces numerous challenges, such as significant changes in shooting angles, strong similarities in appearance between di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
611 Views
21 Pages

Infrared and Visible Multi-Scale Pyramid Cross-Layer Fusion Algorithm Based on Thermal Extended Target Separation

  • An Liang,
  • Laixian Zhang,
  • Yingchun Li,
  • Hao Ding,
  • Haijing Zheng,
  • Rong Li and
  • Rui Zhu

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to synergistically combine the thermal target saliency of infrared images with the rich textual details of visible images. To address the limitations of traditional multi-scale methods in terms of target-backgro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Optical Imaging: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
513 Views
30 Pages

9 May 2026

In prestack seismic inversion for structurally complex areas, elastic parameters commonly show strong directional heterogeneity (layer-parallel continuity versus cross-layer discontinuities), so conventional structure-guided schemes based on isotropi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Formation Mechanism and Quantitative Evaluation of Deep and Ultra-Deep Effective Reservoirs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
646 Views
33 Pages

14 August 2026

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated central nervous system disease with mapped genetic risk loci but unresolved cross-layer regulatory mechanisms. We harmonised 30 primary public MS datasets spanning bulk transcriptomics (552 samples, 367 M...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Omics Approaches to Disentangle Pathomechanisms in Neurological Disease)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
764 Views
19 Pages

Hollow-core fiber (HCF) is often presented as an incrementally better transmission medium that can be slotted into networks designed around solid-core silica. We argue instead that recent progress—most visibly reported as attenuations below 0.1...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Specialty Optical Fibers: Emerging Designs, Functionalities, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,676 Views
16 Pages

In this paper, we propose a lightweight physical layer aided authentication and key agreement (PL-AKA) protocol in the Internet of Things (IoT). The conventional evolved packet system AKA (EPS-AKA) used in long-term evolution (LTE) systems may suffer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 14th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,878 Views
27 Pages

A Cross-Layer Approach to Analyzing Energy Consumption and Lifetime of a Wireless Sensor Node

  • Fernando Ojeda,
  • Diego Mendez,
  • Arturo Fajardo,
  • Maximilian Gottfried Becker and
  • Frank Ellinger

Several wireless communication technologies, including Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), are essential for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. WSNs employ a layered framework to govern data exchanges between sender and recipient, which facilitates...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications and Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,546 Views
23 Pages

Insulator Surface Defect Detection Method Based on Graph Feature Diffusion Distillation

  • Shucai Li,
  • Na Zhang,
  • Gang Yang,
  • Yannong Hou and
  • Xingzhong Zhang

Aiming at the difficulties of scarcity of defect samples on the surface of power insulators, irregular morphology and insufficient pixel-level localization accuracy, this paper proposes a defect detection method based on graph feature diffusion disti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Self-Supervised Learning for Image Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,259 Views
29 Pages

Background/Objectives—Traditional forensic investigations often analyze digital, physical, and criminological evidence separately, leading to fragmented timelines and reduced accuracy in reconstructing complex events. To address these gaps, thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Forensic Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,414 Views
41 Pages

Electric motors consume over 45% of global electricity and are a primary source of unplanned industrial downtime. Real-time fault detection at scale faces severe constraints, including distributed topologies, intermittent connectivity, and strict ene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design of Low-Voltage and Low-Power Integrated Circuits, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
511 Views
26 Pages

24 June 2026

Global container liner shipping networks (GCLSNs) underpin world trade, yet their organization is increasingly reshaped by geopolitical fragmentation. Existing studies often model GCLSNs as single-layer networks, overlooking how carriers’ geopo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity of Social Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,852 Views
15 Pages

Optimization and Application of Water Injection Process in Gas-Bearing Coal Seam

  • Xiaolu Lin,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Ning Geng,
  • Peng Hu and
  • Qingbo Gu

19 October 2023

Coal seam pre-drainage technology is widely used to prevent and control gas in China’s high-gas coal seams, and upward drilling is a safe and reliable technology. Using the Luling Coal Mine as the study location, according to the actual situati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
276 Views
33 Pages

28 September 2026

Global value chains can diversify risk, but they can also transmit production disruptions and financial losses across interconnected economies. This study examines whether trade–finance coupling amplifies systemic loss relative to a trade-only...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk-Taking, Risk Sharing, and Systemic Risk in Financial Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,375 Views
26 Pages

26 August 2024

Extreme learning machines (ELMs), single hidden-layer feedforward neural networks, are renowned for their speed and efficiency in classification and regression tasks. However, their generalization ability is often undermined by the random generation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,085 Views
17 Pages

8 October 2024

Laser Hot Wire (LHW) Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes are capable of manufacturing parts with a high deposition rate. There is a growing research interest in replacing large cast Nickel Aluminum Bronze (NAB) comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Laser Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,665 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Grain Orientation on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of FeCoCrNi High-Entropy Alloy Produced via Laser Melting Deposition

  • Fuyu Ge,
  • Shuai Liu,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Mengdie Shan,
  • Cheng Peng,
  • Fanghui Jia,
  • Jian Han and
  • Yangchuan Cai

31 August 2023

The long, straight grain boundary of the high-entropy alloy (HEA) produced via laser melting deposition (LMD) is prone to cracking due to unidirectional scanning (single wall). To enhance the competitive growth of columnar grains and improve the over...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloys: Recent Advances and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,191 Views
12 Pages

19 March 2021

Pinus massoniana is a pioneer reforestation tree species in China. It is crucial to evaluate the seedling vigor of Pinus massoniana for reforestation work, and leaf moisture and nitrogen content are key factors used to achieve it. In this paper, we p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
26 Pages

20 September 2026

With the booming of cross-border live streaming e-commerce, this study examined the influence mechanism of cross-border live streaming interactions on consumers’ impulsive purchase intention based on the timulus–organism–response (S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
509 Views
18 Pages

7 July 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based small object detection is a challenging computer vision task. It is constrained by two primary factors: UAV platforms have limited onboard computational resources, and high-altitude objects often have weak features...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV))
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  • Open Access
89 Citations
11,165 Views
17 Pages

Identification Method of Corn Leaf Disease Based on Improved Mobilenetv3 Model

  • Chunguang Bi,
  • Suzhen Xu,
  • Nan Hu,
  • Shuo Zhang,
  • Zhenyi Zhu and
  • Helong Yu

18 January 2023

Corn is one of the main food crops in China, and its area ranks in the top three in the world. However, the corn leaf disease has seriously affected the yield and quality of corn. To quickly and accurately identify corn leaf diseases, taking timely a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision for Intelligent Crop Identification and Crop Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,203 Views
14 Pages

7 January 2022

With the increasing availability of fast-growing Eucalyptus plantation logs in Australia in recent years, the timber manufacturing sector has become interested in discovering the opportunities of producing value-added timber products from this resour...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
258 Views
21 Pages

An Open SCADA-Based Supervisory Architecture for an Experimental Reverse Osmosis System: Development and Functional Validation

  • Daniel Antonio Oliveira Santana,
  • Ruben Barros Godoy,
  • Tiago Henrique de Abreu Mateus and
  • Keila Roberta Ferreira de Oliveira

24 September 2026

Recent studies demonstrate growing interest in supervisory systems based on open architectures, but existing implementations report fragmented combinations of functions and validation evidence. This study developed and functionally validated an open...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,014 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2025

The colonoscopy procedure heavily relies on the operator’s expertise, underscoring the importance of automated polyp segmentation techniques in enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of colorectal cancer diagnosis. Nevertheless, achieving precis...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
887 Views
27 Pages

RCAF-Net: Wildlife Target Detection in Complex Forest Scenarios

  • Xiuling Yu,
  • Chenxiao Qu,
  • Yifu Xu,
  • Senyue Guo,
  • Lili Fu and
  • Yang Zhou

12 May 2026

This study focuses on wildlife target detection in complex forest environments in Northeast China, where monitoring images are often affected by background interference, frequent occlusion, and large target scale variation. In addition, distant anima...

(This article belongs to the Section Wildlife)
  • Article
  • Open Access
671 Views
26 Pages

12 March 2026

Background: Dense cross-layer connectivity can shorten gradient paths and promote feature reuse, potentially improving optimization under fixed training budgets. Objective: We test whether concatenation-based dense historical connectivity improves de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Applications of Large Language Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
20 Pages

17 June 2026

Scheduling in multi-layer industrial networks must remain stable even when the feedback mechanism of the environment changes inside a single production episode. The system can switch between a step-continuous regime with dense process feedback and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,211 Views
23 Pages

19 December 2022

At present, ResNet and DenseNet have achieved significant performance gains in the field of finger-vein biometric recognition, which is partially attributed to the dominant design of cross-layer skip connection. In this manner, features from multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
536 Views
17 Pages

CellSwarm-AD: A Multi-Scale Agent-Based Framework for Virtual Alzheimer’s Disease Trials

  • Chun-Lin Tan,
  • Xiang-Mei Zheng,
  • Yun-Fei Zhu,
  • Quan-Quan Xiong,
  • Han Li and
  • Xuan-Lin Meng

Computational models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) rarely connect cellular heterogeneity, spatial tissue organization, pathology cascades, and pharmacological intervention within one auditable workflow. We present CellSwarm-AD, a four-layer frame...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
258 Views
35 Pages

16 September 2026

Behavioral malware analysis relies on dynamic-analysis logs—sequences of Windows API calls recorded by sandboxes such as CAPEv2—assumed to represent the malware’s effects faithfully. To the best of our knowledge, this assumption has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Security, Data Preservation and Digital Forensics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
403 Views
14 Pages

Research on Target Detection Algorithms for AGV Under Adverse Weather Conditions

  • Huanwu Zhan,
  • Shuwan Cui,
  • Shibing Cai,
  • Tao Wei and
  • Yilong Li

With the rapid development of intelligent manufacturing and smart logistics, object detection has become increasingly important in automated transportation systems, including automated guided vehicles (AGVs), warehouses, production workshops, and dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
569 Views
27 Pages

7 September 2026

As financial institutions become increasingly reliant on similar foundational AI models, cloud infrastructure, data providers, and AI middleware platforms, diverse firms may begin to interpret and respond to market signals in increasingly similar way...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of AI in Business, Finance and Accounting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
228 Views
23 Pages

13 September 2026

Compiler security instrumentation is portable only when the compiler, application binary interface, runtime, loader, operating system, and hardware preserve the same security contract. We present Evidence-Carrying Portability Contracts (ECPC), a mach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Privacy and Security, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
313 Views
22 Pages

9 September 2026

To address storage, computational, and latency constraints in cotton-field robots and variable-rate spraying, this study proposes CQ-RT-DETR with a two-stage design of structural compression and training-time query calibration. First, the hidden dime...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
563 Views
54 Pages

Risk-Driven Cross-Layer Resilience Architecture for UAV Swarms Under Extreme Wind Disturbances

  • Songlin Liu,
  • Xinyu Zhu,
  • Tingyu Zhu,
  • Yuehao Yan,
  • Rui Hao and
  • Yuanfan Wang

3 July 2026

Typhoon-eye sensing places unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in a setting where the wind field that carries the target signal also displaces aircraft, drains energy, weakens links, and increases failure risk. A rule that improves only routing or o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
542 Views
35 Pages

2 July 2026

This paper addresses the challenge of integrated optimization for storage space allocation and crane scheduling in Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RSs) under the complex constraints of dual I/O ports and Shared Storage strategies. The sch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things, Big Data and Smart Systems II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
322 Views
32 Pages

26 August 2026

Accurate and efficient rice pest detection is paramount for ensuring food security and enhancing agricultural production efficiency. Traditional manual pest monitoring methods fall short of meeting the precision and efficiency demands of modern agric...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,707 Views
18 Pages

A Multi-Scale Cross-Layer Fusion Method for Robotic Grasping Detection

  • Chengxuan Huang,
  • Jing Xu,
  • Xinyu Cai and
  • Shiying Shen

Measurement of grasp configurations (position, orientation, and width) in unstructured environments is critical for robotic systems. Accurate and robust prediction relies on rich multi-scale object representations; however, detail loss and fusion con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Robotics Technologies and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,818 Views
24 Pages

An Enhanced Naked Mole Rat Algorithm for Optimal Cross-Layer Solution for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

  • Pratap Singh,
  • Rishi Pal Singh,
  • Yudhvir Singh,
  • Jana Shafi and
  • Muhammad Fazal Ijaz

18 November 2021

Nature-inspired algorithms serve as the backbone of modern computing technology, and over the past three decades, the field has grown enormously. Many applications were solved by such algorithms and are replacing the traditional classical optimizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
641 Views
25 Pages

8 July 2026

Inverter-dominated microgrids are highly vulnerable to stealthy cyber–physical drift attacks, low-amplitude, slowly varying perturbations that bypass conventional statistical filters to induce voltage degradation and delayed collapse. This pape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensing, Innovative Analysis and Optimal Operation of Distribution Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,624 Views
25 Pages

EDWNet: A Novel Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Water Body Extraction from Optical Images

  • Tianyi Zhang,
  • Wenbo Ji,
  • Weibin Li,
  • Chenhao Qin,
  • Tianhao Wang,
  • Yi Ren,
  • Yuan Fang,
  • Zhixiong Han and
  • Licheng Jiao

16 November 2024

Automated water body (WB) extraction is one of the hot research topics in the field of remote sensing image processing. To address the challenges of over-extraction and incomplete extraction in complex water scenes, we propose an encoder–decode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
334 Views
16 Pages

Biochar-Associated Shifts in Nitrogen Status, Microbial Communities and Dissolved Organic Matter in Salt-Affected Maize Soil

  • Rui Li,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Yu Miao,
  • Fangze Li,
  • Ge Zhang,
  • Qiwei Sun,
  • Tianci Hua,
  • Zhikun Pang and
  • Xingjie Lin

Salt-affected soil constrains maize establishment, and rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere responses to soil biochar remain difficult to establish. We evaluated soil physical and nitrogen properties, qPCR marker genes, 16S and ITS communities, and molecu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Soil Microbial Ecology, 4th Edition)

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