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  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,906 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2018

As an auxiliary facility, roadside units (RSUs) can well improve the shortcomings incurred by ad hoc networks and promote network performance in a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). However, deploying a large number of RSUs will lead to high installat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,419 Views
31 Pages

27 November 2014

In vehicular ad hoc networks, roadside units (RSUs) placement has been proposed to improve the the overall network performance in many ITS applications. This paper addresses the budget constrained and delay-bounded placement problem (BCDP) for roadsi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,568 Views
20 Pages

Delay Bounded Multi-Source Multicast in Software-Defined Networking

  • Thabo Semong,
  • Kun Xie,
  • Xuhui Zhou,
  • Hemant Kumar Singh and
  • Zhetao Li

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is the next generation network architecture with exciting application prospects. The control function in SDN is decoupled from the data forwarding plane, hence it provides a new centralized architecture with flexible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,124 Views
14 Pages

10 August 2023

In the present work, an initial boundary value problem (IBVP) for the semi-linear delay differential equation in a Banach space with unbounded positive operators is studied. The main theorem on the uniqueness and existence of a bounded solution (BS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
942 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2025

This paper focuses on a class of fractional-order systems with state delays and studies the design problem of the finite-time bounded tracking controller. The error system method in preview control theory is first used. By taking fractional-order der...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,797 Views
14 Pages

Delay Bound Optimization in NoC Using a Discrete Firefly Algorithm

  • Gaoming Du,
  • Chao Tian,
  • Zhenmin Li,
  • Duoli Zhang,
  • Chuan Zhang,
  • Xiaolei Wang and
  • Yongsheng Yin

9 December 2019

The delay bound in system on chips (SoC) represents the worst-case traverse time of on-chip communication. In network on chip (NoC)-based SoC, optimizing the delay bound is challenging due to two aspects: (1) the delay bound is hard to obtain by trad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,605 Views
12 Pages

16 March 2020

In this paper, we consider evolutionary games and construct a model of replicator dynamics with bounded continuously distributed time delay. In many circumstances, players interact simultaneously while impacts of their choices take place after some t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,742 Views
17 Pages

Bounding the Upper Delays of the Tactile Internet Using Deterministic Network Calculus

  • Qian Wang,
  • Ziying Mo,
  • Benle Yin,
  • Lianming Zhang and
  • Pingping Dong

With the increasing popularity of time-sensitive network applications and the gradual integration of the Tactile Internet into people’s lives, how to ensure ultra-low latency has become a demand and challenge for network performance. Therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,620 Views
38 Pages

2 December 2019

In this paper, we study the initial value problem for a semilinear delay hyperbolic equation in Hilbert spaces with a self-adjoint positive definite operator. The mean theorem on the existence and uniqueness of a bounded solution of this differential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,795 Views
21 Pages

25 July 2020

This paper investigates the ultimately bounded filtering problem for a kind of time-delay nonlinear stochastic systems with random access protocol (RAP) and uniform quantization effects (UQEs). In order to reduce the occurrence of data conflicts, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,878 Views
15 Pages

26 December 2021

1-regularization methodologies have appeared recently in many pattern recognition and image processing tasks frequently connected to 1-optimization in the control theory. We consider the problem of optimal stabilizing controller synthes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
461 Views
19 Pages

This paper investigates the fixed-time synchronization of fractional-order proportional delay Hopfield neural networks (PDHNNs) with bounded parameter uncertainties. Unlike constant delay and bounded variable delay, proportional delay has time-varyin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,407 Views
21 Pages

Since sensor nodes usually have a large duty cycle interval to prolong network lifetime, duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can suffer from a long end-to-end (E2E) delay. Because delay-sensitive applications have a certain E2E delay requirem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,761 Views
15 Pages

5 October 2021

This paper considers the problem of stabilizing switched time-delay linear systems through a state-dependent switching strategy. In contrast to the existing works, we adopt a less restrictive assumption of the system, and show that this assumption is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,122 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2022

Rural preferential loans usually take the form of portfolio credits. From the perspective of public interest, the total delay time for obtaining loans is expected to be minimized. To use rural portfolio credits effectively, the two-dimensional strip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,645 Views
23 Pages

8 September 2020

Since time-delay, Doppler effect and phase estimation are fundamental tasks in a plethora of engineering fields, tractable lower performance bounds for this problem are key tools of broad interest for a large variety of remote sensing applications. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,122 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2025

This paper focuses on the quasi-sure exponential stability of the stochastic differential delay equation driven by G-Brownian motion (SDDE-GBM): dξ(t)=f(t,ξ(tκ1(t)))dt+g(t,ξ(tκ2(t)))dZ(t), where κ1(·),&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,473 Views
22 Pages

27 April 2015

In this paper, the stabilization problem in switched linear systems with time-varying delay under constrained state and control is investigated. The synthesis of bounded state-feedback controllers with memory ensures that a closed-loop state is posit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,599 Views
12 Pages

Exact Solutions and Continuous Numerical Approximations of Coupled Systems of Diffusion Equations with Delay

  • Elia Reyes,
  • M. Ángeles Castro,
  • Antonio Sirvent and
  • Francisco Rodríguez

21 September 2020

In this work, we obtain exact solutions and continuous numerical approximations for mixed problems of coupled systems of diffusion equations with delay. Using the method of separation of variables, and based on an explicit expression for the solution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,389 Views
23 Pages

Joint Delay-Doppler Estimation Performance in a Dual Source Context

  • Corentin Lubeigt,
  • Lorenzo Ortega,
  • Jordi Vilà-Valls,
  • Laurent Lestarquit and
  • Eric Chaumette

27 November 2020

Evaluating the time-delay, Doppler effect and carrier phase of a received signal is a challenging estimation problem that was addressed in a large variety of remote sensing applications. This problem becomes more difficult and less understood when th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,510 Views
18 Pages

Photon Phase Delay Sensing with Sub-Attosecond Uncertainty

  • Fabrizio Sgobba,
  • Andrea Andrisani and
  • Luigi Santamaria Amato

29 March 2024

The application of statistical estimation theory to Hong–Ou–Mandel interferometry led to enticing results in terms of the detection limit for photon reciprocal delay and polarisation measurement. In the following paper, a fully fibre-coup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,522 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2024

The Cohen–Grossberg neural network is studied in the case when the dynamics of the neurons is modeled by a Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative with respect to another function and an appropriate initial condition is set up. Some inequ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,965 Views
18 Pages

Emerging applications such as industrial automation, in-vehicle, professional audio-video, and wide area electrical utility networks require strict bounds on the end-to-end network delay. Solutions so far to such a requirement are either impractical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,496 Views
17 Pages

5 January 2016

Many applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require energy consumption to be minimized and the data delivered to the sink within a specific delay. A usual solution for reducing energy consumption is duty cycling, in which nodes periodically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,323 Views
19 Pages

1 October 2024

This paper investigates robust H-based control for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems under time-varying delay, model uncertainties, and cyber-attacks. Sensor and actuator cyber-attacks can cause faults in the overall AUV system. In a...

  • Article
  • Open Access

The Interplay Between Non-Instantaneous Dynamics of mRNA and Bounded Extrinsic Stochastic Perturbations for a Self-Enhancing Transcription Factor

  • Lorenzo Cabriel,
  • Giulio Caravagna,
  • Sebastiano de Franciscis,
  • Fabio Anselmi and
  • Alberto D’Onofrio

19 February 2026

In this work, we consider a simple bistable motif constituted by a self-enhancing Transcription Factor (TF) and its mRNA with non-instantaneous dynamics. In particular, we mainly numerically investigated the impact of bounded stochastic perturbations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,980 Views
15 Pages

27 May 2022

Practical stability properties of generalized proportional Caputo fractional differential equations with bounded delay are studied in this paper. Two types of stability, practical stability and exponential practical stability, are defined and conside...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,487 Views
23 Pages

Matching SDN and Legacy Networking Hardware for Energy Efficiency and Bounded Delay

  • Pablo  Fondo-Ferreiro,
  • Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez,
  • Manuel  Fernández-Veiga and
  • Sergio  Herrería-Alonso

13 November 2018

Both economic and environmental costs are driving much research in the area of the energy efficiency of networking equipment. This research has produced a great amount of proposals. However, the majority of them remain unimplemented due to the lack o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,896 Views
23 Pages

In the present work, the numerical solution of fractional delay integro-differential equations (FDIDEs) with weakly singular kernels is addressed by designing a Vieta–Fibonacci collocation method. These equations play immense roles in scientifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,628 Views
21 Pages

Performance Limits of GNSS Code-Based Precise Positioning: GPS, Galileo & Meta-Signals

  • Priyanka Das,
  • Lorenzo Ortega,
  • Jordi Vilà-Valls,
  • François Vincent,
  • Eric Chaumette and
  • Loïc Davain

13 April 2020

This contribution analyzes the fundamental performance limits of traditional two-step Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver architectures, which are directly linked to the achievable time-delay estimation performance. In turn, this is re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,357 Views
23 Pages

8 October 2023

The μsynchronization issues of non-dissipative coupled networks with bounded disturbances and mixed delays are studied in this article. Different from existing works, three kinds of time delays, including internal delays, coupling delays, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,008 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2022

The distance between successive zeros of all solutions of first-order differential equations with several delays is studied in this work. Many new estimations for the upper bound of the distance between zeros are obtained. Our results improve many-we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
577 Views
24 Pages

23 February 2025

Since the research of μ-synchronization helps to explore how complex networks (CNs) work together to produce complex behaviors, the μ-synchronization task for uncertain time-delayed CNs is studied in our work. Especially, bounded external pertu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,853 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2019

Multi-group scanning of ultrasonic phased arrays (UPAs) is a research field in distributed sensor technology. Interpolation filters intended for fine delay modules can provide high-accuracy time delays during the multi-group scanning of large-number-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,248 Views
19 Pages

10 January 2025

The asymptotic behavior of solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations is an important tool for studying their long-term behavior. However, when studying the asymptotic behavior of solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,048 Views
13 Pages

28 December 2024

This paper studies the estimation of reachable sets for discrete-time singular systems with time-varying delays and bounded peak inputs. A novel linear matrix inequality condition for the reachable set estimation of the time-varying time-delay discre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,877 Views
29 Pages

Evaluation of the Use of Compressed Sensing in Data Harvesting for Vehicular Sensor Networks

  • Juan Antonio Martinez,
  • Pedro Miguel Ruiz and
  • Antonio F. Skarmeta

6 March 2020

We propose a new harvesting approach for Vehicular Sensor Networks based on compressed sensing (CS) technology called Compressed Sensing-based Vehicular Data Harvesting (CS-VDH). This compression technology allows for the reduction of the information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,471 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2021

The emerging sixth-generation networks have to provide effective support to a wide plethora of novel disruptive heterogeneous applications. This paper models the probabilistic end-to-end delay bound for the virtual reality services in the presence of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
19 Pages

This paper concentrates on fractional-order fuzzy cellular neural networks (FOFCNNs) with bounded uncertainties and transmission delays. To better capture real-world dynamic behaviors, the fuzzy AND and OR operators are employed to construct drive-re...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,950 Views
27 Pages

Positioning Performance Limits of GNSS Meta-Signals and HO-BOC Signals

  • Lorenzo Ortega,
  • Daniel Medina,
  • Jordi Vilà-Valls,
  • François Vincent and
  • Eric Chaumette

25 June 2020

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are the main source of position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information and will be a key player in the next-generation intelligent transportation systems and safety-critical applications, but several limi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,708 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2018

Game-theoretic models are a convenient tool to systematically analyze competitive situations. This makes them particularly handy in the field of security where a company or a critical infrastructure wants to defend against an attacker. When the optim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,159 Views
15 Pages

16 June 2023

The long-term behavior of the weak solution of a fractional delayed reaction–diffusion equation with a generalized Caputo derivative is investigated. By using the classic Galerkin approximation method and comparison principal, the existence and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,808 Views
25 Pages

23 August 2017

Energy harvesting, which offers a never-ending energy supply, has emerged as a prominent technology to prolong the lifetime and reduce costs for the battery-powered wireless sensor networks. However, how to improve the energy efficiency while guarant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,689 Views
15 Pages

Next-generation networks are expected to handle a wide variety of internet of everything (IoE) services, notably including virtual reality (VR) for smart industrial-oriented applications. VR for industrial environments subtends strict quality of serv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,953 Views
12 Pages

25 September 2021

This paper constructs and analyzes a time-discrete macro traffic system with bounded variable delay and feedback control strategy. By theoretical analysis using the Lyapunov theorem, a stable condition of the macro traffic system is derived under whi...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,981 Views
11 Pages

The key to the asynchronous traffic shaping (ATS) technology being standardized in IEEE 802.1 time sensitive network (TSN) task group (TG) is the theorem that a minimal interleaved regulator (IR), attached to a FIFO system does not increase delay upp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,314 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2017

The paper contributes to stabilization problems of linear systems subject to time-varying delays. Drawing upon small gain criteria and robust analysis techniques, upper and lower bounds on the largest allowable time-varying delay are developed by usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,011 Views
26 Pages

Finite-Time Passivity Analysis of Neutral-Type Neural Networks with Mixed Time-Varying Delays

  • Issaraporn Khonchaiyaphum,
  • Nayika Samorn,
  • Thongchai Botmart and
  • Kanit Mukdasai

20 December 2021

This research study investigates the issue of finite-time passivity analysis of neutral-type neural networks with mixed time-varying delays. The time-varying delays are distributed, discrete and neutral in that the upper bounds for the delays are ava...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,441 Views
14 Pages

23 May 2024

This paper investigates the stability issues of time-varying delay systems. Firstly, a novel augmented Lyapunov functional is constructed for a class of bounded time-varying delays by introducing new double integral terms. Subsequently, a time-varyin...

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