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25 December 2025

Driven by technological innovation, service diversification, and the evolution and defects of current networks, the 6th-generation (6G) network architecture is lacking in research. One of the challenges in this research is that the architectural desi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,607 Views
10 Pages

Distributed Architecture for Acquisition and Processing of Physiological Signals

  • Roberto Sánchez-Reolid,
  • Arturo S. García,
  • Miguel A. Vicente-Querol,
  • Beatriz García-Martinez and
  • Antonio Fernández-Caballero

The increase in the number of devices equipped with physiological sensors and their low price mean that they can be used in many fields. One of these fields is health-care and home-care for the elderly or people with disabilities. The development of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,890 Views
16 Pages

Modern robots often use more than one processing unit to solve the requirements in robotics. Robots are frequently designed in a modular manner to fulfill the possibility to be extended for future tasks. The use of multiple processing units leads to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,248 Views
20 Pages

Distributed Semantic Architecture for Smart Grids

  • Yoseba K. Penya,
  • Juan Carlos Nieves,
  • Angelina Espinoza,
  • Cruz E. Borges,
  • Aitor Peña and
  • Mariano Ortega

20 November 2012

The smart grid revolution demands a huge effort in redesigning and enhancing current power networks, as well as integrating emerging scenarios such as distributed generation, renewable energies or the electric vehicle. This novel situation will cause...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,916 Views
24 Pages

This paper proposes a general and interoperable Web of Things (WoT)-oriented architecture to support a distributed storage application. In particular, the focus is on a distributed ledger service dedicated to machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions occ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,415 Views
34 Pages

Distributed Sensor Architecture for Intelligent Control that Supports Quality of Control and Quality of Service

  • Jose-Luis Poza-Lujan,
  • Juan-Luis Posadas-Yagüe,
  • José-Enrique Simó-Ten,
  • Raúl Simarro and
  • Ginés Benet

25 February 2015

This paper is part of a study of intelligent architectures for distributed control and communications systems. The study focuses on optimizing control systems by evaluating the performance of middleware through quality of service (QoS) parameters and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,507 Views
33 Pages

Distributed Architecture for Unmanned Vehicle Services

  • João Ramos,
  • Roberto Ribeiro,
  • David Safadinho,
  • João Barroso,
  • Carlos Rabadão and
  • António Pereira

20 February 2021

The demand for online services is increasing. Services that would require a long time to understand, use and master are becoming as transparent as possible to the users, that tend to focus only on the final goals. Combined with the advantages of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,982 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2018

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are the complex systems that control and coordinate physical infrastructures, which may be geographically apart, via the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). One such application of CPS is smart microgri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,449 Views
21 Pages

A Distributed Big Data Analytics Architecture for Vehicle Sensor Data

  • Theodoros Alexakis,
  • Nikolaos Peppes,
  • Konstantinos Demestichas and
  • Evgenia Adamopoulou

29 December 2022

The unceasingly increasing needs for data acquisition, storage and analysis in transportation systems have led to the adoption of new technologies and methods in order to provide efficient and reliable solutions. Both highways and vehicles, nowadays,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,355 Views
16 Pages

A Software-Defined Distributed Architecture for Controlling Unmanned Swarm Systems

  • Xuyang An,
  • Xuewei Yu,
  • Weilong Song,
  • Le Han,
  • Tingting Yang,
  • Zhaodong Li and
  • Zhibao Su

5 September 2023

An unmanned swarm is usually composed of a group of homogeneous or heterogeneous hardware platforms, software control systems, and interfaces for human–computer interaction that operate collectively to achieve a specific goal by information int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,567 Views
18 Pages

Distributed Architecture to Integrate Sensor Information: Object Recognition for Smart Cities

  • Jose-Luis Poza-Lujan,
  • Juan-Luis Posadas-Yagüe,
  • José-Enrique Simó-Ten and
  • Francisco Blanes

23 December 2019

Object recognition, which can be used in processes such as reconstruction of the environment map or the intelligent navigation of vehicles, is a necessary task in smart city environments. In this paper, we propose an architecture that integrates hete...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,321 Views
10 Pages

Cyberattacks exploiting Universal Serial Bus (USB) interfaces may have a high impact on individual and corporate systems. The BadUSB is an attack where a USB device’s firmware is spoofed and, once mounted, allows attackers to execute a set of malicio...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
32 Citations
17,967 Views
19 Pages

An Open Distributed Architecture for Sensor Networks for Risk Management

  • John Douglas,
  • Thomas Usländer,
  • Gerald Schimak,
  • J. Fernando Esteban and
  • Ralf Denzer

13 March 2008

Sensors provide some of the basic input data for risk management of natural andman-made hazards. Here the word ‘sensors’ covers everything from remote sensingsatellites, providing invaluable images of large regions, through instruments installed on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,679 Views
15 Pages

The most profound requirements of fifth-generation (5G) technology implementations are the architecture design and the radio base station technology to capably run applications such as device-to-device, machine-to machine and internet of things at a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,149 Views
25 Pages

25 September 2020

Next generation cellular systems need efficient content-distribution schemes. Content-sharing via Device-to-Device (D2D) clustered networks has emerged as a popular approach for alleviating the burden on the cellular network. In this article, we util...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,818 Views
16 Pages

22 April 2021

As the amount of scientific information increases steadily, it is crucial to improve fast-reading comprehension. To grasp many scientific articles in a short period, artificial intelligence becomes essential. This paper aims to apply artificial intel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,160 Views
15 Pages

A Distributed Architecture for Secure Delegated Quantum Computation

  • Shuquan Ma,
  • Changhua Zhu,
  • Dongxiao Quan and
  • Min Nie

7 June 2022

In this paper, we propose a distributed secure delegated quantum computation protocol, by which an almost classical client can delegate a (dk)-qubit quantum circuit to d quantum servers, where each server is equipped with a 2k-qubit register that is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,215 Views
41 Pages

Imtidad: A Reference Architecture and a Case Study on Developing Distributed AI Services for Skin Disease Diagnosis over Cloud, Fog and Edge

  • Nourah Janbi,
  • Rashid Mehmood,
  • Iyad Katib,
  • Aiiad Albeshri,
  • Juan M. Corchado and
  • Tan Yigitcanlar

26 February 2022

Several factors are motivating the development of preventive, personalized, connected, virtual, and ubiquitous healthcare services. These factors include declining public health, increase in chronic diseases, an ageing population, rising healthcare c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,816 Views
24 Pages

Architectural heritage refers to buildings, complexes, and sites with historical, cultural, artistic, technological, and geographical values, including ancient buildings, historical buildings, places of interest, dwellings, and industrial sites. Chin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,990 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2021

This research focusing on the world architectural heritage sites registered in the World Heritage List established by UNESCO aimed to analyze its spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors at the world and regional level to provide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,974 Views
21 Pages

A Distributed RF Threat Sensing Architecture

  • Georgios Michalis,
  • Andreas Rousias,
  • Loizos Kanaris,
  • Akis Kokkinis ,
  • Pantelis Kanaris  and
  • Stavros Stavrou

26 November 2024

The scope of this work is to propose a distributed RF sensing architecture that interconnects and utilizes a cyber security operations center (SOC) to support long-term RF threat monitoring, alerting, and further centralized processing. For the purpo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,385 Views
22 Pages

6 December 2023

Southeastern Zhejiang boasts a large number of ancient architectural heritage sites and features, representing a rich cultural heritage. However, this region lacks a unified and effective planning system and coordination mechanism. Each county and ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,784 Views
24 Pages

26 May 2015

Indoor location-based services (iLBS) are extremely dynamic and changeable, and include numerous resources and mobile devices. In particular, the network infrastructure requires support for high scalability in the indoor environment, and various reso...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
13,419 Views
20 Pages

An Overview of Direct Current Distribution System Architectures & Benefits

  • Venkata Anand Prabhala,
  • Bhanu Prashant Baddipadiga,
  • Poria Fajri and
  • Mehdi Ferdowsi

17 September 2018

This paper examines existing and future direct current (DC) distribution systems with a wide range of applications in data centers, telecommunication systems, commercial buildings, residential homes, electric vehicles, spacecraft, and aircrafts. DC d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,297 Views
38 Pages

A Distributed Supervisor Architecture for a General Wafer Production System

  • Fotis N. Koumboulis,
  • Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis and
  • Panteleimon Georgakopoulos

7 May 2023

The current trend in the wafer production industry is to expand the production chain with more production stations, more buffers, and robots. The goal of the present paper is to develop a distributed control architecture to face this challenge by con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,097 Views
35 Pages

8 November 2023

After Buddhism spread to the Zhejiang, it underwent sinicization, giving rise to Chinese Buddhist architecture and forming a secularized character. The spatial-temporal distribution of historical Buddhist architecture in Zhejiang is strongly represen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
15,568 Views
34 Pages

1 June 2010

Both the IRIS-DNS System and the PORTAL-DOORS System share a common architectural style for pervasive metadata networks that operate as distributed metadata management systems with hierarchical authorities for entity registering and attribute publish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,995 Views
19 Pages

12 February 2025

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used for image classification; however, setting the appropriate hyperparameters before training is subjective and time consuming, and the search space is not properly explored. This paper presents a nov...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,741 Views
30 Pages

Analysis and Sizing of Power Distribution Architectures Applied to Fuel Cell Based Vehicles

  • Carmen Raga,
  • Andres Barrado,
  • Henry Miniguano,
  • Antonio Lazaro,
  • Isabel Quesada and
  • Alberto Martin-Lozano

29 September 2018

The fuel cell based vehicles powertrain is an extensive system that comprises a fuel cell (FC) as the primary energy source, a set of power converters both unidirectional and bidirectional and batteries or supercapacitors as secondary energy sources....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,188 Views
39 Pages

22 October 2025

The railway architectural heritage in Jilin Province, as a significant component of Northeast China’s modern railway network, demonstrates how construction techniques, cultural integration, and social transformation have evolved throughout diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,673 Views
23 Pages

11 June 2025

Quantum information transmission is subject to imperfections in communication processes and systems. These phenomena alter the original content due to decoherence and noise. However, suitable communication architectures incorporating quantum and clas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,286 Views
20 Pages

15 March 2024

This research analyzes the development and evolution of the Jinqin section of Peking–Mukden railway. Based on defining the scope of the study, the project to make “The List of Architectural Heritage of Jinqin section in Peking–Mukde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,263 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Communication Architectures for Distributed Smart Grid Applications

  • Jianhua Zhang,
  • Adarsh Hasandka,
  • Jin Wei,
  • S. M. Shafiul Alam,
  • Tarek Elgindy,
  • Anthony R. Florita and
  • Bri-Mathias Hodge

9 April 2018

Wired and wireless communications both play an important role in the blend of communications technologies necessary to enable future smart grid communications. Hybrid networks exploit independent mediums to extend network coverage and improve perform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,971 Views
14 Pages

A Cloud-Based Distributed Architecture to Accelerate Video Encoders

  • Juan Gutiérrez-Aguado,
  • Raúl Peña-Ortiz,
  • Miguel Garcia-Pineda and
  • Jose M. Claver

23 July 2020

Nowadays, video coding and transcoding have a great interest and important impact in areas such as high-definition video and entertainment, healthcare and elderly care, high-resolution video surveillance, self-driving cars, or e-learning. This growin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
23 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Distribution Patterns and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Ancient Architecture in the Yangtze River Basin

  • Chunjie Li,
  • Kexin Ren,
  • Xiao Xu,
  • Kaicong Kuang,
  • Huaxiang Yang and
  • Johnny F. I. Lam

10 December 2025

As a vital cradle of Chinese civilization, the Yangtze River Basin possesses a wealth of ancient architectural heritage that serves as a material record of civilizational evolution. This study takes 688 nationally protected ancient architectural site...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,483 Views
15 Pages

Design and Field Experimentation of a Cooperative ITS Architecture Based on Distributed RSUs

  • Asier Moreno,
  • Eneko Osaba,
  • Enrique Onieva,
  • Asier Perallos,
  • Giovanni Iovino and
  • Pablo Fernández

22 July 2016

This paper describes a new cooperative Intelligent Transportation System architecture that aims to enable collaborative sensing services. The main goal of this architecture is to improve transportation efficiency and performance. The system, which ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,917 Views
20 Pages

EDISON: An Edge-Native Method and Architecture for Distributed Interpolation

  • Lauri Lovén,
  • Tero Lähderanta,
  • Leena Ruha,
  • Ella Peltonen,
  • Ilkka Launonen,
  • Mikko J. Sillanpää,
  • Jukka Riekki and
  • Susanna Pirttikangas

24 March 2021

Spatio-temporal interpolation provides estimates of observations in unobserved locations and time slots. In smart cities, interpolation helps to provide a fine-grained contextual and situational understanding of the urban environment, in terms of bot...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,360 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2019

Drones are expected to operate autonomously, yet they will also interact with humans to solve tasks together. To support civilian human-drone teams, we propose a distributed architecture where sophisticated operations such as image recognition, coord...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,302 Views
23 Pages

17 July 2025

The Cao’e-Jiaojiang-Oujiang River Basin possesses abundant vernacular architectural heritage with significant historical–cultural value. However, challenges like dispersed distribution and inconsistent conservation hinder its systematic p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,609 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2023

The rebirth of educational architectural heritage plays an important role in the urban tourism economy, and studying the integration of educational heritage and tourism is of great significance and value. This article selects the educational heritage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,479 Views
29 Pages

A new class of fast Fourier transform (FFT) architecture, based on the use of distributed memories, is proposed for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Prominent features are high clock speeds, programmability, reduced look-up-table (LUT) and reg...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,192 Views
14 Pages

Architecture of Distributed Control System for Gearbox-Free More Electric Turbofan Engine

  • Viktor Popov,
  • Sergiy Yepifanov,
  • Yevhenii Kononykhyn and
  • Aleksandr Tsaglov

24 October 2021

This article presents the development of the electric turbofan engine in distributed architecture with a design thrust in the range of 3 to 7.5 and from 7.5 to 30 kN for small and medium-sized unmanned aerial vehicles. The engine subsystems are consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,975 Views
23 Pages

24 November 2022

The data economy is based on data and information sharing and tremendously impacts society as it facilitates innovative collaborations and decision-making strategies. Nonetheless, most dataset-sharing solutions rely on a centralized authority that ru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,053 Views
19 Pages

20 September 2023

Updating the most recent set of point cloud data is critical in autonomous driving environments. However, existing systems for point cloud data management often fail to ensure real-time updates or encounter situations in which data cannot be effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,029 Views
12 Pages

4 October 2025

Current medical informatics systems face critical challenges, including limited scalability across distributed institutions, insufficient real-time AI-driven decision support, and lack of standardized interoperability for heterogeneous medical data e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
584 Views
31 Pages

2 November 2025

As a form of living cultural heritage, local residential landscapes manifest the essence of long-term, resilient human–land interactions. The Wuling Corridor, a vital ethnic and cultural passage connecting the Central Plains with Southwest Chin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,741 Views
20 Pages

An Efficient 5G Data Plan Approach Based on Partially Distributed Mobility Architecture

  • Mohammad Al Shinwan,
  • Laith Abualigah,
  • Trong-Dinh Huy,
  • Ahmed Younes Shdefat,
  • Maryam Altalhi,
  • Chulsoo Kim,
  • Shaker El-Sappagh,
  • Mohamed Abd Elaziz and
  • Kyung Sup Kwak

4 January 2022

Reaching a flat network is the main target of future evolved packet core for the 5G mobile networks. The current 4th generation core network is centralized architecture, including Serving Gateway and Packet-data-network Gateway; both act as mobility...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,039 Views
24 Pages

Modern society is increasingly dependent on reliable performance of distributed systems. In this paper, we provide a precise definition of performance using the concept of quality attenuation; discuss its properties, measurement and decomposition; id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,847 Views
15 Pages

Distributed Deep Learning: From Single-Node to Multi-Node Architecture

  • Jean-Sébastien Lerat,
  • Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi and
  • Saïd Mahmoudi

During the last years, deep learning (DL) models have been used in several applications with large datasets and complex models. These applications require methods to train models faster, such as distributed deep learning (DDL). This paper proposes an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,569 Views
19 Pages

16 October 2021

The open platform communications unified architecture (OPC UA) is a major industry-standard middleware based on the request–reply pattern, and the data distribution service (DDS) is an industry standard in the publish–subscribe form. The OPC UA canno...

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