Platooning strategy is an important component of autonomous driving technology. Autonomous vehicles in platoons are often equipped with a variety of on-board sensors to detect the surrounding environment. The abundant data collected by autonomous veh...
The large propagation delay in underwater acoustic networks results in spatial and temporal uncertainty between communication links. This uncertainty, in turn, leads to problems with spatial unfairness and packet collision in media access control (MA...
Aiming at the resource allocation problem of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, a fairness index based on sample variance of users’ transmission rates is proposed, which has a fixed range and high sensitivity. Based on the proposed...
Compared with other fossil energy sources, natural gas is characterized by compressibility, low energy density, high storage costs, and imbalanced usage. Natural gas pipeline supply systems possess unique attributes such as closed transportation and...
Objective: Barriers to healthcare accessibility and individuals’ perceived fairness of medical services are crucial indicators for evaluating the performance of a health system. An in-depth analysis of the statistical associations among these f...
Vast amounts of clinical and biomedical research data are produced daily. These data can help enable data driven healthcare through novel biomedical discoveries, improved diagnostics processes, epidemiology, and education. However, finding, and gaini...
Recently, wireless body area networks (WBANs) have attracted significant consideration in ubiquitous healthcare. A number of medium access control (MAC) protocols, primarily derived from the superframe structure of the IEEE 802.15.4, have been propos...
Feeding a growing global population requires improving agricultural production in the face of multidimensional challenges; and digital agriculture is increasingly seen as a strategy for better decision making. Agriculture and agricultural supply chai...
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area (QTP) is the most unique environmental-population region and an important natural laboratory for the study of human-land relations. The poor transportation conditions have long restricted socio-economic development. The...
In this paper, a joint non-orthogonal multiple access and time division multiple access (NOMA-TDMA) scheme is proposed in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which allowed multiple sensors to transmit in the same time-frequency resource block using...
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a key enabler for 6G networks due to its efficient spectrum utilization, which is garnering significant attention among the Internet of Things (IoT) community. This paper investigates the benefits of the impro...
The Mediterranean Sea is an almost completely closed basin connecting several countries. Its configuration leads to its peculiarity and richness, but the intensive activities within the basin and along the coast aggravate the ecological conditions. T...
Sharing data along the economic supply/demand chain represents a catalyst to improve the performance of a digitized business sector. In this context, designing automatic mechanisms for structured data exchange, that should also ensure the proper deve...
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance spectral efficiency and coverage in fifth- and sixth-generation wireless networks. However, asymmetric indoor prop...
In order to comprehensively improve the performance of edge users in heterogeneous cellular networks and the fairness of network users, a downlink interference coordination optimization strategy in heterogeneous cellular networks with non-orthogonal...
A cybersecurity approach for a large-scale user facility is presented—utilizing the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Florida State University (FSU) as an example. The NHMFL provides access to the highest magnetic fields for sc...
Fully decoupled radio access networks (FD-RANs) achieve spectral efficiency and coverage flexibility for 6G via independent uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) base station operation, yet dynamic user mobility brings critical challenges to joint user assoc...
8 December 2019
Lake reclamation for urban construction has caused serious damage to lakes in cities undergoing rapid urbanization. This process affects urban ecological environment and leads to inconsistent urban expansion, population surge, and uneven distribution...
Underwater acoustic channels are characterized by long propagation delay, limited available bandwidth and high energy costs. These unique characteristics bring challenges to design media access control (MAC) protocol for underwater acoustic sensor ne...
Nowadays, the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) has been widely used for Internet access services around the world. Then, the unfairness or insufficiency in meeting the throughput request can appear among concurrently communicating hosts...
The consolidation and closure of small schools in rural areas has not only worsened the educational environment but also risked accelerating the socioeconomic decline of rural communities. This study examines how elementary school closures affect edu...
Wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) provide a sustainable solution for energy-constrained IoT devices by enabling wireless energy transfer (WET) in the downlink and wireless information transmission (WIT) in the uplink. However, their per...
In airborne sensor networks (ASNs), the media access control (MAC) protocol faces a serious unfairness problem due to the traditional protection mechanism of air-to-air communications among aircraft. Actually, by using the binary exponential back-off...
Resource allocation that is both energy-efficient and fair remains a persistent challenge in 5G, beyond-5G, and emerging 6G networks, where users with heterogeneous service requirements compete for limited radio resources. Although rate-splitting mul...
Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), which is widely used in the wireless sensor networks, allows different users to obtain different subcarriers according to their subchannel gains. Therefore, how to assign subcarriers and power to...
This paper considers a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink network, where a hybrid of NOMA and beamforming designs is developed to enhance the channel capacity. We aim to improve the system performance in terms of rate fairness and power c...
We consider a robust design problem for achieving max-min fairness amongst users in an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access system under imperfect channel state information. Contrary to the conventional approach adopted in the literature, we propose...
In the tradition of legal writing about landmark intellectual property cases, this paper provides an in-depth case study and analysis of an important copyright conflict during the COVID-19 crisis. The Internet Archive established the National Emergen...
Recently significant initiatives have been launched for the dissemination of Open Access as part of the Open Science movement. Nevertheless, two other major pillars of Open Science such as Open Research Data (ORD) and Open Peer Review (OPR) are still...
The visual fidelity of a virtual environment lacks the exceedingly complex layers from the physical world, but the continuous improvements of image rendering technology and computation powers have led to greater demands for virtual simulations. Our s...
This paper explores the conditions of public transport with respect to user accessibility, design of infrastructure, and safety from a gendered perspective. Our investigation aims to understand the factors that direct a citizen’s choice of whet...
Dense Long Range (LoRa) networks suffer from packet loss when many end devices contend for the same unlicensed channel. Channel activity detection (CAD) can miss weak or cross-spreading-factor (cross-SF) transmissions, while a uniform carrier sense m...
Zooplankton is a fundamental group in aquatic ecosystems representing the base of the food chain. It forms a link between the lower trophic levels with secondary consumers and shows marked fluctuations in populations with environmental change, especi...
Spectral efficiency is crucial for implementing 5G cellular networks and beyond. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising scheme to enhance efficiency. This paper introduces two improvements that will further enhance the channel capacity...
In this work, we unveil the advantages of synergizing cooperative rate splitting (CRS) with user relaying and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR RIS). Specifically, we propose a novel STAR RIS-assisted...
1 December 2012
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) present similarities with Peer to Peer (P2P) systems in terms of decentralization, equality and autonomy. This results in the rise of new collaborative and spontaneous P2P applications over MANETs such as P2P auctions....
Nowadays, with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) being widely applied to diverse applications, heterogeneous sensor networks (HSNs), which can simultaneously support multiple sensing tasks in a common sensor field, are being considered as the general f...
Legacy IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) adopts the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) mechanism, which provides the same access opportunity for all contenders. However, in dense multi-rate Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), the pure di...
To ensure seamless, programmatic access to data for High Performance Computing (HPC) and analysis across multiple research domains, it is vital to have a methodology for standardization of both data and services. At the Australian National Computatio...
18 October 2020
Identifying and treating co-existing diseases are essential in healthcare for the elderly, while physical rehabilitation care teams can provide interdisciplinary geriatric care for the elderly. To evaluate the appropriateness of demand and supply bet...
Satellite imagery has become a major source for identifying and mapping terrestrial and planetary landforms. However, interpretating landforms and their significance, especially in changing environments, may still be questionable. Consequently, groun...
In this short communication, we discuss the latest advances regarding Open Access in the earth sciences and geochemistry community from preprints to findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data following the 14f session held at Goldschmidt...
The aim of this paper is to form an analytical and critical framework to consider the uses of digital platforms in heritage field and practices and to provide methodologies for user profiling based on the identification of local stakeholders and thei...
In recent years, the need to provide communication support for defendants with mental health conditions or learning disabilities in criminal cases has received increased attention in international, regional and domestic law. However, defendants in En...
With the impact of fossil energy on the climate environment and the development of energy technologies, new energy vehicles, represented by electric cars, have begun to receive increasing attention and emphasis. The rapid proliferation of public char...
Under the dual backdrop of the Healthy China strategy and the concept of sustainable development, optimizing the spatial layout of primary healthcare facilities is important for fairly distributing healthcare resources and strengthening the resilienc...
Large-scale administrative hospital discharge data is a key resource for secondary health systems research, yet reuse is constrained by barriers of access, quality, interoperability, and semantic comparability. This paper presents and validates a rep...
In this paper, we propose a solution to the problem of guaranteed time slot allocation in cluster-tree WSNs. Our design uses the so-called Network Utility Maximization (NUM) approach as far as we aim to provide a fair distribution of the available re...
This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological de...
Widening access policy has historically focused on tackling the socioeconomic barriers to university access faced by prospective students from under-represented groups, but increasingly policy makers are seeking to also address the barriers to wider...
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