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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,169 Views
24 Pages

Thermal Performance and Energy Saving Analysis of Indoor Air–Water Heat Exchanger Based on Micro Heat Pipe Array for Data Center

  • Heran Jing,
  • Zhenhua Quan,
  • Yaohua Zhao,
  • Lincheng Wang and ,
  • Ruyang Ren and
  • Zichu Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 January 2020

According to the temperature regulations and high energy consumption of air conditioning (AC) system in data centers (DCs), natural cold energy becomes the focus of energy saving in data center in winter and transition season. A new type of air–water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,292 Views
22 Pages

Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics of Split Natural Cooling System for Data Center Based on Micro Heat Pipe Array

  • Heran Jing,
  • Zhenhua Quan,
  • Yaohua Zhao,
  • Lincheng Wang and ,
  • Ruyang Ren,
  • Ruixue Dong and
  • Yuting Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 June 2022

This paper presents a new type of split natural cooling system that maximizes the use of natural cold energy to significantly reduce the power consumption of the air conditioning system in data centers. A split natural cooling system module, which co...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,937 Views
22 Pages

VNF Placement for Service Function Chains with Strong Low-Delay Restrictions in Edge Computing Networks

  • Pilar Manzanares-Lopez,
  • Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea and
  • Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja

20 September 2020

The edge computing paradigm, allowing the location of network services close to end users, defines new network scenarios. One of them considers the existence of micro data centers, with reduced resources but located closer to service requesters, to c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Algorithms and Protocols for Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
905 Views
37 Pages

11 August 2026

The rapid growth of AI-driven workloads, IoT ecosystems, and distributed digital services has exposed fundamental limitations in existing cloud and edge infrastructures, particularly in guaranteeing robust data privacy under emerging quantum threats....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Privacy Protection in Blockchain Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,660 Views
22 Pages

2 January 2025

Nowadays, the number of transistors on electronic components is increasing exponentially leading to an ultra-high heat flux (106~107 W/m2). The non-uniform load distribution on the chip and the local hot spots in the thermal environment are key issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Environment and Energy Saving in Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,248 Views
22 Pages

Development of a PV/Battery Micro-Grid for a Data Center in Bangladesh: Resilience and Sustainability Analysis

  • S. M. Mezbahul Amin,
  • Nazia Hossain,
  • Molla Shahadat Hossain Lipu,
  • Shabana Urooj and
  • Asma Akter

7 November 2023

Energy resiliency plays an important role in the proper functioning of data centers as they heavily rely on an uninterrupted power supply to ensure smooth operation. In the case of a power outage, the data center’s operation might be hampered,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,415 Views
19 Pages

12 September 2021

The data center has become the infrastructure of most Internet services, and its network carries different types of business flow, such as query, data backup, control information, etc. At the same time, the throughput-sensitive large flows occupy a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,764 Views
22 Pages

Infrastructure as Software in Micro Clouds at the Edge

  • Miloš Simić,
  • Goran Sladić,
  • Miroslav Zarić and
  • Branko Markoski

22 October 2021

Edge computing offers cloud services closer to data sources and end-users, making the foundation for novel applications. The infrastructure deployment is taking off, bringing new challenges: how to use geo-distribution properly, or harness the advant...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Frontiers in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,382 Views
16 Pages

Silicon Photonic Micro-Transceivers for Beyond 5G Environments

  • Kazuhiko Kurata,
  • Luca Giorgi,
  • Fabio Cavaliere,
  • Liam O’Faolain and ,
  • Sebastian A. Schulz,
  • Kohei Nishiyama,
  • Yasuhiko Hagihara,
  • Kenichiro Yashiki,
  • Takashi Muto and
  • Richard Pitwon
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

19 November 2021

Here, we report on the design and performance of a silicon photonic micro-transceiver required to operate in 5G and 6G environments at high ambient temperatures above 105 °C. The four-channel “IOCore” micro-transceiver incorporates a 1310 nm quantum...

(This article belongs to the Collection New Trends in Optical Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,424 Views
20 Pages

2 August 2022

The micro-movement feature is recognized as one of the practical features of space target recognition in academic circles. The separation of the micro-Doppler curve of the scattering center is the key to feature extraction and parameter estimation, w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microwave Remote Sensing for Object Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,726 Views
25 Pages

Experimental and Simulation Study of Micro-Channel Backplane Heat Pipe Air Conditioning System in Data Center

  • Liping Zeng,
  • Xing Liu,
  • Quan Zhang,
  • Jun Yi and ,
  • Xiaohua Li,
  • Xianglong Liu and
  • Huan Su
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 February 2020

This paper mainly studies the heat transfer performance of backplane micro-channel heat pipes by establishing a steady-state numerical model. Compared with the experimental data, the heat transfer characteristics under different structure parameters...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Performing Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems to Provide Excellent Indoor Climate in Energy Efficient Manner)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,992 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2021

In this paper, we propose a cooperative linear discriminant analysis (LDA)-based motion classification algorithm for distributed micro-Doppler (MD) radars which are connected to a data fusion center through the limited backhaul. Due to the limited ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing in Radar and Wireless Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,633 Views
15 Pages

Research on Heat Transfer Performance of Micro-Channel Backplane Heat Pipe Air Conditioning System in Data Center

  • Liping Zeng,
  • Xing Liu,
  • Quan Zhang,
  • Jun Yi and ,
  • Xianglong Liu and
  • Huan Su
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 January 2020

This paper deals with the heat transfer performance of a micro-channel backplane heat pipe air conditioning system. The optimal range of the filling rate of a micro-channel backplane heat pipe air conditioning system was determined in the range of 65...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,464 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2022

Facial expressions are divided into micro- and macro-expressions. Micro-expressions are low-intensity emotions presented for a short moment of about 0.25 s, whereas macro-expressions last up to 4 s. To derive micro-expressions, participants are asked...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,642 Views
21 Pages

Towards Fast Response, Reduced Processing and Balanced Load in Fog-Based Data-Driven Smart Grid

  • Rasool Bukhsh,
  • Nadeem Javaid,
  • Zahoor Ali Khan,
  • Farruh Ishmanov and ,
  • Muhammad Khalil Afzal and
  • Zahid Wadud
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 November 2018

The integration of the smart grid with the cloud computing environment promises to develop an improved energy-management system for utility and consumers. New applications and services are being developed which generate huge requests to be processed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency and Data-Driven Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,149 Views
26 Pages

Innovation is an essential driver of companies’ growth and is important in securing and sustaining their competitive advantage and in the implementation of their entire strategies. In this process, a special role is played by companies’ c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,658 Views
25 Pages

6 December 2019

As a kind of geospatial big data, point of interest (POI) with useful information has become a hot research topic. Compared with traditional methods, big data has great potential in developing a more accurate method for identifying the urban spatial...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,522 Views
18 Pages

Extraction of the Microstructure of Wool Fabrics Based on Structure Tensor

  • Jiani Zhu,
  • Youwei Ma,
  • Guoqing Ding,
  • Manhua Liu and
  • Xin Chen

31 July 2023

The trends of “fashionalization”, “personalization” and “customization” of wool fabrics have prompted the textile industry to change the original processing design based on the experience of engineers and trial pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,392 Views
24 Pages

29 January 2026

With the growing development of facial micro-expression recognition technology, its practical application value has attracted increasing attention. In real-world scenarios, facial micro-expression recognition typically involves cross-dataset evaluati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,917 Views
28 Pages

26 January 2026

The fastest growth in electricity demand in the industrialized world will likely come from the broad adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)—accelerated by the rise of generative AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The global “data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Optimization of Energy Storage in Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,260 Views
13 Pages

Design and Implementation of High-Capacity DDR3 Micro-Module Based on 3D TSV Advanced Packaging

  • Haoyue Ji,
  • Liang Zeng,
  • Hongwen Qian,
  • Wenchao Tian and ,
  • Jingjing Lin and
  • Yuhe Duan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 April 2026

To meet the demands for miniaturization, lightweight design, and high performance in modern electronic systems, advanced 3D TSV technology enables a substantial increase in storage capacity even within physically constrained form factors. This paper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro/Nano Manufacturing of Electronic Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,277 Views
22 Pages

30 September 2022

Quantitative identification of the location of cultural and creative industries has always been an important issue in the study of micro-locations in human geography. However, most of the previous studies on the location of cultural and creative indu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Territory Spatial Planning toward High-Quality Development in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,565 Views
15 Pages

Development Initiatives, Micro-Enterprise Performance and Sustainability

  • Wan Nurulasiah binti Wan Mustapa,
  • Abdullah Al Mamun and
  • Mohamed Dahlan Ibrahim

Towards improving the socio-economic condition of low-income households, development organizations offer a repertoire of initiatives. This study focused on the impacts of access to working capital and enterprise development training programs, on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
17,598 Views
18 Pages

8 October 2010

A wireless sensor network-based automatic monitoring system is designed for monitoring the life conditions of greenhouse vegetatables. The complete system architecture includes a group of sensor nodes, a base station, and an internet data center. For...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,925 Views
24 Pages

Impacting Droplet Can Mitigate Dust from PDMS Micro-Post Array Surfaces

  • Abba Abdulhamid Abubakar,
  • Bekir Sami Yilbas,
  • Mubarak Yakubu,
  • Hussain Al-Qahtani and ,
  • Ghassan Hassan and
  • Johnny Ebaika Adukwu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 November 2021

In this paper, the impact mechanisms of a water droplet on hydrophobized micro-post array surfaces are examined and the influence of micro-post arrays spacing on the droplet behavior in terms of spreading, retraction, and rebounding is investigated....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multifunctional Coatings and Lubrication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
804 Views
21 Pages

A CPU–NPU Heterogeneous Edge Fault Diagnosis Framework for Industrial Sensor Data

  • Kangli Xu,
  • Haozhou Wang,
  • Chao Li,
  • Hongxuan Liu and
  • Chunxiao Xing

13 August 2026

Industrial sensor-based fault diagnosis often requires continuous data acquisition, local data processing, and timely model inference on edge devices. Although deep learning-based diagnostic methods have achieved promising performance, many existing...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
731 Views
14 Pages

A New Two-Step Approach to Studying Early Medieval Lustre Ceramics from Sudan: Minimizing Destructiveness by Preliminary Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis

  • Mikhail Statkus,
  • Elena Tolmacheva,
  • Alexei Krol,
  • Irina Abdrashitova and ,
  • Alexander Egorov,
  • Elizaveta Reshetnikova,
  • Victoria Korobkova and
  • Surendra Prasad
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 July 2026

The present study introduces a novel two-step multi-analytical approach for studying lustre ceramics, aiming to minimize damage to valuable artifacts. The method combines a completely non-destructive preliminary micro-X-ray fluorescence (micro-XRF) a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mineral Pigments: Properties Analysis and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,709 Views
13 Pages

Energy Management Strategy for Micro-Grids with PV-Battery Systems and Electric Vehicles

  • Jose Luis Torres-Moreno,
  • Antonio Gimenez-Fernandez,
  • Manuel Perez-Garcia and
  • Francisco Rodriguez

28 February 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of photovoltaic (PV) systems on storage and electric vehicles in micro-grids. As these kinds of systems are becoming increasingly popular in the residential sector, the development of a new generation of equipment, such...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
645 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2026

Accurate 3D topography measurement of micro-structured surfaces remains challenging due to the limitations of conventional autostereoscopic systems, particularly the intrinsic constraints of light-field imaging and dependence on single-source data. B...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,335 Views
15 Pages

A Micro Absolute Distance Measurement Method Based on Dispersion Compensated Polarized Low-Coherence Interferometry

  • Xun Sun,
  • Kunpeng Feng,
  • Jiwen Cui,
  • Hong Dang and ,
  • Yizhao Niu and
  • Xuping Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 February 2020

Micro absolute distance measurement (MADM) is widely used in industrial and military fields. To achieve high accuracy and frequency response, a polarized low-coherence interferometry (PLCI)-based method for MADM is proposed. The nearly linear relatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fiber Optic Sensing Technology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,294 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2017

The present study aims to present all the findings of micro-climate measurements that were performed by the University of Athens in the center of Athens, during the summer period. The extended experimental campaign aimed to collect thermal and air fl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,358 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2020

This paper presents the first try to fabricate degradable polylactic acid (PLA) biomedical stents with round edges by the multi-axis micro-milling process. Conventionally biomedical stents are produced by laser processing. Post-processing operations...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,744 Views
16 Pages

16 July 2018

With the rapid development of information technology, large-scale personal data, including those collected by sensors or IoT devices, is stored in the cloud or data centers. In some cases, the owners of the cloud or data centers need to publish the d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-based E-Healthcare System: Greenness and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
724 Views
22 Pages

Background/Objectives: Digital systems are being increasingly used to mediate pediatric care, yet many competency models remain predominantly technical and may unintentionally dilute patient- and family-centered care. This study aimed to identify emp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Services, Health Literacy and Nursing Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
537 Views
24 Pages

25 August 2026

Hybrid indoor–outdoor spaces, including arcades, breezeways, semi-covered walkways, terraces, and courtyard-like pockets, can support mobility, perceived comfort, and social life in hot-arid cities. Yet their design is often guided by precedent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing the Climate-Sensitive City: Urban Design and Planning for Urban Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
787 Views
11 Pages

Association of Hemodynamic Parameters with Clinical Outcomes in Cardiogenic Shock: Insights from Full-Flow Micro-Axial Flow Pump Data in a Retrospective Single-Center Study

  • Julia Riebandt,
  • Roxana Moayedifar,
  • Lukas Ruoff,
  • Hebe Al Asadi and ,
  • Sanja Söllner,
  • Rabab Saleh,
  • Oliver Seibert,
  • Barbara Karner,
  • Anne-Kristin Schaefer and
  • Thomas Schlöglhofer
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

17 April 2026

Objectives: The Impella 5.5 (J&J MedTech, USA) is increasingly used for refractory cardiogenic shock (CS), yet early predictors of mortality and recovery remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate early patient characteristics and device-relate...

(This article belongs to the Topic Mechanical Circulatory Support in Heart Failure—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,746 Views
19 Pages

Field Test and Numerical Investigation of Tunnel Aerodynamic Effect Induced by High-Speed Trains Running at Higher Speeds

  • Yong Wang,
  • Weibin Ma,
  • Jiaqiang Han,
  • Chen Wang and ,
  • Aijun Cheng,
  • Xu Yang and
  • Hongjie Gao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 July 2023

After decades of research in the field of high-speed railway technique, technology of running high-speed trains at the velocity level of 350 km/h gradually become mature. It is of great importance to capture the variation regular of aerodynamic param...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Aerodynamics of Railway Train/Tunnel System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,352 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2020

In this paper, an online vertex reconstruction algorithm based on an artificial neural network (ANN) was proposed for the micro-pattern gaseous detector (MPGD). A simulation based on Geant4 was performed to generate the training and testing samples f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development and Application of Particle Detectors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,084 Views
18 Pages

25 September 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic affected every functioning system in the United States. Workers deemed “essential” faced multiple threats to their well-being that quickly led to acute symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, and overall exhaustion, and organi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emotional Communication, Organizations, and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
12,630 Views
37 Pages

Drawing on a micro-phenomenological paradigm, we discuss Contact Improvisation (CI), where dancers explore potentials of intercorporeal weight sharing, kinesthesia, touch, and momentum. Our aim is to typologically discuss creativity related skills an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embodied Aesthetics and Interpersonal Resonance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,820 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2022

The agro-industry plays an important role in the Indonesian economy. However, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in this industry face various challenges to be competitive, one of which is the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (...

(This article belongs to the Topic Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,216 Views
32 Pages

21 October 2025

Sustainable urban mobility is gaining importance as cities seek to address congestion and environmental concerns, with cycling infrastructure being an essential component of urban transportation systems. This study proposes a novel integrated, data-d...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,690 Views
16 Pages

23 March 2022

A radar echo signal received from a cone-shaped target with precession contains micro-Doppler (m-D) information from different effective scattering centers. By taking full advantage of the m-D information, this paper proposes a parameter estimation a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar High-Speed Target Detection, Tracking, Imaging and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,440 Views
14 Pages

21 June 2021

A surge of interest in data-intensive computing has led to a drastic increase in the demand for data centers. Given this growing popularity, data centers are becoming a primary contributor to the increased consumption of energy worldwide. To mitigate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing and Communication Networks for Applied Science II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,008 Views
21 Pages

18 January 2023

This paper proposes a non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSMC) method for micro gyroscopes with unknown uncertainty based on gated recurrent fuzzy neural networks (GRFNNs). First, taking advantage of non-singular fast terminal sliding...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Neural Networks and Dynamic Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,486 Views
16 Pages

Traffic State Estimation and Classification on Citywide Scale Using Speed Transition Matrices

  • Leo Tišljarić,
  • Tonči Carić,
  • Borna Abramović and
  • Tomislav Fratrović

4 September 2020

The rising need for mobility, especially in large urban centers, consequently results in congestion, which leads to increased travel times and pollution. Advanced traffic management systems are being developed to take the advantage of increased mobil...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,214 Views
17 Pages

The fast expansion of cloud computing has raised carbon emissions and energy usage in cloud data centers, so creative solutions for sustainable resource management are more necessary. This work presents a new algorithm—Carbon-Aware, Energy-Effi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
9,177 Views
16 Pages

26 July 2016

This paper used the X-ray three-dimensional (3D) microscope and acquired, through CT scanning, the 3D data of the long-frame coal sample from the Daliuta Coal Mine. Then, the 3D datacube reconstructed from the coal’s CT scanning data was visualized w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,998 Views
18 Pages

Moped-style scooters are one of the most popular systems of micro-mobility. They are undoubtedly good for the city, as they promote forms of environmentally-friendly mobility, in which flexibility helps prevent traffic build-up in the urban centers w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geodata Science and Spatial Analysis in Urban Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,542 Views
22 Pages

10 November 2022

Ballistic target recognition is of great significance for space attack and defense. The micro-motion features, which contain spatial and motion information, can be regarded as the foundation of the recognition of ballistic targets. To take full advan...

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