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22 Citations
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Relay Synchronization in a Weighted Triplex Network

  • Md Sayeed Anwar,
  • Dibakar Ghosh and
  • Nikita Frolov

2 September 2021

Relay synchronization in multi-layer networks implies inter-layer synchronization between two indirectly connected layers through a relay layer. In this work, we study the relay synchronization in a three-layer multiplex network by introducing degree...

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  • Open Access
1,603 Views
15 Pages

Photosensitive Control and Network Synchronization of Chemical Oscillators

  • Alejandro Carballosa,
  • Ana I. Gomez-Varela,
  • Carmen Bao-Varela,
  • Maria Teresa Flores-Arias and
  • Alberto P. Muñuzuri

30 May 2024

The Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction has long been a paradigmatic system for studying chemical oscillations. Here, we experimentally studied the synchronization control within photochemically coupled star networks of BZ oscillators. Experimen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,303 Views
11 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-Based Frame Synchronization Method

  • Eui-Rim Jeong,
  • Eui-Soo Lee,
  • Jingon Joung and
  • Hyukjun Oh

17 October 2020

A new frame synchronization technique based on convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed for synchronized networks. To estimate the exact packet arrival time, the receiver typically uses the correlator between the received signal and the preambl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,727 Views
19 Pages

18 November 2024

In underwater clustering and benchmark networks, nodes need to reduce the rate and energy consumption of acoustic communication while ensuring synchronization accuracy. In large-scale networks, the improvement in the efficiency of existing network ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,838 Views
27 Pages

Network Synchronization of MACM Circuits and Its Application to Secure Communications

  • Rodrigo Méndez-Ramírez,
  • Adrian Arellano-Delgado and
  • Miguel Ángel Murillo-Escobar

19 April 2023

In recent years, chaotic synchronization has received a lot of interest in applications in different fields, including in the design of private and secure communication systems. The purpose of this paper was to achieve the synchronization of the M&ea...

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  • Open Access
58 Citations
9,790 Views
20 Pages

Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications

  • Alexandros Zervopoulos,
  • Athanasios Tsipis,
  • Aikaterini Georgia Alvanou,
  • Konstantinos Bezas,
  • Asterios Papamichail,
  • Spiridon Vergis,
  • Andreana Stylidou,
  • Georgios Tsoumanis,
  • Vasileios Komianos and
  • Konstantinos Oikonomou
  • + 1 author

The advent of Internet of Things has propelled the agricultural domain through the integration of sensory devices, capable of monitoring and wirelessly propagating information to producers; thus, they employ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These WSN...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,633 Views
14 Pages

8 June 2021

This paper deals with the synchronization of Mobile Smart Objects (MSOs). Today, this scenario is becoming typical in Industrial IoT applications due to the plethora of MSOs available as robots, drones and wearables, equipped by sensors making them m...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,133 Views
11 Pages

Synchronization in a Multiplex Network of Nonidentical Fractional-Order Neurons

  • Balamurali Ramakrishnan,
  • Fatemeh Parastesh,
  • Sajad Jafari,
  • Karthikeyan Rajagopal,
  • Gani Stamov and
  • Ivanka Stamova

Fractional-order neuronal models that include memory effects can describe the rich dynamics of the firing of the neurons. This paper studies synchronization problems in a multiple network of Caputo–Fabrizio type fractional order neurons in whic...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,238 Views
21 Pages

In response to frequent complex project delays, organization synchronization, a set of interactions, is a dynamic behavior that helps to restore the stability of complex projects after delays. However, few studies have figured out how organizations s...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,709 Views
14 Pages

Phase Synchronization and Dynamic Behavior of a Novel Small Heterogeneous Coupled Network

  • Mengjiao Wang,
  • Jiwei Peng,
  • Shaobo He,
  • Xinan Zhang and
  • Herbert Ho-Ching Iu

Studying the firing dynamics and phase synchronization behavior of heterogeneous coupled networks helps us understand the mechanism of human brain activity. In this study, we propose a novel small heterogeneous coupled network in which the 2D Hopfiel...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,784 Views
17 Pages

Electronic Implementation of a Deterministic Small-World Network: Synchronization and Communication

  • Daniel Reyes-De la Cruz,
  • Rodrigo Méndez-Ramírez,
  • Adrian Arellano-Delgado and
  • César Cruz-Hernández

25 April 2023

In this paper, synchronization and encrypted communication transmissions of analog and digital messages in a deterministic small-world network (DSWN) are presented. In the first instance, we use a network with 3 coupled nodes in a nearest-neighbor (N...

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  • Open Access
981 Views
15 Pages

Neural-Network-Based Synchronization Acquisition with Hankelization Preprocessing

  • Gyung-Eun Kim,
  • Jung-Hwan Kim,
  • Jong-Ho Lee and
  • Woong-Hee Lee

22 March 2025

Conventional synchronization signal detection methods rely on linear correlation function analysis with fixed thresholds, which are insufficient for handling the nonlinear characteristics of practical wireless communication systems. In such environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,137 Views
19 Pages

31 December 2019

The control and measurement for resilient recovery is important for a supply network facing disruption. Outer synchronization is useful for the supply network to recover to its scheduled state. In this paper, a dynamic model for a supply network is e...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,086 Views
48 Pages

Synchronization Optimization Model Based on Enhanced Connectivity of New Energy Vehicle Supply Chain Network

  • Haiwei Gao,
  • Xiaomin Zhu,
  • Binghui Guo,
  • Yifan Cao,
  • Haotian Wang,
  • Xiaohan Yu and
  • Xiaobo Yang

14 February 2025

The synchronization of the new energy vehicle (NEV) supply chain network is crucial for enhancing industrial integration, building intelligent supply chain systems, and promoting sustainable development. This study proposes a novel synchronization mo...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,049 Views
18 Pages

Forecasting Commodity Market Synchronization with Commodity Currencies: A Network-Based Approach

  • Nicolas S. Magner,
  • Nicolás Hardy,
  • Jaime Lavin and
  • Tiago Ferreira

25 March 2023

This paper shows that some commodity currencies (from Chile, Iceland, Norway, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) predict the synchronization of metals and energy commodities. This relationship links the present-value theory for exchang...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,304 Views
10 Pages

1 March 2020

This paper is concerned with the output synchronization problems for a class of delayed complex dynamical networks. Based on the invariant principle of functional differential equations and Lyapunov stability theory, the feedback controller and param...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,419 Views
20 Pages

Synchronization of Analog-Discrete Chaotic Systems for Wireless Sensor Network Design

  • Ruslans Babajans,
  • Darja Cirjulina,
  • Filips Capligins,
  • Deniss Kolosovs and
  • Anna Litvinenko

21 January 2024

The current work is focused on studying the performance of the Pecora–Carroll synchronization technique to achieve synchronization between the analog and discrete chaos oscillators. The importance of this study is supported by the growing appli...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,282 Views
11 Pages

Master–Slave Outer Synchronization in Different Inner–Outer Coupling Network Topologies

  • Adrian Arellano-Delgado,
  • Rosa Martha López-Gutiérrez,
  • Miguel Ángel Murillo-Escobar and
  • Cornelio Posadas-Castillo

24 April 2023

In this work, the problem of master–slave outer synchronization in different inner–outer network topologies is presented. Specifically, the studied inner–outer network topologies are coupled in master–slave configuration, wher...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,890 Views
18 Pages

CoSiWiNeT: A Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Wide Area IIoT Network

  • Rahul Nandkumar Gore,
  • Elena Lisova,
  • Johan Åkerberg and
  • Mats Björkman

16 December 2021

Recent advances in the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and cyber–physical systems drive Industry 4.0 and have led to remote monitoring and control applications that require factories to be connected to remote sites over wide area networks...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,844 Views
13 Pages

7 May 2022

The synchronous genetic regulatory networks model includes the drive system and response system, and the drive-response system is symmetric. From a biological point of view, this model illustrates the dynamic behaviors in gene-to-protein processes, i...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,195 Views
25 Pages

This paper presents a new method for evaluating the synchronization of quasi-periodic oscillations of two oscillators, termed “chimeric synchronization”. The family of metrics is proposed to create a neural network information converter b...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,358 Views
20 Pages

GPS-Based Network Synchronization of Wireless Sensors for Extracting Propagation of Disturbance on Structural Systems

  • Jesus Ricardo Salazar-Lopez,
  • Jesus Roberto Millan-Almaraz,
  • Jose Ramon Gaxiola-Camacho,
  • Guadalupe Esteban Vazquez-Becerra and
  • Jesus Martin Leal-Graciano

29 December 2023

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained a positive popularity for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. The underlying reason for using WSNs is the vast number of devices supporting wireless networks available these days. However, some...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,940 Views
12 Pages

15 October 2021

In this paper, the cluster synchronization of a variable-order fractional community network with nonidentical dynamics is investigated. For achieving the cluster synchronization, intermittent controllers are designed, and the sufficient conditions wi...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,783 Views
16 Pages

4 June 2024

In multilayer complex networks, the uncertainty in node states leads to intricate behaviors. It is, therefore, of great importance to be able to estimate the states of target nodes in these systems, both for theoretical advancements and practical app...

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2 Citations
3,525 Views
18 Pages

27 October 2017

This paper investigates the controllability of a closed-loop tracking synchronization network based on multiple linear-switched reluctance machines (LSRMs). The LSRM network is constructed from a global closed-loop manner, and the closed loop only re...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,493 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2019

In order to solve the poor control accuracy problem of the traditional synchronous control algorithm for a double-cylinder forging hydraulic press, a synchronous control algorithm for double-cylinder forging hydraulic press based on a fuzzy neural ne...

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  • Open Access
1,443 Views
17 Pages

Network Synchronization via Pinning Control from an Attacker-Defender Game Perspective

  • Ping Pei,
  • Haihan Zhang,
  • Huizhen Zhang,
  • Chen Yang and
  • Tianbo An

13 June 2024

The pinning control of complex networks is a hot topic of research in network science. However, most studies on pinning control ignore the impact of external interference on actual control strategies. To more comprehensively evaluate network synchron...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,974 Views
14 Pages

5 January 2021

The subject of the work described in this article is the detection of false synchronization in the transmission of digital stereo images. Until now, the synchronization problem was solved by using start triggers in the recording. Our proposal checks...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,313 Views
14 Pages

13 September 2021

Precisely evaluating the frame synchronization of the camera network is often required for accurate data fusion from multiple visual information. This paper presents a novel method to estimate the synchronization accuracy by using inherent visual inf...

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  • Open Access
1,801 Views
14 Pages

This article focuses on the analysis of dynamics emerging in a network of Hodgkin–Huxley reaction–diffusion equations. The network has three levels. The three neurons in level 1 receive a periodic input but do not receive inputs from othe...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,654 Views
22 Pages

Synchronization of Separate Sensors’ Data Transferred through a Local Wi-Fi Network: A Use Case of Human-Gait Monitoring

  • Viktor Masalskyi,
  • Dominykas Čičiurėnas,
  • Andrius Dzedzickis,
  • Urtė Prentice,
  • Gediminas Braziulis and
  • Vytautas Bučinskas

23 January 2024

This paper addresses the challenge of synchronizing data acquisition from independent sensor systems in a local network. The network comprises microcontroller-based systems that collect data from physical sensors used for monitoring human gait. The s...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,027 Views
30 Pages

1 October 2022

We evaluate the environment, society, and corporate governance rating (ESG rating) contribution from a new perspective; the highest ESG rating mitigates the impact of unexpected change in the implied volatility on the systemic stock market risk. For...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,301 Views
12 Pages

20 December 2018

In this paper, a new three-dimensional fractional-order Hopfield-type neural network with delay is proposed. The system has a unique equilibrium point at the origin, which is a saddle point with index two, hence unstable. Intermittent chaos is found...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,224 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2024

In this paper, adaptive fault-tolerant control for multi-joint robot manipulators is proposed through the combination of synchronous techniques and neural networks. By using a synchronization technique, the position error at each joint simultaneously...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,479 Views
19 Pages

Cuckoo-PC: An Evolutionary Synchronization-Aware Placement of SDN Controllers for Optimizing the Network Performance in WSNs

  • Shirin Tahmasebi,
  • Mohadeseh Safi,
  • Somayeh Zolfi,
  • Mohammad Reza Maghsoudi,
  • Hamid Reza Faragardi and
  • Hossein Fotouhi

6 June 2020

Due to reliability and performance considerations, employing multiple software-defined networking (SDN) controllers is known as a promising technique in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Nevertheless, employing multiple controllers increases the inter...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,376 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2022

The uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) may pose a challenge to power distribution networks (PDNs). While smart charging can be deployed to relieve stress on the grid, user-centric smart charging strategies could also exacerbate peak power demand due t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
663 Views
18 Pages

This paper investigates the synchronization control problem for delayed fractional-order neural networks (DFONNs) with mismatched parameters. A novel synchronization behavior termed quasi-Mittag-Leffler projective synchronization (QMLPS) is studied....

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  • Open Access
1,547 Views
14 Pages

Background/Objectives: Synchronized beta-band oscillations (14–30 Hz) are critical for sensorimotor processing and motor performance. Modulating beta activity either locally in targeted brain regions or globally across sensorimotor networks may...

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168 Views
25 Pages

15 January 2026

A pinning boundary control strategy that can achieve the exponentially clustered synchronization of a specific class of complex networks is developed. Firstly, the studied model captures the essential features of networks, including spatial dependenc...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,623 Views
14 Pages

Optimum k-Nearest Neighbors for Heading Synchronization on a Swarm of UAVs under a Time-Evolving Communication Network

  • Rigoberto Martínez-Clark,
  • Javier Pliego-Jimenez,
  • Juan Francisco Flores-Resendiz and
  • David Avilés-Velázquez

26 May 2023

Heading synchronization is fundamental in flocking behaviors. If a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can exhibit this behavior, the group can establish a common navigation route. Inspired by flocks in nature, the k-nearest neighbors algorithm...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
759 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2025

Chaotic systems, characterized by extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and complex dynamical behaviors, exhibit significant potential for applications in various fields. Effective control of chaotic system synchronization is particularly crucial...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,928 Views
15 Pages

27 June 2018

In this paper, we develop a new sensor network system with a high sampling rate (over 500 Hz) based on the simultaneous synchronization of clock and data acquisition for integrating the data obtained from various sensors. Hence, we also propose a met...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,319 Views
19 Pages

This article investigates the problem of finite-time synchronization of fractional-order complex-valued random multi-layer networks without decomposing them into two real-valued systems. Firstly, by promoting real-valued signum functions, sign functi...

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1,258 Views
28 Pages

25 September 2024

Due to their inherent openness, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. Addressing the issue of secure Internet Key Exchange (IKE) in the absence of reliable third parties like CA/PKI (Certificate Authority/Public Key...

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  • Open Access
1,809 Views
47 Pages

28 June 2024

This paper investigates the long-time behavior of fractional-order complex memristive neural networks in order to analyze the synchronization of both anatomical and functional brain networks, for predicting therapy response, and ensuring safe diagnos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,961 Views
19 Pages

8 March 2019

A synchronous optimization method for self-pressure drip irrigation pipe network system is proposed. We have generalized the optimization design problem of the system and have established the mathematical models for the simultaneous optimization desi...

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  • Open Access
121 Views
22 Pages

19 January 2026

To improve the safety of road transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF), this paper proposes a novel approach for risk identification and chaotic synchronous control in SNF road transportation systems. Firstly, a dynamic risk evolution model for the...

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4 Citations
3,878 Views
13 Pages

A Time Synchronization Protocol for Barrage Relay Networks

  • Woong Son,
  • Jungwook Choi,
  • Soobum Park,
  • Howon Lee and
  • Bang Chul Jung

22 February 2023

Time-division multiple access (TDMA)-based medium access control (MAC) protocol has been widely used for avoiding access conflicts in wireless multi-hop ad hoc networks, where the time synchronization among wireless nodes is essential. In this paper,...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,397 Views
12 Pages

Synchronization Dynamics in Non-Normal Networks: The Trade-Off for Optimality

  • Riccardo Muolo,
  • Timoteo Carletti,
  • James P. Gleeson and
  • Malbor Asllani

29 December 2020

Synchronization is an important behavior that characterizes many natural and human made systems that are composed by several interacting units. It can be found in a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from neuroscience to power-grids, to mention...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,277 Views
15 Pages

17 March 2023

This paper studies the intra/inter-layer synchronization and quasi-synchronization in two-layer coupled networks via event-triggered control, in which different layers have mutually independent topologies. First, based on Lyapunov stability theory an...

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