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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,213 Views
16 Pages

Latency Reduction and Packet Synchronization in Low-Resource Devices Connected by DDS Networks in Autonomous UAVs

  • Joao Leonardo Silva Cotta,
  • Daniel Agar,
  • Ivan R. Bertaska,
  • John P. Inness and
  • Hector Gutierrez

18 November 2023

Real-time flight controllers are becoming dependent on general-purpose operating systems, as the modularity and complexity of guidance, navigation, and control systems and algorithms increases. The non-deterministic nature of operating systems create...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Solutions for Modern Communication and Sensing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,975 Views
30 Pages

2 January 2026

This work proposes a non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSMC) strategy based on the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) algorithm and a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) to address the issues of modeling errors, m...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,099 Views
17 Pages

21 December 2022

The energy management system (EMS) of hybridization and electrification plays a pivotal role in improving the stability and cost-effectiveness of future vehicles. Existing efforts mainly concentrate on specific optimization targets, like fuel consump...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,192 Views
20 Pages

With the rapid development of Industrial 4.0, massive emerging time-critical applications pose new demands for industrial networks, such as strict latency boundaries, ultra-reliable transmission, and so on. Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is well sui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,002 Views
17 Pages

Routing and Timeslot Scheduling for SPN Fine-Granularity Slices

  • Rentao Gu,
  • Yuqi Xue,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Zixuan Wang and ,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Yan Li and
  • Yuefeng Ji
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 January 2023

The integration of 5G and vertical industries promotes the development of the energy Ethernet while putting forward fine granularity, flexibility, high reliability, and deterministic low-latency service requirements for the smart grid and the ubiquit...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,219 Views
21 Pages

An Optimized Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithm for Application Mapping in 2D-NoC

  • Saleha Sikandar,
  • Naveed Khan Baloch,
  • Fawad Hussain,
  • Waqar Amin and ,
  • Yousaf Bin Zikria and
  • Heejung Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 July 2021

Mapping application task graphs on intellectual property (IP) cores into network-on-chip (NoC) is a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard problem. The evolution of network performance mainly depends on an effective and efficient mapping technique an...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,507 Views
16 Pages

15 August 2024

Mobile edge computing (MEC), specifically wireless powered mobile edge computing (WPMEC), can achieve superior real-time data analysis and intelligent processing. In WPMEC, different user nodes (UNs) harvest significantly different amounts of energy,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,169 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2026

The rapid expansion of distributed cloud platforms introduces critical security challenges, specifically non-deterministic race conditions like Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerabilities. Traditional passive detection methods often fail to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyberspace Security Technology in Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,268 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2019

Quality of service multicast routing is an important research topic in networks. Research has sought to obtain a multicast routing tree at the lowest cost that satisfies bandwidth, delay and delay jitter constraints. Due to its non-deterministic poly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,053 Views
15 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Security Verification for a Random Number Generator Using White Chaos

  • Cai Li,
  • Jianguo Zhang,
  • Luxiao Sang,
  • Lishuang Gong and ,
  • Longsheng Wang,
  • Anbang Wang and
  • Yuncai Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 October 2020

In this paper, a deep learning (DL)-based predictive analysis is proposed to analyze the security of a non-deterministic random number generator (NRNG) using white chaos. In particular, the temporal pattern attention (TPA)-based DL model is employed...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,602 Views
17 Pages

3 September 2015

Time synchronization is essential for node localization, target tracking, data fusion, and various other Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications. To improve the estimation accuracy of continuous clock offset and skew of mobile nodes in WSNs, we pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,223 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...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,053 Views
36 Pages

Support for 5G Mission-Critical Applications in Software-Defined IEEE 802.11 Networks

  • Pedro H. Isolani,
  • Daniel J. Kulenkamp,
  • Johann M. Marquez-Barja,
  • Lisandro Z. Granville and ,
  • Steven Latré and
  • Violet R. Syrotiuk
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 January 2021

With the emergence of 5G networks and the stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of Mission-Critical Applications (MCAs), co-existing networks are expected to deliver higher-speed connections, enhanced reliability, and lower latency. IEEE 80...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,013 Views
17 Pages

3 December 2019

The exponential growth of cities has brought important challenges such as waste management, pollution and overpopulation, and the administration of transportation. To mitigate these problems, the idea of the smart city was born, seeking to provide ro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Applications to Smart City and Smart Enterprise)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,555 Views
23 Pages

25 February 2015

Research on wireless sensor networks has progressed rapidly over the last decade, and these technologies have been widely adopted for both industrial and domestic uses. Several operating systems have been developed, along with a multitude of network...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber-Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,133 Views
46 Pages

Goodness of Fit in the Marginal Modeling of Round-Trip Times for Networked Robot Sensor Transmissions

  • Juan-Antonio Fernández-Madrigal,
  • Vicente Arévalo-Espejo,
  • Ana Cruz-Martín,
  • Cipriano Galindo-Andrades and ,
  • Adrián Bañuls-Arias and
  • Juan-Manuel Gandarias-Palacios
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 September 2025

When complex computations cannot be performed on board a mobile robot, sensory data must be transmitted to a remote station to be processed, and the resulting actions must be sent back to the robot to execute, forming a repeating cycle. This involves...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Control Systems—Celebrating the 75th Birthday of Professor Imre J. Rudas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,382 Views
13 Pages

Multi Swarm Optimization Based Clustering with Tabu Search in Wireless Sensor Network

  • Sundararaj Suganthi,
  • Nagappan Umapathi,
  • Miroslav Mahdal and
  • Manickam Ramachandran

23 February 2022

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be defined as a cluster of sensors with a restricted power supply deployed in a specific area to gather environmental data. One of the most challenging areas of research is to design energy-efficient data gathering...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,736 Views
31 Pages

30 June 2021

In the context of real-time control systems, it has become possible to obtain temporal resolutions of microseconds due to the development of embedded systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), the optimization of the use of processor hardware, and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Real Time Systems for IIoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
902 Views
29 Pages

12 April 2026

Multi-station sensing telemetry typically arrives out-of-order at the Open RAN (O-RAN) Near-RT RIC due to non-deterministic jitter in cloud-native protocol stacks, inducing a “temporal scrambling” effect that invalidates traditional spati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Sensing and Computing in Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,789 Views
27 Pages

Realistic Simulation for Body Area and Body-To-Body Networks

  • Muhammad Mahtab Alam,
  • Elyes Ben Hamida,
  • Dhafer Ben Arbia,
  • Mickael Maman and ,
  • Francesco Mani,
  • Benoit Denis and
  • Raffaele D’Errico
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 April 2016

In this paper, we present an accurate and realistic simulation for body area networks (BAN) and body-to-body networks (BBN) using deterministic and semi-deterministic approaches. First, in the semi-deterministic approach, a real-time measurement camp...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,153 Views
19 Pages

An Underground Mine Safety-Oriented Optimization Model for Mine Tailings Backfill Scheduling Considering Multi-Process and Multi-Cycle Issues

  • Yuhang Liu,
  • Guoqing Li,
  • Jie Hou,
  • Guangjun Guo and ,
  • Dong Pan and
  • Qianqian Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 November 2023

The backfill mining method is adopted in many mines around the world because it can reliably handle underground mine tailings and eliminate dangers in goafs. It is necessary to improve backfilling resource allocation and efficiency, thereby eliminati...

(This article belongs to the Topic Green Low-Carbon Technology for Metalliferous Minerals)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,969 Views
17 Pages

Mean Square Convergent Non-Standard Numerical Schemes for Linear Random Differential Equations with Delay

  • Julia Calatayud,
  • Juan Carlos Cortés,
  • Marc Jornet and
  • Francisco Rodríguez

24 August 2020

In this paper, we are concerned with the construction of numerical schemes for linear random differential equations with discrete delay. For the linear deterministic differential equation with discrete delay, a recent contribution proposed a family o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models of Delay Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,334 Views
22 Pages

A Hybrid Traffic Scheduling Strategy for Time-Sensitive Networking

  • Jinchuan Pei,
  • Yuxiang Hu,
  • Le Tian,
  • Menglong Li and
  • Ziyong Li

16 November 2022

The traffic scheduling mechanism in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is the key to guaranteeing the deterministic transmission of traffic. However, when time-sensitive traffic and non-time-sensitive traffic are transmitted together, traffic scheduling...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,684 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2020

This paper deals with a remote state estimation problem for a nonlinear system. In a typical networked control system (NCS) scenario, the estimator and controller are remotely located, and they are connected with the plant through a common communicat...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 7th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,638 Views
17 Pages

Joint Maximum Likelihood Time Delay Estimation of Unknown Event-Related Potential Signals for EEG Sensor Signal Quality Enhancement

  • Kyungsoo Kim,
  • Sung-Ho Lim,
  • Jaeseok Lee,
  • Won-Seok Kang and ,
  • Cheil Moon and
  • Ji-Woong Choi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 June 2016

Electroencephalograms (EEGs) measure a brain signal that contains abundant information about the human brain function and health. For this reason, recent clinical brain research and brain computer interface (BCI) studies use EEG signals in many appli...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,138 Views
26 Pages

Federated Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for Delay and Energy Consumption Optimization in Urban Air Mobility with UAV-Assisted MEC

  • Chunyu Pan,
  • Zhonghao Luo,
  • Jiuchuan Zhang,
  • Lei Shi and ,
  • Jirong Yi and
  • Zhaohui Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 February 2025

With the rapid expansion of urban populations and the accelerated pace of urbanization, the concept of urban air mobility (UAM) has emerged. During flights, UAM aircraft need to transmit real-time sensing information to base stations for further proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,111 Views
27 Pages

Multi-UAV-Assisted Task Offloading and Trajectory Optimization for Edge Computing via NOMA

  • Jiajia Liu,
  • Haoran Hu,
  • Xu Bai,
  • Guohua Li and ,
  • Xudong Zhang,
  • Haitao Zhou,
  • Huiru Li and
  • Jianhua Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 August 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibit significant potential in enhancing the wireless communication coverage and service quality of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems due to their superior flexibility and ease of deployment. However, the rapid gro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud and Edge Computing for IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,562 Views
20 Pages

29 July 2023

This paper investigates the robust fusion estimation problem for multi-sensor systems with communication constraints, parameter uncertainty, d-step state delays, and deterministic control inputs. The multi-sensor system consists of a fusion center an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection and State Estimation in Automatic Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,825 Views
23 Pages

Broadcast Approach to Uplink NOMA: Queuing Delay Analysis

  • Maha Zohdy,
  • Ali Tajer and
  • Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)

30 November 2022

Emerging wireless technologies are envisioned to support a variety of applications that require simultaneously maintaining low latency and high reliability. Non-orthogonal multiple access techniques constitute one candidate for grant-free transmissio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theoretic Methods for Future Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,561 Views
20 Pages

TD3-Based Optimization Framework for RSMA-Enhanced UAV-Aided Downlink Communications in Remote Areas

  • Tri-Hai Nguyen,
  • Luong Vuong Nguyen,
  • L. Minh Dang,
  • Vinh Truong Hoang and
  • Laihyuk Park

8 November 2023

The need for reliable wireless communication in remote areas has led to the adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying base stations (FlyBSs). FlyBSs hover over a designated area to ensure continuous communication coverage for mobile users...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Convergence of Remote Sensing, Communication, and Computing for 6G Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,793 Views
18 Pages

Online detection devices, powered by artificial intelligence technologies, enable the comprehensive and continuous detection of high-speed railways (HSRs). However, the computation-intensive and latency-sensitive nature of these detection tasks often...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
734 Views
32 Pages

13 April 2026

Amid tightening emission rules and growing cold-chain demand, ports face complex multi-objective scheduling under dual uncertainties in vessel arrivals and operations. This work develops a multi-objective chance-constrained stochastic MILP model for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optimization Modeling and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
412 Views
24 Pages

Advanced Adaptive Scheduling for Autonomous Driving in Beyond-5G/6G Networks

  • Athanasios Kanavos,
  • Gerasimos Papanikolaou-Ntais and
  • Alexandros Kaloxylos

The shift toward autonomous driving is steadily reducing the need for human intervention in vehicular operations, but sustaining this shift depends on 6G networks that can reliably multiplex diverse, delay-critical services under deterministic latenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in 6G Wireless Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
538 Views
33 Pages

22 September 2026

The ultra-high data rate and ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) requirements of Industry 4.0 and smart factory applications have made the evaluation of Sub-Terahertz (Sub-THz) frequencies, especially the 140 GHz band, in sixth-generatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
227 Views
35 Pages

31 August 2026

Earthquake sequences can affect slope stability before recovery from an earlier event is complete, yet reduced-order models commonly treat successive earthquakes as independent inputs or prescribe cumulative damage through event-based increments. We...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Under Uncertainty, Noise, and Time Delays)
  • Article
  • Open Access
635 Views
41 Pages

Securing Cross-Chain Multisignature Execution Through Deterministic Enforcement and Explainable Anomaly Awareness

  • Usman Mohyud din Chaudhary,
  • Humaira Arshad,
  • Muhammad Ismail Mohmand,
  • Erum Ashraf and
  • Waheed Ali H. M. Ghanem

18 August 2026

Cross-chain bridges represent one of the most damaging attack surfaces in decentralized finance, with major exploits (e.g., Ronin, Wormhole, Nomad, Multichain) arising not from broken signature schemes but from failures in proof verification, replay...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convergence of Blockchain and AIoT: Secure and Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,326 Views
30 Pages

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Dual-Loop Adaptive Control Method and Simulation for Loitering Munition Fuze

  • Lingyun Zhang,
  • Haojie Li,
  • Chuanhao Zhang,
  • Yuan Zhao and ,
  • Shixiang Qiao and
  • Hang Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To address the poor adaptability and rigid initiation modes of the loitering munition fuze in complex environments and the inadequacy of single fuzzy control against strong interference, this paper proposes a dual-loop adaptive reconfiguration contro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,420 Views
13 Pages

Chaos Synchronization in Visible Light Communications with Variable Delays Induced by Multipath Fading

  • Pep Canyelles-Pericas,
  • Paul Anthony Haigh,
  • Zabih Ghassemlooy,
  • Andrew Burton and ,
  • Xuewu Dai,
  • Tran The Son,
  • Hoa Le-Minh,
  • Richard Binns and
  • Krishna Busawon
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Visible Light Communication (VLC) uses light-emitting diodes to provide wireless connectivity in public environments. Transmission security in this emerging channel is not trivial. Chaotic modulation techniques can provide encryption directly in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
339 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2026

This paper proposes Non-Uniform Adaptive Acquisition (NUAA), a signal-feature-matched non-uniform adaptive photonic sampling framework that recovers broadband radio-frequency (RF) waveforms from highly sparse programmable non-uniform photonic samplin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI for Photonics: Intelligent Imaging, Learning-Driven Optics, and Photonic Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,728 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Offloading Loading Optimization in Distributed Fault Diagnosis System with Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

  • Liang Yu,
  • Qixin Guo,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Minyan Shi and ,
  • Fucheng Yan and
  • Ran Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 March 2023

Artificial intelligence and distributed algorithms have been widely used in mechanical fault diagnosis with the explosive growth of diagnostic data. A novel intelligent fault diagnosis system framework that allows intelligent terminals to offload com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Vibration and Acoustics 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,491 Views
25 Pages

Production/Inventory Policies for a Two-Echelon System with Credit Period Incentives

  • Beatriz Abdul-Jalbar,
  • Roberto Dorta-Guerra,
  • José M. Gutiérrez and
  • Joaquín Sicilia

22 July 2021

Trade credit is a crucial source of capital particularly for small businesses with limited financing opportunities. Inventory models considering trade credit financing have been widely studied. However, while there is extensive research on the single...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Models and Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for Solving Complex Optimization Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,257 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Industrial Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,549 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2023

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework to cope with the problem of spectrum scarcity and poor wireless environment. The main goal of the proposed framework in this w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in the 'Sensor Networks' Section 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,248 Views
16 Pages

14 May 2020

In order to meet the ever-increasing traffic demand of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), channel bonding is introduced in IEEE 802.11 standards. Although channel bonding effectively increases the transmission rate, the wider channel reduces the n...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
270 Views
24 Pages

6 October 2026

This paper considers passive determination of the orbital state of a non-cooperative low-Earth-orbit satellite from radio signals received at several ground stations. Reversing the roles of direct geolocation in which a satellite with known ephemeris...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,091 Views
28 Pages

A statistical, data-driven method is presented that quantifies influences between variables of a dynamical system. The method is based on finding a suitable representation of points by fuzzy affiliations with respect to landmark points using the Scal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,262 Views
17 Pages

A Geometry-Based Beamforming Channel Model for UAV mmWave Communications

  • Kai Mao,
  • Qiuming Zhu,
  • Maozhong Song,
  • Boyu Hua and ,
  • Weizhi Zhong and
  • Xijuan Ye
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 December 2020

Considering the three-dimensional (3D) trajectory, 3D antenna array, and 3D beamforming of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a novel non-stationary millimeter wave (mmWave) geometry-based stochastic model for UAV to vehicle communication channels is pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Massive MIMO and mm-Wave Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,845 Views
23 Pages

29 October 2025

Time-sensitive networking (TSN), a cutting-edge technology enabling efficient real-time communication and control, provides strong support for traditional Ethernet in terms of real-time performance, reliability, and deterministic transmission. In TSN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Algorithms in Wireless Communication and Internet of Things (IoT), 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
643 Views
16 Pages

Controller Area Network (CAN) remains a key in-vehicle communication protocol for distributed automotive control systems, where predictable communication timing is essential for coordinated operation of electronic control units (ECUs). This paper pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
825 Views
43 Pages

17 August 2026

Lower-limb rehabilitation exoskeletons have the potential to improve gait recovery after stroke by providing intensive and repetitive training. However, conventional control strategies often rely on fixed control parameters and exhibit limited adapta...

(This article belongs to the Section Wearables)

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