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  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,884 Views
17 Pages

QoS Aware and Fault Tolerance Based Software-Defined Vehicular Networks Using Cloud-Fog Computing

  • Sidra Abid Syed,
  • Munaf Rashid,
  • Samreen Hussain,
  • Fahad Azim and ,
  • Hira Zahid,
  • Asif Umer,
  • Abdul Waheed,
  • Mahdi Zareei and
  • Cesar Vargas-Rosales
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

5 January 2022

Software-defined network (SDN) and vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) combined provided a software-defined vehicular network (SDVN). To increase the quality of service (QoS) of vehicle communication and to make the overall process efficient, researcher...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,376 Views
17 Pages

A Heuristic Integrated Scheduling Algorithm Based on Improved Dijkstra Algorithm

  • Pengwei Zhou,
  • Zhiqiang Xie,
  • Wei Zhou and
  • Zhenjiang Tan

10 October 2023

In the process of the integrated scheduling of multi-variety and small-batch complex products, the process structure and attribute characteristics are often ignored, which affects the overall scheduling effect. Aiming at solving this problem, a heuri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,915 Views
17 Pages

3 December 2018

WirelessHART is a wireless sensor network that is widely used in real-time demand analyses. A key challenge faced by WirelessHART is to ensure the character of real-time data transmission in the network. Identifying a priority assignment strategy tha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-Time Sensor Networks and Systems for the Industrial IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,685 Views
25 Pages

In cognitive radio networks, channel assembling allows secondary users (SUs) to expand network capacity and improve spectrum utilization. Scheduling strategies only based on heterogeneous service classification cannot guarantee the delivery priority...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ubiquitous Sensor Networks, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,935 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2016

Currently, wireless body area networks (WBANs) are effectively used for health monitoring services. However, in cases where WBANs are densely deployed, interference among WBANs can cause serious degradation of network performance and reliability. Int...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,151 Views
12 Pages

Priority Wise Electric Vehicle Charging for Grid Load Minimization

  • Sayali Ashok Jawale,
  • Sanjay Kumar Singh,
  • Pushpendra Singh and
  • Mohan Lal Kolhe

19 September 2022

The number of Electric vehicle (EV) users is expected to increase in the future. The driving profile of EV users is unpredictable, necessitating the design of charging scheduling protocols for EV charging stations servicing multiple EVs. A large EV c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Sustainable Electrical Energy Technologies)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,715 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2020

Traffic congestion is, on a daily basis, responsible for a significant amount of economic and social costs. One of the critical examples is the obstruction of priority vehicles during fast trajectories, which potentially costs lives and property in c...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,744 Views
34 Pages

3 December 2025

To address the efficiency and safety challenges arising from the mixed operation of autonomous and human-driven container trucks during the automation transformation of traditional container terminals, this study designed a simulation-based optimizat...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,753 Views
19 Pages

6 December 2024

The optimal dispatching of renewable energy power stations is particularly crucial in scenarios where the stations face energy rationing due to the large proportion of renewable energy integrated into the power system. In order to achieve safe, econo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Power Generation and Power Demand Side Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,311 Views
14 Pages

9 December 2022

Giving priority to the development of public transit is an important way to achieve efficient, convenient, safe, comfortable, economic, reliable, green and low-carbon sustainable development. In view of the highly dispersed and regular passenger flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,034 Views
14 Pages

18 November 2021

This paper studies the production process of a shipbuilding enterprise. The company suffers from long manufacturing cycle, low utilization rate of personnel and an unbalanced production line. To solve these problems, the lean shipbuilding mode, mainl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modern Technologies and Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
404 Views
37 Pages

20 August 2026

As data centers become major and schedulable loads of the new power system, connecting them to multiple microgrids offers a promising route to absorb local renewable energy through cross-domain coordination. However, when the microgrids belong to com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
369 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2026

Post-disaster emergency logistics is often organized according to prespecified response periods, although operational relief tasks may be completed earlier or later than those calendar boundaries. This study develops a task-completion-triggered multi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Complex Systems: Modeling, Optimization, and Decision Support Across Domains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,435 Views
33 Pages

26 July 2021

Freight rail transport plays key role in the transition to sustainable development. However, on European mainlines, freight trains have to cope with busy passenger operation—mostly in the form of (integrated) periodic timetables. Freight trains are c...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Freight Transportation System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,599 Views
20 Pages

23 February 2024

Industry 4.0, with its focus on flexibility and customizability, is pushing in the direction of wireless communication in future smart factories, in particular, massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) and its future evolution of large intellige...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,176 Views
17 Pages

25 September 2022

As one of the power auxiliary services, peak shaving is the key problem to be solved in the power grid. With the rapid development of DGs, the traditional peak shaving scheduling method for centralized adjustable energy is no longer applicable. Thus,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wave Energy Technologies and Optimization Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
357 Views
24 Pages

23 August 2026

SBS-modified asphalt is widely used in high-grade pavements for its excellent rutting and fatigue resistance; however, how its friction behavior evolves under submerged conditions with surface distress remains poorly understood. To address this gap,...

(This article belongs to the Section Tribology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
763 Views
22 Pages

Electric Vehicle Cluster Charging Scheduling Optimization: A Forecast-Driven Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Method

  • Yi Zhao,
  • Xian Jia,
  • Shuanbin Tan,
  • Yan Liang and ,
  • Pengtao Wang and
  • Yi Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 January 2026

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has posed significant challenges to the security of distribution grid loads. To address issues such as increased grid load fluctuations, rising user charging costs, and rapid load surges around midni...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advancing the Energy Internet: Innovations and Solutions for a Sustainable Energy Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,932 Views
27 Pages

Method of Assessing Bus Stops Safety Based on Three Groups of Criteria

  • Agnieszka A. Tubis,
  • Emilia T. Skupień and
  • Mateusz Rydlewski

24 July 2021

Bus stops are an essential element of the public transport system and affect its users’ safety level. They are where the passengers gather who want to use bus transport, and where vehicles stop to exchange passenger flows. Most studies devoted to ass...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Traffic Engineering and Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,181 Views
23 Pages

An Integrated Approach to Design Methane Drainage Boreholes in Post-Mining Areas of an Active Coal Mine: A Case Study from the Pniówek Coal Mine

  • Weronika Kaczmarczyk-Kuszpit,
  • Małgorzata Słota-Valim,
  • Aleksander Wrana,
  • Radosław Surma and ,
  • Artur Badylak,
  • Renata Cicha-Szot,
  • Mirosław Wojnicki,
  • Alicja Krzemień,
  • Zbigniew Lubosik and
  • Grzegorz Leśniak
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

29 October 2025

In response to the imperative to mitigate methane—one of the most potent greenhouse gases—this study proposes and tests an integrated workflow for designing methane drainage boreholes targeting post-mining areas in an active underground c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
181 Views
20 Pages

24 October 2026

Heritage managers must decide where detailed building inspections should begin as environmental pressures change across large and diverse portfolios. This study develops a digital twin-ready regional screening framework linking official heritage inve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Twins and Performance-Driven Conservation of Historic Built Systems: Buildings, Infrastructures and Industrial Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
776 Views
29 Pages

Flexibility Resource Services and Electricity Cost Optimization Oriented Control Strategy of Data Centers Based on Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  • Pengfei He,
  • Rongfu Sun,
  • Antun Pfeifer,
  • Ge Wang and ,
  • Qinzhe Liu,
  • Neven Duić,
  • Zhao Zhen,
  • Fei Wang and
  • Yunpeng Xiao
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

As the core of digital infrastructure, the exceptionally rapid development of data centers (DCs) faces serious challenges due to their high electricity costs. Traditional approaches treat computational task scheduling separately from different physic...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,905 Views
17 Pages

Monthly Hydropower Scheduling of Cascaded Reservoirs Using a Genetic Algorithm with a Simulation Procedure

  • Deji Baima,
  • Guoyuan Qian,
  • Jingzhen Luo,
  • Pengcheng Wang and ,
  • Hao Zheng and
  • Jinwen Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2024

This study integrates genetic algorithms with simulation programs, applying the genetic algorithm’s (GA) fitness calculation within the simulation to reduce complexity and significantly improve the efficiency of the optimization process. Additi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of Smart Technologies in Water Resources Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,295 Views
18 Pages

Unified Algorithm for Demand-Side Appliance Commitment

  • Ahmad H. Besheer,
  • Momen S. Agamy,
  • Hassan M. Emara and
  • Ahmed Bahgat

30 November 2018

Recent energy efficiency and conservation programs have created an unprecedented demand for home energy management systems (HEMS) in the residential sector aimed at reducing electricity consumption and saving on electricity bills. This paper gives a...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
363 Views
28 Pages

16 September 2026

This paper proposes a Priority–Urgency Index (PUI) mechanism to address the multi-objective conflict problem in electric vehicle charging scheduling at public fast-charging stations. The mechanism dynamically quantifies the charging urgency of...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,295 Views
14 Pages

Neurological Validation of ASD Diagnostic Criteria Using Frontal Alpha and Theta Asymmetry

  • Vicki Bitsika,
  • Christopher F. Sharpley,
  • Ian D. Evans and
  • Kirstan A. Vessey

18 August 2024

Background/Objectives: Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) relies on the observation of difficulties in social communication and interaction, plus the presence of repetitive and restrictive behaviors. The identification of neurological correl...

(This article belongs to the Section Clinical Neurology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,767 Views
18 Pages

14 March 2022

As an efficient way to integrate multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) and the user side, a microgrid is mainly faced with the problems of small-scale volatility, uncertainty, intermittency and demand-side uncertainty of DERs. The traditional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning for Intelligent Sensing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
262 Views
34 Pages

An Expert-Informed Stakeholder-Risk Model for Intelligent Transport System Integration in Road Transport Enterprises

  • Abdelaal Ahmed Mostafa Ahmed Ragas,
  • Alexander Chupin,
  • Marina Bolsunovskaya,
  • Alexander Leksashov and ,
  • Svetlana Shirokova and
  • Zhanna Chupina
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 October 2026

Intelligent transport system (ITS) integration is not solely a technological task; its implementation also depends on organizational conditions, stakeholder coordination, professional competencies, data governance, and managerial decision-making. Exi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Economy and Sustainable Industrial Systems: Technology, Transport and Behavioral Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
947 Views
17 Pages

Acoustic Characteristics and Influencing Mechanisms of the Traditional Ancestral Temple Theatre in Northeast Jiangxi

  • Wei Xiong,
  • Ziteng Hu,
  • Jianting Liu,
  • Kai Ma and ,
  • Zeyu Lu and
  • Xin Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 December 2025

Currently, there remains a lack of systematic quantitative analysis of the acoustic impact mechanism of ancestral temple theatres in relation to their core function of opera performance. This paper takes the Zhaomutang—a typical ancestral templ...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,796 Views
34 Pages

Game Theoretical Demand Response Management and Short-Term Load Forecasting by Knowledge Based Systems on the basis of Priority Index

  • Mahnoor Khan,
  • Nadeem Javaid,
  • Sajjad,
  • Abdullah and ,
  • Adnan Naseem,
  • Salman Ahmed,
  • Muhammad Sajid Riaz,
  • Mariam Akbar and
  • Manzoor Ilahi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 December 2018

Demand Response Management (DRM) is considered one of the crucial aspects of the smart grid as it helps to lessen the production cost of electricity and utility bills. DRM becomes a fascinating research area when numerous utility companies are involv...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,361 Views
35 Pages

8 April 2025

Reasonable planning and scheduling in low-carbon parks is conducive to coordinating and optimizing energy resources, saving total system costs, and improving equipment utilization efficiency. In this paper, the optimization study of a distributed pho...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
769 Views
20 Pages

Effects of Reduced Irrigation on Growth, Yield and Water Use Efficiency of Potato Under Drip Irrigation with Plastic Mulch

  • Pengde Chen,
  • Jinyong Zhu,
  • Zhitao Li,
  • Xiaoqiang Qiu and ,
  • Minmin Bao,
  • Panfeng Yao,
  • Zhenzhen Bi,
  • Yuanming Li,
  • Yuhui Liu and
  • Zhen Liu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

24 April 2026

Water scarcity is the primary constraint on the development of the potato industry in Northwest China. Improving water use efficiency (WUE) under limited water supply is, therefore, an urgent priority to promote the green and sustainable development...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Water Management in Arid, Semi-Arid and Drought Prone Areas—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
330 Views
26 Pages

24 September 2026

Rural residential buildings in China’s Central Plains transitional climate zone face intertwined challenges of high heating/cooling energy consumption, severe indoor air pollution from solid-fuel combustion, and associated public health burdens...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality and Health)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
14,271 Views
14 Pages

10 May 2021

The Indus basin of Pakistan occupies about 16 million ha (Mha) of land. The Indus River and its tributaries are the primary sources of surface water. An estimated 122 km3 of surface water is diverted annually through an extensive canal system to irri...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,578 Views
23 Pages

8 February 2023

The impact of the built environment on the ridership of ride-hailing results depends on the spatial grid scale. The existing research on the demand model of ride-hailing ignores the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). Taking Chengdu as an example,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transportation Big Data and Its Applications)