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29 December 2025

This paper presents an improved knowledge-based genetic algorithm for relay satellite task scheduling. It aims to address the issue of ensuring high-priority tasks under complex constraints and resource competition. The algorithm enhances the high-pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,338 Views
15 Pages

Distribution System Service Restoration Using Electric Vehicles

  • Swapna Ganapaneni,
  • Srinivasa Varma Pinni,
  • Ch. Rami Reddy,
  • Flah Aymen and ,
  • Mohammed Alqarni,
  • Basem Alamri and
  • Habib Kraiem
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2022

Nowadays the utilization of Electric Vehicles (EVs) has greatly increased. They are attaining greater attention due to their impacts on the grid at the distribution level. However, due to the increased need for electricity, EVs are also used to serve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement in Renewable Energy Technologies and Smart Grid)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,107 Views
21 Pages

5 April 2019

With the development of wireless communication technology, wireless body area networks (WBANs) have become a fundamental support tool in medical applications. In a real hospital scenario, however, the interference between wireless medical devices and...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,161 Views
31 Pages

25 July 2025

Emergency material scheduling (EMS) is a core component of post-disaster emergency response, with its efficiency directly impacting rescue effectiveness and the satisfaction of affected populations. However, due to severe road damage, limited availab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,986 Views
23 Pages

A Dynamic TDMA Scheduling Strategy for MANETs Based on Service Priority

  • Yufeng Ye,
  • Xiangyin Zhang,
  • Lanfeng Xie and
  • Kaiyu Qin

16 December 2020

Physical resource allocation strategy is a key factor affecting the performance of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), which serves as a network model widely used in the sensor and detection field. For various perceived service information, it is signif...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,213 Views
17 Pages

Ship Scheduling Algorithm Based on Markov-Modulated Fluid Priority Queues

  • Jianzhi Deng,
  • Shuilian Lv,
  • Yun Li,
  • Liping Luo and ,
  • Yishan Su,
  • Xiaolin Wang and
  • Xinzhi Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 July 2025

As a key node in port logistics systems, ship anchorage is often faced with congestion caused by ship flow fluctuations, multi-priority scheduling imbalances and the poor adaptability of scheduling models to complex environments. To solve the above p...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optimization Control and Fault Diagnosis of Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
610 Views
30 Pages

12 September 2026

Laser weeding offers significant advantages over conventional weed control methods; however, its practical deployment in maize fields remains challenging due to dynamic target variations, imprecise weed localization, and inefficient laser execution....

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
371 Views
31 Pages

To address the strong constraints, multiple objectives, and high dynamism of space telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) resource scheduling in flight-type launch scenarios, this study proposes a dynamic scheduling approach that integrates prio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Guidance, Navigation, and Control for High-Precision Space Missions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
5,804 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2019

Emergency observations are missions executed by Earth observation satellites to support urgent ground operations. Emergency observations become more important for meeting the requirements of highly dynamic and highly time-sensitive observation missio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing for Earth Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,355 Views
20 Pages

Task Scheduling Based on Adaptive Priority Experience Replay on Cloud Platforms

  • Cuixia Li,
  • Wenlong Gao,
  • Li Shi,
  • Zhiquan Shang and
  • Shuyan Zhang

Task scheduling algorithms based on reinforce learning (RL) have been important methods with which to improve the performance of cloud platforms; however, due to the dynamics and complexity of the cloud environment, the action space has a very high d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques in Computing and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,674 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
6 Citations
2,834 Views
16 Pages

15 February 2024

The problem of multiple DAGs sharing satellite constellation resources has gradually attracted widespread attention. Due to the limited computing resources and energy consumption of satellite networks, it is necessary to formulate a reasonable multi-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging and New Technologies in Mobile Edge Computing Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,588 Views
18 Pages

1 April 2020

As the limitation of energy consumption of real-time embedded systems becomes more and more strict, it has been difficult to ignore the time overhead and energy consumption of context switches for fixed-priority tasks with preemption scheduling (FPP)...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,025 Views
24 Pages

7 February 2024

The Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) protocol is known for its suitability in highly reliable applications within industrial wireless sensor networks. One of the most significant challenges in TSCH is determining a schedule with a minimal slotfram...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in Smart Cities, Industry 4.0, and Agriculture 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,272 Views
21 Pages

18 August 2022

In order to effectively allocate processes of Aa single complex product to two workshops with the same equipment, an integrated scheduling algorithm of two workshops based on process end time driven and processing area priority is proposed. To optimi...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,929 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,563 Views
25 Pages

27 March 2025

With the increasing predominance of public cloud computing, managing the cost of usage for end users has become vital in importance. Task scheduling has emerged as an important target of research in this area. The present work considers the problem o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,571 Views
19 Pages

10 October 2022

Symbolic execution is well known as a dynamic vulnerability discovery technique. Its greatest advantage is the capability to analyze the execution information of the program and to explore the path in the program deterministically. This is a more acc...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,784 Views
17 Pages

Optimal Scheduling of Energy Storage Using A New Priority-Based Smart Grid Control Method

  • Luis Galván,
  • Juan M. Navarro,
  • Eduardo Galván,
  • Juan M. Carrasco and
  • Andrés Alcántara

13 February 2019

This paper presents a method to optimally use an energy storage system (such as a battery) on a microgrid with load and photovoltaic generation. The purpose of the method is to employ the photovoltaic generation and energy storage systems to reduce t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Energy Resources Management 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,384 Views
20 Pages

13 December 2020

Project Planning and Control (PPC) problems with stochastic job processing times belong to the problem class of Stochastic Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problems (SRCMPSP). A practical example of this problem class is the industrial d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation-Optimization in Logistics, Transportation, and SCM)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,822 Views
15 Pages

2 October 2025

In pharmaceutical manufacturing, the reliability of machines and utility assets is critical to ensuring product quality, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted operations. Traditional Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM) models quantify asset criticality u...

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmaceutical Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,803 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2017

With the rapid growth of thermostatically controlled loads, active power fluctuation and peak demand growth within an autonomous micro-grid become serious problems. This paper tries to suppress power fluctuation and shave peak demand for a micro-grid...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,013 Views
22 Pages

Performance and Energy Consumption Analysis for UWSNs with Priority Scheduling Based on Access Probability and Wakeup Threshold

  • Ning Li,
  • Zhiyu Xiang,
  • Liang Feng,
  • Zhiqiang Gao and ,
  • Jiaqi Liu and
  • Haitao Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 January 2025

As advancements in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology unfold, the role of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is becoming increasingly pivotal. However, the high energy consumption in these networks can significantly reduce their...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,279 Views
24 Pages

An Innovative Priority-Aware Mission Planning Framework for an Agile Earth Observation Satellite

  • Guangtong Zhu,
  • Zixuan Zheng,
  • Chenhao Ouyang,
  • Yufei Guo and
  • Pengyu Sun

Earth observation satellites, particularly agile Earth observation satellites (AEOSs) with enhanced attitude maneuverability, have become increasingly crucial in emergency response and disaster monitoring operations. Efficient mission planning for de...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,545 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Objective Task-Aware Offloading and Scheduling Framework for Internet of Things Logistics

  • Asif Umer,
  • Mushtaq Ali,
  • Ali Imran Jehangiri,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Junaid Shuja

9 April 2024

IoT-based smart transportation monitors vehicles, cargo, and driver statuses for safe movement. Due to the limited computational capabilities of the sensors, the IoT devices require powerful remote servers to execute their tasks, and this phenomenon...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,196 Views
14 Pages

5 March 2019

The study presented in this paper aims to show the impact of introducing a priority-based internal power flow management system on the local energy market of prosumers with solar panels, fuels cells and batteries. The community used for the study is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from EEEIC 2018—18th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,992 Views
28 Pages

12 December 2025

This paper addresses the flexible job-shop scheduling problem with multiple time factors—namely, transportation time and setup time—as well as job priorities (referred to as FJSP-JPC-TST). An optimization model is established with the obj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,322 Views
14 Pages

A Biased-Randomized Discrete-Event Algorithm for the Hybrid Flow Shop Problem with Time Dependencies and Priority Constraints

  • Christoph Laroque,
  • Madlene Leißau,
  • Pedro Copado,
  • Christin Schumacher and ,
  • Javier Panadero and
  • Angel A. Juan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 February 2022

Based on a real-world application in the semiconductor industry, this article models and discusses a hybrid flow shop problem with time dependencies and priority constraints. The analyzed problem considers a production where a large number of heterog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,007 Views
22 Pages

A QoS-Aware Machine Learning-Based Framework for AMI Applications in Smart Grids

  • Asfandyar Khan,
  • Arif Iqbal Umar,
  • Arslan Munir,
  • Syed Hamad Shirazi and ,
  • Muazzam A. Khan and
  • Muhammad Adnan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 December 2021

The Internet of things (IoT) enables a diverse set of applications such as distribution automation, smart cities, wireless sensor networks, and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). In smart grids (SGs), quality of service (QoS) and AMI traffic man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,193 Views
16 Pages

CubeSat Mission Scheduling Method Considering Operational Reliability

  • Jingjing Zhang,
  • Chenyang He,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Xianjun Qi and
  • Xi Yang

19 January 2024

Mission scheduling is an effective method to increase the value of satellite missions and can greatly improve satellite resource management and quality of service. Based on the priority-based task scheduling model, this paper proposes a CubeSat sched...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,315 Views
16 Pages

The development of wireless power transfer (WPT) facilitates wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs) receiving considerable attention in the sensor network research community. Most existing works mainly focus on general charging patterns and me...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,115 Views
21 Pages

10 January 2025

The rapid expansion of software applications has led to an increase in the frequency of bugs, which are typically reported through user-submitted bug reports. Developers prioritize these reports based on severity and project schedules. However, the m...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,552 Views
25 Pages

A Real-Time Microkernel for the dsPIC33E Family

  • Wilmar Hernandez and
  • Norberto Cañas

A microkernel for the dsPIC33E microcontroller family is presented. This is useful because existing microkernels and real-time operating systems do not implement the real-time locking policy immediate ceiling priority protocol (ICPP) for this family,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Embedded Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
476 Views
32 Pages

A Hybrid Reverse Learning Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Aircraft Maintenance Scheduling Based on the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem Model

  • Jiyan Zeng,
  • Yujie Cheng,
  • Chen Lu,
  • Zili Wang and ,
  • Xuanbo Liu,
  • Xinwei Wang and
  • Dengwei Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Aircraft maintenance scheduling is a critical task in air transportation and national defense security, characterized by complex multi-step procedures, strict precedence dependencies, and multi-resource constraints involving personnel skills and equi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization-Based Motion Planning & Control for Autonomous Driving in Dynamic Environments)
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  • Open Access

3 November 2026

The JSSP is recognized as one of the most difficult combinatorial optimization problems and is classified as NP-hard. In this study, three metaheuristics are presented and evaluated. The first, EGD–ILS, is a new hybrid metaheuristic. Its first...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optimization Methods and Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,757 Views
28 Pages

30 May 2024

Mission scheduling is an essential function of the management control of remote-sensing satellite application systems. With the continuous development of remote-sensing satellite applications, mission scheduling faces significant challenges. Existing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Adaptive Control, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
179 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2026

Summer maintenance of grass-covered airport areas is an important operational task affecting airport safety and availability. In contrast to winter maintenance, systematic decision-support frameworks for summer operations remain limited. This paper p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
154 Views
38 Pages

26 October 2026

Industrial digital twin networks require low-latency delivery and temporal alignment of correlated multi-source traffic under dynamic congestion. This paper proposes a synchronization-constrained multi-agent traffic-scheduling method for industrial d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
533 Views
23 Pages

Dynamic Economic–Environmental Dispatch with Generator Priority: A Machine Learning–Optimization Framework

  • Abdelkadir Fellague,
  • Latifa Dekhici,
  • Khaled Guerraiche,
  • David A. Pelta and
  • José Luis Verdegay

18 June 2026

The efficient management of power systems requires balancing electricity generation costs with associated environmental emissions under dynamically varying demand. This paper proposes a two-stage approach that combines machine learning (ML) with a me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Dynamic Scheduling: Optimization and Management)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,371 Views
17 Pages

On the Design of Efficient Hierarchic Architecture for Software Defined Vehicular Networks

  • Muhammad Adnan,
  • Jawaid Iqbal,
  • Abdul Waheed,
  • Noor Ul Amin and ,
  • Mahdi Zareei,
  • Shidrokh Goudarzi and
  • Asif Umer
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 February 2021

Modern vehicles are equipped with various sensors, onboard units, and devices such as Application Unit (AU) that support routing and communication. In VANETs, traffic management and Quality of Service (QoS) are the main research dimensions to be cons...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
949 Views
21 Pages

SFC-GS: A Multi-Objective Optimization Service Function Chain Scheduling Algorithm Based on Matching Game

  • Shi Kuang,
  • Moshu Niu,
  • Sunan Wang,
  • Haoran Li and ,
  • Siyuan Liang and
  • Rui Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 October 2025

Service Function Chain (SFC) is a framework that dynamically orchestrates Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and is essential to enhancing resource scheduling efficiency. However, traditional scheduling methods face several limitations, such as low mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,502 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2021

The variability and uncertainty caused by the increased penetrations of renewable energy sources must be properly considered in day-ahead unit commitment, optimal power flow, and even real-time economic dispatch problems. Besides achieving minimum co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,639 Views
12 Pages

A Priority-Based Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) Scheme for Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs)

  • Hui Zhang,
  • Rongqing Zhang,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Dongliang Duan and ,
  • Xiang Cheng and
  • Liuqing Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 August 2021

In this paper, we investigate the intersection traffic management for connected automated vehicles (CAVs). In particular, a decentralized autonomous intersection management scheme that takes into account both the traffic efficiency and scheduling fle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrified Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,260 Views
22 Pages

10 March 2026

The paper explores an advanced single-server M/G/1 retrial queueing model that employs a push-out service with two unique classes of customers, i.e., transient (priority) customers and recurrent customers. The arrivals of customers are Poisson proces...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,657 Views
17 Pages

10 July 2025

In contrast to terrestrial networks, the rapid movement of low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites causes frequent changes in the topology of intersatellite links (ISLs), resulting in dynamic shifts in transmission paths and fluctuations in multi-hop latenc...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,027 Views
20 Pages

Intelligent Queue Scheduling Method for SPMA-Based UAV Networks

  • Kui Yang,
  • Chenyang Xu,
  • Guanhua Qiao,
  • Jinke Zhong and
  • Xiaoning Zhang

6 August 2025

Static Priority-based Multiple Access (SPMA) is an emerging and promising wireless MAC protocol which is widely used in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks. UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) networks, also known as drone networks, refer to a system of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Detection, Security, and Communication for UAV: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
17,326 Views
26 Pages

Efficient Aggregation of Multiple Classes of Information in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Xiaoling Qiu,
  • Haiping Liu,
  • Deshi Li,
  • Jennifer Yick and ,
  • Dipak Ghosal and
  • Biswanath Mukherjee
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 October 2009

Congestion in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can lead to buffer overflow, resource waste and delay or loss of critical information from the sensors. In this paper, we propose the Priority-based Coverage-aware Congestion Control (PCC) algorithm which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,977 Views
16 Pages

High Throughput Priority-Based Layered QC-LDPC Decoder with Double Update Queues for Mitigating Pipeline Conflicts

  • Yunfeng Li,
  • Yingchun Li,
  • Nan Ye,
  • Tianyang Chen and ,
  • Zhijie Wang and
  • Junjie Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 May 2022

A high-throughput layered decoder for quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is required for communication systems. The preferred way to improve the throughput is to insert pipeline stages and increase the operating frequency, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Wireless Communication Technologies in Industrial IoT Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,007 Views
21 Pages

Reliable Communication in Distributed Photovoltaic Sensor Networks: A Large Language Model-Driven Approach

  • Wu Dong,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Guanghui Zhang and ,
  • Ji Shi,
  • Xun Zhao,
  • Zhongming Lei and
  • Wei Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 January 2026

Distributed photovoltaic (DPV) systems present a cost-effective and sustainable industrial energy solution, yet their reliable monitoring faces significant technological constraints. This paper proposes a hierarchical optimization framework that inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Enabling Wireless Spectrum Access)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,022 Views
25 Pages

To address the inherent challenges of deep space exploration, such as communication delays and the unpredictability of spacecraft environments, this study focuses on enhancing spacecraft adaptability and autonomy, which are essential for Autonomous S...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)

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