This study evaluates an innovative control approach to assistive robotics by integrating brain–computer interface (BCI) technology and eye tracking into a shared control system for a mobile augmented reality user interface. Aimed at enhancing t...
Due to the dynamics and uncertainty of the current network environment, access control is one of the most important factors in guaranteeing network information security. How to construct a scientific and accurate access control model is a current res...
The prevalence of unique, disparate satellite command and control (SATC2) systems in current satellite operations is problematic. As such, the United States Air Force aims to consolidate SATC2 systems into an enterprise solution that utilizes a commo...
Untrusted servers are servers or storage entities lacking complete trust from the data owner or users. This characterization implies that the server hosting encrypted data may not enjoy full trust from data owners or users, stemming from apprehension...
We focus on dual-user operation, where two users control a single remote robot equipped with a force sensor using haptic interface devices. We employ a cooperative work in which the two users control the remote robot to collaborate with remote robot...
In an effort to upgrade and provide a unified and improved instrument control and data acquisition system for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) instrument suite—biological small-angle neutron scatter...
This paper investigates the fixed-time tracking control problem for underactuated quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle systems subject to mass parameter uncertainties and user-defined time constraints. For the parameter uncertainties inherent in the sys...
This research intends to understand whether users would adopt the interactive interface of hand gesture recognition for XRSPACE MANOVA in the virtual-reality environment. Different from the traditional joystick control and external sensors, XRSPACE M...
Heat pumps (HPs) are considered as a key technology in the future energy system. Besides technical and ecological aspects, user acceptance and user friendliness are also essential. The aim of the study was therefore to research which aspects are deci...
The energy consumption management of small base stations (SBSs) in wireless caching networks with dense deployment of SBSs is an urgent problem to be solved. This paper jointly optimizes the SBS state control and user association problems in caching...
Massive MIMO enabled heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) have a wide application prospect in improving end-to-end performance. To increase the performance of energy efficiency (EE), we formulate the joint optimization problem of power control a...
The deployment of 5G technology represents a significant advancement in telecommunications, offering unprecedented speed, connectivity, and innovation opportunities. However, this progress comes at a significant cost for Public Land Mobile Network (P...
Mobility is essential for individuals with physical disabilities, and wheelchairs significantly enhance their quality of life. Recent advancements focus on developing sophisticated control systems for effective and efficient interaction. This study e...
Mobile edge computing (MEC) has become an effective framework for latency-sensitive and computation-intensive applications by deploying computing resources at network edge. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted MEC leverages UAV mobility and com...
Wearable sensor systems with transmitting capabilities are currently employed for the biometric screening of exercise activities and other performance data. Such technology is generally wireless and enables the non-invasive monitoring of signals to t...
In the digital age, sharing moments through photos has become a daily habit. However, every face captured in these photos is vulnerable to unauthorized identification and potential misuse through AI-powered synthetic content generation. Previously, w...
In supervisory control tasks, particularly in high-risk fields, operators need to collaborate with automated intelligent agents to manage dynamic, time-sensitive, and uncertain information. Effective human–agent collaboration relies on transpar...
Reducing energy consumption is vital to save natural resources and contribute to the sustainable development in any sector of society. In the building sector, there are many well-known energy efficiency strategies currently being applied. However, co...
Microservice deployment methods in edge-native computing environments hold great potential for minimizing user application response time. However, most existing studies overlook the communication overhead between microservices and controllers, as wel...
Healthcare is now an important part of daily life because of rising consciousness of health management. Medical professionals can know users’ health condition if they are able to access information immediately. Telemedicine systems, which provides lo...
There are multiple types of services in the Internet of Things, and existing access control methods do not consider situations wherein the same types of services have multiple access options. In order to ensure the QoS quality of user access and real...
In the paper, a coordinated control methodology of single-phase (1-P) end-users switching operations on the phases of an active electric distribution network (AEDN) has been proposed to obtain a minimum unbalance degree at the coupling common point (...
5 June 2022
Given that Social Networking Service (SNS) has emerged as the most influential platform, which can lead users to addictive smartphone use, it is necessary to investigate which psychological variables lead smartphone-based SNS users to addictive smart...
12 July 2021
Physical activity interventions for youth are direly needed given low adherence to physical activity guidelines, but many interventions suffer from low user engagement. Exergames that require bodily movement while played may provide an engaging form...
Generally, biometric authentication is conducted either by mobile terminals in local-processing mode or by public servers in centralized-processing mode. In the former mode, each user has full control of his/her biometric data, but the authentication...
In this paper, a user thermal comfort criterion based on predicted mean vote (PMV) values is introduced to realize the optimal operation of an improved energy hub (IEH) while considering thermal inertia and user thermal behavior. A three-layer optimi...
This paper presents an occupant-centric theory of buildings’ indoor-environmental control systems and their user interfaces. Buildings typically can have multiple devices and systems to maintain indoor-environmental conditions within certain ranges i...
To communicate efficiently with a prospective user, auditory interfaces are employed in mobile communication devices. Diverse sounds in different volumes are used to alert the user in various devices such as mobile phones, modern laptops and domestic...
As the threats to the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to increase, access control is widely used in various IoT information systems. However, due to the shortcomings of IoT devices such as low computing power, it is impossible to use high-performan...
The premise of electric vehicles (EVs) participating in the frequency regulation (FR) of power systems is to satisfy the charging demands of users. In view of problems such as the uncertainty of EV users’ departure time and the increase in powe...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently been widely employed as effective wireless platforms for aiding users in various situations, particularly in hard-to-reach scenarios like post-disaster relief efforts. This study employs multiple UAVs to...
The topics of virtual, mixed, and extended reality have now become key areas in various fields of scientific and industrial applications, and the interest in them is made tangible by the numerous papers available in the scientific literature. In this...
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an innovative area of interest in modern mobility that is rapidly evolving while facing complex challenges. Traditional IoV networks are susceptible to intrusion threats, which can lead to data leakage and seizure of...
Collaborative manufacturing is a key enabler of Industry 4.0 that requires secure data sharing among multiple parties. However, intercompany data-sharing raises important privacy and security concerns, particularly given intellectual property and bus...
The research on the electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain–computer interface (BCI) is widely utilized for wheelchair control. The ability of the user is one factor of BCI efficiency. Therefore, we focused on BCI tasks and protocols to yield...
The rollout of 5G Standalone networks introduces unprecedented flexibility and performance through service-based architecture (SBA), virtualization, open APIs, and network slicing, while simultaneously expanding the attack surface across control, use...
A global human–robot interface that meets the needs of Technical Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialists (TEDAX) for the manipulation of a robotic arm is of utmost importance to make the task of handling explosives safer, more intuitive and als...
This entry explains how China’s e-CNY, the retail form of its Central Bank Digital Currency, translates three design choices into improved access, affordability, and reliability: (1) enabling wallet-to-wallet payments on the CBDC ledger with se...
With the rapid development of the electric vehicle (EV) market, effective charging control is essential for enhancing user experience and preserving battery health. Across various scenarios, this work proposes a user-demand-oriented healthy charging...
As VR technology advances and network speeds rise, social VR platforms are gaining traction. These platforms enable multiple users to socialize and collaborate within a shared virtual environment using avatars. Virtual reality, with its ability to au...
Energy consumption is increasing daily, and with that comes a continuous increase in energy costs. Predicting future energy consumption and building an effective energy management system for smart homes has become essential for many industrialists to...
Standalone Name Resolution (SNR) is an essential component of many Information-Centric Networking (ICN) infrastructures that maps and stores the mappings of IDs and locators. The delivery of data can be realized only when the name resolution process...
Healthcare faces a critical challenge: protecting sensitive medical data while enabling necessary clinical access. Evolving user behaviors, dynamic clinical contexts, and strict regulatory requirements demand adaptive access control mechanisms. Despi...
Current research on the participation of inverter-based air conditioners in demand response often prioritizes system performance during regulation periods yet frequently overlooks the prolonged high indoor temperatures that follow. Furthermore, overs...
The overlay integration of low-power femtocells over macrocells in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) plays an important role in dealing with the increasing demand of spectral efficiency, coverage and higher data rates, at a nominal cost to network ope...
To support a vast number of devices with less energy consumption, we propose a new user association and power control scheme for machine to machine enabled heterogeneous networks with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), where a mobile user (MU) ac...
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising solution to support multiple devices on the same network resources, improving spectral efficiency and enabling massive connectivity required by ever-increasing Internet of Things device...
Nowadays ICT platforms allow users to control energy consumption, as well as optimizing their energy efficiency. In these days, this is a powerful tool for any user considering its remote real-time data access feature, thus permitting energy consumpt...
1 August 2011
This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the privacy issues involved in business models for location-based mobile services. We report the results of an exploratory field experiment in Switzerland that assessed the factors driving the net pa...
As the number of European Union (EU) visitors grows, implementing novel border control solutions, such as mobile devices for passenger identification for land and sea border control, becomes paramount to ensure the convenience and safety of passenger...
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