The coordinates of nodes are very important in the application of wireless sensor networks (WSN). The range-free localization algorithm is the best method to obtain the coordinates of sensor nodes at present. Range-free localization algorithm can be...
For public security purposes, distributed surveillance systems are widely deployed in key areas. These systems comprise visual sensors, edge computing boxes, and cloud servers. Resource scheduling algorithms are critical to ensure such systems’...
Online transient stability assessment (TSA) is essential for the secure operation of long-distance extra-high-voltage (EHV) transmission lines. Mirror-equivalent energy (MEE) methods depend on accurate center-of-oscillation (CoO) localization, but co...
To improve the safe operation of urban water supply networks and support sustainable water resource management, this study proposes a multi-objective optimization framework for monitoring point placement by integrating pressure-driven analysis (PDA)...
Sensor data which relate to the specific geographical positions, areas, and time are strongly expected in IoT. The author has studied overlay networks to efficiently process interval queries which have specific time intervals and the actual users ten...
Localization is a primary concern for wireless sensor networks as numerous applications rely on the precise position of nodes. This paper presents a precise deep learning (DL) approach for DV-Hop localization in the Internet of Things (IoT) using the...
To reduce missed detections in LiDAR-based obstacle detection, this paper proposes a dual unmanned surface vessels (USVs) obstacle detection method using the MGNN-DANet template matching framework. Firstly, point cloud templates for each USV are crea...
With the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle in space exploration and national defense, large-scale wireless sensor network (WSN) became an important and effective technology. It may require highly accurate locating for the nodes in some rea...
Cybercrimes that exploit virtual assets—including laundering, concealment, and illicit financing through the dark web—are increasing rapidly, while existing tracking tools remain limited when offenders leverage multi-layer blockchain arch...
How to effectively deploy all wireless sensors and save a system’s energy consumption is a key issue in current wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Theoretical analysis has proven that a hexagonal structure is the best topology in the t...
With the widespread application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), WSN virtualization technology has received extensive attention. A key challenge in WSN virtualization is the survivable virtual network embedding (SVNE) problem which efficiently map...
Wireless sensor network deployment should be optimized to maximize network coverage. The D-S evidence theory is an effective means of information fusion that can handle not only uncertainty and inconsistency, but also ambiguity and instability. This...
With the increasing integration of distributed energy resources into modern power systems, virtual synchronous generators (VSGs) have been a promising approach to imitate the inertial response of synchronous generators, thereby enhancing microgrid st...
In socially aware networking, nodes typically behave selfishly due to resource constraints and social correlations, resulting in low network performance. To incentivize selfish nodes to actively participate in message forwarding, this paper proposes...
The integration of a variety of heterogeneous energy sources and different energy storage systems has led to complex infrastructures and made apparent the urgent need for efficient energy control and management. This work presents a non-linear model...
Time, cost, and quality are critical factors that impact the production of intelligent manufacturing enterprises. Achieving optimal values of production parameters is a complex problem known as an NP-hard problem, involving balancing various constrai...
With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, power systems require more grid-forming converters. Grid-forming converters with virtual synchronous generator control have transient stability problems similar to those of synchronous mach...
To improve the path planning efficiency of a robotic arm in three-dimensional space and improve the obstacle avoidance ability, this paper proposes an improved artificial potential field and rapid expansion random tree (APF-RRT) hybrid algorithm for...
Accurate dynamic state reconstruction in complex multi-node coupled systems is critical for ensuring operational stability and reliability. However, this task is highly challenging due to spatially sparse measurement sensors, strong dynamic coupling...
Virtual power plants (VPPs) depend on tightly coupled electrical and communication infrastructures, so component criticality varies with operating conditions and functional roles. Existing methods often use static weights, underrepresent heterogeneou...
The original virtual force algorithm (VFA) is proposed for the two-dimensional node coverage and localization of wireless sensor networks (WSN). This work proposes a novel three-dimensional improved virtual force coverage (3D-IVFC) algorithm for the...
Background/Objectives: Sentinel lymph-node biopsy (SLNB) may be omitted in selected patients with clinically node-negative, early-stage breast cancer; however, the extent to which nodal information still influences contemporary adjuvant-treatment pla...
This paper investigates the virtualization of LoRaWAN end nodes through Linux containers (LXCs) to improve scalability, flexibility, and resource management. By leveraging lightweight Docker-based virtualization, we break down the core functions of t...
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have garnered significant attention for their ability to effectively process graph-related data. Most existing methods assume that the input graph is noise-free; however, this assumption is frequently violated in real-wor...
With the advent of the Internet of things (IoT), intelligent transportation has evolved over time to improve traffic safety and efficiency as well as to reduce congestion and environmental pollution. However, there are some challenging issues to be a...
Space laser communication technology has advantages such as high bandwidth and low interference, but the limitation of the load capacity of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) makes it difficult for UAV clusters to have sufficient communication links to...
As an indispensable part of Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are more and more widely used with the rapid development of IoT. The neighbor discovery protocols are the premise of communication between nodes and networking in e...
Accurate indoor localization is essential for navigation, monitoring, and industrial applications, especially in environments with Non-line of sight (NLOS) conditions. An indoor positioning system consists of fixed physical nodes, referred to as anch...
Young, older, frail, and disabled individuals can require some form of monitoring or assistance, mainly when critical situations occur, such as falling and wandering. Healthcare facilities are increasingly interested in e-health systems that can dete...
In 2024, Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, faced the most severe flood event in its recorded history, which compromised several ground-based hydrological gauges. The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite, capable of measuring water surfac...
Frozen-sectioned hematoxylin–eosin (H&E) image evaluation is the current method for intraoperative breast cancer metastasis assessment through ex vivo sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs). After frozen sectioning, the sliced fatty region of the froz...
The Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is a network-based accessibility managing protocol. Because of PMIPv6’s network-based approach, it accumulates the following additional benefits, such as discovery, efficiency. Nonetheless, PMIPv6 has inadequate sustena...
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks can provide complete connectivity and worldwide data transmission capability for the internet of things. However, arbitrary flow arrival and uneven traffic load among areas bring about unbalanced traffic distr...
With the advancement of High-NA EUV lithography and the continued evolution of transistor architectures toward GAA and CFET, semiconductor manufacturing has entered the sub-3 nm technology node era. At advanced nodes, photon shot noise becomes increa...
In the realm of industrial wireless mesh networks, an efficient routing protocol is highly demanded to play a crucial role in ensuring that packets are efficiently directed along shorter and congestion-free routes toward gateways. Field-based routing...
Point clouds are a crucial element in the process of scanning and reconstructing 3D environments, such as buildings or heritage sites. They allow for the creation of 3D models that can be used in a wide range of applications. In some cases, however,...
Dual-Energy computed tomography (DECT) with its various advanced techniques, including Virtual Non-Contrast (VNC), effective atomic number (Z-eff) calculation, Z-maps, Iodine Density Index (IDI), and so on, holds great promise in the diagnosis and ma...
To improve the low acceptance ratio and revenue to cost ratio caused by the poor match between the virtual nodes and the physical nodes in the existing virtual network embedding (VNE) algorithms, we established a multi-objective optimization integer...
In wireless sensor/ad hoc networks, all wireless nodes frequently flood the network channel by transmitting control messages causing “broadcast storm problem”. Thus, inspired by the physical backbone in wired networks, a Virtual Backbone...
Network virtualization can offer more flexibility and better manageability for next generation Internet. With the increasing deployments of virtual networks in military and commercial networks, a major challenge is to ensure virtual network survivabi...
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization (NV) are key technologies for future networks, which allow telecommunication service providers (TSPs) to share network resources with users in a flexible manner. Since TSPs have limited vir...
The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a wide range of applications and service domains, from smart cities, autonomous vehicles, surveillance, medical devices, to crop control. Virtualization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is widely regarded as...
Wireless sensor network (WSN) environment monitoring and smart city applications present challenges for maintaining network connectivity when, for example, dynamic events occur. Such applications can benefit from recent technologies such as software-...
Dealing with distributed and parallel computing in strong heterogeneous environments, e.g., distributed sensor networks, is still a challenge at the algorithmic, communication, and application levels. Heterogeneity is related to different computer an...
Network function virtualization (NFV) enables cost reduction and optimized service deployment. By means of virtualization, network functions which used to be executed on specialized hardware are being replaced with software called Virtual Network Fun...
Hybrid protocols combining a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) and a delay tolerant network (DTN) have recently been proposed. In these works, a whole network is fragmented, and MANET is generally used for intra-fragment communication, while DTN is used...
Healthcare applications store private user data on cloud servers and perform computation operations that support several patient diagnoses. Growing cyber-attacks on hospital systems result in user data being held at ransom. Furthermore, mathematical...
We introduce an open-source, scalable, and distributed architecture, called Megalos, that supports the implementation of virtual network scenarios consisting of virtual devices (VDs) where each VD may have several Layer 2 interfaces assigned to virtu...
Cloud-based services are growing more rapidly than ever, and so does the management challenge on their providers’ side. Cloud-based datacenter networks are built with nodes of huge processing power, connected by high bandwidth capacities to car...
Network slicing has become an unavoidable requirement for allocating 5G mobile network resources when sharing resources among devices that have varying needs. As a result, the virtual network slices get resources from the shared physical infrastructu...
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