Skip Content
You are currently on the new version of our website. Access the old version .

Electronics, Volume 10, Issue 16

2021 August-2 - 174 articles

Cover Story: The expansion of electric vehicles in urban areas has paved the way toward the era of autonomous vehicles. This field of research opens immediate applications in the tourism areas, airports or business centres. This project shows the problems derived from autonomous driving such as vehicle localization, low coverage of 4G/5G and GPS, detection of the road and navigable zones, detection of static and dynamic obstacles, longitudinal and lateral control and cybersecurity aspects. The approaches proposed in this article are sufficient to solve the problems related to autonomous vehicle application in special locations on unstructured roads. View this paper
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (174)

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
11,567 Views
27 Pages

Security, Privacy, and Reliability in Digital Healthcare Systems Using Blockchain

  • Aitizaz Ali,
  • Hasliza A. Rahim,
  • Muhammad Fermi Pasha,
  • Rafael Dowsley,
  • Mehedi Masud,
  • Jehad Ali and
  • Mohammed Baz

23 August 2021

According to the security breach level index, millions of records are stolen worldwide on every single day. Personal health records are the most targeted records on the internet, and they are considered sensitive, and valuable. Security and privacy a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,955 Views
18 Pages

23 August 2021

The epidemic disease of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) called COVID-19 has become a more frequently active disease. Managing and monitoring COVID-19 patients is still a challenging issue for advanced technologies. The first and foremost cri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,204 Views
9 Pages

23 August 2021

In this study, a magnetic field is analyzed using an analytical method and compared with the electromagnetic characteristics of 8-pole 9-slot and 8-pole 12-slot permanent magnet synchronous machines considering rotor eccentricity. The magnetic flux d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,602 Views
16 Pages

Comprehensive Survey of Various Energy Storage Technology Used in Hybrid Energy

  • Ahmed Riyaz,
  • Pradip Kumar Sadhu,
  • Atif Iqbal and
  • Basem Alamri

23 August 2021

Various power generation technologies, such as wind turbines and solar power plants, have been increasingly installed in renewable energy projects as a result of rising demand and ongoing efforts by global researchers to mitigate environmental effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,211 Views
15 Pages

Accurate and Lightweight RailNet for Real-Time Rail Line Detection

  • Zhen Tao,
  • Shiwei Ren,
  • Yueting Shi,
  • Xiaohua Wang and
  • Weijiang Wang

23 August 2021

Railway transportation has always occupied an important position in daily life and social progress. In recent years, computer vision has made promising breakthroughs in intelligent transportation, providing new ideas for detecting rail lines. Yet the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,686 Views
15 Pages

23 August 2021

In this paper, an analytic method for frequency invariant (FI) array synthesis is proposed based on matrix singular value decomposition. By grouping the elements of FI array into a few subarrays, the FI pattern in the whole frequency band is realized...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,661 Views
31 Pages

Security Impacts Assessment of Active Distribution Network on the Modern Grid Operation—A Review

  • Ifedayo Oladeji,
  • Peter Makolo,
  • Muhammad Abdillah,
  • Jian Shi and
  • Ramon Zamora

23 August 2021

The future grid will include a high penetration of distributed generation, which will have an impact on its security. This paper discusses the latest trends, components, tools, and frameworks aimed at 100% renewable energy generation for the emerging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,074 Views
14 Pages

Specifying Power Filter Insertion Loss Values in Terms of Electromagnetic Safety of IT Equipment

  • Leszek Nowosielski,
  • Bartosz Dudziński,
  • Rafał Przesmycki and
  • Marek Bugaj

23 August 2021

At present, one of the main methods of minimizing risk resulting from electromagnetic information leakage is to attenuate the undesired levels of radiated and conducted disturbances generated by IT equipment, as these disturbances can carry informati...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,589 Views
35 Pages

Data Transformation Schemes for CNN-Based Network Traffic Analysis: A Survey

  • Jacek Krupski,
  • Waldemar Graniszewski and
  • Marcin Iwanowski

23 August 2021

The enormous growth of services and data transmitted over the internet, the bloodstream of modern civilization, has caused a remarkable increase in cyber attack threats. This fact has forced the development of methods of preventing attacks. Among the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,125 Views
22 Pages

Application of Mineral Compounds for a High-Voltage Portable Grounding System: An Experimental Study

  • Rizwan Ahmad,
  • Mahmoud Kassas,
  • Chokri B. Ahmed,
  • Faisal Khan,
  • Sikandar Khan,
  • Arshad Jamal and
  • Irshad Ullah

23 August 2021

Electrical grounding is an indispensable part of the power system network. The grounding system is mainly affected by grounding resistance and the nature of the soil. High ground resistance produces the phenomenon of soil ionization, surface arching,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
17,835 Views
12 Pages

Learning-Rate Annealing Methods for Deep Neural Networks

  • Kensuke Nakamura,
  • Bilel Derbel,
  • Kyoung-Jae Won and
  • Byung-Woo Hong

22 August 2021

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in the last decades. DNN is optimized using the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with learning rate annealing that overtakes the adaptive methods in many tasks. However, there is no common choi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,006 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2021

Scaling rain attenuation parameters will significantly benefit the quick monitoring of rain attenuation in a particular channel with previously known results or in situ setup attenuation measurements. Most of the rain attenuation scaling techniques h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,470 Views
19 Pages

A Cross-Mode Universal Digital Pre-Distortion Technology for Low-Sidelobe Active Antenna Arrays in 5G and Satellite Communications

  • Yunfeng Li,
  • Yonghui Huang,
  • Martin Hedegaard Nielsen,
  • Feridoon Jalili,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Jian Ren,
  • Yingzeng Yin,
  • Ming Shen and
  • Gert Frølund Pedersen

22 August 2021

A cross-mode universal digital pre-distortion (CMUDPD) technology is proposed here to linearize low-sidelobe active antenna arrays with non-uniform fixed power levels for each branch, which are desired in satellite communications with stringent requi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,168 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of Cooperative Skills Development through Relational Coordination in a Gamified Online Learning Environment

  • Rosa Estriegana,
  • Jose-Amelio Medina-Merodio,
  • Rafael Robina-Ramírez and
  • Roberto Barchino

22 August 2021

One of the main problems of the sudden digital transition to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic is the increased isolation of students. On the other hand, one of the main goals of higher education is to develop students’ cooperative compet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,527 Views
12 Pages

Spatial Jitter Influence on the Average BLER Performance of SIMO FSO Links over Atmospheric Turbulence Channels

  • Nikolaos A. Androutsos,
  • Hector E. Nistazakis,
  • Efstratios V. Chatzikontis,
  • Argyris N. Stassinakis and
  • George S. Tombras

22 August 2021

In the recent years, Free Space Optics (FSO) technology has attracted significant research and commercial interest mostly because of its many advantages in comparison with other radio systems used for point-to-point connections. However, the reliable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,573 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2021

The key to the study of node deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is to find the appropriate location of the WSN nodes and reduce the cost of network deployment while meeting the monitoring requirements in the covered area. This paper propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,685 Views
14 Pages

21 August 2021

The evolution journey of optical network (ON) towards heterogeneous and flexible frameworks with high order of applications is continued from the last decade. Furthermore, the prominence of optical security, amount of transmitted data, bandwidth, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,557 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2021

Surface electromyogram (EMG) finds many applications in the non-invasive characterization of muscles. Extracting information on the control of motor units (MU) is difficult when using single channels, e.g., due to the low selectivity and large phase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
11,986 Views
22 Pages

A Low Area High Speed FPGA Implementation of AES Architecture for Cryptography Application

  • Thanikodi Manoj Kumar,
  • Kasarla Satish Reddy,
  • Stefano Rinaldi,
  • Bidare Divakarachari Parameshachari and
  • Kavitha Arunachalam

21 August 2021

Nowadays, a huge amount of digital data is frequently changed among different embedded devices over wireless communication technologies. Data security is considered an important parameter for avoiding information loss and preventing cyber-crimes. Thi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,035 Views
11 Pages

21 August 2021

On-chip systems are challenging owing to the limited size of the components, such as the capacitor bank in the rectifier. With a small on-chip capacitor, the output voltage of the rectifier might ring if the circuit experiences significant changes in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,362 Views
15 Pages

An Efficient Distributed Elliptic Positioning for Underground Remote Sensing

  • Sanaa S. Al-Samahi,
  • Huda Ansaf and
  • Bahaa I. K. Ansaf

21 August 2021

Remote surveying of unknown bound geometries, such as the mapping of underground water supplies and tunnels, remains a challenging task. The obstacles and absorption in media make the long-distance telecommunication and localization process inefficie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,094 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2021

Permanent magnet coupling is extensively studied owing to its economic efficiency and stability. In this study, a computational model for cylindrical permanent magnet coupling (CPMC) was designed using the magnetic field division method to divide an...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,462 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2021

Operational and planning challenges caused by ever-increasing integration of electronically coupled renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) have become a reality all over the globe. These challenges range from technical constraint violations to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,746 Views
18 Pages

20 August 2021

This paper reveals the relationship between the Miller plateau voltage and the displacement currents through the gate–drain capacitance (CGD) and the drain–source capacitance (CDS) in the switching process of a power transistor. The corrected turn-on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,583 Views
15 Pages

Deep Image Prior for Super Resolution of Noisy Image

  • Sujy Han,
  • Tae Bok Lee and
  • Yong Seok Heo

20 August 2021

Single image super-resolution task aims to reconstruct a high-resolution image from a low-resolution image. Recently, it has been shown that by using deep image prior (DIP), a single neural network is sufficient to capture low-level image statistics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,426 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2021

IP fragmentation is still prevalent on the Internet. Defragmented traffic is a prerequisite for many network processing algorithms. This work focuses on the size and organization of a flow table, which is an essential ingredient of the hardware IP de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,107 Views
17 Pages

A Fuzzy Based Handover Decision Scheme for Mobile Devices Using Predictive Model

  • Amit Kumar Gupta,
  • Vikas Goel,
  • Ruchi Rani Garg,
  • Dasarada Rajagopalan Thirupurasundari,
  • Ankit Verma and
  • Mangal Sain

20 August 2021

Handover usually deals with the mobility of the end users in a mobile network to assure about the ongoing session of a user. It is observed that frequent handover results in call dropping due to latency. In order to overcome this issue, a fuzzy based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,596 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2021

Defective hard candies are usually produced due to inadequate feeding or insufficient cooling during the candy production process. The human-based inspection strategy needs to be brought up to date with the rapid developments in the confectionery ind...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,753 Views
21 Pages

A Metaheuristic Based Approach for the Customer-Centric Perishable Food Distribution Problem

  • Hanane El Raoui,
  • Mustapha Oudani,
  • David A. Pelta and
  • Ahmed El Hilali Alaoui

20 August 2021

High transportation costs and poor quality of service are common vulnerabilities in various logistics networks, especially in food distribution. Here we propose a many-objective Customer-centric Perishable Food Distribution Problem that focuses on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,198 Views
15 Pages

The Three-Carrier Quasi Switched Boost Inverter Control Technique

  • Thanh-Hai Quach,
  • Xuan-Vinh Le and
  • Viet-Anh Truong

20 August 2021

This paper presents a carrier modulation technique to control the three-phase, two-level quasi switched boost inverter. This PWM algorithm uses three carrier waves, the first of which is for the inverter while the others are for the booster. The boos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,659 Views
29 Pages

FO-Sketch: A Fast Oblivious Sketch for Secure Network Measurement Service in the Cloud

  • Lingtong Liu,
  • Yulong Shen,
  • Shuiguang Zeng and
  • Zhiwei Zhang

20 August 2021

Network measurements are the foundation for network applications. The metrics generated by those measurements help applications improve their performance of the monitored network and harden their security. As severe network attacks using leaked infor...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
19,942 Views
20 Pages

A Review on 5G Sub-6 GHz Base Station Antenna Design Challenges

  • Madiha Farasat,
  • Dushmantha N. Thalakotuna,
  • Zhonghao Hu and
  • Yang Yang

19 August 2021

Modern wireless networks such as 5G require multiband MIMO-supported Base Station Antennas. As a result, antennas have multiple ports to support a range of frequency bands leading to multiple arrays within one compact antenna enclosure. The close pro...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,069 Views
23 Pages

Challenges and Opportunities in Industry 4.0 for Mechatronics, Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics

  • Vasiliki Liagkou,
  • Chrysostomos Stylios,
  • Lamprini Pappa and
  • Alexander Petunin

19 August 2021

Industry 4.0 has risen as an integrated digital manufacturing environment, and it has created a novel research perspective that has thrust research to interdisciplinarity and exploitation of ICT advances. This work presents and discusses the main asp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,669 Views
14 Pages

Improved Salp Swarm Optimization Algorithm: Application in Feature Weighting for Blind Modulation Identification

  • Sarra Ben Chaabane,
  • Akram Belazi,
  • Sofiane Kharbech,
  • Ammar Bouallegue and
  • Laurent Clavier

19 August 2021

In modulation identification issues, like in any other classification problem, the performance of the classification task is significantly impacted by the feature characteristics. Feature weighting boosts the performance of machine learning algorithm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,292 Views
13 Pages

19 August 2021

A conventional interdigital bandpass filter (BPF) is characterized by coupled and tapped lines and affords low insertion loss (IL) and easy fractional bandwidth (FBW) adjustment. However, the maximum FBW of the filter is limited to 30%, beyond that,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,895 Views
19 Pages

19 August 2021

In recent years, convolutional neural networks have been studied in the Fourier domain for a limited environment, where competitive results can be expected for conventional image classification tasks in the spatial domain. We present a novel efficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,969 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2021

Lidar is a key sensor of autonomous driving systems, but the spatial distribution of its point cloud is uneven because of its scanning mechanism, which greatly degrades the clustering performance of the traditional density-based spatial clustering of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,157 Views
22 Pages

A Task Execution Scheme for Dew Computing with State-of-the-Art Smartphones

  • Matías Hirsch,
  • Cristian Mateos,
  • Alejandro Zunino,
  • Tim A. Majchrzak,
  • Tor-Morten Grønli and
  • Hermann Kaindl

19 August 2021

The computing resources of today’s smartphones are underutilized most of the time. Using these resources could be highly beneficial in edge computing and fog computing contexts, for example, to support urban services for citizens. However, new challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,535 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2021

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer materials (CFRP) cause CFRP to bend or fail when subjected to external loads or impacts. In the case of static three-point bending, using the conductive properties of the carbon fiber inside the CFRP, the overall damag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,042 Views
16 Pages

The Green Blockchains of Circular Economy

  • George Hatzivasilis,
  • Sotiris Ioannidis,
  • Konstantinos Fysarakis,
  • George Spanoudakis and
  • Nikos Papadakis

19 August 2021

Eco-friendly systems are necessitated nowadays, as the global consumption is increasing. A data-driven aspect is prominent, involving the Internet of Things (IoT) as the main enabler of a Circular Economy (CE). Henceforth, IoT equipment records the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,181 Views
15 Pages

19 August 2021

Conventionally, public key certificates bind one subject with one static public key so that the subject can facilitate the services of the public key infrastructure (PKI). In PKI, certificates need to be renewed (or revoked) for several practical rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,026 Views
16 Pages

19 August 2021

This paper presents a dual-mode low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding architecture that has excellent error-correcting capability and a high parallelism design for fifth-generation (5G) new-radio (NR) applications. We adopted a high parallelism de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,895 Views
16 Pages

Multiple-Searching Genetic Algorithm for Whole Test Suites

  • Wanida Khamprapai,
  • Cheng-Fa Tsai,
  • Paohsi Wang and
  • Chi-En Tsai

19 August 2021

A test suite is a set of test cases that evaluate the quality of software. The aim of whole test suite generation is to create test cases with the highest coverage scores possible. This study investigated the efficiency of a multiple-searching geneti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,824 Views
21 Pages

19 August 2021

Friction nonlinear disturbance is one of the main factors affecting the control performance of servo tracking system. In this paper, an improved Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) scheme of dual-axis servo turntable is researched to achieve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,800 Views
14 Pages

18 August 2021

Thermal defects of substation equipment have a great impact on the stability of power systems. Temperature is crucial for thermal defect detection in infrared images. The traditional detection methods, which have low efficiency and poor accuracy, rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,067 Views
19 Pages

Intellectual Property Theft Protection in IoT Based Precision Agriculture Using SDN

  • Md. Selim Hossain,
  • Md. Habibur Rahman,
  • Md. Sazzadur Rahman,
  • A. S. M. Sanwar Hosen,
  • Changho Seo and
  • Gi Hwan Cho

18 August 2021

In this work, we examine the privacy and safety issues of Internet of Things (IoT)-based Precision Agriculture (PA), which could lead to the problem that industry is currently experiencing as a result of Intellectual Property Theft (IPT). Increasing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,489 Views
13 Pages

18 August 2021

In this paper, we propose an efficient architecture of floating-point square-root circuit with low area cost, which is in accordance with the IEEE-754 standard. We extend the principle of the standard SRT algorithm so that the latency and area cost o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,634 Views
20 Pages

Emulation of Circuits under Test Using Low-Cost Embedded Platforms

  • José-María Guerrero-Rodríguez,
  • Clemente Cobos Sánchez,
  • Ángel Quirós-Olozábal and
  • Juan A. Leñero-Bardallo

18 August 2021

Electrical engineering education requires the development of the specific ability and skills to address the design and assembly of practical electronic circuits, as well as the use of advanced electronic instrumentation. However, for electronic instr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,553 Views
9 Pages

18 August 2021

A novel printed compact single-layer dual-band-notched antenna for the use of ultra-wide band (UWB) is proposed in this paper, and one lanky-leaf-like structure with a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed is designed as the radiated element for a large oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,245 Views
20 Pages

High-Performance Data Compression-Based Design for Dynamic IoT Security Systems

  • Maha Aboelmaged,
  • Ali Shisha and
  • Mohamed A. Abd El Ghany

18 August 2021

IoT technology is evolving at a quick pace and is becoming an important part of everyday life. Consequently, IoT systems hold large amounts of data related to the user of the system that is vulnerable to security breaches. Thus, data collected by IoT...

of 4

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Electronics - ISSN 2079-9292