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Electronics, Volume 10, Issue 20

2021 October-2 - 112 articles

Cover Story: This paper reviews, highlights, and discusses some of the common cloud computing vulnerabilities primarily related to virtualization platforms and their implementations while outsourcing services and resources to different end-users and business enterprises. Blockchain-enabled solutions are presented for virtualized cloud platforms involving both the end-users and cloud service providers (CSP) to address and solve various security and privacy-related vulnerabilities in cloud computing infrastructures. These solutions help the data center industry to improve their virtualized cloud services and resource provisioning facilities. View this paper
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Articles (112)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,608 Views
26 Pages

19 October 2021

Skyscrapers are symbols of local landmarks, and their prevalence is increasing across the world owing to recent advances in architectural technology. In Korea, the Lotte World Tower, which is now the tallest skyscraper in Seoul, was constructed in 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
13,606 Views
21 Pages

Design and Hardware Implementation of an IGBT-Based Half-Bridge Cell for Modular Voltage Source Inverters

  • Roberto Morales-Caporal,
  • José F. Pérez-Cuapio,
  • Haydee P. Martínez-Hernández and
  • Raúl Cortés-Maldonado

19 October 2021

This article presents the design and hardware implementation of an IGBT-based half-bridge voltage source inverter (VSI) to be used as a basic cell to assemble VSIs of different topologies in modular ways. Herein, we have presented the design methodol...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,992 Views
24 Pages

19 October 2021

LoRa Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN) can provide a connectivity service to Internet of Things (IoT) for an extremely long run-time and with low power consumption. As the LoRaWAN is extensively applied to various IoT scenarios, LoRaWAN solutions face a f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,324 Views
26 Pages

19 October 2021

It is well known that, especially in the field of electronic components reliability studies and applications, the Exponential reliability model is by far the most adopted, although the data fostering it are few. This appears to be due partly to its s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,723 Views
33 Pages

19 October 2021

The field of sentiment analysis is currently dominated by the detection of attitudes in lexically explicit texts such as user reviews and social media posts. In objective text genres such as economic news, indirect expressions of sentiment are common...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,185 Views
17 Pages

Integration of Distributed Energy Resources and EV Fast-Charging Infrastructure in High-Speed Railway Systems

  • Miad Ahmadi,
  • Hamed Jafari Kaleybar,
  • Morris Brenna,
  • Francesco Castelli-Dezza and
  • Maria Stefania Carmeli

19 October 2021

Low carbon emission transportation is attracting global attention where electric railway power systems (ERPS) and electric vehicles (EVs) act as a load. Besides the main utility grid, renewable energy sources (RES) including photovoltaic (PV) panels...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,644 Views
9 Pages

Joint Diagnosis of RIS and BS for RIS-Aided Millimeter-Wave System

  • Siqi Ma,
  • Jianguo Li,
  • Xiangyuan Bu and
  • Jianping An

19 October 2021

Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system has emerged as a promising candidate for future millimeter-wave wireless communications. Due to the short wavelength of millimeter wave, the antennas on the base statio...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,730 Views
11 Pages

Selective Disinfection Based on Directional Ultraviolet Irradiation and Artificial Intelligence

  • Ben Zierdt,
  • Taichu Shi,
  • Thomas DeGroat,
  • Sam Furman,
  • Nicholas Papas,
  • Zachary Smoot,
  • Hong Zhang and
  • Ben Wu

19 October 2021

Ultraviolet disinfection has been proven to be effective for surface sanitation. Traditional ultraviolet disinfection systems generate omnidirectional radiation, which introduces safety concerns regarding human exposure. Large scale disinfection must...

  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Citations
10,681 Views
14 Pages

Automated Workers’ Ergonomic Risk Assessment in Manual Material Handling Using sEMG Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning

  • Srimantha E. Mudiyanselage,
  • Phuong Hoang Dat Nguyen,
  • Mohammad Sadra Rajabi and
  • Reza Akhavian

19 October 2021

Manual material handling tasks have the potential to be highly unsafe from an ergonomic viewpoint. Safety inspections to monitor body postures can help mitigate ergonomic risks of material handling. However, the real effect of awkward muscle movement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,142 Views
13 Pages

Segmentation of Aorta 3D CT Images Based on 2D Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Simone Bonechi,
  • Paolo Andreini,
  • Alessandro Mecocci,
  • Nicola Giannelli,
  • Franco Scarselli,
  • Eugenio Neri,
  • Monica Bianchini and
  • Giovanna Maria Dimitri

19 October 2021

The automatic segmentation of the aorta can be extremely useful in clinical practice, allowing the diagnosis of numerous pathologies to be sped up, such as aneurysms and dissections, and allowing rapid reconstructive surgery, essential in saving pati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,464 Views
12 Pages

State Estimation in Electric Power Systems Using an Approach Based on a Weighted Least Squares Non-Linear Programming Modeling

  • Hugo A. R. Florez,
  • Diogo Marujo,
  • Gloria P. López,
  • Jesús M. López-Lezama and
  • Nicolás Muñoz-Galeano

19 October 2021

In this work, the state estimation problem of electric power systems is represented through a mathematical programming approach. Initially, a non-linear mathematical model based on the classical method of weighted least squares is proposed to solve t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,409 Views
14 Pages

18 October 2021

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aim to make transportation smarter, safer, reliable, and environmentally friendly without detrimentally affecting the service quality. ITS can face security issues due to their complex, dynamic, and non-linear...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,495 Views
10 Pages

18 October 2021

Improving semiconductor equipment and components is an important goal of semiconductor manufacture. Especially during the deposition process, the temperature of the wafer must be precisely controlled to form a uniform thin film. In the conventional p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,844 Views
14 Pages

18 October 2021

In this paper, we study a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system aided by the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology, where an AP transmits confidential information to the legitimate information receiver (IR) in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,266 Views
16 Pages

Designing the Calibration Process of Weigh-In-Motion Systems

  • Janusz Gajda,
  • Ryszard Sroka and
  • Piotr Burnos

18 October 2021

Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) systems provide information on the state of road traffic and are used in activities undertaken as part of traffic supervision and management, enforcement of applicable regulations, and in the design of road infrastructure. The f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,386 Views
14 Pages

18 October 2021

Face recognition is one of the essential applications in computer vision, while current face recognition technology is mainly based on 2D images without depth information, which are easily affected by illumination and facial expressions. This paper p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,067 Views
18 Pages

Self-Detection of Early Breast Cancer Application with Infrared Camera and Deep Learning

  • Mohammed Abdulla Salim Al Husaini,
  • Mohamed Hadi Habaebi,
  • Teddy Surya Gunawan and
  • Md Rafiqul Islam

18 October 2021

Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in women around the world. A new tool has been adopted based on thermal imaging, deep convolutional networks, health applications on smartphones, and cloud computing for early detection of breast cancer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,803 Views
16 Pages

Using a Flexible IoT Architecture and Sequential AI Model to Recognize and Predict the Production Activities in the Labor-Intensive Manufacturing Site

  • Cadmus Yuan,
  • Chic-Chang Wang,
  • Ming-Lun Chang,
  • Wen-Ting Lin,
  • Po-An Lin,
  • Chang-Chi Lee and
  • Zhe-Luen Tsui

18 October 2021

Under the pressures of global market uncertainty and rapid production changes, the labor-intensive industries demand instant manufacturing site information and accurate production forecasting. This research applies sensor modules with noise reduction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,818 Views
16 Pages

Modeling and Analysis of PV System with Fuzzy Logic MPPT Technique for a DC Microgrid under Variable Atmospheric Conditions

  • Vasantharaj Subramanian,
  • Vairavasundaram Indragandhi,
  • Ramya Kuppusamy and
  • Yuvaraja Teekaraman

18 October 2021

Due to the easiness of setup and great energy efficiency, direct current (DC) microgrids (MGs) have become more common. Solar photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell (FC) systems drive the DC MG. Under varying irradiance and temperature, this work proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,118 Views
26 Pages

18 October 2021

In the energy distribution grid of electric vehicles (EVs), multiple different voltage potentials need to be interconnected, to allow arbitrary power flow between the various energy sources and the different electrical loads. However, between the dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,966 Views
20 Pages

SPSO Based Optimal Integration of DGs in Local Distribution Systems under Extreme Load Growth for Smart Cities

  • Mian Rizwan,
  • Muhammad Waseem,
  • Rehan Liaqat,
  • Intisar Ali Sajjad,
  • Udaya Dampage,
  • Saleh H. Salmen,
  • Sami Al Obaid,
  • Mohamed A. Mohamed and
  • Andres Annuk

18 October 2021

Renewable energy-based distributed generators (DGs) are gaining more penetration in modern grids to meet the growing demand for electrical energy. The anticipated techno-economic benefits of these eco-friendly resources require their judicious and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,610 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2021

In this paper, the localization problem of a mobile robot equipped with a Doppler–azimuth radar (D–AR) is investigated in the environment with multiple landmarks. For the type (2,0) robot kinematic model, the unknown modeling errors are generally aro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,348 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2021

A 2-then-1-bit/cycle noise-shaping successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for high sampling rate and high resolution is presented. The conversion consists of two phases of a coarse 2-bit/cycle SAR conversion for hig...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,400 Views
12 Pages

Hardware Implementation Study of Particle Tracking Algorithm on FPGAs

  • Alessandro Gabrielli,
  • Fabrizio Alfonsi,
  • Alberto Annovi,
  • Alessandra Camplani and
  • Alessandro Cerri

18 October 2021

In recent years, the technological node used to implement FPGA devices has led to very high performance in terms of computational capacity and in some applications these can be much more efficient than CPUs or other programmable devices. The clock ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,322 Views
16 Pages

Speeding Up Velocity Consensus Control with Small World Communication Topology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

  • Xiang Ji,
  • Wanpeng Zhang,
  • Shaofei Chen,
  • Junren Luo,
  • Lina Lu,
  • Weilin Yuan,
  • Zhenzhen Hu and
  • Jing Chen

18 October 2021

This study addressed a problem of rapid velocity consensus within a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles. Our analytical framework was based on tools using matrix theory and algebraic graph theory. We established connections between algebraic connectivi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,219 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2021

Inductive power transfer (IPT) applications, such as stationary charging of electric vehicles (EVs), at least moderate coupling between the coils to achieve high efficiency, but the coefficient k typically varies between of 0.1 to 0.4, depending on t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,621 Views
30 Pages

Wireless Power Transfer Using Double DD Coils

  • Nataša Prosen,
  • Jure Domajnko and
  • Miro Milanovič

17 October 2021

This paper deals with a wireless power transfer system where a novel structure of transmitting/receiving double DD coils is applied. This system uses two identical double D (DD) transmitter coils stacked on each other to transfer power to two stacked...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,980 Views
29 Pages

Improving Deep Object Detection Algorithms for Game Scenes

  • Minji Jung,
  • Heekyung Yang and
  • Kyungha Min

17 October 2021

The advancement and popularity of computer games make game scene analysis one of the most interesting research topics in the computer vision society. Among the various computer vision techniques, we employ object detection algorithms for the analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,516 Views
11 Pages

Use of Different Metal Oxide Coatings in Stainless Steel Based ECDs for Smart Textiles

  • Martin Rozman,
  • Nikolina Cetin,
  • Urban Bren and
  • Miha Lukšič

17 October 2021

Electrochromism is the ability of a material to selectively change its coloration under the influence of an external electric current/potential and maintain it even after the power source has been disconnected. Devices that use such a mechanism are k...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,036 Views
36 Pages

Analog Gaussian Function Circuit: Architectures, Operating Principles and Applications

  • Vassilis Alimisis,
  • Marios Gourdouparis,
  • Georgios Gennis,
  • Christos Dimas and
  • Paul P. Sotiriadis

17 October 2021

This review paper explores existing architectures, operating principles, performance metrics and applications of analog Gaussian function circuits. Architectures based on the translinear principle, the bulk-controlled approach, the floating gate appr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,856 Views
18 Pages

17 October 2021

CORDIC algorithm is used for low-cost hardware implementation to calculate transcendental functions. This paper proposes a low-latency high-precision architecture for the computation of hyperbolic functions sinhx and coshx based on an improved CORDIC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,807 Views
13 Pages

Estimation of Tire Mileage and Wear Using Measurement Data

  • Wei-Hsuan Chang,
  • Rong-Terng Juang,
  • Min-Hsiang Huang and
  • Min-Feng Sung

17 October 2021

Tire mileage and wear provide important information for vehicle applications. There are more and more studies discussing intelligent tires, but few focus on the role of tire mileage and wear. The conventional tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,939 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2021

The lockdown of March and April 2020 as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced relevant changes in the educational environment in a very short period of time, making it necessary to suspend in-person instruction and generating the need to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,401 Views
17 Pages

A Pentaband Compound Reconfigurable Antenna for 5G and Multi-Standard Sub-6GHz Wireless Applications

  • Ikhlas Ahmad,
  • Wasi Ur Rehman Khan,
  • Haris Dildar,
  • Sadiq Ullah,
  • Shakir Ullah,
  • Naveed Mufti,
  • Babar Kamal,
  • Toufeeq Ahmad,
  • Adnan Ghaffar and
  • Mousa I. Hussien

17 October 2021

This work proposes a low-profile, printed antenna that offers pattern and frequency reconfiguration functionalities printed on FR-4 substrate with a size of 46 × 32 × 1.6 mm3. The proposed antenna can operate in five different frequency bands, each o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,184 Views
17 Pages

16 October 2021

The individualization of information processes based on artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the context of industrial tasks, requires new, hybrid approaches to process modeling that take into account the novel methods and technologies both in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,636 Views
19 Pages

16 October 2021

The open platform communications unified architecture (OPC UA) is a major industry-standard middleware based on the request–reply pattern, and the data distribution service (DDS) is an industry standard in the publish–subscribe form. The OPC UA canno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,185 Views
10 Pages

Low-Frequency 1/f Noise Characteristics of Ultra-Thin AlOx-Based Resistive Switching Memory Devices with Magneto-Resistive Responses

  • Jhen-Yong Hong,
  • Chun-Yen Chen,
  • Dah-Chin Ling,
  • Isidoro Martínez,
  • César González-Ruano and
  • Farkhad G. Aliev

16 October 2021

Low-frequency 1/f voltage noise has been employed to probe stochastic charge dynamics in AlOx-based non-volatile resistive memory devices exhibiting both resistive switching (RS) and magneto-resistive (MR) effects. A 1/fγ noise power spectral density...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,128 Views
15 Pages

Recognition of Cursive Pashto Optical Digits and Characters with Trio Deep Learning Neural Network Models

  • Muhammad Zubair Rehman,
  • Nazri Mohd. Nawi,
  • Mohammad Arshad and
  • Abdullah Khan

15 October 2021

Pashto is one of the most ancient and historical languages in the world and is spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Various languages like Urdu, English, Chinese, and Japanese have OCR applications, but very little work has been conducted on the Pasht...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,382 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2021

Collective perception messages (CPMs) inform neighbors about detected objects and their current status. Although CPMs can greatly contribute to improving vehicle perception, their performance will degrade if the wireless channel is saturated and/or v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,186 Views
18 Pages

On Optimizing a Multi-Mode Last-Mile Parcel Delivery System with Vans, Truck and Drone

  • Chuan Wang,
  • Hongjie Lan,
  • Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama and
  • Youhua Chen

15 October 2021

This work focuses on the optimization of a last-mile delivery system with multiple transportation modes. In this scenario, parcels need to be delivered to each customer point. The major feature of the problem is the combination of a fleet of road veh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,842 Views
19 Pages

An Accuracy-Improved Fixed-Width Booth Multiplier Enabling Bit-Width Adaptive Truncation Error Compensation

  • Song-Nien Tang,
  • Jen-Chien Liao,
  • Chen-Kai Chiu,
  • Pei-Tong Ku and
  • Yen-Shuo Chen

15 October 2021

Fixed-width Booth multipliers (FWBMs) generate a product with the same bit width as the operand and have been extensively employed in many digital systems. Various truncation error compensation (TEC) schemes have been presented for FWBM designs, aimi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,167 Views
7 Pages

Step Coverage and Dry Etching Process Improvement of Amorphous Carbon Hard Mask

  • Zheng Jiang,
  • Hao Zhu,
  • Qingqing Sun and
  • Davidwei Zhang

15 October 2021

Amorphous carbon hard mask (ACHM) films have been widely applied as protective components and hard etching masks in lithography and dry etching processes. The capability of lithography is directly dependent on the step coverage (SC) of the ACHM. Poor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,062 Views
22 Pages

Call Model and Test-Verification Methods for PS-LTE Core Equipment

  • Jae-Jeong Lee,
  • Pyung-Koo Park,
  • Byung-Chang Chung,
  • Sang-Wan Kim,
  • Ki-Dong Nam and
  • Woo-Seop Rhee

15 October 2021

Existing technologies in disaster and safety communication networks (DSCNs) face problems such as narrow bandwidth, low transmission rate, and difficulty in securing channels. Conversely, public safety long-term evolution (PS-LTE) technology provides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,179 Views
18 Pages

A Multi-Cache System for On-Chip Memory Optimization in FPGA-Based CNN Accelerators

  • Tommaso Pacini,
  • Emilio Rapuano,
  • Gianmarco Dinelli and
  • Luca Fanucci

15 October 2021

In recent years, FPGAs have demonstrated remarkable performance and contained power consumption for the on-the-edge inference of Convolutional Neural Networks. One of the main challenges in implementing this class of algorithms on board an FPGA is re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,312 Views
14 Pages

High-Performance Double-Node-Upset-Tolerant and Triple-Node-Upset-Tolerant Latch Designs

  • Hui Xu,
  • Le Zhou,
  • Huaguo Liang,
  • Zhengfeng Huang,
  • Cong Sun and
  • Yafei Ning

15 October 2021

To avoid soft errors in integrated circuits, this paper presents two high-performance latch designs, namely LOCDNUTRL and LOCTNUTRL, protecting against double-node upset (DNU) and triple-node upset (TNU) in the harsh radiation environment. First, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,690 Views
9 Pages

An Efficient 4H-SiC Photodiode for UV Sensing Applications

  • Mohamed L. Megherbi,
  • Hichem Bencherif,
  • Lakhdar Dehimi,
  • Elisa D. Mallemace,
  • Sandro Rao,
  • Fortunato Pezzimenti and
  • Francesco G. Della Corte

15 October 2021

In this paper, we report experimental findings on a 4H-SiC-based p-i-n photodiode. The fabricated device has a p-type region formed by ion-implantation of aluminum (Al) in a nitrogen doped n-type layer. The dark reverse current density reaches 38.6 n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,734 Views
12 Pages

Performance Analysis of PI and DMRAC Algorithm in Buck–Boost Converter for Voltage Tracking in Electric Vehicle Using Simulation

  • Maidul Islam,
  • Alia Farhana Abdul Ghaffar,
  • Erwin Sulaeman,
  • Md Manjurul Ahsan,
  • Abbas Z. Kouzani and
  • M. A. Parvez Mahmud

15 October 2021

This study introduces a Direct Model Reference Adaptive Control (DMRAC) algorithm in a buck–boost converter in the power distribution of an electric vehicle. In this study, DMRAC was used in order to overcome the system nonlinearity due to load deman...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
20,712 Views
22 Pages

Time-Lag Selection for Time-Series Forecasting Using Neural Network and Heuristic Algorithm

  • Ola Surakhi,
  • Martha A. Zaidan,
  • Pak Lun Fung,
  • Naser Hossein Motlagh,
  • Sami Serhan,
  • Mohammad AlKhanafseh,
  • Rania M. Ghoniem and
  • Tareq Hussein

15 October 2021

The time-series forecasting is a vital area that motivates continuous investigate areas of intrigued for different applications. A critical step for the time-series forecasting is the right determination of the number of past observations (lags). Thi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,336 Views
22 Pages

A Comparative Analysis of Modeling and Predicting Perceived and Induced Emotions in Sonification

  • Faranak Abri,
  • Luis Felipe Gutiérrez,
  • Prerit Datta,
  • David R. W. Sears,
  • Akbar Siami Namin and
  • Keith S. Jones

15 October 2021

Sonification is the utilization of sounds to convey information about data or events. There are two types of emotions associated with sounds: (1) “perceived” emotions, in which listeners recognize the emotions expressed by the sound, and (2) “induced...

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