Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 16

The COVID-19 pandemic related government interventions produced rapid decreases in worldwide economic and social activity, with multifaceted economic and social consequences. In particular, the disruption of key industries and significant lifestyle c...

The performance of a time difference of arrival (TDOA) localization system is severely affected by time synchronization errors, and making use of reference signals is a common solution for the problem. The traditional method has two steps, first to m...

There are no restrictions on religious or cultural practices in India. India’s temples are becoming an ideal platform for Hindu groups to express their ideals in a global context. For the sake of devotees, temples now require widespread accessi...

Active Directory Domain is a Microsoft service that allows and facilitates the centralized administration of all workstations and servers in any environment. Due to the wide use and adoption of this service, it has become a target for many attackers....

A KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is subject to the complexity of the Linux kernel and the difficulty and cost of safety certification; thus, it is not popularized in embedded high-reliability scenarios. This paper proposes a KVM-based Heterogeneo...

High security has always been the ultimate goal of image encryption, and the closer the ciphertext image is to the true random number, the higher the security. Aiming at popular chaotic image encryption methods, particle swarm optimization (PSO) is s...

As the core component of smart grids, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) provides the communication and control functions to implement critical services, which makes its security crucial to power companies and customers. An intrusion detection sy...

Utilizing antenna diversity techniques has become a well-known approach to improve the performance of wireless communication systems. Multiple antenna arrays with half-length spacing, such as a uniform linear array (ULA), have been taken into conside...

With the development of network function virtualization (NFV), the resource management of service function chains (SFC) in the virtualized environment has gradually become a research hotspot. Usually, users hope that they can get the network services...

The design of radiofrequency circuits and systems lends itself to multi-objective optimization and the bottom-up composition of Pareto-optimal fronts. Conventional multi-objective optimization algorithms can effectively attain these fronts, which max...

To achieve an accurate, efficient, and high dynamic control performance of electric motor drives, precise phase voltage information is required. However, measuring the phase voltages of electrical motor drives online is expensive and potentially cont...

The smart energy consumption of any household, maintaining the thermal comfort level of the occupant, is of great interest. Sensors and Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based intelligent hardware setups control the home appliances intelligently and ensure sm...

The easy availability and usability of photo-editing tools have increased the number of forgery attacks, primarily splicing attacks, thereby increasing cybercrimes. Because of an existing image-splicing tamper-detection algorithm based on deep learni...

Accurate urban travel demand forecasting can help organize traffic flow, improve traffic utilization, reduce passenger waiting time, etc. It plays an important role in intelligent transportation systems. Most of the existing research methods construc...

Code classification is essential nowadays, as determining the transmission code at the receiver side is a challenge. A novel algorithm for fixed right shift (FRS) code may be employed in embedded next-generation optical fiber communication (OFC) syst...

This paper presents Discrete Wavelet Transformed Sparse Code Multiple Access (DWT-SCMA) in Power Line Communication (PLC) systems. In the present internet of things era, PLC provides an established infrastructure for low-cost and reliable indoor conn...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) foot ulcer is a chronic wound and is highly related to the mortality and morbidity of infection, and might induce sepsis and foot amputation, especially during the isolation stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Visual observation wh...

Convolutional network models have been widely used in image segmentation. However, there are many types of boundary contour features in medical images which seriously affect the stability and accuracy of image segmentation models, such as the ambigui...

As a traditional computer vision task, monocular depth estimation plays an essential role in novel view 3D reconstruction and augmented reality. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models have achieved good performance for this task. However, in...

The performances of WR-3.4 monolithic amplifiers fabricated using dual-finger 6 µm InP HBT devices are investigated. While one amplifier uses the dual-finger devices formed by simply connecting two existing standard single-finger HBTs, the seco...

The present work is focused on the development of a Virtual Environment as a test system for new advanced control algorithms for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The virtualized environment allows us to visualize the behavior of the UAV by including the...

Deep learning-based techniques can obtain high precision for multimodal stroke segmentation tasks. However, the performance often requires a large number of training examples. Additionally, existing data extension approaches for the segmentation are...

In the last few years, the interest in the use of robots in STEM education has risen. However, their main drawback is the high cost, which makes it almost impossible for schools to have one robot per student. Another drawback is the proprietary natur...

The spectral image analysis of complex analytic systems is usually performed in analytical chemistry. Signals associated with the key analytics present in an image scene are extracted during spectral image analysis. Accordingly, the first step in spe...

This paper presents an adaptive PID using stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) power system. PEMFC is a nonlinear system that encounters external disturbances such as inlet gas pressures an...

Crowdsensing uses the sensing units of many participants with idle resources to collect data. Since the budget of the platform is limited, it is crucial to design a mechanism to motivate participants to lower their bids. Current incentive mechanisms...

In this paper, a model for maneuver decisions in air combat is established based on position situation information, the performance of the fighter, the threat of combat intention, and the multi-fighter collaboration effect. Additionally, a two-layer...

In recent years, research on Wi-Fi sensing technology has developed rapidly. This technology automatically senses human activities through commercial Wi-Fi devices, such as lying down, falling, walking, waving, sitting down, and standing up. Because...

In the last two decades, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has attained prominent performance improvement and has been recognized as one of the key enablers of the Internet of Things (IoT) concepts. In parallel, extensive employment of...

In this study, we design an interface optimized for the platform by adopting deep learning in an asymmetric virtual environment where virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) users participate together. We also propose a novel experience envir...

Surface-defect detection is crucial for assuring the quality of strip-steel manufacturing. Strip-steel surface-defect detection requires defect classification and precision localization, which is a challenge in real-world applications. In this resear...

Autonomous maneuver decision by an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) is a critical part of air combat that requires both flight safety and tactical maneuvering. In this paper, an unmanned combat air vehicle air combat maneuver decision method based...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia and is a generic term for memory and other cognitive abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. In this paper, we propose an improved prediction method for Alzheimer&r...

Recently, orthogonal time frequency space modulation with index modulation (OTFS-IM) has been proposed to improve the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of the OTFS system. However, only some of the grids in the OTFS-IM system are activated, resulting...

In this paper, an ultra-wideband (UWB) polarizer with high performance based on the metasurface is designed and demonstrated, which is composed of a dielectric substrate with a double-gap circular pattern and metal film. Multiple strong resonance poi...

The cooperative control problem of discrete-time multi-agent systems (MASs) is discussed, and bounded uncertain time-delays and directed switching topologies are considered. By applying model transformations and matrix theory, an augmented system met...

Sharding is the widely used approach to the trilemma of simultaneously achieving decentralization, security, and scalability in traditional blockchain systems. However, existing schemes generally involve problems such as uneven shard arithmetic power...

In multiplexed sequencing, the identification of DNA sequencing barcodes can effectively reduce the probability of sample misassignment. However, the great quantity of sequence data requires a high-throughput identification method. Therefore, based o...

The performance of linear energy harvesters is primarily confined to a very narrow operating frequency bandwidth around its natural frequency. Even a slight deviation of the excitation frequency from the fundamental frequency of the system tremendous...

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...

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a group of autonomous sensors that are distributed geographically. However, sensor nodes in WSNs are battery-powered, and the energy drainage is a significant issue. The clustering approach holds an imperative part...

The paper develops a methodology for the online built-in self-testing of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators to validate the correct operation with respect to their functional specifications. The DNN of interest is realized in the hardware to perf...

The problem of traffic congestion caused by the fast-growing travel demands has been getting serious in urban areas. Meanwhile, the future of urban mobility has been foreseen as being electric, shared, and autonomous. Accordingly, the routing and cha...

Considering the significance of an energy efficient, delay tolerant and reliable communication protocol for underwater acoustic wireless sensor network (UWSN), this paper proposes a novel systematic random linear network coding (SRLNC) based transmis...

In this paper, a study on vehicle lateral motion control using an in-wheel motor (IWM) based on tire cornering stiffness estimation is presented. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a lateral motion control that can be implemented considerin...

The next generation of wireless systems has benefits in terms of spectrum and energy inefficiencies by exploiting two promising techniques including Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). The scenario of...

Identifying the type of vehicle on the road is a challenging task, especially in the natural environment with all its complexities, such that the traditional architecture for object detection requires an excessively large amount of computation. Such...

With the increasing importance of reduced-energy wireless communication in 5G networks, maximizing the energy efficiency of device-to-device (D2D) communication has gained a lot of research interest. But so far, the methods have only been able to add...

Although Scratch is the most widely used block-based educational programming language, it is not easy for students to create various types of Scratch programs based on real-life data because it does not provide web scraping capabilities. In this pape...

In order to improve the fault diagnosis accuracy of bearings, an intelligent fault diagnosis method based on Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD), Composite Multi-scale Dispersion Entropy (CMDE), and Deep Belief Network (DBN) with Particle Swarm Opti...