Electronics, Volume 14, Issue 8

The 20 min city concept ensures that essential services—such as work, education, healthcare, and recreation—are accessible within a 20 min walk or transit ride. This study evaluates urban accessibility in Ulaanbaatar by analyzing Points o...

In 5G and beyond 5G networks, function placement is a crucial strategy for enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of the Radio Access Network (RAN). However, demonstrating optimal function splitting and placement to meet diverse user demands remain...

Bank loan prediction (BLP) analyzes the financial records of individuals to conclude possible loan status. Financial records always contain confidential information. Hence, privacy is significant in the BLP system. This research aims to generate a pr...

Intracranial aneurysm is a common clinical disease that seriously endangers the health of patients. In view of the shortcomings of existing intracranial aneurysm recognition methods in dealing with complex aneurysm morphologies, varying sizes, as wel...

In automotive software development, testing and validation workloads are often concentrated at the end of the development cycle, leading to delays and late-stage issue discovery. To address this, virtual Electronic Control Units (vECUs) have gained a...

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance computational capabilities at the network edge, enabling low-latency services for users while ensuring efficient resource utilization for operators. One of the key challenges...

In today’s semiconductor verification field, SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) are one of the most important methodologies for functional verification. A representative verification technique is Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)-based veri...

Remote detection of radioactive materials in mixtures using handheld or portal detectors remains a challenge because of factors such as low concentration, environmental interference, sensor noise, and other complications. This work introduces a fast...

The non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architecture is the de facto norm in modern server processors. Applications running on NUMA processors may suffer significant performance degradation (NUMA effect) due to the non-uniform memory accesses, including...

The protection of critical infrastructures (CIs) from cyber–physical threats and natural hazards has become increasingly vital in modern society, which relies heavily on the essential services provided by these infrastructures. The European Uni...

Ultra-wide-band (UWB) radar technology is a contactless signal detection technology. The UWB technology can be used for the clinical medical monitoring of the human heartbeat and respiration. In this paper, a novel algorithm is proposed to estimate h...

Integrating causal inference and estimation methods, especially in Natural Language Processsing (NLP), is essential to improve interpretability and robustness in deep learning (DL) models. The objectives are to present the IV-NLP methodology and its...

The evaluation of driver workload in the lead vehicle of a driver-following autonomous truck platoon was conducted using bio-signal analysis. In this study, a single driver operated the lead vehicle while the second and third trucks followed autonomo...

Named entity recognition and relation extraction are two crucial techniques in the construction of knowledge graphs, as their performance directly impacts downstream tasks. In scenarios such as social media, where text is short and contains numerous...

While blockchain’s immutability ensures data integrity, it also poses significant challenges when dealing with illegal or erroneous data that require modification. The concept of redactable blockchain has emerged, utilizing Chameleon Hash (CH)...

Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) is a commonly used non-invasive method for diagnosing faults in electric motors. Although MCSA provides significant advantages—current signals are easy to acquire and inherently robust against noise&mdash...

Webshells are widely used by attackers to maintain access during the post-exploitation phase. As security defenses improve, traditional file-based Webshells are increasingly detectable. To evade detection, attackers are shifting toward fileless Websh...

The fields of information systems and technology continue to evolve at a rapid pace, offering new research directions and expanding career opportunities [...]

Secret sharing is a robust data protection technique that secures sensitive information by partitioning it into multiple shares, such that the original data can only be reconstructed when a sufficient number of shares are combined. While this method...

The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is crucial for safeguarding the ecosystem of embedded systems. It uses isolation to minimize the TCB (Trusted Computing Base) and protect sensitive software. It is vital because devices handle vast, potentially...

To address the challenges in insulator defect detection for transmission lines, including complex background interference, varying defect region scales, and sample imbalance, we propose a detection method that effectively integrates scene perception...

This paper proposes a design and optimization scheme for an Internet of Things (IoT)-based cloud platform aimed at enhancing the communication efficiency and operational performance of autonomous agricultural machinery. The platform integrates the du...

This study proposes an improved bidirectional dynamic jump point search (JPS) algorithm to address key challenges in mobile robot path planning, including excessive node expansions, poor path smoothness, safety concerns, and extended search times. Th...

The rapid advancement of 3D imaging technology and depth cameras has made depth data more accessible for applications such as virtual reality and autonomous driving. However, depth maps typically suffer from lower resolution and quality compared to c...

In this paper, package integration of glass–based passive components for 5G new radio (NR) millimeter–wave (mm wave) bands and an analysis of their system performance are presented. Passive components such as diplexers and couplers coveri...

Low-pass filters with bandwidths larger than several GHz are required in many applications, such as anti-aliasing filters in high-speed ADCs and pulse-shaping filters in high-speed DACs. In highly integrated applications, low area occupation and powe...

To address the challenge of collaborative nodes being unable to accurately perceive each other’s positions in global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-denied environments (such as after hostile interference or in urban canyons), we propose a G...

Massive multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems encounter substantial challenges in relation to channel state information (CSI) feedback; this is particularly the case in frequency division duplex systems, where the lack of channel recipr...

Aiming at the problems of significant communication overheads, the low reliability of primary nodes, and the insufficient dynamic adaptability of traditional consensus algorithms in intellectual property transaction scenarios, an Improved Practical B...

To address the needs of enhancing adaptive control and reducing emissions at intersections within intelligent traffic signal systems, this study innovatively proposes a deep reinforcement learning signal control model tailored for mixed traffic flows...

This article aims to review the industrial applications of AI-based intelligent system algorithms in the manufacturing sector to find the latest methods used for sustainability and optimisation. In contrast to previous review articles that broadly su...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of Chain-of-Thought (COT) reasoning in addressing length bias when deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on the device side within wireless network environments. By conducting systematic experiments on two r...

Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) leverages roadside units (RSU) to construct a low-latency, highly scalable multilayer cooperative training framework. However, with the rapid growth in the number of vehicle nod...

Aiming at the problems of existing time series data clustering methods, such as the lack of similarity metric universality, the influence of dimensional catastrophe, and the limitation of feature expression ability, a time series data clustering meth...

This work introduces a novel battery charger implemented with a four-level three-phase neutral-point-clamped converter and a four-level single-phase dual-active-bridge converter, which offers the intrinsic advantages of multilevel conversion, provide...

Although deep learning has significantly advanced brain tumor MRI segmentation and preoperative planning, existing methods like U-Net and Transformer, which are widely used Encoder–Decoder architectures in medical image segmentation, still have...

Video moment localization has gradually become a hot research problem in video understanding. Despite much remarkable progress, there are still two limitations in the following aspects. Firstly, previous methods usually directly regarded the moment c...

Nowadays, the rise of DC loads along with distributed energy resources (DERs) and energy storage systems (ESSs) have led to a growing interest in using direct current (DC) microgrid systems. Conventional droop control methods face significant limitat...

Reliable fault diagnosis in railway operational equipment is critical to ensuring system safety, operational efficiency, and predictive maintenance. Existing methods struggle to capture the intricate interdependencies among fault causes, failure mode...

A series of modified tetraphenylporphyrins varying only in the electron-donating or electron-withdrawing character of the substituents in the para-phenyl position have been blended into the active layer of MEH-PPV:PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells...

Mitigating cyberattacks on IoT networks is critical and remains a significant challenge, as such attacks can cause severe damage to the network systems and services. Moreover, the large volume of devices in IoT networks presents another challenge in...

Measuring solar irradiance is key to assessing the conversion efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) modules. Also, PV modules can be used to estimate irradiance through their electrical response to solar radiation using closed-form models (CFMs). This pape...

With the popularity of edge computation, object detection applications face challenges of limited data volume and data privacy. To address these, we propose a federated few-shot object detection framework, F²SOD. It involves three steps: collaborativ...

Modern financial institutions now manage increasingly advanced data-related activities and place a growing emphasis on environmental and energy impacts. In financial modeling, relational databases, big data systems, and the cloud are integrated, taki...

Compared with the traditional brushless doubly-fed generator (BDFG), the BDFG with double stator (BDFG-DS) architecture achieves enhanced configurability by physically decoupling the power and control windings onto independent stator assemblies. The...

Blockchain technology is increasingly being adopted across critical domains, such as healthcare and finance, yet it remains susceptible to anomalies and malicious attacks. Hence, robust anomaly detection is essential in these decentralized systems to...

The increasing complexity and computational demands of deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges and deployment on resource-constrained devices due to substantial latency and considerable energy consumption. Multi-exit DNNs have emerged...

Cooperative driving systems can coordinate individual vehicles on the road in a platoon, holding significant promise for enhancing traffic efficiency and lowering the energy consumption of vehicle movements. For an extended period, vehicles on the ro...

Industrial control systems (ICSs) are a critical component of key infrastructure. However, as ICSs transition from isolated systems to modern networked environments, they face increasing security risks. Traditional anomaly detection methods struggle...

Active magnetic bearings (AMBs) are a class of electromechanical equipment that effectively integrate Magnetic Bearing technology with PMSM technology, particularly for applications involving high-power and high-speed permanent magnet motors. However...