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Electronics, Volume 9, Issue 7

2020 July - 124 articles

Cover Story: This paper presents a new Marchand balun featuring the hybrid broadside and edge coupled structure. The current standalone broadside and edge coupled structures have reached the foundry process limitation. Their coupling coefficients are constrained by the vertical distance between metal layers for the broadside coupled structure and the minimum metal spacing between two adjacent metal strips for the edge coupled structure. The proposed hybrid structure maximizes the coupling coefficient and hence minimizes the balun insertion loss. Mathematical expressions are derived and supported by on-wafer measurements to verify the balun’s performance. View this paper.
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Articles (124)

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
12,359 Views
16 Pages

Object Detection in Sonar Images

  • Divas Karimanzira,
  • Helge Renkewitz,
  • David Shea and
  • Jan Albiez

The scope of the project described in this paper is the development of a generalized underwater object detection solution based on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) principles. Multiple scales, dual priorities, speed, limited data, and class imbala...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,828 Views
12 Pages

Application of Wireless Sensor Network Based on Hierarchical Edge Computing Structure in Rapid Response System

  • Yuechun Wang,
  • Ka Lok Man,
  • Kevin Lee,
  • Danny Hughes,
  • Sheng-Uei Guan and
  • Prudence Wong

This paper presents a rapid response system architecture for the distributed management of warehouses in logistics by applying the concept of tiered edge computing. A tiered edge node architecture is proposed for the system to process computing tasks...

  • Review
  • Open Access
302 Citations
33,766 Views
45 Pages

The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to impact several aspects of our lives with its fast proliferation in many areas such as wearable devices, smart sensors and home appliances. IoT devices are characterized by their connectivity, pervasiveness an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,513 Views
15 Pages

Beat classification and denoising are two challenging and fundamental operations when processing digital electrocardiograms (ECG). This paper proposes the extended segmented beat modulation method (ESBMM) as a tool for automatic beat classification a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,271 Views
17 Pages

Mitigating Self-Heating in Solid State Drives for Industrial Internet-of-Things Edge Gateways

  • Cristian Zambelli,
  • Lorenzo Zuolo,
  • Luca Crippa,
  • Rino Micheloni and
  • Piero Olivo

Data storage in the Industrial Internet-of-Things scenario presents critical aspects related to the necessity of bringing storage devices closer to the point where data are captured. Concerns on storage temperature are to be considered especially whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
10,017 Views
39 Pages

Proactive Forensics in IoT: Privacy-Aware Log-Preservation Architecture in Fog-Enabled-Cloud Using Holochain and Containerization Technologies

  • Kanwal Janjua,
  • Munam Ali Shah,
  • Ahmad Almogren,
  • Hasan Ali Khattak,
  • Carsten Maple and
  • Ikram Ud Din

Collecting and preserving the smart environment logs connected to cloud storage is challenging due to the black-box nature and the multi-tenant cloud models which can pervade log secrecy and privacy. The existing work for log secrecy and confidential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,334 Views
18 Pages

The home environment is a typical dynamic environment with moveable obstacles. The social robots working in home need to search for feasible paths in this complex dynamic environment. In this work, we propose an improved RRT algorithm to plan feasibl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
18,877 Views
22 Pages

Junctionless Transistors: State-of-the-Art

  • Arian Nowbahari,
  • Avisek Roy and
  • Luca Marchetti

Recent advances in semiconductor technology provide us with the resources to explore alternative methods for fabricating transistors with the goal of further reducing their sizes to increase transistor density and enhance performance. Conventional tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,657 Views
18 Pages

An Embedded Platform for Positioning and Obstacle Detection for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Salvatore Ponte,
  • Gennaro Ariante,
  • Umberto Papa and
  • Giuseppe Del Core

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with on-board augmentation systems (UAS, Unmanned Aircraft System) have penetrated into civil and general-purpose applications, due to advances in battery technology, control components, avionics and rapidly falling pri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,651 Views
25 Pages

Two-Stage Checkpoint Based Security Monitoring and Fault Recovery Architecture for Embedded Processor

  • Xiang Wang,
  • Zongmin Zhao,
  • Dongdong Xu,
  • Zhun Zhang,
  • Qiang Hao,
  • Mengchen Liu and
  • Yu Si

Nowadays, the secure program execution of embedded processor has attracted considerable research attention, since more and more code tampering attacks and transient faults are seriously affecting the security of embedded processors. The program monit...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,573 Views
13 Pages

A Reconfigurable Polarization—Frequency Supershape Patch Antenna with Enhanced Bandwidth

  • Anastasios Koutinos,
  • Georgia Xanthopoulou,
  • George Kyriacou and
  • Michael Chryssomallis

In this article a reconfigurable antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications is presented. A super-shape radiator of an ellipsis shape is used to achieve wider intrinsic bandwidth compared to the classical rectangular patch antenna, while the dimensions rema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,817 Views
14 Pages

Improvement of Radio Frequency Identification Security Using New Hybrid Advanced Encryption Standard Substitution Box by Chaotic Maps

  • Amira S. El Batouty,
  • Hania H. Farag,
  • Amr A. Mokhtar,
  • El-Sayed A. El-Badawy and
  • Moustafa H. Aly

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is widely utilized by businesses, organizations and wireless communication systems. RFID technology is secured using different ways of data encryption, e.g., Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The Sub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,588 Views
13 Pages

The amassed growth in the size of data, caused by the advancement of technologies and the use of internet of things to collect and transmit data, resulted in the creation of large volumes of data and an increasing variety of data types that need to b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,978 Views
12 Pages

Intellino: Processor for Embedded Artificial Intelligence

  • Young Hyun Yoon,
  • Dong Hyun Hwang,
  • Jun Hyeok Yang and
  • Seung Eun Lee

The development of computation technology and artificial intelligence (AI) field brings about AI to be applied to various system. In addition, the research on hardware-based AI processors leads to the minimization of AI devices. By adapting the AI de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,533 Views
9 Pages

Backward compatibility is one of the key issues for radio equipment that supports IEEE 802.11, which is a typical communication protocol for wireless local area networks (WLANs). For achieving successful packet decoding with backward compatibility, f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,985 Views
14 Pages

Single-Switch Bipolar Output DC-DC Converter for Photovoltaic Application

  • Salvador P. Litrán,
  • Eladio Durán,
  • Jorge Semião and
  • Rafael S. Barroso

Bipolar DC grids have become an adequate solution for high-power microgrids. This is mainly due to the fact that this configuration has a greater power transmission capacity. In bipolar DC grids, any distributed generation system can be connected thr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,292 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of the Results of Heel-Rise Test with Sensors: A Systematic Review

  • Ivan Miguel Pires,
  • Vasco Ponciano,
  • Nuno M. Garcia and
  • Eftim Zdravevski

Strokes are a constant concern for people and pose a major health concern. Tests that allow detection and the rehabilitation of patients have started to become more important and essential. There are several tests used by physiotherapists to speed up...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,722 Views
20 Pages

Design of a Low-Cost Configurable Acoustic Sensor for the Rapid Development of Sound Recognition Applications

  • Rosa Maria Alsina-Pagès,
  • Marcos Hervás,
  • Leticia Duboc and
  • Jordi Carbassa

Concerned about the noise pollution in urban environments, the European Commission (EC) has created an Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) requiring Member states to publish noise maps and noise management plans every five years for cities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,873 Views
13 Pages

Multichannel Biphasic Muscle Stimulation System for Post Stroke Rehabilitation

  • Tyler Ward,
  • Neil Grabham,
  • Chris Freeman,
  • Yang Wei,
  • Ann-Marie Hughes,
  • Conor Power,
  • John Tudor and
  • Kai Yang

We present biphasic stimulator electronics developed for a wearable functional electrical stimulation system. The reported stimulator electronics consist of a twenty four channel biphasic stimulator. The stimulator circuitry is physically smaller per...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,090 Views
18 Pages

Despite the progress of deep neural networks over the last decade, the state-of-the-art speech recognizers in noisy environment conditions are still far from reaching satisfactory performance. Methods to improve noise robustness usually include addin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,513 Views
10 Pages

The zeta inverter has been used for single-phase grid-tied applications. For its use of energy storage systems, this paper proposes the bidirectional operation scheme of the grid-tied zeta inverter. A shoot-through switching state is introduced, prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,744 Views
15 Pages

SAPTM: Towards High-Throughput Per-Flow Traffic Measurement with a Systolic Array-Like Architecture on FPGA

  • Qixuan Cheng,
  • Xiaolei Zhao,
  • Mei Wen,
  • Junzhong Shen,
  • Minjin Tang and
  • Chunyuan Zhang

Per-flow traffic measurement has emerged as a critical but challenging task in data centers in recent years in the face of massive network traffic. Many approximate methods have been proposed to resolve the existing resource-accuracy trade-off in per...

  • Review
  • Open Access
184 Citations
44,263 Views
44 Pages

A Comprehensive Review of Li-Ion Battery Materials and Their Recycling Techniques

  • Hee-Je Kim,
  • TNV Krishna,
  • Kamran Zeb,
  • Vinodh Rajangam,
  • Chandu V. V. Muralee Gopi,
  • Sangaraju Sambasivam,
  • Kummara Venkata Guru Raghavendra and
  • Ihab M. Obaidat

In the context of constant growth in the utilization of the Li-ion batteries, there was a great surge in the quest for electrode materials and predominant usage that lead to the retiring of Li-ion batteries. This review focuses on the recent advances...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,736 Views
15 Pages

Recent video captioning models aim at describing all events in a long video. However, their event descriptions do not fully exploit the contextual information included in a video because they lack the ability to remember information changes over time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,252 Views
20 Pages

Function Similarity Using Family Context

  • Paul Black,
  • Iqbal Gondal,
  • Peter Vamplew and
  • Arun Lakhotia

Finding changed and similar functions between a pair of binaries is an important problem in malware attribution and for the identification of new malware capabilities. This paper presents a new technique called Function Similarity using Family Contex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
14,929 Views
17 Pages

Combining K-Means and XGBoost Models for Anomaly Detection Using Log Datasets

  • João Henriques,
  • Filipe Caldeira,
  • Tiago Cruz and
  • Paulo Simões

Computing and networking systems traditionally record their activity in log files, which have been used for multiple purposes, such as troubleshooting, accounting, post-incident analysis of security breaches, capacity planning and anomaly detection....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,162 Views
16 Pages

Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) has become one of the most important process stages in the fabrication of advanced integrated circuits (IC). The CMP pattern effect strongly influences the planarization of the chip surface morphology after CMP, de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,339 Views
26 Pages

PUT-Hand—Hybrid Industrial and Biomimetic Gripper for Elastic Object Manipulation

  • Tomasz Mańkowski,
  • Jakub Tomczyński,
  • Krzysztof Walas and
  • Dominik Belter

In this article, the design of a five-fingered anthropomorphic gripper is presented specifically designed for the manipulation of elastic objects. The manipulator features a hybrid design, being equipped with three fully actuated fingers for precise...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,042 Views
26 Pages

Multiprotocol Authentication Device for HPC and Cloud Environments Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

  • Antonio F. Díaz,
  • Ilia Blokhin,
  • Mancia Anguita,
  • Julio Ortega and
  • Juan J. Escobar

Multifactor authentication is a relevant tool in securing IT infrastructures combining two or more credentials. We can find smartcards and hardware tokens to leverage the authentication process, but they have some limitations. Users connect these dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,881 Views
12 Pages

Hall-Sensor-Based Position Detection for Quick Reversal of Speed Control in a BLDC Motor Drive System for Industrial Applications

  • Mohanraj Nandakumar,
  • Sankaran Ramalingam,
  • Subashini Nallusamy and
  • Shriram Srinivasarangan Rangarajan

This paper proposes the novel idea of eliminating the front-end converters used indirect current (DC) bus voltage variation, thereby allowing for control of the speed of the brushless direct current (BLDC) motors in the two-quadrant operation of a pe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,835 Views
15 Pages

Machine Learning Based PEVs Load Extraction and Analysis

  • Amin Mansour-Saatloo,
  • Arash Moradzadeh,
  • Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo,
  • Ali Ahmadian and
  • Ali Elkamel

Transformation of the energy sector due to the appearance of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has faced the researchers with challenges in recent years. The foremost challenge is uncertain behavior of a PEV that hinders operators determining a determ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
7,030 Views
15 Pages

Packet Preprocessing in CNN-Based Network Intrusion Detection System

  • Wooyeon Jo,
  • Sungjin Kim,
  • Changhoon Lee and
  • Taeshik Shon

The proliferation of various connected platforms, including Internet of things, industrial control systems (ICSs), connected cars, and in-vehicle networks, has resulted in the simultaneous use of multiple protocols and devices. Chaotic situations cau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,423 Views
17 Pages

On Robustness of Multi-Modal Fusion—Robotics Perspective

  • Michal Bednarek,
  • Piotr Kicki and
  • Krzysztof Walas

The efficient multi-modal fusion of data streams from different sensors is a crucial ability that a robotic perception system should exhibit to ensure robustness against disturbances. However, as the volume and dimensionality of sensory-feedback incr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,572 Views
27 Pages

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has gained significant importance in all aspects of daily life, and there are many areas of application for it. Despite the rate of expansion and the development of infrastructure, such systems also bring new concerns and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,738 Views
13 Pages

Radar Signal Sorting Method Based on Radar Coherent Characteristic

  • Jian Xue,
  • Lan Tang,
  • Xinggan Zhang and
  • Lin Jin

Aiming at the problem of reliability reduction of signal sorting in terms of the traditional five parameters and intrapulse feature in a complex electromagnetic environment, a new signal sorting method based on radar coherent characteristics is propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,981 Views
16 Pages

Deep learning has been widely applied to image super-resolution (SR) tasks and has achieved superior performance over traditional methods due to its excellent feature learning capabilities. However, most of these deep learning-based methods require t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,130 Views
19 Pages

Particulate matter (PM) has become a problem worldwide, with many deleterious health effects such as worsened asthma, affected lungs, and various toxin-induced cancers. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) under the World Health Org...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,996 Views
18 Pages

Pattern Detection Model Using a Deep Learning Algorithm for Power Data Analysis in Abnormal Conditions

  • Jeong-Hee Lee,
  • Jongseok Kang,
  • We Shim,
  • Hyun-Sang Chung and
  • Tae-Eung Sung

Building a pattern detection model using a deep learning algorithm for data collected from manufacturing sites is an effective way for to perform decision-making and assess business feasibility for enterprises, by providing the results and implicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,872 Views
20 Pages

Open-Source Coprocessor for Integer Multiple Precision Arithmetic

  • Kamil Rudnicki,
  • Tomasz P. Stefański and
  • Wojciech Żebrowski

This paper presents an open-source digital circuit of the coprocessor for an integer multiple-precision arithmetic (MPA). The purpose of this coprocessor is to support a central processing unit (CPU) by offloading computations requiring integer preci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,231 Views
33 Pages

Underwater Network Management System in Internet of Underwater Things: Open Challenges, Benefits, and Feasible Solution

  • Delphin Raj K. M,
  • Jinyoung Lee,
  • Eunbi Ko,
  • Soo-Young Shin,
  • Jung-Il Namgung,
  • Sun-Ho Yum and
  • Soo-Hyun Park

As oceans cover the majority of the earth’s surface, it becomes inevitable in extending the concepts of Internet of Things (IoT) to ocean bodies, thereby tiling the way for a new drift in the digital world, the Internet of Underwater Things (Io...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,515 Views
23 Pages

Generation Expansion Planning in the Presence of Wind Power Plants Using a Genetic Algorithm Model

  • Ali Sahragard,
  • Hamid Falaghi,
  • Mahdi Farhadi,
  • Amir Mosavi and
  • Abouzar Estebsari

One of the essential aspects of power system planning is generation expansion planning (GEP). The purpose of GEP is to enhance construction planning and reduce the costs of installing different types of power plants. This paper proposes a method base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,795 Views
18 Pages

SMS: A Secure Healthcare Model for Smart Cities

  • Gautami Tripathi,
  • Mohd Abdul Ahad and
  • Sara Paiva

Technological innovations have enabled the realization of a utopian world where all objects of everyday life, as well as humans, are interconnected to form an “Internet of Things (IoT).” These connected technologies and IoT solutions have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,502 Views
16 Pages

This study measured the speed of a moving vehicle in multiple lanes using a drone. The existing methods for measuring a vehicle’s speed while driving on the road measure the speed of moving automobiles by means of a sensor that is mounted on a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,348 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we design a THz CMOS on-chip patch antenna with defected ground structure (DGS) and utilize it to implement a broadband and high gain on-chip antenna array. It is verified from the simulation that the DGS not only can increase the gain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,615 Views
11 Pages

A one-consonant group approach to the authorship attribution has been proposed. The approach is based on determining, by the chi-square test, the consonant group in which the difference between the texts by different authors is statistically signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,593 Views
18 Pages

In scientific facilities such as particle accelerators, fast and jitter-free synchronization is required in order to trigger a large number of actuators at the right time in a variety of situations. The behaviour of the control systems and subsystems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,794 Views
14 Pages

Two-Stage Monitoring of Patients in Intensive Care Unit for Sepsis Prediction Using Non-Overfitted Machine Learning Models

  • Vytautas Abromavičius,
  • Darius Plonis,
  • Deividas Tarasevičius and
  • Artūras Serackis

The presented research faces the problem of early detection of sepsis for patients in the Intensive Care Unit. The PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2019 facilitated the development of automated, open-source algorithms for the early detecti...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,454 Views
13 Pages

Optimization of the Sensitivity of a Double-Dot Magnetic Detector

  • Massimo Macucci,
  • Paolo Marconcini and
  • Stephan Roche

We investigate, by means of numerical simulations, the lowest magnetic field level that can be detected with a given relative accuracy with a sensor based on a double-dot device fabricated in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas. The double d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,867 Views
60 Pages

Survey on Power-Aware Optimization Solutions for MANETs

  • Dimitris Kanellopoulos and
  • Varun Kumar Sharma

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) possess numerous and unique characteristics, such as high channel error-rate, severe link-layer contentions, frequent link breakage (due to node mobility), and dissimilar path properties (e.g., bandwidth, delay, and lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,449 Views
18 Pages

MiniTEE—A Lightweight TrustZone-Assisted TEE for Real-Time Systems

  • Songran Liu,
  • Nan Guan,
  • Zhishan Guo and
  • Wang Yi

While trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide industry standard security and isolation, TEE requests through secure monitor calls (SMCs) attribute to large time overhead and weakened temporal predictability. Moreover, as current available TEE s...

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