Outputs (239)

Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Quintal, F., Caires, F., Baptista, V., & Mendes, P. (2019, June). Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input. Presented at EX.PAT'19, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

This paper presents Wattom, a highly interactive ambient eco-feedback smart plug that aims to promote a more sustainable use of electricity in the home. This paper describes our latest implementation of the Wattom plug, and three system applications.... Read More about Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input.

PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, R., Zakarya, M., Tan, Z., Usman, M., Jan, M. A., & Khan, M. (2019). PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(18), Article e4144. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4144

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of resource-starving nodes that face a challenging task of handling various issues such as data redundancy, data fusion, congestion control, and energy efficiency. In these networks, data fusion a... Read More about PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme.

Unsupervised Rotation Factorization in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (2019)
Journal Article
Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2020). Unsupervised Rotation Factorization in Restricted Boltzmann Machines. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29(1), 2166-2175. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2019.2946455

Finding suitable image representations for the task at hand is critical in computer vision. Different approaches extending the original Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) model have recently been proposed to offer rotation-invariant feature learning.... Read More about Unsupervised Rotation Factorization in Restricted Boltzmann Machines.

Control-Flow Integrity: Attacks and Protections (2019)
Journal Article
Sayeed, S., Marco-Gisbert, H., Ripoll, I., & Birch, M. (2019). Control-Flow Integrity: Attacks and Protections. Applied Sciences, 9(20), Article 4229. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9204229

Despite the intense efforts to prevent programmers from writing code with memory errors, memory corruption vulnerabilities are still a major security threat. Consequently, control-flow integrity has received significant attention in the research comm... Read More about Control-Flow Integrity: Attacks and Protections.

Depth codec for real-time, high-quality light field reconstruction (2019)
Patent
Mitchell, K., Koniaris, C., Kosek, M., & Sinclair, D. Depth codec for real-time, high-quality light field reconstruction. US20190313080A1

Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that enable the compression of depth data and real-time reconstruction of high-quality light fields. In one aspect, spatial compression and decompression of depth images is divided into the... Read More about Depth codec for real-time, high-quality light field reconstruction.

A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, F., Ur Rehman, A., Yahya, A., Jan, M. A., Chuma, J., Tan, Z., & Hussain, K. (2019). A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks. Sensors, 19, Article 4321. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194321

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to enable the interconnection of a large number of smart devices and heterogeneous networks. Ad hoc networks play an important role in the designing of IoT-enabled platforms due to thei... Read More about A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks.

A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles (2019)
Journal Article
Yao, W., Yahya, A., Khan, F., Tan, Z., Rehman, A. U., Chuma, J. M., Jan, M. A., & Babar, M. (2019). A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Access, 7, 160889-160900. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945610

The advancements in hardware technologies have driven the evolution of vehicular ad hoc networks into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The IoV is a decentralized network of IoT-enabled vehicles capable of smooth traffic flow to perform fleet managemen... Read More about A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles.

A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Liu, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Tan, Z., Min, G., & Xu, L. (2019, August). A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking. Presented at The 21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China

With the rapid development of mobile applications, networking technologies have been constantly evolved to offer a more convenient way of sharing information and online-communication anytime and anywhere. Vehicular networks have the potential to beco... Read More about A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking.

A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, N., Gao, F., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., & Tan, Z. (2019, August). A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs. Presented at The 21 IEEE High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China

The number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications has increased over the past few years. Among all scenarios, UAV group consisting multi-UAVs is normally used to provide extensible communications. As a networking solution, Flying Ad Hoc Netw... Read More about A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs.

Pulling your weight?: New CS entrants' reflections on their experience of collaborative work at high school (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhardwaj, J. (2019, September). Pulling your weight?: New CS entrants' reflections on their experience of collaborative work at high school. Presented at 1st UK & Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, Canterbury, United Kingdom

University CS courses encourage collaborative work to improve engagement, despite the popular perception that CS attracts students who prefer working alone. The aim of this study is to explore new entrants' reflections on their experience of group wo... Read More about Pulling your weight?: New CS entrants' reflections on their experience of collaborative work at high school.