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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.

Ambient Backscatter: A Novel Method to Defend Jamming Attacks for Wireless Networks (2019)
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Van Huynh, N., Nguyen, D. N., Thai Hoang, D., Dutkiewicz, E., & Mueck, M. (2020). Ambient Backscatter: A Novel Method to Defend Jamming Attacks for Wireless Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 9(2), 175-178. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2019.2947417

This letter introduces a novel idea to defend jamming attacks for wireless communications. In particular, when the jammer attacks the channel, the transmitter can leverage the jamming signals to transmit data by using ambient backscatter technique or... Read More about Ambient Backscatter: A Novel Method to Defend Jamming Attacks for Wireless Networks.

Road Users’ Behavior at Marked Crosswalks on Channelized Right-Turn Lanes at Intersections in the State of Qatar (2019)
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Muley, D., Kharbeche, M., Downey, L., Saleh, W., & Al-Salem, M. (2019). Road Users’ Behavior at Marked Crosswalks on Channelized Right-Turn Lanes at Intersections in the State of Qatar. Sustainability, 11(20), Article 5699. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205699

At non-signalized marked crosswalks, pedestrian priority is neither well-defined nor well acknowledged by drivers. This paper presents the findings of an investigation on both driver and pedestrian behavior at non-signalized marked crosswalks located... Read More about Road Users’ Behavior at Marked Crosswalks on Channelized Right-Turn Lanes at Intersections in the State of Qatar.

Unsupervised Rotation Factorization in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (2019)
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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)
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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.

Radiation View Factor for Building Applications: Comparison of Computation Environments (2019)
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Alam, M., Gul, M. S., & Muneer, T. (2019). Radiation View Factor for Building Applications: Comparison of Computation Environments. Energies, 12(20), Article 3826. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12203826

Computation of view factors is required in several building engineering applications where radiative exchange takes place between surfaces such as ground and vertical walls or ground and sloping thermal or photovoltaics collectors. In this paper, vie... Read More about Radiation View Factor for Building Applications: Comparison of Computation Environments.

Mood state and human evaluation of the thermal environment using virtual settings (2019)
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Ibrahim, A., Ali, H., Zghoul, A., & Jaradat, S. (2021). Mood state and human evaluation of the thermal environment using virtual settings. Indoor and Built Environment, 30(1), 70-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326X19880325

Many complaints about indoor conditions are related to unsatisfactory thermal environments. Most research on thermal comfort (TC) considered physical parameters for settings and users yet marginalized the influence of user’s psychological aspects in... Read More about Mood state and human evaluation of the thermal environment using virtual settings.

Adaptive neural network tracking control for underactuated systems with matched and mismatched disturbances (2019)
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Liu, P., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2019). Adaptive neural network tracking control for underactuated systems with matched and mismatched disturbances. Nonlinear Dynamics, 98(2), 1447-1464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-019-05170-8

This paper studies neural network-based tracking control of underactuated systems with unknown parameters and with matched and mismatched disturbances. Novel adaptive control schemes are proposed with the utilization of multi-layer neural networks, a... Read More about Adaptive neural network tracking control for underactuated systems with matched and mismatched disturbances.

A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks (2019)
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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)
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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.

Large-Area Soft e-Skin: The Challenges Beyond Sensor Designs (2019)
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Dahiya, R., Yogeswaran, N., Liu, F., Manjakkal, L., Burdet, E., Hayward, V., & Jorntell, H. (2019). Large-Area Soft e-Skin: The Challenges Beyond Sensor Designs. Proceedings of the IEEE, 107(10), 2016-2033. https://doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2019.2941366

Sensory feedback from touch is critical for many tasks carried out by robots and humans, such as grasping objects or identifying materials. Electronic skin (e-skin) is a crucial technology for these purposes. Artificial tactile skin that can play the... Read More about Large-Area Soft e-Skin: The Challenges Beyond Sensor Designs.

LINC: a motif counting algorithm for uncertain graphs (2019)
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Ma, C., Cheng, R., Lakshmanan, L. V. S., Grubenmann, T., Fang, Y., & Li, X. (2019). LINC: a motif counting algorithm for uncertain graphs. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 13(2), 155-168. https://doi.org/10.14778/3364324.3364330

In graph applications (e.g., biological and social networks), various analytics tasks (e.g., clustering and community search) are carried out to extract insight from large and complex graphs. Central to these tasks is the counting of the number of mo... Read More about LINC: a motif counting algorithm for uncertain graphs.

Frequency and temperature independent (Nb0.5Ga0.5)x(Ti0.9Zr0.1)1-xO2 ceramics with giant dielectric permittivity and low loss (2019)
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Xia, W., Liu, Y., Wang, G., Li, J., Cao, C., Hu, Q., Chen, Y., Lu, Z., & Wang, D. (2020). Frequency and temperature independent (Nb0.5Ga0.5)x(Ti0.9Zr0.1)1-xO2 ceramics with giant dielectric permittivity and low loss. Ceramics International, 46(3), 2954-2959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.09.292

Nb5+ and Ga3+ co-doped Ti0.9Zr0.1O2 ceramics were synthesized using the conventional solid-state reaction method. Single rutile-liked phase of octahedron structure were identified for all compositions in (Nb0.5Ga0.5)x(Ti0.9Zr0.1)1-xO2 (NGT) with x = ... Read More about Frequency and temperature independent (Nb0.5Ga0.5)x(Ti0.9Zr0.1)1-xO2 ceramics with giant dielectric permittivity and low loss.

A reliable route repairing scheme for internet of vehicles (2019)
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Banikhalaf, M., Manasrah, A. M., AlEroud, A. F., Hamadneh, N., Qawasmeh, A., & Al-Dubai, A. Y. (2019). A reliable route repairing scheme for internet of vehicles. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 61(3), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2019.102847

Recently, Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) has been recognised as a key solution for vehicular communications. Connected vehicles and infrastructure' roadside units have been shaping the underlying architecture of IoVs technology, where the conventional r... Read More about A reliable route repairing scheme for internet of vehicles.

An empirical study on assistive technology supported travel and tourism for the people with dementia (2019)
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Asghar, I., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2020). An empirical study on assistive technology supported travel and tourism for the people with dementia. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 15(8), 933-944. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2019.1629119

Purpose: Research shows that people with disabilities have same desire for travel and tourism as others, but many constraints prevent them from independent travelling. Although the disabled tourism market is expanding, still there is lack of empirica... Read More about An empirical study on assistive technology supported travel and tourism for the people with dementia.

A Lightweight and Efficient Digital Image Encryption Using Hybrid Chaotic Systems for Wireless Network Applications (2019)
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Almalkawi, I. T., Halloush, R., Alsarhan, A., Al-Dubai, A., & Al-karaki, J. N. (2019). A Lightweight and Efficient Digital Image Encryption Using Hybrid Chaotic Systems for Wireless Network Applications. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2019.102384

Due to limited processing capabilities and other constraints of most wireless networks, many existing security algorithms do not consider the network efficiency. This is because most of these security solutions exhibit intolerable overhead and consid... Read More about A Lightweight and Efficient Digital Image Encryption Using Hybrid Chaotic Systems for Wireless Network Applications.

Determination of the effectiveness of a combined thermal/chemical wood modification by the use of FT–IR spectroscopy and chemometric methods (2019)
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Popescu, C., Jones, D., Kržišnik, D., & Humar, M. (2020). Determination of the effectiveness of a combined thermal/chemical wood modification by the use of FT–IR spectroscopy and chemometric methods. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1200, Article 127133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127133

In this study, the combined effects of chemical (with tricine and bicine) and thermal treatments were investigated. The modifications which appeared in the wood structure were evaluated by infrared spectroscopy and chemometric methods (principal comp... Read More about Determination of the effectiveness of a combined thermal/chemical wood modification by the use of FT–IR spectroscopy and chemometric methods.

Concomitant Impediments to the implementation of Smart Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment (2019)
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Olawumi, T., & Chan, D. W. (2020). Concomitant Impediments to the implementation of Smart Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 21, 239-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2019.09.001

The paper examines the major barriers to the application of smart tools to enhance the implementation of sustainability practices in the built environment. The study collated 38 types of impediments from a comprehensive desktop review of the literatu... Read More about Concomitant Impediments to the implementation of Smart Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment.

An AI approach to Collecting and Analyzing Human Interactions with Urban Environments (2019)
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Ferrara, E., Fragale, L., Fortino, G., Song, W., Perra, C., di Mauro, M., & Liotta, A. (2019). An AI approach to Collecting and Analyzing Human Interactions with Urban Environments. IEEE Access, 7, 141476-141486. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2943845

Thanks to advances in Internet of Things and crowd-sensing, it is possible to collect vast amounts of urban data, to better understand how citizens interact with cities and, in turn, improve human well-being in urban environments. This is a scientifi... Read More about An AI approach to Collecting and Analyzing Human Interactions with Urban Environments.

Statistical Assessment of IP Multimedia Subsystem in a Softwarized Environment: a Queueing Networks Approach (2019)
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Di Mauro, M., & Liotta, A. (2019). Statistical Assessment of IP Multimedia Subsystem in a Softwarized Environment: a Queueing Networks Approach. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 16(4), 1493-1506. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsm.2019.2943776

The Next Generation 5G Networks can greatly benefit from the synergy between virtualization paradigms, such as the Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and service provisioning platforms such as the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The NFV concept is... Read More about Statistical Assessment of IP Multimedia Subsystem in a Softwarized Environment: a Queueing Networks Approach.