This work presents a dual-band Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) for improving 5G communications at millimeter-wave bands. The FSS is based on a single-layer configuration which supports dual polarization, with a unit...
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This work presents a dual-band Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) for improving 5G communications at millimeter-wave bands. The FSS is based on a single-layer configuration which supports dual polarization, with a unit-cell period of 4 mm x 4 mm. The structure exhibits two reflection bands at 28 GHz and 39 GHz. An equivalent circuit model has been developed for the proposed FSS, showing good agreement with full-wave electromagnetic simulations. A 200 mm x 200 mm prototype of the FSS, comprising an array of 50 × 50 unit-cells has been fabricated and tested, and the measured transmission and reflection coefficients agree well with the simulations. Moreover, the frequency response of the FSS shows good stability for incidence angles up to 40°. The proposed single-layer dual-band FSS has applications in the design of smart reflecting surfaces to enhance wireless communications in 5G networks operating at the 28 and 39 GHz bands, either alone or in combination with metasurface or reflectarray elements that could be placed on its upper side.
ObjectiveTo investigate the extent to which Headphone Accommodations in Apple AirPods Pro attend to the hearing needs of individuals with normal audiograms who experience hearing difficulties in noisy ***-arm interven...
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ObjectiveTo investigate the extent to which Headphone Accommodations in Apple AirPods Pro attend to the hearing needs of individuals with normal audiograms who experience hearing difficulties in noisy ***-arm interventional study using acoustic measures, speech-in-noise laboratory testing, and real-world measures via questionnaires and ecological momentary *** sampleSeventeen normal-hearing individuals (9 female, 21–59 years) with self-reported hearing-in-noise *** measures showed that, relative to unaided, AirPods Pro provided a SNR advantage of +5.4 dB. Speech intelligibility performance in laboratory testing increased 11.8% with AirPods Pro, relative to unaided. On average, participants trialling AirPods Pro in real-world noisy venues reported that their overall hearing experience wasa bit betterthan without them. Five participants (29%) reported that they would continue using AirPods Pro in the future. The most relevant barriers that would discourage their future use were limited hearing benefit, discomfort, and *** use of AirPods Pro may help some individuals with normal audiograms ameliorate their speech-in-noise hearing difficulties. The identified barriers may inspire the development of new technological solutions aimed at providing an optimal management strategy for the hearing difficulties of this segment of the population.
Beyond 5G (B5G) communication networks face the challenge of meeting the demanding requirements of various service types, including uRLLC, mIoT, eMBB, and emerging technologies like Extended Reality (XR). Edge computi...
Beyond 5G (B5G) communication networks face the challenge of meeting the demanding requirements of various service types, including uRLLC, mIoT, eMBB, and emerging technologies like Extended Reality (XR). Edge computing can address these demands effectively because of the ability to bring computational power and resources closer to the source of data. Nevertheless, the realization of this potential necessitates an open, flexible, and automated architectural framework capable of supporting disaggregated applications and network designs. In this context, this paper introduces a novel architecture designed to advance the evolution of edge computing in B5G, developed within the EU-funded project VERGE. The proposed architecture is modular and scalable, guided by artificial intelligence (AI), and founded on three essential pillars: “edge for AI,“ “AI for edge,“ and “security, privacy, and trustworthiness for AI.“ After presenting this architecture, the paper showcases its applicability through the examination of two vertical use cases within the industrial and transportation domains.
Here, we propose a new technique to accurately define and select the bandgap regions in gap waveguide technology based on glide-symmetric holey structures. This selection is accomplished by breaking the symmetry of th...
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Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sPCA) is a popular matrix factorization approach based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that combines variance maximization and sparsity with the ultimate goal of improving da...
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This work is focused on achieving large performance gains in wireless networks by means of distributed or cooperative Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. In this contribution, it is studied in detail the co...
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This work is focused on achieving large performance gains in wireless networks by means of distributed or cooperative Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. In this contribution, it is studied in detail the correlation of different Cooperative MIMO systems, based on measuring these systems on a reverberation chamber. Cooperative systems with more than 10 antennas are studied in detail. These results show the impact of these new propagation channels on the 5th generation mobile communication systems, which will be of importance for the development and characterization of such systems. In this new systems power imbalance acquires more importance.
Current multimedia communication systems seek to transmit images supporting contents by the data stream, which requires specific effort for their bandwidth optimization. In this scenario, security of data and informat...
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Process Control systems (PCSs) are the operating core of Critical Infrastructures (CIs). As such, anomaly detection has been an active research field to ensure CI normal operation. Previous approaches have leveraged n...
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