Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting is a promising technique to energize low power electronic devices due to the sustainability it could offer resulting from the surge in ambient wireless signals it could utilize. ...
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(纸本)9781509032204
Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting is a promising technique to energize low power electronic devices due to the sustainability it could offer resulting from the surge in ambient wireless signals it could utilize. In this paper, a concise literature survey on this technique is presented. Firstly, the architecture of a RF energy harvesting network is briefly introduced. Secondly, background relating to the antenna and rectifier designs is provided. Finally, some state-of-the-art designs from recent years are presented.
Preference relations are very useful to express decision makers' preferences over alternatives in the process of decision-making. However, multiple self-confidence levels are not considered in existing preference ...
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The basis for this project was to attempt to improve upon searches for neighboring "zipcodes". Simple search algorithms lack the granularity to properly determine nearby "zipcodes". In this paper, ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467399760
The basis for this project was to attempt to improve upon searches for neighboring "zipcodes". Simple search algorithms lack the granularity to properly determine nearby "zipcodes". In this paper, we include data concerning the boundaries of each zip code area which are then indexed using a new grid-based distance mapping approach to answer neighboring searches. Searches with this method become significantly more accurate at the expense of time. Furthermore, several methods of optimization are examined to demonstrate how they can bring the search time down to more reasonable threshold.
There has been tremendous growth in the use of mobile devices over the last few years. This growth has fueled the development of millions of software applications for these mobile devices often called as 'apps'...
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There has been tremendous growth in the use of mobile devices over the last few years. This growth has fueled the development of millions of software applications for these mobile devices often called as 'apps'. Current estimates indicate that there are hundreds of thousands of mobile app developers. As a result, in recent years, there has been an increasing amount of softwareengineering research conducted on mobile apps to help such mobile app developers. In this paper, we discuss current and future research trends within the framework of the various stages in the software development life-cycle: requirements (including non-functional), design and development, testing, and maintenance. While there are several non-functional requirements, we focus on the topics of energy and security in our paper, since mobile apps are not necessarily built by large companies that can afford to get experts for solving these two topics. For the same reason we also discuss the monetizing aspects of a mobile app at the end of the paper. For each topic of interest, we first present the recent advances done in these stages and then we present the challenges present in current work, followed by the future opportunities and the risks present in pursuing such research.
In underlay device-to-device (D2D) communication, a D2D pair reuses the cellular spectrum and creates interference to regular cellular users. Optimal operation requires joint consideration for the achieved D2D rate an...
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(纸本)9781479999897
In underlay device-to-device (D2D) communication, a D2D pair reuses the cellular spectrum and creates interference to regular cellular users. Optimal operation requires joint consideration for the achieved D2D rate and the added interference to cellular users. Most existing work on D2D rate maximization concerns only the simplified scenario where the D2D pair has access to a single channel or resource block. In this work, we present an optimization solution to allocate the D2D transmission power over multiple channels, to maximize the sum rate between D2D and cellular users, under a sum-power constraint on the D2D transmitter and minimum SINR guarantees at each RB for all cellular users. The proposed optimization is applicable to both uplink and downlink cellular spectrum sharing. Our simulation studies further shed light into how the maximum sum rate is impacted by the available D2D power and the SINR guarantees.
To set the stage, the comprehensive big picture of simulation is evoked and references to get detailed information are given. As part of the powerful synergy of software agents and simulation, contribution of software...
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Thermal infrared-visible video registration for nonplanar scenes is a new area in visual surveillance. It allows the combination of information from two spectra for better human detection and segmentation. In this pap...
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Thermal infrared-visible video registration for nonplanar scenes is a new area in visual surveillance. It allows the combination of information from two spectra for better human detection and segmentation. In this paper, we present a novel online framework for visible and thermal infrared registration for non-planar scenes that includes foreground segmentation, feature matching, rectification and disparity calculation. Our proposed approach is based on sparse correspondences of contour points. The key ideas of the proposed framework are the removal of spurious regions at the beginning of videos and a registration methodology for non-planar scenes. Besides, a new non-planar dataset with an associated evaluation protocol is also proposed as a standard assessment. We evaluate our method on both public planar and non-planar datasets. Experimental results reveal that the proposed method can not only successfully handle non-planar scenes but also gets state-of-the-art results on planar ones.
When software is maintained and evolved the build configuration also needs to be updated. Knowing when to update the build configuration is typically done manually with the risk of missing an update and breaking the b...
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When software is maintained and evolved the build configuration also needs to be updated. Knowing when to update the build configuration is typically done manually with the risk of missing an update and breaking the build. To mitigate this risk, previous work has investigated prediction models to help developers to identify commits that will likely involve an update of the build configuration. In this paper, we investigate whether we can improve these existing prediction models by taking into account detailed information on source code changes and commit categories. Our main hypothesis is that such detailed information on changes will significantly improve the prediction of build co-changes. To that extent, we extract information on changes from 10 Java open source projects and use a random forest classifier to train models that predict build co-changes within and across projects. Our results show significant improvements over existing prediction models: the AUC for intra-and cross-project prediction improves by 11.54% and 9.46% respectively. In addition, we investigate advanced resampling techniques to explore the effect of unbalanced data on our models. The results show that SMOTE can particularly improve prediction models with low performance that were trained on unbalanced data. Our models improve the prediction and enable a better understanding of build co-changes.
In order to meet the different data browsing requests for different users to the visual quality of remote sensing images in heterogeneous network especially under narrow bandwidth environments, an online remote sensin...
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Sensing systems are moving out of the laboratory and into the real world, where they are being applied in a growing range of application scenarios. In order to increase effectiveness and efficacy as well as the return...
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Sensing systems are moving out of the laboratory and into the real world, where they are being applied in a growing range of application scenarios. In order to increase effectiveness and efficacy as well as the return on investment, sensor systems must increasingly become easily reconfigurable and adjustable, in order to support system evolution and optimization. Currently, software technologies for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) lack the feature of dynamic sensing. This proposed project tackles the critical problem of developing software technologies and specifically middleware support that reduces the complexity of developing and managing dynamic sensing systems. Achieving this vision within the resource constraints of contemporary systems requires a radical rethinking of classic middleware design and the development of a suite of efficient supporting tools. This paper presents our on-going research which focuses on enhancing the component model along with features of dynamic sensing, with innovative components implemented based on the middleware platform LooCI (The Loosely-coupled Component Infrastructure), which has gained widespread popularity. Technological outcomes of this research will be validated in the domain of logistics, but their applications can be extended to various industrial areas.
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