Sensor nodes in wireless networks often use batteries as their source of energy, but replacing or recharging exhausted batteries in a deployed network can be difficult and costly. Therefore, prolonging battery life be...
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Sensor nodes in wireless networks often use batteries as their source of energy, but replacing or recharging exhausted batteries in a deployed network can be difficult and costly. Therefore, prolonging battery life becomes a principal objective in the design of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). There is little published data that quantitatively analyze a sensor node's lifetime under different operating conditions. This paper presents several experiments to quantify the impact of key wireless sensor network design and environmental parameters on battery performance. Our testbed consists of MicaZ motes, commercial alkaline batteries, and a suite of techniques for measuring battery performance. We evaluate known parameters, such as communication distance, working channel and operating power that play key roles in battery performance. Through extensive real battery discharge measurements, we expect our results to serve as a quantitative basis for future research in designing and implementing battery-efficient sensing applications and protocols.
This paper reports the development of global FDTD models incorporated with a quasi-real anisotropic ionosphere consisting of magnetized cold plasmas. Compared to the existing global models utilizing simple conductivit...
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(纸本)9781467303330
This paper reports the development of global FDTD models incorporated with a quasi-real anisotropic ionosphere consisting of magnetized cold plasmas. Compared to the existing global models utilizing simple conductivity ionospheric profiles, the algorithms reported in this paper can sufficiently extend the global-scale electromagnetic simulations to much higher altitudes as the physics introduced by the spatially-varied ionospheric plasmas and the geomagnetic field can be fully included in calculations.
In this paper, the concept of left conjugate product is first presented. Some interesting properties of the concept are then derived. Using left conjugate product as a tool, we investigate dual Sylvester-conjugate mat...
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In this paper, the concept of left conjugate product is first presented. Some interesting properties of the concept are then derived. Using left conjugate product as a tool, we investigate dual Sylvester-conjugate matrix equations which include Lyapunov matrix equations and generalized Sylvester-observer matrix equations as special cases. An explicit solution of this matrix equation is presented with a free parameter matrix.
In a number of types of documents, ranging from forms to archive documents and books with annotations, machine printed and handwritten text may be present in the same document image, giving rise to significant issues ...
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In a number of types of documents, ranging from forms to archive documents and books with annotations, machine printed and handwritten text may be present in the same document image, giving rise to significant issues within a digitisation and recognition pipeline. It is therefore necessary to separate the two types of text before applying different recognition methodologies to each. In this paper, a new approach is proposed which strives towards identifying and separating handwritten from machine printed text using the Bag of Visual Words paradigm (BoVW). Initially, blocks of interest are detected in the document image. For each block, a descriptor is calculated based on the BoVW. The final characterization of the blocks as Handwritten, Machine Printed or Noise is made by a Support Vector Machine classifier. The promising performance of the proposed approach is shown by using a consistent evaluation methodology which couples meaningful measures along with a new dataset.
The creation of monolithically integratable sources of single and entangled photons is a top research priority with formidable challenges: The production, manipulation, and measurement of the photons should all occur ...
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The creation of monolithically integratable sources of single and entangled photons is a top research priority with formidable challenges: The production, manipulation, and measurement of the photons should all occur in the same material platform, thereby fostering stability and scalability. Here we demonstrate efficient photon pair production in a semiconductor platform, gallium arsenide. Our results show type-I spontaneous parametric down-conversion of laser light from a 2.2 mm long Bragg-reflection waveguide, and we estimate its internal pair production efficiency to be 2.0×10−8 (pairs/pump photon). This is the first time that significant pair production has been demonstrated in a structure that can be electrically self-pumped and which can form the basis for passive optical circuitry, bringing us markedly closer to complete integration of quantum optical technologies.
Limitation of message size of the MMS technology is one of the important factors which make this technology less attractive. This limitation restricts the system developers in developing new mobile applications using ...
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The current work presents a computational pipeline to simulate transcranial direct current stimulation from image based models of the head with SCIRun [15]. The pipeline contains all the steps necessary to carry out t...
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(纸本)9781424441198
The current work presents a computational pipeline to simulate transcranial direct current stimulation from image based models of the head with SCIRun [15]. The pipeline contains all the steps necessary to carry out the simulations and is supported by a complete suite of open source software tools: image visualization, segmentation, mesh generation, tDCS electrode generation and efficient tDCS forward simulation.
Photonic crystals realized in LiNbO 3 have a great potential to reduce the size and increase the functionality of integrated optical devices. In order to accomplish these aims, fabrication know-how must be mastered y...
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Photonic crystals realized in LiNbO 3 have a great potential to reduce the size and increase the functionality of integrated optical devices. In order to accomplish these aims, fabrication know-how must be mastered yet it remains relatively uncharted. In this work we report the fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal structures in annealed proton exchanged (APE) LiNbO 3 waveguides. In our work, channel waveguides were fabricated by photolithography patterning followed by immersing LiNbO 3 wafers in molten benzoic acid at 235°C for 5 h. The thickness and the composition profiles of the APE waveguides were measured using the secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) method. The experimental characterization of the photonic crystal waveguides was performed and a photonic stop band with good sharpness can be observed from the transmission spectra.
For Petri net models whose legal reachability spaces are non-convex, one cannot optimally control them by the conjunctions of linear constraints. This work proposes a method to find a set of linear constraints such th...
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For Petri net models whose legal reachability spaces are non-convex, one cannot optimally control them by the conjunctions of linear constraints. This work proposes a method to find a set of linear constraints such that each constraint can forbid all first-met bad markings and every legal marking satisfies at least one constraint. Then, the disjunctions of the obtained constraints can make all legal markings reachable and forbid all first-met bad markings, i.e., the controlled net is live and maximally permissive. The work also develops an integer linear programming model to minimize the number of the constraints. Finally, an example is provided to illustrate the proposed method.
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