To address the limitation on the rate of secondary users (SUs) in traditional mutualistic symbiotic radio (SR) systems, this paper proposes a new mutualistic SR with hybrid active-passive communications. Unlike the tr...
To address the limitation on the rate of secondary users (SUs) in traditional mutualistic symbiotic radio (SR) systems, this paper proposes a new mutualistic SR with hybrid active-passive communications. Unlike the traditional mutualistic SR, where SUs only perform passive backscatter communications (BC), in the proposed mutualistic SR, each SU conveys information via passive BC and active communications (AC) alternatively. To exploit the potential advantages of the proposed SR, we formulate a non-convex problem to maximize the total rate of all SUs by jointly optimizing the transmit power of the primary user (PU), the reflection coefficient and transmit power of each SU, and the time allocation for each SU to perform passive BC and AC. With proof by contradiction, auxiliary variables and successively convex approximation (SCA), we transform the original problem into a convex one and solve it by proposing an iterative algorithm. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed iterative algorithm converges quickly. Furthermore, the performance evaluation of the proposed mutualistic SR system demonstrates its superiority over the traditional mutualistic SR in terms of the rate achieved by SUs under the same constraints.
This paper proposes a channel estimation method for movable antenna (MA)-aided wideband communication systems to acquire complete channel state information (CSI), i.e., the channel frequency responses (CFRs) between a...
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Context: Mentoring in Open Source Software (OSS) is important to its project’s growth and sustainability. Mentoring allows contributors to improve their technical skills and learn about the protocols and cultural nor...
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Context: Mentoring in Open Source Software (OSS) is important to its project’s growth and sustainability. Mentoring allows contributors to improve their technical skills and learn about the protocols and cultural norms of the project. However, mentoring has its challenges: mentors sometimes feel unappreciated, and mentees may have mismatched interests or lack interpersonal skills. Existing research has investigated the different challenges of mentoring in different OSS contexts, but we lack a holistic understanding. Objective: A comprehensive understanding of the current practices and challenges of mentoring in OSS is needed to implement appropriate strategies to facilitate mentoring. Method: This study presents a systematic literature review investigating how literature has characterized mentoring practices in OSS, including their challenges and the strategies to mitigate them. We retrieved 232 studies from four digital libraries. Out of these, 21 were primary studies. Using this, we performed backward and author snowballing, adding another 27 studies. We conducted a completeness check by reviewing the references of the 4 most relevant primary studies, which resulted in us adding 1 additional study. We then conducted a full-text review and evaluated the studies using a set of criteria;as a result, 10 papers were excluded. We then employed an open-coding approach to analyze, aggregate, and synthesize the selected studies. Results: We reviewed 39 studies to investigate the different facets of mentoring in OSS, encompassing motivations, goals, channels, and contributor dynamics. We then identified 13 challenges associated with mentoring in OSS, which fall into three categories: social, process, and technical. We also present a quick-reference strategy catalog to map these strategies to challenges for mitigation. Conclusions: Our study serves as a guideline for researchers and practitioners about mentoring challenges and potential strategies to mitigate these challenge
In recent years, distributed optimal power flow (OPF) algorithms have paved the way for the operation of distribution systems, where the distribution system is decomposed into multiple small areas each solving its own...
In recent years, distributed optimal power flow (OPF) algorithms have paved the way for the operation of distribution systems, where the distribution system is decomposed into multiple small areas each solving its own local optimization problem and sharing values of boundary variables with neighbors periodically. In contrast with the conventional centralized approaches, the performance of distributed algorithms is highly impacted by the non-ideal conditions of the communication infrastructures used for information sharing. Therefore, it is necessary to assess the robustness of distributed algorithms against real-time communication non-idealities. In this regard, this article investigates the performance of a fast distributed algorithm, named Equivalent Network Approximation method (ENApp), for three-phase radial distribution system under three different non-ideal communication scenarios: (1) erroneous data transfer, (2) additive noise effect and (3) communication delays. The non-idealities are modeled considering the physical aspects of two widely used wide-area network mediums, viz. power line communication and optical fiber. The performance characterization of ENApp is done using IEEE 123 bus test system in a HELICS-based cyber-physical co-simulation environment. This analysis provides an insight into the robustness of the ENApp algorithm in terms of the convergence time and success rate.
Human body tissue-mimicking biological phantoms (bio-phantoms) mimic the electrical and physical properties of actual body tissue and are useful structures for validating wireless thermometer performance. A hybrid bio...
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Human body tissue-mimicking biological phantoms (bio-phantoms) mimic the electrical and physical properties of actual body tissue and are useful structures for validating wireless thermometer performance. A hybrid bio-phantom testbed designed to operate with an antenna system is presented. The hybrid bio-phantom has realistic dielectric properties and is well matched to the antenna. Reflection properties are validated for an antenna-phantom testbed, and the properties show an accurate prediction for the characteristics of a realistic finite thickness multilayered human body from 0.4 to 3 GHz.
The converter-interfaced generation (CIGs) are expected to dominate the grid of the future. These CIGs will cohabit with a small percentage of synchronous generators (SGs) producing power from hydro, solar thermal or ...
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The converter-interfaced generation (CIGs) are expected to dominate the grid of the future. These CIGs will cohabit with a small percentage of synchronous generators (SGs) producing power from hydro, solar thermal or even nuclear resources. It appears that the literature lacks comprehensive modeling adequacy studies on such grids with SGs and CIGs. This paper takes the first step in that direction. To that end, a nonlinear averaged phasor model of the system with detailed model of the converters including grid-forming converters (GFCs) and their control is developed. Then a singular perturbation analysis based model reduction approach for such system is proposed. Based on the proposed method, two levels of reduced order models for the GFCs are derived. Finally, the adequacy of these reduced-order models are presented via time-domain simulations on two test system models using MATLAB/Simulink.
With the development of 6 G and beyond, space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) have evolved into key elements to promote high-speed and seamless connections for users. This paper studies a heterogeneous SA...
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Trust evaluation assesses trust relationships between entities and facilitates decision-making. Machine Learning (ML) shows great potential for trust evaluation owing to its learning capabilities. In recent years, Gra...
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Amyloid proteins are associated with a broad spectrum of neurodegenerative ***,it remains a grand challenge to extract molecular structure information from intracellular amyloid proteins in their native cellular *** a...
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Amyloid proteins are associated with a broad spectrum of neurodegenerative ***,it remains a grand challenge to extract molecular structure information from intracellular amyloid proteins in their native cellular *** address this challenge,we developed a computational chemical microscope integrating 3D midinfrared photothermal imaging with fluorescence imaging,termed Fluorescence-guided Bond-Selective Intensity Diffraction Tomography(FBS-IDT).Based on a low-cost and simple optical design,FBS-IDT enables chemical-specific volumetric imaging and 3D site-specific mid-IR fingerprint spectroscopic analysis of tau fbrils,an important type of amyloid protein aggregates,in their intracellular ***-free volumetric chemical imaging of human cells with/without seeded tau fibrils is demonstrated to show the potential correlation between lipid accumulation and tau aggregate ***-resolved mid-infrared fingerprint spectroscopy is performed to reveal the protein secondary structure of the intracellular tau fibrils.3D visualization of theβ-sheet for tau fibril structure is achieved.
Prognostics and health management (PHM) is an engineering discipline that aims to maintain system behaviour and function and ensure mission success, safety and effectiveness. Addressing the challenges in prognostics a...
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Prognostics and health management (PHM) is an engineering discipline that aims to maintain system behaviour and function and ensure mission success, safety and effectiveness. Addressing the challenges in prognostics and health management for modern intelligent systems, especially automated driving systems, is complex due to the contextual nature of faults. This complexity necessitates a thorough understanding of spatial, and temporal conditions, and relationships within operational scenarios and life-cycle stages. This paper introduces a framework designed to automatically recognize driving scenarios in automated driving systems using graph neural networks (GNNs). The framework extracts relational data from image frames, constructing graph-based models and transforming unstructured sensory data into structured data with diverse node types and relationships. A specific graph neural network processes the graph model to reveal and detect operational conditions and relationships. The proposed framework is evaluated using the KITTI dataset, demonstrating superior performance compared to conventional feed-forward networks such as MLP, particularly in handling relational data.
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