Exhaled breath analysis has attracted considerable attention as a noninvasive and portable health diagnosis method due to numerous advantages,such as convenience,safety,simplicity,and avoidance of *** on many studies,...
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Exhaled breath analysis has attracted considerable attention as a noninvasive and portable health diagnosis method due to numerous advantages,such as convenience,safety,simplicity,and avoidance of *** on many studies,exhaled breath analysis is a promising medical detection technology capable of diagnosing different diseases by analyzing the concentration,type and other characteristics of specific *** the existing gas analysis technology,the electronic nose(eNose)analysis method has great advantages of high sensitivity,rapid response,real-time monitoring,ease of use and ***,this review is intended to provide an overview of the application of human exhaled breath components in disease diagnosis,existing breath testing technologies and the development and research status of electronic nose *** the electronic nose technology section,the three aspects of sensors,algorithms and existing systems are summarized in ***,the related challenges and limitations involved in the abovementioned technologies are also ***,the conclusion and perspective of eNose technology are presented.
In large-scale informationsystems, storage device performance continues to improve while workloads expand in size and access characteristics. This growth puts tremendous pressure on caches and storage hierarchy in te...
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THE development of agriculture faces significant challenges due to population growth, climate change, land depletion, and environmental pollution, threatening global food security [1]. This necessitates the developmen...
THE development of agriculture faces significant challenges due to population growth, climate change, land depletion, and environmental pollution, threatening global food security [1]. This necessitates the development of sustainable agriculture, where a fundamental step is crop breeding to improve agronomic or economic traits, e.g., increasing yields of crops while decreasing resource usage and minimizing pollution to the environment [2].
This study presents an overview on intelligent reflecting surface(IRS)-enabled sensing and communication for the forthcoming sixth-generation(6G) wireless networks, in which IRSs are strategically deployed to proactiv...
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This study presents an overview on intelligent reflecting surface(IRS)-enabled sensing and communication for the forthcoming sixth-generation(6G) wireless networks, in which IRSs are strategically deployed to proactively reconfigure wireless environments to improve both sensing and communication(S&C) performance. First, we exploit a single IRS to enable wireless sensing in the base station's(BS's) non-line-of-sight(NLoS) area. In particular, we present three IRS-enabled NLoS target sensing architectures with fully-passive, semi-passive, and active IRSs, respectively. We compare their pros and cons by analyzing the fundamental sensing performance limits for target detection and parameter estimation. Next, we consider a single IRS to facilitate integrated sensing and communication(ISAC), in which the transmit signals at the BS are used for achieving both S&C functionalities, aided by the IRS through reflective beamforming. We present joint transmit signal and receiver processing designs for realizing efficient ISAC, and jointly optimize the transmit beamforming at the BS and reflective beamforming at the IRS to balance the fundamental performance tradeoff between S&C. Furthermore, we discuss multi-IRS networked ISAC, by particularly focusing on multi-IRS-enabled multi-link ISAC, multi-region ISAC, and ISAC signal routing, respectively. Finally, we highlight various promising research topics in this area to motivate future work.
Optical data storage(ODS)is a low-cost and high-durability counterpart of traditional electronic or mag-netic *** a means of enhancing ODS capacity,the multiple recording layer(MRL)method is more promising than other ...
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Optical data storage(ODS)is a low-cost and high-durability counterpart of traditional electronic or mag-netic *** a means of enhancing ODS capacity,the multiple recording layer(MRL)method is more promising than other approaches such as reducing the recording volume and multiplexing ***,the architecture of current MRLs is identical to that of recording data into physical layers with rigid space,which leads to either severe interlayer crosstalk or finite recording layers constrained by the short working distances of the ***,we propose the concept of hybrid-layer ODS,which can record optical information into a physical layer and multiple virtual layers by using high-orthogonality random *** the virtual layer,32 images are experimentally reconstructed through holog-raphy,where their holographic phases are encoded into 16 printed images and complementary images in the physical layer,yielding a capacity of 2.5 Tbit cm^(-3).A higher capacity is achievable with more virtual layers,suggesting hybrid-layer ODS as a possible candidate for next-generation ODS.
Block synchronization is an essential component of blockchain ***,blockchain systems tend to send all the transactions from one node to another for ***,such a method may lead to an extremely high network bandwidth ove...
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Block synchronization is an essential component of blockchain ***,blockchain systems tend to send all the transactions from one node to another for ***,such a method may lead to an extremely high network bandwidth overhead and significant transmission *** is crucial to speed up such a block synchronization process and save bandwidth consumption.A feasible solution is to reduce the amount of data transmission in the block synchronization process between any pair of ***,existing methods based on the Bloom filter or its variants still suffer from multiple roundtrips of communications and significant synchronization *** this paper,we propose a novel protocol named Gauze for fast block *** utilizes the Cuckoo filter(CF)to discern the transactions in the receiver’s mempool and the block to verify,providing an efficient solution to the problem of set reconciliation in the P2P(Peer-to-Peer Network)*** up to two rounds of exchanging and querying the CFs,the sending node can acknowledge whether the transactions in a block are contained by the receiver’s mempool or *** on this message,the sender only needs to transfer the missed transactions to the receiver,which speeds up the block synchronization and saves precious bandwidth *** evaluation results show that Gauze outperforms existing methods in terms of the average processing latency(about lower than Graphene)and the total synchronization space cost(about lower than Compact Blocks)in different scenarios.
Space-Air-Ground integrated Vehicular Network(SAGVN)aims to achieve ubiquitous connectivity and provide abundant computational resources to enhance the performance and efficiency of the vehicular ***,there are still c...
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Space-Air-Ground integrated Vehicular Network(SAGVN)aims to achieve ubiquitous connectivity and provide abundant computational resources to enhance the performance and efficiency of the vehicular ***,there are still challenges to overcome,including the scheduling of multilayered computational resources and the scarcity of spectrum *** address these problems,we propose a joint Task Offloading(TO)and Resource Allocation(RA)strategy in SAGVN(namely JTRSS).This strategy establishes an SAGVN model that incorporates air and space networks to expand the options for vehicular TO,and enhances the edge-computing resources of the system by deploying edge *** minimize the system average cost,we use the JTRSS algorithm to decompose the original problem into a number of subproblems.A maximum rate matching algorithm is used to address the channel allocation and the Lagrangian multiplier method is employed for computational *** acquire the optimal TO decision,a differential fusion cuckoo search algorithm is *** simulation results demonstrate the significant superiority of the JTRSS algorithm in optimizing the system average cost.
This paper investigates a distributed heterogeneous hybrid blocking flow-shop scheduling problem(DHHBFSP)designed to minimize the total tardiness and total energy consumption simultaneously,and proposes an improved pr...
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This paper investigates a distributed heterogeneous hybrid blocking flow-shop scheduling problem(DHHBFSP)designed to minimize the total tardiness and total energy consumption simultaneously,and proposes an improved proximal policy optimization(IPPO)method to make real-time decisions for the DHHBFSP.A multi-objective Markov decision process is modeled for the DHHBFSP,where the reward function is represented by a vector with dynamic weights instead of the common objectiverelated scalar value.A factory agent(FA)is formulated for each factory to select unscheduled jobs and is trained by the proposed IPPO to improve the decision *** FAs work asynchronously to allocate jobs that arrive randomly at the shop.A two-stage training strategy is introduced in the IPPO,which learns from both single-and dual-policy data for better data *** proposed IPPO is tested on randomly generated instances and compared with variants of the basic proximal policy optimization(PPO),dispatch rules,multi-objective metaheuristics,and multi-agent reinforcement learning *** experimental results suggest that the proposed strategies offer significant improvements to the basic PPO,and the proposed IPPO outperforms the state-of-the-art scheduling methods in both convergence and solution quality.
Transfer learning algorithms can transform prior knowledge into linearization knowledge to model nonlinear systems. However, the linearization knowledge-based models tend to diverge in the process of knowledge lineari...
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Transfer learning algorithms can transform prior knowledge into linearization knowledge to model nonlinear systems. However, the linearization knowledge-based models tend to diverge in the process of knowledge linearization due to the neglected information of higher-order terms. To overcome this problem, a second-order knowledge filter transfer learning algorithm(SOFTLA) is developed for modeling nonlinear systems. First, a knowledge transformation strategy is introduced to transform the linearization source knowledge into comprehensive knowledge containing first-order and second-order *** with the original knowledge, the transformed source knowledge with second-order term can prevent information loss during the knowledge linearization. Second, a knowledge filter algorithm is proposed to eliminate the useless information in the source knowledge. Subsequently, a suitable filter gain is designed to reduce the cumulative error in knowledge updating process. Third, a model adaptation mechanism is designed to enable effective knowledge transfer by updating the structure and parameters of the target model simultaneously. Subsequently, the adaptability of the source knowledge is enhanced to facilitate learning tasks in the target domain. Finally, a benchmark problem and several practical industrial applications are presented to validate the superiority of SOFTLA. The experimental discussions illustrate that SOFTLA can obtain obvious advantages over contrastive methods.
This paper focuses on the problems of point cloud deep neural networks in classification and segmentation tasks, including losing important information during down-sampling, ignoring relationships among points when ex...
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This paper focuses on the problems of point cloud deep neural networks in classification and segmentation tasks, including losing important information during down-sampling, ignoring relationships among points when extracting features, and network performance being susceptible to the sparsity of point cloud. To begin with, this paper proposes a farthest point sampling-important points sampling method for down-sampling, which can preserve important information of point clouds and maintain the geometry of input data. Then, the local feature relation aggregating method is proposed for feature extraction, improving the network's ability to learn contextual information and extract rich local region features. Based on these methods, the important points feature aggregating net(IPFA-Net) is designed for point cloud classification and segmentation tasks. Furthermore, this paper proposes the multi-scale multi-density feature connecting method to reduce the negative impact of point cloud data sparsity on network performance. Finally, the effectiveness of IPFA-Net is demonstrated through experiments on ModelNet40, ShapeNet part, and ScanNet v2 datasets. IPFA-Net is robust to reducing the number of point clouds, with only a 3.3% decrease in accuracy under a 16-fold reduction of point number. In the part segmentation experiments, our method achieves the best segmentation performance for five objects.
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