Enabling seamless and mission critical voice and data services is a key requirement for public safety networks during the emergency and natural disaster scenarios. The ability to save lives depends on the reliable and effective communication amongst the first responders and victims. Land Mobile Radio System (LMRS) is a legacy technology which has been used […]
Read moreIn this paper, we investigate the impact of jamming threats on the performance of LTE networks. First, we develop a three dimensional theoretical space to explore various jamming attacks. Next, we construct a set of attack scenarios by utilizing the dimensions of this space. To observe the impact onLTE network performance, we use ns-3 to implement the scenarios […]
Read moreThis paper proposes an efficient data compression technique dedicated to implantable intra-cortical neural recording devices. The proposed technique benefits from processing neural signals in the Discrete Haar Wavelet Transform space, a new spike extraction approach, and a novel data framing scheme to telemeter the recorded neural information to the outside world. Based on the proposed […]
Read moreMoving toward a carbon free energy system has become an objective for many countries nowadays. Among other changes, the electrification of strategic sectors, such as heating and transportation, is inevitable. As a consequence, the current power system load will substantially increase. In this context, the nature of the expected loads (heat pumps, plug-in electric vehicles, […]
Read moreHierarchical Risk Assessment of Transmission System Considering the Influence of Active Distribution Network
In traditional distribution system, power flow was unidirectional; thus loads were usually aggregated into the substation as an equivalent constant bus in the original risk analysis of transmission system. Detail structures of the distribution system were absolutely ignored. However, distribution system is transformed from passive to active nowadays with more and more distributed generations (DGs) […]
Read moreFor efficient and reliable data transmission, the traffic load should be as uniformly distributed as possible in the network, and the average distance traveled by the data should be short. This criterion has been shown to be fundamental. The key design problem is therefore to find the optimal solution that achieves this criterion. With a […]
Read moreA Microwave Imaging-Based Technique to Localize an In-Body RF Source for Biomedical Applications
In some biomedical applications such as wireless capsule endoscopy, the localization of an in-bodyradio-frequency (RF) source is important for the positioning of any abnormality inside the gastrointestinal tract. With knowledge of the location, therapeutic operations can be performed precisely at the position of the abnormality. Electrical properties (relative permittivity and conductivity) of the tissues and […]
Read moreWe investigate the process of transferring the activity recognition models within the nodes of a bodysensor network (BSN). In particular, we propose a methodology that supports and makes the transferring possible. Based on a collaborative training strategy, classifier ensembles of randomized trees are used to create activity recognition models that can successfully be transferred within the nodes of […]
Read moreThe tremendous growth of machine-tomachine (M2M) applications has been a great attractor to cellular network operators to provide machine-type communication services. One of the important challenges for cellular systems supporting M2M terminals is coverage, because terminals can be located in spaces in buildings and structures suffering from significant penetration losses. Since these terminals are also […]
Read moreThe wide flexibility of LTE resource allocation scheme has led to the definition of various schedulers that attempt to maximize the quality of the service offered to the different users, depending on their channel conditions. Unfortunately, providing service guarantees in dynamic channel conditions typically requires a cost in terms of spectral efficiency of the transmission resource allocation. […]
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