Seulgi Lee¹, Ji-Sung Jung¹, Young-Hwan You², Hyoung-Kyu Song^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2205-2219, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017008 - 13 April 2021

Abstract This paper proposes an improved hybrid beamforming system based on multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system. The proposed beamforming system improves energy efficiency compared to the conventional hybrid beamforming system. Both sub-connected and full-connected structure are considered to apply the proposed algorithm. In the conventional hybrid beamforming, the usage of radio frequency (RF) chains and phase shifter (PS) gives high power and hardware complexity. In this paper, the phase over sampling (POS) with switches (SW) is used in hybrid beamforming system to improve the energy efficiency. The POS-SW structure samples the value of… More >

Van-Truong Truong¹, Anand Nayyar^2,*, Showkat Ahmad Lone³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1615-1635, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016922 - 13 April 2021

Abstract Wireless sensor network (WSN) is considered as the fastest growing technology pattern in recent years because of its applicability in varied domains. Many sensor nodes with different sensing functionalities are deployed in the monitoring area to collect suitable data and transmit it to the gateway. Ensuring communications in heterogeneous WSNs, is a critical issue that needs to be studied. In this research paper, we study the system performance of a heterogeneous WSN using LoRa–Zigbee hybrid communication. Specifically, two Zigbee sensor clusters and two LoRa sensor clusters are used and combined with two Zigbee-to-LoRa converters to… More >

Ye Mu^1,2,3,4, Ruiwen Ni¹, Yuheng Sun¹, Tong Zhang¹, Ji Li¹, Tianli Hu^1,2,3,4, He Gong^1,2,3,4, Shijun Li^1,2,3,4,*, Thobela Louis Tyasi⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2515-2527, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016570 - 13 April 2021

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Radio frequency identification technology is one of the main technologies of Internet of Things (IoT). Through the transmission and reflection of wireless radio frequency signals, non-contact identification is realized, and multiple objects identification can be realized. However, when multiple tags communicate with a singleton reader simultaneously, collision will occur between the signals, which hinders the successful transmissions. To effectively avoid the tag collision problem and improve the reading performance of RFID systems, two advanced tag identification algorithms namely Adaptive M-ary tree slotted Aloha (AMTS) based on the characteristics of Aloha-based and Query tree-based algorithms are proposed.

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Amany M. Sarhan¹, Nada M. Elshennawy¹, Dina M. Ibrahim^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1531-1549, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016509 - 13 April 2021

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Lip reading is typically regarded as visually interpreting the speaker’s lip movements during the speaking. This is a task of decoding the text from the speaker’s mouth movement. This paper proposes a lip-reading model that helps deaf people and persons with hearing problems to understand a speaker by capturing a video of the speaker and inputting it into the proposed model to obtain the corresponding subtitles. Using deep learning technologies makes it easier for users to extract a large number of different features, which can then be converted to probabilities of letters to obtain accurate results.

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Hegazy Rezk^1,2, Irik Z. Mukhametzyanov³, Mujahed Al-Dhaifallah^4,*, Hamdy A. Ziedan⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2001-2027, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015895 - 13 April 2021

Abstract Several models of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) have identified the optimal alternative electrical energy sources to supply certain load in an isolated region in Al-Minya City, Egypt. The load demand consists of water pumping system with a water desalination unit. Various options containing three different power sources: only DG, PV-B system, and hybrid PV-DG-B, two different sizes of reverse osmosis (RO) units; RO-250 and RO-500, two strategies of energy management; load following (LF) and cycle charging (CC), and two sizes of DG; 5 and 10 kW were taken into account. Eight attributes, including operating cost, renewable… More >

Yizhi Liu^1,2, Rutian Qing^1,2,*, Liangran Wu^1,2, Min Liu^1,2, Zhuhua Liao^1,2, Yijiang Zhao^1,2

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.3, No.1, pp. 33-43, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jai.2021.016565 - 02 April 2021

Abstract In the large-scale logistics distribution of single logistic center, the method based on traditional genetic algorithm is slow in evolution and easy to fall into the local optimal solution. Addressing at this issue, we propose a novel approach of exploring hybrid genetic algorithm based large-scale logistic distribution for BBG supermarket. We integrate greedy algorithm and hillclimbing algorithm into genetic algorithm. Greedy algorithm is applied to initialize the population, and then hill-climbing algorithm is used to optimize individuals in each generation after selection, crossover and mutation. Our approach is evaluated on the dataset of BBG Supermarket More >

Jilong Bian^1,*, Jinfeng Li²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.1, pp. 175-189, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.014635 - 30 March 2021

Abstract The stereo matching method based on a space-aware network is proposed, which divides the network into three sections: Basic layer, scale layer, and decision layer. This division is beneficial to integrate residue network and dense network into the space-aware network model. The vertical splitting method for computing matching cost by using the space-aware network is proposed for solving the limitation of GPU RAM. Moreover, a hybrid loss is brought forward to boost the performance of the proposed deep network. In the proposed stereo matching method, the space-aware network is used to calculate the matching cost More >

Wei Shi¹, Shusheng Xiong^1,*, Wei Li², Bohao Zhang³

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.3, pp. 643-654, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.014643 - 22 March 2021

Abstract 48 V lithium battery micro hybrid system is the most fuel economy vehicle which can be mass produced at present. However, with the irreversible internal resistance increase of the key component 48 V lithium battery, and the capacity continues to decline, the system performance deteriorate. Worst case could be the system not functional in the middle and later age of vehicle life cycle. This paper studies the feasibility of using 48 V super capacitor as the replacement to 48 V lithium battery, and uses a 12 V module of 48 V super capacitor as the… More >

Yingya Guo^1,2,3,7, Kai Huang¹, Cheng Hu^4,*, Jiangyuan Yao⁵, Siyu Zhou⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 655-670, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016364 - 22 March 2021

Abstract The emergence of Segment Routing (SR) provides a novel routing paradigm that uses a routing technique called source packet routing. In SR architecture, the paths that the packets choose to route on are indicated at the ingress router. Compared with shortest-path-based routing in traditional distributed routing protocols, SR can realize a flexible routing by implementing an arbitrary flow splitting at the ingress router. Despite the advantages of SR, it may be difficult to update the existing IP network to a full SR deployed network, for economical and technical reasons. Updating partial of the traditional IP… More >

Ahmed S. Salama^1,2,3, Mohamed Amr Mokhtar³, Mazhar B. Tayel³, Esraa Eldesouky^4,6, Ahmed Ali^5,6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 431-446, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016165 - 22 March 2021

Abstract Assuring medical images protection and robustness is a compulsory necessity nowadays. In this paper, a novel technique is proposed that fuses the wavelet-induced multi-resolution decomposition of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) with the energy compaction of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DCT). The multi-level Encryption-based Hybrid Fusion Technique (EbhFT) aims to achieve great advances in terms of imperceptibility and security of medical images. A DWT disintegrated sub-band of a cover image is reformed simultaneously using the DCT transform. Afterwards, a 64-bit hex key is employed to encrypt the host image as well as participate in the… More >