Jiancheng Zou^1,*, Tianshu Chen¹, Xin Yang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1029-1040, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05793

Abstract Heart rate is an important physiological parameter for clinical diagnosis, it can infer the health of the human body. Thus, efficient and accurate heart rate measurement is important for disease diagnosis and health monitoring. There are two ways to measure heart rate. One is contact type and the other is non-contact. Contact measurement methods include pulse cutting, electrocardiogram, etc. Because of the inconvenience of this method, a non-contact heart rate method has been proposed. Traditional non-contact measurement method based on image is collecting RGB three-channel signals in continuous video and selecting the average value of the green channel pixels as… More >

Chaofan Duan¹, Jing Feng^1,*, Haotian Chang¹, Jianping Pan², Liming Duan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 989-1002, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06033

Abstract Coverage is an important issue for resources rational allocation, cognitive tasks completion in sensor networks. The mobility, communicability and learning ability of smart sensors have received much attention in the past decade. Based on the deep study of game theory, a mobile sensor non-cooperative game model is established for the sensor network deployment and a local information-based topology control (LITC) algorithm for coverage enhancement is proposed. We both consider revenue of the monitoring events and neighboring sensors to avoid nodes aggregation when formulating the utility function. We then prove that the non-cooperative game is an exact potential game in which… More >

V. Gowrishankar^1,*, K. Venkatachalam¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 947-957, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.07749

Abstract A high precision 10-bit successive approximation register analog to digital converter (ADC) designed and implemented in 32nm CNTFET process technology at the supply of 0.6V, with 73.24 dB SNDR at a sampling rate of 640 MS/s with the average power consumption of 120.2 μW for the Internet of things node. The key components in CNTFET SAR ADCs are binary scaled charge redistribution digital to analog converter using MOS capacitors, CNTFET based dynamic latch comparator and simple SAR digital code error correction logic. These techniques are used to increase the sampling rate and precision while ensuring the linearity, power consumption and… More >

Yu Han^1,*, Wenxian Zheng², Guangjun Wen¹, Chu Chu¹, Jian Su³, Yibo Zhang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.2, pp. 795-812, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05719

Abstract In recent years, Researchers have proposed the concept of Energy Harvesting Backscatter Wireless Networks (EHBWN). EHBWN usually consists of one sink and several backscatter nodes. Backscatter nodes harvest energy from their environment and communicate with sink through backscattering the carrier wave transmitted by sink. Although a certain amount of access protocols for Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks have been present, they usually do not take the sink’s receiver sensitivity into account, which makes those protocols unsuitable in practice. In this paper, we first give an analysis of the backscatter channel link budget and the relationship between the effective communication range and… More >

Sheng Bin^1,*, Gengxin Sun¹, Ning Cao², Jinming Qiu², Zhiyong Zheng³, Guohua Yang⁴, Hongyan Zhao⁵, Meng Jiang⁶, Lina Xu⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.2, pp. 659-674, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05858

Abstract Recommendation system is one of the most common applications in the field of big data. The traditional collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm is directly based on user-item rating matrix. However, when there are huge amounts of user and commodities data, the efficiency of the algorithm will be significantly reduced. Aiming at the problem, a collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm based on multi-relational social networks is proposed. The algorithm divides the multi-relational social networks based on the multi-subnet complex network model into communities by using information dissemination method, which divides the users with similar degree into a community. Then the user-item rating matrix… More >

Jinlan Xu¹, Ningning Sun¹, Laixin Shu¹, Timon Rabczuk², Gang Xu^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.2, pp. 615-632, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04464

Abstract Trimming techniques are efficient ways to generate complex geometries in Computer-Aided Design (CAD). In this paper, an improved integration for trimmed geometries in isogeometric analysis (IGA) is proposed. The proposed method can improve the accuracy of the approximation and the condition number of the stiffness matrix. In addition, comparing to the traditional approaches, the trimming techniques can reduce the number of the integration elements with much fewer integration points, which improves the computational efficiency significantly. Several examples are illustrated to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. More >

Guoquan Nie^{1, *}, Menghe Wang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.1, pp. 257-274, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04498

Abstract Propagation characteristics of Rayleigh-type wave in a piezoelectric layered system are theoretically investigated. The piezoelectric layer is considered as a cubic crystal with finite thickness rotated about Y-axis and is imperfectly bonded onto a semi-infinite dielectric substrate. The imperfect interface between the two constituents is assumed to be mechanically compliant and dielectrically weakly conducting. The exact dispersion relations for electrically open or shorted boundary conditions are obtained. The numerical results show that the phase velocity of Rayleigh-type wave is symmetric with respect to the cut orientation of 45。 and can achieve the maximum propagation speed in this orientation. The mechanical… More >

Feng Xu¹, Xuefen Zhang^2,*, Zhanhong Xin¹, Alan Yang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.3, pp. 697-709, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05375

Abstract Nowadays, the amount of wed data is increasing at a rapid speed, which presents a serious challenge to the web monitoring. Text sentiment analysis, an important research topic in the area of natural language processing, is a crucial task in the web monitoring area. The accuracy of traditional text sentiment analysis methods might be degraded in dealing with mass data. Deep learning is a hot research topic of the artificial intelligence in the recent years. By now, several research groups have studied the sentiment analysis of English texts using deep learning methods. In contrary, relatively few works have so far… More >

Yuejin Zhou^1,*, Mingpeng Li¹, Xiaoding Xu¹, Meng Li¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 391-407, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04456

Abstract The changeable structure and movement law of overlying strata are the main contributor to the change of mining stress. Starting from the relevant theory of key stratum and particularly based on the theory of mine ground pressure and strata control, this research proposed a new solution to mining stress problems by establishing a dual-load-zone stratum structural model. Elastic foundation beam theory was used to solve the stress of overlying strata of the dual-load-zones with superposition method, which revised the traditional calculation method of mining stress. The abnormal increase of lead abutment pressure in the mining area was explained effectively, through… More >

Zhao Dou¹, Gang Xu^1,*, Xiubo Chen¹, Kaiguo Yuan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 335-347, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04159

Abstract Rational participants want to maximize their benefits. The protocol with rational participants will be more realistic than the protocol with honest, semi-honest and dishonest participants. We research the rational non-hierarchical quantum state sharing in this paper. General steps of some known quantum state sharing protocol are summarized. Based on these steps, a new rational protocol is proposed. It means that lots of common protocols could be modified to rational protocols. Our protocol is widely applicable. Analyses show that the proposed protocol is rational and secure. It is also all-win for agents. Furthermore, number of deceiving agents is considered to redefine… More >