Mohamed Amine Ouamri^1,2, Reem Alkanhel^3,*, Cedric Gueguen¹, Manal Abdullah Alohali⁴, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 453-467, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031450

Abstract With the rapid development of emerging 5G and beyond (B5G), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly important to improve the performance of dense cellular networks. As a conventional metric, coverage probability has been widely studied in communication systems due to the increasing density of users and complexity of the heterogeneous environment. In recent years, stochastic geometry has attracted more attention as a mathematical tool for modeling mobile network systems. In this paper, an analytical approach to the coverage probability analysis of UAV-assisted cellular networks with imperfect beam alignment has been proposed. An assumption was considered that all users are distributed… More >

Guojun Zheng^1,2, Zhaomin Yan¹, Yang Xia^1,2, Ping Hu^1,2, Guozhe Shen^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 1975-1995, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021415

Abstract Peridynamics (PD) is a non-local mechanics theory that overcomes the limitations of classical continuum mechanics (CCM) in predicting the initiation and propagation of cracks. However, the calculation efficiency of PD models is generally lower than that of the traditional finite element method (FEM). Structural idealization can greatly improve the calculation efficiency of PD models for complex structures. This study presents a PD shell model based on the micro-beam bond via the homogenization assumption. First, the deformations of each endpoint of the micro-beam bond are calculated through the interpolation method. Second, the micro-potential energy of the axial, torsional, and bending deformations… More >

Benkai Shi, Bowen Huang, Huifeng Yang^*, Yongqing Dai, Sijian Chen

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 349-361, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.022343

Abstract To promote the development of timber-concrete composite (TCC) structures, it is necessary to propose the assembly-type connections with high assembly efficiency and shear performances. This article presented the experimental results of the innovative steel-plate connections for TCC beams using prefabricated concrete slabs. The steel-plate connections consisted of the screws and the steel-plates. The steel-plates were partly embedded in the concrete slabs. The concrete slabs and the timber beams were connected by screws through the steel-plates. The parameters researched in this article included screw number, angle steel as the reinforcement for anchoring, and shallow notches on the timber surface to restrict… More >

Samer Alabed^*, Mohammad Al-Rabayah, Wael Hosny Fouad Aly

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5641-5653, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030371

Abstract Rotman lens, which is a radio frequency beam-former that consists of multiple input and multiple output beam ports, can be used in industrial, scientific, and medical applications as a beam steering device. The input ports collect the signals to be propagated through the lens cavity toward the output ports before being transmitted by the antenna arrays to the destination in order to enhance the error performance by optimizing the overall signal to noise ratio (SNR). In this article, a low-cost Rotman lens antenna is designed and deployed to enhance the overall performance of the conventional cooperative communication systems without needing… More >

Yinghua Zhang^1,*, Rui Cao¹, Lixin Tian¹, Rong Dai², Zhennan Cao², Jim Feng³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 6513-6534, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029467

Abstract With the continuous maturity of the fifth generation (5G) communications, industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology has been widely applied in fields such as smart factories. In smart factories, 5G-based production line monitoring can improve production efficiency and reduce costs, but there are problems with limited monitoring coverage and insufficient wireless spectrum resources, which restricts the application of IIoT in the construction of smart factories. In response to these problems, we propose a hybrid spectrum access mechanism based on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) cooperative relaying transmission to improve the monitoring coverage and spectrum efficiency. As there are a large number… More >

Usama Sayed^1,2, Assima Dauletbek^1,2, Xue Xin^1,2, Rodolfo Lorenzo³, Haitao Li^1,2,*

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.12, pp. 3629-3657, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.022624

Abstract In light of the increasing demand for sustainable building materials, the effectiveness of bamboo utilization in various fields has become the object of scientists’ close attention. The increased interest in bamboo is explained by its sustainable characteristics, which make it the most preferred material for environmentally friendly and costeffective construction compared to conventional ones. Applicability of bamboo is vast and diverse: from decoration and furniture to structural members and reinforcement. Due to the low price, rich resources, and high elasticity, bamboo culms have also been used as an alternative to steel reinforcement in concrete structures. Extensive research has been done… More >

Xiaojun Huang^1,2, Liaojun Zhang^1,*, Renyu Ge², Hanbo Cui², Zhedong Xu²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.1, pp. 23-41, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.019765

Abstract In the current research, an effective differential quadrature method (DQM) has been developed to solve natural frequency and vibration modal functions of circular section beams along radial functional gradient. Based on the high-order theory of transverse vibration of circular cross-section beams, lateral displacement equation was reconstructed neglecting circumferential shear stress. Two equations coupled with deflection and rotation angles were derived based on elastic mechanics theory and further simplified into a constant coefficient differential equation with natural frequency as eigenvalue. Then, differential quadrature method was applied to transform the eigenvalue problem of the derived differential equation into a set of algebraic… More >

Pichaya Chaipanya^1,*, Supachai Kaewuam¹, Jiraphan Hirunruang¹, Wichaya Suntara¹, Nuchanart Santalunai², Samran Santalunai³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 181-198, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028616

Abstract This paper presents the single element dual band switched beam textile antenna. The antenna can operate at frequencies of 0.7 and 2.6 GHz using for 5G wireless communication applications. Textile fabric is considered to be used for substrate layer at the parts of a microstrip antenna for wireless body area network. The beam pattern of antenna can be switched into two directions by changing the position of shorted-circuit points at each edge of antenna. The main beam direction is 45°/225° when corner A is shorted while it steers at 135°/315° when corner B is shorted circuit. The advantage of the… More >

Qiuqin Yang¹, Linfang Li¹, Ming-Xing Luo^1,*, Xiaojun Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1863-1877, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027120

Abstract In real communication systems, secure and low-energy transmit scheme is very important. So far, most of schemes focus on secure transmit in special scenarios. In this paper, our goal is to propose a secure protocol in wireless networks involved various factors including artificial noise (AN), the imperfect receiver and imperfect channel state information (CSI) of eavesdropper, weight of beamforming (BF) vector, cooperative jammers (CJ), multiple receivers, and multiple eavesdroppers, and the analysis shows that the protocol can reduce the transmission power, and at the same time the safe reachability rate is greater than our pre-defined value, and the analysis results… More >

Chih-Wen Chang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 433-451, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027021

Abstract We retrieve unknown nonlinear large space-time dependent forces burdened with the vibrating nonlinear Euler-Bernoulli beams under varied boundary data, comprising two-end fixed, cantilevered, clamped-hinged, and simply supported conditions in this study. Even though some researchers used several schemes to overcome these forward problems of Euler-Bernoulli beams; however, an effective numerical algorithm to solve these inverse problems is still not available. We cope with the homogeneous boundary conditions, initial data, and final time datum for each type of nonlinear beam by employing a variety of boundary shape functions. The unknown nonlinear large external force can be recuperated via back-substitution of the… More >