R. Jayamala^*, A. Valarmathi

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.2, pp. 347-358, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.012401 - 18 January 2021

Abstract Cloud computing is an increasingly important technology to deliver pay-as-you-go online computing services. In this study, the cloud service provider permits the cloud user to pay according to the user’s needs. Various methods have been used to reduce energy utilization in the cloud. The rapid increase of cloud users has led to increased energy consumption and higher operating costs for cloud providers. A key issue in cloud data centers is their massive energy consumption to operate and maintain computing services. Virtual machine (VM) migration is a method to reduce energy consumption. This study proposes enhanced More >

Chanita Mano, Atthakorn Thongtha^*

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.3, pp. 495-506, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.013201 - 14 January 2021

Abstract This work focused on characterizing and improving the thermal behavior of metal sheet roofing. To decrease the heat transfer from the roof into a building, we investigated the efficiency of four types of phase change materials, with different melting points: PCM І, PCM II, PCM III and PCM IV, when used in conjunction with a sheet metal roof. The exterior metal roofing surface temperature was held constant at 50°C, 60°C, 70°C and 80°C, using a thermal source (halogen lights) for 360 min to investigate and compare the thermal performance of the metal sheet roofing with… More >

Abdulfattah Noorwali¹, Muhammad Awais Javed², Mohammad Zubair Khan^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 463-476, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014668 - 12 January 2021

Abstract Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) are flying objects whose trajectory can be remotely controlled. UAVs have lot of potential applications in the areas of wireless communications, internet of things, security, traffic management, monitoring, and smart surveying. By enabling reliable communication between UAVs and ground nodes, emergency notifications can be efficiently and quickly disseminated to a wider area. UAVs can gather data from remote areas, industrial units, and emergency scenarios without human involvement. UAVs can support ubiquitous connectivity, green communications, and intelligent wireless resource management. To efficiently use UAVs for all these applications, important challenges need to… More >

Prabakaran Rajamanickam¹, Shiloah Elizabeth Darmanayagam^1,*, Sunil Retmin Raj Cyril Raj²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 709-722, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014347 - 12 January 2021

Abstract Liver Segmentation is one of the challenging tasks in detecting and classifying liver tumors from Computed Tomography (CT) images. The segmentation of hepatic organ is more intricate task, owing to the fact that it possesses a sizeable quantum of vascularization. This paper proposes an algorithm for automatic seed point selection using energy feature for use in level set algorithm for segmentation of liver region in CT scans. The effectiveness of the method can be determined when used in a model to classify the liver CT images as tumorous or not. This involves segmentation of the… More >

Mohammad Aldossary^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 353-368, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014974 - 05 January 2021

Abstract With the expansion of cloud computing, optimizing the energy efficiency and cost of the cloud paradigm is considered significantly important, since it directly affects providers’ revenue and customers’ payment. Thus, providing prediction information of the cloud services can be very beneficial for the service providers, as they need to carefully predict their business growths and efficiently manage their resources. To optimize the use of cloud services, predictive mechanisms can be applied to improve resource utilization and reduce energy-related costs. However, such mechanisms need to be provided with energy awareness not only at the level of More >

Norah Saleh Alghamdi^1,*, Mohammad Ayoub Khan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2509-2524, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014180 - 28 December 2020

Abstract Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of Things (IoT) have gained more popularity in recent years as an underlying infrastructure for connected devices and sensors in smart cities. The data generated from these sensors are used by smart cities to strengthen their infrastructure, utilities, and public services. WSNs are suitable for long periods of data acquisition in smart cities. To make the networks of smart cities more reliable for sensitive information, the blockchain mechanism has been proposed. The key issues and challenges of WSNs in smart cities is efficiently scheduling the resources; leading to extending More >

Sushil Kumar Singh¹, Yi Pan², Jong Hyuk Park^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2905-2922, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014151 - 28 December 2020

Abstract For the past few decades, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been one of the main pillars wielding significant impact on various advanced industrial applications, including smart energy, smart manufacturing, and others. These applications are related to industrial plants, automation, and e-healthcare fields. IoT applications have several issues related to developing, planning, and managing the system. Therefore, IoT is transforming into G-IoT (Green Internet of Things), which realizes energy efficiency. It provides high power efficiency, enhances communication and networking. Nonetheless, this paradigm did not resolve all smart applications’ challenges in edge infrastructure, such as communication More >

G. Kadiravan¹, P. Sujatha¹, T. Asvany¹, R. Punithavathi², Mohamed Elhoseny³, Irina V. Pustokhina⁴, Denis A. Pustokhin⁵, K. Shankar^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 3215-3231, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013034 - 28 December 2020

Abstract Nowadays, healthcare applications necessitate maximum volume of medical data to be fed to help the physicians, academicians, pathologists, doctors and other healthcare professionals. Advancements in the domain of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN) are tremendous. M-WMSN is an advanced form of conventional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) to networks that use multimedia devices. When compared with traditional WSN, the quantity of data transmission in M-WMSN is significantly high due to the presence of multimedia content. Hence, clustering techniques are deployed to achieve low amount of energy utilization. The current research work… More >

Dildar Hussain¹, Rizwan Ali Naqvi², Woong-Kee Loh³, Jooyoung Lee^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2587-2598, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013031 - 28 December 2020

Abstract Many existing techniques to acquire dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images are unable to accurately distinguish between bone and soft tissue. For the most part, this failure stems from bone shape variability, noise and low contrast in DXA images, inconsistent X-ray beam penetration producing shadowing effects, and person-to-person variations. This work explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art deep learning semantic segmentation models, fully convolutional networks (FCNs), SegNet, and U-Net to distinguish femur bone from soft tissue. We investigated the performance of deep learning algorithms with reference to some of our previously applied conventional image segmentation techniques… More >

G. Indira Kishore¹, M. Premkumar^1,*, Ramesh Kumar Tripathi², Chandra Sekhar Nalamati²

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.2, pp. 199-209, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.014079 - 23 December 2020

Abstract Renewable energy with sources such as photovoltaic (PV) or fuel cells can be utilized for the generation of electrical power. But these sources generate fewer voltage values and therefore require high gain converters to match with DC bus voltage in microgrids. These high gain converters can be implemented with switched capacitors to meet the required DC bus voltage. Switched capacitors operate in a series and parallel combination during switching operation and produce high static gain, limits reverse voltage that appears across the components. A novel converter is proposed that satisfies all the features such as More >