Gun-Yoon Shin¹, Dong-Wook Kim¹, Sang-Soo Kim², Myung-Mook Han^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 3289-3303, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017502 - 06 May 2021

Abstract Detection of unknown attacks like a zero-day attack is a research field that has long been studied. Recently, advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to the emergence of many kinds of attack-generation tools developed using these technologies to evade detection skillfully. Anomaly detection and misuse detection are the most commonly used techniques for detecting intrusion by unknown attacks. Although anomaly detection is adequate for detecting unknown attacks, its disadvantage is the possibility of high false alarms. Misuse detection has low false alarms; its limitation is that it can detect only… More >

Mohammad Aldossary^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 3531-3562, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017477 - 06 May 2021

Abstract With the striking rise in penetration of Cloud Computing, energy consumption is considered as one of the key cost factors that need to be managed within cloud providers’ infrastructures. Subsequently, recent approaches and strategies based on reactive and proactive methods have been developed for managing cloud computing resources, where the energy consumption and the operational costs are minimized. However, to make better cost decisions in these strategies, the performance and energy awareness should be supported at both Physical Machine (PM) and Virtual Machine (VM) levels. Therefore, in this paper, a novel hybrid approach is proposed, which… More >

Saleem Ibraheem Saleem^*, Adnan Mohsin Abdulazeez

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 3353-3372, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016342 - 06 May 2021

Abstract Writer identification (WI) based on handwritten text structures is typically focused on digital characteristics, with letters/strokes representing the information acquired from the current research in the integration of individual writing habits/styles. Previous studies have indicated that a word’s attributes contribute to greater recognition than the attributes of a character or stroke. As a result of the complexity of Arabic handwriting, segmenting and separating letters and strokes from a script poses a challenge in addition to WI schemes. In this work, we propose new texture features for WI based on text. The histogram of oriented gradient… More >

M. S. Maharajan¹, T. Abirami², Irina V. Pustokhina³, Denis A. Pustokhin⁴, K. Shankar^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 2995-3013, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016139 - 06 May 2021

Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) started gaining attention due to its wide application in the fields of data collection and information processing. The recent advancements in multimedia sensors demand the Quality of Service (QoS) be maintained up to certain standards. The restrictions and requirements in QoS management completely depend upon the nature of target application. Some of the major QoS parameters in WSN are energy efficiency, network lifetime, delay and throughput. In this scenario, clustering and routing are considered as the most effective techniques to meet the demands of QoS. Since they are treated as NP… More >

Husam Ali Abdulmohsin^1,*, Hala Bahjat Abdul Wahab², Abdul Mohssen Jaber Abdul Hossen³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 3997-4016, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014840 - 06 May 2021

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Feature selection (FS) (or feature dimensional reduction, or feature optimization) is an essential process in pattern recognition and machine learning because of its enhanced classification speed and accuracy and reduced system complexity. FS reduces the number of features extracted in the feature extraction phase by reducing highly correlated features, retaining features with high information gain, and removing features with no weights in classification. In this work, an FS filter-type statistical method is designed and implemented, utilizing a t-test to decrease the convergence between feature subsets by calculating the quality of performance value (QoPV). The approach utilizes

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Luis Alfonso Aguilar Pérez^1,*, Daniel Nieto Ángel^1,*, Moisés Roberto Vallejo Pérez², Daniel Leobardo Ochoa Martínez¹, David Espinosa Victoria³, Andrés Rebolledo Martinez⁴, Abel Rebouças São José⁵

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1205-1216, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015109 - 27 April 2021

Abstract The development and implementation of sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural practices are indispensable as alternatives to pesticide use and to keep populations of soil-borne plant pathogens at levels that do not affect crop productivity. The present research evaluates the incidence of soil-borne phytopathogens on the pineapple variety MD-2, which was subjected to different treatments: Incorporation of Crotalaria juncea into the soil (organic amendment), application of dolomitic lime to soil (inorganic amendment), and the use of plastic mulch covering the soil. During the crop cycle (15 months), the following variables were evaluated: plant height (cm), fruit weight (kg·plant⁻¹… More >

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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