Zheng Zhang¹, Yanan Liu^{1, *}, Qinyuan Zuo¹, Lein Harn², Shuo Qiu¹, Yuan Cheng¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1261-1280, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010034

Abstract Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) can be seen as kind of hardware oneway functions, who are easily fabricated but difficult to clone, duplicate or predict. Therefore, PUFs with unclonable and unpredictable properties are welcome to be applied in designing lightweight cryptography protocols. In this paper, a Basic Key Distribution Scheme (Basic-KDS) based on PUFs is firstly proposed. Then, by employing different deployment modes, a Random Deployment Key Distribution Scheme (RD-KDS) and a Grouping Deployment Key Distribution Scheme (GD-KDS) are further proposed based on the Basic-KDS for large scale wireless sensor networks. In our proposals, a sensor is not pre-distributed with any… More >

Jinqiao Dai¹, Shibin Zhang^{1, *}, Yan Chang¹, Xueyang Li¹, Tao Zheng¹, Jinyue Xia²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1247-1260, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010550

Abstract In order to enable two parties to exchange their secret information equally, we propose a controlled quantum dialogue protocol based on quantum walks, which implements the equal exchange of secret information between the two parties with the help of the controller TP. The secret information is transmitted via quantum walks, by using this method, the previously required entangled particles do not need to be prepared in the initial phase, and the entangled particles can be produced spontaneously via quantum walks. Furthermore, to resist TP’s dishonest behavior, we use a hash function to verify the correctness of the secret information. The… More >

Zhengtao Liu^{1, *}, Yun Yang¹, Wen Gu¹, Jinyue Xia²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1233-1245, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010846

Abstract Most cloud services are built with multi-tenancy which enables data and configuration segregation upon shared infrastructures. It offers tremendous advantages for enterprises and service providers. It is anticipated that this situation will evolve to foster cross-tenant collaboration supported by Authorization as a service. To realize access control in a multi-tenant cloud computing environment, this study proposes a multi-tenant cloud computing access control model based on the traditional usage access control model by building trust relations among tenants. The model consists of three submodels, which achieve trust relationships between tenants with different granularities and satisfy the requirements of different application scenarios.… More >

Ying Chen^{1, 2}, Yibin Tang³, Lin Zhou¹, Yan Zhou^{3, 4}, Jinxiu Zhu³, Li Zhao^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1219-1232, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010638

Abstract Graph filtering, which is founded on the theory of graph signal processing, is proved as a useful tool for image denoising. Most graph filtering methods focus on learning an ideal lowpass filter to remove noise, where clean images are restored from noisy ones by retaining the image components in low graph frequency bands. However, this lowpass filter has limited ability to separate the low-frequency noise from clean images such that it makes the denoising procedure less effective. To address this issue, we propose an adaptive weighted graph filtering (AWGF) method to replace the design of traditional ideal lowpass filter. In… More >

Pingping Yu¹, Wenjie Duan¹, Yi Sun², Ning Cao^{3, *}, Zhenzhou Wang¹, Guojun Lu⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1199-1217, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010384

Abstract Human eye detection has become an area of interest in the field of computer vision with an extensive range of applications in human-computer interaction, disease diagnosis, and psychological and physiological studies. Gaze-tracking systems are an important research topic in the human-computer interaction field. As one of the core modules of the head-mounted gaze-tracking system, pupil positioning affects the accuracy and stability of the system. By tracking eye movements to better locate the center of the pupil, this paper proposes a method for pupil positioning based on the starburst model. The method uses vertical and horizontal coordinate integral projections in the… More >

Xinliang Tang¹, Xing Sun¹, Zhenzhou Wang¹, Pingping Yu¹, Ning Cao^{2, *}, Yunfeng Xu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1185-1198, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010283

Abstract The appearance of pedestrians can vary greatly from image to image, and different pedestrians may look similar in a given image. Such similarities and variabilities in the appearance and clothing of individuals make the task of pedestrian re-identification very challenging. Here, a pedestrian re-identification method based on the fusion of local features and gait energy image (GEI) features is proposed. In this method, the human body is divided into four regions according to joint points. The color and texture of each region of the human body are extracted as local features, and GEI features of the pedestrian gait are also… More >

Jin Han¹, Wenhao Jiang¹, Jin Shi^{2, *}, Sun Xin², Jin Peng², Haibo Liu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1171-1184, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.07447

Abstract The assessment of the fairness of health resource allocation is an important part of the study for the fairness of social development. The data used in most of the existing assessment methods comes from statistical yearbooks or field survey sampling. These statistics are generally based on administrative areas and are difficult to support a fine-grained evaluation model. In response to these problems, the evaluation method proposed in this paper is based on the query statistics of the geographic grid of the target area, which are more accurate and efficient. Based on the query statistics of hot words in the geographic… More >

Linze Wang¹, Dedong Gao^{1, *}, Jiajie Fu¹, Yuzhou Luo², Shijian Zhao¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1153-1169, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010073

Abstract In order to get to the desired target inside the body, it is essential to investigate the needle-tissue coupling process and calculate the tissue deformation. A cantilever beam model is presented to predicting the deflection and bending angle of flexible needle by analyzing the distribution of the force on needle shaft during the procedure of needle insertion into soft tissue. Furthermore, a finite element (FE) coupling model is proposed to simulate the needle-tissue interactive process. The plane and spatial models are created to relate the needle and tissue nodes. Combined with the cantilever beam model and the finite element needle-tissue… More >

Xiaorong Zhao¹, Weili Cheng², Hongjin Zhu¹, Chunpeng Ge³, Gengyuan Zhou^{1, *}, Zhongjun Fu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1139-1151, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010220

Abstract With the development of the times, people’s requirements for communication technology are becoming higher and higher. 4G communication technology has been unable to meet development needs, and 5G communication technology has emerged as the times require. This article proposes the design of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) that will be used in the 5G band of China Mobile Communications. A low noise amplifier for mobile 5G communication is designed based on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) 0.13 μm Radio Frequency (RF) Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) process. The LNA employs self-cascode devices in currentreuse configuration to enable lower supply voltage operation… More >

Pengshou Xie¹, Guoqiang Ma^{1, *}, Tao Feng¹, Yan Yan^{1, 2}, Xueming Han¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1127-1137, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09695

Abstract Undoubtedly, uncooperative or malicious nodes threaten the safety of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) by destroying routing or data. To this end, some researchers have designed some node detection mechanisms and trust calculating algorithms based on some different feature parameters of IoV such as communication, data, energy, etc., to detect and evaluate vehicle nodes. However, it is difficult to effectively assess the trust level of a vehicle node only by message forwarding, data consistency, and energy sufficiency. In order to resolve these problems, a novel mechanism and a new trust calculating model is proposed in this paper. First, the four tuple… More >