Mohammed H. Alsharif¹, Mahmoud A. Albreem², Abu Jahid³, Kannadasan Raju⁴, Peerapong Uthansakul^5,*, Jamel Nebhen⁶, Venkatesan Chandrasekaran⁴, Ayman A. Aly⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 661-677, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017059

Abstract Green wireless networking is an emerging area for many societies, especially academia and industry, in light of economic and ecological perspectives. Empowering wireless infrastructures exploiting green power sources can enhance sustainability due to the adverse effects of conventional power sources and atmospheric circumstances. Moreover, the specific power supply requirements for a base station (BS), such as cost effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and reliability, can be met by utilizing technological advances in renewable energy. Numerous drivers and motivators are involved in the deployment of renewable energy technologies and the transition toward green energy. Renewable energy is free, clean, and abundant in most… More >

Farouq Aliyu^1,*, Tarek Sheltami¹, Ashraf Mahmoud¹, Louai Al-Awami¹, Ansar Yasar²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 1159-1181, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016938

Abstract Fog computing (FC) is a networking paradigm where wireless devices known as fog nodes are placed at the edge of the network (close to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices). Fog nodes provide services in lieu of the cloud. Thus, improving the performance of the network and making it attractive to social media-based systems. Security issues are one of the most challenges encountered in FC. In this paper, we propose an anomaly-based Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS) against Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack in the fog layer. The system uses special nodes known as Intrusion Detection System (IDS) nodes to detect… More >

Shams Al Ajrawi^1,*, Ramesh Rao², Mahasweta Sarkar³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 589-605, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016930

Abstract Brain computer interface (BCI) systems permit individuals with motor disorders to utilize their thoughts as a mean to control external devices. BCI is a promising interdisciplinary field that gained the attention of many researchers. Yet, the development of BCI systems is facing several challenges, such as network lifetime. The Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol is the bottle- neck of network reliability. There are many MAC protocols that can be utilized for dependable transmission in BCI applications by altering their control parameters. However, modifying these parameters is another source of concern due to the scarcity in knowledge about the effect of… More >

Luqi Yan¹, Jin Han^1,*, Yishi Yue², Liu Zhang², Yannan Qian³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 51-65, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016920

Abstract Text sentiment analysis is a common problem in the field of natural language processing that is often resolved by using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, most of these CNN models focus only on learning local features while ignoring global features. In this paper, based on traditional densely connected convolutional networks (DenseNet), a parallel DenseNet is proposed to realize sentiment analysis of short texts. First, this paper proposes two novel feature extraction blocks that are based on DenseNet and a multi-scale convolutional neural network. Second, this paper solves the problem of ignoring global features in traditional CNN models by combining the… More >

Narjes Benameur^1,*, Mazin Abed Mohammed², Ramzi Mahmoudi^3,4, Younes Arous⁵, Begonya Garcia-Zapirain⁶, Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem⁷, Mohamed Hedi Bedoui³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 1233-1252, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016860

Abstract Left ventricular (LV) dysfunction is mainly assessed by global contractile indices such as ejection fraction and LV Volumes in cardiac MRI. While these indices give information about the presence or not of LV alteration, they are not able to identify the location and the size of such alteration. The aim of this study is to compare the performance of three parametric imaging techniques used in cardiac MRI for the regional quantification of cardiac dysfunction. The proposed approaches were evaluated on 20 patients with myocardial infarction and 20 subjects with normal function. Three parametric images approaches: covariance analysis, parametric images based… More >

Abdul Majid¹, Muhammad Attique Khan¹, Yunyoung Nam^2,*, Usman Tariq³, Sudipta Roy⁴, Reham R. Mostafa⁵, Rasha H. Sakr⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 319-337, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016816

Abstract The recent COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has had a significant impact on human life and the economy around the world. A reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test is used to screen for this disease, but its low sensitivity means that it is not sufficient for early detection and treatment. As RT-PCR is a time-consuming procedure, there is interest in the introduction of automated techniques for diagnosis. Deep learning has a key role to play in the field of medical imaging. The most important issue in this area is the… More >

Jihoon Lee, Nammee Moon^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 647-660, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016712

Abstract In this study, using Head Mounted Display (HMD), which is one of the biggest advantage of Virtual Reality (VR) environment, tracks the user’s gaze in 360° video content, and examines how the gaze pattern is distributed according to the user’s immersion. As a result of analyzing the gaze pattern distribution of contents with high user immersion and contents with low user immersion through a questionnaire, it was confirmed that the higher the immersion, the more the gaze distribution tends to be concentrated in the center of the screen. Through this experiment, we were able to understand the factors that make… More >

Haseeb Ahmad¹, Shahbaz Ahmad¹, Muhammad Asif¹, Mobashar Rehman^2,*, Abdullah Alharbi³, Zahid Ullah⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 1215-1232, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016659

Abstract Cricket databases contain rich and useful information to examine and forecasting patterns and trends. This paper predicts Star Cricketers (SCs) from batting and bowling domains by employing supervised machine learning models. With this aim, each player’s performance evolution is retrieved by using effective features that incorporate the standard performance measures of each player and their peers. Prediction is performed by applying Bayesian-rule, function and decision-tree-based models. Experimental evaluations are performed to validate the applicability of the proposed approach. In particular, the impact of the individual features on the prediction of SCs are analyzed. Moreover, the category and model-wise feature evaluations… More >

Nasir Mahmood¹, Yaser Hafeez¹, Khalid Iqbal², Shariq Hussain³, Muhammad Aqib¹, Muhammad Jamal⁴, Oh-Young Song^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 873-893, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016614

Abstract Despite advances in technological complexity and efforts, software repository maintenance requires reusing the data to reduce the effort and complexity. However, increasing ambiguity, irrelevance, and bugs while extracting similar data during software development generate a large amount of data from those data that reside in repositories. Thus, there is a need for a repository mining technique for relevant and bug-free data prediction. This paper proposes a fault prediction approach using a data-mining technique to find good predictors for high-quality software. To predict errors in mining data, the Apriori algorithm was used to discover association rules by fixing confidence at more… More >

Adeel Rafiq, Muhammad Afaq, Khizar Abbas, Wang-Cheol Song^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 627-645, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016529

Abstract The installation of small cells in a 5G network extends the maximum coverage and provides high availability. However, this approach increases the handover overhead in the Core Network (CN) due to frequent handoffs. The variation of user density and movement inside a region of small cells also increases the handover overhead in CN. However, the present 5G system cannot reduce the handover overhead in CN under such circumstances because it relies on a traditionally rigid and complex hierarchical sequence for a handover procedure. Recently, Not Only Stack (NO Stack) architecture has been introduced for Radio Access Network (RAN) to reduce… More >