Troubleshooting in SDN-based networks is still a cumbersome task that can overwhelm human attention. Various anomalies, such as installation failure, disordered rules, and loops, remain unnoticed even when the most recent ...

This paper shows the feasibility of combining robust motion primitives generated through the Sums Of Squares programming theory with a discrete Rapidly exploring Random Tree algorithm. The generated robust motion primitives, ...

Traversal in off-road conditions for Unmanned Ground Vehicles is highly relevant for defence applications, with an increasing amount of research being put into the field. A central part of the autonomous traversal is path ...

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy is a global health problem with adverse consequences for mothers, infants and families. We hypothesise that information about IPV and safety ...

We develop a logic-based approach for designing simulation-based training scenarios. Our methodology embodies a concise definition of the scenario concept and integrates the notions of training goals, acceptable versus ...

This paper presents the design, control, and experimental evaluation of a novel fully automated robotic-assisted system for the positioning and insertion of a commercial full core biopsy instrument under guidance by ...

Abstract A class of strictly localized states which can be made arbitrarily close to single photons is constructed, and expressions for central properties are provided. It is demonstrated that single photon states can be ...

Human personality plays a crucial role in decision-making and it has paramount importance when individuals negotiate with each other to reach a common group decision. Such situations are conceivable, for instance, when a ...

Empirical studies examining the interplay between informal and formal institutions on economic growth are scarce. As a result, we do not know how differences in trust affect the economic returns of the quality of regional ...

Humanity through centuries of evolution has become the dominant species on the planet. We enjoy comforts enabled by our advancements in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). But all this is threatened by population ...

To reduce costs, the solar cell industry aims at producing thinner solar cells. Structuring the surfaces of optically thin devices is important for avoiding transmission-related losses and, hence, increasing their efficiency. ...

With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT), securing and managing large, complex enterprise network infrastructure requires capturing and analyzing network traffic traces in real time. An accurate passive operating ...

Due to the fast growth in global installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity, performance monitoring for large-scale PV systems is an increasingly relevant and important topic. A large volume of research exists in this field, but ...

The ground beneath our feet is anything but dry; there is more water held in Earth’s rocks than all the world’s oceans combined. Fluids in the subsurface are always on the move and understanding this is important in the ...

The Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library (PTAL) is a dedicated lithological collection that currently consists of 102 terrestrial rock samples selected to be possible Mars analogues. The ultimate goal is improving future ...

In this letter, a new method of path planning for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) on terrain is developed. For UGVs moving on terrain, path traversability and collision avoidance are important factors. If traversability ...

Enhancing the energy output of solar cells increases their competitiveness as a source of energy. Producing thinner solar cells is attractive, but a thin absorbing layer demands excellent light management in order to keep ...

As cost reductions have made photovoltaics (PV) a favorable choice also in colder climates, the number of PV plants in regions with snowfalls is increasing rapidly. Snow coverage on the PV modules will lead to significant ...

In this paper, a bidirectional relaying (BR) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) termed as BR NOMA-SWIPT is proposed and investigated for the Internet of ...

The healthcare centers at rural areas will have a lack of available sonographers who can perform ultrasound examinations on patients. To solve this issue and allow the patient to receive the necessary help, it is beneficial ...

A comparative study of the effect of melt spinning on the electrochemical properties of the C14 and C15 AB2 alloys has been performed. The wheel speeds of 630, 2100, and 4100 cm/s were applied during the rapid solidification ...

This thesis will focus on developing a Digital Twin prototype for an autonomous vehicle. The goal for the project was to discover how OpenModelica and Carla can be connected and configured to serve as a Digital Twin. It ...

In recent years, it has come to attention that governments have been doing mass surveillance of personal communications without the consent of the citizens. As a consequence of these revelations, developers have begun ...

It is of great interest in an increasing number of fields and applications to use autonomous vehicles in varying and challenging terrain conditions. In these conditions, the vehicle's movement is strongly affected by the ...

There is a need for tool support for structured planning, execution and analysis of simulation-based training for crisis response and management. As a central component of an architecture for such tool support, we outline ...

One of the methods to compress hydrogen gas is through the utilization of thermal metal hydride hydrogen compressors (TMHHCs) The present work aims to investigate the structural and thermodynamic properties of the Ti1.1CrMn ...

Large PV plants are increasingly common in locations with colder climates where snow can lead to significant PV power loss. For these locations, estimates of snow loss is necessary for accurate PV yield modeling. Robust ...

The dynamic range of a hyperspectral camera can have a strong impact on the quality and integrity of the collected spectra. For the image sensor chip alone, the dynamic range is the ratio between the saturation level and ...

The availability of inertial navigation sensors in smartphones has facilitated the development of pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) models on a large scale. These models often consist of a step detection algorithm combined ...

Indoor positioning systems are crucial to provide location based services in areas that are not covered by a Global Navigation Satellite System. Among the many technologies applied to this field, ultrasound has emerged as ...

This article assesses how the ground-penetrating radar RIMFAX will image the crater floor at the Mars 2020 landing site, where lithological compositions and stratigraphic relationships are under discussion prior to mission ...

This paper introduces and validates a real-time dynamic predictive model based on a neural network approach for soft continuum manipulators. The presented model provides a real-time prediction framework using neural-network-based ...

To achieve accurate PV energy yield assessments for cold climate locations where snowfalls can lead to significant power losses in the wintertime, improvement and validation of snow loss modeling is necessary. In this paper ...

Background Health workers have traditionally delivered health promotion and education to rural communities in the Global South in paper leaflet formats or orally. With the rise of digital technologies, health ...

During recent years, ray tracing has frequently been used to study the absorption characteristics of structured solar cells. However, wave properties such as absorption enhancement due to resonances in optically thin solar ...

Water photoelectrolysis has the potential to produce renewable hydrogen fuel, therefore addressing the intermittent nature of sunlight. Herein, a monolithic, photovoltaic (PV)-assisted water electrolysis device of minimal ...

Semiconductor nanocrystals are often proposed as a viable route to improve solar energy conversion in photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical systems. Embedding the nanocrystals in, e.g. a transparent and conducting electrode ...

We present a holmium-doped all-fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system operating at 2108 nm targeting optical frequency conversion applications. The MOPA delivers pulses of 0.52 mJ energy at 10 kHz repetition ...

Video on demand (VoD) services such as YouTube have generated considerable volumes of Internet traffic in homes and buildings in recent years. While Internet service providers deploy fiber and recent wireless technologies ...

Video conferencing services based on web real-time communication (WebRTC) protocol are growing in popularity among Internet users as multi-platform solutions enabling interactive communication from anywhere, especially ...

Single-photon pulses cannot be generated on demand, due to incompatible requirements of positive frequencies and positive times. Resulting states therefore contain small probabilities for multiphotons. We derive upper and ...

Although the group delay of classical pulses through a barrier may suggest superluminality, the information transfer is limited by the precursor, which propagates at the vacuum light speed. Single photons, however, have ...

Inertial navigation of pedestrians carrying a smart device is a core component of many indoor positioning systems. While infrastructure-based solutions typically depend on an installation of dedicated hardware, inertial ...

Concepts such as Industry 4.0 and Cyber-Physical Systems may bring forward a new industrial revolution. These concepts require extensive connectivity far beyond what is provided by traditional industrial networks. The ...

Understanding the dynamic complexity of the internal states of TCP is a fundamental challenge, and particularly demanding due to the dynamics and complexity of modern networks. TCP is one of the key transport protocols of ...

Policy anomalies are frequent in nowadays’s computer networks due to their increasing configuration complexity. Resolving policy anomalies usually requires network administrator intervention, which is a time-intensive and ...

Reliable monitoring of PV systems is essential to establish efficient maintenance routines that minimize the levelized cost of electricity. The existing solutions for affordable monitoring of commercial PV systems are ...

With the proliferation of technologies such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the Internet of things (IoT), we are moving towards the era of automation without any human intervention. Sensors are the principal components ...

In this paper, we propose a novel parameter initial value estimation method of Lithium-ion battery for state of charge (SOC) estimation by using Local Regression Modeling (LRM) and Vector Fitting (VF). To estimate SOC ...

Securing and managing large, complex enterprise network infrastructure requires capturing and analyzing network traffic traces in real-time. An accurate passive Operating System (OS) fingerprinting plays a critical role ...

The radiometric performance of cameras is customarily characterized and specified in terms of component properties such as F-number and readout noise. This paper considers the camera as an integrated unit and derives ...

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is consid-ered an important candidate for the next-generation cellular networks to address the issue of exponentially growing data traffic from technologies like the Internet of Things ...

Program evolution may reveal bad design decisions, misunderstandings, erroneous code, or erroneous specifications, because problems made early in the design of a system may not be discovered until much later in the life-time ...

Hydrogen (H) is thought to be strongly involved in the light and elevated temperature-induced degradation observed predominantly in p-type silicon wafers, but the nature of the defect or defects involved in this process ...

The concept of digital literacy has been defined in numerous ways over the last two decades to incorporate rapid technological changes, its versatility, and to bridge the global digital divide. Most approaches have been ...

Multi-function swarms are swarms that solve multiple tasks at once. For example, a quadcopter swarm could be tasked with exploring an area of interest while simultaneously functioning as ad-hoc relays. With this type of ...

The present work was focused on the studies of the effect of variation of stoichiometric composition of Ti–Zr based AB2±x Laves phase alloys by changing the ratio between A (Ti + Zr) and B (Mn + V + Fe + Ni) components ...

Recent long term planning studies have demonstrated the important role of variable renewables (VRE) in decarbonising our energy system. However, cost-optimising models do not capture the visual impact of VREs on the landscape ...

We report preferential orientation control in photochromic gadolinium oxyhydride (GdHO) thin films deposited by a two-step process. Gadolinium hydride (GdH2-x) films were grown by reactive magnetron sputtering, followed ...

The electricity grid is an important critical infrastructure that is undergoing major changes, due to the Internet of Things (IoT) and renewable energy, heading towards the smart grid. However, besides the many good promises ...

Wi-Fi will be the preferred access network in smart infrastructure, which is a considerably cheaper alternative of mobile broadband. Emerging services such as Internet of things (IoT), virtual reality (VR) and ehealth, ...

In future smart transmission grids, there are distributed applications that will benefit from the deployment of Internet Protocol (IP) multicast technology for communication. Sharing of Routable-Sample Values (R-SV) and ...

As the policies of a software-defined networking (SDN) network can be updateddynamically and often at a high pace, conflicts between policies can easily occur. Dueto the large number of switches and heterogeneous policies ...

We have previously proposed a security classification methodology for IoT systems and have applied it to the smart grid and smart home domain. This method departs from classical risk analysis and certification methods in ...

This study investigates the Reynolds-number dependence of shock-induced flow through stationary particle clouds at 10% volume fraction, using ensemble-averaged results from three-dimensional particle-resolved large eddy ...

The coldest and densest structures of gas and dust in the Universe have unique spectral signatures across the (sub-)millimetre bands (υ ≈30 - 950 GHz). The current generation of single dish facilities has given a glimpse ...

We propose a method for jointly estimating intrinsic calibration and internal clock synchronisation for a pantilt- zoom (PTZ) camera using only data that can be acquired in the field during normal operation. Results show ...

Abstract The Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) is a Ground Penetrating Radar on the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover, which is planned to land near a deltaic landform in Jezero crater. RIMFAX ...

Methods for quick and accurate detection and diagnosis of defects in PV systems are increasingly important as the global photovoltaic (PV) capacity continues to grow at a rapid pace. Two of the most used methods for defect ...

The proliferation of IoT (Internet of Things) though making life easier, comes with security and privacy challenges. We have previously proposed a security classification methodology meant to help in practice build IoT ...

Fish telemetry is a potential method to monitor the well-being of farmed fish, where a reference group of fish are equipped with sensors tags that oversee their health and wirelessly transmit the data. Many fish must be ...

This paper is concerned with stability and control of the parabolic p-Laplace equation. The autonomous equation is shown to be asymptotically stable, while the stronger property of exponential stability is guaranteed by ...

The growing number of Wi-Fi networks at homes, buildings and public areas can consume excessive energy and therefore increase CO2 emissions. Hence, the aim of this paper is to investigate the energy consumption of Wi-Fi ...

This study investigates how thermal signatures observed in PV systems using infrared thermography (IRT) affect the performance of PV modules and strings. To assess this, we use IRT images as a basis for circuit modeling ...

The photogenerated current of solar cells can be enhanced by light management with surface structures. For solar cells with optically thin absorbing layers, it is especially important to take advantage of this fact through ...

Magnetic permeabilities derived for infinite, periodic media are used in the Fresnel equation to calculate the reflection from corresponding semi-infinite media. By comparison to finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) ...

There is an expected growth in underwater acoustic data traffic. To meet the demand of high data throughput, a migration towards the very high frequency band (>100 kHz) will be necessary. The increment in frequency comes ...

The Round-Trip Time (RTT) is a property of the path between a sender and a receiver communicating with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) over an IP network and over the public Internet. The end-to-end RTT value influences ...

Black TiO2 has emerged as one of the most promising photocatalysts recently discovered. The reason behind its catalytic activity is considered to be due to the presence of defects and Ti3+ species at the surface of black ...

Over the past few years, innovation in the development of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has evolved rapidly. WSNs are being used in many application fields such as target coverage, battlefield surveillance, home security, ...

Fresnel's equations describe the reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves at an interface between two media. It turns out that these equations can be used in quasistatics and even statics, for example to ...

In this paper the small-amplitude motion of multiple superposed viscous fluids is studied as a linearized initial-value problem. The analysis results in a closed set of equations for the Laplace transformed amplitudes of ...

Owing to the exponential proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is anticipated that the number of small IoT devices will grow expeditiously over the next few years. These billions of small IoT sensor and devices ...

The aim of this work is characterizing the class of LPV systems that admit steady-state trajectories depending exclusively on the scheduling parameter. In particular, it will be shown that only certain parameter dependent ...

The emission band of holmium-doped silica fibers extends beyond 2200 nm, which means these lasers have the potential of covering considerable parts of the atmospheric transmission window between ∼2100  nm and 2250 nm. ...

A novel approach to calculating TNT equivalencies and safety distances for explosives, using a combination of thermochemical computations and computational fluid dynamics, is presented. This enables the estimation of safety ...

We state and compare four different definitions of magnetic permeability for periodic, artificial media, or metamaterials. The connections among them, and properties in general, are discussed in detail, including causality, ...

Schematic drawings showing railway tracks and equipment are commonly used to visualize railway operations and to communicate system specifications and construction blueprints. Recent advances in on-line collaboration and ...

We introduce Dynamic Structural Operational Semantics (DSOS or Dynamic SOS) as a framework for describing semantics of programming languages that include dynamic software upgrades, i.e., for upgrading software code during ...

This paper proposes a linear parameter varying (LPV) interval unknown input observer for the robust fault diagnosis of actuator faults and ice accretion in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) described by an uncertain model. ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) receives attention in media as well as in academe and business. In media coverage and reporting, AI is predominantly described in contrasted terms, either as the ultimate solution to all human ...