30 articles in this issue
Yue Bian, Yifan Gu, Xu Ding, Zhiyu Wang, Jiongjiong Mo and Faxin Yu
Nowadays, more and more MMICs (Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit), such as limiters and switches, are designed to have balanced and unbalanced test pad structures to solve the challenging size restrictions and integration requirements for MMICs. Hyb... see more
Seongjun Lee and Jonghoon Kim
This paper presents the modeling and control-loop design method with an inverted decoupling scheme of a single-phase photovoltaic grid-connected five-level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter. For the unity power factor, the proportional and integral cu... see more
Seonggeon Kim, Uihyun Yun, Jaehyuk Jang, Geunsu Seo, Jongjin Kang, Heung-No Lee and Minjae Lee
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Christos Koulamas and Mihai T. Lazarescu
Jiazheng Lu, Qingjun Huang, Xinguo Mao, Yanjun Tan, Siguo Zhu and Yuan Zhu
Ice covering on overhead transmission lines would cause damage to transmission system and long-term power outage. Among various de-icing devices, a modular multilevel converter based direct-current (DC)de-icer (MMC-DDI) is recognized as a promising soluti... see more
Rui Zhang, Wei Ma, Lei Wang, Min Hu, Longhan Cao, Hongjun Zhou and Yihui Zhang
Power Factor Correction (PFC) converters are widely used in engineering. A classical PFC control circuit employs two complicated feedback control loops and a multiplier, while the One-Cycle-Controlled (OCC) PFC converter has a simple control circuit. In O... see more
Aazim Rasool, Xiangwu Yan, Haaris Rasool, Hongxia Guo and Mansoor Asif
Renewable energy sources are integrated into a grid via inverters. Due to the absence of an inherent droop in an inverter, an artificial droop and inertia control is designed to let the grid-connected inverters mimic the operation of synchronous generator... see more
Myunghoi Kim
In this paper, we present a unit-cell-based domain decomposition method (UC-DDM) for rapid and accurate simulation of predicting the parallel plate noise (PPN) suppression of a truncated electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure in high-speed printed circui... see more
Marco Bassoli, Valentina Bianchi and Ilaria De Munari
The trend toward technology ubiquity in human life is constantly increasing and the same tendency is clear in all technologies aimed at human monitoring. In this framework, several smart home system architectures have been presented in literature, realize... see more
Lucia Billeci, Magda Costi, David Lombardi, Franco Chiarugi and Maurizio Varanini
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac disease and is associated with other cardiac complications. Few attempts have been made for discriminating AF from other arrhythmias and noise. The aim of this study is to present a novel approach for su... see more
Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Bal S. Virdee, Panchamkumar Shukla, Chan H. See, Raed Abd-Alhameed, Mohsen Khalily, Francisco Falcone and Ernesto Limiti
This paper presents a new approach to suppress interference between neighbouring radiating elements resulting from surface wave currents. The proposed technique will enable the realization of low-profile implementation of highly dense antenna configuratio... see more
Hieu Trong Dao and Sunghwan Kim
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been viewed as an advanced technique in future 5G networks. Conventional massive MIMO systems consist of cellular base stations (BS) equipped with a very large number of antennas to simultaneously serve ma... see more
Pengshuai Cui, Peidong Zhu, Peng Xun and Chengcheng Shao
In this paper, a failure model of Cyber-Physical systems and an attack model are proposed. We divide the attacks into three kinds: simultaneous attack, sequential attack and composite attack. Through numerical simulations, we find that: (1) the sequential... see more
Ki-Hun Lee, Eun-Seong Kim, Jun-Ge Liang and Nam-Young Kim
In this study, the proposed bandpass filter (BPF) connects an interdigital and a spiral capacitor in series between the two symmetrical halves of a circular intertwined spiral inductor. For the mass production of devices and to achieve a higher accuracy a... see more
Luiz Da Rocha Farias, Lucas Felipe Monteiro, Murilo Oliveira Leme and Sergio Luiz Stevan, Jr.
This paper presents a performance analysis based on a practical approach of narrowband communication through power lines (Power Line Communication—PLC) to the last-mile industrial environment. A kit for developing PLC based applications, in accordan... see more
Zhimin Chen, Xinyi He, Zhenxin Cao, Yi Jin and Jingchao Li
The existing positioning methods for the automatic guided vehicle (AGV) in the port can not achieve high location precision, Therefore, a novel multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna radar positioning scheme is proposed in this paper. The positioni... see more
Jian-Feng Wu, Chao Qiu, Yu Wang, Rui Zhao, Zhi-Peng Cai, Xin-Gang Zhao, Shang-Shang He, Feng Wang, Qi Wang and Jian-Qing Li
In recent years, many sensors made of hard materials have been designed to detect human body movements in physical exercises. However, hard materials usually cause extra dyskinesia for body movements. To detect human limb motion with less dyskinesia in ph... see more
Ján Labun, Martin Krchnák, Pavol Kurdel, Marek Ceškovic, Alexey Nekrasov and Mária Gamcová
The paper focuses on the new trend of increasing the accuracy of low altitudes measurement by frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radio altimeters. The method of increasing the altitude measurement accuracy has been realized in a form of a frequenc... see more
Tae-Ho Kwon, Jai-Eun Kim, Youn-Hee Kim and Ki-Doo Kim
Color independency is an important factor in visible light communication (VLC) systems. This paper aims to review and summarize recent achievements in color-independent visible light communication based on color space, with the main focus being on color-s... see more
Aryuanto Soetedjo, Yusuf Ismail Nakhoda and Choirul Saleh
Energy management systems in residential areas have attracted the attention of many researchers along the deployment of smart grids, smart cities, and smart homes. This paper presents the implementation of a Home Energy Management System (HEMS) based on t... see more
Aleksandr Vasjanov and Vaidotas Barzdenas
Myungchin Kim, Sung Gu Lee and Sungwoo Bae
In order to implement reliable and flexible power management among energy sources, a decentralized power management approach for electrical power systems (EPSs) in the more electric aircraft (MEA) is studied. Considering the increased use of electrical po... see more
Inayat Ullah, Zahid Ullah and Jeong-A Lee
Ternary content-addressable memories (TCAMs) are used to design high-speed search engines. TCAM is implemented on application-specific integrated circuit (native TCAMs) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) (static random-access memory (SRAM)-based TCA... see more
Yifan Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Chuan Sun and Zhanhong He
This paper proposes a fast load transient control for a bidirectional dual-active-bridge (DAB) DC/DC converter. It is capable of maintaining voltage–time balance during a step load change process so that no overshoot current and DC offset current ex... see more
Ming Lu and Xiaodong Li
In this paper, a semi-dual-active-bridge (S-DAB) DC/DC converter with primary pulse-width modulation plus secondary phase-shifted (PPWM + SPS) control for boost conversion is analyzed in detail. Under the new control scheme, all effective operation modes ... see more
Jaume Segura-Garcia, Miguel Garcia-Pineda, Marta Tamarit-Tronch, Rosa M. Cibrian and Rosario Salvador-Palmer
eHealth systems provide medical support to users and contribute to the development of mobile and quality health care. They also provide results on the prevention and follow-up of diseases by monitoring health-status indicators and methodical data gatherin... see more
Sangyeob Han, Oeon Kwon, Ruchire Eranga Wijesinghe, Pilun Kim, Unsang Jung, Jaewon Song, Changho Lee, Mansik Jeon and Jeehyun Kim
Kuwat Triyana, Agustinus Sembiring, Aditya Rianjanu, Shidiq Nur Hidayat, Riowirawan Riowirawan, Trisna Julian, Ahmad Kusumaatmaja, Iman Santoso and Roto Roto
Short-chain alcohols are a group of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are often found in workplaces and laboratories, as well as medical, pharmaceutical, and food industries. Real-time monitoring of alcohol vapors is essential because exposure to alc... see more
Javier Acevedo, Robert Scheffel, Simon Wunderlich, Mattis Hasler, Sreekrishna Pandi, Juan Cabrera, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Gerhard Fettweis and Martin Reisslein
Random linear network coding (RLNC) can greatly aid data transmission in lossy wireless networks. However, RLNC requires computationally complex matrix multiplications and inversions in finite fields (Galois fields). These computations are highly demandin... see more
Daniele Spoladore and Marco Sacco
Researches in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL) have increased in the last ten years, and the paradigms of the smart home have widely spread. Smart homes must consider the health-related issues and the real needs deriving from the ageing of their... see more