17 articles in this issue
O. Tolga Altinoz,A. Egemen Yilmaz,G. Wilhelm Weber
Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control is the most common method applied in the industry due to its simplicity. On the other hand, due to its difficulties, parameter tuning of the PID controllers are usually performed poorly. Generally, the design... see more
Elias Aruna,R.S. Moni
To provide mobile users with seamless access anywhere and anytime there is a strong need forinterworking mechanism between cellular networks and wireless local area networks in the next generation wirelessnetworks. Due to the heterogeneous underlying Qual... see more
K.-C. Chu,Chun-Sheng Wang,Wey-Wen Jiang,Nan-Chen Hsieh
This paper investigates the load balancing problem in an environment of heterogeneous traffic distributions. An analytical model is proposed to determine the effect of heterogeneous traffic distributions on load balancing, in which a generic measure of lo... see more
Weiwei Fang,Xiangmin Liang,Yantao Sun,Athanasios V. Vasilakos
The goal of data center network is to interconnect a massive number of servers so as to provide reliable and scalable computing and storage infrastructure for cloud-based Internet services and data-intensive scientific applications. Recent studies reveal ... see more
G. Fathima,R.S.D. Wahidabanu
In networks with common shared wireless medium, the available bandwidth is always valuable and often scarce resource. In addition to it, memory available at nodes (eg., sensor nodes) might be limited relative to the amount of information that needs to be ... see more
Florin Gheorghe Filip
This paper aims at highlighting several aspects and associated decision situations which may be met in the process of designing and building modern information systems, such as: choosing the approach and methods to be utilized for building the system and ... see more
Vahid Haghighatdoost,Maryam Espandar
The interference reduction is one of the most important problems in the field of wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor network elements are small mobile receiver and transmitters. The energy of processor and other components of each device is supplied... see more
Hyosook Jung,Seongbin Park
Adaptive hypermedia has been developed to overcome the problems of disorientation by providing personalized presentation and link structure. An adaptive hypermedia system consists of an adaptation model, a domain model, and a user model. The user model de... see more
Mohammad Asmat Ullah Khan,Tariq Mahmood Khan,Rabia Bahadar Khan,Atiqa Kiyani,Muhammad Aurangzeb Khan
An image captured by a web camera contains stationary and nonstationary noise patterns. These noise patterns are of three types i.e. Fixed Pattern Noise (FPN), Interactive Nose (IN) and Temporal Noise (TN). TN is an independent noise pattern and needs an ... see more
Alessandro Longheu,Vincenza Carchiolo,Michele Malgeri,Giuseppe Mangioni
Domotics is a promising area for intelligent and pervasive applications that aims at achieving a better quality of life. Harnessing modern technologies is valuable in many contexts, in particular in home surveillance scenario, where people safety or secur... see more
Aliakbar Mohammadi,Hamid Khaloozadeh,Roya Amjadifard
In this paper, small signal analysis of power systems is investigated using Subspace System Identification (SSI) methods. Classical small signal analysis methods for power systems are based on mathematical modeling and linearized model of power system in ... see more
ThanhQuyen Ngo,YaoNan Wang,T. Long Mai,M. Hung Nguyen,Jun Chen
This paper presents a robust adaptive neural-fuzzy network control (RANFNC) system for an n-link robot manipulator to achieve the highprecision position tracking. Initially, the model dynamic of an n-link robot manipulator is introduced. However, it is di... see more
Ibrahim Taner Okumus,Ferhat Umut Dizdar
Differentiated Services Architecture lacks control level functionalities and Bandwidth Brokers are proposed to fill that gap. In order to provide proper control level functionalities, Bandwidth Brokers need to provide services for both advance requests an... see more
P. Quiñones-Reyes,J. Ortega-Arjona,E. Méndez-Monroy,H. Benítez-Pérez,A. Durán-Chavesti
This paper presents a fuzzy control approach to a helicopter MIMO nonlinear system, implemented on a Networked Control System, as case study. For this, a hardware-in-the-Loop implementation is developed using several multi-channel A/D Cards, integrated to... see more
Claudio Valenzuela,Broderick Crawford,Ricardo Soto,Eric Monfroy,Fernando Paredes
Metaheuristics are solution methods which combine local improvement procedures and higher level strategies for solving combinatorial and nonlinear optimization problems. In general, metaheuristics require an important amount of effort focused on parameter... see more
B. Yamuna,T.R. Padmanabhan
Soft decision decoding (SDD) provides a better coding gain by making use of the unquantized channel output. In this paper we introduce the concept of a Reliability Level List (RLL); based on the RLL a new SDD algorithm for Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK)... see more