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In this paper we study the problem of estimating the cardinality of pairwise set operations (union and intersection) over sets possessed by different data owners, while preserving differential privacy. In our problem setting, a data owner could only communicate with an untrusted server, and thus have to perturb its set data for privacy protection before sharing them with the server. This problem setting...
The effectiveness of epidemic routing for information dissemination in energy harvesting wireless sensor networks is examined in this work. Here, information is to be disseminated from a few nodes to a considerable fraction of all other nodes in the network. The use of epidemic routing is motivated by the fact that, when sensors are supported solely by harvested energy, the sensors' availability and...
For the wireless sensor network (WSN) to operate successfully, a critical issue is to provide sufficient sensing coverage. In this paper, we target on smart environments and deal with both the homogeneous (having identical sensing radius) and heterogeneous sensors (having different sensing ranges) equipped with locomotion facilities to assist in the sensor self-deployment. An enhanced virtual forces...
In this paper, we segment RGB-D sensor (e.g. Microsoft Kinect camera) images into 3D planar surfaces. We initialize a set of plane equations based solely from the depth (point cloud) information. We then iteratively refine the pixel-to-plane assignment and plane equations. During this process, the number of planes are also reduced by merging adjacent local planes with similar orientations. For the...
The giant-magnetoresistance (GMR) magnetometer for measuring the dc magnetic field is investigated in this work. By using a sinusoidal excitation, the hysteresis of the sensor can be substantially reduced. By extracting the Fourier components of the time trace of voltage output, it is found that the typical output voltage is the combination of odd harmonics of the excitation frequency. By detecting...
The mobile sensor networks (MSNs) have been widely deployed to provide an ubiquitous solution for time-sensitive applications in a specific area with low deployment cost. The monitoring area of an MSN can be divided into several sensing regions (SRs). In an SR, the mobile sensor (MS) is responsible for reporting the sensed data to the sink node. For the time-sensitive applications on MSN, the time...
In this paper, a new module structure of phase locked loop (PLL) speed controller is first proposed for permanent magnet brushless dc (PMBLDC) motor drives to achieve both fast response and high accuracy. The proposed standard module renders the controller design rather simple and straightforward. In addition, in order to reduce the drive cost, a phase current sensing scheme is adopted to properly...
In this paper, first, an equivalent scalar dynamic model for the three-phase brushless dc (BLDC) motor is derived to simplify the control of the electric vehicle (EV) drive. Then, an equivalent armature current sensing technique is proposed for synthesizing the three-phase line current by using the low-side switches of the inverter as current sensors. No additional current sensors are required and...
In this paper, we exploit the concept of sharing GPS data for estimate traffic information. Explicitly, we implemented CarWeb, a platform to collect real-time GPS data from cars. Once receiving a sufficient amount of GPS data from cars, we are able to estimate traffic information (i.e., speed information of roads). As such, users are able to obtain the update-to-date traffic information in CarWeb...
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