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In this paper, we focus on the implementation of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and infrastructure in Jebel Ali port, UAE to increase the reliability and efficiency of the port process. RFID is a technology that enables automatic identification of objects without the need for human intervention. The application of this technology in a port aims to increase control, visibility and...
Improving transient weather reporting accuracy by augmenting automated weather monitoring with people centric sensing is highly desirable since transient weather disambiguation can currently only be accomplished through employing trained expert observers or through using news media reports and data analysis following the weather event. Previous research on this topic has been unable to conclude whether...
The IEEE 802.11 association procedure lacks Quality of Experience (QoE) mechanisms. High delays and an association decision based on the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) do not lead to a QoE-based association among stations (STAs) and access points (APs). This paper presents Gossipmule, a novel approach that takes advantage of opportunistic communication among STAs to improve the association...
Motion sensor embedded smartphones have provided a new platform for activity inference. These sensors, initially used for cell phone feature enhancement, are now being used for a variety of applications. Providing cell phone users information about their own physical activity in an understandable format can enable users to make more informed and healthier lifestyle choices. In this work, we built...
Internet Protocol (IP) multicast offers a scalable multipoint delivery necessary for multimedia communication on the Internet. Source Specific Multicast has been seen as a scalable solution for the implementation of multicast in networks. Performance analysis of Source Specific Multicast based on various network performance metrics such as bandwidth, delay, jitter and throughput was carried out over...
Electronic medical systems have become a popular and necessary instrument to the healthcare community in the recent years. These systems however lack a key component: interoperability. The basis of this project was to create a cloud computing platform for the healthcare community that would be able to support the medical records of an entire country. After copious amounts of research, a prototype...
The ability to link two physical smart spaces in real-time, and apply the knowledge acquired from designing and managing the small densely instrumented space to the larger and less densely monitored space opens up a whole host of possibilities in terms of how architects and engineers approach building design, building environment modeling, energy resource optimization, and building control. We leverage...
Microblogging services such as Twitter have become an indispensable communication tool on the Internet. However, due to their centralized nature, microblogging services have been susceptible to blocking by governments and powerful groups. To address this issue, we present a peer-to-peer microblogging service that is resistant to government intrusions and censorship. The strength of our design lies...
In vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a message named BSM (Basic Safety Message) has a major role to inform a driver about surrounding condition. A vehicle periodically sends the BSM which includes the information of itself. Traffic load issues caused by BSMs would often be raised on heavily congested roads. Therefore, BSM congestion controls to avoid traffic congestion are challenging. This paper...
We propose energy harvesting technologies and cooperative relaying techniques to power the devices and improve reliability. We propose schemes to (a) maximize the packet reception ratio (PRR) by cooperation and (b) minimize the average packet delay (APD) by cooperation amongst nodes. Our key result and insight from the testbed implementation is about total data transmitted by each relay. A greedy...
Nowadays, although the performance of network devices has improved a lot, they consume more and more energy. Therefore, network energy efficiency is increasingly important in this era. In this paper, a software approach to energy-efficient networks is proposed and an application, which can make mid-scale networks energy efficient is demonstrated. In the proposed approach, some idle network interfaces...
We propose interference cancellation in multiuser relay network with improved Amplify-and-Forward (AF) and Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay protocols. We use Dirty Paper Coding (DPC) and Thomilson Harashima Precoding (THP) for the Precoding schemes allied with detection techniques as Zero Forcing (ZF), Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) and Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) and Ordered Successive...
Improved performance of Intra Prediction in HEVC in comparison to H.264/AVC is primarily due to two main feature enhancements, first is increase in the number of intra prediction directions and secondly due to the support for larger transform sizes. Using lagrangian based rate distortion measure to decide the appropriate prediction direction and Transform Unit size requires calculation of bits generated...
This paper introduces an development of high-definition(HD) 3DTV broadcasting system including 3DTV encoder system and 3DTV receiver. This developed 3DTV broadcasting system employs an innovative 3DTV broadcasting technology, called as dual-stream method in which left and right images are encoded by using each video encoder and multiplexed using MPEG-2 system technology for guaranteeing backward-compatibility...
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology has become a promising solution in current wireless communication systems. However, the implementation of MIMO-OFDM systems imposes a heavy complexity burden of equalizer matrix calculation on the training symbols due to the strict processing delay requirement. This paper presents a progressive QRD based...
Energy efficient in cellular networks is an increasingly important issue. Base Station(BS) subsystem consumes the major chunk of infrastructure energy, however, it is not energy proportional relative to its carried traffic load. This paper formulates the energy optimization problem to balance the two conflicting objectives: maximizing BS energy reduction and minimizing switch operations. We propose...
To meet the requirement of very-high-rate-data transmission over wide bandwidths, carrier aggregation (CA) has been regarded as an important technology for Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A). It considers both primary component carrier (PCell) and secondary component carrier (SCell) and many operations are based on the PCell. In this paper, the load balancing performance of dynamic SCell measurement...
Augmenting media with helpful and interesting information has been the focus of various research projects in application areas ranging from collaborative work, where commentaries are added to documents by co-workers, to context and location based reminding applications, to reality augmentation, where images of reality are augmented with informative comments to help enhance the mobile user's experience...
In a Facial Expression Recognition (FER) system, appropriate representation of facial features from relevant face regions play crucial role in robust detection of facial actions units (AUs) under realistic conditions like wide range of illumination variations, presence of tracking errors, inter person expression variations, partial occlusion of faces, etc. In this work, we perform an in-depth analysis...
Web 2.0 provides various types of social media applications, e.g., blogs, forums and news sites that allow users to post Web comments. This kind of communication plays an important role in acceptance research. To extract different opinions from such data, it is necessary to build Web comment corpora. Building such corpora requires focused crawling. Many focused Web crawling algorithms are known to...
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