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Traffic sign recognition (TSR) represents an important feature of advanced driver assistance systems, contributing to the safety of the drivers, pedestrians and vehicles as well. Developing TSR systems requires the use of computer vision techniques, which could be considered fundamental in the field of pattern recognition in general. Despite all the previous works and research that has been achieved,...
This paper deals with a network of interconnected micro grids. The transient dynamics is modelled as an averaging process involving dynamic agents in a network. An analysis of the convergence of the consensus dynamics is provided using a network model based approach and by exploiting the properties of the corresponding graph-Laplacian matrix. Furthermore an investigation of the transient dynamics...
The extensible Markup Language (XML) has known since its beginnings an undeniable success. Defined since its origins as a meta-language facilitating the development of specialized tags Languages, nowadays, many documents benefit from the XML frame. But even if this language is strongly used in the web as a way of data exchange between applications, it still lack the capacity of defining the web resources...
The deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks to support optimal coverage is obviously a fastidious task, especially in hard to reach or inaccessible area. To address this problem, simplifying assumptions and simulations are commonly used techniques. However, these techniques may not be able to capture all the details about the problem to be solved. Hence, transition from the simulation to the actual...
This work presents a study on the performance of a hybrid 5G RF/FSO communication system. Both transmitter and receiver communicate through two paths: the first link operates under Radio-Frequency (RF) technology, assumed to undergo a Weibull fading channel, while the second link operates under Free Space Optical (FSO) technology, subject to Málaga-M turbulence model with the presence of pointing...
Formal verification has become very useful and popular in last decade in area of embedded systems design and in analysis of critical systems. It can reveal common errors like deadlocks, starvation, check system invariants, but also verify more complex properties defined by LTL formulas whose writing may be very error prone for non expert users. To reduce the time-to-market for embedded systems and...
Founded in 2005 YouTube has became the most fast growing stream service, that has a great impact on the internet traffic distribution. Thus understanding YouTube's characteristics is crucial to network providers. In this survey we are going to present the factors that impact user's satisfaction, in other meaning the impact on the Quality of experience(QoE). Furthermore we will discuss how to determine...
The latest experiences hint that the QoS (Quality of Service) approaches adopted by IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) technologies are still suffering from a primary containment factor due to the nondifferentiation between IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) video components. The success of IPTV services depends on how the customer perceives QoS related to the provided stream. The satisfaction of this...
Today's mobile users want faster data and more reliable services. The next generation of wireless networks 5G promises to deal with this, and more. In this context, to enable ultra-short response times, fast relocation of service instances between edge nodes and reduce migration time its required to cope with user mobility to guarantee the (QoE). In this new paradigm called 5G cellular systems, the...
The demand for more data with an optimal use of spectrum in next generation mobile networks is driving researchers to invent a new physical waveforms, Filter Bank MultiCarrier (FBMC) and Filtered-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (F-OFDM) are among the potential modulation schemes for the next generation. In this paper we present a comparative analysis of FBMC scheme after a quick review...
The recent enhancement of sensor devices, such as the Micro-Electro Mechanical Devices (MEMs) used for information collection and dissemination, has led to the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT). This new paradigm overlaps with many research area such as the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) where sensor nodes are deployed over an area to perform local computations based on information gathered...
This paper deals with modeling human behavior routines during driving. We propose a new vision of the maximum causal entropy framework for inverse reinforcement learning to predict actions to be triggered in particular situation (lane change). We designed a plugin to enhance functionalities of the vCar platform which is presents an open source solution for the analysis and visualization of data from...
We propose a new caching concept in which wireless nodes in Device-to-Device (D2D) network can cache the initialsegments of the popular video files and may share to users in their proximity upon request. We term this approach as Bootstrapping-D2D (B-D2D) system. Our findings suggest that caching only initial-segments creates a large pool of popular files, thus improving the probability of availability...
With the recent proliferation of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, coupled with the expected massive growth in the deployment of such devices, the 3GPP Specifications continued to evolve to address the performance needs and the cost/complexity reduction requirements of these IoT devices, achieved through the introduction of new features and new User Equipment (UE) categories. These features will...
In this work, we study the performance of a single relay Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) cooperative communication system based on Decode and Forward (DF) relaying protocol for two strategies using transmit antenna selection at the source. The first strategy uses one antenna between the relay and the destination, and the second strategy uses Space Time Block Coding (STBC). All channels follow...
Hajj is a ritual practice where millions of pilgrims arrive in a limited area and required to transfer through dedicated paths to several locations. Congestions and overcrowded have been one of the biggest challenges to the authorities, and hence, encourages researchers to proposed practical solutions to preventing congestions and their consequences from happening. In this paper, we propose an Expert...
In the next decades, hundreds of autonomous ships (AS) and Conventional ships (CS) will cross the Detroit of Gibraltar. For their autonomous operation, and remote control, these ships need to communicate with each other, with the vessel traffic system (VTS), with the port state control (PSC) and with the shore control centre (SCC). For a sustainable maritime industry, the biggest challenge will be...
Device-to-device communications aim to enhance service coverage, particularly at cell edges or in black spots within a neighborhood through relaying and forwarding. In this context, each device is free to move independently, and will therefore change its links to other devices frequently due to connectivity issues. During these movements, a device may be requested to forward traffic unrelated to its...
While trying to get a service from the Base station it happens that many devices will find themselves competing to get the cellular service, which means each device will use the maximum power possible to win the competition, but if there is another solution that will allow the device to get what it wanted with minimum of energy, how the device will react to it? In other words, we know that the communication...
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