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In this work, we report about defects generation in the oxide layer of n-FinFETs during stress. Defects generation is probed using RTN traces collected at both the drain and the gate. A stress/measure approach is used to monitor the characteristics of the device, including RTN, at different levels of cumulative stress. Indicators derived from IG-VG and ID-VG measurements suggest defects generation...
The patient monitoring through implant medical devices under medical implant communication service (MICS) band has significantly increased due to growing healthcare expenses, an aging population, and successful deployment of wearable home-based medical monitoring in telemedicine. Recent literature lacks the performance evaluation mechanisms and discussion of MICS band in terms of quality of service...
Despite being considered as simple everyday objects, smartphones have the most innovative sensors and electronics technology built in. These features make them powerful, nonintrusive tools for monitoring the user's physical and cognitive performance. This study aims at exploiting smartphone-based physical activity identification, implementing a classification algorithm that makes use of data extracted...
Radiation hardness of active EEE electronic devices with regards to space environment is characterized according to two main aspects: cumulated effects and single event effects. The radiation qualification process includes Total Ionizing Dose (TID), Total Non-Ionizing Dose (TNID) and Single Event Effect (SEE) tests, usually performed independently. The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential...
The performance of a process against voltage dips depends on the severity of voltage dips and the robustness of process equipment to voltage dips. This paper discusses about the performance of an AC contactor, one of the voltage sensitive equipment, against various types of voltage dips without and with mitigation techniques. First, lab tests are conducted to find the voltage-tolerance curves of the...
This short paper introduces the design of AndroDepLog, a logging tool for enabling the live collection offailure and usage data. Collected data are useful to assessthe dependability behavior and software aging trends of anAndroid device during its exercise. The paper will discusspreliminary results concerning the application of the tool realAndroid devices, in the framework of a research collaborationbetween...
Between 7–18 million Americans suffer from sleep disordered breathing (SDB), including those who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Despite this high prevalence and burden of OSA, existing diagnostic techniques remain impractical for widespread screening. In this study, we introduce a new model for OSA screening and describe an at-home wearable sleep mask (named ARAM) that can robustly track...
Among the major challenges in the development of real-time wearable health monitoring systems is to optimize battery life. One of the major techniques with which this objective can be achieved is computation offloading, in which portions of computation can be partitioned between the device and other resources such as a server or cloud. In this paper, we describe a novel dynamic computation offloading...
Device-free Passive Localization (DfPL) is concerned with positioning objects that do not carry an active electronic device, and hence do not participate in the positioning process. A typical DfPL setup employs a set of Access Points (APs) and Monitoring Points (MPs) in order to passively trace objects. In this paper, we examine DfPL using 1 AP and 2 MPs to better understand its performance in typical...
Most power information platforms are using IEC 61970 common information model (CIM) which has not focused on the on-line monitoring system at all. This is also the reason why each manufacturer produced its own productions and they usually have their own designing system. This situation has already become an obstacle for designing and implement the visual management system for power transmission and...
The main contribution of this paper is a scheme for optimal phase measurement unit (PMU) placement based on superset & depth of unobservability concept. PMU placement is done in various phases by ensuring that the set of the placed PMUs in the next phase will be a superset of the previous phase. After getting optimum resultant locations of PMUs, the measurements received from the placed PMUs are...
The increase in the number of large scale events held indoors (i.e. conferences, business events) opens new opportunities for crowd monitoring, access controlling as a way to prevent risks, provide further information about the event's development. In addition, the availability of already connectable devices among attendees allows to perform non-intrusive positioning during the event, without the...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) typically have a massive number of the sensor devices. The battery-powered (BP) sensor devices are the conventional type that has low transmission power due to the limited battery lifetime. The energy harvesting (EH) sensor devices can recharge their battery and therefore may transmit data with high transmission power. However, due to the low transmission power of the...
We present a platform that enables a service drone to guarantee reliability for mission completion and to update an application while in flight, using a robot operating system (ROS). The ROS is a flexible framework for writing robot software. It is a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of...
Accurate calculation of power quantities is important to the control and management of energy system. To reduce the design cost and computational burden in the terminal power meters, an efficient data acquisition technique based on waveform reconstruction is proposed to transfer correct power signal for calculation of power quantities. In the structure of wide-area intelligent energy system, the effectiveness...
The fast and wide advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) boosted by the remarkable development of sensor networks, RFID, software platforms and the Internet as a global container of IoT, have opened the appetite of several vertical industries to include IoT in their strategic vision for the coming years. Academic institutions have also established projects to vigorously investigate the potential...
Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) appears as an innovative approach to deal with several issues faced by vehicular communications. By exploiting vehicles and deploying a DTN store-carry-and-forward paradigm with an Internet protocol over VDTN it is possible to enable asynchronous communications in the absence of end-to-end links. VDTNs also combine a bundle-oriented communication with an out-of-band...
Crowdsourcing is a novel paradigm which has applications in a plethora of disciplines including software development, public administration, and communication technologies. In the field of telecommunications, crowdsourcing makes a viable addition to state of the art benchmarking methods for mobile networks, when combined with mobile sensing approaches to employ smartphones as end nodes. In this paper,...
The operational and performance requirements for transportable and/or mobile radiation monitors used in homeland security applications are specified in this standard. Transportable radiation monitors are designed to be transported to a location and used for a specific task or for a specified period of time and do not require permanent mounting platforms. Mobile monitors are those monitors that are...
Usually, a Big Data system has a monitoring system for performance evaluation and error prevention. Although, there are some disadvantages in the way that these tools display the information and its targeted approach to physical components. The main goal is to study visual and interaction mechanisms that allow the representation of monitoring data in grid computing environments, providing the end-user...
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