COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering: Volume 32 Issue 2

E‐band SIW H‐plane horn antenna development

The purpose of this paper is to design and measure an H‐plane substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) 72 GHz backfired horn antenna chip. The SIW horn was fabricated on a standard…

An OFDM‐based physical‐layer feedback mechanism for relay selection in virtual MIMO systems

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (OFDM)‐based 2‐phase physical‐layer feedback space (PFS) for distributed relay selection…

A novel truncation spurs free structure of direct digital synthesizer

Spurious frequencies (spurs) resulting from phase truncation are one of the main signal integrity issues for direct digital synthesizers (DDS). The standard approach in DDS design…

An effective taint‐based software vulnerability miner

The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach to detect Indirect Memory‐Corruption Exploit (IMCE) at runtime on binary code, which is often caused by integer conversion…

Vector mode based hardware acceleration and emulation for LDPC application

With the rapid development of integrated circuits, verification of SOC chips has become a great challenge due to its integration and complexity. Traditional software‐based…

The effects of finite metallisation thickness and conductivity in microstrip lines

The purpose of this paper is to study and discuss the effects of the finite metallisation thickness and conductivity on the properties of microstrip lines.

Study of synchronization test methods of NoC at multi‐clock domains

The purpose of this paper is to introduce several synchronization test methods of Network‐on‐Chip (NoC) at multi‐clock domains by digital logic circuits.

Alleviating the sparsity problem of collaborative filtering using rough set

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an improved nearest‐neighbor collaborative filtering algorithm based on rough set theory to alleviate the sparsity problem of…

Design and application of sink node for wireless sensor network

The purpose of this paper is to present one type of the architecture for wireless sensor network and to discuss in detail the hardware design of the sink node which can be…

SOC HW/SW co‐verification based debugging technique

Increasingly complex and sophisticated VLSI design, coupled with shrinking design cycles, requires shorter verification time and efficient debug method. Logic simulation provides…

A simple model for the multiple traveling salesmen problem with single depot and multiple sink

The purpose of this paper is to determine a set of routes for multiple salesmen starting at and turning back to the home depots. The objective of the algorithm is to be efficient…

A hybrid biogeography‐based optimization with simplex method and its application

This paper proposes a hybrid biogeography‐based optimization (BBO) with simplex method (SM) algorithm (HSMBBO).

Intelligent spam filtering for massive short message stream

The purpose of this paper is to provide an intelligent spam filtering method to meet the real‐time processing requirement of the massive short message stream and reduce manual…

Improved SOFI algorithm for blind extraction of smooth signals

The purpose of this paper is to present a symmetrical method to extract smooth signal from linear mixtures in the frequency domain; with experimentations, the method is thereafter…

Accelerating data distribution in P2P live stream with data reservation mechanism

The purpose of this paper is to improve data transmission efficiency in a P2P system.

Scalable group key exchange protocol with provable security

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a scalable group key exchange (GKE) protocol with provable security, which is used to establish a confidential channel.

SEVE: Symbolic Execution based Vulnerability Exploring system

Software vulnerabilities have been the greatest threat to the software industry for a long time. Many detection techniques have been developed to address this kind of issue, such…

A web service matching algorithm based on semantic similarity

The purpose of this paper is to obtain more accurate matching between the request and the release of web service.

Research on convergence of ACO subset algorithms

The purpose of this paper is to show that the theoretical proofs of convergence in solution of ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have significant values of theory and…

Proactive P2P worm containment via automatic authentication

Nowadays, proactive P2P worm (PRWORM) poses a latent threat to internet infrastructure and common users for the fatal vulnerabilities in homogeneous P2P software. It is more…

A measurement of real travel speed for road segment with magnetic sensors

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a weighted average method to process speed measurements from multiple magnetic sensors, which are installed on road segments. Speeds are…

Research on resource allocation mechanism for MBMS in wireless cellular system

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a resource allocation mechanism for Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) in a wireless cellular system and to obtain a rapid and…

The near‐field processing and narrowband imaging algorithm for MIMO array

Imaging is a really difficult problem when systems are implemented in the near‐field region and real‐time needs. The purpose of this paper is to consider a novel system model and…

Anti‐interference improvement of reconfigurable zero‐IF RF receiver based on tunable filter array computation

The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved reconfigurable zero‐IF RF receiver with anti‐interference improvement used in dynamic spectrum resource sharing system at UHF…

An improved joint dictionary training method for single image super resolution

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an improved method for joint training of low‐ and high‐resolution dictionaries in the single image super resolution. With simulations…

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