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    • Energy-Efficient and Coverage-Aware Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Awad, Fahed; Taqieddin, Eyad; Seyam, Asmaa (Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-07)
      Energy efficiency and sensing coverage are essential metrics for enhancing the lifetime and the utilization of wireless sensor networks. Many protocols have been developed to address these issues, among which, clustering ...

    • A Wideband Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna for 60 GHz Wireless Communications 

      Zhou, Rongguo; Liu, Duixian; Xin, Hao (Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-07)
      This paper presents the design of a fully packaged 60 GHz wideband patch antenna incorporating an air cavity and a fused silica superstrate. Circular polarization (CP) is realized by introducing a diagonal slot at the ...

    • A Wireless Body Sensor Platform to Detect Progressive Deterioration in Musculoskeletal Systems 

      Hanley, Paul; Fergus, Paul; Bouhafs, Faycal (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-03)
      Recent developments in technology have helped to reduce the physical size and weight of devices and opened up new opportunities for their application in delivering unobtrusive healthcare services. In particular, kinetic ...

    • Intelligent Video Surveillance System for Elderly People Living Alone Based on ODVS 

      Tang, Yiping; Ma, Baoqing; Yan, Hangchen (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-04)
      Intelligent video surveillance for elderly people living alone using Omni-directional Vision Sensor (ODVS) is an important application in the field of intelligent video surveillance. In this paper, an ODVS is utilized to ...

    • Learning Based Falling Detection Using Multiple Doppler Sensors 

      Tomii, Shoichiro; Ohtsuki, Tomoaki (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-04)
      Automated falling detection is one of the important tasks in this ageing society. Such systems are supposed to have little interference on daily life. Doppler sensors have come to the front as useful devices to detect human ...

    • MAEB: Routing Protocol for IoT Healthcare 

      Su, Haoru; Wang, Zhiliang; An, Sunshin (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-04)
      Healthcare is one of the most promising applications of Internet of Things. This paper describes a prototype for the IoT healthcare systems. We propose the Movement-Aided Energy-Balance (MAEB) routing protocol. The movement ...

    • Prospects for Mobile Health in Pakistan and Other Developing Countries 

      Burney, Aqil; Abbas, Zain; Mahmood, Nadeem; Arifeen, Qamar-ul (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-05)
      akistan is a developing country with more than half of its population located in rural areas. These areas neither have sufficient health care facilities nor a strong infrastructure that can address the health needs of the ...

    • Electronic Commerce Technology Adoption at the Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre 

      Rashama, Cosmas; Mungwena, Wilson; Damba, Tonderai (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-06)
      This paper focuses on the level of adoption of E-Commerce Technology at the Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre (SIRDC), a Zimbabwean organization established by an act of parliament, with a mandate ...

    • Cloud Computing Solution and Services for RFID Based Supply Chain Management 

      Jamal, S. M. Khalid; Omer, A.; Qureshi, Asiya A. S. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-09)
      Deploying and Implementing RFID Systems for tracking and controlling products in supply chain management is not affordable for small and midsized companies due to its complexity, cost, and difficulties pertaining data ...

    • Intelligent and Predictive Vehicular Networks 

      Chintu, Schmidt S.; Anthony, Richard; Roshanaei, Maryam; Ierotheou, Constantinos (Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-05)
      Seeking shortest travel times through smart algorithms may not only optimize the travel times but also reduce carbon emissions, such as CO2, CO and Hydro-Carbons. It can also result in reduced driver frustrations and can ...

    • Managing Computing Infrastructure for IoT Data 

      Tyagi, Sapna; Darwish, Ashraf; Khan, Mohammad Y. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-07)
      Digital data have become a torrent engulfing every area of business, science and engineering disciplines, gushing into every economy, every organization and every user of digital technology. In the age of big data, deriving ...

    • Implicit, Context Management Systems for Mobile Health Services 

      Farahmandian, Vahid; Asosheh, Abbas (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-03)
      Objectives: In this paper data flow and executive model of Mobile Health services risk management by the use of context aware systems are provided. Materials and Methods: Mobile health (M-Health) refers to using portable ...

    • Web Semantic and Ontology 

      Gontier, Elodie M. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-06)
      Ontologies have become a popular research topic in many communities. In fact, ontology is a main component of this research; therefore, the definition, structure and the main operations and applications of ontology are ...

    • Sigma-Point Filters in Robotic Applications 

      Al-Shabi, Mohammad (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-08)
      Sigma-Point Kalman Filters (SPKFs) are popular estimation techniques for high nonlinear system applications. The benefits of using SPKFs include (but not limited to) the following: the easiness of linearizing the nonlinear ...

    • Survey on Routing in Pocket Switched Network 

      Sarkar, Ratna R.; Rasul, Khadija; Chakrabarty, Amitabha (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-09)
      Pocket switched Network (PSN) is an emerging research magnet that has been attracting researchers. This paper provides an introduction to PSN and covers some of its basic features and challenges. Continuous connectivity ...

    • Home Automation Device Protocol (HADP): A Protocol Standard for Unified Device Interactions 

      Gonnot, Thomas; Yi, Won -Jae; Monsef, Ehsan; Saniie, Jafar (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-10)
      Daily activities have become more efficient and convenient with home automation. There are many different home automation devices in the market for consumers to enjoy their home for being smarter, resourceful, ...

    • Interface for Intelligence Computing Design and Option of Technical Systems 

      Mammadov, Javanshir; Tagiyeva, Tarana; Sveta, Akhmedova; Arzu, Aliyeva (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-11)
      As a result of analysis of the existent methods and tools of computer aided design of the technical systems of many industrial areas, the primary purpose of the article that consists in the decision of different project ...

    • Enhancing Performance of Multi-Rate WLANs: Ant Colony Approach 

      Ma, Qiang; Al-Dhelaan, Abdullah; Al-Rodhaan, Mznah (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-12)
      The trade-off between users’ fairness and network throughput may be unacceptable in a multi-rate 802.11 WLAN environment. In this paper, we will design a new intuitive simplified mathematical model called simplified ...

    • Supply and Demand Oriented Energy Management in the Internet of Things 

      Li, Qingjuan; Liu, Hong; Ning, Huansheng; Fu, Yang; Hu, Songde; Yang, Shunkun (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-01)
      The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as an attractive paradigm involving physical perceptions, cyber interactions, social correlations and even cognitive thinking through a cyber-physical-social-thinking hyperspace. ...

    • Power Efficient Scheduled-Based Medium Access Control Protocol over Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Khan, Muhammad S.; Alajlan, Abrar; Almasri, Marwah (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-02)
      The flexible use of sensors has made them an attractive device to be deployed in almost every field of life such as health, military and home. Recent advancement in electronics and wireless communications has witnessed the ...