{"title":"An Improved Fast Independent Vector Analysis Algorithm for Enhanced Efficiency","authors":"Dahu Wang, Chang Liu","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70246","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes an improved fast independent vector analysis (FastIVA) algorithm. The proposed algorithm replaces the second-order derivative with the original function and its first derivative, incorporating an adaptive scaling factor to effectively reduce the number of iterations and computation time. The experiments are conducted based on a hybrid dataset constructed from the PNL Non-Speech Corpus and the ATR Japanese Speech Database. Experimental results demonstrate that the improved algorithm achieves separation performance comparable to the traditional FastIVA while significantly reducing both the iteration count and runtime.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70246","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Songlin Cheng, Jielin Chen, Xiu Hu, Niansheng Chen, Guangyu Fan, Lei Rao, Xiaoyong Song, Dingyu Yang
{"title":"Secrecy Analysis and Optimization of UAV-Assisted Relaying Networks with Hardware Impairments","authors":"Songlin Cheng, Jielin Chen, Xiu Hu, Niansheng Chen, Guangyu Fan, Lei Rao, Xiaoyong Song, Dingyu Yang","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70248","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes a half-duplex unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted decode-forward relaying network based on the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) scheme with hardware impairments. We derive an exact expression of intercept probability in the presence of a ground eavesdropper (Eve). In addition, we elaborate an analysis of ergodic secrecy rate and formulate an optimal secrecy rate problem to seek appropriate power splitting (PS) ratio. To address the non-convex problem, equivalent transformations are deduced, an iterative algorithm that merges the bisection search and coordinate descent method is presented. The experimental simulations validate our theoretical results. In particular, the optimal flight altitude of the UAV is related to the distance between the UAV and Eve. Moreover, the proposed optimal secrecy rate scheme outperforms compared with other fixed PS ratio cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70248","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143787331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimisation of FDA Beam Dwell Time in a Specific Direction with Time-Dependent Frequency Offset","authors":"Yuanhao Zhang, Huijie Liu, Kairui Gao, Cheng Chen, Rujiang Guo","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70244","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The frequency diverse array (FDA) exhibits distinct characteristics from traditional phased arrays by introducing small frequency offsets among the array elements. This paper delves into the relationship between time-dependent frequency offset (TDFO) and the FDA beam direction in a specific direction and derives the corresponding variation in beam dwell time. By applying the particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm to optimise TDFO parameters, we effectively enhance control over the FDA beam's dwell time in the targeted direction. Simulation results validate the feasibility of this approach in multi-target and multi-user communication scenarios. Not only does this approach improve the flexibility of the FDA beam, it also provides novel insights for dynamic beam control in complex communication environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70244","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Da-Yeon Kim, Sang-Won Oh, Hyeon-Gi Hwang, Young-Seung Kim, Dong-Ryeol Oh
{"title":"Loop-Unrolled SAR ADC With Complementary Voltage-to-Time Converters","authors":"Da-Yeon Kim, Sang-Won Oh, Hyeon-Gi Hwang, Young-Seung Kim, Dong-Ryeol Oh","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70242","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A 6-bit asynchronous loop-unrolled (LU) successive approximation register (SAR) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) with a complementary voltage-to-time converter (CVTC) and the efficient latch technique needed for this structure are proposed. The proposed structure utilises CVTC to reduce the power consumed by the reset operation and halves the operating frequency of the CVTC. Designed with a 500-nm CMOS process, the 6-bit 10-MS/s LU SAR ADC shows a power saving of 23.66% compared to the VTC-based LU SAR ADC.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70242","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Near-Sensor 2D Pattern Classification System Based on 3D Memristor Array","authors":"Raqibul Hasan, Tarek M. Taha, Md Shahanur Alam","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70192","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The proposed work demonstrates a 3D memristor crossbar-based pattern classification system. Analogue signals from a 2D sensor array are directly applied to the memristor crossbar circuit using TSVs for computation. The proposed near-sensor computing system reduces the wiring complexity between the sensor unit and the compute unit significantly. The 3D memristor crossbar occupies a very small area compared to an equivalent 2D crossbar. We have leveraged ex-situ training for the memristor-based neural network using the two extreme resistance levels of the device (<i>R</i><sub>ON</sub><i>, R</i><sub>OFF</sub>) which enables simple training circuit. To process a 100 × 100 sensor array, the proposed approach requires 5.6× less wiring between the sensor array and the memristor crossbar circuit compared to a non-stacked approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Point2Vertex: Human Mesh Reconstruction With Hybrid Position Encoding and Dual Refinement From Point Clouds","authors":"Min Zhou, Ping An, Xinpeng Huang, Chao Yang","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70243","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human mesh reconstruction from point clouds has gained increasing attention in recent years. However, existing reconstruction pipelines predominantly focus on regressing human model parameters, which results in an indirect mapping between input observations and output meshes. In this letter, we introduce a point-to-vertex reconstruction method, which bypasses parameter spaces to reconstruct complete SMPL topology from partial point observations directly. Specifically, our framework employs a hierarchical approach to extract geometric information from the partial point cloud. The feature mapping process is realized via a transformer-based architecture, which integrates parametric human model priors and employs hybrid position encoding. To further improve accuracy, the dual refinement module progressively refines the reconstruction process through sequential optimization in the coordinate and vertex-level feature spaces. Experiments on SURREAL datasets demonstrate that our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance, surpassing previous methods by 18.4% in MPVE (from 19.6 to 16.0 mm) and 10.2% in MPJPE (from 17.7 to 15.9 mm).</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70243","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143769984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George Bernhardt, Luke Doucette, Ekaterina Khmeleva, Nuri Emanetoglu, Mauricio Pereira da Cunha
{"title":"Passively Cooled BiTe Thermoelectric Generator for Operation in Harsh Environments","authors":"George Bernhardt, Luke Doucette, Ekaterina Khmeleva, Nuri Emanetoglu, Mauricio Pereira da Cunha","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70231","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Energy harvesting from waste heat is becoming more prevalent as energy conservation efforts continue to increase worldwide. thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are devices that can harvest such waste heat and convert it into useful electrical power. Traditionally, active cooling methods are used to maximize the thermal gradient across a TEG module in order to optimize the energy conversion process. However, active cooling is impractical for a significant number of industrial harsh-environment applications. To examine the feasibility of using passively cooled TEG devices for producing useful electrical power, a bismuth telluride (BiTe) TEG device was fabricated and tested from 200°C to 290°C on the hot side, without active cooling on the cold side. As such, the temperature difference across the TEG device remained consistent at approximately 50°C over the range of hot-side temperatures tested. Under these conditions, the BiTe TEG device produced a single-couple average voltage of 8 mV over the range of test temperatures, and single-couple powers up to 0.10 mW at 290°C, despite the lack of active cooling. These results show the capability of TEG module integration to power electrical circuits for high-temperature harsh-environment applications operating under passive cooling.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143749697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nikolay N. Ledentsov, Nikolay Ledentsov Jr., Łukasz Chorchos, Oleg Yu. Makarov, Vitaly A. Shchukin, Vladimir P. Kalosha, Ilya E. Titkov, Jaroslaw Turkiewicz
{"title":"Intrinsic Modulation Response and Electrical Parasitics in Oxide-confined Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Based on Single or Multiple Apertures","authors":"Nikolay N. Ledentsov, Nikolay Ledentsov Jr., Łukasz Chorchos, Oleg Yu. Makarov, Vitaly A. Shchukin, Vladimir P. Kalosha, Ilya E. Titkov, Jaroslaw Turkiewicz","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70234","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Small aperture (∼2 µm) oxide-confined single-mode (SM) Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) are capable of intrinsic optical modulation bandwidth above 42 GHz at low currents (∼2 mA). The measured optical bandwidth is limited to ∼36-38 GHz by the VCSEL resistance and capacitance (RC parasitics). To match requirements for industrial VCSELs, we applied a single mesa multi-aperture (MA) single-mode (SM) VCSEL design. The design is based on 4 diamond-shaped apertures at ∼10 µm pitch and an effective diameter of a single aperture of ∼1.7-2 µm. Higher capacitance of the large VCSEL mesa is compensated by a reduced resistance (50Ω) of the device, allowing optical bandwidth <i>f</i><sub>-3dBo</sub> ∼32 GHz. The intrinsic optical bandwidth <i>f</i><sub>-3dBo</sub> of ∼45 GHz is extracted. MA SM VCSEL allows narrow spectral width and error-free 50-Gbaud data transmission over 200 m OM5 multimode fibre (MMF).</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep-Learning-Based Pilot Optimization for Near-Field Channel Estimation in Ultra-Massive MIMO","authors":"Zexian Chen, Kunpeng Song, Zhengwei Qu, Yunze Zhang, Yong Shang","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70227","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As sixth-generation (6G) communication technology evolves, the increase in frequency and the number of antennas has made traditional far-field channel estimation methods less effective. This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based method to optimize pilot signals for near-field channel estimation in ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. By optimizing the pilot signals, the method can accurately estimate the distance and angle of scatterers, addressing the challenges of traditional sparse estimation techniques. Simulation results demonstrate that this approach improves estimation accuracy compared to conventional methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70227","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143749286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jon Gutiérrez-Zaballa, Koldo Basterretxea, Javier Echanobe
{"title":"Balancing Robustness and Efficiency in Embedded DNNs Through Activation Function Selection","authors":"Jon Gutiérrez-Zaballa, Koldo Basterretxea, Javier Echanobe","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70210","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Machine learning-based embedded systems for safety-critical applications, such as aerospace and autonomous driving, must be robust to perturbations caused by soft errors. As transistor geometries shrink and voltages decrease, modern electronic devices become more susceptible to background radiation, increasing the concern about failures produced by soft errors. The resilience of deep neural networks (DNNs) to these errors depends not only on target device technology but also on model structure and the numerical representation and arithmetic precision of their parameters. Compression techniques like pruning and quantisation, used to reduce memory footprint and computational complexity, alter both model structure and representation, affecting soft error robustness. In this regard, although often overlooked, the choice of activation functions (AFs) impacts not only accuracy and trainability but also compressibility and error resilience. This paper explores the use of bounded AFs to enhance robustness against parameter perturbations, while evaluating their effects on model accuracy, compressibility, and computational load with a technology-agnostic approach. We focus on encoder–decoder convolutional models developed for semantic segmentation of hyperspectral images with application to autonomous driving systems. Experiments are conducted on an AMD-Xilinx's KV260 SoM.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}