Bushra Qayyum, Guinan Li, M. Kasil, Bushra Haq, Kamran Ali, A. Lasebae, M. Raza, Btissam Er Rahmadi
{"title":"Evaluation of Energy Consumption and Delay in Different Modes of Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Bushra Qayyum, Guinan Li, M. Kasil, Bushra Haq, Kamran Ali, A. Lasebae, M. Raza, Btissam Er Rahmadi","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205327","url":null,"abstract":"The main challenge in designing a wireless sensor network is the optimization of the energy consumption and the delay in passing the signal from leaf nodes to the base station in different application areas. Examples of sensor networking applications include fire detection, disaster recovery, crowd management and many others. The two parameters; signal delay and energy consumption are very interconnected with a huge tradeoff as trying to control one of them will certainly affect the other adversely. The objective of this paper is to propose a scheme of network architecture where both parameters are optimized resulting in minimum energy consumption and minimum possible signal delay. We propose implementing partial aggregation as opposed to no aggregation or full aggregation. Results obtained from the test carried on an actual network setting have shown that partial aggregation works better compared to the other two techniques.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127514009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Agent Learning Empowered Collaborative Decision for Autonomous Driving Vehicles","authors":"Jiayu Cao, S. Leng, Ke Zhang","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205416","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous vehicles play an important role in intelligent transportation systems. In these vehicles, driving control decision is obtained based on the collection of massive traffic states and intensive information processing. However, the spatial-temporal characteristics of the traffic states and the constrained environmental perception range of an individual vehicle seriously undermine the effectiveness of the state collection. Multi-agent empowered collaborative decision provides a potential approach to address the problem. This paper proposes a multi-dimensional information fusion mechanism, which improves the utilities of vehicular information processing and autonomous driving. Moreover, we design an intelligent distributed decision algorithm for autonomous driving applications, which optimizes road traffic flow under vehicular resource constraints. Numerical results demonstrated that our proposed scheme significantly increases the system revenue.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124875881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nahi Shouk, Ruqayyah Shouk, Sheila Bonnough, R. Klemm
{"title":"Terahertz emission from thin annular and slitted annular Bi2212 microstrip antennas","authors":"Nahi Shouk, Ruqayyah Shouk, Sheila Bonnough, R. Klemm","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205488","url":null,"abstract":"The transverse magnetic wave functions generated from the intrinsic Josephson junctions in the high-temperature superconductor Bi2212 are found for annular and singly slitted microstrip antennas. From the wave functions, the Love equivalence principles are used to generate the emission from the uniform and cavity modes (wave functions). For most of the annular wave functions, the infinite degeneracy of the modes with line nodes through the geometric center most likely will result in no cavity mode enhancement of the output power. Forming the slit breaks that infinite degeneracy into a double degeneracy of modes that are odd or even about the slit. Pictures of the wave functions and the uniform and cavity mode contributions to the output power distribution will be shown. The consequences for forming arrays of such devices will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130533719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Yousaf, Hosang Lee, M. Faisal, Han Junhee, W. Nah, M. N. Hasan, Jun Gyu Yang
{"title":"EM Field Uniformity Analysis of RRA Reverberation Chamber","authors":"J. Yousaf, Hosang Lee, M. Faisal, Han Junhee, W. Nah, M. N. Hasan, Jun Gyu Yang","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205474","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents the electromagnetic (EM) field uniformity analysis of the Korean National Radio Research Agency (RRA) reverberation chamber (RC). The analysis is performed using the normative procedure of IEC 61000-4-2 for the estimation of the lowest usable frequency (LUF) of the RRA RC based on the field uniformity analysis. The triaxial electric fields at the 8 corners of the defined working volume are measured using electric field probes for the complete rotation of mechanical stirrer. The data is obtained for the frequency range of 80 MHz -1000 MHz with 85 frequency samples as per standard requirements through the designed data acquisition software. The stirrer step size was $7.2 {o}$ which results in 50 steps of the stirrer for one complete rotation. The post-processing of the experimental data in terms of calculation of standard deviation of measured Efield data and its comparison with the defined standard deviation limit in IEC 61000-4-21 standard is performed to obtain the lowest usable frequency of the RRA reverberation chamber.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134453311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ya Jiao, Heng Zhang, Lishan Zhi, Min Sun, Xuefeng Liu, Jichuan Xiong
{"title":"Near-infrared Deep Imaging of Biological Phantom by Polarization Parametric Imaging","authors":"Ya Jiao, Heng Zhang, Lishan Zhi, Min Sun, Xuefeng Liu, Jichuan Xiong","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205419","url":null,"abstract":"In optical imaging of biological tissues, surface reflection is a serious issue in many cases, while near-infrared (NIR) light can be used for deep imaging of biological tissues due to its strong tissue penetration ability and weaker light scattering in tissues. In this article, a method based on parametric imaging of the polarization status of reflected or transmitted light from biological tissues in the NIR spectrum was proposed. By modulating the polarization states of the NIR illumination source, recording the images of the samples, the far-field variation of the pixel intensity of recorded images was fitted to a theoretical model, and a series of polarization parametric images were obtained. These images describe the relation between the polarization status of the reflected or transmitted light and the properties of the samples. A tissue phantom with deep buried test target was imaged successfully. This method can provide a useful detection method for the deep imaging of biomedical tissues.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132289317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying the Impact of Customized Feedback on User Energy Consumption Behavior with Low-cost IoT Setup","authors":"R. Raza, N. Hassan","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205410","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the results of an experimental study to understand and quantify the impact of personalized feedback on HVAC energy consumption and wastage inside buildings. We develop a scalable, low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) platform, which was deployed inside a campus building. The data collected was then used to estimate the HVAC energy consumption and wastage in the rooms using energy models and machine learning algorithms. We then design personalized feedback for users in our case study and determine the impact of feedback in changing the energy consumption behavior of users. Users are divided into two groups and each group receives different feedback. The results showed that the energy consumption reduced maximum by 24% and the wastage reduced from 84-100%, as effect of customized feedback.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134524584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dual-Wavelength DFB Laser Based on Reconstruction-Equivalent-Chirp Technology for Millimeter-Wave Generation","authors":"Bocheng Yuan, Jianqin Shi, Wenxuan Qi, Yunshan Zhang, Lianyan Li, Ning Xu, Xiangfei Chen","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205324","url":null,"abstract":"A monolithic integrated dual-wavelength distribute feedback (DFB) laser with equivalent apodized sampling Bragg grating (SBG) is proposed in this paper. The simulation results show that such a grating structure possesses dual-wavelength narrow transmission peaks in +1st channel and the wavelength spacing between the two lasing modes can be designed from 56 GHz to 103 GHz by varying the cavity length. Utilizing the reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique, the apodization is achieved by modulating the duty cycle of SBGs. The grating structure of the laser can be fabricated by holographic exposure combined with conventional lithography.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133534522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of Malicious Consumer Interest Packet while Mitigating Content Poisoning Attack with Name-Key Based Forwarding and Multipath Forwarding Based Inband Probe","authors":"A. Qureshi, N. Anjum","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205470","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, Content-Centric Networking (CCN) has emerged as a next-generation network and is considered a promising network architecture for the future. A lot needs to be done in CCN in areas of Security, Privacy, and Access Control. There are many vulnerabilities in this architecture which can be exploited by the attacker. One of the research areas that needs attention is the detection and mitigation mechanism of Content Poisoning Attack. This attack isolates the legit contents from the network and propagates the fake or malicious content to the consumer. In this work, we use Name-Key Based Forwarding and Multipath Forwarding Based Inband Probe to mitigate the attack with the ‘novel’ additional security feature. The experimental results show that the integration of additional security features with Name-Key Based Forwarding and Multipath Forwarding Based Inband Probe is quite efficient for mitigating the Content Poisoning Attack and also prevents malicious consumers from flooding the network with unwanted reporting packet.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122550903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenechi G. Omeke, Michael S. Mollel, Lei Zhang, Q. Abbasi, M. Imran
{"title":"Energy Optimisation through Path Selection for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Kenechi G. Omeke, Michael S. Mollel, Lei Zhang, Q. Abbasi, M. Imran","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205429","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores energy-efficient ways of retrieving data from underwater sensor fields using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Since AUVs are battery-powered and therefore energy-constrained, their energy consumption is a critical consideration in designing underwater wireless sensor networks. The energy consumed by an AUV depends on the hydrodynamic design, speed, on-board payload and its trajectory. In this paper, we optimise the trajectory taken by the AUV deployed from a floating ship to collect data from every cluster head in an underwater sensor network and return to the ship to offload the data. The trajectory optimisation algorithm models the trajectory selection as a stochastic shortest path problem and uses reinforcement learning to select the minimum cost path, taking into account that banked turns consume more energy than straight movement. We also investigate the impact of AUV speed on its energy consumption. The results show that our algorithm improves AUV energy consumption by up to 50% compared with the Nearest Neighbour algorithm for sparse deployments.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131779049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Metal-Graphene Ultra-Wideband Antenna","authors":"Isidoro Ibanez-Labiano, A. Alomainy","doi":"10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UCET51115.2020.9205372","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ultra-wideband hybrid antenna using graphene on the radiating patch and metal on the feeding line. The proposed antenna covers the whole bandwidth of 2.65-11.25 GHz, with optimal overall performance with efficiencies above 70%, using 97% less metallic material. In order to provide flexibility, Polyethylene Terephthalate is used as a substrate. The flexibility, as well as the environmentally friendly and ease in the fabrication of the multi-layer graphene, turns this antenna in an ideal candidate for body-centric and wearable applications.","PeriodicalId":163493,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129300281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}