{"title":"Design of a Selective Filter-Antenna with Low Insertion Loss and High Suppression Stopband for WiMAX Applications","authors":"Alkhafaji Mk, Sahbudin Rkz, Ismail Ab, Hashim Sj","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000147","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a selective quasi–elliptic bandpass filter-antenna. The presented filter-antenna has a low insertion loss in the passband and relatively high stopband rejection. This structure consists of a quasi–elliptic bandpass filter direct coupled with patch antenna. The bandpass filter consists of four (λ/4) spiral square resonators. It has operates between (3.25–3.6) GHz so it is suitable for WiMAX applications. A CST Microwave Studio Suite software has used to simulate the filter-antenna circuit. The simulated results of the patch antenna and the results of the filter-antenna appears a good matching between the two circuits.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2090-4886.1000147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965186","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":"Degrading the Effect of Channel Impairment on STBC-OFDM System in Rayleigh Fading Channel","authors":"Hemlata Sinha, M. Meshram, G. R. Sinha","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000146","url":null,"abstract":"This paper indicates the space time block code provides transmit diversity in wireless fading channel during the STBC-OFDM system. OFDM is enforced in broadband wireless access systems as the way to beat wireless channel impairments and to enhance and breadth potency. This research is to analyze the performance of non STBC-OFDM system and STBC-OFDM system. The performance has been evaluated for construction modulation (QAM) technique for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems using multiple transmit diversity antenna system in the channel. Conjointly the equation of SNR and BER has been derived for 16-QAM for multiple transmit and receive antenna for STBC-OFDM system by considering the have an effect on of Inter-symbol interference (ISI), phase noise and temporal arrangement noise in Raleigh fading channel.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2090-4886.1000146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965119","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":"Remote Patient Monitoring System Based Coap in Wireless SensorNetworks","authors":"Pandesswaran C, Surender S, Karthik Kv","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000145","url":null,"abstract":"Patient monitoring is a process of collecting medical parameters of a patient present at a remote location. To deal with this particular issue in a hospital or medical assistance centre, this paper proposes an alternative vision that includes support through internet based on wireless networks and also compatible with existing infrastructure. Most of the existing paper deals with monitoring through sophisticated hardware in a private network and each have its own overheads of switching to a new system model. This paper deals with the enhanced Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) using multi hop flat topology, which makes the patients being monitored by a central system. It also provides secure communication among the patient nodes by using the public key algorithm. We aim to minimize as well improve implementation method more domestically and secure communication between client and server.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2090-4886.1000145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965450","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":"Data Analysis of Precipitation Hardening of Al-Cu Alloy through Fuzzy Monitoring Approach","authors":"H. Vafaeenezhad, M. Ghomaishi","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000E109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000E109","url":null,"abstract":"It is often necessary to perform a heat treatment that aluminum alloys can be used for modern advanced applications. That is to say that the most pertinent and effective way to improve the mechanical properties of Al alloys is precipitation hardening. Precipitation hardening of Al alloys requires high quench rate after solution annealing to avoid coarse intermetallic precipitates formation at the grain boundaries. A supersaturated solid solution of alloying elements is a pre-requisite for the formation of fine intermetallic precipitates during aging, which improves the strength of the material.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2090-4886.1000E109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70966144","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}
R. Rammouz, L. Labrak, N. Abouchi, J. Constantin, Y. Zaatar, D. Zaouk
{"title":"A Rapid Prototyping Matlab Based Design Tool of Wireless Sensor Nodes for Healthcare Applications","authors":"R. Rammouz, L. Labrak, N. Abouchi, J. Constantin, Y. Zaatar, D. Zaouk","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000144","url":null,"abstract":"Remote patient monitoring enables medical facilities and personnel to monitor patients outside of conventional clinical settings. This technology is greatly affected by the available energy sources. The limited energy supply is the bottleneck for measurement, data transmission, network connection and lifetime. Thus, efficient power consumption estimation in the early stage of the design would give the user an insight on its feasibility within medical constraints. In this paper, a power-oriented Matlab based design tool is proposed. It will help the user to make an energy aware design. In fact, it will enable him to determine the power consumption of each node based on a set of selected components, the daily routine of the patient and many other factors. It will also allow him to test multiple configurations prior to the physical implementation. This will minimize the time and financial impact of any modification. Furthermore, it will provide guidance to properly adapt the design within the requirements of the application: Choosing components, energy sources, etc. A validation is proposed via a physical implementation in order to compare the results obtained through simulation with practical measurements. Future works aim to take into account memory access operations, include several sensors operating within a network, and adapt the tool to other applications (smart buildings, environmental monitoring, etc.).","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965426","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 Camouflaged People","authors":"Bento Na, José Silvestre Silva, D. Jb","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000143","url":null,"abstract":"The use of thermal imaging is a benefit for the military people. Due to their advantages, it has a large number of applications, including the detection of camouflaged people. For better results, the thermal information can be merged with the color information which allows a greater de-tail, resulting in a higher degree of security. The present work implemented as pixel level image fusion methods: Principal Components Analysis, Laplacian Pyramid, and Discrete Wavelet Transform. A qualitative analysis concluded that the method which performs better is the one that uses Wavelets, followed by the Laplacian Pyramid and finally the PCA. A quantitative analysis was made using the metrics: Standard Deviation, Entropy, Spatial Frequency, Mutual Information, Fusion Quality Index and Structural Similarity Index. The values obtained support the conclusions extracted from the qualitative analysis.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965341","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}
A. Azizi, A. V. Barenji, R. V. Barenji, M. Hashemipour
{"title":"Modeling Mechanical Properties of FSW Thick Pure Copper Plates and Optimizing It Utilizing Artificial Intelligence Techniques","authors":"A. Azizi, A. V. Barenji, R. V. Barenji, M. Hashemipour","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000142","url":null,"abstract":"Friction stir welding (FSW) is an innovative solid state joining technique and has been employed in aerospace, rail, automotive and marine industries for joining aluminum, magnesium, zinc and copper alloys. In this process, parameters play a major role in deciding the weld quality these parameters. Using predictive modelling for mechanical properties of FSW not only reduce experiments but also is created standard model for predict outcomes. Therefore, this paper is undertaken to develop a model to predict the microstructure and mechanical properties of FSW. The proposed model is based on Ring Probabilistic logic Neural Network (RPLNN) and optimize it utilizing Genetic Algorithms (GA). The simulation results show that performance of the RPLNN algorithm with utilizing Genetic Algorithm optimizing technique compared to real data is reliable to deal with function approximation problems, and it is capable of achieving a solution in few convergence time steps with powerful and reliable results.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2090-4886.1000142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965208","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":"Micro Air Vehicles","authors":"Kai Li","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000E107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000E107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2090-4886.1000E107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70966454","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 Mobile Phone Controlled Electronic Immobilizer: An Application to Automobile Engineering","authors":"A. Bamisaye, A. Ojo","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000141","url":null,"abstract":"There is a need for security to be provided for the automobiles due to the alarming rate of theft action across the globe. A system that reduce or even eliminate the menace on automobiles need to be developed. The design of automobile immobilizer using mobile phone is efficient in transmitting signal through the mobile phone that has both F (fast) and M (meter) buses network configurations to various destinations of users where communication network is available across the globe. The work was achieved with the aid of a specially designed microcontroller (PIC18F2550) that communicates directly with the mobile phone and some components like Schmitt Inverting Gate (74HC14N), Regulator LM7805 and LM317, NPN Transistor BC337, 12 Volt DC Relays and Liquid crystal display panel (LCD). It imbibed the operation of Short Message Service (SMS) and Communication is being established through a 15characters code (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) which is secretive and privately used by the owner to enables and disables such automobile.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965098","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}
S. Cheemalapati, P. C. Adithya, Michael Valle, M. Gubanov, A. Pyayt
{"title":"Real Time Fear Detection Using Wearable Single Channel Electroencephalogram","authors":"S. Cheemalapati, P. C. Adithya, Michael Valle, M. Gubanov, A. Pyayt","doi":"10.4172/2090-4886.1000140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4886.1000140","url":null,"abstract":"Real time detection of emotional state has multiple applications for security, safety and identification of dangerous situations. Traditionally electroencephalogram (EEG) based emotion studies are conducted in controlled lab environment with multi-channel systems and large signal processing power. In order to be useful in real world situation the system for emotion detection has to be miniature, portable and working in real time supported by calculations that can be provided by a processor power of a mobile phone. Here we present our results on real time fear detection using portable single electrode EEG system conducted on 10 subjects. We studied possibility of translation of the markers previously identified for complex multi-electrode system - ratios of slow waves to fast waves into real time portable system. It was demonstrated using Student’s t-test that the average value of the monitored parameter during normal state was significantly higher than that of during a scary stimulus with a P value of (0.027) ~ 0.03 for Theta/ Beta. The framework for portable fear detection together with the markers discussed in this study can enable many applications important for the soldiers in the battlefield or police officers while being under attack as an indicator that help is urgently needed.","PeriodicalId":91517,"journal":{"name":"International journal of sensor networks and data communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70965422","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}