Impact of Wireless Energy Transfer Strategies on the Secrecy Performance of Untrustworthy Relay Networks
This work investigates the secrecy outage performance of a dual-hop relaying network with an untrustworthy energy-constrained amplify-and-forward relay. A destination-based jamming technique […]
Native Vacancy Defects in MXenes at Etching Conditions
Two-dimensional MXenes have recently received increased attention due to their facile synthesis process and extraordinary properties suitable for many different applications. During […]
Confidence Aware Deep Learning Driven Wireless Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Bands
Deep learning (DL) driven proactive resource allocation (RA) is a promising approach for the efficient management of network resources. However DL models […]
Metal-insulator transition in monolayer MoS2 via contactless chemical doping
Much effort has been made to modify the properties of transition metal dichalcogenide layers via their environment as a route to new […]
Toward City-Scale Litter Monitoring Using Autonomous Ground Vehicles
Littering is a significant challenge for environmental sustainability and a major burden for cities and densely populated areas. Current solutions for litter […]
Enhancing the thermoelectric performance of cold sintered calcium cobaltite ceramics through optimised heat-treatment
Cold sintering is a promising technology for preparing electronic materials enabling densification at low temperature but rarely employed for thermoelectrics. Herein high-quality […]
Hybrid Relay-Reflecting Intelligent Surface-Assisted Wireless Communications
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost- and energy-efficient solution to enhance the wireless communications capacity. However recent studies show […]
Effective Energy Efficiency and Statistical QoS Provisioning under Markovian Arrivals and Finite Blocklength Regime
In this paper we evaluate the Effective Energy Efficiency (EEE) and propose delay-outage aware resource allocation strategies for energy-limited IoT (Internet of […]
AICP
Connected vehicles whether equipped with advanced driver-assistance systems or fully autonomous require human driver supervision and are currently constrained to visual information […]
Automatic computation of bending sequences for wire bending machines
Determining a feasible bending sequence, i.e., ensuring absence of wire self-collisions and wire-machine collisions, or even an optimal bending sequence, i.e., minimising […]