A review of smart cities based on the internet of things concept

S Talari, M Shafie-Khah, P Siano, V Loia, A Tommasetti… - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
With the expansion of smart meters, like the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), and the
Internet of Things (IoT), each smart city is equipped with various kinds of electronic devices …

An efficient intrusion detection approach for visual sensor networks based on traffic pattern learning

K Huang, Q Zhang, C Zhou, N Xiong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual sensor networks (VSNs) are highly vulnerable to attacks due to their open
deployment in possibly unattended environments. To improve the network security of VSNs …

Vital-signs patch having a flexible attachment to electrodes

P Paquet, M Raptis - US Patent 9,585,620, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A vital-signs monitor patch containing at least two elec trodes, a circuit
assembly, and a patch body having a chamber in which the circuit assembly is housed. The …

Optimized multi-constrained quality-of-service multipath routing approach for multimedia sensor networks

MZ Hasan, F Al-Turjman, H Al-Rizzo - IEEE sensors journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern multimedia sensor networks impose strict constraints on both the delay and energy
consumption when time-critical data must be reported to the sink within a limited bandwidth …

System and method for conserving battery power in a patient monitoring system

M Raptis, A Jafri, A Burdett, G Kathiresan - US Patent 9,615,792, 2017 - Google Patents
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Improved clustering algorithms for target tracking in wireless sensor networks

KA Darabkh, WY Albtoush, IF Jafar - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2017 - Springer
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in wireless sensor networks because of
their potential usage in a wide variety of applications such as remote environmental …

Efficient and robust image coding and transmission based on scrambled block compressive sensing

Z Chen, X Hou, X Qian, C Gong - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image transmission in a wireless visual sensor network (WVSN) with limited resources over
an unreliable and bandwidth-limited wireless channel is challenging. This paper presents a …

Dualnet: Domain-invariant network for visual question answering

K Saito, A Shin, Y Ushiku… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual question answering (VQA) tasks use two types of images: abstract (illustrations) and
real. Domain-specific differences exist between the two types of images with respect to …

Energy-aware data delivery framework for safety-oriented mobile IoT

F Al-Turjman - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of wireless multimedia sensor networks has given rise to intelligent
transportation systems as a mobile data-sharing model. This vision can be extended under …

Optimal estimation and control for lossy network: stability, convergence, and performance

H Lin, H Su, P Shi, Z Shu, R Lu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the problems of optimal estimation and control, ie, the linear
quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control, for systems with packet losses but without …