The INCA System: A Further Step Towards a Telemedical Artificial Pancreas

Biomedical engineering research efforts have accomplished another level of a ldquotechnological solutionrdquo for diabetes: an artificial pancreas to be used by patients and supervised by healthcare professionals at any time and place. Reliability of continuous glucose monitoring, availability of real-time programmable insulin pumps, and validation of safe and efficient control algorithms are critical components for achieving that goal. Nevertheless, the development and integration of these new technologies within a telemedicine system can be the basis of a future artificial pancreas. This paper introduces the concept, design, and evaluation of the ldquointelligent control assistant for diabetes, INCArdquo system. INCA is a personal digital assistant (PDA)-based personal smart assistant to provide patients with closed-loop control strategies (personal and remote loop), based on a real-time continuous glucose sensor (Guardian RT, Medtronic), an insulin pump (D-TRON, Disetronic Medical Systems), and a mobile general packet radio service (GPRS)-based telemedicine communication system. Patient therapeutic decision making is supervised by doctors through a multiaccess telemedicine central server that provides to diabetics and doctors a Web-based access to continuous glucose monitoring and insulin infusion data. The INCA system has been technically and clinically evaluated in two randomized and crossover clinical trials showing an improvement on glycaemic control of diabetic patients.     

一种增强的智能卡口令鉴别方案

分析了Zhang等提出的身份鉴别方案,指出了其不能抵抗离线口令猜测攻击,以及在登录阶段和验证阶段存在设计缺陷等问题.然后在保留其优点的基础之上,通过引入随机数和增加登录请求信息的方法,提出了一种更加安全可靠的口令认证协议方案.安全性分析结果表明,该方案能够有效抵抗离线口令猜测攻击和假冒攻击,可以实现双向鉴别等特点,增强了系统的安全性和实用性.     

Increasing the Prediction Accuracy for Thyroid Disease: A Step Towards Better Health for Society

Wireless Personal Communications - A healthy life is essential for a happy society, however it is a fact that seemingly invisible diseases plague our families and people suffer. The thyroid disease...     

Printed Transistors on Paper: Towards Smart Consumer Product Packaging

The integration of fully printed transistors on low cost paper substrates compatible with roll‐to‐roll processes is demonstrated here. Printed electronics promises to enable a range of technologies on paper including printed sensors, RF tags, and displays. However, progress has been slow due to the paper roughness and ink absorption. This is solved here by employing gravure printing to print local smoothing pads that also act as an absorption barrier. This innovative local smoothing process retains desirable paper properties such as foldability, breathability, and biodegradability outside of electronically active areas. Atomic force microscopy measurements show significant improvements in roughness. The polymer ink and printing parameters are optimized to minimize ink absorption and printing artifacts when printing the smoothing layer. Organic thin film transistors (OTFT) are fabricated on top of this locally smoothed paper. OTFTs exhibit performance on par with previously reported printed transistors on plastic utilizing the same materials system (pBTTT semiconductor, poly‐4‐vinylphenol dielectric). OTFTs deliver saturation mobility approaching 0.1 cm²V^–1s^–1 and on‐off‐ratio of 3.2 × 10⁴. This attests to the quality of the local smoothing, and points to a promising path for realizing electronics on paper.     

Control of Optical Hysteresis in Block Copolymer Photonic Gels: A Step Towards Wet Photonic Memory Films

Polystyrene‐block‐poly(2‐vinyl pyridine) (PS‐b‐P2VP) block copolymer photonic gels are fabricated that exhibit controllable optical hysteresis in response to a cyclic pH sweep. The optical hysteresis is tuned by controlling the ion‐pairing affinity between various anions and the protonated pyridinium ions on the P2VP block, which is highly dependent on the hydration energy of the ions, the dielectric constant of the solvent, and the ionic strength of the medium. The pH coercivity defining the magnitude of hysteresis of the photonic gels could be varied from 0.26 to 7.4. Photonic gel films with strong optical hysteresis can serve as wet photonic memory films where information can be cyclically recorded and erased at least 15 times and maintained for at least 96 h. The memory colors can be further tuned by selection of the copolymer molecular weight.     

Smart heterogeneous networks: a 5G paradigm

An exponential growth in data demand on wireless networks and wireless link capacity approaching its theoretical limits, bound us to find new solutions and innovative network designs to handle the enormous amount of traffic. In this paper, we discuss long term evolution-advance (LTE-A) heterogeneous networks (HetNets) being a most effective solution to break this wireless cellular capacity crunch. LTE-A HetNets provide adequate increase in capacity by utilizing multi-tier architecture consisting of different type of cells i.e macro cell, small cell, relay and device to device. However this increase in capacity comes with certain challenges in HetNets outlined in this article. Considering inter cell interference coordination (ICIC) as biggest challenge in LTE-A HetNets, this article surveys state of the art LTE-A HetNets deployments with focus on ICIC. Effective ICIC techniques allow further substantial capacity increase. We give state of the art ICIC on air-interface as well as backhaul strategies for effective ICIC in LTE-A HetNets. Operators perspective of LTE-A HetNets with some insight to future of 5G LTE-A HetNets is provided. We also provide simulation results to show how LTE-A HetNets lead to realize ambitious targets of 5G technology in terms of capacity.     

Smart Home Tracking: A Smart Home Architecture for Smart Energy Consumption in a Residence with Multiple Users

Wireless Personal Communications - In this project, an architecture is implemented that can monitor and assist users in calculating their energy consumption by means of IoT technologies. It is...     

基于改进Montgomery模乘算法的智能卡协处理器设计

传统智能卡所进行的数据加解密运算一般是由软件实现，但随着信息安全要求的进一步提高，在芯片中集成协处理器成为一种趋势。本文就这一问题进行了探讨，并给出了一种解决方案。     

碘乙烷分子共振增强多光子电离飞行时间的质谱研究

在４７３～４８３ｎｍ波长范围内对碘乙烷分子共振增强多光子电离（ＲＥＭＰＩ）飞行时间（ＴＯＦ）质谱（ＭＳ）作了研究。分析结果表明在该波段碘乙烷（Ｃ２Ｈ５Ｉ）分子吸收双光子激光能量跃迁激发至Ａ带的３Ｅ,２Ａ１及１Ａ２态,激发态分子碎裂成中性碎片,中性碎片再吸收光子电离,产生了Ｃ２Ｈ＋５和Ｉ＋离子。Ｃ２Ｈ＋５离子进一步吸收光子并碎裂形成了碘乙烷分子ＲＥＭＰＩ－ＭＳ中其他的碎片离子。     

Scalability for Smart Infrastructure System in Smart Grid: A Survey

Scalability refers to the capability of a system or network being expanded or upgraded easily to satisfy ever-increasing growing demand, the development of smart grid is anticipated to be highly desirable in realizing the scalability. In this paper, scalability of smart infrastructure system composed of smart power electricity, smart information as well as smart communication was emphasized, which may provide basis and foundation for all other systems. All scalability aspects in smart grid was taken into consideration and particular focus was directed on the three major parts of smart infrastructure system. Finally, issues regarding to future challenges and opportunities of scalability architectures together with protocols and algorithms in smart grid were also addressed.     

5G+ABCDNETS: A Feasible Digital Framework for New Infrastructure of Smart Campus

This paper constructs a feasible framework of new infrastructure of smart campus guided by the industry requirements for the construction of new infrastructure of smart campus and based on the technical cooperation of 5G+ABCDNETS. This paper puts forward the deployment parameter table of 5G hybrid private network in the basic network around 3 sub items and 9 construction environments. We designed the specific deployment links of intelligent laboratory,security supervision and scientific research...     

Visions Towards 5G: Technical Requirements and Potential Enablers

Compared to the previous generations of mobile networks, 5G will provide a significant paradigm shift by including beyond state of the art technical solutions, like very high carrier frequencies with massive bandwidths, extreme base station and device densities, and very high number of transceiver antennas. However, unlike the previous generations, it will also be highly integrative and backward compatible: combining the novel 5G air interface and spectrum together with legacy wireless systems like LTE/LTE-A and WiFi, in order to facilitate an umbrella of high-rate coverage and a seamless user experience. In order to support this advances in the radio interface, the core network will also have to reach unprecedented levels of elasticity and intelligence. Spectrum regulation will need to be rethought and significantly improved, whereas energy and cost efficiencies will become one of the key parameters that will steer the 5G design and development. This paper elaborates on the 5G related topics, identifying the key challenges for future research and preliminary 5G standardization activities, as well as providing a comprehensive survey of the current literature.     

The Microstrip Step Discontinuity: A Revised Description

A systematic variety of frequency-dependent numerical results hitherto unavailable are presented for the shielded microstrip impedance step. The computational method used is a rigorous full-wave spectral-domain approach developed by Jansen. The given data describe the steps for two very common groups of dielectric substrates as a function of stepwidth ratio in the range of normalized frequencies where it behaves like a two-port. They represent new MIC design information and are compared with quasi-static results and the widely used magnetic-wall waveguide approximation. Beyond this, they are validated against the sparse step-discontinuity data available from previous rigorous approaches.     

Towards 5G: Context Aware Resource Allocation for Energy Saving

With the objective of providing high quality of service (QoS), 5G system will need to be context-aware that uses context information in a real-time mode depends on network, devices, applications, and the environment of users’. In order to continue enjoying the benefits provided by future technologies such as 5G, we need to find solutions for reducing energy consumption. One promising solution is taking advantage of the context information available in today’s networks. In this paper, we take a step towards 5G by utilizing context information in the scheduling process as conventional packet scheduling algorithms are mainly designed for increasing throughput but not for the energy saving. We investigate a Context Aware Scheduling (CAS) algorithm which considers the context information of users along with conventional metrics for scheduling. An information model of context awareness along with a context aware framework for resource management is also presented in this paper. CAS is simulated applying a system level simulator and the results obtained show that considerable amount of energy is saved by utilizing the context information compare to conventional scheduling algorithms.     

一种变步长LMS自适应滤波算法

本文基于对最速下降法梯度的优化估值，提出了线性－指数自适应滤波算法。文中指出：对最速下降法的梯度优化估值和对误差信号非线性处理，是改善ＬＭＳ算法性能的等同措施。文中的理论分析与计算机模拟结果都证实了Ｌ。Ｅ算法的性能优于１所提出的线性－符号算法。理论分析与计算结果吻合较好。     

Co3O4 Nanoparticles as Robust Water Oxidation Catalysts Towards Remarkably Enhanced Photostability of a Ta3N5 Photoanode

Despite the fact that Ta₃N₅ absorbs a major fraction of the visible spectrum, the rapid decrease of photocurrent encountered in water photoelectrolysis over time remains a serious hurdle for the practical application of Ta₃N₅ photoelectrodes. Here, by employing a Co₃O₄ nanoparticle water oxidation catalyst (WOC) as well as an alkaline electrolyte, the photostability of Ta₃N₅ electrode is significantly improved. Co₃O₄/Ta₃N₅ photoanode exhibits the best durability against photocorrosion to date, when compared with Co(OH)_x/Ta₃N₅ and IrO₂/Ta₃N₅ photoanodes. Specifically, about 75% of the initial stable photocurrent remains after 2 h irradiation at 1.2 V vs. RHE (reversible hydrogen electrode). Meanwhile, a photocurrent density of 3.1 mA cm^?2 has been achieved on Co₃O₄/Ta₃N₅ photoanode at 1.2 V vs. RHE with backside illumination under 1 sun AM 1.5 G simulated sunlight. The reason for the relatively high stability is discussed on the basis of electron microscopic observations and photoelectrochemical measurements, and the surface nitrogen content is monitored by X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis.     

一种具有新型光电探头的光纤传感器

本文作者首次提出了一种可用于光纤传感器技术的、性能优越的新型金属包层光波导。试验和理论分析计算表明：当此圆柱形金属包层光波导的直径为２００μｍ时，其损耗为０．０６ｄＢ／ｍｍ，损耗随金属包层长度的增加而线性增加．在制做光纤传感器时，使被测参数的变化导致金属包层长度的变化；通过测量金属包层光波导的损耗就可以测出金属包层长度的变化，进而测出被测参数。由于光功率及损耗的测量原理简单、精度高、造价低，为光纤传感器提供了一种成熟、经济的测量探头，通过大量的试验和传感器试制证明具有此种探头的光纤传感器性能优越、制作方便，是一种难得的光电探头。     

使用智能天线的MMSE接收机结构

讨论了使用智能天线的MMSE接收机结构。基于MMSE接收机比传统的接收机复杂的情况,故将智能天线选择在中频加权,而智能天线的权值则定在基带进行DOA估计来获得。仿真表明,使用智能天线后系统的性能得到了很大的提高。仿真还发现,同时采用相位补偿和deci-sion-directed技术,系统不能自动更正相反相位的误差。     

A New Type of Motor: Pneumatic Step Motor

This paper presents a new type of pneumatic motor, a pneumatic step motor (PneuStep). Directional rotary motion of discrete displacement is achieved by sequentially pressurizing the three ports of the motor. Pulsed pressure waves are generated by a remote pneumatic distributor. The motor assembly includes a motor, gearhead, and incremental position encoder in a compact, central bore construction. A special electronic driver is used to control the new motor with electric stepper indexers and standard motion control cards. The motor accepts open-loop step operation as well as closed-loop control with position feedback from the enclosed sensor. A special control feature is implemented to adapt classic control algorithms to the new motor, and is experimentally validated. The speed performance of the motor degrades with the length of the pneumatic hoses between the distributor and motor. Experimental results are presented to reveal this behavior and set the expectation level. Nevertheless, the stepper achieves easily controllable precise motion unlike other pneumatic motors. The motor was designed to be compatible with magnetic resonance medical imaging equipment, for actuating an image-guided intervention robot, for medical applications. For this reason, the motors were entirely made of nonmagnetic and dielectric materials such as plastics, ceramics, and rubbers. Encoding was performed with fiber optics, so that the motors are electricity free, exclusively using pressure and light. PneuStep is readily applicable to other pneumatic or hydraulic precision-motion applications