EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems

Issue 1, 2023

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Trung Q. Duong, Le Nguyen Bao and Nguyen-Son Vo

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-assisted D2D Communications
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inis 23(1): e1

Authors:
Khoi Khac Nguyen, Antonino Masaracchia, Cheng Yin

Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach for solving the optimisation problem of the network’s sum-rate in device-to-device (D2D) communications supported by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The IRS is deployed to mitigate the interference and enhance the signa…In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach for solving the optimisation problem of the network’s sum-rate in device-to-device (D2D) communications supported by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The IRS is deployed to mitigate the interference and enhance the signal between the D2D transmitter and the associated D2D receiver. Our objective is to jointly optimise the transmit power at the D2D transmitter and the phase shift matrix at the IRS to maximise the network sum-rate. We formulate a Markov decision process and then propose the proximal policy optimisation for solving the maximisation game. Simulation results show impressive performance in terms of the achievable rate and processing time.
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AgFAB - A Farmer-centered Agricultural Bower
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inis 23(1): e2

Authors:
Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Brianna B. Posadas, Fudi Qin, Bohan Liu, Ali Siddique

Abstract:
Digital Agriculture aims to raise agricultural productivity while empowering the farming stakeholders (especially the farmers) with the availability of ICT-based applications on smart devices. However, despite putting in much effort, smallholder farmers’ willingness for adopting digital technologie…Digital Agriculture aims to raise agricultural productivity while empowering the farming stakeholders (especially the farmers) with the availability of ICT-based applications on smart devices. However, despite putting in much effort, smallholder farmers’ willingness for adopting digital technologies is low in developing countries. In this study, following the principles of the human-design process, we investigated the smallholder farmers’ core demands from mobile/computing application(s). Considering these core demands of the farming community, the developed prototypical interfaces were evaluated by farmers using the System Usability Scale (SUS) to check the acceptability of a proposed farmer-centered solution named AgFAB. The AgFAB prototypical interface design received an average SUS score of 72.37, which is an indication of an acceptable design. Moreover, the results of Paired T-test seem promising for the strong adoptability of AgFAB by farmers with reference to their aspect of usability in the agricultural context.
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Sub-optimal Deep Pipelined Implementation of MIMO Sphere Detector on FPGA
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inis 23(1): e3

Authors:
Minh Thuong Nguyen, Xuan Nam Tran, Vu Duc Ngo, Quang-Kien Trinh, Duc Thang Nguyen, Tien Anh Vu

Abstract:
Sphere detector (SD) is an effective signal detection approach for the wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system since it can achieve near-optimal performance while reducing significant computational complexity. In this work, we proposed a novel SD architecture that is suitable for impl…Sphere detector (SD) is an effective signal detection approach for the wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system since it can achieve near-optimal performance while reducing significant computational complexity. In this work, we proposed a novel SD architecture that is suitable for implementation on the hardware accelerator. We first perform a statistical analysis to examine the distribution of valid paths in the SD search tree. Using the analysis result, we then proposed an enhanced hybrid SD (EHSD) architecture that achieves quasi-ML performance and high throughput with a reasonable cost in hardware. The fine-grained pipeline designs of 4 × 4 and 8 × 8 MIMO system with 16-QAM modulation delivers throughput of 7.04 Gbps and 14.08 Gbps on the Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGA, respectively.
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A Fully Convolutional Network with Waterfall Atrous Spatial Pooling and Localized Active Contour Loss for Fish Segmentation
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inis 23(1): e4

Authors:
Thanh Viet Le, Van Yem Vu, Van Truong Pham, Thi-Thao Tran

Abstract:
Accurate measurements and statistics of fish data are important for sustainable development of aqua-enviroment and marine fisheries. For data measurements and statistics, automatic segmentation of fish is one of key tasks. The fish segmentation however is a challenging task due to arterfacts in und…Accurate measurements and statistics of fish data are important for sustainable development of aqua-enviroment and marine fisheries. For data measurements and statistics, automatic segmentation of fish is one of key tasks. The fish segmentation however is a challenging task due to arterfacts in underwater images. In this study, we introduce a deep-learning approach, namely FCN-WRN-WASP for automatic fish segmentation from the underwater images. In particular, we introduce a computational-efficient variation called Waterfall Atrous Spatial Pooling (WASP) module into a Fully convolutional network with Wide ResNet baseline. We also proposed a loss function inspired from active contour approach that can exploit the local intensity information from the input image. The approach has been validated on the DeepFish data and the SIUM data set. The results are promissing for fish segmentation, with higher Intersection over Union (IoU) scores compared to state of the arts. The evaluation results showed that the incorporation of the image based active contour loss helps increase the segmentation performance. In addition, the use of the WASP in the architecture is effective especially for forground fish segmentation.
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Performance Analysis of NOMA Over n-m Fading Channels with imperfect SIC
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inis 23(1): e5

Authors:
Trần Quý Hữu, Mau Dung Ong

Abstract:
In this paper, a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network with two users is considered. In particular, the performance of NOMA is evaluated by assuming perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI). We derive the closed-form expressions for the outage probability over η − µ fa…In this paper, a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network with two users is considered. In particular, the performance of NOMA is evaluated by assuming perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI). We derive the closed-form expressions for the outage probability over η − µ fading channels in the special case of two users. Moreover, the proposed system model-based NOMA always achieves better performance than that with perfect CSI in the medium SNR region. Monte Carlo simulations are then performed to confirm a good match with the analytical results.
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Scope

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems is open access, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, and cyber-physical system, all kinds of networks in large-scale factories, including a lot of traditional and new industries. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a quarterly frequency (four issues per year). Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

Applications of wireless sensor networks, body area networks in large-scale industrial applications, such as fault theories of wireless networks, including routing, network control and management, reliable transmission and architectures, etc.
Applications of social networking, big data, ubiqui…

Applications of wireless sensor networks, body area networks in large-scale industrial applications, such as fault theories of wireless networks, including routing, network control and management, reliable transmission and architectures, etc.
Applications of social networking, big data, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, and cloud computing in various industries and services (e.g., intelligent systems enhanced by social networking, cloud-based industrial networks, cloud-assisted intelligent systems, etc.)
Analysis of industrial control and communication networks, including network lifetime, security, network scalability, reliability, stability, etc.
Design and choice of industrial, intelligent, application-specific network protocols and algorithms (e.g., EtherNet/IP, Ethernet Powerlink, EtherCAT, Modbus-TCP, Profinet, SERCOS III, etc.) at any communication layer
Opportunistic networks in the industry, such as underwater sensor networks in sewage treatment systems, including establishing a temporary data transmission structure using available devices (e.g., underwater robot, surface data station, surface sink and under water sink), optimizing horizontal multi-hop data links (e.g., 3D data transmission), etc.
Applications of intelligent systems in various industries, including collaborative systems, quality control, optimization, decision support, planning, high-level control concepts (e.g., multi-agent and holonic systems, service-oriented architectures), low-level control concepts (e.g., IEC 61131-3 and IEC 61499-based control), advanced system engineering concepts (e.g., model-driven development, component-based design), supply chains, value chains, virtual organizations, and virtual societies, emergency preparedness, crisis management, business channels, electronic marketplaces, enterprise resources planning, etc.
Design and analysis of real-time embedded industrial systems, including real-time computing, real-time operating systems, real-time communications, networked embedded systems technology, etc.
Novel control techniques, with respect to process control, equipment control, supervisory control, adaptive control, motion control, etc.
Automated manufacturing systems, regarding formal modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems, scheduling of manufacturing systems, queuing systems and petri nets in manufacturing systems, etc.
Computational intelligence in automation, including neural, fuzzy, evolutionary approaches in automation, ant colonies optimization and swarm intelligence in automation, machine learning, expert systems, etc.
Hardware and software design and development for intelligent systems, such as intelligent and humanized production monitoring and control, etc.
Big data analysis and processing in various industries and services, including constructing data analysis models, providing data analysis and processing tools and designing various optimization algorithms based on data analysis.
Crowd-sourced behavior analysis in various industry and services, such as measuring and calculating the diffusion direction and speed of gas in the petrochemical industry based on crowd-sourced data from a large number of and various types of sensors, as well as product and service evaluation.
Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems, including network performance analysis, automated manufacturing, intelligent monitoring, disaster prevention, etc.
Vision of future smart factories, service, marketing, and their integration, incorporating current existing technologies.
Multimedia applications, content management, process management and knowledge management for various industries, services, and engineering education: including multimedia processing, multimedia retrieval, multimedia indexing, image sensing, image processing, image coding, image recognition, etc.
Pattern recognition methods for various industries and services: including statistical theory, clustering, similarity measures, unsupervised learning, supervised learning, etc.
Survey, review and essay of current industrial networks researches and intelligent systems development.

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Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (Southeast University, Bangladesh)
Ammar Rayes (Cisco Systems, USA)
Antonino Masaracchia (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Athanasios Maglaras (Dr, Prof . ofT.E.I. of Larissa)
Berk Canberk (Northeastern University, USA)
Ca V. Phan (…

Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (Southeast University, Bangladesh)
Ammar Rayes (Cisco Systems, USA)
Antonino Masaracchia (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Athanasios Maglaras (Dr, Prof . ofT.E.I. of Larissa)
Berk Canberk (Northeastern University, USA)
Ca V. Phan (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Vietnam)
Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Chinmoy Kundu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Christer Carlsson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Chunsheng Zhu (University of British Columbia)
Constandinos Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
Der-Jiunn Deng (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan)
Dickson Chiu (The University of Hong Kong)
Eleanna Kafeza (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Fu-ren Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Gerhard Hancke (University of London, UK)
Guangjie Han (Hohai University, China)
Guojun Wang (Central South University, China)
Hacene Fouchal (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Haklae Kim (Chung-Ang University, South Korea)
Halil Yetgin (Bitlis Eren University, Turkey)
Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan)
Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
Hua Hu (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
Ibrahim Kushchu (Mobile Government Consortium International, UK)
Irene Kafeza (Irene Law Office, Greece)
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau (ESSEC Business School Paris, France)
Jaime Lloret- Mauri (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Javier M. Aguiar (Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain)
Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Telecommunications Technology Center of Catalonia, Spain)
Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
Jiankun Hu (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Jianmin Jiang (Shenzhen University)
Jianwei Niu (Beihang University, China)
Jinlei Jiang (Tsinghua University, China)
Jinsong Wu (Bell Laboratory, China)
Joel Rodrigues (Inst. Telecomunicações, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Juan Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain)
Jucheng Yang (Tianjing University of Technology, China)
Junqing Zhang (Queen's University Belfast)
KUN WANG (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Kuo-Ming Chao (Leader – Distributed Systems and Modelling Research Group, UK)
Leandros A. Maglaras (De Montfort University, UK)
Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Liang Zhou (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Long D. Nguyen (Dong Nai University, Vietnam)
Maggie M. Wang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Nghia Duong-Trung (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Ngo Hoang Tu (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Nguyen Van Nam (Viettel, Vietnam)
Nicholas C Romano (Oklahoma State University, USA)
Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France)
Panlong Yang (PLA University of Science and Technology, China)
Pasi Tyrväinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Patrick C.K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Pierluigi Siano (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Pirkko Walden (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
Phuong Bui (Duy Tan University, Vietnam)
Raymond Y.K Lau (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
Rong Yu (Guangdong University of Technology, China)
Rose Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Sammy Chan (City University of HongKong, HK)
Shing-Chi Cheung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Stephen J. H. Yang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Syed Hassan Ahmed (University of Central Florida, USA)
Thanh-Phuong Nguyen (University of Toulon, France)
Tran Trung Duy (PTIT, VietNam)
Trang Hoang (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Tuan-Minh Pham (Phenikaa University, Vietnam)
Umar Zakir Abdul Hamid (Sensible 4 Oy, Helsinki)
Victor Leung (The University of British Columbia)
Vo Nguyen Son Dr. (Duy Tan University, Vietnam)
Wai-Wa Fung (Information Security and Forensics Society, Hong Kong)
Walid Gaaloul (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)
Weiwei Jiang, (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China)
Wendy W. Y. Hui (University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China)
William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Xiang Gui (Massey University, New Zealand)
Xiaoling Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Xu Wang (Heriot Watt University, UK)
Yan Bai (University of Washington Tacoma, USA)
Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway)
Yi Zhuang (Zhejian Gongshang University, China)
Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Yong Tang (South China Normal University, China)
Yuanfang Chen (Institute Mines-Telecom, University Pierre and Marie Curie )
Yuexing Peng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Yuqing Sun (Shangdong University, China)
Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE)
Zhangbing Zhou (China University of Geosciences, China)
Zhichao Sheng (Shanghai University, China)
ZhiMing Cai (Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau)
Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)

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Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2410-0218
Volume: 10

Published: 2023-05-11

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-assisted D2D Communications

AgFAB - A Farmer-centered Agricultural Bower

Sub-optimal Deep Pipelined Implementation of MIMO Sphere Detector on FPGA

A Fully Convolutional Network with Waterfall Atrous Spatial Pooling and Localized Active Contour Loss for Fish Segmentation

Performance Analysis of NOMA Over n-m Fading Channels with imperfect SIC

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