The paper presents assessment of various power quality events based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) with Hilbert Transform (HT). EMD method decomposes the signal into waveforms modulated in both amplitude and frequency. The oscillatory modes embedded in the signal are extracted by employing sifting process. These oscillatory modes are called Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). The magnitude ...

In this study, two new approaches for speech signal noise reduction based on the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) recently introduced by Huang et al. (1998) are proposed. Based on the EMD, both reduction schemes are fully data-driven approaches. Noisy signal is decomposed adaptively into oscillatory components called intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), using a temporal decomposition called sifti...

We introduce a new class of quantum key distribution protocols, tailored to be robust against photon number splitting (PNS) attacks. We study one of these protocols, which differs from the original protocol by Bennett and Brassard (BB84) only in the classical sifting procedure. This protocol is provably better than BB84 against PNS attacks at zero error.

Monitoring Oobius agrili Zhang and Huang (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), an egg parasitoid being released for biological control of emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), is challenging due to its small size the cryptic placement host eggs. We compared four O. recovery methods: 1) rearing adults from bark (bark rearing); 2) sifting parasitized eggs sifting)...

We present algorithmic solutions aimed on post-processing for industrial quantum key distribution systems with hardware sifting. The main steps of the procedure are error correction, parameter estimation, and privacy amplification. Authentication of a classical public communication channel is also considered.

We present a new post-processing method for Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) that raises cubically the secret key rate in number of double matching detection events. In Shannon’s communication model, information is prepared at Alice’s side, and it then intended to pass over noisy channel. our approach, bits do not rely transmitted quantum but Bob’s basis measurement choices. Therefore, measured a...