Future mobile network operators and telecommunications authorities aim to provide reliable coverage. Signal strength, normally assessed using standard drive tests over targeted areas, is an important factor strongly linked user satisfaction. Drive are, however, time-consuming, expensive, can be dangerous in hard-to-reach areas. An alternative safe method involves drones or unmanned aerial vehic...

Commercial off-the-shelf microprocessors are the core of low-cost embedded systems due to their programmability and cost-effectiveness. Recent advances in electronic technologies have allowed remarkable improvements in their performance. However, they have also made microprocessors more susceptible to transient faults induced by radiation. These non-destructive events (soft errors), may cause a...

Correspondence: [email protected] Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 06269 Storrs, CT, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article †Equal contributor Abstract A major application of RNA-Seq is to perform differential gene expression analysis. Many tools exist to analyze differentially expressed genes in the presence of biologi...

Understanding community structure of social media is critical due to its broad applications such as friend recommendations, user modeling and content personalizations. Existing research uses structural metrics such as modularity and conductance and functional metrics such as ground truth to measure the qualify of the communities discovered by various community detection algorithms, while overlo...

In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of using the existing cellular infrastructure for drone operations. To this end, we derive an exact expression for the coverage probability of the ground and drone users by considering a practical cell association strategy. Our analytical framework includes base station (BS) height and antenna radiation pattern, drone antenna directivity, and the im...

This paper discusses the service availability criteria that representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) have defined for air traffic control (ATC) air/ground (A/G) voice communications in the Gulf of Mexico. In order to evaluate these criteria, models that relate airspace coverage with the availability of ground-based communications systems had to...

Background. Beach soccer is one of the most well-known international sports in the world. The laws of the game were introduced by some associations and today they are covered by FIFA. There are also certain rules for the selection of beach soccer sand, but the specifications are too simple and rough. Thus, a wide range of sand types falls in the acceptable range of FIFA. Objectives. In this st...

Understanding interactions of genotype, environment, and management under field conditions is vital for selecting new cultivars and farming systems. Image analysis is considered a robust technique in high-throughput phenotyping with non-destructive sampling. However, analysis of digital field-derived images remains challenging because of the variety of light intensities, growth environments, an...