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Optimal design of a district cooling grid: structure, technology integration, and operation
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
The concept of a district cooling grid that allows the integration of several cooling technologies with different availability and supply patterns is introduced. An integrated multi-period optimization model for a district ...
Secret Key Agreement for Data Dissemination in Vehicular Platoons
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
In a vehicular platoon, the lead vehicle that is responsible for managing the platoon's moving directions and velocity periodically disseminates messages to the following automated vehicles in a multi-hop vehicular network. ...
Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
The FIFA World Cup, comprising sixty-four matches spanning an entire month, has, in recent years, been attended by about three million spectators of which over half a million are visitors requiring lodging. Planning lodging ...
Synergistic effects and optimization of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations on the growth and nutrient uptake of a freshwater Chlorella vulgaris
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
The synergistic effects and optimization of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations on the growth of Chlorella vulgaris (CCAP 211/11B, CS-42) and nutrient removal have been investigated under different concentrations ...
A Multicharger Cooperative Energy Provision Algorithm Based on Density Clustering in the Industrial Internet of Things
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an important core of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs) are sensor networks that are charged by mobile chargers (MCs), and can achieve ...
A Reliability-Aware Network Service Chain Provisioning with Delay Guarantees in NFV-Enabled Enterprise Datacenter Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Traditionally, service-specific network functions (NFs) (e.g., Firewall, intrusion detection system, etc.) are executed by installation-and maintenance-costly hardware middleboxes that are deployed within a datacenter ...
Parcel delivery by vehicle and drone
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
We investigate a single-vehicle parcel delivery problem in which customers may be served either by the vehicle or by a portable companion drone launched from the vehicle. The problem may be viewed as a Traveling Salesman ...
QDRL: QoS-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Tor's Circuit Scheduling
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2022 , Article)
Tor is a popular anonymity network adopted by more than two million users to preserve their privacy. Tor was mainly developed as a low-latency network to support interactive web browsing and messaging applications. However, ...
Secure and Optimized Load Balancing for Multitier IoT and Edge-Cloud Computing Systems
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a new computing paradigm with great potential to alleviate resource limitations attributed to mobile device users (MDUs) by offloading intensive computations to ubiquitous MEC ...
Modeling and Optimal Planning of an Energy-Water-Carbon Nexus System for Sustainable Development of Local Communities
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2021 , Article)
Achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) announced by United Nations guarantees access to clean, affordable, and inexhaustible resources for all present and future human societies. Access to water and energy have ...