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Autonomous vehicles between anticipation and apprehension: Investigations through safety and security perceptions
( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)Due to the ongoing enormous infrastructural developments and car ownership culture in Qatar, it could be one of those countries to introduce Autonomous Vehicles (AV) technology at the early stages. Therefore, this study ... -
Average ber of multihop communication systems over fading channels
( IEEE , 2003 , Conference Paper)Multihop transmission is a way to attain broader coverage by splitting the communication link from the source to the destination into several, possibly shorter links/hops. This paper presents an expression for the moment ... -
Average outage duration of multihop communication systems with regenerative relays
( IEEE , 2005 , Article)Closed-form expressions for the average outage duration (AOD) of multihop regenerative communication systems over generalized fading channels are presented. Both noise-limited and interference-limited systems are studied. ... -
Average Secrecy Outage Rate and Average Secrecy Outage Duration of Wireless Communication Systems with Diversity over Nakagami-m Fading Channels
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)This paper presents an analytical methodology for the evaluation of two important physical layer security metrics in wiretap channels. Specifically, we first introduce the concept and the expression of average secrecy ... -
Axial crushing behavior and energy absorption efficiency of corrugated tubes
( Elsevier, Ltd , 2014 , Technical Report)This paper presents the effect of corrugations on the crushing behavior, energy absorption, and failure mode of circular aluminum tubes. Experimental investigations were carried out on five geometrical types of corrugated ... -
Axial pull-out response of a small-scale concrete pile subjected to cyclic thermal loading in sand
( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Energy piles support structural loads and exchange heat with surrounding soils using closed-loop ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems. A GSHP connected to an energy pile operates in cycles where it functions for a period ... -
B5G: Predictive Container Auto-Scaling for Cellular Evolved Packet Core
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)In order to maintain a satisfactory performance in the midst of rapid growth of mobile traffic, the mobile network infrastructure needs to be scaled. Thus there has been significant interest in scalability of mobile core ... -
B5G: Predictive Container Auto-Scaling for Cellular Evolved Packet Core
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)The increase in mobile traffic which is accompanied by a random workload, variations necessitate an upgrade of mobile network infrastructure to maintain acceptable network performance. Scaling the mobile core network ... -
Back-analysis of sprayed concrete lined (SCL) tunnel junctions at Liverpool Street Crossrail station
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Sprayed concrete linings (SCL) offer a versatile method of tunnel construction, particularly in regard to forming junctions since the lining acts as a shell structure which can redistribute the stresses around the opening ... -
Background-Foreground Modeling Based on Spatiotemporal Sparse Subspace Clustering
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)Background estimation and foreground segmentation are important steps in many high-level vision tasks. Many existing methods estimate background as a low-rank component and foreground as a sparse matrix without incorporating ... -
Backscatter-Enabled Efficient V2X Communication with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and backscatter communications are considered to be promising technologies for beyond the fifth-generation (5G) due to their applications in large-scale Internet-of-things networks for ... -
Backyard Urban Agriculture in Qatar: Challenges & Recommendations
( Global Waste Cleaning Network , 2021 , Article)The last decade witnessed a return to traditional ways of farming that were, for decades, braced by technological advancement. Along with many countries around the world, Qatar manifests an interest in urban farming, ... -
BADR: A Talking Face To Teach Arabic Vocabulary Under COVID-19
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)We propose an Arabic talking face called Badr to teach the language vocabulary for young students under COVID-19 pandemic. Badr is built on the previous talking face Baldi (e.g., an American English talking face) with many ... -
Band allocation for cognitive radios with buffered primary and secondary users
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we study band allocation of Ms buffered secondary users (SUs) to Mp orthogonal primary licensed bands, where each primary band is assigned to one primary user (PU). Each SU is assigned to one of the available ... -
Band gap and dispersion characteristics of structures with viscoelastically damped resonant periodic inserts
( Institute of Mechanics and Mechatronics, Faculty of Mechanical, TU Wien , 2017 , Conference Paper)[No abstract available] -
Band Gap Characteristics of Nonrotating Passive Periodic Drill String
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2018 , Article)A new class of drill strings is investigated whereby strategically designed and placed periodic inserts are utilized to filter out the vibration transmission along the drill strings. Such mechanical filtering capabilities ... -
Band gap characteristics of periodic gyroscopic systems
( Academic Press , 2018 , Article)The stop and pass bands (i.e. the band gaps) characteristics are determined for gyroscopic systems by developing an approach which is compatible with such class of systems which is based on the concept of Bloch wave ... -
Bandwidth Enhancement and Frequency Scanning Array Antenna Using Novel UWB Filter Integration Technique for OFDM UWB Radar Applications in Wireless Vital Signs Monitoring.
( MDPI , 2018 , Article)This paper presents the bandwidth enhancement and frequency scanning for fan beam array antenna utilizing novel technique of band-pass filter integration for wireless vital signs monitoring and vehicle navigation sensors. ... -
Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) Alphabets and Numerals Classification Using a Deep Learning Model
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)A real-time Bangla Sign Language interpreter can enable more than 200 k hearing and speech-impaired people to the mainstream workforce in Bangladesh. Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) recognition and detection is a challenging ... -
Baseline formation for damage diagnosis in one dimensional-beam problems
(2002 , Conference Paper)A brief account of the theories behind modal analysis, dimensional analysis, the stereolithography process and the strain energy damage detection method is presented. An integrated system of those techniques is formulated ...