The first special issue on Radar and Sonar Networks was published by EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networks in 2010 (Lead Guest Editor: Qilian Liang)
Since then, workshops on Radar and Sonar Networks have been organized in major IEEE conferences such as ICC and Globecom. This special issue continues with further articles in Radar and Sonar Networks which reflects the new advances in this area.
Edited by: Xiuzhen Cheng, Jun-Hong Cui, Jing Liang, Qilian Liang and Yiming Pi
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This paper proposes a new image scrambling algorithm based on the periodic characteristics of the Josephus ring. The algorithm composes the pretreatment part of the entire image encryption system and scrambles...
The problem of source localization and waveform identification is the key of array signal processing. In this paper, an oblique projection-based localization and identification (OPLI) algorithm is proposed wit...
In this paper, the entire network model is a hybrid wireless network model in which each base station is connected to each other via a wired link. On this basis, we place a large number of antennas (massive MI...
A joint radar and wireless communication (RadCom) fusion system is an important trend for future intelligent transportation, such as the Internet of Vehicles (IOV). However, traditional joint orthogonal freque...
Due to the limited energy of the sensor nodes, the unreasonable clustering routing algorithm will cause node premature death and low utilization of energy efficiency in wireless sensor network (WSN). In Adapti...
Sonars can be used for detection of targets located on the sea floor where the signal undergoes multipath propagations which may arise large localization errors. Besides, underwater environment is often highly...
One of the main trends in the fifth generation (5G) cellular network is the bifurcation of systems that enable network densification. With this trend, ultra-dense networks (UDN) become a pillar technology to p...
In this paper, we propose a novel feature learning method named local embedding deep features (LEDF) for person re-identification in camera networks. In order to learn the structural information of pedestrian,...
Self-healing is one of the most important parts in self-organizing mobile communication network. It focuses on detecting the decline of service quality and finding out the cause of network anomalies and repair...
Microstrip antennas have been widely studied and can be applied to a large number of wide frequency domain in wireless communication. Microstrip antennas are featured with light weight, small volume, and low c...
In this paper, we propose to learn deep features from body and parts (DFBP) in camera networks which combine the advantages of part-based and body-based features. Specifically, we utilize subregion pairs to tr...
Spatial spectrum estimation technology has always been the focused research project in an array signal processing of High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR). This paper takes the polarization sensitive array...
In this paper, we propose a novel method named transfer deep convolutional activation-based features (TDCAF) for domain adaptation in sensor networks. Specifically, we first train a siamese network with weight...
Most existing methods only utilize the visual sensors for ground-based cloud classification, which neglects other important characteristics of cloud. In this paper, we utilize the multimodal information collec...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radar plays an important role in contactless vital sign (VS) detection. The VS can be extracted remotely by acquiring the oscillations in the human chest. Unfortunately, it is usua...
A receiver-spoofer is one of the most covert global navigation satellite system (GNSS) spoofing attacks and can only be effectively detected by the combination of multiple anti-spoofing technologies. In this p...
Accurate modeling of nonlinear microwave devices is critical for reliable design of microwave circuit and system. In this paper, a more general neuro-space mapping (Neuro-SM) method is proposed to fulfill the ...
In the past, investigators tend to use multi-channel surface electromyography (sEMG) signal acquisition devices to improve the recognition accuracy for the study of gesture recognition systems based on sEMG. T...
With the rapid development of wireless communication, the spectrum resource becomes rare, and research on utilization of limited spectrum resource becomes more popular, especially in fifth generation (5G) mobi...
In order to improve the energy efficiency of cognitive wireless sensor network, this paper introduces threshold-sensitive energy efficient sensor network (TEEN) routing protocol into cognitive wireless sensor ...
In this paper, a polar-coded space-time transmit diversity (STTD) scheme is proposed in order to improve the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In Rician fading MIMO channels, the cor...
With the development of smart mobile devices and various mobile applications, content-oriented service has become the most popular service which occupies network resources and results in high traffic load. In ...
In this paper, the method of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for wideband signals based on sparse representation of FRFT domain is proposed by using the excellent convergence of FRFT to LFM signals. This...
Recently, L1 tracker has been widely applied and received great success in visual tracking. However, most L1 trackers use only the image intensity for sparse representation, which is insufficient to represent ...
In this paper, we investigate the joint resource allocation to provide secure information transmission in a five-node cooperative cognitive radio network, which contains a primary transmitter (PT), a primary r...
Motivated by the practical and accurate demand of intelligent cognitive radio (CR) sensor networks, a new modeling method of practical background noise and a novel sensing scheme are presented, where the noise...
Massive multiple input multiple output antenna array is crucial for the fifth generation wireless communication. Proper antenna array design can reduce interference among different signals and generate desirab...
Modulation scheme recognition occupies a crucial position in the civil and military application. In this paper, we present boosting algorithm as an ensemble frame to achieve a higher accuracy than a single cla...
The micro-Doppler (m-D) effect which is also called micro-motion effect is a kind of physical phenomenon, which is often produced in ISAR imaging of space targets. When the space target has a micro-Doppler eff...
Hydrometeor classification for dual polarization Doppler weather radar echo is a procedure that identifies hydrometeor types based on the scattering properties of precipitation particles to polarized electroma...
Underwater acoustic channel (UAC) is one of the most challenging communication channels in the world, owing to its complex multi-path and absorption as well as variable ambient noise. Although adaptive equaliz...
In this paper, we propose a novel local and nonlocal total variation combination method for image restoration in wireless sensor networks (WSN), which plays an important role in improving the quality of the tr...
Principal component analysis (PCA)-based approach for user heading estimation using a smartphone in the pocket suffers from an inaccurate estimation of device attitude, which plays a central role in both obtai...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) radar with strong anti-jamming performance and high-range resolution can be used to separate multiple human targets in a complex environment. In recent years, through-wall human being dete...
Most existing algorithms of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are studied based on power splitting or time splitting, wh...
Carrier aggregation (CA) is considered to be a potential technology in next generation wireless communications. While boosting system throughput, CA has also put forward challenges to the resource allocation p...
Although the Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) sensors are capable of providing short-term high positioning accuracy, every positioning result significantly depends on the historical ones, which inevitabl...
TCP/IP protocol gradually exposes many shortcomings such as poor scalability and mobility. Content-Centric Networking is a new architecture which cares about the content itself rather than its source. Therefor...
In this paper, an UWB-MIMO antenna with frequency selective surface (FSS) decoupling structure is proposed. To realize antenna system miniaturization and integration, silicon material is applied as substrate. ...
Antenna plays a very important role in wireless communication. Array elements laid out nonuniformly could achieve better frequency reliability and lower sidelobe level than uniform spaced elements. Designing d...
An effective geometrical method which can locate a source based on the time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements and the floor plan information is proposed in simple non-line-of-sight (NLOS) indoor environment where ...
The collaborative relay network plays an important role in a smart grid application thanks to its high efficiency. However, energy and bandwidth management need to be further improved to extend network life cy...
Active network synthesis is important for circuit designer to find new circuits with desired performance. In this paper, a method of Tow-Thomas (TT) Bi-quad band-pass filter circuit generation methods is propo...
The 5G wireless communication system supports varied applications, making the uplink/downlink traffic asymmetry more and more serious. Dynamic time division duplex (TDD) technique has become a key technology o...
In this letter, a surround suppression variational Retinex enhancement algorithm (SSVR) is proposed for non-uniform illumination images. Instead of a gradient module, a surround suppression mechanism is used t...
Cellular-based cooperative communication is a promising technique that allows cooperation among mobile devices not only to increase data throughput but also to improve localization services. For a certain numb...
For analog signals comprised of several, possibly overlapping, finite duration pulses with unknown shapes and time positions, an efficient sub-Nyquist sampling systems is based on Gabor frames. To improve the ...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) radars are sensors allowing to track people in critical environments and situations. The results reached by single UWB sensors for such applications have shown that they are able to detect...
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN is proliferating since the increased trend in the wireless network utilization on mobile devices. Accuracy, fast content delivery, and reliable mobility support are essential features ...
Benefiting from the high spectrum efficiency and power efficiency, 6PolSK-QPSK (6-ary polarization-shift keying quadrature phase-shift keying) is a promising modulation format in coherent optical communication...