The Internet of Things (IoT) is a distributed system that connects everything via internet. IoT infrastructure contains multiple resources and gateways. In such a system, the problem of optimizing IoT resource allocation and scheduling (IRAS) is vital, because resource allocation (RA) and scheduling deals with the mapping between recourses and gateways and is also responsible for optimally allocating resources to available gateways. In the IoT environment, a gateway may face hundreds of resources to connect. Therefore, manual resource allocation and scheduling is not possible. In this paper, the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is used to solve the RA problem in IoT with the aim of optimal RA and reducing the total communication cost between resources and gateways. The proposed algorithm has been compared to the other existing algorithms. Results indicate the proper performance of the proposed algorithm. Based on various benchmarks, the proposed method, in terms of “total communication cost”, is better than other ones.
The elimination of multiplicative speckle noise is the main issue in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In this study, a SAR image despeckling filter based on a proposed extended adaptive Wiener filter (EAWF), extended guided filter (EGF), and weighted least squares (WLS) filter is proposed. The proposed EAWF and EGF have been developed from the adaptive Wiener filter (AWF) and guided Filter (GF), respectively. The proposed EAWF can be applied to the SAR image, without the need for logarithmic transformation, considering the fact that the denoising performance of EAWF is better than AWF. The proposed EGF can remove the additive noise and preserve the edges’ information more efficiently than GF. First, the EAWF is applied to the input image. Then, a logarithmic transformation is applied to the resulting EAWF image in order to convert multiplicative noise into additive noise. Next, EGF is employed to remove the additive noise and preserve edge information. In order to remove unwanted spots on the image that is filtered by EGF, it is applied twice with different parameters. Finally, the WLS filter is applied in the homogeneous region. Results show that the proposed algorithm has a better performance in comparison with the other existing filters.
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the process of identifying and analysing activities performed by a person (or persons). This paper proposes an efficient HAR system based on wearable sensors that uses deep learning techniques. The proposed HAR takes the advantage of staking Convolutional Neural Network and Long Short-Term (LSTM), for extracting the high-level features of the sensors data and for learning the time-series behaviour of the abstracted data, respectively. This paper proposed a Fuzzy Soft-max classifier for the dense layer which classifies the output of LSTM Blocks to the associated activity classes. The authors' decision for proposing this classifier was because sensor data related to the resembling human activities, such as walking and running or opening door and closing door, are often very similar to each other. For this reason, the authors expect that adding fuzzy inference power to the standard Soft-max classifier will increase its accuracy for distinguishing between similar activities. The authors were also interested in considering a post-processing module that considers activity classification over a longer period. Using the proposed Fuzzy Soft-max classifier and by the post-processing technique, the authors were able to reach the 97.03 and 85.1 rates of accuracy for the PAMAP2 and Opportunity dataset, respectively.
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