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Selected Papers from RTUWO'18

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2019) | Viewed by 2766

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Institute of Microwave Engineering and Electronics, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
Interests: ultra-wideband technology; software-defined radio; orthogonal transforms; chaos; synchronization; communication systems
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Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
Interests: telecommunications and data transmission networks and systems; optical fiber transmission systems; nonlinear fiber optics, planning, design, testing and analysis of the telecommunications networks

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The need for a new communication systems to cope with the call for new services demanding higher performance, larger throughput, wider bandwidth and lower bit-error-rates, requires the development of new methodologies and techniques. The scientific conference RTUWO'18 is focused on new techniques extending limits of currently used communication systems. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government institutions to present novel research on wireless and optical communication systems.

This Special Issue aims to collate the selected extended papers related to sensors from RTUWO'18.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Optical Communications

  • Optical signal processing
  • Advances in optical networking
  • Photonic communication systems and networks
  • All-optical communication systems
  • Passive optical networks
  • Active optical networks
  • Efficient optical communication systems
  • Microwave photonics
  • Optical fibers
  • Modelling and optimization
  • Visible light communication
  • Optical MIMO
  • Radio over Fiber (RoF)
  • Optical sensors technologies

Wireless Communications

  • Antennas and electromagnetic fields
  • MIMO techniques
  • Energy harvesting
  • Software-defined radio and cognitive radio
  • Wireless network security
  • Ad-hoc and cell-based networking
  • Resource allocation
  • Multiple access and scheduling
  • Network technologies, architectures
  • Cellular-Wi-Fi
  • Acoustic communications

Systems and Applications

  • Software-defined networks
  • Electronic circuits
  • QoS and network management
  • Traffic analysis
  • Channel coding
  • Signal processing
  • Energy and power
  • Positioning
  • Vehicular communications
  • Sensor networks
  • Machine-to-machine communications
  • MAC and routing protocols
  • Intelligent and adaptive control systems
  • Wireless sensor networks in medical diagnosis
  • Smart homes

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arturs Aboltins
Prof. Dr. Jurģis Poriņš
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Mapping the Dielectric Properties of Unknown Targets by Using a Network of Microwave Sensors: A Proof-of-Concept
by Claudio Estatico, Alessandro Fedeli, Gian Luigi Gragnani, Matteo Pastorino and Andrea Randazzo
Sensors 2019, 19(6), 1270; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061270 - 13 Mar 2019
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The subject of this paper is the possible use of a network of microwave sensors to achieve a map of the electromagnetic properties of unknown targets. The basic idea is to use a set of microwave sensors to illuminate a region of interest [...] Read more.
The subject of this paper is the possible use of a network of microwave sensors to achieve a map of the electromagnetic properties of unknown targets. The basic idea is to use a set of microwave sensors to illuminate a region of interest and to measure the resulting axial component of the electric field. Measurements are then processed by means of a technique based on inverse-scattering, which provides an estimate map of the dielectric values of the area under examination, allowing to discriminate among possible targets. In order to initially evaluate the feasibility of the proposed approach, numerical results in a simulated environment are preliminarily considered and discussed. Furthermore, an initial test on experimental data in a simplified configuration is also presented. Full article
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