With the rapid development of RFID technologies, it is possible to make the three-dimensional dynamics of stent graft. The authors design an RFID-based method for automatic assessment of stent-graft dynamic. The posterior probability from correspondence between two tag sets in successive frames is calculated to estimate what degree the observed RFID tag coincides with others. The results from simulation experiments show the superior performance of the proposed method.

Following the characteristics of the cognitive radio (CR) and the exponential increase of the vehicles, it is envisioned to deploy CR in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) in near future. Due to the mobility of the vehicles, it is quite challenging to find the vacant band and to reuse it for data transmission purpose without affecting the primary network. Further, the presence of primary user emulation attack (PUEA) in the VANET makes this task more complicated. Hence, an accurate detection technique and proper power allocation to the vehicular secondary users (VSUs) are the two major factors which need to be addressed for reliable data transmission. Hence this study attempts to evaluate the performance metrics of the CR-VANET considering the spatial correlation among the local decisions of the VSUs in the presence of PUEA. The energy efficiency maximisation with adaptive power allocation to the VSUs is achieved by the authors’ proposed scheme based on genetic algorithm under the constraints of interference power to the primary receiver, minimum achievable data rate and maximum transmission power limit. The system performance is investigated in detail through the simulation-based study and analysis.

For transmission of packetised media, real-time communications rely on the real-time protocol (RTP). RTP traffic, however, is transmitted over datagram-based transport that allows fast delivery of media. Internet firewalls are typically configured to allow web friendly traffic that uses stream-based transport instead and, simultaneously as security measure, reject any other type of transport. A mechanism to overcome this limitation is by switching transport such that media frames that would be rejected by firewalls are transmitted on top of stream transport. In this study, a novel mathematical model that links application layer packet loss to bursty network packet loss in the context of fading channels characteristic of wireless communications is presented for both, datagram and stream transport. This model is compared with experimental scenarios applied to state-of-the-art speech codecs in order to obtain quality scores that can be correlated against theoretical loss probabilities.