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Overcrowded hospitals in its different process’s levels is a very common issue all over the globe. Research through different works have studied this problem from different angles. Most of those focused on a very specific part of the internal flows. In this study, we present a mathematical model aiming to reflect patient flow and resources usage. T...
Nowadays, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), plays an important role in transforming industrial environment by opening up a new area for economic growth and competitiveness in digital Industry 4.0. Using intelligent communication system based on IIoT, will help factories to obtain better profits in the industrial manufacturing markets. For t...
During successive industrial revolutions, the objective has not only been for industry to improve and satisfy its direct needs, it has also been to improve society’s standard of living and make life easier for the consumer. Therefore, economic growth should always go hand in hand with each industrial revolution. The medical industry, energy conserv...
In the industrial world, a trend towards connected, robotic and intelligent factories is in constant development to face competition from countries with low production costs. The industrial revolution ‘Industry 4.0’ is considerably reducing the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. This has given rise to interconnected factories in wh...
For many years now, communication in the industrial sector has been characterized by a new trend of integrating the wireless concept through cyber-physical systems (CPS). This emergence, known as the Smart Factory, is based on the convergence of industrial trades and digital applications to create an intelligent manufacturing sys-tem. This will ens...
he latest COVID-19 outbreak has tremendous consequences on economic, social and healthcare organizations. Big cities seem to be the most harmed as social dis-tancing is in most cases not possible. Such consequences need short and long term solutions in order to re-build more resilient infrastructures and systems. AI has contributed to dealing with...
This work targets the challenging issue to produce high throughput and low-cost configurable architecture of Discrete wavelet transforms (DWT). More specifically, it proposes a new hardware architecture of the first and second generation of DWT using a modified multi-resolution tree. This approach is based on serializations and interleaving of data...
This review consists on the progress of flat-panel detectors for digital radiography based on amorphous materials; flat panel detectors remain the essential element for radiography improvement. The X-ray converter and the readout pixel array consists the most important components of flat-panel detectors where their parameters and developments will...
The goal of industrial revolutions is not only to improve and respond directly to the needs of industry in a productive side fact, but also to improve the standard of living of society and make life easier for customers. Therefore, economic growth should always go hand in hand with each industrial revolution. In this context, the increasing demand...
For many years now, communication in the industrial sector has been characterized by a new trend of integrating the wireless concept through cyber-physical systems (CPS). This emergence, known as the Smart Factory, is based on the convergence of industrial trades and digital applications to create an intelligent manufacturing system. This will ensu...
The identification of heart related diseases is challenging due to several contributory factors associated with patients, medical staff or medical materials used for diagnosis. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal represents the electrical activity of the heart. It is the most common method used to diagnose patients with cardiovascular abnormalities. The...
The healthcare ecosystem is now in a state of flux. Social, economic pressures beside demographic changes disrupt the balance of the health facilities. According to the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD, 2004), “the last thirty years have been a period of change and of expansion for health systems”. Currently, the major pr...
In the industrial world, a trend towards connected, robotic and intelligent factories is on the rise to face competition from countries with low production costs. The industrial revolution ‘Industry 4.0’ is considerably reducing the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. This has given rise to interconnected factories in which people,...
Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) are nowadays growing on popularity thanks to their resilience, strong capabilities of monitoring and capability to support harsh industrial environments. In such application, due to the noisy wireless mediums, it can result in the distruction or the loss of data packets, and therefore results in unreliabl...
This paper reports the results of a survey of the recent technological fog in the medical field. Indeed, Internet of things devices have developed and gained in term of performance and efficiency. It became in the same time accurate and realistic. This progress helped establish confidence and ease of use between devices and different users. As a re...
In the current paper we present a low cost intelligent system capable to collect data from one lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor, process the collected data and classify the signal into one of three categories: arrhythmia, congestive failure or normal heart beat with 100 % positive predictive value and 100% negative predictive value. The achieved...
This work is part of a broader project in the field of wireless sensor networks, in which the wavelet transform is at the core of the transmission functions. Our goal in this paper is to propose a new DWT architecture characterized by a high level of performance and a low cost design. This goal is achieved in particular thanks to the intelligent sh...
The healthcare ecosystem is now in a state of flux. Social, economic pressures beside demographic changes disrupt the balance of the health facilities. According to the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD, 2004), "the last thirty years have been a period of change and of expansion for health systems". Currently, the major pr...
The increase demand for electricity and the non-renewable nature of fossil energy makes the move towards renewable energies required. However, the common problem of renewable sources, which is the intermittence, is overcome by thehybridization of complementary sources. Thus, whenever the load demand is not fully covered by the primary source, these...
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are considered as a future main platform in many technologies where they are applied in several fields such as industry, medicine, militaries, environmental monitoring and others. In this paper, we propose a new vision of WSN communication based on a new IDWPT / DWPT transformation architecture. In this context, our e...
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) known as industry 4.0, is the use of internet of things technologies, via the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), to enhance manufacturing and industrial processes. It incorporates machine learning and big data technologies, to allow machine-to-machine communication that have existed for years in the industrial w...
In contemporary industry, the wireless technologies trend is growing fast, because it will help to reduce cable cost, deployment time, flexibility, enabling wireless monitoring and control systems, and help to be more environment friendly, a huge research effort is done on wireless sensor networks (WSNs), however there are several issues facing the...
The 30th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2018)
December 16-19, 2018, Sousse, Tunisia
http://www.ieee-icm2018.org
The International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM) has been held in numerous countries across the Southern Europe and Western and Southern Asia for the past 29 years. The 30th edition of the conference will be ho...
This work presents new pipeline-parallel, generic and configurable parallel hardware architectures for the Direct/Inverse Wavelet Packet Transform (DWPT/IDWPT) independent of any specific family of wavelets, implemented in FPGA technology using a parallel architecture of direct FIR filter. We propose in the following paper, new P-parallel structure...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in several areas such as medicine,
multimedia and industry. For the last one, WSNs are used for monitoring and control of
industrial equipment. Nevertheless, requirements in the industrial systems differ from
the general WSN requirements due to the complex environment propagation. In this
work, performance f...
In the coming next years, the industrial wireless sensor
network (IWSN), witch constitutes the main part of the Industrial
Internet of Things (IIoT), plays a crucial role in transforming
industrial world by opening up a new era of economic growth and
competitiveness in digital Industry 4.0. The IWSN is able to help
organizations to gain greater pro...
This article presents a new pipeline-parallel architecture of Inverse Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform (IDWPT) for all wavelet family implemented in FPGA technology using a parallel direct FIR filter. Our aim in this work is to develop a generic VHDL-RTL model and configurable architecture of pipeline-parallel architecture of IDWPT. This architect...
Au cours des prochaines années, le réseau de capteurs sans fils industriels (IWSN) qui constitue une partie principale de l’internet industriel des objets (IIoT), joue un rôle crucial dans la transformation du monde industriel en ouvrant une nouvelle ère de croissance économique et compétitive de la révolution industrielle dite « Industrie 4.0 ». L...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in several areas such as medicine, multimedia and industry. For the last one, WSNs are used for monitoring and control of industrial equipment. Nevertheless, requirements in the industrial systems differ from the general WSN requirements due to the complex environment propagation. In this work, performance f...
This work is dedicated to present a new pipeline-parallel architecture of Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform (DWPT) for all wavelet family implemented in FPGA technology. The main target of our architecture is to provide an effective performance trade-off, where it significantly increases the throughput with a restricted amount of hardware. In this...
During the last few years, renewable energy and sustainable development were at the center of interest of many African countries especially Morocco through its Moroccan Agency for solar energy (MASEN). Up to date, the latter has been managing all energy projects including the most important one: ‘The Moroccan project of Solar Energy’. Its main goal...
The IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM) has been held in numerous countries across the Southern Europe, North Africa, and Western and Southern Asia for the past 28 years. The 29th edition of the conference will be hosted by Arts, Sciences & Technology University in Lebanon (AUL) at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hamra, Beirut in Decemb...
L'objectif principal de la JDSI est de dynamiser l'esprit de recherche des doctorants et des jeunes scientifiques en leur offrant la possibilité de rencontrer et de se concerter avec des professionnels et des universitaires de haut niveau. Afin de réussir sa carrière de chercheur, la JDSI permet au participant d’acquérir de l'expérience et de la co...
Ce papier présente un travail pédagogique sous forme d’un projet centré sur la conception et la réalisation d’un réseau de capteurs intelligent sous forme d’une maison intelligente, avec pour objectif la réalisation d’une maquette didactique. Ces travaux ont été réalisés dans le cadre de la formation GSI (Génie des Systèmes Industriels) délocalisée...
This work is dedicated to present a new architecture of Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform (DWPT) implemented in FPGA using a parallel direct FIR () filter. The main target of our architecture is to provide an effective performance trade-off, where it significantly increases the throughput with a restricted amount of hardware. It is smartly connect...
L'Ecole Marocaine des Sciences de l'Ingénieur forme depuis 1986 des ingénieurs notamment dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies. L'école a capitalisé durant son parcours de trois décennies une expérience dans le domaine de l'en-seignement supérieur et a conforté sa relation tant avec le monde économique marocain qu'avec ses paires à l'étranger....
Body networks type WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network) are beginning to take a major interest in last years. Generally, modern transmission face three major challenges: energy management for transmission, increase throughput and noise immunity. The use of broadband systems helped answer constraints of modern transmission system, it has questioned the...
A novel low-cost design of communication architecture based on discrete packet wavelet transform is proposed. However, a lot of characteristics as demand for wireless communication systems like high bit rate, high capacity for objective to integrate a high speed data in several domains: industrial, medicine, militaries, and others. This paper prese...
Bearing fault diagnosis has attracted significant attention over the past few decades. In this paper, Alpha-stable distribution was introduced for feature extraction from faulty bearing vibration signals. Such a non-Gaussian model can accurately describe statistical characteristic of bearing fault signals with impulsive behavior. After extracting f...
SAT (SATisfiability of Propositional Formula) is a well-known NP-Complete problem [1][2]. Conventional solvers for SAT based on traditional DPLL algorithm presents serious CPU-Times limitations, especially when addressing large size instances. These last decades, a promising approach has emerged for solving efficiently large size instances by using...
Network-on-Chip NoC architecture provides a good way to build efficient connections and avoid the limitation of bus-based solution. NoC has emerged as a solution to the problems caused by the shared bus communication approach in System-on-Chip (SoC) implementation. The problems caused by the shared-busses are generally lack of scalability, clock sk...
In the last few years, a great attention has been paid to wireless communications for body area networks especially since the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The main objective of this work is to present a good technique for identifying between both Line-Of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) propagation schemes for UWB both of both on-body and off-bo...
LDPC codes are currently the most promising coding technique to achieve the Shannon capacity, making them very popular in modern telecommuncation applications. Despite the attractivity stemming from their effectiveness, encoding and decoding LDPC codes is a rather complex task, due to the size and structure of the codes, especially when considering...
This paper presents a technique for identifying between both Line-Of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) propagation schemes for UWB on-body context. The wireless communications for body area networks have a great attention in the last years especially after the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. We focus in the first to extract only the pertinent inform...
The cell management is as much important as the cell charge method. In order to manage effectively cell, a good knowledge of cell behaviors is required. Behaviors - electrical and thermal - are captured by the cell model. Cell modeling is very common in literature, but parameters extraction is not precisely explained. This paper will deal at first...
Bearing fault diagnosis has attracted significant attention over the past few decades. It consists of two major parts: vibration signal feature extraction and condition classification for the extracted features. In this paper, Alpha-stable distribution was introduced for feature extraction from faulty bearing vibration signals. After extracting fea...
Li-Ion cells are increasingly used in automotive area due to its high capacity. Predict the behavior is necessary: no manufacturer takes the risk to let the user without the knowledge of the remainder energy available and the used of cell without management can cause drastic performance loss. Therefore, prediction is effective only if we know and u...
In this paper, we present a new network-on-chip (NoC) that handles accurate localizations of the faulty parts of the NoC. The proposed NoC is based on new error detection mechanisms suitable for dynamic NoCs, where the number and position of processor elements or faulty blocks vary during runtime. Indeed, we propose online detection of data packet...
This paper presents a self-organized reliability technique to efficiently handle error localization in a Wireless Networked MPSoC. The wireless multi-node system consists of several nodes integrating MPSoC based Network-on-Chip (NoC) and communicating through ZigBee communication. We focus on the error detection and localization in NoCs located in...
This letter presents a hybrid approach to efficiently locating data packet errors in an adaptive network-on-chips (NoC). We propose to combine offline and online concepts based on a distributed and factorized online error detection module that will enable us to perform an efficient analysis of partial and localized area networks. This combination a...
This paper proposes a new reliable router allowing accurate online error detections in dynamic Network on Chip (NoC). The proposed router has the capability to detect and localize accurately inner or outer data packet errors of the router while distinguish between temporary and permanently errors. The error detection mechanisms of the proposed swit...
Li-ion rechargeable batteries present an useful energy, low battery effect, and slow Self-discharge loss of charge when not in use. In this paper, we describe a VHDL-AMS model describing coupled electrical and thermal behaviors of a Li-Ion cell. This model relies on the experimental extraction of real characteristic parameters by using an efficient...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology for the localization of wireless sensor networks has received considerable attention last few years. This technology is dedicated for indoor localization using a fine delay of resolution and obstacle-penetration capabilities. A lot of challenges remain before implementation of UWB can be deployed on a large scale lik...
Nowadays, the current challenge in the wireless digital systems is to design new digital, generic and “universal” architectures, take charge of functionalities previously managed by different circuits. Moreover, these ones must be sufficiently flexible to support multiple transmission standards and easily adaptable for future evolutions. In this wo...
In this paper, we propose a robust and compact design architecture of hardware chaotic key generator for real-time images
encryption. The new proposed approach combines the perturbation technique with a non-linear switching between multiple three-dimensional
continuous chaotic systems. The originality of this new scheme is that it allows a low-cost...
The This paper deals with a data-driven diagnostic and prognostic method based on Stable distribution feature extraction and SVM Classier. The prognostic process of the proposed method is made in two steps. In the first step, which is performed online, the monitoring data provided by sensors are processed to extract features based on stable distrib...
n this paper, we propose and demonstrate experimentally a new wireless digital encryption hyperchaotic communication system based on radio frequency (RF) communication protocols for secure real-time data or image transmission. A reconfigurable hardware architecture is developed to ensure the interconnection between two field programmable gate array...
This paper presents a 3D chaotic system which is constructed by an auto-switched numerical resolution of multiple three dimensional continuous chaotic systems. The designed chaotic system provides complex chaotic attractors and can change its behaviors automatically via a chaotic switching-rule. Some complex dynamical behaviors are investigated and...
In this paper, we are proposing a new architecture for fast encoding of Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity Codes (QC-LDPC). QC-LDPC codes are becoming more and more popular in a wide range of applications, including data transmission (WiMAX, DVB-S2) in telecommunication systems, increasing the need for effective encoder architectures. In our approach,...
We propose in this paper a new hardware architecture for implementing the hyperchaotic Lorenz generator using FPGA technology. The goal is to design a new complex chaotic system which can be used as an unidentifiable key generator in embedded cryptosystems. The proposed architecture provides good performances in terms of throughput and resources co...
In this paper, a model is proposed to perform the Self-Organized Systems (RSS) by using the reconfigurable hardware architectures in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) environment. The evaluation performance provide information on the utilization of auto-reconfigurable architecture in WSN using the ZigBee Protocol. The proposed system is designed to s...
A critical process in real-time optical microscopy applications, such as cancer cells detection, is the determination of a cells position in the histopathological image. Aiming at low-cost and efficiency, a proof-of-concept study was done to distinguish between normal and abnormal cells based on optical microscopy at the LICM laboratory. A snake/ac...
Alamouti space–frequency coding provides additional frequency diversity, especially in multipath propagation environments. This article addresses a new modeling of the Alamouti code multiple input single output (MISO) in a single frequency network(SFN) for two, three, and four transmitters, and different types of coding and modulations in the DVB-T...
In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of FPGA implementation performances, in terms of throughput and resources cost, of five well known autonomous continuous hyperchaotic systems. The goal of this analysis is to identify the embedded hyperchaotic generator which leads to designs with small logic area cost, satisfactory throughput rates,...