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A rectangular patch antenna with π shaped slot is proposed as a miniaturized antenna element with a gain of 5.83 dB for WLAN (5.2 GHz) application. This compact π shaped slot antenna is used as a radiating element for the design of a 2 × 1 MIMO system for WLAN application. A near field passive parasitic element is used in the proposed MIMO antenna to improve the isolation. The MIMO system has a surface area of 0.29λ2 with a measured gain of 6 dBi and impedance bandwidth of 110 MHz. The diversity characteristics of MIMO are quantified with envelop correlation coefficient of 0.004, capacity loss of 0.35 bits/s/Hz, mean effective gain ratio (less than 1), mutual coupling around −20 dB, and TARC is −14.5 dB. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulation results and validate the proposed design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work concentrates on developing an Indian sign language (ISL) recognition system using a forearm-worn wearable device to assist hearing-impaired persons. A novel ensemble of convolution neural networks (CNN) is proposed for robust ISL recognition using multi-sensor data. The accuracy for classification of 50 ISL signs improved from 92.5% obtained using a single CNN to 94.2% with 10 ensemble members created using the bagging approach and soft-voting for decision aggregation. Then, the ensemble of CNNs was optimized using weighted voting, where the weights were determined using a differential evolution algorithm. This further improved the classification accuracy to 96.6% with 10 ensemble members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scheduling of tasks with resource sharing and hard deadline in Real-Time Software Systems (RTSS) has been an important area of research. The Stack-Based Dynamic Resource access control Protocol (SDRP) is a new protocol that reduces the time complexity of the existing Stack-Based Resource Sharing Protocol (SRP) as well as prevents missing of deadline of a higher priority task having no resource requirement. The SDRP is simple, arguably much easier to understand and more efficient to implement compared to the SRP. A simulator is developed to validate the proposed protocol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]