Distance vector‐hop (DVHop), as a range‐independent positioning algorithm, is a significant
positioning method in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It is composed of three parts, …

Locating node technology, as the most fundamental component of wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) and internet of things (IoT), is a pivotal problem. Distance vector-hop technique (DV-…

An increasing amount of malicious code causes harm on the internet by threatening user
privacy as one of the primary sources of network security vulnerabilities. The detection of …

Location information is generally considered to be indispensable information in wireless sensor
networks, but existing algorithms have notable limitations in their positioning accuracy in …

The spiking neural networks (SNNs) that efficiently encode temporal sequences have shown
great potential in extracting audio-visual joint feature representations. However, coupling …

A bat algorithm (BA) is a heuristic algorithm that operates by imitating the echolocation
behavior of bats to perform global optimization. The BA is widely used in various optimization …

The localization of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been a thorny
research problem. Existing DV-Hop based range-free localization algorithms estimate the …

Audio-visual zero-shot learning (ZSL) has been extensively researched for its capability to
classify video data from unseen classes during training. Nevertheless, current methodologies …

Sensor location awareness is a critical issue in Internet of Things applications. For more
accurate location estimation, the two issues should be considered extensively: 1) how to …

Although the attention mechanism in transformers has proven successful in image-text
retrieval tasks, most transformer models suffer from a large number of parameters. Inspired by …