期刊论文

Qin, Hua

英文

IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL

2327-4662

2019

6

1

718-733

10.1109/JIOT.2018.2855695

Manuscript received June 11, 2018; accepted July 8, 2018. Date of publication July 13, 2018; date of current version February 25, 2019. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61602164, in part by the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 2018JJ3023 and Grant 2018JJ2024, and in part by the Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province under Grant 17B050 and Grant 17A037. (Corresponding author: Hua Qin.) H. Qin, W. Chen, B. Cao, and M. Zeng are with the College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China (e-mail: qinhua_hcu@163.com; paney@hnu.edu.cn; cbwchj@126.com; mindytsang@163.com).

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