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Adiabatic temperature change, magnetic entropy change and critical behavior near the ferromagnetic–paramagnetic phase transition in La0.7(Ca,Sr)0.3MnO3 perovskite
No full textA systematic study of the magnetocaloric effect in La0.7Ca0.15Sr0.15MnO3 perovskite has been performed by both direct and indirect measurement techniques. In particular, the adiabatic temperature change has been measured by a purpose-built probe suitable for laboratory-scale samples, while magnetic measurements were carried out by standard magnetometric techniques. The observation of the effective behavior of the studied systems in adiabatic conditions and the significant value of the isothermal entropy variation indicate that La0.7Ca0.15Sr0.15MnO3 could be considered as a potential candidate for application in magnetic refrigeration around room temperature. Moreover, the critical exponents (γ, β and δ) determined using the Kouvel–Fisher method, the modified Arrott plot and the critical isotherm analysis are in good agreement with the theoretical prediction of the 3D-Ising model, indicating that the magnetic interactions are of short-range nature
RiSeG: a ring based secure group communication protocol for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks
No full textSecuring group communication in wireless sensor networks has recently been extensively investigated. Many works have addressed this issue, and they have considered the grouping concept differently. In this paper, we consider a group as being a set of nodes sensing the same data type, and we alternatively propose an efficient secure group communication scheme guaranteeing secure group management and secure group key distribution. The proposed scheme (RiSeG) is based on a logical ring architecture, which permits to alleviate the group controller's task in updating the group key. The proposed scheme also provides backward and forward secrecy, addresses the node compromise attack, and gives a solution to detect and eliminate the compromised nodes. The security analysis and performance evaluation show that the proposed scheme is secure, highly efficient, and lightweight. A comparison with the logical key hierarchy is preformed to prove the rekeying process efficiency of RiSeG. Finally, we present the implementation details of RiSeG on top of TelosB sensor nodes to demonstrate its feasibility
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