International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The journal is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the global world.
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Context Sensitive Search String Composition Algorithm using User Intention to Handle Ambiguous Keywords
Uma Gajendragadkar;
Sarang Joshi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp432-450
Finding the required URL among the first few result pages of a search engine is still a challenging task. This may require number of reformulations of the search string thus adversely affecting user's search time. Query ambiguity and polysemy are major reasons for not obtaining relevant results in the top few result pages. Efficient query composition and data organization are necessary for getting effective results. Context of the information need and the user intent may improve the autocomplete feature of existing search engines. This research proposes a Funnel Mesh-5 algorithm (FM5) to construct a search string taking into account context of information need and user intention with three main steps 1) Predict user intention with user profiles and the past searches via weighted mesh structure 2) Resolve ambiguity and polysemy of search strings with context and user intention 3) Generate a personalized disambiguated search string by query expansion encompassing user intention and predicted query. Experimental results for the proposed approach and a comparison with direct use of search engine are presented. A comparison of FM5 algorithm with K Nearest Neighbor algorithm for user intention identification is also presented. The proposed system provides better precision for search results for ambiguous search strings with improved identification of the user intention. Results are presented for English language dataset as well as Marathi (an Indian language) dataset of ambiguous search strings.
A Utilisation of Improved Gabor Transform for Harmonic Signals Detection and Classification Analysis
M.H. Jopri;
A.R. Abdullah;
T. Sutikno;
M. Manap;
M.R. Yusoff
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp21-28
This paper presents a utilization of improved Gabor transform for harmonic signals detection and classification analysis in power distribution system. The Gabor transform is one of time frequency distribution technique with a capability of representing signals in jointly time-frequency domain and known as time frequency representation (TFR). The estimation of spectral information can be obtained from TFR in order to identify the characteristics of the signals. The detection and classification of harmonic signals for 100 unique signals with numerous characteristic of harmonics with support of rule-based classifier and threshold setting that been referred to IEEE standard 1159 2009. The accuracy of proposed method is determined by using MAPE and the outcome demonstrate that the method gives high accuracy of harmonic signals classification. Additionally, Gabor transform also gives 100 percent correct classification of harmonic signals. It is verified that the proposed method is accurate and cost efficient in detecting and classifying harmonic signals in distribution system.
Noise Characterization in InAlAs/InGaAs/InP pHEMTs for Low Noise Applications
Z. A. Djennati;
K. Ghaffour
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp176-183
In this paper, a noise revision of an InAlAs/InGaAs/InP psoeudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) in presented. The noise performances of the device were predicted over a range of frequencies from 1GHz to 100GHz. The minimum noise figure (NFmin), the noise resistance (Rn) and optimum source impedance (Zopt) were extracted using two approaches. A physical model that includes diffusion noise and G-R noise models and an analytical model based on an improved PRC noise model that considers the feedback capacitance Cgd. The two approaches presented matched results allowing a good prediction of the noise behaviour. The pHEMT was used to design a single stage S-band low noise amplifier (LNA). The LNA demonstrated a gain of 12.6dB with a return loss coefficient of 2.6dB at the input and greater than -7dB in the output and an overall noise figure less than 1dB.
A Vertical Handover Algorithm in Integrated Macrocell Femtocell Networks
Suman Deswal;
Anita Singhrova
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp299-308
The explosion in wireless telecommunication technologies has lead to a huge increase in the number of mobile users. The greater dependency on the mobile devices has raised the user’s expectations to always remain best connected. In the process, the user is always desiring good signal strength even at certain black spots and indoors. Moreover, the exponential growth of the number of mobile devices has overloaded macrocells. Femtocells have emerged out as a good promising solution for complete coverage indoors and for offloading macrocell. Therefore, a new handover strategy between femtocells and macrocell is proposed in this paper. The proposed handover algorithm is mainly based on calculating equivalent received signal strength along with dynamic margin for performing handover. The simulation results of proposed algorithm are compared with the traditional algorithm. The proposed strategy shows improvement in two major performance parameters namely reduction in unnecessary handovers and Packet Loss Ratio. The quantitative analysis further shows 55.27% and 23.03% reduction in packet loss ratio and 61.85% and 36.78% reduction in unnecessary handovers at a speed of 120kmph and 30kmph respectively. Moreover, the proposed algorithm proves to be an efficient solution for both slow and fast moving vehicles.
Offine/online Optimum Routing of a UAV using Auxiliary Points
Abbas Fadavi;
Ali Beheshti;
Pedram Kermani
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp392-401
This paper presents a method to determine the route of a three-dimensional UAV. Three criteria; the height, the length of flight path and the unauthorized areas are used as the constraints and combined in a fuzzy function as the evaluation function. The article aimed to discover a minimum cost route from source to destination considering the constrains. In this paper a new searching method is proposed, with use of auxiliary points. The auxiliary point method iteratively divides a straight line to two shorter lines with less cost of evaluation function. Implementation results show that the proposed method dramatically decreases the calculations; meanwhile the ight route is sub-optimum.
Review on Localization based Routing Protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network
Mukhtiar Ahmed;
Mazleena Salleh;
M.Ibrahim Channa;
Mohd Foad Rohani
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp536-541
Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) can enable many scientific, military, safety, commercial and environmental applications. Majority of the network models has been introduced for the deployment of sensor nodes through routing schemes and methodologies along with different algorithms but still the design of routing protocol for underwater environment is a challenging issue due to distinctive characteristics of underwater medium. The majority of the issues are also needed to fulfill the appropriate approach for the underwater medium like limited bandwidth, high bit error rates, propagation delay, and 3D deployment. This paper focuses the comparative analysis of the localization based routing protocols for UWSN. This comparative analysis plays a significant attention to construct a reliable routing protocol, which provides the effectual discovery of the route between the source node and the sink node. In addition this comparative analysis also focuses the data packets forwarding mechanism, the deployment of sensor nodes and location based routing for UWSN in different conditions.
A New Proposal for OFCC-based Instrumentation Amplifier
Deva Nand;
Neeta Pandey
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp134-143
This contribution puts forward a new voltage mode instrumentation amplifier (VMIA) based on operational floating current conveyor (OFCC). It presents high impedance at input terminals and provides output at low impedance making the proposal ideal for voltage mode operation. The proposed VMIA architecture has two stages - the first stage comprises of two OFCCs to sense input voltages and coverts the voltage difference to current while the second stage has single OFCC that converts the current to voltage. In addition it employs two resistors to provide gain and imposes no condition on the values of resistors. The behavior of the proposed structure is also analyzed for OFCC non idealities namely finite transimpedance and tracking error. The proposal is verified through SPICE simulations using CMOS based schematic of OFCC. Experimental results, by bread boarding it using commercially available IC AD844, are also included.
Barriers and Challenges to Telecardiology Adoption in Malaysia Context
Kee-Jiar Yeo;
Lina Handayani;
Haikal Satria;
Shih-Hui Lee;
Chia-Keat Yap
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp260-265
Mainly in infrastructure deficient communities, telecardiology is considered as a complement to insufficient cardiac care. Telecardiology can reduce travelling and waiting time, enables information sharing in shorter time and facilitate care in rural and remote areas. A qualitative study examined the perspectives of health care providers: cardiologist and general physician and health care service receivers: patient and public towards telecardiology adoption. The barriers in telecardiology adoption were identified in this paper. It includes practicality of telecardiology, the need of education for staffs and administrators, ease of use, preferred face-to-face consultation, cost and confidentiality. Improvements can be done by the implementers based on this study in order to promote telecardiology successfully in Malaysia.
Performance Evaluation of Interactive Video Streaming over WiMAX Network
Sanam Narejo;
Farzana Kulsoom;
M. Moazzam Jawaid
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp344-352
Nowadays, the desire of internet access and the need of digital encodings have influenced quite a large number of users to access high quality video application. Offering multimedia services not only to the wired but to wireless mobile client is becoming more viable. In wireless medium, video-streaming still has high resource requirements, for example, bandwidth, traffic priority, smooth play-backs. Therefore, bandwidth demands of these applications are far exceeding the capacity of 3G and Wireless Local Area Networks (LANs). The current research demonstrates the introductory understanding of the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) network, applications, the mechanisms, its potential features, and techniques used to provide QoS in WiMAX, and lastly the network is simulated to report the diverse requirements of streamed video conferencing traffic and its specifications. For this purpose two input parameters of video traffic are selected, i.e, refresh rate, which is monitored in terms of frames per second and pixel resolutions which basically counts the number of pixels in digital imaging. The network model is developed in OPNET. Different outcomes from simulation based models are analyzed and appropriate reasons are also discussed. Apart from this, the second aim of the current research is to address whether WiMAX access technology for streaming video applications could provide comparable network performance to Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). For this purpose network metrices such as End to End delay and throughput is taken into consideration for optimization.
FDMC: Framework for Decision Making in Cloud for Efficient Resource Management
Alexander Ngenzi;
Selvarani R;
Suchithra R
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp496-504
An effective resource management is one of the critical success factors for precise virtualization process in cloud computing in presence of dynamic demands of the user. After reviewing the existing research work towards resource management in cloud, it was found that there is still a large scope of enhancement. The existing techniques are found not to completely utilize the potential features of virtual machine in order to perform resource allocation. This paper presents a framework called FDMC or Framework for Decision Making in Cloud that gives better capability for the VMs to perform resource allocation. The contribution of FDMC is a joint operation of VM to ensure faster processing of task and thereby withstand more number of increasing traffic. The study outcome was compared with some of the existing systems to find FDMC excels better performance in the scale of task allocation time, amount of core wasted, amount of storage wasted, and communication cost.