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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Optimal Placement of FACTS Controllers for Congestion Management in the Deregulated Power System
S. Surender Reddy
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1336-1344
This paper proposes a methodology to determine the optimal location of Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) controllers for Congestion Management (CM) in the restructured electrical power system. An approach to find the optimum placement of Thyristor Controlled Phase Angle Regulators (TCPAR) and Thyristor Controlled Series Compensators (TCSC) has been proposed in this paper. The proposed methodology is based on the sensitivity of transmission loss which a controller is installed. The total system losses and the power flows are considered as the performance indices. The traditional optimal power flow (OPF) problem is modified to include the market players, who will compete and trade simultaneously, ensuring the system operation stays within the security limits. In this paper, pool and bilateral contracts are considered. Here, an integrated methodology is proposed that includes the FACTS Controllers in a bilateral contract framework to maintain the system security and to minimize the deviations from the contractual requirements. The simulation results on IEEE 30 bus system show that the sensitivity factors could be used effectively for the optimal location of FACTS controllers in response to the required objectives.
Selection and Validation of Mathematical Models of Power Converters using Rapid Modeling and Control Prototyping Methods
Fredy Edimer Hoyos;
John Edwin Candelo;
John Alexander Taborda
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1551-1568
This paper presents a methodology based on two interrelated rapid prototyping processes in order to find the best correspondence between theoretical, simulated, and experimental results of a power converter controlled by a digital PWM. The method supplements rapid control prototyping (RCP) with effective math tools to quickly select and validate models of a controlled system. We show stability analysis of the classical and two modified buck converter models controlled by zero average dynamics (ZAD) and fixed-point induction control (FPIC). The methodology consists of obtaining the mathematical representation of power converters with the controllers and the Lyapunov Exponents (LEs). Besides, the theoretical results are compared with the simulated and experimental results by means of one- and two-parameter bifurcation diagrams. The responses of the three models are compared by changing the parameter K_s of the ZAD and the parameter N of the FPIC. The results show that the stability zones, periodic orbits, periodic bands, and chaos are obtained for the three models, finding more similarities between theoretical, simulated, and experimental tests with the third model of the buck converter with ZAD and FPIC as it considers more parameters related to the losses in different elements of the system. Additionally, the intervals of the chaos are obtained by using the LEs and validated by numerical and experimental tests
0.5 GHz-1.5 GHz Bandwidth 10W GaN HEMT RF Power Amplifier Design
Shiva Ghandi Isma Ilamaran;
Zubaida Yusoff;
Jahariah Sampe
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1837-1843
With the current development in wireless communication technology, the need for a wide bandwith in RF power amplifier (RF PA) is an essential. In this paper, the design and simulation of 10W GaN HEMT wideband RF PA will be presented. The Source-Pull and Load-Pull technique was used to design the input and output matching network of the RF PA. From the simulation, the RF PA achieved a flat gain between 15dB to 17dB from 0.5GHz to 1.5GHz. At 1.5GHz, the drain efficiency is simulated to achieve 36% at the output power of 40 dBm while the power added efficiency (PAE) was found to be 28.2%.
Automatic Leukemia Cell Counting using Iterative Distance Transform for Convex Sets
Nenden Siti Fatonah;
Handayani Tjandrasa;
Chastine Fatichah
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1731-1740
The calculation of white blood cells on the acute leukemia microscopic images is one of the stages in the diagnosis of Leukemia disease. The main constraint on calculating the number of white blood cells is the precision in the area of overlapping white blood cells. The research on the calculation of the number of white blood cells overlapping generally based on geometry. However, there was still a calculation error due to over segment or under segment. This paper proposed an Iterative Distance Transform for Convex Sets (IDTCS) method to determine the markers and calculate the number of overlapping white blood cells. Determination of marker was performed on every cell both in single and overlapping white blood cell area. In this study, there were tree stages: segmentation of white blood cells, marker detection and white blood cell count, and contour estimation of every white blood cell. The used data testing was microscopic acute leukemia image data of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia (AML). Based on the test results, Iterative Distance Transform for Convex Sets IDTCS method performs better than Distance Transform (DT) and Ultimate Erosion for Convex Sets (UECS) method.
Anaphora Resolution in Business Process Requirement Engineering
Riad Sonbol;
Ghaida Rebdawi;
Nada Ghneim
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1766-1773
Anaphora resolution (AR) is one of the most important tasks in natural language processing which focuses on the problem of resolving what a pronoun, or a noun phrase refers to. Moreover, AR plays an essential role when dealing with business process textual description, either when trying to discover the process model from the text, or when validating an existing model. It helps these systems in discovering the core components in any process model (actors and objects).In this paper, we propose a domain specific AR system. The approach starts by automatically generating the concept map of the text, then the system uses this map to resolve references using the syntactic and semantic relations in the concept map. The approach outperforms the state-of-the art performance in the domain of business process texts with more than 73% accuracy. In addition, this approach could be easily adopted to resolve references in other domains.
Improving Voltage Profile of Islanded Microgrid using PI Controller
Sajid Hussain Qazi;
Mohd Wazir Mustafa
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1383-1388
In islanding operating mode of microgrid, the voltage and frequency of system must be maintained by the microgrid, or else the system will crumble due to the characteristics of different distributed generators (DG) utilized in microgrid. The voltage and frequency lost provision when main grid is disconnected. This paper presents PI controller based voltage controller to regulate voltage to its normal condition. The controller is proposed to be utilized individually with each distributed generator (DG) in microgrid. The controller compares inverter output voltage with voltage at point of common coupling (PCC) and its output is feed to PWM pulse generator to generate appropriate pulses for inverter to regulate voltage to its nominal value. The simulation results of proposed system are shown using MATLAB/Simulink platform.
An Empirical Study on Peer-to-Peer Sharing of Resources in Mobile Cloud Environment
R. K. Nadesh;
M. Aramudhan
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1933-1938
The increase usage of mobile users with internet and interoperability among the cloud services intensifies the role of distributed environemtnt in today’s real world application. Modern technologies are important for building rich, scalable and interoperable applications. To meet the requirements of client,the cloud service provider should offer adequate infrastructure especially under heavy multi-client load.To provide solution for large scale requirements and to statisfy the mobile client from the critical situation like lacking with bandwidth,connectivity issues,service completion ratio, we present adhoc virtual cloud model for different scenarios that include single and multiple client configurations with various file sizes of various file formats for retrieving files in the mobile cloud environement.We evaluate the strategies with the socket and RMI implemented using java and identify the best model for real world applications. Performance evaluation is done with the results obtained and recommends that when sockets and RMI can be appropriately used in peer-to-peer environment when the mobile user cannot connect directly to the cloud services.
A Cooperative Cache Management Scheme for IEEE802.15.4 based Wireless Sensor Networks
Piyush Charan;
Tahsin Usmani;
Rajeev Paulus;
Syed Hasan Saeed
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1701-1710
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) based on the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and PHY layer standards is a recent trend in the market. It has gained tremendous attention due to its low energy consumption characteristics and low data rates. However, for larger networks minimizing energy consumption is still an issue because of the dissemination of large overheads throughout the network. This consumption of energy can be reduced by incorporating a novel cooperative caching scheme to minimize overheads and to serve data with minimal latency and thereby reduce the energy consumption. This paper explores the possibilities to enhance the energy efficiency by incorporating a cooperative caching strategy.
Experimental Analysis of Cable Distance Effect on Signal Attenuation in Single and Multimode Fiber Optics
Uzairue Stanley;
Victor Matthews Olu;
Charles Ochonogor;
Amaize Peter;
Anyasi Francis
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1577-1582
Losses during transmission and high demand of high data rate by the end users have become the biggest challenges facing the telecommunication industries worldwide with Nigeria inclusive. Fiber optic cable as a channel of communication has been adapted worldwide in solving these problems but there is a little limitation in the place of multimode fiber in long distance communication. This paper focuses on the effect of changes in distance on transmitted bandwidth on single mode and multimode fiber. Two cases were considered during this research; (a) with optical amplifier placed in between multimode fiber and (b) without optical amplifier in between multimode fiber. Readings were taken at various distances when specific bandwidth ranging from 50Mbps to 500Mbps was transmitted from the base station to the various distances and it was observed that there was no significant changes in bandwidth received at specified distances (100, 200, 300, 400, 500 etc) m when using single mode fiber, there was a drastic reduction in bandwidth when it get to a distance of 300m when using multimode. When optical amplifier was placed in between the multimode fiber at some selected distances after 400m from the transmitting BTS, it was noticed that the drastic reduction in transmitted bandwidth was almost eliminated, thereby proven that multimode fiber can be use in long distance communication provided optical amplifiers are incorporated in between the distance to bust the signal strength.
A Novel Approach for Clustering Big Data based on MapReduce
Gourav Bathla;
Himanshu Aggarwal;
Rinkle Rani
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 3: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1711-1719
Clustering is one of the most important applications of data mining. It has attracted attention of researchers in statistics and machine learning. It is used in many applications like information retrieval, image processing and social network analytics etc. It helps the user to understand the similarity and dissimilarity between objects. Cluster analysis makes the users understand complex and large data sets more clearly. There are different types of clustering algorithms analyzed by various researchers. Kmeans is the most popular partitioning based algorithm as it provides good results because of accurate calculation on numerical data. But Kmeans give good results for numerical data only. Big data is combination of numerical and categorical data. Kprototype algorithm is used to deal with numerical as well as categorical data. Kprototype combines the distance calculated from numeric and categorical data. With the growth of data due to social networking websites, business transactions, scientific calculation etc., there is vast collection of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. So, there is need of optimization of Kprototype so that these varieties of data can be analyzed efficiently.In this work, Kprototype algorithm is implemented on MapReduce in this paper. Experiments have proved that Kprototype implemented on Mapreduce gives better performance gain on multiple nodes as compared to single node. CPU execution time and speedup are used as evaluation metrics for comparison.Intellegent splitter is proposed in this paper which splits mixed big data into numerical and categorical data. Comparison with traditional algorithms proves that proposed algorithm works better for large scale of data.