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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Multi-Objective based Optimal Energy and Reactive Power Dispatch in Deregulated Electricity Markets
Surender Reddy Salkuti
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3427-3435
This paper presents a day-ahead (DA) multi-objective based joint energy and reactive power dispatch in the deregulated electricity markets. The traditional social welfare in the centralized electricity markets comprises of customers benefit function and the cost function of active power generation. In this paper, the traditional social welfare is modified to incorporate the cost of both active and reactive power generation. Here, the voltage dependent load modeling is used. This paper brings out the unsuitability of traditional single objective functions, e.g., social welfare maximization (SWM), loss minimization (LM) due to the reduction of amount of load served. Therefore, a multi-objective based optimization is required. This paper proposes four objectives, i.e., SWM, load served maximization (LSM), LM and voltage stability enhancement index (VSEI); and these objectives can be combined as per the operating condition. The simulation studies are performed on IEEE 30 bus test system by considering the both traditional constant load modeling and the proposed voltage dependent load modeling.
High Voltage Durability of Bambusa Vulgaris as a Bio-composite Material
M. Y. Mat Zain;
M.T. Ali;
A. N. H. Hussin
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp2643-2649
This study is conducted in order to measure and identify the ability of a bio-composite material to the high voltage. According to it, the developed bio-composite material is tested to ensure the maximum voltage that the material can hold. The bio-composite material which made from a mixture of Bambusa Vulgaris and a selected polymer named as High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). The Bambusa Vulgarisis going through several processes before mixed together with HDPE using wood plastic composite (WPC) technique which also consists of several stages. There are several samples of bio-composite substance are fabricated. The difference among them is the composition of the raw materials (Bambusa Vulgaris and HDPE) used. In this research, the high voltage measurement which also called as breakdown voltage measurement of the bio-composite material is examined by using appropriate experiments. All the experimental results are presented and discussed in this paper.
Mushroom-Like EBG to Improve Patch Antenna Performance For C-Band Satellite Application
M. K. Abdulhameed;
M. S. Mohamad Isa;
Z. Zakaria;
Mowafak K. Mohsin;
Mothana L. Attiah
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3875-3881
In order to suppress the surface waves excitation that are caused by thick substrate in a patch antenna, a mushroom-like EBG (Electromagnetic Band Gap) structure is used. Such structures enhance its characteristics of gain, directivity, bandwidth and efficiency. Firstly, we determined frequency band gap characteristics of mushroom like EBG unit cell value by using CST software with 3mm (0.06λo) for covering 6 GHz. The periodic arrangement of such mushroom-like EBG structures was not limited by any interconnecting microstrip lines. Four columns of EBGs shifted inwards to antenna edges by 0.3mm (0.06λo) or a gap of its design around the patch from the left and right sides. Different configurations were also examined in order to get the better improvement in antenna performance. The final design of this mushroom-like shifted periodic structure shows an effective increase in the directivity by 77%, gain by 108%, bandwidth by 29% and the efficiency by 20% for the antenna. This structure has diversified application possibility for wireless and satellite communications.
Challenges and Opportunities of Internet of Things in Healthcare
Amine Rghioui;
Abdelmajid Oumnad
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp2753-2761
The Internet of Things (IoT) relies on physical objects interconnected between each other’s, creating a mesh of devices producing information and services. In this context, sensors and actuators are being continuously embedded in everyday objects (e.g., cars, home appliances, and smartphones) thus pervading our living environment. Among the plethora of application contexts, smart Healthcare is gaining momentum. Indeed IoT can revolutionize the healthcare industry by improving operational efficiency and clinical trials’ quality of monitoring, and by optimizing healthcare costs. This paper provides an overview of IoT, its applicability in healthcare, some insights about current trends and an outlook on future developments of healthcare systems.
Web Application to Build Information System of National Seminar Alerts in Indonesia
Erlin Erlin;
Khusaeri Andesa;
Agustin Agustin
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3046-3056
The output of research in the form of a proceeding published through a national seminar or an international conference has become a routine activity performed by lecturers as a researcher. The escalating atmosphere of disseminating the results of a study is directly proportional to the increasing number of universities, associations, or non-educational institutions organizing either a national seminar or an international conference. Each seminar organizer posts their seminar relevant information through official sites released by each organizer. However, to date, there has never been storage that can compile all the information pertinent to all national seminars held in Indonesia. This situation has resulted in the search done by search engines such as Google, Yahoo Search, Bing and others have not been efficient nor effective. Design of a web-based national seminar alert system is built to address this issue. This information system can display all the seminars held in Indonesia in the current year in storage and can be broken down based on the choices of topic, location, and date. Other additional facilities are that the application can send email messages to the application users as an early warning on the upcoming national seminar. Researchers can track each existing national seminar and always up-to-date on the most current national seminar.
Load Balance in Data Center SDN Networks
Tariq Emad Ali;
Ameer Hussein Morad;
Mohammed A. Abdala
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3084-3091
In the last two decades, networks had been changed according to the rapid changing in its requirements. The current Data Center Networks have large number of hosts (tens or thousands) with special needs of bandwidth as the cloud network and the multimedia content computing is increased. The conventional Data Center Networks (DCNs) are highlighted by the increased number of users and bandwidth requirements which in turn have many implementation limitations. The current networking devices with its control and forwarding planes coupling result in network architectures are not suitable for dynamic computing and storage needs. Software Defined networking (SDN) is introduced to change this notion of traditional networks by decoupling control and forwarding planes. So, due to the rapid increase in the number of applications, websites, storage space, and some of the network resources are being underutilized due to static routing mechanisms. To overcome these limitations, a Software Defined Network based Openflow Data Center network architecture is used to obtain better performance parameters and implementing traffic load balancing function. The load balancing distributes the traffic requests over the connected servers, to diminish network congestions, and reduce underutilization problem of servers. As a result, SDN is developed to afford more effective configuration, enhanced performance, and more flexibility to deal with huge network designs
Improved p-q Harmonic Detection Method for Hybrid Active Power Filter
Chau Minh Thuyen
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp2910-2919
The accuratedetermination of the load harmonic current is one of the important factors, it decides to effect of harmonic filtering and reactive power compensation for Hybrid Active Power Filter. The p-q harmonic detection method has been widely used in determining the harmonic currents of Hybrid Active Power Filter. However, when using this method, the dynamic response of Hybrid Active Power Filter in the transient period will have a large transient time and overshoot whenever the load changes abruptly. Therefore, in this paper an improved p-q harmonic current detection method based on fuzzy logic is proposed, which aims to reduce the overshoot and transient time in transient duration of Hybrid Active Power Filter. In order to compare the dynamic response of conventional and improved p-q harmonic detection methods, simulation results have demonstrated that: the proposed method has a shorter response time, the magnitude of the supply current in the transient time is smaller and the overshoot of the fundamental active and reactive power components is very small. This has a practical significance that contributes to the stability of the Hybrid Active Power Filter system
Two Level Disambiguation Model for Query Translation
Pratibha Bajpai;
Parul Verma;
Syed Q. Abbas
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3923-3932
Selection of the most suitable translation among all translation candidates returned by bilingual dictionary has always been quiet challenging task for any cross language query translation. Researchers have frequently tried to use word co-occurrence statistics to determine the most probable translation for user query. Algorithms using such statistics have certain shortcomings, which are focused in this paper. We propose a novel method for ambiguity resolution, named ‘two level disambiguation model’. At first level disambiguation, the model properly weighs the importance of translation alternatives of query terms obtained from the dictionary. The importance factor measures the probability of a translation candidate of being selected as the final translation of a query term. This removes the problem of taking binary decision for translation candidates. At second level disambiguation, the model targets the user query as a single concept and deduces the translation of all query terms simultaneously, taking into account the weights of translation alternatives also. This is contrary to previous researches which select translation for each word in source language query independently. The experimental result with English-Hindi cross language information retrieval shows that the proposed two level disambiguation model achieved 79.53% and 83.50% of monolingual translation and 21.11% and 17.36% improvement compared to greedy disambiguation strategies in terms of MAP for short and long queries respectively.
The Impact of Social Media Technologies on Adult Learning
Khalil Alsaadat
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3747-3755
Technology and social media have presented significant tools for adult learners to learn and advance continually. Fast technological advancements have enabled development of technologies used for learning. Expansion of various tools has given professors, educaters, trainers, instructers, many alternatives towards the implementation of the technology supported learning. The use of social media can improve adult learning outcomes and academic accomplishment. Social media is increasingly proven to be beneficial in adult learning and has a huge potential for adult education. This paper sheds some lights on benefits of social media for adult learners, this is incorporated through the review of previous work and some barriers that encounters social media for learning purposes. Also some social media models are reviewed to show the growth and effect of social media in adult learning context, and suggestions and recommendations are provided.
Design of Wide-band Power Amplifier based on Power Combiner Technique with Low Intermodulation Distortion
Mussa Mabrok;
Zahriladha Zakaria;
Nasrullah Saifullah
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3504-3511
RF power amplifiers are one of challenging blocks in designing radio frequency transceivers, this is due to non-linearity behavior of power amplifiers that leads to inter-modulation distortion. This paper presents the design of wide-band power amplifier which combined with parallel coupled line band pass filter at the input and output of power amplifier to allow the only required frequency band to pass through the power amplifier. Class-A topology and ATF-511P8 transistor are used in this design. Advanced Design System software used as a simulation tool to simulate the designed wide-band power amplifier. The simulation results showed an input return loss (S11) which less than -10dB, and gain (S21) is higher than 10 dB over the entire frequency band and considers as flat as well. The designed amplifier is stable over the bandwidth (K>1). Inter-modulation distortion is -56.919dBc which is less than -50dBc with 10dBm input power. The designed amplifier can be used for the microwave applications which include weather radar, satellite communication, wireless networking, mobile, and TV.