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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Negative Total Float to Improve a Multi-Objective Integer Non-Linear Programming for Project Scheduling Compression
Fachrurrazi Fachrurrazi;
Abdullah Abdullah;
Yuwaldi Away;
Teuku Budi Aulia
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 6: December 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i6.pp5292-5302
This paper presents Multi-Objective Integer Non-Linear Programming (MOINLP) involving Negative Total Float (NTF) for improving the basic model of Multi-Objective Programming (MOP) in case the optimization of the additional cost for Project Scheduling Compression (PSC). Using the basic MOP to solve the more complex problems is a challenging task. We suspect that Negative Total Float (NTF) having an indication to make the basic MOP to solve the more general case, both simple and complex of PSC. The purpose of this research is identifying the conflicting objectives in PSC problem using NTF and improving MOINLP by involving the NTF parameter to solve the PSC problem. The Solver Application, which is an add-in of MS Excel, is used to perform optimization process to the model developed. The results show that NTF has an important role to identify the conflicting objectives in PSC. We define NTF is an automatic maximum value of the activity duration reduction to achieve due date of PSC. Furthermore, the use of NTF as a constraint in MOINLP can solve the more general case for both simple and complex PSC problem. Base on the condition, we state that the basic MOP is still significant to solve the PSC complex problems using MOINLP as a sophisticated MOP technique.
5G Fixed Beam Switching on Microstrip Patch Antenna
Low Ching Yu;
Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 2: April 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i2.pp975-980
5G technology is using millimeter-wave band to improve the wireless communication system. However, narrow transmitter and receiver beams have caused the beam coverage area to be limited. Due to propagation limitations of mm wave band, beam forming technology with multi-beam based communication system, has been focused to overcome the problem. In this letter, a fixed beam switching method is introduced. By changing the switches, four different configurations of patch array antennas are designed to investigate their performances in terms of radiation patterns, beam forming angle, gain, half-power bandwidth and impedance bandwidth at 28 GHz operating frequency for 5G application. Mircostrip antenna is preferred due to its low profile, easy in feeding and array configurations. Three different beam directions had been formed at -15°, 0°, and 15° with half-power bandwidth of range 45˚ to 50˚.
Voltage variations identification using gabor transform and rule-based classification method
Weihown Tee;
M. R. Yusoff;
M. Faizal Yaakub;
A. R. Abdullah
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 10, No 1: February 2020
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i1.pp681-689
This paper presents a comparatively contemporary easy to use technique for the identification and classification of voltage variations. The technique was established based on the Gabor Transform and the rule-based classification method. The technique was tested by using mathematical model of Power Quality (PQ) disturbances based on the IEEE Std 519-2009. The PQ disturbances focused were the voltage variations, which included voltage sag, swell and interruption. A total of 80 signals were simulated from the mathematical model in MATLAB and used in this study. The signals were analyzed by using Gabor Transform and the signal pattern, time-frequency representation (TFR) and root-mean-square voltage graph were presented in this paper. The features of the analysis were extracted, and rules were implemented in rule-based classification to identify and classify the voltage variation accordingly. The results showed that this method is easy to be used and has good accuracy in classifying the voltage variation.
Identification of Nonlinear Systems Structured by Wiener-Hammerstein Model
A Brouri;
S Slassi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 1: February 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i1.pp167-176
Wiener-Hammerstein systems consist of a series connection including a nonlinear static element sandwiched with two linear subsystems. The problem of identifying Wiener-Hammerstein models is addressed in the presence of hard nonlinearity and two linear subsystems of structure entirely unknown (asymptotically stable). Furthermore, the static nonlinearity is not required to be invertible. Given the system nonparametric nature, the identification problem is presently dealt with by developing a two-stage frequency identification method, involving simple inputs.
Body Information Analysis based Personal Exercise Management System
Jongwon Lee;
Hyunju Lee;
Donggyun Yu;
Hoekyung Jung
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 2: April 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i2.pp651-657
Recently, people's interest in health is deepening. So health-related systems are being developed. Existing exercise management systems provided users with exercise related information using PC or smart phone. However, there is a problem that the accuracy of the algorithm for analyzing the user's body information and providing information is low.In this paper, we analyze users' body mass index (BMI) and basal metabolic rate (BMR) and we propose a system that provides the user with necessary information through recommendation algorithm. It informs the user of exercise intensity and momentum, and graphs the exercise history of the user. It also allows the user to refer to the fitness history of other users in the same BMI group. This allows the user to receive more personalized services than the existing exercise management system, thereby enabling efficient exercise.
Separation of Digital Audio Signals using Least-Mean-Square (LMS) Adaptive Algorithm
Kayode F. Akingbade;
Isiaka A. Alimi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 4, No 4: August 2014
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Adaptive filtering is one of the fundamental technologies in digital signal processing (DSP) in today’s communication systems and it has been employed in a wide range of applications such as adaptive noise cancellation, adaptive equalization, and echo cancellation.Signal separation remains a task that has called for attention in digital signal processing and different techniques have been employed in order to achieve efficient and accurateresult. Implementation of adaptive filtering can separate wanted and interference signals so as to improve performance of communication systems. In the light of this, this paper usesa least-mean-square (LMS) adaptive algorithm for separation of audio signals.The simulated results show that the designed LMS based adaptive filtering techniqueconverge faster than conventional LMS adaptive filter.DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v4i4.6219
Reliable Fault Tolerance System for Service Composition in Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Veeresh Poola;
Praveen Sam R;
Shoba Bindu C
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 4: August 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i4.pp2523-2533
A Due to the rapid development of smart processing mobile devices, Mobile applications are exploring the use of web services in MANETs to satisfy the user needs. Complex user needs are satisfied by the service composition where a complex service is created by combining one or more atomic services. Service composition has a significant challenge in MANETs due to its limited bandwidth, constrained energy sources, dynamic node movement and often suffers from node failures. These constraints increase the failure rate of service composition. To overcome these, we propose Reliable Fault Tolerant System for Service Composition in MANETs (RFTSC) which makes use of the checkpointing technique for service composition in MANETs. We propose fault policies for each fault in service composition when the faults occur. Failure of services in the service composition process is recovered locally by making use of Checkpointing system and by using discovered services which satisfies the QoS constraints. A Multi-Service Tree (MST) is proposed to recover failed services with O(1) time complexity. Simulation result shows that the proposed approach is efficient when compared to existing approaches.
Hungarian-Puzzled Text with Dynamic Quadratic Embedding Steganography
Ebrahim Alrashed;
Suood Suood Alroomi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 2: April 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i2.pp799-809
Least-Significant-Bit (LSB) is one of the popular and frequently used steganography techniques to hide a secret message in a digital medium. Its popularity is due to its simplicity in implementation and ease of use. However, such simplicity comes with vulnerabilities. An embedded secret message using the traditional LSB insertion is easily decodable when the stego image is suspected to be hiding a secret message. In this paper, we propose a novel secure and high quality LSB embedding technique. The security of the embedded payload is employed through introducing a novel quadratic embedding sequence. The embedding technique is also text dependent and has non-bounded inputs, making the possibilities of decoding infinite. Due to the exponential growth of and quadratic embedding, a novel cyclic technique is also introduced for the sequence that goes beyond the limits of the cover medium. The proposed method also aims to reduce the noise arising from embedding the secret message by reducing bits changed. This is done by partitioning the cover medium and the secret message into N partitions and artificially creating an assignment problem based on bit change criteria. The assignment problem will be solved using the Hungarian algorithm that will puzzle the secret message partition for an overall least bit change.
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.
Improve of contrast-distorted image quality assessment based on convolutional neural networks
Ismail Taha Ahmed;
Chen Soong Der;
Norziana Jamil;
Mohamad Afendee Mohamed
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 6: December 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i6.pp5604-5614
Many image quality assessment algorithms (IQAs) have been developed during the past decade. However, most of them are designed for images distorted by compression, noise and blurring. There are very few IQAs designed specifically for Contrast Distorted Images (CDI), e.g. Reduced-reference Image Quality Metric for Contrast-changed images (RIQMC) and NR-IQA for Contrast-Distorted Images (NR-IQA-CDI). The existing NR-IQA-CDI relies on features designed by human or handcrafted features because considerable level of skill, domain expertise and efforts are required to design good handcrafted features. Recently, there is great advancement in machine learning with the introduction of deep learning through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) which enable machine to learn good features from raw image automatically without any human intervention. Therefore, it is tempting to explore the ways to transform the existing NR-IQA-CDI from using handcrafted features to machine-crafted features using deep learning, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).The results show that NR-IQA-CDI based on non-pre-trained CNN (NR-IQA-CDI-NonPreCNN) significantly outperforms those which are based on handcrafted features. In addition to showing best performance, NR-IQA-CDI-NonPreCNN also enjoys the advantage of zero human intervention in designing feature, making it the most attractive solution for NR-IQA-CDI.