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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Performance Analysis of Differential Beamforming in Decentralized Networks
Samer Alabed
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.pp1692-1700
This paper proposes and analyzes a novel differential distributed beamforming strategy for decentralized two-way relay networks. In our strategy, the phases of the received signals at all relays are synchronized without requiring channel feedback or training symbols. Bit error rate (BER) expressions of the proposed strategy are provided for coherent and differential M-PSK modulation. Upper bounds, lower bounds, and simple approximations of the BER are also derived. Based on the theoretical and simulated BER performance, the proposed strategy offers a high system performance and low decoding complexity and delay without requiring channel state information at any transmitting or receiving antenna. Furthermore, the simple approximation of the BER upper bound shows that the proposed strategy enjoys the full diversity gain which is equal to the number of transmitting antennas.
A Mathematical Model for Minimizing Add-On Operational Cost in Electrical Power Systems Using Design of Experiments Approach
Zakaria Al-Omari;
A. Hamzeh;
Sadeq A. Hamed;
A. Sandouk;
G. Aldahim
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 5, No 5: October 2015
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v5i5.pp948-956
One of the key functions of the Distribution System Operators (DSOs) ofelectrical power systems (EPS) is to minimize the transmission anddistribution power losses and consequently the operational cost. Thisobjective can be reached by operating the system in an optimal mode which is performed by adjusting control parameters such as on-load tap changer (OLTC) settings of transformers, generator excitation levels, and VAR compensators switching. The deviation from operation optimality will result in additional losses and additional operational cost of the power system. Reduction of the operational cost increases the power system efficiency and provides a significant reduction in total energy consumption. This paper proposes a mathematical model for minimizing the additional (add-on) costs based on Design of Experiments (DOE). The relation between add-on operational costs and OLTC settings is established by means of regression statistical analysis. The developed model is applied to a 20-bustest network. The regression curve fitting procedure requires simulation experiments which have been carried out by the DigSilent PowerFactory 13.2 Program for performing network power flow. The results show the effectiveness of the model. The research work raises the importance the power system operation management of the EPS where the Distribution System Operator can avoid the add-on operational costs by continuous correction to get an operation mode close to optimality.
A hyprid technique for human footprint recognition
Yahya Ismail Ibrahim;
Israa Mohammed Alhamdani
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 5: October 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i5.pp4060-4068
Biometrics has concerned a great care recently due to its important in the life that starts from civil applications to security and recently terrorism. A Footprint recognition is one of the personal identifications based on biometric measurements. The aim of this research is to design a proper and reliable biometric system for human footprint recognition named (FRBS) that stands for Footprint Recognition Biometric System. In addition, to construct a human footprint database which it is very helpful for various use in scientific application e.g. for authentication. There exist many biometrics databases for other identity but very rare for footprint. As well as the existing one are very limited. This paper presents a robust hyprid techniques which merges between Image Processing with Artificial Intelligent technique via Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to recognize human footprint. (ACO) plays the essential role that rise the performance and the quality of the results in the biometric system via feature selection. The set of the selected features was treated as exploratory information, and selects the optimum feature set in standings of feature set size. Life RGB footprint images from nine persons with ten images per person constructed from life visual dataset. At first, the visual dataset was pre-processed operations. Each resultant image detects footprint that is cropped to portions represented by three blocks. The first block is for fingers, the second block refers to the center of the foot and the last one determines the heel. Then features were extracted from each image and stored in Excel file to be entered to Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm. The experimental outcomes of the system show that the proposed algorithm evaluates optimal results with smaller feature set comparing with other algorithms. Experimental outcomes show that our algorithm obtains an efficient and accurate result about 100% accuracy in comparison with other researches on the same field.
Mathematical Computing of Coniferous Tree Ignition by the Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Discharge using Joule-Lenz's Law
Nikolay V. Baranovskiy;
Geniy V. Kuznetsov;
Tatiana N. Nemova
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 3: June 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i3.pp1337-1346
The natural phenomenon of thunderstorm activity is one of many causes of a forest fire. Thunderstorms cause especially intensive fire danger situations within remote areas and highlands. As a rule, a cloud-to-ground lightning discharge is the fire source. The present study is based on the research results of electrical overloads in supply networks. Physical and mathematical formulation and numerical solution for the problem of a coniferous tree (pine) ignited by a cloud-to-ground lightning discharge are presented. The problem is considered in a cylindrical coordinate system in two-dimensional formulation. The features of current passage and heat transfer taking into account the reactive wood localization are investigated. The Joule-Lenz’s law is used to calculate heat production in a tree trunk. Parametric analysis has been conducted and tree trunk ignition conditions have been determined in a typical range for the influencing parameters of negative and positive discharges.
A hybrid image similarity measure based on a new combination of different similarity techniques
Nisreen Ryadh Hamza;
Rasha Ail Dihin;
Mohammed Hasan Abdulameer
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 10, No 2: April 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i2.pp1814-1822
Image similarity is the degree of how two images are similar or dissimilar. It computes the similarity degree between the intensity patterns in images. A new image similarity measure named (HFEMM) is proposed in this paper. The HFEMM is composed of two phases. Phase 1, a modified histogram similarity measure (HSSIM) is merged with feature similarity measure (FSIM) to get a new measure called (HFM). In phase 2, the resulted (HFM) is merged with error measure (EMM) in order to get a new similarity measure, which is named (HFEMM). Different kindes of noises for example Gaussian, Uniform, and salt & ppepper noiser are used with the proposed methods. One of the human face databases (AT&T) is used in the experiments and random images are used as well. For the evaluation, the similarity percentage under peakk signal to noise ratio (PSNR) is usedd. To show the effectiveness of the proposed measure, a comparision anong different similar technique such as SSIM, HFM, EMM and HFEMM are considered. The proposed HFEMM achieved higher similarity result when PSNR was low compared to the other methods.
Analysing Tuberculosis Trends in South Asia
Kumar Abhishek;
M. P Singh;
Md. Sadik Hussain
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.pp5245-5252
Tuberculosis (TB) has been one of the top ten causes of death in the world. As per the World Health Organization (WHO) around 1.8 million people have died due to tuberculosis in 2015. This paper aims to investigate the spatial and temporal variations in TB incident in South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri-Lanka). Asia had been counted for the largest number of new TB cases in 2015. The paper underlines and relates the relationship between various features like gender, age, location, occurrence, and mortality due to TB in these countries for the period 1993-2012.
HASBE access control model with Secure Key Distribution and Efficient Domain Hierarchy for cloud computing
RajaniKanth Aluvalu;
Vanraj Kamliya;
Lakshmi Muddana
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 2: April 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i2.pp770-777
Cloud computing refers to the application and service that run on a distributed system using virtualized resources and access by common internet protocol and networking standard. Cloud computing virtualizes system by pooling and sharing resources. System and resources can be monitored from central infrastructure as needed. It requires high security because now day’s companies are placing more essential and huge amount of data on cloud. Hence traditional access control models are not sufficient for cloud computing applications. So encryption based on Attribute (“ABE”-“Attribute based encryption”) has been offered for access control of subcontracted data in cloud computing with complex access control policies. Traditional HASBE provides Flexibility, scalability and fine-grained access control but does not support hierarchical domain structure. In this paper, we had enhanced “Hierarchical attribute-set-based encryption” (“HASBE”) access control with a hierarchical assembly of users, with flexible domain Hierarchy structure and Secure key distribution with predefined policy
Monitoring of Landslides in Mountainous Regions based on FEM Modelling and Rain Gauge Measurements
Quoc-Anh Gian;
Dinh-Chinh Nguyen;
Duc-Nghia Tran;
Duc-Tan Tran
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 5: October 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i5.pp2106-2113
Vietnam is a country heavily influenced by climate change. The effect of climate change leads to a series of dangerous phenomena, such as landslides. Landslides occur not only in the mountainous province, but also in Delta provinces, where hundreds of landslides are reported annually in the North-Western provinces of Vietnam. These events have catastrophic impact to the community as well as the economy. In mountainous areas, the conditions for landslides to occur are met frequently, especially after heavy rains or geological activity, causing harm to the community as well as damaging or destroying much needed infrastructure and key transport routes. However, in Vietnam, investment in mountainous regions has been often lower than in urban areas. The meteorology monitoring and forecasting systems are ill equipped and overloaded, so they cannot deliver earlier and more accurate forecasts for complex weather events, unable to provide timely warnings. It can be seen that in countries that landslide often occur, researchers have been trying to develop low cost and efficient landslide detection system. This paper precisely addressed the problems mentioned, by designing and implementing an efficient and reliable Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning (LMnE) system based on the 3G/2G mobile communication system, and a rain gauge at the field site along with a carefully FEM (finite element method) simulation using the rain density information on the server. The system uses advanced processing algorithms combining obtained data at the central station.
Robust Model Predictive Control Based on MRAS for Satellite Attitude Control System
Fateme Pirouzmand
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 4, No 1: February 2014
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In this paper, an improved robust model predictive controller (RMPC) is proposed based on model reference adaptive system (MRAS). In this algorithm, using the MRAS a combinational RMPC controller for three degree freedom satellite is designed such that the effect of moment of inertia uncertainty and external disturbance is compensated on the stability and performance of closed loop system. Control law is a state feedback which its gain is obtained by solving a convex optimization problem subject to several linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). To avoid the actuators saturation an input constraint is incorporated as LMI in the mentioned optimization problem. In addition to, using the MRAS system the effect of input disturbance is rejected on the system.The advantages of this algorithm are needless to exact information from system’s model, robustness against model uncertainties and external disturbance. Results from the simulation of the system with the proposed algorithm are presented and compared to generalized incremental model predictive control (GIPC). The results show that the suggestive controller is more robust than the GIPC method.DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v4i1.4961
Detecting the magnitude of depression in Twitter users using sentiment analysis
Jini Jojo Stephen;
Prabu P.
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 4: August 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i4.pp3247-3255
Today the different social networking sites have enabled everyone to easily express and share their feelings with people around the world. A lot of people use text for communicating, which can be done through different social media messaging platforms available today such as Twitter, Facebook etc, as they find it easier to express their feelings through text instead of speaking them out. Many people who also suffer from stress find it easier to express their feelings on online platform, as over there they can express themselves very easily. So if they are alerted beforehand, there are ways to overcome the mental problems and stress they are suffering from. Depression stands out to be one of the most well known mental health disorders and a major issue for medical and mental health practitioners. Legitimate checking can help in its discovery, which could be useful to anticipate and prevent depression all-together.Hence there is a need for a system, which can cater to such issues and help the user. The purpose of this paper is to propose an efficient method that can detect the level of depression in Twitter users. Sentiment scores calculated can be combined with different emotions to provide a better method to calculate depression scores. This process will help underscore various aspects of depression that have not been understood previously. The main aim is to provide a sense of understanding regarding depression levels in different users and how the scores can be correlated to the main data.