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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The Noise Reduction over Wireless Channel Using Vector Quantization Compression and Filtering
Iman Elawady;
Abdelmounaim Moulay Lakhdar;
Khelifi Mustapha
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 1: February 2016
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i1.pp130-138
The transmission of compressed data over wireless channel conditions represents a big challenge. The idea of providing robust transmission gets a lot of attention in field of research. In this paper we study the effect of the noise over wireless channel. We use the model of Gilbert-Elliot to represent the channel. The parameters of the model are selected to represent three cases of channel. As data for transmission we use images in gray level size 512x512. To minimize bandwidth usage we compressed the image with vector quantization also in this compression technique we study the effect of the codebook in the robustness of transmission so we use different algorithms to generate the codebook for the vector quantization finally we study the restoration efficiency of received image using filtering and indices recovery technique.
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based Data Hiding in Image Complex Region
Sahib Khan
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 1: February 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp379-389
This paper presents data an Ant colony optimization (ACO) based data hiding technique. ACO is used to detect complex region of cover image and afterward, least significant bits (LSB) substitution is used to hide secret information in the detected complex regions’ pixels. ACO is an algorithm developed inspired by the inborn manners of ant species. The ant leaves pheromone on the ground for searching food and provisions. The proposed ACO-based data hiding in complex region establishes an array of pheromone, also called pheromone matrix, which represents the complex region in sequence at each pixel position of the cover image. The pheromone matrix is developed according to the movements of ants, determined by local differences of the image element’s intensity. The least significant bits of complex region pixels are substituted with message bits, to hide secret information. The experimental results, provided, show the significance of the performance of the proposed method.
An Area-Optimized Chip of Ant Colony Algorithm Design in Hardware Platform Using the Address-Based Method
E. Shafigh Fard;
K. Monfaredi;
M. H. Nadimi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 4, No 6: December 2014
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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The ant colony algorithm is a nature-inspired algorithm highly used for solving many complex problems and finding optimal solutions; however, the algorithm has a major flaw and that is the vast amount of calculations and if the proper correction algorithm and architectural design are not provided, it will lead to the increasing use of hardware platform due to the high volume of operations; and perhaps at higher scales, it causes the chip area not to work because of the high number of problems; hence, the purpose of this paper is to save the hardware platform as far as possible and use it optimally through providing a particular algorithm running on a reconfigurable chip driven by the address-based method, so that the comparison of synthesis operations with the similar works shows significant improvements as much as 1/3 times greater than the other similar hardware methods.DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v4i6.6923
Radio over fiber system based on a hybrid link for next generation of optical fiber communication
Kaoutar Saidi Alaoui;
J. Foshi;
Y. Zouine
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.pp2571-2577
Radio over fiber technology will play an important role in solving problems facing wireless technology. Envisaging a global village, people could transmit and receive “anytime, anywhere, and anything”. In addition, the explosive growth in internet applications such as the World Wide Web, demonstrates the tremendous increase in bandwidth and low power that the coming world of multimedia interactive applications will require from future networks. ROF technology uses multicarrier modulation like orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which provides an opportunity of having an increased in bandwidth together with an affordable cost and this idea has recently become a suitable topic for many research works. On the other hand, SAC-OCDMA (Spectral Amplitude Coding Optical Code Division Multiple Access) technique is able to enhance the data rate of system and increase the number of user. In this paper we introduce a ROF link using a hybrid OFDM/SAC-OCDMA technique.
A New Compact and Miniaturized GCPW-fed Slotted Rectangular antenna for Wideband UHF FIRD Applications
Rachid Dakir;
Jamal Zbitou;
Ahmed Mouhsen;
A. Tribak;
M. Latrach;
A. M. Sanchez
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.pp767-774
This paper presents the development of a new miniaturized and compact GCPW-fed slotted rectangular antenna structure reader for wideband UHF RFID applications. The optimized proposed antenna is suitable to operate a large frequency-band range from 0.8GHz to 1.3GHz with a bandwidth of 500MHz with a return loss less than -10dB. The antenna is based on a 1.6mm thickness FR4 epoxy substrate with a reduce dimensions compared to the simple rectangular antenna and size of proposed antenna is 47*40mm2. The new design consists of a compact rectangular patch with symmetric U-shaped slots and I-shaped include a partial ground plan and fed by 50 Grounded coplanar line. The antenna parameters have been investigated and optimized by using CST Microwave Studio. To validate the CST Microwave Studio results before the antenna achievement, we have conducted another study by using ADS. The final circuit achieved, measured and validated. Experimental results show that the proposed antenna has good radiation characteristics and operating in UHF-RFID applications.
IT Service Management System Measurement using ISO20000-1 and ISO15504-8: Developing a Solution-Mediated Process Assessment Tool to Enable Transparent and SMS Process Assessment
Imam Asrowardi;
Septafiansyah Dwi Putra;
Eko Subyantoro;
Norzaidi Haji Mohd Daud
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp4023-4032
Information technology is about not only hardware, software, communication infrastructure and communication infrastructure but also how to manage services. Information technology plays an increasingly important role in developing the structure and functions of public and private sectors. Service measurement plays an important role in IT service management (ITSM) that is one of the subfields of Services Computing science. ITSM is a big part of service science, a science field that combines computer science, operation research engineering, business strategy, management science, and organizational theory. Performance measurement from each of IT services is absolutely needed and is important in the continuous development of ITSM. These research provide good technical knowledge about the measuring ITSM with some requirements. In this paper we suggest the metrics in each service processes enables organizations to predict a direction for active process enhancement and to identify if the goal of process can achieve. This objective process metrics based on ISO/IEC 15504-8 and PRM ISO/IEC 20000-4 refinement. The output of this research, in the form of metrics and tools for any type organizational use.
Development of crack on composite detection sensor using magnetic induction concept
N. I. Ismail;
W. N. A. Rashid;
N. Lokmanulhakim
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 6: December 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i6.pp5644-5652
A crack detection is very important to control the quality of the composite itself that been widely used in industries. There are quite a numbers of techniques which are used to detect the crack such as visual inspection, radiography, ultrasonic, eddy current magnetic particle, and penetrant testing. In this paper, it focuses on designing and implementing the system to detect a crack on the composite material using magnetic induction concept. At the early stage, the miniature of composite detection sensor using magnetic induction concept is designed using Comsol Multiphysics software to see the current induced from the system. The current value from the sensor is measured based on magnetic induction concept. A complete design of a system then is designed which include the sensor design, the main controller unit design and Bluetooth electronic application. The experiment results show that the magnetic induction concept can be used to detect crack by changing the value of current. When crack occurs the value of current will decrease due to the changes of magnetic induction.
Investigation of Potential Grounding Compound for Portable Applications
N.A.M. Hasni;
R. Abd-Rahman;
H. Ahmad;
N.A.M. Jamail;
M. S. Kamaruddin;
S.S. Ridzwan
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 6: December 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i6.pp3140-3146
This paper applies to the electrical engineering world by making earthing system portable in providing low and acceptable resistance path. The system is develop in a small scale portable earthing system against the massiveness of Earth and becomes leverage if soil at the place is not suitable for plant grounding system. Hence, this paper presents findings on the research of new grounding medium material that will be housed in a small scale enclosure which behaves like native earth related earthing system by using kaolin and bauxite. The data obtained from lightning flashover testing, morphological and chemical composition of material analysis indicated that bauxite is more useful for portable grounding system application much better than kaolin in term of zero reference point function. The portable earthing system can be apply to air aviation systems , railway systems and military sectors particularly for electronic equipment zero referencing.
ELM and K-nn machine learning in classification of breath sounds signals
Z. Neili;
M. Fezari;
A. Redjati
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 10, No 4: August 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i4.pp3528-3536
The acquisition of Breath sounds (BS) signals from a human respiratory system with an electronic stethoscope, provide and offer prominent information which helps the doctors to diagnosis and classification of pulmonary diseases. Unfortunately, this BS signals with other biological signals have a non-stationary nature according to the variation of the lung volume, and this nature makes it difficult to analyze and classify between several diseases. In this study, we were focused on comparing the ability of the extreme learning machine (ELM) and k-nearest neighbour (K-nn) machine learning algorithms in the classification of adventitious and normal breath sounds. To do so, the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) was used in this work to analyze BS, this method is rarely used in the breath sounds analysis. After the EMD decomposition of the signals into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs), the Hjorth descriptors (Activity) and Permutation Entropy (PE) features were extracted from each IMFs and combined for classification stage. The study has found that the combination of features (activity and PE) yielded an accuracy of 90.71%, 95% using ELM and K-nn respectively in binary classification (normal and abnormal breath sounds), and 83.57%, 86.42% in multiclass classification (five classes).
Stochastic control for optimal power flow in islanded microgrid
Thang Diep-Thanh;
Quang Nguyen-Phung;
Huy Nguyen-Duc
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 2: April 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i2.pp1045-1057
The problem of optimal power flow (OPF) in an islanded mircrogrid (MG) for hybrid power system is described. Clearly, it deals with a formulation of an analytical control model for OPF. The MG consists of wind turbine generator, photovoltaic generator, and diesel engine generator (DEG), and is in stochastic environment such as load change, wind power fluctuation, and sun irradiation power disturbance. In fact, the DEG fails and is repaired at random times so that the MG can significantly influence the power flow, and the power flow control faces the main difficulty that how to maintain the balance of power flow? The solution is that a DEG needs to be scheduled. The objective of the control problem is to find the DEG output power by minimizing the total cost of energy. Adopting the Rishel’s famework and using the Bellman principle, the optimality conditions obtained satisfy the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. Finally, numerical examples and sensitivity analyses are included to illustrate the importance and effectiveness of the proposed model.