{"title":"Modelling differentiated services availability in IP-over-WDM mesh networks","authors":"H. Alshaer, I. Haddad, J. Elmirghani","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752617","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a mathematical model for supporting differentiated services availability in IP-over-WDM networks. IP traffic connections are allocated network resources based on their priority, data rate or network utility, which guarantee in turn the degree of service availability-quality-of-recovery (QoR) — of these connections when a failure occurs in a network. Using a Markov chain process, a mathematical model is conceived to quantify service availability which can be supported by M : N protection scheme, namely 1 : N protection scheme in IP-over-WDM networks. This model is analytically evaluated in terms of service availability and service disruption rate performance metrics.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114973805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and manufacture of a pneumatic glass climbing robot for cleaning of high-rise buildings","authors":"Hashem Anwari, N. Abdulaziz","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752560","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a pneumatic autonomous glass climbing robot has been used. The idea was to design and manufacture a small size and light weight glass climbing robot for cleaning purposes. The design consists of four active (scanning) type suction modules, two servo motors, two free wheels, a cleaning mechanism, and a programmable onboard microcontroller. Each of the suction modules includes a vacuum generator and a chamber mounted on the supporting frame for adhering to the surface. The innovation of the proposed project is in using a scanning type suction module which is based on aerodynamics principles to provide adhering force for the attachment to the glass surface.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116969724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tarek Ahmed Fouad, Y. Abdel-Magid, K. Alhammadi, H. Karki
{"title":"An optimized chattering free sliding mode controller to suppress torsional vibrations in drilling strings","authors":"Tarek Ahmed Fouad, Y. Abdel-Magid, K. Alhammadi, H. Karki","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752608","url":null,"abstract":"The discontinuous control signal in a sliding mode controller causes significant problems of chattering. A smooth control signal is important if the controller is to suppress torsional vibrations in drillstrings. This is mandatory to avoid placing the expensive top-drive under loads of oscillatory torque; maintaining its integrity and minimizing maintenance costs. A chattering free sliding-mode controller optimized using a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) routine is proposed to avoid bit sticking phenomena and in addition, provide a smooth control signal to the top drive system. In this work, a discontinuous lumped-parameter torsional model of four degrees of freedom is considered, and the bit-rock contact is taken to be a variation of the Stribeck friction together with the dry friction model.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125867709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic bidding of Gencos under two pricing mechanisms: Pay-as-bid and uniform pricing","authors":"S. Soleymani","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752638","url":null,"abstract":"This paper compares the behavior of Generating Companies (Gencos) in the two competing pricing mechanisms of uniform and pay-as-bid pricing in an electricity market. Game Theory is used to simulate bidding behavior of Gencos and develop Nash equilibrium bidding strategies for Gencos in electricity markets. In the proposed methodology, competition is modeled as a bi-level problem with the upper level subproblem representing individual Gencos for maximizing their profits, and the lower level sub-problem representing the Independent System Operator (ISO), which minimizes consumer's payments. The simulation results show that Gencos yield less total revenue in expectation under pay-as-bid pricing than under uniform pricing.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116442162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects of electric vehicles in Middle-East North Africa markets","authors":"Noha M. Sadek","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752484","url":null,"abstract":"Air pollution, climate change and traffic congestion are three major challenges facing the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries today. The current transport system, especially in large urban centers, requires significant improvements to reduce the current levels of carbon emissions and traffic congestion. There is, therefore, a pressing need to have an adequate, efficient and clean transport system. This paper presents the Electric Vehicle (EV) as a strong candidate that can satisfy the current needs in the MENA countries. It explains in detail why the oil-rich MENA region is a potential market for EVs.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122292490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voltage dependent spin tunneling and spin relaxation in spin-leds","authors":"Abdel F. Isakovic, G. W. Hitt","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752489","url":null,"abstract":"Spin diodes are potential building blocks of spin transistors, themselves units for future spintronics “microchips” for quantum information processing. Ferromagnet-semiconductor Schottky diodes are useful model devices that allow for understanding of basic physical and electronic processes in transport of spin-polarized electrons across the interface between a conventional ferromagnet (itself a natural reservoir of spins) and a spin hospitable semiconductor like galliumarsenide (GaAs), where spin-carrying electrons can be used for quantum information processing. This paper will introduce a model that explains experimentally observed voltage dependence of finite spin transfer efficiency, using Schottky tunneling contact, and drift-diffusion equations. In the same framework we present a rate-equation based explanation for voltage dependent spin relaxation of hot electrons, which has also been experimentally observed in spin light emitting diodes (spin-LEDs). Based on this model, we present device suggestions that are realizable within the modern semiconductor growth and nanoprocessing R&D sector.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114424772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative analysis to the electric field generated at a nano-tip and the effect of the tip base","authors":"M. Rezeq","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752518","url":null,"abstract":"Nanotips are the main components in most of the powerful nanotechnology tools like scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and scanning transmission electron microscope (TEM). Therefore the improvement of the performance of these microscopes relies on fabricating extremely sharp tips with well defined shapes. Tips with an apex radius of a few nanometers are often characterized in the field ion microscope (FIM) or the field emission microscope (FEM), to estimate their sizes. However, these methods are only sufficient for characterizing the very end of the tip. Here we present a quantitative model that links the electric field, which is adequate to generate either FIM or FEM images at certain applied voltages, to the radius of the nanotip and to the radius of the tip base as well. This model introduces a more accurate method to estimate the overall tip shape over a relatively long range.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128575246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and simulation of a chopper circuits energized by Photovoltaic modules","authors":"S. Khader","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752631","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes dc chopper with various configuration of the main and auxiliary switches aiming at studying the circuit behavior of the chopper design with different snubber and auxiliary circuits. Because of the input voltage is supplied by a PV module, several types of feedback configurations are studied in order to select the most suitable circuit configuration that corresponds to minimum output voltage fluctuations. The feedback signal is taken from either line or the load side. Four circuit configurations have been studied; auxiliary, modified auxiliary, cascade, and modified cascade circuits. PSIM and MATLAB platforms were used to simulate the behavior of these circuits. The simulation results and the conducted analysis states that modified auxiliary circuit present the optimized configuration for PV modules. The feedback control for this circuit compensates the output voltage fluctuation due to irradiation change and temperature effect on the PV cells. Design recommendations and suggestions are proposed for future work.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129258583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Context-aware collaborative mlearning in an intelligent campus environment","authors":"Jason W. P. Ng, M. Zemerly, O. A. Hammadi","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752620","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new paradigm of thinking pertaining to a novel holistic intelligent campus (iCampus) environment is proposed to transform the end-to-end learning lifecycle of the knowledge ecosystem. To illustrate part of the concept, this study will look into the various issues of a smart mobile learning (mlearning) system, in order to highlight the application of context-aware collaborative learning in an intelligent campus environment. The mlearning system should be able to learn and adapt to the profile of the individual and provide context-aware applications and services that are relevant to that particular student at the right place and at the right time.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129333781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CMOS magnetic actuators for bio-material manipulation","authors":"F. Abu-Nimeh, F. Salem","doi":"10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752524","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic manipulation for molecular-level interrogation and diagnosis are emerging as lab-on-chip platforms. These platforms necessitate low-cost, low-power, portable, and high efficiency integrated implementations. We Implement an all-integrated programmable 16×16 magnetic coil array chip with a die-size of 1.5×1.5mm2 designed in bulk CMOS 0.5μm 3M2P technology. The integrated design does not require any external magnetic source. It relies on the Hall effect generated by the smallest permissible vertical coil inductors (in this reported technology, the inductor's planar area is 6μm×6μm). The coil array is selectively and dynamically controlled. Each cell, composed of the coil and its logical control circuitry, can emit eight programmable magnetic field levels. All array components are tuned to work at 900MHz and incorporate highspeed serial row/column switching. The array can be used to manipulate a small, in the order of 6μm×6μm, single molecule or in collaborative manipulation of larger bio-material objects.","PeriodicalId":119104,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124596731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}