{"title":"Edge-based suboptimal Kuan filtering for speckle noise reduction","authors":"A. Akl, K. Tabbara, C. Yaacoub","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396152","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the Kuan filter designed for speckle noise reduction. The Kuan filter relies on the effective number of looks as a main parameter which is usually adjusted for each image, after several filter runs, in order to tune the filter for best performance. The proposed solution automatically estimates the optimal filter parameter value based on edge pixels statistics, which results in near-optimal performance where the PSNR loss, compared to the best possible filter output, does not exceed 0.1 dB most of the time.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"BME-30 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114122158","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}
M. O. Abdel-Aal, R. Ramadan, A. A. Shaaban, M. Z. Abdel-Meguid
{"title":"Energy saving and reliable data reduction techniques for single and multi-modal WSNs","authors":"M. O. Abdel-Aal, R. Ramadan, A. A. Shaaban, M. Z. Abdel-Meguid","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396121","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) suffer from many limitations such as the computing capabilities, and the allocated bandwidth. However, the limited energy source is the dominant factor where energy starvation occurs due to the large number of messages that need to be transferred through the network. In this paper, we propose new protocols to save the nodes energy as well as prolonging the overall network lifetime. Not like other protocols proposed in the literature, our protocols consider the accuracy/ reliability of the reported data to the sink node. Our first approach considers different types of wireless sensor networks including single and multimodal wireless sensor networks. Our second protocol utilizes the concept of distributed fuzzy logic agents for energy saving in wireless sensor network. Our approaches are extensively tested using simulation as well as real data captured from MIT WSN laboratory. In addition, the paper introduces a WSN prototype based on our data saving approaches. Our conclusion reveals promising results.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115392783","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":"PSCAD modeling and analysis of PEM fuel cell based distributed generators","authors":"Noha Shouman, Yasser G. Hegazy, Sohier M Sakr","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396165","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents modeling and simulation of single stage proton exchange membrane fuel cell based distributed generation system using PSCAD/EMTDC simulation software. The system under study comprises sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) inverter, LC filter and a step up transformer. The system has been tested under several modes of operation and the simulation results are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124696342","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}
H. Elgohary, K. E. Bahrawy, M. Abdelrahman, M. Sabry
{"title":"D1 substation automation based on IEC61850 and Zigbee","authors":"H. Elgohary, K. E. Bahrawy, M. Abdelrahman, M. Sabry","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396168","url":null,"abstract":"Substation Automation is a modern approach capitalizing on the advancement in Information and Communication Technology to provide compact self healing and more reliable substations. In this quest, wireless communication technologies provide a brilliant option to reduce the connection effort. The vision is eventually to obtain equipment that may be described as “plug and play”. Nevertheless, the Substation environment is best describes as an electromagnetically harsh environment. To that end, the Zigbee technology is considered as an option. The advantage that Zigbee provides is the availability of multitude of parallel paths. Consequently, if one path is unavailable or “un-fit” to relay the message, another will do. The scope of this paper is to introduce a model of power system automation based on IEC 61850 and Zigbee wireless sensor networks (WSN) technology. The model considered is that of a D1 substation (Distribution substation with less than 5 controlled elements). The model is used to calculate time delays for Zigbee wireless network. Monte Carlo simulation is used to provide statistics to compare message delays in Zigbee to the IEC 61850 requirements. Results show that using multiple channels will improve performance to the fulfillment of IEC 61850 requirements.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116271256","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":"On the lüder's strain of static strain aged dual phase steel","authors":"S. Ataya, S. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396125","url":null,"abstract":"Dual-phase steel is characterized by an interesting combination of high strength, good ductility, continuous yielding, high initial work hardening rates, and a low yield stress to tensile strength ratio. The changes in the yield stress and appearance of prolonged lüder's strain in the stress strain curves of static strain aged dual phase steel motivate studying the parameters affecting the formation and width of the lüder's strain as function of aging conditions. Static strain aging of fine grained (5 μm) CMn-CrNb dual-phase (DP700) ferrite-martensite steel was investigated. A 3.2 mm sheet thickness of dual phase steel of martensite volume fraction of 0.306 was used to examine the aging behavior at the temperature range of 100 to 500°C for aging times 5 to 180 minutes. Quasi-static tensile tests and optical microstructure investigation were performed on the aged and the as-deformed dual phase steel. The stress strain curves were determined and analyzed to detect the condition of onset of the lüder's strain. A constant aging time of 30 minutes at different temperatures has showed the onset Lüder's strain to be at 190°C while, a 60 minutes aging at 170°C was needed for the onset of the Lüder's strain. The extent of Lüder's strain was observed to be time dependant for the various applied aging temperatures. Lüder's plateau was characterized by a serrated flow within the Lüder's strain and has been correlated to dynamic micro-mechanisms of hardening and softening.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130431334","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":"Effect of boundary on controlled memristor-based oscillator","authors":"M. Fouda, A. Radwan, K. Salama","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396147","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, the applications of memristors have spread into many fields and especially in the circuit theory. Many models have been proposed for the HP-memristor based on the window functions. In this paper, we introduce a complete mathematical analysis of the controlled reactance-less oscillator for two different window functions of Joglekar's model (linear and nonlinear dopant drift) to discuss the effect of changing the window function on the oscillator's behavior. The generalized necessary and sufficient conditions based on the circuit elements and control voltages for both the linear and nonlinear models are introduced. Moreover, closed form expressions for the oscillation frequency and duty cycle are derived for these models and verified using PSPICE simulations showing an excellent matching. Finally a comparison between the linear and nonlinear models which shows their effect on the oscillation frequency and conditions of oscillation is introduced.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114501435","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":"Human identification system based on feature level fusion using face and gait biometrics","authors":"M. S. Almohammad, G. Salama, T. Mahmoud","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396120","url":null,"abstract":"During the past years, face and gait recognition in video have received significant attention. Consequently, their recognition problems have challenged due to largely varying appearances and highly complex pattern distributions. However, the complementary properties of these two biometrics suggest fusion of them. Face recognition is more reliable when the person is close to the camera. On the other hand, gait is a suitable biometric trait for human recognition at a distance. Information from these two biometric sources, frontal of face and side of gait, are utilized and integrated at feature level. Face image is represented by the Active Lines among Face Landmark Points (ALFLP) feature vector. Gait image is represented by the Active Horizontal Levels (AHL) feature vector. Face and gait feature vectors are fused using a proposed effective fusion method. The proposed system was tested on CASIA database and the achieved results showed that the integrated face and gait features carry the most discriminating power compared to any individual biometric.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122848084","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":"Authentication mechanisms in grid computing environment: Comparative study","authors":"A. Farouk, A. Abdelhafez, M. Fouad","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396116","url":null,"abstract":"For the reason that grid resources are valuable, access is usually limited, based on the requested resource and the requesting user's identity. Authentication in distributed systems like grid computing environment is the first defense line before other security aspects; authorization, confidentiality, integrity and auditing. The main grid authentication mechanisms challenges are single sign-on, secure credential repositories, and cross-domain authentication. This paper presents a comparative study of various authentication mechanisms in grid computing environment to investigate their pros and cons. Such analysis is particularly relevant for those seeking an intensive assessment to appropriate grid authentication mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116097113","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 considerations for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems","authors":"W. G. Ali, Gihan Nagib","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396115","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra low power microelectronic devices such as wireless sensor nodes can be self powered using piezoelectric energy harvesting systems. Piezoelectric energy harvesting is the technology to convert wasted vibration energy to an electrical energy output. This paper highlights the design considerations for piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) systems such as: material selection, resonant frequency, geometrical shape, loading factor, electrical connections, AC-DC converters, DC-DC converters, and energy storage media. Morphological analysis is developed to investigate the best alternative solution for each design parameter. The evaluation criterion is the maximum power transfer from input vibration energy to the electrical output waveform. The standards for PEH are also presented to enhance the system performance. The published results in the literature are discussed to affirm the concluding remarks in this paper.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130247028","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":"BOA: A novel optimization algorithm","authors":"Sameh A. Salem","doi":"10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICENGTECHNOL.2012.6396156","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel algorithm for multimodal function optimization is proposed, which is called Base Optimization Algorithm (BOA). The proposed algorithm uses a combination of basic arithmetic operators along with a displacement parameter to guide and redirect the solutions towards the optimum point. The efficiency of the new algorithm is demonstrated using standard benchmark functions. A comparison of the results with those of other evolutionary algorithms shows that the proposed algorithm outperforms its competitors.","PeriodicalId":149484,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121051659","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}