{"title":"A Universal Floating Fractional-Order Elements/Memelements Emulator","authors":"Nariman A. Khalil, L. Said, A. Radwan, A. Soliman","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909296","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a generalized floating emulator block is proposed using grounded elements. The proposed emulator is a universal emulator that is used to realize any floating elements such as fractional-order element (FOE) and fractional-order memelements (FOME). Different implementations for the introduced emulator are presented using different active blocks and generalized impedances. The fractional-order parameters add an extra degree of controllability on the hysteresis loop (HL) and the location of the pinched point, which will be investigated. Circuit simulations for the proposed circuits are performed.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131476476","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":"Experimental OAI-based Testbed for Evaluating the Impact of Different Functional Splits on C-RAN Performance","authors":"Abdullah Ibrahim Salama, M. M. Elmesalawy","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909310","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is an innovative concept introduced to enhance the performance of the Fifth Generation (5G) mobile networks. The main idea of CRAN is to split the functionalities of the ordinary Evolved Node B (eNB) into two main components. The first one is the Remote Radio Head (RRH) that contains the Radio Frequency (RF) functionality in which multiple RRHs will be connected to the other shared component that is called the Baseband Processing Unit (BBU) which performs the other functionalities. The link between these two components will be referred to as the fronthaul interface. This interface has many different technologies in which we are interested in this paper in the Next Generation Fronthaul Interface (NGFI). According to NGFI, various functional splits have different associated tasks to both the BBU and the RRH which impacts on the C-RAN performance. In this paper, OpenAirInterface (OAI) platform is used to implement and conFigure C-RAN testbed. Then, the impact of different NGFI splits on C-RAN performance is evaluated and concluded using the implemented C-RAN testbed in terms of various perfomance metrics such as required fronthaul data rate, percentage of CPU usage, and memory usage.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127063276","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}
Nariman A. Khalil, M. Fouda, L. Said, A. Radwan, A. Soliman
{"title":"A Universal Fractional-Order Memelement Emulation Circuit","authors":"Nariman A. Khalil, M. Fouda, L. Said, A. Radwan, A. Soliman","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909307","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a current-/voltage-controlled universal emulator that can realize any fractional-order memelements (FOME). The proposed emulator consists of second-generation current conveyors (CCII) block, two switches, and a multiplier/divider block. The first switch controls the emulator mode (voltage or current), while, the other controls the type of the emulated FOME. The influence of the fractional-order capacitor (FOC) on the pinched hysteresis loop (PHL) area, is discussed which increases the controllability on the double loop area and the working frequency range. Numerical and PSPICE simulations are presented for selected cases to prove the theoretical findings.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116976970","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":"The Economic Potential of Using Cotton Stalks to Produce Alternative Wooden Materials","authors":"H. Chbib, Irene Samy, Mona Azouz","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909340","url":null,"abstract":"The wooden industry depends heavily on logging activities which have negative impacts on the environment and a shortage of supply. The industry is starting to depend on composite boards from agricultural waste materials. Composite boards have been shown in the literature. However, some wooden applications still depend on hardwoods. Besides, most of these composite boards use synthetic formaldehyde as binders. Formaldehydes have negative impacts on human health. On the other hand, Egypt has an abundance of cotton waste that can produce composite woods. In this paper, the researchers compared three different technologies to produce: particle boards, medium-density fiberboards (MDF), and Hardwood-like boards. The comparison was based on the economic feasibility and the quality variables tested in the literature. The first technology produces particle boards and the second MDF. The two technologies use formaldehyde binders in the production process, but only the first has been proven to be economically feasible. On the other hand, the third technology is based on natural binding. This paper provides an economically feasible alternative for traditional wood without using formaldehyde.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115190493","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}
Hagar Marzouk Omar, Amro Mohamed Elalawy, H. Ammar
{"title":"Two-wheeled Self balancing robot Modeling and Control using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)","authors":"Hagar Marzouk Omar, Amro Mohamed Elalawy, H. Ammar","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909311","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is focusing on the problem of the Self balancing robot which has many potentials due to its power consumption and maneuverability advantages. Modelling and controlling of the two-wheeled self-balancing robot is presented. For modelling part, two models were used in compare with a real proposed robot. At first, mathematical model was driven and the state space was achieved to model the plant of the system. Second, Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous (NARX) Neural Network model is introduced using recorded data architecture-based as it is used in time-series modeling for many reported nonlinear systems. The results proved that NARX provides a better model over the mathematical one. For controlling part, we are presenting a comparison between two different controlling architectures: PID and Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC). The two proposed controllers were found suitable solutions in this control problem. However, MRAC gives the best results in following random inputs and is favored in disturbance rejection, then comes the PID controller.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122899433","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":"Multi-level Monte Carlo Simulation on Particle Filters and Extended Kalman Filters.","authors":"Shady A. Nagy, M. El-Beltagy","doi":"10.1109/niles.2019.8909315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/niles.2019.8909315","url":null,"abstract":"the automation of vehicles depends on different observations that may represent the states in an inaccurate way. The probabilistic approach in the prediction and enhancement of measurement are already used in automation to model the noise and perceptual limitations in vehicles sensors. In this paper, we work on the statistical solutions of Extended Kalman filter and Particle filters that include noise in the prediction of the new state. We use different variance reduction technique as control variates to increase the precision of the simulation and make it statistically efficient.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"68 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126026668","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":"Hydrothermal performance of plate-fin heat sinks for the cooling of portable and hand-held electronic devices","authors":"M. Boraey","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909325","url":null,"abstract":"The thermal and hydrodynamic performance of plate-fin heat sinks is investigated numerically using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The effect of the spacing between the fins (i.e. flow blockage) and the flow rate (i.e. Reynolds number) on both the thermal and hydrodynamic performance is studied for the low flow rate range. The Thermal Performance Factor TPF is used to weigh the gain in the thermal performance against the associated increase in the pressure drop which helps in selecting the optimum configuration for a specific application. It is found that the best fin configuration depends on the required flow rate range of the thermal management device.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116508265","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":"A Novel Chaotic Image Steganography Technique","authors":"A. Ghidan, Samar M. Ismail","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909295","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a lossy image steganography technique is introduced following the least significant bits method. Two chaotic maps are used for randomly selecting the cover image’s pixels to hide the message image. Generalized chaotic maps are used for adding extra degrees of freedom in designing the pseudorandom numbers used for pixels’ position selection rendering better security level. The chaotic maps used are the generalized logistic map and the delayed logistic map. Different image sets are employed for method validation. The Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Image Fidelity (IF) as well as the capacity of the cover image are calculated as security metrics to ensure the high efficiency of the proposed technique compared to other works in literature.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121031774","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. Hanna, H. Amer, H. Elsayed, I. Adly, Habiba T. Abdelhamid, Kirollos N. Sorour, I. Elaraby, Salma Mahfouz, Yasmeen S. Okasha, Dina G. Mahmoud, G. Alkady, R. Daoud
{"title":"Smart FPGA-based System for Enhancing Educational Programs","authors":"M. Hanna, H. Amer, H. Elsayed, I. Adly, Habiba T. Abdelhamid, Kirollos N. Sorour, I. Elaraby, Salma Mahfouz, Yasmeen S. Okasha, Dina G. Mahmoud, G. Alkady, R. Daoud","doi":"10.1109/NILES.2019.8909344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NILES.2019.8909344","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a system to enhance the classroom experience. The system is based on having an FPGA in every classroom. This FPGA performs facial recognition to take attendance. It also analyzes the video stream to report on participation and attention and to detect violence. In addition, the system processes readings from different sensors to adjust the class environment for enhancing the learning experience. All classrooms are connected together and to the principal’s office. Reports are sent daily from the school to the district. Next, fault tolerance is studied at the FPGA level. It is shown how to tolerate the failure of an FPGA and still have the system operate normally till this failure can be repaired (which may take a relatively long time in developing countries). Fault-free and faulty scenarios are simulated on Riverbed Modeler and results prove that the system is operating correctly and that the delays are acceptable.","PeriodicalId":330822,"journal":{"name":"2019 Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124811337","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}