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A Comprehensive Methodology To Evaluate The Performance Of A Cooperative Wireless Network, Aykut Kalaycioğlu, Ahmet Akbulut, Asim Egemen Yilmaz, Di̇lek Arslan Jan 2019

A Comprehensive Methodology To Evaluate The Performance Of A Cooperative Wireless Network, Aykut Kalaycioğlu, Ahmet Akbulut, Asim Egemen Yilmaz, Di̇lek Arslan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Performance evaluation of a cooperative wireless communication network depends on several parameters. Many of the studies, in fact, take a limited number of performance metrics individually to reach a conclusion about the performance of a network. Besides, in general, some performance metrics might be in conflict. Thus, ignoring the combined effect of all performance criteria in the network may lead to an incorrect conception of the overall communication performance of the network. Therefore, in this study, a comprehensive evaluation methodology in terms of various metrics is proposed to calculate the performance of a cooperative wireless communication network deployment using a …

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A No-Reference Framework For Evaluating Video Quality Streamed Through Wireless Network, Muhammad Uzair, Robert D. Dony, Mohsin Jamil, Khawaja Bilal Ahmad Mahmood, Muhammad Nasir Khan Jan 2019

A No-Reference Framework For Evaluating Video Quality Streamed Through Wireless Network, Muhammad Uzair, Robert D. Dony, Mohsin Jamil, Khawaja Bilal Ahmad Mahmood, Muhammad Nasir Khan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this work, a no-reference framework is proposed for the video quality estimation streamed through the wireless network. The work presents a comprehensive survey of the existing full reference (FR), reduced reference (RR), and no-reference (NR) algorithms. A comparison has been made among existing algorithms, i.e. in terms of subjective correlation and feasibility to use these algorithms in wireless architecture, to describe the necessity of the proposed framework to overcome the limitations of the existing algorithms. A brief summary of our previously published algorithms, i.e. NR blockiness, NR blur, NR network, NR just noticeable distortion, and RR, has also been …

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A Heuristic Algorithm To Find Rupture Degree In Graphs, Rafet Durgut, Tufan Turaci, Hakan Kutucu Jan 2019

A Heuristic Algorithm To Find Rupture Degree In Graphs, Rafet Durgut, Tufan Turaci, Hakan Kutucu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Since the problem of Konigsberg bridge was released in 1735, there have been many applications of graph theory in mathematics, physics, biology, computer science, and several fields of engineering. In particular, all communication networks can be modeled by graphs. The vulnerability is a concept that represents the reluctance of a network to disruptions in communication after a deterioration of some processors or communication links. Furthermore, the vulnerability values can be computed with many graph theoretical parameters. The rupture degree $r(G)$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is an important graph vulnerability parameter and defined as $r(G)=max\{\omega(G-S)- S -m(G-S):\omega(G-S)\geq2, S\subset V \}$, where …

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Global Stabilization Of A Class Of Fractional-Order Delayed Bidirectional Associativememory Neural Networks, Zhanying Yang, Xiaoyun Tang, Jie Zhang Jan 2019

Global Stabilization Of A Class Of Fractional-Order Delayed Bidirectional Associativememory Neural Networks, Zhanying Yang, Xiaoyun Tang, Jie Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper focuses on the stabilization problem of a class of fractional-order bidirectional associative memory neural networks with time delays. Based on feedback control, a sufficient condition is derived to achieve the global stabilization of systems by using the fractional inequality, the Lyapunov stability theory, and the comparison principle. In particular, this kind of control scheme is proved to be robust in the presence of external disturbances when the feedback gains are sufficiently large. In addition, a condition is obtained to achieve the global quasi-stabilization of systems with some external disturbances, and the corresponding error bound is estimated. Finally, some …

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Privacy Issues In Post Dissemination On Facebook, Burcu Sayi̇n Günel, Serap Şahi̇n, Dimitris G. Kogias, Charalampos Z. Patrikakis Jan 2019

Privacy Issues In Post Dissemination On Facebook, Burcu Sayi̇n Günel, Serap Şahi̇n, Dimitris G. Kogias, Charalampos Z. Patrikakis

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With social networks (SNs) being populated by a still increasing numbers of people who take advantage of the communication and collaboration capabilities that they offer, the probability of the exposure of people's personal moments to a wider than expected audience is also increasing. By studying the functionalities and characteristics that modern SNs offer, along with the people's habits and common behaviors in them, it is easy to understand that several privacy risks may exist, many of which people may be unaware of. In this paper, we focus on users' interactions with posts in a social network (SN), using Facebook as …

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Increasing Bluetooth Low Energy Communication Efficiency By Presetting Protocol Parameters, Dusan Hatvani, Dominik Macko Jan 2019

Increasing Bluetooth Low Energy Communication Efficiency By Presetting Protocol Parameters, Dusan Hatvani, Dominik Macko

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Standard protocols are important regarding the compatibility of devices provided by different vendors. However, specific applications have various requirements and do not always need all features offered by standard protocols, making them inefficient. This paper focuses on standard Bluetooth Low Energy modifications, reducing control overhead for the intended healthcare application. Specifically, the connection establishment, device pairing, and connection parameter negotiations have been targeted. The simulation-based experiments showed over 20 times reduction of control-overhead time preceding a data transmission. It does not just directly increase the energy efficiency of communication; it also prolongs the time for sensor-based end devices to spend …

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Lightweight Signature Scheme To Protect Intellectual Properties Of Internet Of Things Applications In System On Chip Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Kokila Jagadeesh, Ramasubramanian Natarajan Jan 2019

Lightweight Signature Scheme To Protect Intellectual Properties Of Internet Of Things Applications In System On Chip Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Kokila Jagadeesh, Ramasubramanian Natarajan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Billions of smart objects in the edge devices offer advanced connectivity to networks which increase the security and complexity of the Internet of things (IoT) applications. To make such entities smarter heterogeneous intellectual property (IP) cores from multiple service providers are reused in system on chip platform. Enabling both chip and IP protection at post fabrication level is imperative. The IoT-based IP cores are signed with the hybrid physical unclonable function and finite state machine model to protect from cloning, misuse, unauthorized user access, and physical attacks. The extended finite-state machine is used to verify the signature, which reduces the …

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Solving Vehicle Routing Problem For Multistorey Buildings Using Iterated Local Search, Osman Gökalp, Aybars Uğur Jan 2019

Solving Vehicle Routing Problem For Multistorey Buildings Using Iterated Local Search, Osman Gökalp, Aybars Uğur

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Vehicle routing problem (VRP) which is a well-known combinatorial optimisation problem that has many applications used in industry is also a generalised form of the travelling salesman problem. In this study, we defined and formulated the VRP in multistorey buildings (Multistorey VRP) for the first time and proposed a solving method employing iterated local search metaheuristic algorithm. This variant of VRP has a great potential for turning the direction of optimisation research and applications to the vertical cities area as well as the horizontal ones. Routes of part picking or placing vehicles/humans in multistorey plants can be minimised by this …

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An Algorithm For Line Matching In An Image By Mapping Into An $N$-Dimensional Vector Space, Rayi̇mbek Sultanov, Ahmet Atakan, Rita Ismailova Jan 2019

An Algorithm For Line Matching In An Image By Mapping Into An $N$-Dimensional Vector Space, Rayi̇mbek Sultanov, Ahmet Atakan, Rita Ismailova

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes a minimal length difference algorithm for construction of a line in an image by solving the problem of optimal contour approximation. In this algorithm, a method for finding interest points is proposed, and the object matching (classification) is done by mapping interest points onto a vector space. In cases where the lines in the representation of the images are not smooth, the algorithm converges rapidly. The results of the experiments showed that for convergence of the contour simplification, there were 5-6 iterations for $n = 13$. To check how close the curve approximation calculated by the algorithm …

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An Improved Imperialist Competitive Algorithm For Global Optimization, Ting You, Yueli Hu, Peijiang Li, Yinggan Tang Jan 2019

An Improved Imperialist Competitive Algorithm For Global Optimization, Ting You, Yueli Hu, Peijiang Li, Yinggan Tang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), inspired by sociopolitical behavior in the real world, is a new optimization algorithm. The ICA shows great potential to solve complex optimization problems. In order to improve the ICA's exploration ability and speed up its convergence, two improved schemes are proposed in this paper. The first scheme presents a new possession probability in the imperialistic competition phase. Inspired by geopolitics, not only the power of the empire but also the distance between the imperialists are taken into account in calculating the new possession probability. The second scheme introduces the wavelet mutation operator into the original …

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Schedulability Analysis Of Real-Time Multiframe Cosimulations On Multicore Platforms, Muhammad Uzair Ahsan, Mehmet Hali̇t Seyfullah Oğuztüzün Jan 2019

Schedulability Analysis Of Real-Time Multiframe Cosimulations On Multicore Platforms, Muhammad Uzair Ahsan, Mehmet Hali̇t Seyfullah Oğuztüzün

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

For real-time simulations, the fidelity of simulation depends not only on the functional accuracy of simulation but also on its timeliness. It is helpful for simulation designers if they can analyze and verify that a simulation will always meet its timing requirements without unnecessarily sacrificing functional accuracy. Abstracting the simulated processes simply as software tasks allows us to transform the problem of verifying timeliness into a schedulability analysis problem where tasks are checked as to whether they are schedulable under the timing constraints or not. In this paper we extend a timed automaton-based framework due to Fersman and Yi for …

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Reusable And Interactive Classes: A New Way Of Object Composition, Saeid Masoumi, Ali Mahjur Jan 2019

Reusable And Interactive Classes: A New Way Of Object Composition, Saeid Masoumi, Ali Mahjur

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Separating object features from base classes is one of the popular ways of software development. Some popular programming approaches like object-oriented programming, feature-oriented programming, and aspect-oriented programming follow this approach. There are four advantages of using features: 1) Instantiability: the ability to create instances of a feature, 2) Reusability: the quality of a feature being reusable in many compositions, 3) Loosely coupled composability: the ability to compose/decompose features easily at object instantiation time (not offering new data types for compositions), and 4) Interactability: the ability of a feature to crosscut (interact with) other features inside the object. Existing approaches do …

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Detection Of Fraud Risks In Retailing Sector Using Mlp And Svm Techniques, Davut Pehli̇vanli, Süleyman Eken, Ebu Beki̇r Ayan Jan 2019

Detection Of Fraud Risks In Retailing Sector Using Mlp And Svm Techniques, Davut Pehli̇vanli, Süleyman Eken, Ebu Beki̇r Ayan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In today's business conditions, where business activities are spreading over a wide geographical area, fraud auditing processes have crucial importance especially for the retailing sector which has a high branch network. In the retailing sector, especially purchasing processes are subject to high fraud risks. This paper shows that it is possible to detect fraudulent processes by applying data mining techniques on operational data related to purchasing activities. Within this scope, in order to detect the fraudulent purchasing operations, support vector machine (SVM) models with different kernels and artificial neural networks methods have been used and successful results have been achieved. …

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A Robust Ensemble Feature Selector Based On Rank Aggregation For Developing New Vo\Textsubscript{2}Max Prediction Models Using Support Vector Machines, Fatih Abut, Mehmet Fati̇h Akay, James George Jan 2019

A Robust Ensemble Feature Selector Based On Rank Aggregation For Developing New Vo\Textsubscript{2}Max Prediction Models Using Support Vector Machines, Fatih Abut, Mehmet Fati̇h Akay, James George

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes a new ensemble feature selector, called the majority voting feature selector (MVFS), for developing new maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) prediction models using a support vector machine (SVM). The approach is based on rank aggregation, which meaningfully utilizes the correlation among the relevance ranks of predictor variables given by three state-of-the-art feature selectors: Relief-F, minimum redundancy maximum relevance (mRMR), and maximum likelihood feature selection (MLFS). By applying the SVM combined with MVFS on a self-created dataset containing maximal and submaximal exercise data from 185 college students, several new hybrid (VO2max) prediction models have been created. To compare the …

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Incremental Author Name Disambiguation Using Author Profile Models And Self-Citations, Ijaz Hussain, Sohail Asghar Jan 2019

Incremental Author Name Disambiguation Using Author Profile Models And Self-Citations, Ijaz Hussain, Sohail Asghar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Author name ambiguity in bibliographic databases (BDs) such as DBLP is a challenging problem that degrades the information retrieval quality, citation analysis, and proper attribution to the authors. It occurs when several authors have the same name (homonym) or when an author publishes under several name variants (synonym). Traditionally, much research has been conducted to disambiguate whole bibliographic database at once whenever some new citations are added in these BDs. However, it is more time-consuming and discards the manual disambiguation effects (if any). Only a few incremental author name disambiguation methods are proposed but these methods produce fragmented clusters which …

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Biometric Person Authentication Framework Using Polynomial Curve Fitting-Based Ecg Feature Extraction, Şahi̇n Işik, Kemal Özkan, Semi̇h Ergi̇n Jan 2019

Biometric Person Authentication Framework Using Polynomial Curve Fitting-Based Ecg Feature Extraction, Şahi̇n Işik, Kemal Özkan, Semi̇h Ergi̇n

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The applications of modern biometric techniques for person identification systems rapidly increase for meeting the rising security demands. The distinctive physiological characteristics are more correctly measurable and trustworthy since previous measurements are not appropriately made for physiological properties. While a variety of strategies have been enabled for identification, the electrocardiogram (ECG)-based approaches are popular and reliable techniques in the senses of measurability, singularity, and universal awareness of heartbeat signals. This paper presents a new ECG-based feature extraction method for person identification using a huge amount of ECG recordings. First of all, 1800 heartbeats for each of the 36 subjects have …

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I See Ek: A Lightweight Technique To Reveal Exploit Kit Family By Overall Url Patterns Of Infection Chains, Emre Süren, Peli̇n Angin, Nazi̇fe Baykal Jan 2019

I See Ek: A Lightweight Technique To Reveal Exploit Kit Family By Overall Url Patterns Of Infection Chains, Emre Süren, Peli̇n Angin, Nazi̇fe Baykal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The prevalence and nonstop evolving technical sophistication of exploit kits (EKs) is one of the most challenging shifts in the modern cybercrime landscape. Over the last few years, malware infections via drive-by download attacks have been orchestrated with EK infrastructures. Malicious advertisements and compromised websites redirect victim browsers to web-based EK families that are assembled to exploit client-side vulnerabilities and finally deliver evil payloads. A key observation is that while the webpage contents have drastic differences between distinct intrusions executed through the same EK, the patterns in URL addresses stay similar. This is due to the fact that autogenerated URLs …

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Adaptive Canonical Correlation Analysis For Harmonic Stimulation Frequencies Recognition In Ssvep-Based Bcis, Sahar Sadeghi, Ali Maleki Jan 2019

Adaptive Canonical Correlation Analysis For Harmonic Stimulation Frequencies Recognition In Ssvep-Based Bcis, Sahar Sadeghi, Ali Maleki

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) is the brain's response to quickly repetitive visual stimulus with a certain frequency. To increase the information transfer rate (ITR) in SSVEP-based systems, due to the frequency resolution restriction, we are forced to broaden the frequency range, which causes harmonic frequencies to come into the stimulation frequency range. Conventional canonical correlation analysis (CCA) may be associated with error for SSVEP frequency recognition at stimulation frequencies with harmonic relations. The number of harmonics considered to construct reference signals are determined adaptively; for frequencies whose second harmonic exists in the frequency range, two harmonics are used, and …

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A Hybrid Of Fuzzy Theory And Quadratic Function For Estimating And Refining Transmission Map, Jyun-Yu Jhang, Chengjian Lin, Kuu-Young Young, Chin-Teng Lin Jan 2019

A Hybrid Of Fuzzy Theory And Quadratic Function For Estimating And Refining Transmission Map, Jyun-Yu Jhang, Chengjian Lin, Kuu-Young Young, Chin-Teng Lin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In photographs captured in outdoor environments, particles in the air cause light attenuation and degrade image quality. This effect is especially obvious in hazy environments. In this study, a fuzzy theory is proposed to estimate the transmission map of a single image. To overcome the problem of oversaturation in dehazed images, a quadratic-function-based method is proposed to refine the transmission map. In addition, the color vector of the atmospheric light is estimated using the top 1\% of the brightest light area. Finally, the dehazed image is reconstructed using the transmission map and the estimated atmospheric light. Experimental results demonstrate that …

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Application Of Fuzzy Logic On Astronomical Images' Focus Measures, Alaa Hamdy, Farag Elnagahy, Islam Helmy Jan 2019

Application Of Fuzzy Logic On Astronomical Images' Focus Measures, Alaa Hamdy, Farag Elnagahy, Islam Helmy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Focus accuracy is an essential factor that affects the quality of astronomical observations. The accurate measurement of celestial objects' properties depends on focus. Automatic focusing is necessary for celestial imaging systems. This paper presents a modified focus measure operator. It also proposes the use of fuzzy logic to transform images because of its tolerance of imprecise and incomplete data. The focus operators are applied to two sequences of star clusters' observations. The experimental results show that the suggested measure's overall score exceeds those of previous operators.

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A Novel Hardware-Efficient Spatial Orientation Tree-Based Image Compression Algorithm And Its Field Programmable Gate Array Implementation, Mohd Rafi Lone, Najeeb-Ud-Din Hakim Jan 2019

A Novel Hardware-Efficient Spatial Orientation Tree-Based Image Compression Algorithm And Its Field Programmable Gate Array Implementation, Mohd Rafi Lone, Najeeb-Ud-Din Hakim

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) has become a popular research topic for more than a decade now. This is because it is simple, besides having compression efficiency close to the state-of-the-art JPEG2000 standard. The main drawback of SPIHT is that it uses three lists to store addresses of coefficients during its operation. These lists are dynamic and in worst cases need to store more number of addresses than total coefficients. In this work, a novel hardware-efficient spatial orientation tree-based algorithm is proposed and its hardware implementation is carried out. The wavelet transformed image is partitioned into 2 $\times$ 2 …

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Damping Of Low-Frequency Oscillation In Power Systems Using Hybrid Renewable Energy Power Plants, Mahdi Saadatmand, Babak Mozafari, Gevork Babamalek Gharehpetian, Soodabeh Soleymani Jan 2019

Damping Of Low-Frequency Oscillation In Power Systems Using Hybrid Renewable Energy Power Plants, Mahdi Saadatmand, Babak Mozafari, Gevork Babamalek Gharehpetian, Soodabeh Soleymani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Global warming, increase in environmental pollution, and high cost of electrical power generation using fossil fuels are considered the most important reasons for the application of renewable energy power plants (REPPs) around the world. In recent years, a new generation of REPPs called hybrid renewable energy power plants (HREPPs) has been implemented in order to have higher efficiency and reliability than conventional REPPs such as wind power plants and photovoltaic power plants. The HREPPs include two or more renewable energy generation units such as wind turbine generation units, and PV generation units. In case of high penetration of these types …

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Bidding Strategy For Generators Considering Ramp Rates In A Day-Ahead Electricity Market, Satyendra Singh, Manoj Fozdar Jan 2019

Bidding Strategy For Generators Considering Ramp Rates In A Day-Ahead Electricity Market, Satyendra Singh, Manoj Fozdar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In a day-ahead electricity market, competitive bidding strategy plays a vital role for power suppliers to maximize their profit. In this type of market, each power supplier submits a set of hourly production prices and offers capacity for the next period. The market operator, after receiving this data along with forecasted hourly load from the demand side, allocates production output to each unit. Power suppliers face the problem in trading their offers in the market, due to the uncertain behavior of competitive power suppliers and power demand. Therefore, the power supplier requires a suitable bidding strategy for handling uncertainty in …

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A Robust Smes Control For Enhancing Stability Of Distribution Systems Fed From Intermittent Wind Power Generation, Sayed Said, Mokhtar Aly, Balint Hartmann Jan 2019

A Robust Smes Control For Enhancing Stability Of Distribution Systems Fed From Intermittent Wind Power Generation, Sayed Said, Mokhtar Aly, Balint Hartmann

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The voltage and frequency stability issues of power systems are the main challenges that arise from high penetration levels of wind energy systems. This paper presents an effective solution for voltage and frequency stability problems by using a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system controlled with a fuzzy logic controller (FLC). The proposed control system can suppress the voltage and frequency fluctuations due to the high variations of wind speed. In addition, the proposed control system is suitable for both balanced and unbalanced distribution systems with high penetration levels of wind turbines (WTs). A squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG) is …

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Research On The Dynamic Networking Of Smart Meters Based On Characteristics Of The Collected Data, Yaxin Huang, Yunlian Sun, Xiaodi Zhang Jan 2019

Research On The Dynamic Networking Of Smart Meters Based On Characteristics Of The Collected Data, Yaxin Huang, Yunlian Sun, Xiaodi Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In order to accurately collect the electricity usage information from the smart meter which uses the power line for communication, this paper proposes the method of dynamic networking to enhance the reliability of the smart meter communication. We shall firstly establish a logical topology between the smart meter and the concentrator with reference to their communication paths within the power supply range of the same transformer, and then grade smart meters, and choose the relay for each level network based on the selection methods of relay, and finally use the improved ant colony algorithm to choose the optimal communication path …

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Heat Flux Capacity Measurement And Improvement For The Test Of Superconducting Logic Circuits In Closed-Cycle Cryostats, Sasan Razmkhah, Ali̇ Bozbey Jan 2019

Heat Flux Capacity Measurement And Improvement For The Test Of Superconducting Logic Circuits In Closed-Cycle Cryostats, Sasan Razmkhah, Ali̇ Bozbey

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the current progress of superconducting integrated circuits, circuit complexities have reached more than 100,000 Josephson junctions. At the laboratory environment, circuit tests are generally being conducted at liquid Helium environments. With the commercialization of the superconducting integrated circuit-based systems and/or price increase of liquid Helium, utilization of the closed-cycle systems will be inevitable. Even though it is possible to implement closed-cycle systems with quite substantial excess cooling powers after all the wirings and peripheral circuits, one point not to be overlooked is the power density at the superconducting chips. We have observed that the circuits designed for operation at …

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Investigation Of The Mechanism Of Transport Across The Poly/Monocrystalline Silicon Interface In Polysilicon-Emitter Bipolar Transistors Based On Variations In The Interface Treatment Process, Shahriar Jamasb Jan 2019

Investigation Of The Mechanism Of Transport Across The Poly/Monocrystalline Silicon Interface In Polysilicon-Emitter Bipolar Transistors Based On Variations In The Interface Treatment Process, Shahriar Jamasb

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Electrical transport across the poly/monocrystalline silicon (poly-Si/c-Si) interface has been investigated by introducing variations in the interface treatment process affecting the thickness of the native oxide layer formed on the silicon surface. The I-V relationship characterizing the resistance associated with this interface is extracted using an improved open-collector method, which eliminates the inherent nonlinearity arising from the reverse active characteristics of the bipolar transistor. The nonohmic behavior of the interface at low electric fields is demonstrated to be consistent with direct tunneling through a rectangular barrier presented by an ultrathin interfacial oxide layer. An approximate tunnel junction model is proposed …

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Lower Order Controller Design Using Weighted Singular Perturbation Approximation, Muhammad Raees Furquan Azhar, Umair Zulfiqar, Muwahida Liaquat Jan 2019

Lower Order Controller Design Using Weighted Singular Perturbation Approximation, Muhammad Raees Furquan Azhar, Umair Zulfiqar, Muwahida Liaquat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Most of the analytical design procedures yield controllers of almost the same order as that of the plant. Resultantly, if the plant is of a high order, the controller obtained from these design procedures is also of a high order. The order of the controller should be practically acceptable for easy implementation. There are two indirect methods for designing a low order controller for high order plants: plant reduction and compensator reduction. In compensator reduction, the order of the controller designed for the original higher order plant is reduced. In plant reduction, the order of the plant is reduced for …

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A Novel Map-Merging Technique For Occupancy Grid-Based Maps Using Multiple Robots: A Semantic Approach, Aki̇f Durdu, Mehmet Korkmaz Jan 2019

A Novel Map-Merging Technique For Occupancy Grid-Based Maps Using Multiple Robots: A Semantic Approach, Aki̇f Durdu, Mehmet Korkmaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Map merging is a noteworthy phenomenon for cases such as search and rescue and disaster areas in which the duration is quite significant when gathering information about an environment. It is obvious that the total mapping time decreases if the number of agents (robots) increases. However, the use of multiple agents leads to problems such as task allocation schemes and the fusing of local maps. Examining the present methods, it is generally observed that the common features of local maps have been found and the global map is formed by obtaining related transformation between local maps. However, such implementations may …

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A Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm For Deduplicated Storage, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Chitra Babu, Pradeep Rengaswamy Jan 2019

A Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm For Deduplicated Storage, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Chitra Babu, Pradeep Rengaswamy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

While deduplication brings the advantage of significant space savings in storage, it nevertheless incurs the overhead of maintaining huge metadata. Updating such huge metadata during the data migration that arises due to load balancing activity results in significant overhead. In order to reduce this metadata update overhead, this paper proposes a suitable alternate index that tracks the data blocks even when they migrate across the nodes without explicitly storing the location information. In addition, a virtual server-based load balancing (VSLB) algorithm has been proposed in order to reduce the migration overhead. The experimental results indicate that the proposed index reduces …

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