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Employing Online Data For Dynamic Equivalent Model Parameter Identification Of Large Scale Wind Farm
As one of the major renewable energy sources, wind power has experienced a fast growth in recent years. The installed capacity of wind farms has increased dramatically. Similar to other generator facilities, their impacts ... -
Emulation Of ASIC Based Network Processor On A FPGA Platform
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)ABSTRACT Exponential increase of device sizes and complexity of ASICs mandate the need for design verification to meet timing specifications and functionality requirements. Verification techniques are broadly implemented ... -
Encoder Complexity Reduction With Selective Motion Merge In HEVC
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-09-17)The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard is the latest video coding project developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) which involves the International Telecommunication Unit (ITU-T) Video ... -
Energy Storage Devices For Seamless Integration Of Renewable Energy
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)Renewable energy, as a promising resource for supporting continuously growing electricity demand, bears the disadvantages of un-controllable variability and partial unpredictability, which present challenges for large-scale ... -
ENHANCED CUSTOMER DEMAND LOAD PROFILES ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS FOR FIELD APPLICATION
(2016-07-27)Due to the deregulation of the power system, the electric power industry is undergoing a transformation in terms of its planning and operation strategies. Because of the importance in reducing financial and operational ... -
Enhancement Of Security And Reliability With MIMO Communication For The Smart Grid
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-07-22)In smart grid applications, developing appropriate wireless communication architecture is extremely important as wireless communication faces security and reliability challenges. To combat severe communication impairment ... -
Environment, communication and decision for multiagent systems
(2023-07-13)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: Multiagent systems (MAS) are ubiquitous in modern systems and have found broad applications, such as in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). ... -
Error Concealment Techniques In H.264/AVC For Video Transmission Over Wireless Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Several error concealment methods are applied to H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) baseline profile such that the decoded video is error free. The error concealment techniques are implemented both in the spatial and temporal ... -
Error Correction Methods For Latency-constrained Flash Memory Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Maintaining the reliability of data stored in Flash devices and reading it correctly has become a challenge as the demand for higher density is forcing aggressive shrinking of Flash architectures. For all Flash systems, ... -
Error-resilient Image And Video Coding Over Lossy Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The rapid growth of the Internet and increasing bandwidth in the past decade has heightened the interest in robust transmission of image and video signals over error-prone links. Recent literatures highlight the multiple ... -
Estimation Of Thermal Impedance Parameters Of Silicon Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Silicon Germanium (SiGe) hetero junction bipolar transistors (HBTs) are used in a variety of circuits like analog mixed signal and RF(radio frequency ) circuits. As the device gets smaller these days the self heating affects ... -
Evaluation And Applications Of Gas Sensors
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)Gas sensors are used widely for environmental and biomedical uses. This work focuses on verifying specifications of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) gas sensors and their particular applications. The first chapter in this ... -
Evaluation and Modeling of Power System Components
(2022-06-01)Future power system architectures will rely on a combination of rotating machines, power electronic devices, and energy storage. While it is possible to procure each component separately and conduct studies incorporating ... -
Evaluation Of Adaptive Video Optimization For Stall Minimization In Wireless Networks
Mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets have become an integral part of peoples’ daily lives. Users are consuming more content over wireless networks than ever before, and the largest portion of that traffic by ... -
EVALUATION OF CODING TOOLS FOR SCREEN CONTENT IN HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING
(2015-12-03)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) [1] is the latest Video Coding format. It challenges the state-of-the-art H.264/AVC [3] Video Coding standard which is in current use in the industry by being able to reduce the bit rate ... -
Evaluation Of ISO 18000-6 Type C Class 1 Generation 2 RFID Protocol Artifacts
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)In this thesis, we have identified the effect on the performance of the RFID system when ISO 18000-6 Class 1 Gen 2 RFID protocol's parameters are changed. The protocol parameters we considered changing for the conformance ... -
The Evaluation Of RF Channel Impairments And Co-channel Interfrence Over Rician Fading Channel
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)The mobile network system has evolved into its 4th generation and the demand of faster data rate, higher network coverage and reliable communication has never stop. In order to have more bandwidth and reduce power consumption, ... -
Evaluation Of Step Detection Of Piecewise Constant Signals Using Phase Congruency, Real Footprints And Complex Footprints
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Several applications involve the use of signals that are piecewise constant. Often, their measurements or observations are contaminated with noise. Detecting the steps and recovering the true signal from its noisy measurements ... -
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SPATIAL-MODE-SELECTIVE FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION
(2015-11-30)We experimentally investigate the spatial-mode-selective frequency up-conversion by sum-frequency generation in a second-order medium. In particular, we are interested in zero and first order Gaussian modes. In our ... -
Experimental Study Of Through-wall Human Being Detection Using Ultra-wideband Radar
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Ultra-wideband radars are used for several applications such as subsurface sensing, classification of aircrafts and collision avoidance. The detection of humans hidden by walls or rubble, trapped in buildings on fire or ...