Browsing Research Articles (Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering) by Title

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  • A maximum throughput channel allocation protocol in multi-channel multi-user cognitive radio network 
    Wang, Shi; Maharaj, Bodhaswar Tikanath Jugpershad; Alfa, Attahiru Sule (Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences and IEEE Communications Society, 2018-04)
    Channel allocation protocol plays a crucial role in ensuring that cognitive radio technology achieves more efficient radio resource utilization. To evaluate and compare the performance of different channel allocation ...
  • Mean-offset classifier based on Wi-Fi indoor positioning system 
    Ramakrishnan, Pasungili Rajesh; Myburgh, Hermanus Carel (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2019)
    A mean-offset classification technique was identified. It was found that the meanoffset classifier provides stability under dynamic indoor conditions and provides consistent results when training and test data combinations ...
  • A measurement model for real estate bubble size based on the panel data analysis : an empirical case study 
    Liu, Fengyun; Liu, Deqiang; Malekian, Reza; Li, Zhixiong; Wang, Deqing (Public Library of Science, 2017-03-08)
    Employing the fundamental value of real estate determined by the economic fundamentals, a measurement model for real estate bubble size is established based on the panel data analysis. Using this model, real estate bubble ...
  • The measurement of complex antenna transfer functions for ultra-wideband antennas in a compact range 
    Nel, Mariesa; Joubert, Johan; Odendaal, J.W. (Johann Wilhelm) (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2014-12)
    Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications technology increasingly plays an important role in modern communications systems. The complex antenna transfer function (CATF) of an UWB antenna provides valuable information that can ...
  • Measurement uncertainty in energy monitoring : present state of the art 
    Carstens, Herman; Xia, Xiaohua; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Elsevier, 2018-03)
    Measurement uncertainty is a key component in the overall uncertainty calculation for Measurement and Verification (M&V) projects. However, in some cases, it is reduced to outlier detection or basic uncertainty propagation ...
  • Measuring the similarity of PML documents with RFID-based sensors 
    Wang, Zhong-qin; Ye, Ning; Reza, Malekian; Zhao, Ting-ting; Wang, Ru-chuan (Inderscience, 2014)
    The electronic product code (EPC) network is an important part of the internet of things. The physical mark-up language (PML) is to represent and describe data related to objects in EPC network. The PML documents of each ...
  • Medium density control for coal washing dense medium cyclone circuits 
    Zhang, Lijun; Xia, Xiaohua; Zhang, Jiangfeng (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015-05)
    The dense medium cyclone (DMC) process used in coal beneficiation plants is studied from a control system perspective. Employing the dynamic model of the DMC process derived from mass flow balance, a model based control ...
  • Meta-optimization of the Extended Kalman filter's parameters through the use of the Bias-Variance Equilibrium Point criterion 
    Salmon, Brian Paxton; Kleynhans, Waldo; Van den Bergh, Frans; Olivier, Jan Corne; Marais, W.J.; Grobler, Trienko Lups; Wessels, K.J. (Konrad) (IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated, 2014-08)
    The extraction of information on land cover classes using unsupervised methods has always been of relevance to the remote sensing community. In this paper, a novel criterion is proposed, which extracts the inherent ...
  • Metaphysics and mathematics : perspectives on reality 
    Kuhn, Gideon J. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-08-16)
    The essence of number was regarded by the ancient Greeks as the root cause of the existence of the universe, but it was only towards the end of the 19th century that mathematicians initiated an in-depth study of the ...
  • A method for driving route predictions based on hidden Markov model 
    Ye, Ning; Wang, Zhong-qin; Malekian, Reza; Lin, Qiao-min; Wang, Ru-chuan (Hindawi Publishing, 2015)
    We present a driving route prediction method that is based on HiddenMarkovModel (HMM). Thismethod can accurately predict a vehicle’s entire route as early in a trip’s lifetime as possible without inputting origins and ...
  • A method for real-time condition monitoring of haul roads based on Bayesian parameter estimation 
    Heyns, Theo; Heyns, P.S. (Philippus Stephanus); De Villiers, Johan Pieter (Elsevier, 2012-04)
    Current haul road management techniques, such as routine, periodic and urgent maintenance have shortcomings in many complex haul road environments. Real-time road condition monitoring may significantly reduce maintenance costs, ...
  • A method of multi-component signal detection based on differential nonlinear mode decomposition 
    Yang, Tiantian; Shao, Jie; Huang, Yue; Malekian, Reza (Croatian Communications and Information Society, 2018-06)
    In order to detect the multi-component signal from the noise and chaos, a method based on the differential nonlinear mode decomposition (DNMD) is proposed in this paper. This new analysis approach applies the differential ...
  • A method of vehicle route prediction based on social network analysis 
    Ye, Ning; Wang, Zhong-qin; Malekian, Reza; Zhang, Ying-ya; Wang, Ru-chuan (Hindawi Publishing, 2015)
    A method of vehicle route prediction based on social network analysis is proposed in this paper. The difference from proposed work is that, according to our collected vehicles’ past trips, we build a relationship model ...
  • Method to determine solar-blind ultraviolet energy and electrical corona loss relation 
    Coetzer, Casper Johannes; Myburgh, Hermanus Carel; West, Nicolas; Walker, Jerry (Polish Academy of Sciences and Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, 2022-12)
    Solar-blind ultraviolet cameras as part of high-voltage electrical inspections until recently have mostly been used for pure observations. These observations only imply the presence of corona discharges and not the ...
  • Metrics to evaluate compression algorithms for raw SAR data 
    Pieterse, Chane; Du Plessis, W.P. (Warren Paul); Focke, Richard W. (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019-02)
    Modern synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems have size, weight, power and cost (SWAP-C) limitations since platforms are becoming smaller while SAR operating modes are becoming more complex. Thus, SAR systems are producing ...
  • Micro-Doppler radar classification of humans and animals in an operational environment 
    Van Eeden, W.D. (Willem); De Villiers, Johan Pieter; Berndt, R.J.; Nel, W.A.J.; Blasch, E. (Elsevier, 2018-07)
    A combined Gaussian mixture model and hidden Markov model (HMM) is developed to distinguish between slow moving animal and human targets using mel-cepstrum coefficients. This method is compared to the state-of-the-art in ...
  • Microgrid system 
    Singh, Arvind R.; Lei, Ding; Kumar, Abhishek; Singh, Ranjay; Meena, Nand K.; Meena, Nand K. (Springer, 2020-01)
    Due to the growing awareness of the harmful impact of conventional fossil fuels and advancements in renewable energy technologies, microgrid has grown in popularity. This chapter aims to provide holistic learning of the ...
  • A millimeter-wave second-order all-pass delay network in BiCMOS 
    Osuch, Piotr Jan; Stander, Tinus (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-10)
    Analog signal processing (ASP) is a promising alternative to DSP techniques in millimeter-wave (mm-wave) technologies such as 5G, with the second-order all-pass networks a key building block in ASPs. We present an active ...
  • Mine safety system using wireless sensor network 
    Henriques, Valdo; Malekian, Reza (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016)
    This paper describes the work carried out on the design and construction of a mine safety system prototype using a wireless sensor network with the objective of building a safety system to monitor the ambient characteristics ...
  • Minimization of fuel costs and gaseous emissions of electric power generation by model predictive control 
    Elaiw, A.M.; Xia, Xiaohua; Shehata, A.M. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
    The purpose of this paper is to present a model predictive control (MPC) approach for the periodic implementation of the optimal solutions of two optimal dynamic dispatch problems with emission and transmission line ...