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Autonomous and Privacy-preserving Energy Trading Based on Redactable Blockchain in Smart Grid
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)With the development of information and communication technologies in smart grid, peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading for distributed energy resources (DER) has achieved an efficient two-way flow of information and power. ... -
Autonomous corrosion detection in gas pipelines: A hybrid-fuzzy classifier approach using ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation protocols
( IEEE , 2009 , Article)In this paper, a customized classifier is presented for the industry-practiced nondestructive evaluation (NDE) protocols using a hybrid-fuzzy inference system (FIS) to classify the corrosion and distinguish it from the ... -
Autonomous electric vehicles can reduce carbon emissions and air pollution in cities
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Heavy dependence on personal vehicle usage made the transportation sector a major contributor to global climate change and air pollution in cities. In this study, we analyzed autonomous electric vehicles and compared their ... -
An Autonomous Packet Transmission Strategy for Opportunistic Wireless Sensor Networks
( Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2012 , Article)We consider a wireless sensor network that comprises a single hop between the sensor nodes and the central controller node with multiple antennas. In this system model, we concentrate on the single-beam opportunistic ... -
Autonomous self-healing in epoxy coatings provided by high efficiency isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) microcapsules for protection of carbon steel
( Elsevier B.V. , 2020 , Article)This work aims at investigating the self-healing ability of epoxy coatings, modified with microcapsules containing highly reactive isocyanate in their core. Highly efficient, thermally and chemically stable isophorone ... -
Autonomous vehicle sunshade using aluminum panels
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)The heat build-up inside of a vehicle cabin due to the direct composure of thermal energy when parked outside during the day can be a huge dilemma, the intensity of the problem can be decreased by covering the windows of ... -
Autonomous vehicles between anticipation and apprehension: Investigations through safety and security perceptions
( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)Due to the ongoing enormous infrastructural developments and car ownership culture in Qatar, it could be one of those countries to introduce Autonomous Vehicles (AV) technology at the early stages. Therefore, this study ... -
Average ber of multihop communication systems over fading channels
( IEEE , 2003 , Conference Paper)Multihop transmission is a way to attain broader coverage by splitting the communication link from the source to the destination into several, possibly shorter links/hops. This paper presents an expression for the moment ... -
Average outage duration of multihop communication systems with regenerative relays
( IEEE , 2005 , Article)Closed-form expressions for the average outage duration (AOD) of multihop regenerative communication systems over generalized fading channels are presented. Both noise-limited and interference-limited systems are studied. ... -
Average Secrecy Outage Rate and Average Secrecy Outage Duration of Wireless Communication Systems with Diversity over Nakagami-m Fading Channels
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)This paper presents an analytical methodology for the evaluation of two important physical layer security metrics in wiretap channels. Specifically, we first introduce the concept and the expression of average secrecy ... -
Axial crushing behavior and energy absorption efficiency of corrugated tubes
( Elsevier, Ltd , 2014 , Technical Report)This paper presents the effect of corrugations on the crushing behavior, energy absorption, and failure mode of circular aluminum tubes. Experimental investigations were carried out on five geometrical types of corrugated ... -
Axial pull-out response of a small-scale concrete pile subjected to cyclic thermal loading in sand
( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Energy piles support structural loads and exchange heat with surrounding soils using closed-loop ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems. A GSHP connected to an energy pile operates in cycles where it functions for a period ... -
B5G: Predictive Container Auto-Scaling for Cellular Evolved Packet Core
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)In order to maintain a satisfactory performance in the midst of rapid growth of mobile traffic, the mobile network infrastructure needs to be scaled. Thus there has been significant interest in scalability of mobile core ... -
B5G: Predictive Container Auto-Scaling for Cellular Evolved Packet Core
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)The increase in mobile traffic which is accompanied by a random workload, variations necessitate an upgrade of mobile network infrastructure to maintain acceptable network performance. Scaling the mobile core network ... -
Back-analysis of sprayed concrete lined (SCL) tunnel junctions at Liverpool Street Crossrail station
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Sprayed concrete linings (SCL) offer a versatile method of tunnel construction, particularly in regard to forming junctions since the lining acts as a shell structure which can redistribute the stresses around the opening ... -
Background-Foreground Modeling Based on Spatiotemporal Sparse Subspace Clustering
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)Background estimation and foreground segmentation are important steps in many high-level vision tasks. Many existing methods estimate background as a low-rank component and foreground as a sparse matrix without incorporating ... -
Backscatter-Enabled Efficient V2X Communication with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and backscatter communications are considered to be promising technologies for beyond the fifth-generation (5G) due to their applications in large-scale Internet-of-things networks for ... -
Backyard Urban Agriculture in Qatar: Challenges & Recommendations
( Global Waste Cleaning Network , 2021 , Article)The last decade witnessed a return to traditional ways of farming that were, for decades, braced by technological advancement. Along with many countries around the world, Qatar manifests an interest in urban farming, ... -
BADR: A Talking Face To Teach Arabic Vocabulary Under COVID-19
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)We propose an Arabic talking face called Badr to teach the language vocabulary for young students under COVID-19 pandemic. Badr is built on the previous talking face Baldi (e.g., an American English talking face) with many ... -
Band allocation for cognitive radios with buffered primary and secondary users
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we study band allocation of Ms buffered secondary users (SUs) to Mp orthogonal primary licensed bands, where each primary band is assigned to one primary user (PU). Each SU is assigned to one of the available ...