College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Airborne Sounding Radar for Desert Subsurface Exploration of Aquifers: Desert-SEA: Mission concept study [Space Agencies]
( IEEE , 2024 , Article)Shallow aquifers are the largest freshwater bodies in the North African Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula. Their groundwater dynamics and response to climatic variability and anthropogenic discharge remain largely unquantified ... -
EXACT AND HEURISTIC APPROACHES FOR MAXIMIZING FLOWS IN UAV-ENABLED WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORKS WITH MULTI-HOP BACKHAULS
( EDP Sciences , 2024 , Article)This paper investigates the problem of data routing in backhaul networks using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to relay data from Small Cells (SCs) to the core network. The objective is to maximize the total fulfilled ... -
Extraction and characterization of biofunctional lignocellulosic fibers from Pulicaria undulata plant and the effect of alkali treatment on their bio-physicochemical properties
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)This study aimed to extract and characterize natural fibers from the P. undulata plant and to evaluate their antioxidant and antimicrobial activities, including the influence of alkali treatment on the bio-physicochemical ... -
Extraction and characterization of natural fibers from Pulicaria gnaphalodes plant and effect of alkali treatment on their physicochemical and antioxidant properties
( Frontiers Media , 2024 , Article)The study aimed to extract and characterize natural fibers from Pulicaria gnaphalodes (Vent.) Boiss. plants and assess the impact of alkali treatment on the physicochemical and antioxidant properties of these fibers. Fibers ... -
A Transparent and Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Platform with Novel Smart Contract for Smart Cities
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)A smart city ensures quality maintenance in diverse sectors, namely citizen safety, security, healthcare, transportation, and energy. Besides, data privacy and security have become an uprising concern for Electronic Health ... -
A fast convergent homotopy perturbation method for solving selective harmonics elimination PWM problem in multi level inverter
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Pulse width modulation (PWM) control for power converters have been vastly investigated and used in many industrial application. For medium voltage and high power applications, low switching frequency PWM techniques are ... -
Cost-effective design of iot-based smart household distribution system
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an indispensable role in present-day household electricity management. Nevertheless, practical development of cost-effective intelligent condition monitoring, protection, and control ... -
OCCUPANT PERCEPTION OF THERMAL COMFORT IN SLEEP ENVIRONMENTS IN QATAR
( Sultan Qaboos University , 2021 , Article)A thermal comfort field survey in sleep environments in winter and spring seasons in Qatar collected 833 sets of objective and subjective thermal and sleep quality responses before going to bed and after getting up. The ... -
Prediction of the eigenperiods of MDOF shear buildings using neural networks
( National Technical University of Athens , 2021 , Conference Paper)The study of multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) systems is essential to evaluate and understand the seismic response of buildings. Through a MDOF idealization, the dynamic properties of the building such as its natural frequencies ... -
The Role of Heritage Tourism and its Implications for Urban Regeneration in Old Doha, Qatar
( ZEMCH Network , 2021 , Conference Paper)Doha, the capital of Qatar is the largest city, with over 80% of the nation's population residing in Doha. It is also the administrative and economic centre of the country with a population of more than 2,900,000 persons ... -
Performance Evaluation of a 500 kWp Rooftop Grid-Interactive SPV System at Integral University, Lucknow: A Feasible Study Under Adverse Weather Condition
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Book chapter)Currently, power generation using solar PV source is in advance stage in India. Government policies and subsidies attract citizens of India to install solar PV system at their commercial and domestic places. Some of the ... -
Smart City Transportation System in Developing Countries: The Case of Lusail City, Qatar
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)Qatar, a developing country in the Middle East, is investing in developing its first smart city. Lusail City is a world-class urban development city that has been newly introduced in Qatar to serve the country's national ... -
Voltage Lift Switched Inductor Double Leg Converter with Extended Duty Ratio for DC Microgrid Application
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)In a DC microgrid, while integrating the low voltage sources such as Fuel cells and photovoltaics, an efficient DC-DC converter is crucially needed. Contributing to a high voltage whilst being operated on a low duty ratio ... -
Design of optimal deep learning based human activity recognition on sensor enabled internet of things environment
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)In recent times, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become a major challenge to overcome among computer vision applications in day-To-day lives. HAR is mainly envisioned to be utilized in coordination with other technologies ... -
Network-coded wireless powered cellular networks: Lifetime and throughput analysis
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we study a wireless powered cellular network (WPCN) supported with network coding capability. In particular, we consider a network consisting of k cellular users (CUs) served by a hybrid access point (HAP) ... -
Modulation and Control of a DC-AC Converter with High-Frequency Link Transformer for Grid-Connected Applications
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)The need to integrate energy storage devices with renewable energy sources and improve the employed converters' modulation and control techniques continues to grow. This trend is further activated by utilizing new converter ... -
A Special Class of Zero Dynamics Cyber-Attacks for SISO Time-Delay Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we consider zero dynamics cyber-attacks of linear single-input, single-output time-delay systems. We are mainly investigating structural properties of these attacks by invoking and applying available results ... -
Data-Driven Covert-Attack Strategies and Countermeasures for Cyber-Physical Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)This paper studies covert-attacks for cyber-physical systems (CPS) under conditions that adversaries do not explicitly know the system characteristic matrices (A, B, C). Covert-attacks are considered as undetectable type ... -
Active Power Filtering Solution for Improving Power Quality in Cold Ironed Electric Ships
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)Climate change is always a concern in the shipping sector, and there is a constant effort in the international shipping community to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The public transportation and commercial vehicle ... -
Compensation of Effect of Line Parameters on Reactive Power Sharing in AC Microgrid
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)The effects of mismatched interconnecting cable impedances, unequal local loads connected near to sources and difference in nominal voltages of sources lead to inaccurate reactive power sharing in ac microgrid. To ensure ...
