Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) play an important role in making a greener future. Given a group of PHEVs distributed across a power network equipped with the smart grid technology (e.g. wireless communicatio...
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Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) play an important role in making a greener future. Given a group of PHEVs distributed across a power network equipped with the smart grid technology (e.g. wireless communication devices), the objective of this paper is to study how to schedule the charging of the PHEV batteries. To this end, we assume that each battery must be fully charged by a pre-specified time, and that the charging rate can be time-varying at discrete-time instants. The scheduling problem for the PHEV charging can be augmented into the optimal power flow (OPF) problem to obtain a joint OPF-charging (dynamic) optimization. A solution to this highly nonconvex problem optimizes the network performance by minimizing the generation and charging costs while satisfying the network, physical and inelastic-load constraints. A global optimum to the joint OPF-charging optimization can be found efficiently in polynomial time by solving its convex dual problem whenever the duality gap is zero for the joint OPF-charging problem. It is shown in a recent work that the duality gap is expected to be zero for the classical OPF problem. We build on this result and prove that the duality gap is zero for the joint OPF-charging optimization if it is zero for the classical OPF problem. The results of this work are applied to the IEEE 14 bus system.
In this paper, we investigate the performance of a single relay assisted cooperative vehicular network in a highway traffic scenario. Source and relaying vehicles are assumed to be traveling in the same direction with...
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In this paper, we investigate the performance of a single relay assisted cooperative vehicular network in a highway traffic scenario. Source and relaying vehicles are assumed to be traveling in the same direction with similar speeds. This results in a relative velocity nearly equal to zero and leads to a frequency-flat and time-flat fading in source-to relay link. On the other hand, source-to-destination and relay to-destination links are modeled as doubly-selective fading. To handle spreading in time and frequency, we propose a precoded cooperative scheme to exploit delay and Doppler spreads to our advantage. Under the assumption of amplify-and-forward relaying with orthogonal cooperation protocol, we derive a pairwise error probability expression and demonstrate the achievable diversity gains. We further conduct Monte Carlo simulations to confirm the analytical derivations and present the error rate performance of the proposed scheme with imperfect channel estimation.
The paper focuses on the problem of structure from motion and proposes a spatial-and-temporal-weighted factorization algorithm. The contributions of the paper are as follows: First, it is demonstrated that the image r...
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The paper focuses on the problem of structure from motion and proposes a spatial-and-temporal-weighted factorization algorithm. The contributions of the paper are as follows: First, it is demonstrated that the image reprojection error is generally in proportion to the error magnitude contained in the image. Second, the error distribution contained in the measurement matrix is modelled spatially and temporally from the image reprojection residuals. Third, based on the estimated error distribution, a spatial-and-temporal-weighted factorization algorithm is proposed to handle the uncertainty caused by significant image noises. Compared with existing approaches, the proposed technique does not require a prior information of image measurement, and it is easy to implement. Extensive experiments on synthetic data and real images are performed to validate the proposed method.
Abstract The problem to minimize power losses in an electrical network subject to voltage and power constraints is in general hard to solve. However, it has recently been discovered that semidefinite programming relax...
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Abstract The problem to minimize power losses in an electrical network subject to voltage and power constraints is in general hard to solve. However, it has recently been discovered that semidefinite programming relaxations in many cases enable exact computation of the global optimum. Here we point out a fundamental reason for the successful relaxations, namely that the passive network components give rise to matrices with nonnegative offdiagonal entries. Recent progress on quadratic programming with Metzler matrix structure can therefore be applied.
This paper applies the amplification matrix latency insertion method (LIM) to the circuits including dependent sources. The formulation derivation for the general circuits and the stability conditions of the amplifica...
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This paper applies the amplification matrix latency insertion method (LIM) to the circuits including dependent sources. The formulation derivation for the general circuits and the stability conditions of the amplification matrix LIM are presented in detail. Compared with the conventional scalar LIM, the amplification matrix LIM need much larger time step, so it can dramatically improve the performance. The simulation results validate the conclusion.
Level set methods have been used for image segmentation. Because partial deferential equations are solved to propagate a curve, level-set image segmentation has a slow convergence speed. The objective of this paper is...
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Level set methods have been used for image segmentation. Because partial deferential equations are solved to propagate a curve, level-set image segmentation has a slow convergence speed. The objective of this paper is to propose a method that increases the convergence speed. The proposed approach exploits the benefit of multi-resolutional analysis. Wavelet transform is used to decompose the image into different resolutions. The obtained results show a great improvement in terms of speed and accuracy.
Almost all existing fluid models of congestion control assume that the fluid flow at the output of a link is the same as the fluid flow at the input of the link. This means that all links in the path of a flow see the...
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Almost all existing fluid models of congestion control assume that the fluid flow at the output of a link is the same as the fluid flow at the input of the link. This means that all links in the path of a flow see the original source rate. In reality, a fluid flow is modified by the queueing processes on its path, so that an intermediate link will generally not see the original source rate. In this paper, we propose a simple model that explicitly takes into account of the effect of buffering on output flows. We study the dual and primal-dual algorithms that use implicit feedback and show that, while they are always asymptotically stable if feedback delay is ignored, they can be unstable in the new model.
A new direction in short-range wireless applications has appeared in the form of high-speed data communication devices for distances of a few meters. Behind these embedded applications, a complex Hardware/Software arc...
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A new direction in short-range wireless applications has appeared in the form of high-speed data communication devices for distances of a few meters. Behind these embedded applications, a complex Hardware/Software architecture is built. Dependability is one of the major challenges in these systems. Obviously in such systems, the attribute reliability has to be investigated for various components and at different abstractions levels. This paper presents a hardware platform for wireless system dependability analysis as an alternative for the time consuming global system simulation technique. The platform is built using several instances of one of the commercial FPGA platforms available on the market place. Based on this platform we introduce a new methodology and a flow to investigate the different parts of system dependability at different abstraction levels. The benefits to use the proposed methodology are two fold: first it takes care of the whole system (HW/SW part, mixed RF and wireless part) and second, the hardware platform enables to explore the application's reliability under real environmental conditions in order to study the effect of the environment threats on the system.
BiFeO3 (BFO) thin films have been deposited on SrRuO 3/SrTiO3 (001) substrate by using ion beam sputtering process. At low oxygen partial pressure of 11 m Pa, rhombohedral and large c/a mixed phase thin film have been...
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In this paper, we present a modular approach to the high frequency simulation of large networks by utilizing the latency insertion method (LIM) and considering the stability criteria of partitions of different latenci...
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In this paper, we present a modular approach to the high frequency simulation of large networks by utilizing the latency insertion method (LIM) and considering the stability criteria of partitions of different latencies in the circuit. This results in a robust algorithm that is able to preserve the stability condition while improving the runtime of the overall transient simulation. An extension to the LIM to handle dependent sources is also presented, along with a generalized stability criteria for selecting a maximum stable time step.
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