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A Novel Wideband Bandpass Filter using H-shaped DGS

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2021-2028
Van-Phuong Do , Duy-Manh Luong , Chi-Hieu Ta , Minh-Tan Doan
This paper presents a novel compact wide-band bandpass filter (BPF) having good selectivity. It is designed using a dual-plane structure which consists of a parallel-coupled microstrip line on the upper surface and three H-shape defected ground structures (DGS) on the ground plane. By adding three H-shape DGS units on the ground plane, then properly adjusting their dimensions and position, the bandwidth and selectivity of the designed filter can be significantly improved. A compact prototype of wide-band microstrip bandpass filter has been designed, fabricated and measured for the wireless systems applications. The filter exhibits a center frequency at 4.8 GHz, passband from 2.8 GHz to 6.8 GHz with best insertion loss and return loss of 0.8 dB and 40 dB, respectively. The measured results agrees well with the theoretical expectations validating the proposed design.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2021-2028
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Business Intelligence for Paintball Tournament Matchmaking Using Particle Swarm Optimization

10.11591/ijeecs.v11.i2.pp599-606
M.T. Mishan , A.F.A. Fadzil , K.A.F.A. Samah , N.F. Baharin , N. Anuar
Paintball has gained a huge popularity in Malaysia with growing number of tournaments organized nationwide. Currently, Ideal Pro Event, one of the paintball organizer found difficulties to pair a suitable opponent to against one another in a tournament. This is largely due to the manual matchmaking method that only randomly matches one team with another. Consequently, it is crucial to ensure a balanced tournament bracket where eventual winners and losers not facing one another in the very first round. This study proposes an intelligent matchmaking using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and tournament management system for paintball organizers. PSO is a swarm intelligence algorithm that optimizes problems by gradually improving its current solutions, therefore countenancing the tournament bracket to be continually improved until the best is produced. Indirectly, through the development of the system, it is consider as an intelligence business idea since it able to save time and enhance the company productivity. This algorithm has been tested using 3 size of population; 100, 1000 and 10,000. As a result, the speed of convergence is consistent and has not been affected through big population.
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Page: 599-606
Publish at: 2018-08-01

An Improvised Methodology to Unbar Android Mobile Phone for Forensic Examination

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2239-2246
V. Balajichandrasekhar M. , T. Srinivasa Rao , G. Srinivas
At the end of 2015, there were 4.7 billion noteworthy mobile subscribers globally, equivalent to 63% of the world’s population. Mobile phones had all the essential components or characteristics neatly fitted into a small space and designed to achieve high speeds, massive storage, and increased functionalities. Smart phones used to carry out imparting or exchanging of information such as calling, texting, Internet browsing, e-mail, photos, videos, and etc. Criminals can use smart phones for a number of activities. Namely, committing a fraud over e-mail, harassment via text messages, drug trafficking, child pornography, etc. In this research paper, We demonstrate, if a mobile phone is identified in a criminal activity and if it is locked by any one of the locking mechanisms such as pattern lock, PIN lock and password lock, then how to unlock the mobile device without data loss for forensic examination. It is a great challenge for forensic experts to extract data from a mobile phone for forensic purpose that can be used as evidence in the court of law. The experimental results show that our approach can break all kinds of pattern locks.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2239-2246
Publish at: 2018-08-01

SIW Circular Cavity Single Mode Filter With Triangle Probe

10.11591/ijeecs.v11.i2.pp672-676
Siti Aminah Nordin , Mohd Khairul Mohd Salleh , Zuhani Ismail Khan , Norfishah Ab Wahab , Latifah Noh , Zakiah Mohd Yusoff
A novel substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) circular cavity using triangle probe are proposed in this paper. Prior to this research work, circular cavity resonator was used to achieve a miniaturization for the overall circuit size. The proposed filter provides single resonant mode, TE110. The resonant frequency of TE110 can be adjusted by varying the length and width of the SIW cavity. The proposed filter are designed to operate at frequency 3.75 GHz and implemented on Rogers 3210 substrate with thickness of 0.64 mm. The insertion loss in operating band is less than 0.6 dB and the return loss is better than 24 dB. Simulated result obtained using Ansoft HFSS software.
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Page: 672-676
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Dielectric Resonator Reflectarray Antenna Unit Cells for 5G Applications

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2531-2539
Nur Fazreen Sallehuddin , Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin , Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin , Muhammad Hashim Dahri , Siti Umairah Tajol Anuar
This paper presents an investigation for the performance comparison of three different unit cell configurations operating at 26 GHz for 5G applications. The unit cells are cross shape dielectric resonator, cross microstrip patch and cross hybrid dielectric resonator. Verification of the comparison has been done by simulations using commercial Computer Simulation Technology Microwave Studio (CST MWS). The simulated results for reflection phase, slope variation, reflection loss and 10% bandwidth were analyzed and compared. The results indicate that the optimum configuration to be deployed for the reflectarray’s unit element in order to fulfill the 5G requirements of a wide bandwidth is the cross hybrid DRA. This configuration is a combination of cross DRA with cross microstrip patch as the parasitic element in order to tune the phase and provide a wide phase range with smooth variation slope. Cross hybrid DRA provided a wide phase range of 520° with 0.77 dB loss and 10% bandwidth of 160 MHz.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2531-2539
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Reliability Constrained Unit Commitment Considering the Effect of DG and DR Program

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp1985-1996
Masoud Aliakbari , Pouria Maghouli , Habib Allah Aalami
Due to increase in energy prices at peak periods and increase in fuel cost, involving Distributed Generation (DG) and consumption management by Demand Response (DR) will be unavoidable options for optimal system operations. Also, with high penetration of DGs and DR programs into power system operation, the reliability criterion is taken into account as one of the most important concerns of system operators in management of power system. In this paper, a Reliability Constrained Unit Commitment (RCUC) at presence of time-based DR program and DGs integrated with conventional units is proposed and executed to reach a reliable and economic operation. Designated cost function has been minimized considering reliability constraint in prevailing UC formulation. The UC scheduling is accomplished in short-term so that the reliability is maintained in acceptable level. Because of complex nature of RCUC problem and full AC load flow constraints, the hybrid algorithm included Simulated Annealing (SA) and Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) has been proposed to optimize the problem. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and considerable efficacy of the time-based DR program in reducing operational costs by implementing it on IEEE-RTS79.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 1985-1996
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Joint Routing and Congestion Control in Multipath Channel based on Signal to Noise Ratio with Cross Layer Scheme

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2207-2219
Istikmal Istikmal , Adit Kurniawan , Hendrawan Hendrawan
Routing protocol and congestion control in Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) have important roles in wireless mobile network performance. In wireless communication, the stability of the path and successful data transmission will be influenced by the channel condition. This channel condition constraints come from path loss and the multipath channel fading. With these constraints, the algorithm in the routing protocol and congestion control is confronted with the uncertainty of connection quality and probability of successful packet transmission, respectively. It is important to investigate the reliability and robustness of routing protocol and congestion control algorithms in dealing with such situation.  In this paper, we develop a detailed approach and analytical throughput performance with a cross layer scheme (CLS) between routing and congestion control mechanism based on signal to noise ratio (SNR) in Rician and Rayleigh as multipath fading channel. We proposed joint routing and congestion control TCP with a cross layer scheme model based on SNR (RTCP-SNR). We compare the performance of RTCP-SNR with conventional routing-TCP and routing-TCP that used CLS with routing aware (RTCP-RA) model. The analyses and the simulation results showed that RTCP-SNR in a multipath channel outperforms conventional routing-TCP and RTCP-RA.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2207-2219
Publish at: 2018-08-01

A Tiered Approach On Dimensional Reduction Process for Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease

10.11591/ijeecs.v11.i2.pp487-495
Wiharto Wiharto , Herianto Herianto , Hari Kusnanto
The use of dimensional reduction in the diagnostic system model of coronary heart disease, many same of case do not take into account the clinical procedures commonly used by clinicians in diagnosis. This requires that the examination be done thoroughly, thus making the high cost of diagnosis. This study aims to develop a tiered approach model in reducing dimensions for predicting CHD. The method in this research is divided into several stages, namely preprocessing, building the knowledge base and system testing. Preprocessing consists of several processes, namely the removal of missing value data, grouping attributes, and dividing data for training and testing. Knowledge base modeling is divided into three levels. The first level were the risk factor attributes, the second level were the type of chest pain & ECG, and the third were scintigraphy & coronary angiography. The knowledge base was modeled based on fuzzy rules and its inferencing process using Mamdani method. The first, fuzzy rule-based was obtained by using the FRS study. The second and third stage, using the induction rule algorithm to get the rule, then converted to fuzzy rule. The tested algorithm were C4.5, CART, and FDT. The system testing was performed by the 5-folds cross-validation method, with performance parameters based on population and individual. The test resulted using the Cleveland and Hungarian datasets, the FRS+CART combination was capable of reducing the most attributes and the highest likelihood ratio performance parameter, which was 15.96. FRS+C4.5, at least the attributes were reduced, but has an AUC performance of 80.43%, while FRS+FDT, more reduced attributes than FRS+C4.5, and AUC performance parameters are better than FRS+CART. Dimensional reduction model for prediction of CHD, capable of providing better performance than not tiered.
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Page: 487-495
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Age Invariant Face Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2126-2138
Mrudula Nimbarte , Kishor Bhoyar
In the recent years, face recognition across aging has become very popular and challenging task in the area of face recognition.  Many researchers have contributed in this area, but still there is a significant gap to fill in. Selection of feature extraction and classification algorithms plays an important role in this area. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks provides us a combination of feature extraction and classification in a single structure. In this paper, we have presented a novel idea of 7-Layer CNN architecture for solving the problem of aging for recognizing facial images across aging. We have done extensive experimentations to test the performance of the proposed system using two standard datasets FGNET and MORPH(Album II). Rank-1 recognition accuracy of our proposed system is 76.6% on FGNET and 92.5% on MORPH(Album II). Experimental results show the significant improvement over available state-of- the-arts with the proposed CNN architecture and the classifier.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2126-2138
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Development of a Spatial Path-Analysis Method for Spatial Data Analysis

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2456-2467
Wiwin Sulistyo , Subanar Subanar , Reza Pulungan
Path analysis is a method used to analyze the relationship between independent and dependent variables to identify direct and indirect relationship between them. This method is developed by Sewal Wright and initially only uses correlation analysis results in identifying the variables' relationship. Path analysis method currently is mostly used to deal with variables with non-spatial data type. When analyzing variables that have elements of spatial dependency, path analysis could result in a less precise model. Therefore, it is necessary to build a path analysis model that is able to identify and take into account the effects of spatial dependencies. Spatial autocorrelation and spatial regression methods can be used to develop path analysis method so as to identify the effects of spatial dependencies. This paper proposes a method in the form of path analysis method development to process data that have spatial elements. This study also discusses our effort on establishing a method that could be used to identify and analyze the spatial effect on data in the framework of path analysis; we call this method spatial path analysis.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2456-2467
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Handover Algorithm based VLP using Mobility Prediction Database for Vehicular Network

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2477-2485
Arfah A. Hasbollah , Sharifah H. S. Ariffin , Nurzal E. Ghazali , K. Mohamad Yusuf , Hiroaki Morino
This paper proposes an improved handover algorithm method for vehicle location prediction (VLP-HA) using mobility prediction database. The main advantage of this method is the mobility prediction database is based on real traffic data traces. Furthermore, the proposed method has the ability to reduce handover decision time and solve resource allocation problem. The algorithm is simple and can be computed very rapidly; thus, its implementation for a high-speed vehicle is possible. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, QualNet simulation is carried out under different velocity scenarios. Its performance is compared with conventional handover method. The superiority of the proposed method over conventional handover method in deciding the best handover location and choosing candidate access points is highlighted by simulation. It was found that VLP-HA has clearly reduced handover delay by 45% compared to handover without VLP, give high accuracy, hence low complexity algorithm.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2477-2485
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Analysis of Time Diversity Gain for Satellite Communication Link based on Ku-Band Rain Attenuation Data Measured in Malaysia

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2608-2613
Islam Md. Rafiqul , Ali Kadhim Lwas , Mohamed Hadi Habaebi , Md Moktarul Alam , Jalel Chebil , Jit Singh Mandeep , Alhareth Zyoud
This paper reports a study on mitigation of propagation impairments on Earth–space communication links. The study uses time diversity as a technique for mitigating rain propagation impairment in order to rectify rain fade. Rain attenuation time series along earth-to-satellite link were measured for two years period at 12.255 GHz in Malaysia. The time diversity technique was applied on measured rain fade to investigate the level of possible improvement in system. Time diversity gain from measured one-minute rain attenuation for two years period was estimated and significant improvement was observed with different delays of time. These findings will be utilized as a useful tool for link designers to apply time diversity as a rain fade mitigation technique in Earth-satellite communications systems.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2608-2613
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Enhancing Performance in Medical Articles Summarization with Multi-Feature Selection

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2299-2309
Susetyo Bagas Bhaskoro , Saiful Akbar , Suhono Harso Supangkat
The research aimed at providing an outcome summary of extraordinary events information for public health surveillance systems based on the extraction of online medical articles. The data set used is 7,346 pieces. Characteristics possessed by online medical articles include paragraphs that comprise more than one and the core location of the story or important sentences scattered at the beginning, middle and end of a paragraph. Therefore, this study conducted a summary by maintaining important phrases related to the information of extraordinary events scattered in every paragraph in the medical article online. The summary method used is maximal marginal relevance with an n-best value of 0.7. While the multi feature selection in question is the use of features to improve the performance of the summary system. The first feature selection is the use of title and statistic number of word and noun occurrence, and weighting tf-idf. In addition, other features are word level category in medical content patterns to identify important sentences of each paragraph in the online medical article. The important sentences defined in this study are classified into three categories: core sentence, explanatory sentence, and supporting sentence. The system test in this study was divided into two categories, such as extrinsic and intrinsic test. Extrinsic test is comparing the summary results of the decisions made by the experts with the output resulting from the system. While intrinsic test compared three n-Best weighting value method, feature selection combination, and combined feature selection combination with word level category in medical content. The extrinsic evaluation result was 72%. While intrinsic evaluation result of feature selection combination merger method with word category in medical content was 91,6% for precision, 92,6% for recall and f-measure was 92,2%.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2299-2309
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Text in Image Hiding using Developed LSB and Random Method

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2091-2097
Elaf Ali Abbood , Rusul Mohammed Neamah , Shaymaa Abdulkadhm
Information Hiding is a task that face difficult challenges in current time. The reason for these challenges is the rapid development of methods of detection of hidden information. So, researchers have been interested in developing methods of concealment, making it difficult for attackers to access hidden information using new methods of concealment. Such as the introducing a complex algorithms, use a random methods and invent more complicated and difficult steps. This paper presents a new method of hiding information within the image. This method creates a new sequence of mysterious and difficult steps by dividing the secret text on all image and random distributing of bits to each row. Then using a special reverse method to hide the bits in that row. The LSB method has also been developed to make it more difficult to hide the pixel. The results presented illustrate the strength and security of the method and provide greater protection for hidden information. Also, the result illustrate the quality of the stego image compared with the original image using PSNR and SSIM quality measures.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2091-2097
Publish at: 2018-08-01

Good Parameters for PSO in Optimizing Laying Hen Diet

10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2419-2432
Gusti Ahmad Fanshuri Alfarisy , Wayan Firdaus Mahmudy , Muhammad Halim Natsir
Manual formulation of poultry diet by taking into account the fulfillment of all nutrients requirement with least cost is a difficult task. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) shows promising technique to solve this problem. However, there is a lack of studying a good parameter for PSO to solve feed formulation problem since PSO is sensitive to control parameter which depends on the problem. Therefore, this study investigates good swarm size, total iterations, acceleration coefficients, and inertia weight to produce a better formula. PSO with proposed good parameters is compared with other parameters. The obtained result shows that PSO with good parameters choice produces the highest fitness. Furthermore, good parameters of PSO can be used as a reference for a software developer and for further research to optimize poultry diet using PSO.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page: 2419-2432
Publish at: 2018-08-01
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