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Smartphone security is challenging and complicated. However. there are some easy ways to improve smartphone security: • Increase security awareness. Like a desktop PC or a laptop. a smartphone can be hacked. infected. or phished. Smartphone users should be aware of potential threats and attacks when installing software19 or authorizing …

Authentication schemes relying on per-packet signature and per-signature verification introduce heavy cost for computation and communication. Due to its constraint resources. smart grid’s authentication requirement cannot be satisfied by this scheme. Most importantly. it is a must to underscore smart grid’s demand for high availability. In this paper. we present …

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Second edition. provides a comprehensive overview of how waste-to-energy power plants (WTEs) can be built within or near cities to transform the non-recycled residues of society into electricity. heat. and metals.   With nearly one thousand WTE plants worldwide. waste …

A new digital distance relaying scheme presented in this paper provides adequate protection to series-compensated double-circuit lines during a simultaneous open conductor and ground fault. The proposed scheme is based on the derivation of the compensated values of impedance using the symmetrical components theory. It measures the correct value of …

In this study. based on the slope of the wind-turbine mechanical power versus rotation speed. a novel MPPT algorithm using neural network compensator is proposed to avoid the oscillation problem and effect of uncertain parameters in wind-turbine generation systems. Naturally. the characteristics of the wind-turbine rotation speed is determined by …

In this paper. we propose TRAM. a transductive multi-label classification method by label set propagation. At first. we formulate the task as an optimization problem which is able to exploit unlabeled data to obtain an effective model for assigning appropriate multiple labels to instances. Then. we develop an efficient algorithm …

In this paper. we proposed the routing protocol EP-LEACH by introducing EP-Function. We evaluated our protocol analytically and numerically and showed that it exhibits better performance than existing protocols. As future works. we plan to apply the proposed algorithm in our practical project. In this case. the influence of the …

In this paper. a VLSI architecture employing router-level redundancy. referred to as a quad-spare mesh. is proposed for fault tolerant NoC designs. This design deals with the problem that a faulty router breaks the communication between healthy PEs. The proposed design significantly improves a system’s reliability and its mean time …

Power loss due to the Joule effect in a distribution system can be very large. where the loss on TRs can account for a consid-erable portion. This paper proposes a method for optimal placement of capacitor banks to TRs for power loss reduction in radial distribution systems. The problem is …

Switching transients associated with circuit breakers have been observed for many years. Recently this phenomenon has been attributed to a significant number of transformer failures involving primary circuit breaker switching. These transformer failures had common contributing factors such as 1) primary vacuum or SF-6 breaker. 2) short cable or bus …