IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP09TEN-PRT 978-1-4244-4546-2

TENCON 2009 – 2009 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Singapore 23-26 November 2009

Pages 1-636

TABLE OF CONTENTS

POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION I An Analytical Approach for Available Transfer Capability Assessment.......................................................................... 1

Yajing Gao, Jin Yang

Short Term Generation Scheduling of a Microgrid............................................................................................................ 7T. Logenthiran, Dipti Srinivasan

Application of Touring Ant Colony Optimization Technique for Optimal Power Flow Incorporating Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator......................................................................................................................... 13

S. Sreejith, K. Chandrasekaran, Sishaj P. Simon

Damping of Subsynchronous Resonance by Subsynchronous Current Injector with STATCOM .............................. 19Nagesh Prabhu, M. Janaki, R. Thirumalaivasan

Parallel Sequence Decoupled Full Newton-Raphson Three Phase Power Flow ............................................................. 25Syafii Ghazali, Khalid Mohamed Nor, Mamdouh Abdel-akher

Optimal Allocation of a Cross-Connection and Sectionalizers in Distribution Systems ................................................ 31I. Ziari, G. Ledwich, M. Wishart, A. Ghosh, M. Dewadasa

MEDIA PROCESSING I A Fast Image Reconstruction Algorithm using Significant Sample Point Selection and Linear Bivariate Splines .................................................................................................................................................................. 36

Rohit Verma, Gaurav Kumar Srivastava, Ruchika Mahrishi, Siddavatam Rajesh

Hybrid Approach for Structural Texture Synthesis ......................................................................................................... 42P. P. Bartakke, S. A. Vaidya, A. Ravikirn, M. S. Sutaone

Sequential Rhythmic Information Retrieval for Audio Similarity Matching ................................................................ 48Hui Li Tan, Yongwei Zhu, Lekha Chaisorn, Haibin Huang

Efficient Pre-Quantization Techniques Based on Probability Density for Speaker Recognition System..................... 53Gourav Sarkar, Goutam Saha

Harmony Search-based Cluster Initialization for Fuzzy C-Means Segmentation of MR Images................................. 59Osama Moh’d Alia, Rajeswari Mandava, Dhanesh Ramachandram, Mohd Ezane Aziz

Multi-Scale Level Set Based Curve Evolution for Real-Time Non-Rigid Object Contour Tracking ........................... 65Dae-Hwan Kim, Hyo-Kak Kim, Suryanto, Kang-Sun Choi, Sung-Jea Ko

ANALOG CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I Design of a 0.9-V 5-MHz Sampling Frequency 120-µW 1-Bit Fourth-Order Feedforward Sigma-Delta Modulator............................................................................................................................................................................. 70

El-Sayed Eid, Wagdy M. Gaber

Delay-dependent Robust Stability Criteria for Linear Uncertain Systems with Interval Time Varying Delay ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 74

K. Ramakrishnan, G. Ray

Analog Circuit Fault Diagnosis Based on Bandwidthand Fuzzy Classifier .................................................................... 80A. Kavithamani, V. Manikandan, N. Devarajan

A Low Power 700MSPS 4bit Time Interleaved SAR ADC in 0.18um CMOS ................................................................ 86Sanjay G. Talekar, S. Ramasamy, G. Lakshminarayanan, B. Venkataramani

Wide Output Swing Inverter Fed Modified Regulated Cascode Amplifier for Analog and Mixed-Signal Applications .............................................................................................................................................................. 91

Prateek Vajpayee, A. Shrivastava, S. S. Rajput, G. K. Sharma

A Sub-1µA Improved-Transient CMOS Low-Dropout Regulator without Minimal ESR Requirement..................... 96Jianping Guo, Ka Nang Leung

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS I Evaluation of Performance on Random Back-Off Interval and Multi-Channel CSMA/CA Protocols ...................... 102

Xiaofan Wang, Peter H. J. Chong, Leong Wai Yie

Outage and BER of Wireless Sensor Networks in Presence of Correlated Interferers................................................ 107U. Datta, Vishnu Vardhan, S. Kundu

A Reduced Complexity Channel Estimation Algorithm with Equalization.................................................................. 113Yau Hee Kho

Comparative Study for Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Based on MMSE Criteria in Multiuser MIMO Downlink System .................................................................................................................................................. 118

Cong Li, Yasunori Iwanami, Eiji Okamoto

Efficient Combining Technique with a Low-Complexity Detect-and-Forward Relay for Cooperative Diversity Scheme................................................................................................................................................................ 123

Azlan Abd Aziz, Yasunori Iwanami, Eiji Okamoto

Adaptive Interference Suppression Methods using Transform Domain Approach in an On-Board Filter Bank for Satellite Communications ....................................................................................................................... 129

Junil Ahn, Jongmoon Kim, Kiseon Kim

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE I The Use of Emerging Technology to Improve the Performance of Health Service Delivery....................................... 134

Belal Chowdhury, Clare D’Souza, Nasreen Sultana

Ant Colony Optimization with Null Heuristic Factor for Feature Selection ................................................................ 140Il-Seok Oh, Jin-Seon Lee

Optimal PID Controller for High-Speed Rail Pantograph System with Notch Filter.................................................. 146Zwe-Lee Gaing, Rung-Fang Chang

Bipedal Robot Locomotion using Multivariable Control ............................................................................................... 152Meinard C. Aclan, Manuel C. Ramos Jr.

Generalized Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems using Evolutionary Computation ........................................... 158Claudio A. Camasca, Akshya K. Swain, Nitish D. Patel

Evolutionary Design for Image Filter using GA ............................................................................................................. 164Zhiguo Bao, Takahiro Watanabe

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY I Operation and Control of a Microgrid Containing Inertial and Non-Inertial Micro Sources .................................... 170

Ritwik Majumder, Farhad Shahnia, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Michael Wishart, Firuz Zare

Optimal Sizing Stand-alone PV Systems in Terms of Extreme Value Theory ............................................................. 176Shin-Guang Chen

High Efficiency Hybrid Cascade Inverter for Photovoltaic Generation ....................................................................... 182Xiaonan Lu, Kai Sun, Yiwei Ma, Lipei Huang, Seiki Igarashi

Renewable Hybrid Stand-alone Telecom Power System Modeling and Analysis ........................................................ 188Prabodh Bajpai, N. P. Prakshan, N. K. Kishore

Assessment of Battery Energy Storage Systems for Small-Scale Renewable Energy Integration .............................. 194Niraj Garimella, Nirmal-Kumar C. Nair

On the Verification of Photocatalyst Applied to the PV Module Located at the Suburb of Tokyo ............................ 200Atsushi Horikawa, Ryo Takagi, Miki Kobayashi

MEDIA PROCESSING II Blind Watermarking in Audio Signals using Biometric Features in Wavelet Domain ................................................ 206

Malay Kishore Dutta, Phalguni Gupta, Vinay K. Pathak

Motion Adaptive De-interlacing Algorithm with Edge-based Low-Complexity Interpolation Method ..................... 211Gong-Zheng He, Chia-Hao Fang, Chih-Peng Fan

Decoding and Up-Sampling Optimization for Asymmetric Coding of Mobile 3DTV.................................................. 216Hailong Yang, Mei Yu, Gangyi Jiang

A Novel Hybrid Multispectral Image Fusion Method using Contourlet Transform ................................................... 220Tanish Zaveri, Ishit Makwana, Mukesh Zaveri

HMM-Based Speech Recognition using Adaptive Framing ........................................................................................... 226Yeh-Huann Goh, Paramesran Raveendran

A Segmentation Technique for Maxillary Sinus using the 3-D Level Set Method ....................................................... 231A. Jinda-apiraksa, S. H. Ong, L. T. Hiew, K. W. C. Foong, T. Kondo

ANALOG CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II Electronically Tunable Current-Mode Quadrature Oscillator using Current Differencing Transconductance Amplifiers........................................................................................................................................... 237

Montree Kumngern, Kobchai Dejhan

A Low Power Tuning Scheme for Low Frequency Continuous Time Filters ............................................................... 241B. Venkataramani, S. Ramasamy, P. Venkatasubbareddy

A Low-power Comparator with Programmable Hysteresis Level for Blood Pressure Peak Detection ..................... 247Xinbo Qian, T. Hui Teo

A Low Power Low Voltage Gain Controllable Sigma-Delta Modulator ....................................................................... 251Xinbo Qian, T. Hui Teo

An Efficient Low Voltage Buck Regulator in 180nm...................................................................................................... 255Rao Patri Sreehari, Prasad K. S. R. Krishna

A Bi-directional Autozeroing Amplifier for Designing Bi-directional Time-Continuous Frequency Mixer/Extractor ................................................................................................................................................................. 262

Mehdi Azadmehr, Yngvar Berg

WIRED AND WIRELESS NETWORKS An Application Layer Multi-source Multicast with Proactive Route Maintenance ..................................................... 266

Chia-Hui Huang, Kai-Wei Ke, Ho-Ting Wu

A Low Overhead Queue Status Report Scheme for QoS Support in WLANs.............................................................. 272Tsern-Huei Lee, Yu-Wen Huang, Chun-Chieh Yang

On Self-Stabilization of Multi Point Relays for Connected Dominating Set in Adhoc Networks ............................... 277Rajiv Misra

Voice Transmission over Local Area Network using Bluetooth .................................................................................... 283Arun Biradar, Ravindra C. Thool, Rajappa Velur

Advances in Mobility Management of DVB-H Mobile TV Systems ............................................................................. 289Hsin-Ta Chiao

Implementation of NAT Traversal for Mobile PPC with the Principle of Hole Punching .......................................... 295Hidekazu Suzuki, Keiji Terazawa, Akira Watanabe

DIGITAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS Hardware Architecture for Finding ShortestPaths ........................................................................................................ 301

K. Sridharan, T. K. Priya, P. Rajesh Kumar

Design of Luma and Chroma Sub-pixel Interpolator for H.264 Fractional Motion Estimation................................. 306Hoyoung Chang, Soojin Kim, Seonyoung Lee, Kyeongsoon Cho

Novel Low Power Noise Tolerant Dynamic Circuit Design Technique ......................................................................... 311Kaushik Mazumdar, Manisha Pattanaik, R. Bhanu Prakash

Diagnosis of Faults in Template-Based Asynchronous Circuits .................................................................................... 316Mohammad Moeini Jahromi, Behnam Ghavami

Assisting Abstraction and Verification of IP Modules by Control-Data Slicing .......................................................... 320Waseem Muhammad, Sophie Coudert, Rabéa Ameur-Boulifa, Renaud Pacalet

Power and Performance Optimization using Multi-Voltage, Multi-Threshold and Clock Gating for Low-End Microprocessors ................................................................................................................................................ 326

S. Qureshi, K. R. Sanjeev

POWER SYSTEM OPERATION, CONTROL AND PROTECTION I A Probabilistic Unit Commitment Problem with Photovoltaic Generation System..................................................... 332

Xiong Peng, Panida Jirutitijaroen

Operating Reserve of Thermal Unit Systems with Interruptible Loads ....................................................................... 338G. K. Toh, H. B. Gooi

An Inverse Time Admittance Relay for Fault Detection in Distribution Networks Containing DGs ......................... 344Manjula Dewadasa, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich

Harmonic Estimation in a Power System using Hybrid H∞-Adaline Algorithm ......................................................... 350H. K. Sahoo, P. K. Dash, N. P. Rath, B. N. Sahu

An Energy Saving Model Predictive Control for Central Air-Conditioning System ................................................... 356Zhangxian Wu, Guotian Yang, Xiangjie Liu, Xing Sheng, Pengchuan Song

Motor Controller Design for Hybrid Electric Vehicles................................................................................................... 362Yafu Zhou, Jing Lian, Dianting Cao, Wei Wang

PATTERN RECOGNITION Underline Removal Method by Utilizing Characteristics of Japanese Business Documents....................................... 368

Mitsuharu Oba, Yasuyuki Nozaki, Toshiko Matsumoto, Takashi Onoyama

An Improved Contralateral Subtraction Scheme for Detection of Pulmonary Nodules in Chest Radiographs ....................................................................................................................................................................... 374

Ryoichi Nagata, Yoshitomi Harada, Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Miyake

The Enhanced Face Recognition using Binary Patterns of Gabor Features................................................................. 382M. A. Jobayer Bin-Bakkre, Md. Tajmilur Rahman, Md. Alamin Bhuiyan

A Novel Grid Pattern Matching Technique with Hybrid Genetic Algorithm .............................................................. 388Gautam Garai, B. B. Chaudhuri

Statistical Reach Feature Method and Its Application to Robust Image Registration ................................................ 394Ryushi Ozaki, Yutaka Satoh, Kenji Iwata, Katsuhiko Sakaue

Mouth Motion Analysis with Space-Time Interest Points .............................................................................................. 400Hiroshi Hojo, Nozomu Hamada

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS A Fast-Locking All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop with a Novel Counter-Based Mode Switching Controller ........................................................................................................................................................................... 406

Guangming Yu, Yu Wang, Huazhong Yang, Hui Wang

Determining RF MEMS Switch Parameter by Neural Networks.................................................................................. 411Yasser Mafinejad, Abbas Z. Kouzani, Khalil Mafinezhad

A New Implementation of UHF RFID Reader ................................................................................................................ 416Huihui Li, Xuanqin Mou, Zhen Ji

Design and Implementation of a Generalized Parametrizable Modulator for a Reconfigurable Radio .................... 420Jagadeesh Gurugubelli, Indrajit Chakrabarti, Saswat Chakrabarti

A Study on 11 MHz ~ 1537 MHz DCO using Tri-state Inverter for DAB Application................................................ 426Byeung-geon Jeon, Yong Moon, Tae-won Ahn

Real-time, Non-vision Sensory Feedback During Minimally Invasive Surgery ........................................................... 431Safar Pour Abbas, Sunita Chauhan, Soo Jay Phee, Gih Keong Lau

COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES & SYSTEMS I Nonlinear System Identification of a Twin Rotor MIMO System ................................................................................. 437

Bidyadhar Subudhi, Debashisha Jena

Steady Action Model and Inter-agent Communication Method to Lead the User to an Alternative Action.................................................................................................................................................................................. 443

Nobumasa Satou, Kazumasa Takami

An Electronic Paper Craft Modeling System for Developing Geometric Sense ........................................................... 449Hiroaki Nishino, Jun-Ichi Hata, Tsuneo Kagawa, Kouichi Utsumiya

Neuro-Fuzzy Decision Trees for Content Popularity Model and Multi-Genre Movie Recommendation System over Social Network.............................................................................................................................................. 455

Rajen B. Bhatt

Iterative Knowledge Based Code Generator for IEC 61499 Function Block................................................................ 461K. M. Goh, W. Ding, B. Tjahjono

Development and Code Partitioning in a Software Configurable Processor ................................................................ 467Karan R. Shetti, C. L. Koh, M. T. Aung, T. Bretschneider

SOFTWARE AND DATABASE SYSTEMS I Bipartition Techniques for Quantitative Attributes in Association Rule Mining......................................................... 472

Gong-Mi Kang, Yang-Sae Moon, Hun-Young Choi, Jinho Kim

Sustaining Product Competitiveness with CSP on Product Configuration and Lifecycle Cost .................................. 478Lin Wang, Wee Keong Ng, Bin Song

Semantic Modeling for DCSP-based Product Configuration......................................................................................... 484Lin Wang, Wee Keong Ng

Malicious Computation Prevention Protocol for Secure Multi-Party Computation ................................................... 490Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Neha Koria, Nikhil Kapoor, Ravish Bahety

Analysis and Prediction Server with Column Store Database – A Case Study in Telecom Churn............................. 496L. Suresh, Jay B. Simha, Rajappa Velur

A Privacy Preserving Jaccard Similarity Function for Mining Encrypted Data ......................................................... 502Meena Dilip Singh, P. Radha Krishna, Ashutosh Saxena

POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION II Impedance-Based Fault Location Techniques for Transmission Lines......................................................................... 506

Maher M. I. Hashim, Hew Wooi Ping, V. K. Ramachandaramurthy

Reduced Complexity of Spread Spectrum OFDM for PAPR Reduction and its Basic Performance ......................... 512Hiroshi Kaiho, Takeshi Hattori

Application of Evolutionary Programming to Optimal Siting and Sizing and Optimal Scheduling of Distributed Generation ..................................................................................................................................................... 517

Allan C. Nerves, Jose Carlos K. Roncesvalles

Load Flow Analysis of 132 / 11 kV Distribution Sub Station using Static Var Compensator for Voltage Enhancement – A Case Study ........................................................................................................................................... 523

M. J. Katira, K. B. Porate

Detection of Lightly Damped Inter-Area Power Oscillations using Extended Complex Kalman Filter .................... 528Jimmy C.-H. Peng, Nirmal-Kumar C. Nair, Jian Zhang, Akshya Kumar Swain

A Novel Topology Structure of SVC Based on Energy Saving for Unbalanced Three Phase Compensation in Low Voltage Power System ................................................................................................................. 533

Yu Zhang, Jianhua Zhang, Aiguo Zhang

MEDIA PROCESSING III A Method for Signalling Block-Adaptive Quantization in Baseline Sequential JPEG ................................................ 538

Ramakrishna Kakarala, Ravikiran Bagadi

Removal of Impulse Noise from Color Image ................................................................................................................. 544R. H. Laskar, B. Bhowmick, R. Biswas, S. Kar

Complexity Reduced Multi-tier Perceptual Based Partial Encryption for Secure Speech Communication.................................................................................................................................................................. 549

R. H. Laskar, F. A. Talukdar, B. Bora, K. S. P. Fernando, J. Anthony, L. Doley

On the Use of Stress Information in Speech for Speaker Recognition .......................................................................... 555Narayana M. Laxmi, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Evaluation and Analysis of an Ordinal-based Approach to Video Signature............................................................... 559Tian Shiang Kok, Corey M. Manders, Lekha Chaisorn

Image Registration using Log-Polar Transform and Phase Correlation ...................................................................... 564Jignesh N. Sarvaiya, Suprava Patnaik, Salman Bombaywala

SIGNAL PROCESSING I Signal Processing Approach to Road Roughness Analysis and Measurement ............................................................. 569

Reyhaneh Hesami, Kerry J. McManus

Robust Video Watermarking Based On 3D-DWT Domain ........................................................................................... 575Sadik A. M. Al-Taweel, Putra Sumari

Estimating the Gauss-Markov Random Field Parameters for Remote Sensing Image Textures ............................... 581Rolando D. Navarro Jr., Joselito C. Magadia, Enrico C. Paringit

A Wavelet Based Teager Energy Operator for Spike Detection in Microelectrode Array Recordings...................... 587Nisseem Nabar, K. Rajgopal

Kurtosis Based Multichannel ECG Signal Denoising and Diagnostic Distortion Measures........................................ 593L. N. Sharma, S. Dandapat, A. Mahanta

Decomposition of Time Reversal Operator Method in a Small Elastic Scatterer ........................................................ 599Dinh-Quy Nguyen, Woon-Seng Gan

POWER ELECTRONICS I Bifurcation and Chaos in Current Mode Controlled DC Drives in Continuous and Discontinuous Conduction Mode of Operation........................................................................................................................................ 605

Biswarup Basak, Sukanya Parui

Simulation Analysis of Transient Behavior of Class E Amplfiier Due to Load Variation........................................... 611Takeshi Yasukouchi, Tadashi Suetsugu

Utility Power Supply Based on Indirect Matrix Converter for Electromagnetic Stirrer ............................................ 615Yang Mei, Xiaofan Ji, Zhengxi Li, Kai Sun

State Space Averaging Technique of Power Converter with Digital PID Controller................................................... 619M. F. N. Tajuddin, N. A. Rahim, I. Daut, B. Ismail, M. F. Mohammed

Multicarrier Pulse Width Modulation Methods Based Three Phase Cascaded Multilevel Inverter Including Over Modulation and Low Modulation Indices............................................................................................. 625

P. Palanivel, Subhransu Sekhar Dash

Design of a Low Swing Power-Efficient Output Stage for DC-DC Converters ............................................................ 631Jiahong Lao, Meng Tong Tan

POWER AND ENERGY I Design and Performance Evaluation of Subsynchronous Current Suppressor with SSSC ......................................... 637

Nagesh Prabhu, R. Thirumalaivasan, M. Janaki

Non-iterative Radial Network Power Flow with Parameter Uncertainties: Interval Mathematics............................ 643Dharmasa, C. Radhakrishna, H. S. Jain, S. Ravichander

Transmission Tariff for Restructured Indian Power Sector with Special Consideration to Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources........................................................................................................................................... 650

Randhir Singh, Y. R. Sood

Estimation of Power System Harmonics using Hybrid RLS-Adaline and KF-Adaline Algorithms ........................... 657B. Subudhi, P. K. Ray

Design of Low Power Rectenna for Wireless Power Transfer ....................................................................................... 663R. Selvakumaran, W. Liu, Boon-Hee Soong, Luo Ming, Y. L. Sum

Investigation on the Voltage Stresses Developed on Transformer Insulation under Non-Standard Terminal Excitations ......................................................................................................................................................... 668

Poulomi Mitra, Abhinandan De, Abhijit Chakrabarty

Power Transfer Capability Improvement of an Induction Generator Wind Energy Conversion System................................................................................................................................................................................. 673

Susanne Sugiarto, Syed Islam, Ahmed Abu-Siada

The Optimized Adaptive Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation for Four Switch Three Phase Inverter Under DC – Link Voltage Ripple Condition .................................................................................................... 679

Hong Hee Lee, Phan Quoc Dzung, Le Dinh Khoa, Le Minh Phuong

Direct Torque and Flux Controlled IPM Synchronous Motor Drive using a Hybrid Signal Injection and Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer .............................................................................................................................. 685

Gilbert Foo, M. F. Rahman

Compensation of Voltage Sags with Phase-Jumps Through DVR with Minimum VA Rating using PSO ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 692

R. Anil Kumar, G. Siva Kumar, B. Kalyan Kumar, Mahesh K. Mishra

Assessment of ANN-Based Auto-Reclosing Scheme Developed on Single Machine-Infinite Bus Model with IEEE 14-Bus System Model Data ............................................................................................................................ 698

Desta Zahlay Fitiwi, K. S. Rama Rao

Optimal Power Flow and Interline Power Flow Controllers using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique ........................................................................................................................................................................... 704

Khalid H. Mohamed, K. S. Rama Rao, Khairul Nisak Bt Md. Hasan

A Multi-Objective Bees Algorithm for Optimum Allocation of FACTS Devices for Restructured Power System ..................................................................................................................................................................... 710

R. Mohamad Idris, A. Khairuddin, M. W. Mustafa

Towards Indian Smart Grids............................................................................................................................................ 716V. S. K. Murthy Balijepalli, S. A. Khaparde, R. P. Gupta

Power Quality Monitoring in Distribution Network using Pseudomeasurement......................................................... 723S. R. K. Kanaesalingam, V. K. Ramachandaramurthy

Scheduling of Energy Storage in a Grid-Connected PV/Battery System via SIMPLORER ....................................... 729S. X. Chen, H. B. Gooi

Thermal Unit Systems with Wind Energy Penetration .................................................................................................. 734G. K. Toh, H. B. Gooi

Capacitor Planning of Power Systems with Wind Generators and PV Arrays ............................................................ 740S. X. Chen, H. B. Gooi

Interconnection of Two Micro Hydro Units Forming a Mini-grid System using Soft Connection ............................. 745B. Adhikary, B. Ghimire, P. Karki

Mathematical Modelling of DSM and Batteries Applied to a Medium Scale Milk Industry ...................................... 750P. Ravi Babu, V. P. Sree Divya

Search for an Optimal Multistage Charging Pattern for Lithium-Ion Batteries using the Taguchi Approach ............................................................................................................................................................................ 756

Yi-Feng Luo, Yi-Hwa Liu, Shun-Chung Wang

Active Stirling Engine........................................................................................................................................................ 761Vinod Kumar Gopal, Richard Duke, Don Clucas

Effective Energy-Saving on the Campus Classroom Lighting by Scheduling Management ....................................... 767Takuya Yokomizo, Ichiro Takano, Miki Kobayashi

Series–Parallel Reconfiguration Technique for Supercapacitor Energy Storage Systems.......................................... 773Masatoshi Uno

A Novel Line Start Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor using Two-Part Rotor ................................................... 778R. T. Ugale, A. Bhanuji, B. N. Chaudhari

A Practical Controller Design of Distributed Energy Resources for Stabilization of Interconnected Power System Based on Synchronized Phasor Measurements ...................................................................................... 783

S. Dechanupaprittha, M. Watanabe, Y. Mitani, K. Hongesombut, I. Ngamroo

POWER SYSTEM OPERATION, CONTROL AND PROTECTION II A Novel Robust Load Frequency Controller for a Two Area Interconnected Power System using LMI and Compact Genetic Algorithms .................................................................................................................................... 787

Chamnan Koisap, Somyot Kaitwanidvilai

Transmission Loss and Load Flow Allocations via Genetic Algorithm Technique ...................................................... 793Mohd Herwan Sulaiman, Mohd Wazir Mustafa, Omar Aliman

Evaluation of Discrete Wavelet Transform Implementation for Protective Relaying ................................................. 798Craig M. Smith, Nirmal-Kumar C. Nair

Design of a Discrete Linear Quadratic Gaussian (DLQG) Compensator for SSR Damping using a Sample Invariant Discrete Model of TCSC ..................................................................................................................... 803

K. C. Sindhu Thampatty, Elizabeth P. Cheriyan, M. P. Nandakumar

Development of a Composite Security Index for Static Security Evaluation................................................................ 809R. Sunitha, Kumar R. Sreerama, Abraham T. Mathew

An Alternative Approach to Analyze Un-symmetrical Faults in Power Systems......................................................... 815Daming Zhang

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS II A Finite-State Markov Channel Model for ACM Scheme in WiMAX.......................................................................... 821

Xuan-Thang Vu, Dinh-Thong Nguyen, Trinh Anh Vu

Bit Error Rate Improvement Scheme for Transmitted Reference UWB Systems ....................................................... 827Jaewoon Kim, Yoan Shin

A Hybrid TDMA Protocol Based Ultra-Wide Band for In-car Wireless Communication .......................................... 832Dat Tien Nguyen, Jack Singh, Hai Phuong Le, Ben Soh

Impacts of Refresh Interval Parameters on M-OLSR Performance for Wireless Mesh Networks ............................ 839Amrita Bose Paul, Sukumar Nandi

Improved Subspace Algorithm for a Wider Class of DCT and DST Codes ................................................................. 844A. Anil Kumar, Anamitra Makur

A Cross-layer Approach for QoS Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.................................................... 850Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Ronald Pose, Iqbal Gondal

NEW TRENDS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING Distributed Algorithm Design for Network Optimization Problems with Coupled Objectives .................................. 856

Jianwei Huang

Opportunistic Subchannel Scheduling for OFDMA Cellular Networks with Scheduling at Relay Stations ............................................................................................................................................................................... 862

Byung-Gook Kim, Jang-Won Lee, Sang Il Lee, Byoung In Cho

Throughput Maximization of SINR-based Spectrum Sharing Policy ........................................................................... 868Hano Wang, Dongkyu Kim, Gosan Noh, Daesik Hong

Game Theoretical Power Control for Open-Loop Network MIMO Systems with Partial Cooperation.................... 873Hao Yu, Shunqing Zhang, Vincent K. N. Lau, Xun Yang

Stability of Zero-Forcing SDMA with Limited Feedback .............................................................................................. 879Kaibin Huang, Vincent K. N. Lau

Wireless Small-World Networks with Beamforming...................................................................................................... 884Young Ju Hwang, Seung-Woo Ko, Sang Il Lee, Byoung In Cho, Seong-Lyun Kim

VISION, RECOGNITION AND BIOMETRICS I Fusion of Visual and Infrared Face Biometric Scores by Projection ............................................................................ 890

Kar-Ann Toh

Human Perception Inspired Exposure Correction using Total Variation Model ........................................................ 894Heechul Han, Kwanghoon Sohn

Image Hashing Enabled Technique for Biometric Template Protection ...................................................................... 900Fei Tan, Thian Song Ong, Connie Tee, Andrew B. J. Teoh

Face Detection Based on Eigenfaces and Legendre Moments........................................................................................ 905S. M. Jaisakthi, C. Aravindan

Fingertips Detection and Tracking based on Active Shape Models and an Ellipse...................................................... 910Sooyeon Kim, Younjung Park, Kyungmin Lim, Hyobin Lee, Sangki Kim, Sangyoun Lee

A Two-stage Algorithm for Core Point Detection in Fingerprint Images..................................................................... 916Tejas Joshi, Somnath Dey, Debasis Samanta

CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS Schmitt Trigger as an Alternative to Buffer Insertion for Delay and Power Reduction in VLSI Interconnects...................................................................................................................................................................... 922

Sandeep Saini, A. Mahesh Kumar, Sreehari Veeramachaneni, M. B. Srinivas

Evaluation of Maximum Length Pseudochaotic Sequences Obtained from Discretized Chaos Maps as a Source of Pseudorandom Numbers ............................................................................................................................... 927

Daisaburo Yoshioka, Akio Tsuneda

A Self-excitation Impulse Transmitter Based on Ring Oscillator for UWB Communication ..................................... 932Feng Chen , Sheng Zhang, Meng-Meng Liu, Jian-Liang Zhang, Xiaokang Lin

Realization of High Aspect Ratio Silicon Microneedles using Optimized Process for Bio Medical Applications........................................................................................................................................................................ 936

Md. Shofiqul Islam, Md. Nurul Abser, Md. Nurul Islam, Md. Tanjil Shivan

An Improved Nonlinear DC I-V Characteristics Model for Nanometer Range GaAs MESFETs ............................. 941M. S. Islam, Muhymin Islam, Mohammad Raziul Hasan, S. M. Naeemul Islam

Ultra Low-Power Sequential Circuit Implementation by a Quasi-Static Single Phase Adiabatic Dynamic Logic (SPADL)................................................................................................................................................... 946

M. Chanda, A. Dandapat, H. Rahaman

Design of an Impedance Measurement System for Living Cell Impedance Spectroscopy .......................................... 951Huey Jen Lim, Kunil Choe, Reboud Julien, Yu Chen, Minkyu Je, Xiaojun Yuan

A High Performance Thermal Noise-Canceling Transimpedance-Based Differential Amplifier ............................... 955Skawrat Wangtaphan, Varakorn Kasemsuwan

An Active-only High-output Impedance Current-mode Quadrature Oscillator using CCCCTA Based Lossless Differentiators ..................................................................................................................................................... 959

Supawat Lawanwisut, Montree Siripruchyanun

A Temperature-insensitive Simple Current-mode Squarer Employing Only Multiple-output CCTAs..................... 963Jongcharoen Kumbun, Supawat Lawanwisut, Montree Siripruchyanun

Hardware Implementation of 4x4 DCT/Quantization Block using Multiplication and Error-Free Algorithm ........................................................................................................................................................................... 967

Suvam Nandi, K. Rajan, Prasenjit Biswas

First and Higher Order Operator Based Fractional Order Differentiator and Integrator Models............................ 972P. Varshney, M. Gupta, G. S. Visweswaran

Design of Some Quaternary Combinational Logic Blocks using a New Logic System ................................................ 978Ifat Jahangir , Dihan Md. Nuruddin Hasan, Md. Shamim Reza

Verifying Firewall Circuits by Wave-Pipelined Operations .......................................................................................... 984Tomoaki Sato, Syuya Imaruoka, Masa-aki Fukase

Strain Effect on Single and Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes .................................................................................... 990Md. Abdul Wahab

An Analysis of a Quasi-One-Dimensional Structure Fabricated by Low-Energy Focused Ion Beam ........................ 995Peerasak Chantngarm

Effects of Interface Traps and Oxide Traps on Gate Capacitance of MOS Devices with Ultrathin (EOT ~ 1 nm) High-κ Stacked Gate Dielectrics .............................................................................................................. 999

A. T. M. Golam Sarwar, Mahmudur Rahman Siddiqui, Radwanul Hasan Siddique, Quazi Deen Mohd Khosru

Quantum Mechanical Effect on Determining Threshold Voltage of Trigate FinFET using Self-Consistent Analysis.......................................................................................................................................................... 1004

Emran Md. Amin, Md. Zunaid Baten, Raisul Islam, Quazi D. M. Khosru

Stepper Motor Performance Under Real-Time Multitasking Environment............................................................... 1009A. M. Azad, A. A. Amin, A. A. Faruk, M. A. Alam

Performance Characterization of an Optoelectronic Mixer (OEM) Model Based on Nonlinear InP/InGaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor ........................................................................................................... 1015

N. Mohamed, S. M. Idrus, A. B. Mohammad, H. Harun

1V High Performance Current Mirror for Low Voltage Analog and Mixed Signal Applications in Submicron Regime .......................................................................................................................................................... 1019

S. S. Rajput, Prateek Vajpayee, G. K. Sharma

Transient Current Sensing Based Completion Detection with Event Separation Logic for High Speed Asynchronous Pipelines................................................................................................................................................... 1023

T. Kumaran, M. Santhi, M. Srikanth, Narayana Srinivasan, M. Balaji , G. Lakshminarayanan

Electronically Tunable Current-Mode All-Pass Filter-Based High-Q Bandpass Filter using Minimum Elements ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1029

Montree Kumngern

High-Level Fault Simulation Methodology for QDI Template-Based Asynchronous Circuits ................................. 1033Behnam Ghavami, Alireza Tajary, Hamid-Reza Zarandi

Robust Input Shaping for Anti-sway Control of Rotary Crane................................................................................... 1039M. A. Ahmad, R. M. T. Raja Ismail, M. S. Ramli, R. E. Samin, M. A. Zawawi

Pulsed Laser Evaluation of Single Event Transients in Optocouplers ........................................................................ 1044Yingqi Ma, Guoqiang Feng, Jianwei Han

Amplitude Demodulation Based on Time-Varying Forced Input of Second-Order Oscillator Circuit.................... 1049K. Kittipute, J. Koseeyaporn, P. Wardkein

Analysis and Reduction of Ground Bounce Noise and Leakage Current During Mode Transition of Stacking Power Gating Logic Circuits........................................................................................................................... 1053

R. Bhanuprakash, Manisha Pattanaik, S. S. Rajput, Kaushik Mazumdar

Design & Simulation of a Novel 12 Bit Pipelined Analog to Digital Converter with Simplified Functional Block Modules using 0.35µ Technology ...................................................................................................... 1059

Neeru Agarwal

High Performance Sequential Circuits with Adiabatic Complementary Pass-Transistor Logic (ACPL)................ 1063Ch. Praveen Kumar, S. K. Tripathy, Rajeev Tripathi

A Study of DES and Blowfish Encryption Algorithm................................................................................................... 1067Tingyuan Nie, Teng Zhang

Design of a Fully Programmable Shader Processor for Low Power Mobile Devices................................................. 1071Woo-Young Kim, Bo-Haeng Lee, Kwang-Yeob Lee, Jae-Chang Kwak

Analysis of a Low Power Passive RFID Tag Based on Advanced CMOS Process for Wide Area Application ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1076

A. S. M. Shamsuzzaman, Arnab Roy, Sushanta Paul, Md. Ishfaqur Raza

Detection and Localization of Faults in Analog Integrated Circuits by Utilizing the Combined Effect of Output Voltage Gain and Phase Variation with Frequency .................................................................................... 1081

Avijit Saha, Fahim Rahman, Rubayet Al-Maruf, Hamidur Rahman, A. B. M. H. Rashid

BIO IMAGING PROCESSING A Non-stationary Time-series Modeling Approach for CT Image Reconstruction from Truncated Data................................................................................................................................................................................... 1087

K. P. Anoop, Kasi Rajgopal

Density Based Breast Segmentation for Mammograms using Graph Cut Techniques ............................................. 1093Nafiza Saidin, Umi Kalthum Ngah, Harsa Amylia Mat Sakim, Ding Nik Siong, Mok Kim Hoe

Deformable Rigid Body Hausdorff Registration for Multi-modal Medical Images ................................................... 1098Fahad Hameed Ahmad, Sudha Natarajan

Helical FDK Algorithms with No Backprojection Weight ........................................................................................... 1104A. V. Narasimhadhan, K. Rajgopal

SENSOR NETWORKS Range-free Localization Based on Hop-count Quantization in Wireless Sensor Networks....................................... 1109

Ma Di, Er Meng Joo, Wang Bang, Lim Hock Beng

Configuration of the Sensor Network for Personal Identification using Sole Pressure Distribution Data................................................................................................................................................................................... 1115

M. Shimono, S. Nose, M. Nishiyama, T. Kon, K. Watanabe, K. Takami

A New Algorithm to Improve Mobile Sensor Node Connectivity Based on Link Quality Indicator ........................ 1121Kartinah Zen, Daryoush Habibi, Iftekhar Ahmad

Bypassing Holes And Pockets in an Irregular Area for Deployment and Routing Sensors to Track a Moving Object.................................................................................................................................................................. 1127

Chandan Kr. Bhattacharyya, Swapan Bhattacharyya

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE II Adaptive Beamforming using Complex-valued Radial Basis Function Neural Networks ......................................... 1133

R. Savitha, S. Vigneswaran, S. Suresh, N. Sundararajan

Neuro-Fuzzy Algorithm Implemented in Altera’s FPGA for Mobile Robot’s Obstacle Avoidance Mission.............................................................................................................................................................................. 1139

Muhammad Nasiruddin Mahyuddin, Chan Zhi Wei, Mohd Rizal Arshad

Hardware in Loop Implementation and Analysis of a Neural Augmented Fault Tolerant Flight Controller for a High Performance Dynamic Fighter Aircraft Model on a Target Digital Signal Processor .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1145

Nagaraj Ramrao, T. V. Rama Murthy

A Hybrid Approach for Breast Tissue Data Classification .......................................................................................... 1151Dilip Kumar Prasad, Chai Quek, Maylor K. H. Leung

VISION, RECOGNITION AND BIOMETRICS II Breadth-first-based Decision Algorithm for Facial Biometrics ................................................................................... 1155

Cheng-Ho Huang, Jhing-Fa Wang

3D Facial Expression Recognition using Residues ........................................................................................................ 1160Ruchir Srivastava, Sujoy Roy

Authentication of Damaged Hand Vein Patterns by Modularization ......................................................................... 1165Chetana Hegde, Prabhu H. Rahul, D. S. Sagar, Prasad K. Vishnu, L. M. Patnaik

SIGNAL PROCESSING I An Efficient Least-Squares Design of IIR All-Pass Filter ............................................................................................ 1171

Lo-Chyuan Su, Yue-Dar Jou, Fu-Kun Chen

Averaging Analysis of Partial-Update Adaptive Filters ............................................................................................... 1176Kutluyil Do?ançay

Recent Trends and Challenges in Speech-Separation Systems Research – A Tutorial Review ................................ 1182Kollengode S. Ananthakrishnan, Kutluyil Do?ançay

Automatic Border Detection of Cardiac Cavity Images using Boundary and Triangle Equation............................ 1188Riyanto Sigit, Mohd. Marzuki Mustafa, Aini Hussain, Oteh Maskon, Ika Faizura Mohd. Noh

Viterbi Algorithm for Multi-Pattern Joint Decoding ................................................................................................... 1192Nishanth Ulhas Nair, T. V. Sreenivas

Non-invasive Lizard Identification using Signature Curves ........................................................................................ 1197Jim S. Jimmy Li, Damian Tohl, Sharmil Randhawa, Leili Shamimi, C. Michael Bull

Performance Analysis of Poly-Semantic Sequence for High Resolution Doppler Radar .......................................... 1202Mohd. Moazzam Moinuddin, Y. Mallikarjuna Reddy, I. A. Pasha, K. Lal Kishore

Novel Digital FM Demodulation..................................................................................................................................... 1208R. Punchalard, J. Koseeyaporn, P. Wardkein

Adaptive Audio Watermarking for Indian Musical Signals by GOS Modification ................................................... 1212Meenakshi R. Patil, S. D. Apte

Frequency Domain Identification of Hammerstein Systems........................................................................................ 1216Akshya K. Swain, David T. Westwick, Eric J. Perreault

FPGA Implementation and Resource Utilization for QRD-RLS Systolic Array for Signal Processing Applications...................................................................................................................................................................... 1222

K. R. Santha, Bharani Chakravarthy Chava, K. Bragadishwaran, K. Chandru

Automatic Neighborhood Selection for SAR Models Applied to Gray Texture ......................................................... 1227Mukul. Sutaone, Suhas Kakade, Prashant Bartakke

A Fragment Based Scale Adaptive Tracker with Partial Occlusion Handling ........................................................... 1232Nikhil Naik, Sanmay Patil, Madhuri Joshi

Estimation of Instants of Significant Excitation from Speech Signal using Temporal Phase Periodicity ................ 1238N. Sripriya, P. Vijayalakshmi, C. Arun Kumar, T. Nagarajan

Two-Stage Generalized Multilevel Modulus and Soft Decision-Directed Based Fast Blind Equalization for High-Order QAM Cable Systems............................................................................................................................. 1242

Hao-Jun Hu, Chih-Peng Fan

Bi-Directional Timing Recovery for Magnetic Recording Systems ............................................................................. 1247Chanon Warisarn, Pornchai Supnithi, Piya Kovintavewat

Suppression of MHD Artifacts on Single Channel ECG During Cardiac MRI ......................................................... 1251Bhargav Bhatt, M. Ramasubba Reddy

Lossy Compression of Encrypted Image by Compressive Sensing Technique ........................................................... 1255A. Anil Kumar, Anamitra Makur

Long Distance Person Identification using Height Measurement and Face Recognition .......................................... 1260Hsin-Chun Tsai, Wen-Chi Wang, Jia-Ching Wang, Jhing-Fa Wang

Selective Pole Modification-based Technique for the Analysis and Detection of Hypernasality .............................. 1264P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, Ra. V. Jayanthan

FPGA Implementation of a Novel Far-Field Sound Localization System................................................................... 1269Jhing-Fa Wang, Yung-Chuan Jiang, Zheng-Wei Sun

A Visual Navigation System of a Mobile Robot using Perspective Geometry ............................................................ 1273Sun Lili, Shigeru Uchikado

Warped Anisotropic Diffusion of Ultrasound Image .................................................................................................... 1279Balza Achmad, Mohd. Marzuki Mustafa, Aini Hussain

Wavelet Based Adaptive Bayesian Despeckling for Medical Ultrasound Images ...................................................... 1283A. K. Talukdar, B. Deka, P. K. Bora

Adaptive Order-Statistics Multi-Shell Filtering for Bad Pixel Correction within CFA Demosaicking.................... 1289Jim S. Jimmy Li, Sharmil Randhawa

Fast Mode Decision Algorithm for H.264/AVC Intra Prediction ................................................................................ 1295Amrita Ganguly, Anil Mahanta

Support Vector Regression Based S-transform for Prediction of Distribution Network Failure ............................. 1300M. F. Faisal, A. Mohamed

Optical Character Recognition System for Seven Segment Display Images of Measuring Instruments.................. 1306Rakhi P. Ghugardare, Sandip P. Narote, P. Mukherji, Prathamesh M. Kulkarni

A Discriminative GMM Technique using Product of Likelihood Gaussians .............................................................. 1312C. Arun Kumar, B. Bharathi, T. Nagarajan

Nonlinear Modelling of Renal Blood Flow of Kidneys ................................................................................................. 1316Alan Tzu-Yuan Wang, Akshya K. Swain, Sarah-Jane Guild

A Survey on Medical Digital Imaging of Endoscopic Gastritis.................................................................................... 1322Yasmin Mohd Yacob, Harsa Amylia Mat Sakim, Norain Baharudin, Lee Yeong Yeh, Nor Ashidi Mat Isa

Speech Based Watermarking for Digital Images .......................................................................................................... 1328Vandana S. Inamdar, Priti. P. Rege, Aarti Bang

A Subband/DCT Based Fast Mode Decision Algorithm for H.264.............................................................................. 1334Amrita Ganguly, Anil Mahanta

Planar Implementation of Butler Matrix Feed Network for a Switched Multibeam Antenna Array ...................... 1338Ajay P. Thakare, Rajendra N. Shelke

Residue Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation using Cyclic Prefix in OFDM Systems ............................................. 1341Qi Cheng

SIGNAL PROCESSING II A Real-Time Clustering System for Spatio-Temporal Signals from Network of Neurons ........................................ 1346

Kamal Hassan, K. Rajan, Sujit K. Sikdar

Traffic Sign Recognition by Bags of Features ............................................................................................................... 1352Kazumasa Ohgushi, Nozomu Hamada

Embedded Vision Systems for Ship Recognition .......................................................................................................... 1358Muhammad M. A. Zabidi, Jefri Mustapa, Musa M. Mokji, Muhammad N. Marsono, Ahmad Z. Sha’ameri

Towards Higher Accuracy and Better Noise-Tolerance for Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring using Doppler Ultrasound ......................................................................................................................................................... 1363

Chang Su Lee, Martin Masek, Chiou Peng Lam, Keng T. Tan

MEDIA PROCESSING IV Internal Memory Optimization Scheme for Spatial Scalable Inter-Layer Prediction ............................................... 1369

Jinha Choi, Jonghyun Bae, Jaeseok Kim

Object Segmentation using Block Based Patterns ........................................................................................................ 1375M. Mahmudul Hasan, M. Ameer Ali, M. Humayun Kabir, G. Sorwar

A Novel Method for Perceptually Adaptive Watermarking in Image Spatial Domains ............................................ 1381Masahiro Shimizu, Daisuke Mikami, Tadahiko Kimoto

Joint Source Coding-Transmission Power Control for H.264 Video Delivery ........................................................... 1387Yih Han Tan, Wei Siong Lee, Jo Yew Tham, Susanto Rahardja

IMAGE AND VIDEO, CODING, INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL Accurate H.264 Rate Control with New Rate-Distortion Models ................................................................................ 1393

Yih Han Tan, Zhengguo Li, Susanto Rahardja

PCA-Based Hierarchical Approach for Video Gradual Transition Detection in Compressed Domain ................... 1398Li Gao, Donghui Wang

A Novel Reconfigurable Operator Based IC Design Methodology for Multimedia Processing ................................ 1404Peng Dai, Xin’an Wang, Xing Zhang

Face Detection and Geometric Face Normalization...................................................................................................... 1409K. T. Talele, Sunil Kadam

OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS Ridge-Type Semiconductor Lasers with Antiguiding Cladding Layers for Horizontal Transverse Modes................................................................................................................................................................................ 1415

Hiroo Takada, Takahiro Numai

The Design and Analysis of a Scalable Optical Packet Switching Architecture ......................................................... 1421Ho-Ting Wu, Chia-Wei Tuan, Kai-Wei Ke

Low Complexity Design of the ROADMs by Integrating Spectral Equalization and Power Amplification Functions .................................................................................................................................................. 1427

Tsair-Liang Tsai, Jieh-Chian Wu

Lightpath Reconfiguration Management System for IP-over-CWDM Networks with ROADMs, Based on Equivalent Graph Method ......................................................................................................................................... 1431

Raja Zahilah, Soichiro Nishiuma, MD. Nooruzzaman, Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, Osanori Koyama, Yutaka Katsuyama

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES, SOFTWARE AND DATABASE SYSTEMS Privacy Preservation in k-Means Clustering by Cluster Rotation .............................................................................. 1437

S. S. Shivaji Dhiraj, Ameer M. Asif Khan, Wajhiulla Khan, Ajay Challagalla

Multi-Weighted Majority Voting Algorithm on Support Vector Machine and its Application................................ 1444Cheng-Ho Huang, Jhing-Fa Wang

Automatic Online Signature Verification: A Prototype using Neural Networks ....................................................... 1448Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Agileswari K. Ramasamy, Anis Salwa Mohd. Khairuddin, Jamaludin Omar

Gaussian Mixture Modeling of Rule Base to Track Maneuvering Targets, using Fuzzy EKF ................................. 1452R. Pradeepa, A. Unnikrishnan, V. Deepa, S. J. Mija

SLADO Semantic Lexical Alignment for Domain-specific Ontologies........................................................................ 1458Ahmad Adel Abu-Shareha, Rajeswari Mandava, Dhanesh Ramachandram

Economy-driven Resource Scheduling Framework to Accomplish the Practical Constraints in Computational Grid ........................................................................................................................................................ 1465

Youngjoo Han, Chan-Hyun Youn

A Rough Set Based Approach to Detect Plagiarism ..................................................................................................... 1471M. Bhavani, K. Thammi Reddy, M. Shashi

Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation using a Dual Artificial Neural Network ....................................................... 1479Wahidin Wahab

PSO Approach to Preview Tracking Control Systems ................................................................................................. 1485Nidhika Birla, Akhilesh Swarup

Mobile Guiding and Tracking Services in Public Transit System for People with Mental Illness............................ 1491Hung-Huan Liu, Yung-Ju Chen, Yu-Jen Chang, Wei-Hsun Chen

J2EE Framework Perspective for Security Augmentation .......................................................................................... 1495Pawan Kumar Verma, Neetu Singh, Rahul Katarya

Iterative Performance Bounding for Greedy-Threaded Process ................................................................................. 1501C. S. Wong, I. K. T. Tan, R. D. Kumari, K. P. Kalaiyappan

A New Risk Analysis Method for Data Backup Strategy ............................................................................................. 1508Bhavya Jayadevappa, Ben Soh

PEER: An Effective and Efficient Personal Website Organizer.................................................................................. 1514Spencer B. Guest, Pradeep K. Atrey, Sabu Emmanuel

Linearization Based on Fuzzy Rules Emulated Networks for Nonaffine Discrete-time Systems Controller ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1520

Chidentree Treesatayapun, Arturo Guzman-Carballido

Hybrid-Processors Real-Time Embedded Linux Platform .......................................................................................... 1526K. M. Goh, W. P. Moh, P. Kusolpalin, A. J. R. Aendenroomer, K. V. Ling, D. Ma

Applying Micro GA Concept for Problems with Large and Rugged Solution Space ................................................ 1531Rajashree Jain, G. S. Mani

Performance and Reliability Improvement of the Call Detail Record Processing System: A Case Study from a Telecommunication Enterprise ............................................................................................................... 1536

Nipakorn Siangzhee, Tiranee Achalakul

Implementing Spam Detection using Bayesian and Porter Stemmer Keyword Stripping Approaches ................... 1541Biju Issac, Wendy J. Jap

Intelligent Information Mining from Veterinary Clinical Records and Open Source Repository ........................... 1546Ploy Tangtulyangkul, Timothy S. Hocking, Chun Che Fung

Performance Requirement Elicitation for Financial Information System Based on Ontology ................................. 1552Honghong Jiang, Xiaohu Yang

Comparison of HSRNAFold and RNAFold Algorithms for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction......................... 1557Abdulqader M. Mohsen, Ahamad Tajudin Khader, Dhanesh Ramachandram

A Novel Clustering Method for Fuzzy Model Identification........................................................................................ 1563Meena Tushir, Smriti Srivastava

A CPU Provision Scheme Considering Virtual Machine Scheduling Delays in Xen Virtualized Environment .................................................................................................................................................................... 1568

Hyunsik Choi, Saeyoung Han, Sungyong Park, Eunji Yang

Capability of New Features from FTIR Spectral of Cervical Cells for Cervical Precancerous Diagnostic System using MLP Networks ....................................................................................................................... 1574

Yessi Jusman, Siti Noraini Sulaiman, Nor Ashidi Mat Isa, Intan Aidha Yusoff, Rohana Adnan, Nor Hayati Othman, Ahmad Zaki

Online Estimation and Control of Voltage Flicker using Neural Network ................................................................. 1580S. Srivastava, K. S. Preeti, Divy Jyoti Sharma, M. Gupta

PSO & Neural-Network Based Signature Recognition for Harmonic Source Identification .................................... 1586S. Srivastava, J. R. P. Gupta, M. Gupta

A Novel Seizure Prediction Method Based on Probability Density Distribution of Poincaré Chaos ........................ 1591Tsu-Wang Shen, Xavier Kuo, Yue-Loong Hsin

A Novel Fuzzy Logic Based Robust Speed Controller for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Servo Drive....................................................................................................................................................................... 1596

Daya J. L. Febin, V. Subbiah

Evolutionary Soft Computing Tools Based Tuning of PID Controller for EMA-AFC.............................................. 1600Venu Kishore Kadiyala, Ravi Kumar Jatoth, Sake Pothalaiah

Hardware Architecture and FPGA Implementation of a Parallel Elitism-based Compact Genetic Algorithm ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1606

Yutana Jewajinda, Prabhas Chongstitvatana

Cross Layer Based Biological Inspired Self-Organized Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network ................ 1612Kashif Saleem, Norsheila Fisal, Sharifah Hafizah, Sharifah Kamilah, Rozeha Rashid, Yakubu Baguda

Biometric Encryption using Fingerprint Fuzzy Vault for FPGA-based Embedded Systems ................................... 1618Rabia Bakhteri, Mohamed Khalil Hani

Minimizing the Garbage Collection Time in Flash Memory using Efficient Data Allocation Scheme ..................... 1623Amir Rizaan Rahiman, Putra Sumari

A Naive Bayesian Belief Network Model for Predicting Effort Deviation Rate in Software Testing ....................... 1628Fan Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Xiaochun Zhu, Lu Chen

An Approach of Optimal Path Generation using Ant Colony Optimization .............................................................. 1632Praveen Ranjan Srivastava, Km Baby, G. Raghurama

A Layered Architecture for Aspect Oriented Runtime Environment ......................................................................... 1638Dipankar Majumdar, Swapan Bhattacharya

Analysis of Object-Oriented Design: A Metrics Based Approach ............................................................................... 1644Ananya Kanjilal, Sabnam Sengupta, Swapan Bhattacharya

An Approach to Automatic Verification of Stochastic Graph Transformations........................................................ 1650M.Z. Mir-al-vand, M. Hajee

A Novel Approach to Minimizing the Risks of Soft Errors in Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems ............................... 1655Muhammad Sheikh Sadi, D. G. Myers, Cesar Ortega Sanchez, Jan Jurjens

Robust H∞ Fuzzy Control of Uncertain T-S Fuzzy Systems......................................................................................... 1661Li Qi, Junyou Yang, Yongcheng Zhao

Resourse Efficient 64-bit Floating Point Matrix Multiplication Algorithm using FPGA .......................................... 1666D. N. Sonawane, M. S. Sutaone, Inayat Malek

Automatic Development of Service Oriented Models using Graph Transformation Systems .................................. 1671Mehdi Raftari, Saba Joodaki

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY II A Markov Model for a Wind Energy Conversion System with Condition Monitoring ............................................. 1675

Saranga K. Abeygunawardane, Panida Jirutitijaroen

Wi-Fi Based Server in Microgrid Energy Management System.................................................................................. 1681L. K. Siow, P. L. So, H. B. Gooi, F. L. Luo, C. J. Gajanayake, Q. N. Vo

Neural Network-based Model for Estimation of Solar Power Generating Capacity ................................................. 1686Z. J. Chu, Dipti Srinivasan, Panida Jirutitijaroen

Design of a Micro Flywheel Energy Storage System Including Power Converter ..................................................... 1693Hak-in Lee, Ki-hyun Ji, Eun-Ju Yoo,Young-Woo Park, Myounggyu D. Noh

Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration for Maximum Power Transfer .......................................................................... 1699Lew Andrew R. Tria, Miguel T. Escoto Jr., Carl Michael F. Odulio

Dynamic Slip Control Topologies and Novel Control Strategy for Grid Connected Opti-Slip Induction Generator ........................................................................................................................................................ 1705

K. Vinoth Kumar, M. P. Selvan

MEDIA PROCESSING V A Perception-based Audio Watermarking Scheme ...................................................................................................... 1711

B. Lei, I. Y. Soon

Actuation of Prosthetic Drive using EMG Signal ......................................................................................................... 1715P. Geethanjali, K. K. Ray, P. Vivekananda Shanmuganathan

An Effective Blind Watermarking Scheme for Protecting Rightful Ownership of Digital Images........................... 1720M. A. Dorairangaswamy, B. Padhmavathi

Cochlear Implant Models Based on Critical Band Filters............................................................................................ 1726P. Vijayalakshmi, P. Mukesh Kumar, Ra. V. Jayanthan, T. Nagarajan

Fast Multi-Reference Picture Motion Estimation Algorithm using a Relation of Motion Vector with Distance of Each Frame .................................................................................................................................................. 1731

Juwon Byun, Jinha Choi, Jonghyun Bae, Jaeseok Kim

Audio Watermarking with Error-Correcting Code...................................................................................................... 1737Htay Htay Yee, Foo Say Wei

COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES & SYSTEMS II Location Management of Products in Display Cabinets at a Rental Shop using Multiple RFID Tags .................... 1742

Kyouhei Tanba, Kazumasa Takami

Video Surveillance for Elderly Monitoring and Safety ................................................................................................ 1748Arie Hans Nasution, Peng Zhang, Sabu Emmanuel

An Asymptotic Convergence Result for the Aggregation of Closed Fork-Join Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1754

Kutluyil Do?ançay

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm over GF(p) on a Residue Number System Enabled Microprocessor ................................................................................................................................................................ 1760

Zhining Lim, Braden J. Phillips, Michael Liebelt

Effective Operating System Scheduling Domain Hierarchy for Core-Cache Awareness .......................................... 1766Jun Wei Lam, Ian Tan, Boon Leong Ong, Chang Kian Tan

Introducing ePortfolios to Computer Science and Engineering Students: A New Zealand Experience................... 1773Ramesh K. Rayudu, Eva Heinrich, Madhumita Bhattacharya

SOFTWARE AND DATABASE SYSTEMS II Filmification of Methods: Convex Hull Algorithms...................................................................................................... 1779

Yutaka Watanobe, Rentaro Yoshioka, Shuichiro Tsukumoto, Nikolay Mirenkov

A Novel Architecture for Distributed Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Applications..................................... 1785Nguyen Duy Duong, A. S. Madhukumar, A. B. Premkumar, Ng Boon Chong

CRYPPAR: An Efficient Framework for Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining over Vertically Partitioned Data............................................................................................................................................................... 1790

Duc H. Tran, Wee Keong Ng, Wei Zha

Development of RFID Application System in Cargo Inbound and Outbound ........................................................... 1796Zhang Qinghua, Cheng Guoquan, Wang Zhuan, Wei Jun, Yan Dawei

Heterogeneous Sensors Alignment on ART for Map Construction............................................................................. 1802Wen-Yo Lee, Yu-Kuen Tsai, Chun-Wei Chen, Ta-Chih Hung, Min-Hao Lee

Frequent Items Mining Based on Weight in Data Stream ........................................................................................... 1808Ran Liang, Jianling Sun

NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS Effect of Fading Correlation in Relay Assisted Cooperative SIMO System ............................................................... 1811

Soumendra Nath Datta, Saswat Chakrabarti, Ranjan Gangopadhyay

On Designing a Customizable Network Management Station for WiMAX Network ................................................ 1817Dedi Rahmawan Putra, Kai-Wei Ke, Ho-Ting Wu

Crosstalk Modeling and Analysis of FBG-OC-Based Bidirectional Optical Cross Connects for WDM Networks........................................................................................................................................................................... 1823

Mohammad Rezaul Karim, S. P. Majumder

Thailand Equatorial F2-Layer Peak Height and Comparison with the IRI-2001 Model .......................................... 1829Noraset Wichaipanich, Pornchai Supnithi

Birefringence and Dispersion Properties of Elliptical Hollow Core Optical Fiber Under Hydrostatic Pressure ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1833

Ahmad Zubair, Saima Afroz Siddiqui, M. Shah Alam

Efficient Simulation of Terminated Convolutional Codes............................................................................................ 1838P. Wijesinghe, U. Gunawardana, R. Liyanapathirana

Burst Loss Rate Differentiation in Optical Burst Switching (OBS) Network ............................................................. 1841Md. Shamim Reza, Satya Prasad Majumder

A Gaussian Envelope Based Analysis of Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers using Photonic Crystal Fibers ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1846

Uma R. Rao, B. K. Lande

The Raman-Assisted Wavelength-Shift-Free Optical Phase Conjugator Based on Sagnac Fiber Loop .................. 1850Pasu Kaewplung, Vasin Sriwattanathamma

Proposal for a New Method to Alleviate Traffic Congestion in Wireless Mesh Network .......................................... 1854Toyoaki Higuchi, Akira Watanabe, Masashi Ito

Stability of Bandwidth Request Control Based on Dual Feedback in BWA Networks ............................................. 1860Nguyen Quoc Tuan, Dinh-Thong Nguyen

Performance of Regenerative Relay Network Operating in Uplink of Multi-Antenna Base Station under Rayleigh Fading Channel..................................................................................................................................... 1864

Himanshu Katiyar, R. Bhattacharjee

RSSI Measurements for Enabling IEEE 802.15.4 Coexistence with IEEE 802.11b/g................................................ 1869Nur Hija Mahalin, H. S. Sharifah, S. K. Syed Yusof, N. Fisal, R. A. Rashid

Proposal of Load-aware Dynamic Flooding over Ad Hoc Networks........................................................................... 1873Keisuke Utsu, Hiroshi Sano, CheeOnn Chow, Hiroshi Ishii

Grid-based Fault-Tolerant Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks................................................................. 1879Myeong-Hyeon Lee, Sung-Jib Yim, Yoon-Hwa Choi

Efficient Location Updates of Mobile Node in Wireless Sensor Networks ................................................................. 1884Rajiv Misra, Chittaranjan Mandal

Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Tilt and Soil Moisture Sensor Network for Slope Monitoring Applications ................................................................................................................................................. 1890

Rosanno J. C. de Dios, Jason Enriquez, Francis Gabriel Victorino Earl Anthony Mendoza, Marc Caesar Talampas, Joel Joseph Marciano Jr.

A Comparative Survey of Scheduling Mechanisms in the Internet............................................................................. 1896Yaser Miaji, Suhidi Hassan

A Novel Hybrid Architecture for Converging Packet and TDM Flows in a Single Platform ................................... 1902Roshan Parajuli, Carl McCrosky

A Synchronized MAC Protocol Considering Packet Generation Intervals in Wireless Sensor Networks........................................................................................................................................................................... 1908

Young Ik Kim, Bum-Gon Choi, Chang Seup Kim, Min Young Chung

Throughput of Cooperative MIMO Communications with FFR ................................................................................ 1913Hayato Ishii, Akiyo Yoshimoto, Takeshi Hattori, Takeo Ohseki, Toshinori Suzuki

An Inter-FA Handover Scheme to Improve Performance of Mobile WiMAX Systems ............................................ 1919Bum-Gon Choi, Kyung Pil Moon, Young Min Kwon, Min Young Chung

Capacity Analysis of Dual -SC and -MRC Systems over Correlated Hoyt Fading Channels ................................... 1924Rupaban Subadar, P. R. Sahu

Genetic Algorithm Based Efficient Positioning Error Compensation Technique with Low Computational Complexity ............................................................................................................................................. 1929

Seung Chun Bae, Jae Wook Park, Won Cheol Lee

New Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm Based Fuzzy-Logic for Ethernet PON........................................... 1935Nurul Asyikin Mohd Radzi, Norashidah Md. Din, Intan Shafinaz Mustafa, Sajaa Kh. Sadon, Mohammed Hayder Al-Mansoori

Delay-aware Call Admission Control Algorithm in 3GPP LTE System ..................................................................... 1941Sueng Jae Bae, Bum-Gon Choi, Min Young Chung, Jin Ju Lee, Sungoh Kwon

Internal Successive Reflection Model for Indoor UWB Communication ................................................................... 1947Navin Agarwal, R. Bhattacharjee

Two-tier Dynamic Address Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks ....................................................................... 1952Zhigao Du, Cui Zhang, Yangming Su, Depei Qian, Yi Liu

Enhanced Mobile Station Localization using a Hybrid TOA/AOA Map-Matching Algorithm................................ 1958Sameera Mahajan, Y. N. Singh

An Architecture of AWG-based WDM PON for Efficient Multiple Wavelength Multicasting ................................ 1964Xuan Trung Le, Sugang Xu, Yoshiaki Tanaka

Fault Tolerance in Survivable WDM Optical Networks using Hybrid Scheme: An Analytical Approach .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1970

P. C. Srikanth, D. Balaraju, M. V. Sathyanarayana, T. Srinivas

An Optical Fast-Frequency Hopping Code Division Multiple Access (OFFH-CDMA) System using Fiber Bragg Grating Array (FBGA) with Frequency-Overlapping Multigroup of Prime Codes............................. 1976

Miftahur Rahman, Kazi Noor Ahmed

Experimental Study of BWA System Applied in an Intermediate and Mountainous Area ...................................... 1982Makoto Ono, Yukiji Mikamo, Keisuke Ohtou, Masaharu Hata, Shigeru Tomisato

Cross Layer Error-control Scheme for Video Quality Support over 802.11b Wireless LAN ................................... 1987Yakubu S. Baguda, Norsheila Fisal, Sharifah Kamilah Yusof, Sharifah Hafizah Syed, Rozeha Rashid, Kashif Saleem

POWER SYSTEM OPERATION, CONTROL AND PROTECTION III A Novel Mathematical Morphology Filter for the Accurate Fault Location in Power Transmission Lines.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1992

Zhen Ji, Qiming Zeng, Jianghai Liao, Q. H. Wu

The Harmonic Impedances and Voltage Source Transients Model of 12 Pulse AC-DC Converters for Harmonic Flow Analysis using Discrete Wavelet Transform ...................................................................................... 1998

Chamni Jaipradidtham, Prayuth Inban

Power System Damping using GA Based Fuzzy Controlled SVC Device ................................................................... 2002Nuraddeen Magaji M. W. Mustafa, Z. bint Muda

Proposed Procedure for Estimation of Maximum Permissible Load Bus Voltage of a Power System within Reactive Loading Index Range ........................................................................................................................... 2009

Sumit Banerjee, Chandan Kumar Chanda

GP-Based Temperature Forecasting for Electric Load Forecasting ........................................................................... 2015Hiroyuki Mori, Daisuke Kanaoka

Computer Aided Optimized Design and Simulation of Synthetic Test Circuit for Testing 800kV Rating Circuit Breakers .................................................................................................................................................. 2020

J. G. Jamnani, S. A. Kanitkar

VLSI SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS VLSI Implementation of Discrete Mellin Transform for Real Time Scale Analysis of Images ................................ 2026

Amartya Mazumdar, Anindya S. Dhar

Software and Hardware Design of a Multi-cipher Cryptosystem................................................................................ 2032Chung-Ping Young, Yen-Bor Lin, Chung-Chu Chia

Efficient Implementations of S-Box and Inverse S-Box for AES Algorithm .............................................................. 2037Rashmi Ramesh Rachh, B. S. Anami, P. V. Ananda Mohan

Rhythmic Codebook of 300mV Precharge, 1ns, Low Power SRAM in Vector Quantizers....................................... 2043Mukul Sutaone, Madan Mali

Modelling of Complex Interconnect Structures ............................................................................................................ 2048Aayush Rustagi, Kanika Jain

FPGA Implementation of a High Speed VLSI Architecture for CORDIC................................................................. 2054B. Lakshmi, A. S. Dhar

POWER ELECTRONICS II Identification and Analysis of Operating Modes of Single-Phase Semi-Converter Fed Battery Charging Circuits using Extinction Angle Control Scheme - A Monograph.............................................................. 2059

R. Karthigaivel, N. Kumaresan, N. Ammasaigounden, G. Meena Devi

Learning Switched Mode Power Supply Design using MATLAB/SIMULINK.......................................................... 2065Wei-Hsin Liao, Shun-Chung Wang, Yi-Hua Liu

A Control Algorithm to Reduce Steady State Oscillation in Digital V2 DC-DC Converters ..................................... 2071Han Wei, Meng Tong Tan

Optimal Tuning of Multifunction Current Controller for Sigma Delta Modulation Inverter-Based Distributed Generation using PSO Method................................................................................................................... 2077

M. Davari, I. Salabeigi, G. B. Gharehpetian, S. H. Fathi, A. Kashefi Kaviani

Performance Study of Series Loaded Resonant Converter using Super Barrier Rectifiers ...................................... 2083Taufik Taufik, Michael McCarthy, Scott Watkins, Makbul Anwari

Simple Modulation and Control Method for New Extended Boost Quasi Z-source .................................................. 2088C. J. Gajanayake, H. B. Gooi, F. L. Luo, P. L. So, L. K. Siow, Q. N. Vo

TRAFFIC CONTROL Active E-mail System Protocols Monitoring Algorithm ............................................................................................... 2094

R. Sureswaran, Hussein Al Bazar, O. Abouabdalla, Ahmed M. Manasrah

Iterative Learning Control of Freeway Flow via Ramp Metering and Simulation on PARAMICS......................... 2100Xinjie Zhao, Dipti Srinivasan, Jianxin Xu

Cell-based Traffic Estimation from Multiple GPS-Equipped Cars............................................................................. 2106S. Sananmongkhonchai, P. Tangamchit, P. Pongpaibool

Delay-dependent Stability Criteria for Linear Systems with Multiple Time-Varying Delays................................... 2112K. Ramakrishnan, G. Ray

Performance of the Asynchronous Push-type Packet Compensation Methods for Road-to-Vehicle Broadcasting System ....................................................................................................................................................... 2118

Koichiro Hashiura, Hiromasa Habuchi

Implementation and Evaluation of a DCCP Module for Network Simulator 2 ......................................................... 2122Joel C. Perez, Roel M. Ocampo

POWER AND ENERGY II Cascaded Switched Capacitor Converters with Selectable Intermediate Taps for Supercapacitor Discharger ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2128

Masatoshi Uno

Effective Energy Conservation for the Agricultural Sector using Line Start Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors........................................................................................................................................................ 2133

R. T. Ugale, Gaurav Singh, Srinivas Baka, B. N. Chaudhari

An Intelligent Compensation Strategy for Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motors Drive ........................ 2138Junyou Yang, Lirong Guan, Yongcheng Zhao

A New Design for Four Switch Three Phase Inverter Based on FPGA for Induction Motor Control ..................... 2143Hong Hee Lee, Phan Quoc Dzung, Le Minh Phuong, Le Dinh Khoa

A Study on Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles ................................................................................................................ 2149Mojtaba Shams-Zahraei, Abbas Z. Kouzani

Integrated Energy Planning and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation – India Case Study .................................................... 2154John Arun Kumar, C. Radhakrishna

Design and Testing of Heuristic for Market Splitting in Electric Power Exchange ................................................... 2160Yogesh Bichpuriya, S. A. Soman, P. R. Apte

A Novel Modification of ARX to Generalize Crude Oil Consumption Model ............................................................ 2165Iwan Awaludin, Rosdiazli Ibrahim, K. S. Rama Rao

Power System Transient Analysis using Scale Selection Wavelet Transform ............................................................ 2171Rodney H. G. Tan, V. K. Ramachandaramurthy

Some Observations on Selection of Most Suitable Mother Wavelet for Measurement of Power System Harmonics using CWT.................................................................................................................................................... 2177

Abhineet Srivastava, Anurag Siddharth, Anil K. Singh, Asheesh K. Singh

Experimental Harmonic Analysis of a Network of Adjustable Speed Drives ............................................................. 2183Makbul Anwari, M. I. M. Rashid, M. Imran Hamid, Taufik

Leakage Current Harmonic Components: Indexes to Insulator Ageing .................................................................... 2187Nouruddeen Bashir, Hussein Ahmad

Single-Ended Traveling Wave Based Fault Location on Two Terminal Transmission Lines ................................... 2192Ngu Eng Eng, Krishnathevar Ramar

Optimum Generation Scheduling with Purchase of Power from Market and Grid .................................................. 2196Surekha R. Deshmukh, Dattatray J. Doke, Yogesh P. Nerkar

Appliance of Recurrent Neural Network toward Distance Transmission Lines Protection ...................................... 2201Anant Oonsivilai, Sanom Saichoomdee

Optimal Real and Reactive Power Dispatch for Zonal Congestion Management Problem for Multi Congestion Case using Adaptive Fuzzy PSO................................................................................................................. 2205

E. Muneender, D. M. Vinod Kumar

Energy Management for Interleaved PV Stand-Alone System with Incremental Conductance MPPT .................. 2211Guan-Chyun Hsieh, Hung-Liang Chen, Chia-Yuan Chang

Training for Safety in Deregulated Environment ......................................................................................................... 2217Ramesh K. Rayudu

Neural Network Excitation Control System for Transient Stability Analysis of Power System ............................... 2222T. Lachman, T. R. Mohamad

Analysis and Comparison of the Lightning Overvoltage in the AC Connected and VSC Based HVDC Connected Wind Farms .................................................................................................................................................. 2228

M. Davari, O. Alizadeh Mousavi, I. Salabeigi

Identification of Sources of Voltage Sags in the Malaysian Distribution Networks using SVM Based S-transform.......................................................................................................................................................................... 2234

Mohamed Fau’ad Faisal, Azah Mohamed

An Optimization Model for Risk Management in Natural Gas Supply and Energy Portfolio of a Generation Company ...................................................................................................................................................... 2240

Usama Asif, Panida Jirutitijaroen

Mitigation of Voltage Sag using Time-Ratio-Controlled Autotransformer ................................................................ 2246C. Venkatesh, B. Madhusudhan, D. V. S. S. Siva Sarma, M. Sydulu

A 50kW PEM Fuel Cell Inverter-Based Distributed Generation System for Grid Connected and Islanding Operation......................................................................................................................................................... 2252

Azuki Abdul Salam, Azah Mohamed, M. A. Hannan, Hussain Shareef

An Off-grid Model Setup for Wind Electric Conversion System................................................................................. 2257Muhammad Owais, Muhammad Saleheen Aftab

Analytical and Impedance Matrix Approach to Stochastic Assessment of Voltage Sags on Transmission Networks ................................................................................................................................................... 2262

R. Jeya Gopi, V. K. Ramachandaramurthy, M. T. Au, H. Ali

A Three Level Voltage Space Vector Generation for Open End Winding IM using Single Voltage Source Driven Dual Two-Level Inverter........................................................................................................................ 2268

K. Sivakumar, Anandarup Das, Rijil Ramchand, Chintan Patel, K. Gopakumar

Single-Phase Seven-Level Voltage Source Inverter with Low Switching Frequency ................................................. 2273Krismadinata Chaniago, Nasrudin Abd Rahim, Jeyraj Selvaraj

POWER AND ENERGY A Simple Routing Protocol for PLC-based AMR Systems........................................................................................... 2278

B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, E. Gunawan

Accelerated Insulation Aging in Phase Angle Controlled Single Phase Induction Motors........................................ 2283T. G. Arora, D. R. Tutakne, M. V. Aware

The Optimization of Illumination Management with the Integer Program ............................................................... 2288Y. C. Chin, S. Y. Chu

An Extended Rotor Flux Model for Sensorless Direct Torque and Flux Control of IPM Synchronous Motor Drives .................................................................................................................................................................... 2294

Gilbert Foo, M. F. Rahman

SIGNAL PROCESSING III Vascular Flow Rendering for Interactive Simulation of Contrast and Drugs Injection ............................................ 2300

Binh P. Nguyen, C. K. Chui, S. H. Ong, Stephen Chang

Implementation of a Phoneme Recognition System using Zero-Crossing and Magnitude Sum Function............................................................................................................................................................................ 2305

J. Manikandan, B. Venkataramani, P. Preeti, G. Sananda, K. V. Sadhana

Design of FIR Filter using Constrained L1 Minimization Method .............................................................................. 2310Chien-Cheng Tseng, Su-Ling Lee

A Constant-Modulus Algorithm for Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation in OFDM Systems ............................... 2315Qi Cheng

NETWORK SECURITY Performance Evaluation and Adaptive Optimization of COP-1: A Case with Security Enhancement.................... 2320

Lei Zhang, Chengjin An, Chaojing Tang

Securing Mobile Ad hoc Domain by Immune-Inspired Mechanism ........................................................................... 2326Yasir Abdelgadir Mohamed, Azween B. Abdullah

Adaptive Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Accurate Detection of Scanning Worms .............................................. 2332Tsern-Huei Lee, Sung-Yen Lee

DESIGN AUTOMATION Multi-Objective Circuit Design with Weight-Factor Optimization via Geometric Programming ........................... 2338

Theerachet Soorapanth

Directed Automated Symbolic Verification of Formal Properties with Local Variables .......................................... 2343Sourasis Das, Pallab Dasgupta, Ansuman Banerjee, Partha Pratim Das

Abstraction Refinement for State Space Partitioning Based on Auxiliary State Machines....................................... 2349Priyankar Ghosh, B Ramesh, Ansuman Banerjee, Pallab Dasgupta

A Navigation Methodology of an Holonomic Mobile Robot using Optical Tracking Device (OTD) ........................ 2355Muralindran Mariappan, Choo Chee Wee, Kumarheshan Vellian, Chow Kai Weng

NETWORKS, COMMUNICATIONS, CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS Full Custom Design of Comparators for LDPC Decoder ............................................................................................. 2361

Yong-jie Fan, Yue-kang Tan, Xiao-bo Jiang

A Novel Disturbance Observer Design and Application in HDDs for Disturbance Compensation .......................... 2365Chunling Du, Hui Li, Chin Kwan Thum, F. L. Lewis, Youyi Wang

Incorporating Local Variables in Mixed-Signal Assertions ......................................................................................... 2371Subhankar Mukherjee, Pallab Dasgupta

Control of SWCNT-interconnect Performance by Tube-diameter ............................................................................. 2376Mayank Kumar Rai, G. Spandana, Nivedita, S. Sarkar

Design and Implementation of a Closed-Loop Static Balance System for the YICAL Leg 2 Biped ......................... 2380F. J. O. Corpuz, B. C. Y. Lafoteza, R. A. L. Broas, M. Ramos Jr.

Reversible Logic Synthesis from Positive Davio Trees of Logic Functions................................................................. 2386Katsuyoshi Takahashi, Takashi Hirayama

FPGA-Based Embedded Hand Vein Biometric Authentication System ..................................................................... 2390P. C. Eng, M. Khalil-Hani

A Parallel Pipeline ADC with a Sub-ADC Employing an Improvized Dynamic Comparator.................................. 2395Sounak Roy, Sanjoy Kr. Dey, Swapna Banerjee

A Novel Simple Current-mode Multiplier/Divider Employing Only Single Multiple-Output Current Controlled CTTA............................................................................................................................................................. 2401

Nitiphat Pisutthipong, Montree Siripruchyanun

On Single Amplifier Bi-quadratic Topologies in Transimpedance Configuration..................................................... 2405P. V. Ananda Mohan

Simulation of Fault Injection of Microprocessor System using VLSI Architecture System ..................................... 2411Abhay Sharma, Bhupendra Singh

Case Study: Co-simulation and Co-emulation Environments Based on SystemC & SystemVerilog ....................... 2416Myoung-Keun You, Gi-Yong Song

Implementation of a Hardware Functional Verification System using SystemC Infrastructure.............................. 2420Myoung-Keun You, Yong-Jin Oh, Gi-Yong Song

A Proposed Symmetric and Balanced 11-T SRAM Cell for Cell for Lower Power Consumption ........................... 2425Ajay Kumar Singh, C. M. R. Prabhu, Soo Wei Pin, Ting Chik Hou

High Speed and High Throughput 8x8 Bit Multiplier using a Shannon-based Adder Cell....................................... 2429C. Senthilpari, K. Diwakar, Ajay Kumar Singh

4-bit Ripple Carry Adder using Two Phase Clocked Adiabatic Static CMOS Logic ................................................ 2434Nazrul Anuar, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Toshikazu Sekine

Thermal Optimization Formulation Strategies for Multi-Constraints Electronic Devices Placement on PCB ................................................................................................................................................................................... 2440

Fatimah Sham Ismail, Rubiyah Yusof

A Novel Reversible Blockade Transform for Hybrid Image Compression................................................................. 2446C. Hemasundara Rao, M. Madhavi Latha

Smart Digital Door Lock for the Home Automation .................................................................................................... 2451Yong Tae Park, Pranesh Sthapit, Jae-Young Pyun

Asynchronous Pipelined MB-OFDM UWB Transceiver on FPGA............................................................................. 2457M. Santhi, Sowjanya Tungala, C. Balakrishna, G. Lakshminarayanan

High Output-impedance Current-mode Third-Order Quadrature Oscillator Based on CCCCTAs ....................... 2462Supawat Lawanwisut, Montree Siripruchyanun

Polynomial Interpolation Codes for Reliable Multicast Data Distribution................................................................. 2466Hung-Min Sun, Shih-Ying Chang, Hsin-Ta Chiao

Design of a Reconfigurable Switch Architecture for Next Generation Communication Networks .......................... 2472M. Hema Lata Rao, Rajeev Tripathi

Ultra-Low-Power Data-Driven Networking System ..................................................................................................... 2478Hiroaki Nishikawa, Keisuke Utsu, Hiroshi Ishii, Makoto Iwata

The Effect of using XCAST Based Routing Protocol in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ................................................. 2483Faisal Y. Alzyoud, Tat-Chee Wan, Imad J. Mohamad

Cognitive Radio-based Power Adjustment for Wi-Fi ................................................................................................... 2488Rafiza Ruslan, Tat-Chee Wan

Optimizing the MPLS Support for Real Time IPv6-Flows using MPLS-PHS Approach ......................................... 2493Imad J. Mohamad, Tat-Chee Wan, Faisal Y. Alzyoud, Putra Sumari

Energy-Efficient Return-Path Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks......................................................................... 2499Wei Zha, Wee Keong Ng, Duc H. Tran

Entropy-Based Profiling of Network Traffic for Detection of Security Attack .......................................................... 2505Tsern-Huei Lee, Jyun-De He

Construction of Hierarchical Optical Broadcasting Systems for Intelligent Transport System ............................... 2510Yusuke Oka, Hiromasa Habuchi, Kouji Ohuchi, Koichiro Hashiura

Development of Server and System for the Second Life............................................................................................... 2515Fumikazu Iseki, Moo Wan Kim, Kwang Sik Kim

Research on the Ad-hoc Routing Protocol That Takes Account of Traffic Conditions ............................................. 2521Akira Morisaki, Akira Watanabe, Masashi Ito

EnvironSense: An Integrated System for Urban Sensing using RFID Based WSN’s ................................................ 2527Adnan Nasir, Boon-Hee Soong

Low-power Microcontroller for Wireless Sensor Networks ........................................................................................ 2532Digvijay Singh, Prashanth S. Sai, Sujan Kundu, Ajit Pal

Performance Analysis for 6loWPAN IEEE 802.15.4 with IPv6 Network ................................................................... 2538Arfah A. Hasbollah, Sharifah H. S. Ariffin, M. Ismi A. Hamini

An Efficient Algorithm for Placing Dispersion-Compensating Units in Wavelength-Routed Fiber Network ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2543

Ravevun Bunprachom, Pasu Kaewplung

Adaptive RLMS Algorithm for Antenna Array Beamforming.................................................................................... 2547Jalal Abdulsayed Srar, Kah-Seng Chung

ADDITIONAL PAPERS Analysis of the Electrical Characteristics of Novel ESD Protection Device with High Holding Voltage Under Various Temperatures......................................................................................................................................... 2553

Jong-Il Won, Hyun-Duck Lee, Kang-Yoon Lee, Kwi-Dong Kim, Yong-Seo Koo

The Design of DC-DC Converter with DT-CMOS for Portable Terminal ................................................................ 2557Ka-San Ha, Jae-Hwan Ha, Kang-Yoon Lee, Kwi-Dong Kim, Yong-Seo Koo

Multi-objective Genetic Approach for Analog Circuit Sizing using SVM Macro-model .......................................... 2561D. Boolchandani, Anupam Kumar, Vineet Sahula

Music Feature Analysis for Synchronization with Dance Animation.......................................................................... 2567Yongwei Zhu, Corey M. Manders, Farzam Farbiz, Susanto Rahardja

Evaluating Generalized Semi Markov Process Model of SoC Bus Architectures using HCFG................................ 2572Ulhas Deshmukh, Vineet Sahula

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