• An Approach for Energy Conservation Management Systems in Buildings 

      Ayoub N.; Musharavati F.; Pokharel S.; Gabbar H.A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Making decisions about energy conservation options in buildings can be rather problematic as they involve several tradeoffs between project stakeholders. Furthermore, the level of details required in making a decision by ...
    • ANN Model for Energy Demand and Supply Forecasting in a Hybrid Energy Supply System 

      Ayoub N.; Musharavati F.; Pokharel S.; Gabbar H.A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents short term demand and supply forecasting model for a microgrid supply system used to secure the electricity demands of a commercial building, using one year demand data collected in hourly base. One-year ...
    • Application of Fatty Acid Based Phase-Change Material to Reduce Energy Consumption from Roofs of Buildings 

      Sleiti, Ahmad K.; Naimaster, Edward J. ( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2016 , Article)
      Buildings account for a significant portion of the total energy consumption in the U.S., especially the energy-inefficient commercial building sector. As part of the future path toward realizing net zero energy buildings, ...
    • Comfort-based fuzzy control optimization for energy conservation in HVAC systems 

      Hussain, S.; Gabbar, H.A.; Bondarenko, D.; Musharavati, F.; Pokharel, S. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2014 , Article)
      The work presented herein illustrates the use of computational intelligence and optimization approaches for improving the fuzzy controller's performance in architectural heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system ...
    • Energy conservation-based thresholding for effective wavelet denoising of partial discharge signals 

      Hussein, Ramy; Shaban, Khaled Bashir; El-Hag, Ayman H. ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2016 , Article)
      Recent studies have shown that wavelet transform can effectively be used for noise reduction in the context of partial discharge (PD) signal detection and classification. Several thresholding approaches for wavelet denoising ...
    • Exploiting 4G mobile user cooperation for energy conservation: Challenges and opportunities 

      Hamdaoui, Bechir; Alshammari, Tamara; Guizani, Mohsen (2013 , Article)
      Recent years have witnessed tremendous success and popularity of mobile applications and services, resulting in an explosive growth in the number of mobile devices, as well as in the range and types of things these devices ...
    • Gearless Powertrain for Electric Vehicles 

      IQBAL, ATIF; Reddy, Prathap; Meraj, Mohammed ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      Electrical Machines are driving the modern world in one way or the other. The modern world is moving towards the sustainability of ecological systems and greener modes of transportation to stabilize the environmental ...
    • Green operator cooperation for radio frequency transmission minimization 

      Amamou, Lamis; Boujelben, Maissa; Ghazzai, Hakim; Bouallegue, Ammar; Besbes, Hichem ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      The increasing demand for reliable mobile services with faster communications speed requires high capital investment in the radio access networks. This leads to enormous energy consumption, high operational costs (OPEX), ...
    • Key performance indicators (KPIs) for evaluation of energy conservation in buildings 

      Hussain, Sajid; Gabbar, Hossam A.; Musharavati, Farayi; Pokharel, Shaligram ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      The main objectives of this paper are to: identify key performance indicators (KPIs) related to intelligent buildings (economical, environmental, reliability, and quality), and; propose a simulation framework for evaluation ...
    • Multihop transmission strategy using dijkstra algorithm to improve energy efficiency in WSNs 

      Abderrahim M.; Hakim H.; Boujemaa H.; Touati F. ( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Thanks to the development in the wireless communication technologies and the microelectronics domain, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are more and more omnipresent. The most important challenge of WSN is how to extend its ...
    • Optimization on ports activation towards energy efficient data center networks 

      Chkirbene Z.; Hamila R.; Foufou S.; Kiranyaz, Mustafa Serkan; Gabbouj M. ( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Nowadays, Internet of thing including network support (i.e. checking social media, sending emails, video conferencing) requires smart and efficient data centers to support these services. Hence, data centers become more ...
    • PEAM: A polymorphic, energy-aware MAC protocol for WBAN 

      Bouachir, Ons; Ben Mnaouer, Adel; Touati, Farid ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      In remote healthcare monitoring and care delivery, obtaining the right information at the right time is critical. For these systems, designing an efficient MAC protocol that is able to meet the challenges on network quality ...
    • Risk based life cycle assessment conceptual framework for energy supply systems in large buildings 

      Ayoub, Nasser; Musharavati, Farayi; Pokharel, Shaligram; Gabbar, Hossam A. ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)
      This paper proposes an environmental assessment framework that integrates the conventional life cycle assessment (LCA) with risk assessment for the purpose of evaluating energy conservation systems in buildings from ...