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  • A probabilistic bundle relay strategy in Two-Hop vehicular delay tolerant networks 
    Fawaz, Wissam F.; Khabbaz, Maurice J.; Assi, Chadi M. (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    A persisting major challenge in Vehicular Delay- Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) is the delay minimization of data delivery when communicating nodes are stationary, arbitrarily deployed along roadsides and considerably apart ...
  • Policy-based service provisioning architecture for hybrid photonic networks 
    Fawaz, Wissam; Chen, Ken; Pujolle, Guy; Daheb, Belkacem (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    Optical networks are becoming an inevitable technology in the next generation Internet. Optical WDM networks require a control network for automatic and rapid configuration. A control plane is under standardization by the ...
  • Policy-based hybrid hierarchical optical networks 
    Fawaz, W.; Daheb, B.; Audouin, O.; Berde, B.; Chen, K.; Pujolle, G. (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    This document presents provisioning strategies for emerging hybrid optical networks. The idea is to make use of policy-based management that guides the behavior of a network through high-level declarative directives. In ...
  • Policy-based provisioning in hybrid photonic networks 
    Fawaz, W.; Daheb, B.; Audouin, O.; Berde, B.; Chen, K.; Pujolle, G. (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    The aim of this work is to present provisioning strategies for GMPLS-enabled Hybrid Photonic Networks (HPN). Contributing to network flexibility, the paper presents extensions to the management system of these transparent ...
  • DSA-based V2I communication under the microscope 
    Fawaz, Wissam; Assi, Chadi; Khabbaz, Maurice (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    This paper presents a consice yet comprehensive description of a DSA-based Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication system operating under spectral scarcity conditions. Existing mathematical models for such a system ...
  • Priority-aware optical shared protection coupled with mutation probability 
    Fawaz, Wissam; Khabbaz, Maurice (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    The next big challenge for optical network operators is to meet the diverse availability requirements of the various subscribed services through the adoption of appropriate protection strategies. One promising scheme that ...
  • Modeling and analysis of bulk bundle release schemes in Two-Hop vehicular DTNs 
    Fawaz, Wissam; Khabbaz, Maurice J.; Assi, Chadi M. (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    The use of vehicular infrastructure to establish connectivity between isolated stationary Information Relay Stations is an appealing application of Terrestrial Delay-Tolerant Networking. A source opportunistically releases ...
  • Modeling and simulating electronic textile applications 
    Nakad, Zahi; Sheikh, Tanwir; Edmison, Joshua; Jones, Mark; Martin, Thomas (ACM, 2017-05-04)
    This paper describes our design of a simulation environment for electronic textiles (e-textiles) and our experiences with that environment. This simulation environment, based upon Ptolemy II, enables us to model a diverse ...
  • Using piezoelectric materials for wearable electronic textiles 
    Nakad, Z.; Edmison, J.; Jones, M.; Martin, T. (IEEE, 2017-05-04)
    An open issue for electronic textiles (e-textiles) used for wearable computing is the choice of materials. This paper describes the desirable characteristics of piezoelectric materials for wearable e-textiles, including ...
  • Improved signal conditioning circuit design for ionic polymer transducers as sensors 
    Nakad, Zahi; Akle, Barbar J. (SPIE, 2017-05-04)
    Several researchers are actively studying Ionomeric polymer transducers (IPT) as a large strain low voltage Electro- Active Polymer (EAP) actuator. EAPs are devices that do not contain any moving parts leading to a potential ...
  • Analyzing the use of e-textiles to improve application performance 
    Nakad, Z.; Jones, M.; Martin, T.; Shenoy, R.; Sheikh, T.; Lehn, D.; Edmison, J.; Chandra, M. (IEEE, 2017-05-03)
    E-textiles are an alternative to radio-based personal area networks, with potentially significant advantages in hardware cost and energy consumption, through a reduction in the number of communication modules and the energy ...
  • A Service Backplane for E-Textile Applications (2002) 
    Nakad, Zahi; Jones, Mark; Martin, Tom (2017-05-03)
    E-textile technology is rapidly progressing, allowing for the development of truly wearable computers as well as very large-scale computing textiles. Efficient development of applications on etextiles will require significant ...
  • Communications in electronic textile systems 
    Nakad, Z.; Jones, M.; Martin, T. (2017-05-03)
    Abstract- Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are emerging as a novel method for constructing electronic systems in wearable and large area applications. This new type of processing system merges textile and electronic ...
  • Integration of renewable energy technologies in the lebanese electric power system 
    Ghajar, Raymond (Iafor, 2017-05-03)
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of Renewable Energy (RE) development in Lebanon and to investigate the policy options that must be adopted in order to accelerate the realization of the Government’s ...
  • A practical approach to evaluating the marginal outage costs in generating systems 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R. (IEEE, 2017-05-03)
    This paper presents a fornialized and p ra c t i ca I iii a r gi n a I outage costs in generating systems for the piirposes of spot pricing. The proposed iiictliod Involves cstiniating tlic economic costs incurred by ...
  • Transmission equipment reliability using the Canadian Electrical Association information system 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; Filippelli, F.; Del Bianco, R. (IET, 2017-05-03)
    Canadian electric power utilities have been collecting and processing transmission equipment reliability data as part of the Canadian Electrical Association Equipment Reliability Information System (CEA-ERIS) since 1978. ...
  • The Canadian Electrical Association approach to transmission and distribution equipment reliability assessment 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; Filippeli, F.; Del Bianco, R. (IEEE, 2017-05-02)
    The Canadian Electrical Association (CEA) is an electric utility based organization for exchanging information on technical, marketing and managerial problems of mutual interest to its members. CEA adopted a proposal in ...
  • A user-friendly and fast program for the simulation of power system faults 
    Ghajar, R.F.; Saikali, K. (IEEE, 2017-05-02)
    A primary function of electric utilities is to provide electric service to its customers as economically as possible and with reasonable degrees of continuity and duality. These objectives can be achieved by putting into ...
  • The roles of natural gas and regional energy exchanges in mitigating GHG emissions 
    Ghajar, Raymond F.; Chedid, Riad B. (IEEE, 2017-05-02)
    This paper develops a planning strategy that makes use of natural gas and regional energy exchanges in mitigating GHG emissions in the electricity sector of Lebanon for the period extending till 2020. In this respect several ...
  • Evaluation of the energy policy for Lebanon 
    Ghajar, Raymond; Hamdan, Hassan (IEEE, 2017-05-02)
    The Lebanese Electric Power System (LEPS) suffers from technical and financial deficiencies that required the development of a policy paper to rescue it from its drastic situation to a new sustainable, reliable, and efficient ...

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