— The electric power transmission systems of tomorrow must incorporate advanced hardware and software technologies to increase reliable long-distance power transfer. While new hardware technologies can improve transmission system capabilities, software technologies are also needed to coordinate these hardware technologies safely, securely, and effectively. To prevent system failures, future tra...

Communication is usually the most energy-consuming event in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). One way to significantly reduce energy consumption is applying transmission power control (TPC) techniques to dynamically adjust the transmission power. This article presents two new TPC techniques for WSNs. The experimental evaluation compares the performance of the TCP techniques with B-MAC, the stand...

in this paper, first, a new criterion, titled “surplus percent of the customers” is defined for static transmission expansion planning in restructured power systems. then by a simple example, the new criterion is compared with some already presented market-based criteria and it is shown that the new criterion can realistically evaluate the transmission network expansion from the market view. in...

Even though existing low-power listening (LPL) protocols have enabled ultra-low-power operation in wireless sensor networks (WSN), they do not address trade-off between energy and delay, since they focused only on energy aspect. However, in recent years, a growing interest in various WSN applications is requiring new design factors, such as minimum delay and higher reliability, as well as energ...

This paper proposes an algorithm for optimal placement of FACTS devices in transmission line to maintain the power system voltage stability and optimal sizing of the FACTS device. The aim of this paper is to improve voltage stability and reduce the total power losses. Here, voltage stability means no variation in the voltages of each bus beyond its boundaries and system stability is the ability...

In April 2003 the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed the Wholesale Power Market Platform (WPMP) for common adoption by U.S. wholesale power markets. The WPMP is a complicated market design encompassing real-time, day-ahead, ancillary, and financial transmission rights markets. Variants of the WPMP have been adopted in various parts of the U.S. (e.g., New England), but other regi...

In the deregulated power system, transmission pricing has become a very important task because it is necessary to develop an efficient, feasible and reliable pricing scheme that can generate the useful economic signals to network users such as generating companies, transmission companies, distribution companies and customers. The objective of this paper is to compare transmission usage and cost...

The power systems main emphasis is to provide a reliable and economic supply of electrical energy to the customers (Billinton & Allan, 1996). A real power system is complex, highly integrated and almost very large. It can be divided into appropriate subsystems in order to be analyzed separately (Billinton & Allan, 1996). This research deals with generation reliability assessment in power pool m...

We propose a low-power redundant flip-flop to be operated with high reliability over 1GHz clock frequency based on the low-power ACFF and the highly-reliable BCDMR FF. Its power dissipation is almost equivalent to transmission gate FFs at 10% data activity while paying 3x area penalty. Experiments by α-particle and neutron irradiation reveals its highly-reliable operations with no errors at 1.2...

A scalable multi-agent paradigm is presented for control of distributed energy resources to achieve higher reliability, higher power quality, and more efficient (optimum) power generation and consumption A dynamic hybrid multi-agent system is proposed in this paper as a means to achieve scalability for control of a large network of power generation, transmission, load, and compensation sources....