Pakistan is a gas rich but power poor country. It consumes approximately 1, 559 Billion cubic feet of natural gas annually. Gas is transported around the country in a system of pressurized transmission pipelines under a pressure range of 600-1000 psig exclusively operated by two state owned companies i.e. SNGPL (Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited) and SSGCL (Sui Southern Gas Company Limited). T...

A metering scheme is a method by which an audit agency is able to measure the interaction between clients and servers on the web during a certain number of time frames. Naor and Pinkas 7] considered metering schemes in which any server is able to construct a proof to be sent to the audit agency if and only if it has been visited by at least a number, say h, of clients in a given time frame. In ...

This paper presents an unconventional approach for work-zone bottleneck traffic control through integrating the dynamic late merge with a merge metering via wireless communication at the downstream taper area of a work zone, termed as Dynamic Merge Metering Traffic Control System (DMM-Tracs). The architecture and communication system for the DMM-Tracs, including system components, communication...

Climate change, awareness of energy efficiency, new trends in electricity markets, the obsolescence of the actual electricity model, and the gradual conversion of consumers to prosumer profiles are the main agents of progressive change in electricity systems towards the Smart Grid paradigm. The introduction of multiple distributed generation and storage resources, with a strong involvement of r...

In order to decide on advertisement fees for web servers, Naor and Pinkas 7] introduced metering schemes. They proposed metering schemes in which any server is able to construct a proof to be sent to an audit agency if and only if it has been visited by at least a certain number, say h, of clients. Afterwards, the authors of 3] generalized the idea of Naor and Pinkas and proposed metering schem...

We apply model predictive control to optimally coordinate variable speed limits and ramp metering. The basic idea is that speed limits can increase the (density) range in which ramp metering is useful. For the prediction we use a slightly adapted version of the METANET traffic flow model that takes the variable speed limits into account. The optimal control signals aim at minimizing the total t...

 Ramp metering has been recognized as one of viable strategies of freeway traffic management, which may improve travel speed as well as reduce delay. In this study, a dynamic model is developed to optimize metering rates of a series of on-ramps which maximize the total throughput subject to vehicle density, roadway capacity, and queue length constraints with simultaneous perturbation stochasti...

Currently, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems have equipped the low voltage section with a communication system that is being used mainly for metering purposes, but it can be further employed for additional applications related to the Smart Grid (SG) concept. This paper explores the potential applications beyond metering of the available channel in a Power Line Communication-based A...