The widespread adoption of battery energy storage systems (BESS) has been hindered by the uncertainty of their financial value. In past research, this value has been estimated by optimizing the system’s actions over the course of the battery’s lifetime. However, these estimates did not consider the fact that battery actions decrease the lifetime itself. This paper uses realistic battery cycle d...

Growing concern over detrimental noise in densely populated areas has called for improvements in the sound insulation of our building spaces. While laminated safety glass has been optimized for safety and security and offers effective screening of UV-radiation as an additional benefit, its acoustic performance – although superior to monolithic glass – has not been given full consideration in th...

OFDM is a special kind of Multi Carrier modulation technique which forms the basis for 4G Wireless system. OFDM is a key broadband technology that can supports data rates in excess of 100 Mbps that is essential for next generation 4G broadband communication.. Peak To Average Power ratio is one of the serious problems in OFDM technology that is problem of extreme excursions of transmitted signal...

In this paper several methods are presented that allow improved compression of JPEG image files. This is mainly achieved through segmented entropy coding in reference to the EOBs (End-of-Block) of the 8x8 DCT transformed macroblocks. All of the algorithms discussed here are implemented in the freely available JPEG compression software 'packJPG' [9]. Our approach reduces baseline JPEG image file...