Autonomous wireless devices such as sensor nodes and stereo cameras, due to their low cost of operation coupled with the potential for remote deployment, have found a plethora of applications ranging from monitoring air, soil and water to seismic detection and military surveillance. Typically, such a network spans a region of interest with the individual nodes cooperating to detect events and d...

Distributed Generations (DGs) are utilized to supply the active and reactive power in the transmission and distribution systems. These types of power sources have many benefits such as power quality enhancement, voltage deviation reduction, power loss reduction, load shedding reduction, reliability improvement, etc. In order to reach the above benefits, the optimal placement and sizing of DG is...

This paper presents a new and useful methodology for simultaneous allocation of sectionalizer switches and distributed energy resources (DERs) considering both reliability and supply security aspects. The proposed algorithm defines the proper locations of sectionalizer switching devices in radial distribution networks considering the effect of DER units in the presented cost function and other ...

background: accurate diagnosis is key to success. diagnosing the pulpal status in varied clinical situations poses a challenge to the clinician. electric pulp test (ept) is one of the valuable attempts in evaluating the sensibility of pulp tissue. the aim of this study was to find out and compare the threshold levels and optimal electrode placement site for ept in fluorosed and nonfluorosed ant...

Let M be an m-sided simple polygon and N be an n-sided polygon with holes. In this paper we consider the problem of computing the feasible region i.e., the set of all placements by translation of M so that M lies inside N without intersecting any hole. First we propose an O(mn 2) time algorithm for computing the feasible region for the case when M is a monotone polygon. Then we consider the gen...

In wireless networks, coded caching is an effective technique to reduce network congestion during peak traffic times. Recently, a new concept called placement delivery array (PDA) was proposed to characterize the coded caching scheme. So far, only one class of PDAs by Maddah-Ali and Niesen is known to be optimal. In this paper, we mainly focus on constructing optimal PDAs. Firstly, we derive so...