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Prevalence of coincidental correctness and mitigation of its impact on fault localization

Masri, Wes; Abou-Assi, Rawad Abu (2014)

The article examines the prevalence of coincidental correctness and mitigation of its impact on fault localization. Coverage-Based Fault Localization (CBFL) techniques seek to identify failure correlated program elements ...
Profiling of HEVC encoder

Saab, Farah; Elhajj, Imad H.; Kayssi, Ayman I.; Chehab, Ali (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014)

One of the serious challenges facing smartphones and other portable devices nowadays is battery life. A typical smartphone user will be running several applications on the device at any given time, and most of these ...
Hardware-oriented construction of a family of rate-compatible raptor codes

Zeineddine, Hady Ali; Jalloul, Louay M.A.; Mansour, Mohammad M. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014)

A family of architecture-aware Raptor codes is constructed. The proposed construction scheme is targeted to design rate-compatible structured codes that span a wide range of rates and block sizes while still having ...
Improved accuracy of anticoagulant dose prediction using a pharmacogenetic and artificial neural network-based method

Isma’eel, Hussain A.; Sakr, George E.; Habib, Robert H.; Almedawar, Mohamad Musbah; Khoueiry-Zgheib, Nathalie; Elhajj, Imad H. (2014)

Background: The unpredictability of acenocoumarol dose needed to achieve target blood thinning level remains a challenge. We aimed to apply and compare a pharmacogenetic least-squares model (LSM) and artificial neural ...
An energy efficient Genetic Algorithm based approach for sensor-to-sink binding in multi-sink wireless sensor networks

Safa, Haidar; Moussa, Mathieu; Artail, Hassan Ali (2014)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are ad-hoc networks in which sensors, that are designed to relay data back to sink nodes and/or Base Stations, are deployed in an area and may be configured in real time. Sensors, however, ...
Compact circularly polarized multiband antennas for RFID applications

El Misilmani, Hilal M.; al-Husseini, Mohammed; Kabalan, Karim Y.; El-Hajj, Ali (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)

This paper presents multiband circularly polarized (CP) antennas for radio frequency identification (RFID). A coax-fed and a microstrip-line-fed antennas having optimized cross-slots in their patches are first designed for ...
Quality-of-service-Aware cluster-based service discovery approach for mobile ad hoc networks

Artail, Hassan Ali; Safa, Haidar; Salameh, Paul; Chedrawi, Salim; El Khoury, Pierre (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2014)

This paper presents a quality-of-service (QoS) distributed service discovery approach for mobile ad hoc network environments. The approach builds upon a clustered topology, where the clusterhead (CH) is assigned additional ...
An energy-aware design methodology based on kernel optimizations

Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hajj, Hazem M.; El-Hajj, Wassim; Mansour, Mohammad M.; Kayssi, Ayman I.; Chehab, Ali (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2014)

The goal of this paper is to present a design methodology for developing energy aware algorithms. The key idea revolves around identifying operations called kernels, which are frequently used operations in the algorithm ...
Minimum loss operation of distribution networks with photovoltaic generation

Jabr, Rabih A. (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014)

The proliferation of photovoltaic generation in distribution networks requires assessing the control schemes that achieve minimum loss operation without requiring excessive switching of conventional equipment, for instance ...
Frequency-tunable and pattern diversity antennas for cognitive radio applications

Ramadan, Ali H.; Costantine, Joseph; Tawk, Youssef A.; Christodoulou, Christos G.; Kabalan, Karim Y. (2014)

Frequency-tunable microstrip antennas, for cognitive radio applications, are proposed herein. The approach is based on tuning the operating frequency of a bandpass filter that is incorporated into a wideband antenna. The ...
Blind spectrum sensing using symmetry property of cyclic autocorrelation function: From theory to practice

Safatly, Lise; Aziz, Babar; Nafkha, Amor; Louët, Yvës; Nasser, Youssef; El-Hajj, Ali; Kabalan, Karim Y. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)

Spectrum sensing has been identified as the key step of the cognition cycle and the most important function for the establishment of cognitive radio. In this paper, a blind cyclostationary feature detector, which is based ...
The shared-taxi problem: Formulation and solution methods

Hosni, Hadi El; Naoum-Sawaya, Joe; Artail, Hassan Ali (Elsevier Ltd, 2014)

With the rising fuel costs, ride sharing is becoming a common mode of transportation. Sharing taxis which has been prominent in several developing countries is also becoming common in several cities around the world. Sharing ...
Distribution voltage control considering the impact of PV generation on tap changers and autonomous regulators

Agalgaonkar, Yashodhan P.; Bikash C. Pal, Bikash Chandra; Jabr, Rabih A. (2014)

The uptake of variable megawatts from photovoltaics (PV) challenges distribution system operation. The primary problem is significant voltage rise in the feeder that forces existing voltage control devices such as on-load ...
A Quasi-Feed-In-Tariff policy formulation in micro-grids: A bi-level multi-period approach

Taha, Ahmad F.; Hachem, Nadim A.; Panchal, Jitesh H. (Elsevier Ltd, 2014)

A Quasi-Feed-In-Tariff (QFIT) policy formulation is presented for micro-grids that integrates renewable energy generation considering Policy Makers' and Generation Companies' (GENCOs) objectives assuming a bi-level ...
Fair optimization of video streaming quality of experience in LTE networks using distributed antenna systems and radio resource management

Yaacoub, Elias E.; Dawy, Zaher M. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)

Network quality of experience (QoE) metrics are proposed in order to capture the overall performance of radio resource management (RRM) algorithms in terms of video quality perceived by the end users. Metrics corresponding ...
Optimal power allocation for a FCHV based on linear programming and PID controller

Fares, Dima A.; Chedid, Riad B.; Karaki, Sami H.; Jabr, Rabih A.; Panik, Ferdinand H.; Gabele, Hugo; Huang, Ying (Elsevier Ltd, 2014)

Hybrid electric vehicles positively influence the transportation industry with regards to reducing the use of fossil fuels and minimizing polluting emissions. A class of such vehicles incorporates fuel cells and energy ...
ServBGP: BGP-inspired autonomic service routing for multi-provider collaborative architectures in the cloud

Itani, Wassim; Ghali, César; Bassil, Ramzi; Kayssi, Ayman I.; Chehab, Ali (2014)

In this paper we propose the design and implementation of ServBGP, a service routing protocol for managing service collaboration among cloud providers in cloud computing. ServBGP is based on the policy-driven design of the ...
Hybrid positioning data fusion in heterogeneous networks with critical hearability

Yassine, Ali A.; Nasser, Youssef; Awad, Mariette; Uguen, Bernard (Springer International Publishing, 2014)

In this paper, we propose and investigate a hybrid positioning data fusion technique for heterogeneous networks in critical transmission scenarios. The focus is on two scenarios: the small indoor scenario combining Wi-Fi ...
A generic interference model for uplink OFDMA networks with fractional frequency reuse

Tabassum, Hina; Dawy, Zaher M.; Alouini, Mohamed Slim; Yilmaz, Ferkan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014)

Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) has emerged as a viable solution to coordinate and mitigate cochannel interference (CCI) in orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA)-based wireless cellular networks. The ...
Generating profile-based signatures for online intrusion and failure detection

Masri, Wes; Abou-Assi, Rawad Abu; el-Ghali, Marwa (2014)

Context Program execution profiles have been extensively and successfully used in several dynamic analysis fields such as software testing and fault localization. Objective This paper presents a pattern-matching approach ...

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