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The main objective of this work is to provide an electric supply to remote Iranian villages that have no access to electricity grid using a stand-alone hybrid system. The hybrid systems considered in this study consist of a photovoltaic array, wind turbine, diesel generator, and battery storage. Measured wind speed data was used for a wind turbine energy production model. The hybrid system optimized the electricity supply of villages with 6, 14, 20, 40, and 60 households in Bojnord, Moorchekhort, Kish, Langroud, Khash, and Meshkinshahr. The main purpose of this optimization is to find an economical system configuration that is able to fulfill the energy requirements of a given load... 

Secure routing is a major key to service maintenance in ad hoc networks. Ad hoc nature exposes the network to several types of node misbehavior or attacks. As a result of the resource limitations in such networks nodes may have a tendency to behave selfishly. Selfish behavior can have drastic impacts on network performance. We have proposed a Misbehavior-Tolerant Multipath Routing protocol (MTMR) which detects and punishes all types of misbehavior such as selfish behavior, wormhole, sinkhole and grey-hole attacks. The protocol utilizes a proactive approach to enforce cooperation. In addition, it uses a novel data redirection method to mitigate the impact of node misbehavior on network... 

Cooperative communication exploits wireless broadcast advantage to confront the severe fading effect on wireless communications. Proper allocation of power can play an important role in the performance of cooperative communication. In this paper, we propose a distributed gametheoretical method for power allocation in bidirectional cooperative communication networks. In this work, we consider two nodes as data sources who want to cooperate in sending data to the destination. In addition to being data source, each source node has to relay the other's data. We answer the question: How much power each node contributes for relaying other node's data? We use Stackelberg game which is an... 

Wind speed is the most important parameter in the design and study of wind energy conversion systems. The weibull distribution is commonly used for wind energy analysis as it can represent the wind variations with an acceptable level of accuracy. In this study, the wind data for 11 cities in Iran have been analysed over a period of one year. The Goodness of fit test is used for testing data fit to weibull distribution. The results show that this data fit to weibull function very well. The scale and shape factors are two parameters of the weibull distribution that depend on the area under study. The kinds of numerical methods commonly used for estimating weibull parameters are reviewed. Their... 

The estimation of the wind resource at the hub height of a wind turbine is one of the primary goals of site assessment. Since in a majority of cities the wind speed is measured at lower heights, the power law model is applied to estimate the wind speed at higher heights. In this study, the wind data for 10 cities in Iran have been analyzed over a period of one year. The accuracy of the power law model to estimate the wind speed has been examined with variations of height and time during this year. The energy production of a wind turbine using the measured wind speeds and the speeds estimated by the power law model were compared. The measured data revealed that in some cities the wind speed... 

In this paper we consider the problem of joint location and pricing optimization for a firm in a heterogeneous market producing a single product. We assume that customers have a different willingness to pay for the product. We consider two classes of customers who are not uniformly distributed in the market and develop an analytical framework to determine the relationship between the optimal price and location of the firm. We demonstrate that the optimal price and location are closely related to each other, and thus there is a need for simultaneous optimization of the price and location. We provide both analytical and numerical results to illustrate the impact of transportation cost and the... 

Travel demand information in the form of the origin–destination (OD) matrix plays an essential role in studying urban traffic management and network design. The present study takes a novel step toward urban traffic analysis using data mining of processed images of real-time traffic maps as a location-based data model, in which the data were analyzed by software programs such as KNIME and Python workspaces and comparing the results with the conventional traffic assignment results. Thus, we investigated a real-time OD matrix based on the trip-per-vehicle by automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) cameras for the congestion charge zone (CCZ) of Tehran, Iran. The obtained matrix was assigned... 

Copper matrix composites reinforced with TiO2particles are promising materials widely used as contact materials due to their excellent mechanical and physical properties such as good electrical and thermal conductivity and strength at high temperature. In this research, the novel contact material were prepared by in-situ oxidation of Cu-Ti pre alloyed powders. The morphology of milled powders and microstructure of nano-composite specimens were studied by SEM and TEM. To evaluate mechanical alloying progress of Cu and Ti powders mixture and internal oxidation after Cu2O addition, XRD analysis were carried out. The Physical and mechanical properties results of specimens indicate that the... 

In this study the authors present an in-depth study, analysis and discussion on maximum likelihood (ML)-based receiver for a typical spectrally encoded spread-time CDMA in the presence of multiple narrowband interference (NBI) signals in an additive white Gaussian noise channel. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate that by combining useful properties of ML-based receiver and three-level codes, that is, codes with values of -1, 0, +1, the authors can introduce a new strategy in which superior performance with respect to previous receiver structure based on two-level codes, that is, codes with values of -1, +1, can be attained. With the help of an example, the authors drive, first, the... 

In this study, the effect of film preparation conditions on the gas permeation properties of polyethylene (PE) and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) films (containing 18 and 28wt% vinyl acetate) was investigated. Film blowing and phase inversion methods were applied in the production of PE and EVA films, respectively. The permeation of pure oxygen and carbon dioxide gases was measured at room temperature. The results indicated that with the increase of PE film thickness, permeability and solubility of O2 and CO2 in these films decreased; but the diffusivities of gases through PE films increased. In addition, in the case of EVA copolymers, by increasing the content of vinyl acetate, the... 

This article investigates the effect of T6 heat treatment on microstructure and mechanical properties of hot extruded in-situ Al-15wt%Mg 2Si composite. This composite has already been introduced as a new class of light materials but the brittle structure of the primary Mg 2Si which is formed during solidification limits its application. As-cast composite was directly extruded as rod by using three different dies. Microstructure after this type of extrusion was studied by optical and scanning electron microscopy. Results demonstrated that extruded and heat treated composite possesses considerably higher strength and enhanced ductility in comparison with the as-cast samples. It was also found...