O. Rehman

COMSATS University Islamabad | CUI · Department of Electrical Engineering

Distributed photovoltaic (PV) systems are growing rapidly owing to considerable reduction in PV panel prices, renewable energy supporting policies, and technological advancements in inverter and controller designs. The variability and non-dispatchability of PV energy generation affect the reliability and stability of the electricity grid, leading t...

Tendency towards installation of distributed photo-voltaic (PV) systems has led to an increased emphasis on grid frequency control. Grid-interactive buildings equipped with heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system has a great potential to regulate the frequency in renewable energy resources rich grids. This paper integrates distribute...

This paper performs parameter optimization of proportional-integral (PI) and repetitive controller (RC) with a new objective function by adding two degrees of freedom for a three-phase boost power factor correction (PFC) rectifier. The main objectives are to optimize the multiple control loop parameters for total harmonics distortion (THD) reductio...

Photovoltaic (PV) self-consumption curtailment is believed to be one of the effective techniques to mitigate the effects of high PV penetration on the power system operation. This study investigates the impact of PV self-consumption curtailment on Building to Grid (B2G) operations based on a parameter “g”. The performance parameters of B2G system i...

Incorporating fluctuant and intermittent nature wind power and solar photovoltaic (PV) power in the power system lead to significant challenges for system planning and operation which are risen from uncertainties associated with renewable energy. This paper placed emphasis on OPF problem. Bird swarm algorithm (BSA) is employed to optimize power gen...

Incorporating fluctuant and intermittent nature wind power and solar pho-tovoltaic (PV) power in the power system lead to significant challenges for system planning and operation which are risen from uncertainties associated with renewable energy. This paper placed emphasis on OPF problem. Bird swarm algorithm (BSA) is employed to optimize power ge...

The integration of Smart Grid (SG) with cloud computing promises to develop an improved energy management system for utilities and consumers. New applications and services are developed which create large amount of data to be processed on cloud. Fog computing as an extension of cloud computing which helps to mitigate load on cloud data centers. In...

Due to the recent development in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have become a major area of interest for the developers and researchers. Human body exhibits postural mobility due to which distance variation occurs and the status of connections amongst sensors change time to time. One of the maj...

Simulating wireless sensor networks; there implementation and evaluation, require the use of a discrete event simulator. Omnet++ is quite a powerful simulator which supports concise and easy modeling of wired as well as wireless sensors environment. Scenarios involving multimedia transmissions with characteristics of video quality control and evalu...

p class="Default">Simulating wireless sensor networks; there implementation and evaluation, require the use of a discrete event simulator. Omnet++ is quite a powerful simulator which supports concise and easy modeling of wired as well as wireless sensors environment. Scenarios involving multimedia transmissions with characteristics of video quality...

Due to small size of sensor nodes deployed in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), energy utilization is a key issue. Poor channel conditions lead to retransmissions and hence, result in energy wastage. Error control strategies are usually utilized to accommodate channel impairments like noise and fading in order to optimize energy consumption for netw...

Due to small size of sensor nodes deployed in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), energy utilization is a key issue. Poor channel conditions lead to retransmissions and hence, result in energy wastage. Error control strategies are usually utilized to accommodate channel impairments like noise and fading in order to optimize energy consumption for netw...

One of the major challenges in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is to prolong the lifetime of network. Traditional research work focuses on minimizing transmit power; however, in the case of short range communication the consumption power in decoding is significantly larger than transmit power. This paper investigates the minimization of total p...

One of the major challenges in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is to prolong the lifetime of network. Traditional research work focuses on minimizing transmit power, however, in the case of short range communication the consumption power in decoding is significantly larger than transmit power. This paper investigates the minimization of total p...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with their dynamic applications gained a tremendous attention of researchers. Constant monitoring of critical situations attracted researchers to utilize WSNs at vast platforms. The main focus in WSNs is to enhance network life-time as much as one could, for efficient and optimal utilization of resources. Different a...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with their dynamic applications gained a tremendous attention of researchers. Constant monitoring of critical situations attracted researchers to utilize WSNs at vast platforms. The main focus in WSNs is to enhance network life-time as much as one could, for efficient and optimal utilization of resources. Different a...

In recent few yearsWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have seen an increased interest in various applications like border field security, disaster management and medical applications. So large number of sensor nodes are deployed for such applications, which can work autonomously. Due to small power batteries in WSNs, efficient utilization of battery p...

One of the major issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs) is efficient localization. There are various techniques for indoor and outdoor environments to locate a person. This study evaluating and compares performance of optimization schemes in indoor environments for optimal placement of wireless sensors, where patients can perform the...