Umar Qasim

New Jersey Institute of Technology | NJIT · Department of Information Systems

Electricity is the basic demand of consumers. With the passage of time this demand is increasing day by day. Smart grid (SG) trying to fulfill the demand of customers. When demand increases then load is also high. To maintain load from on peak hours to off peak hours, consumer needs to manage their appliances by home energy management system (HEMS)...

The energy demand is increasing day by day due to the huge amount of residential appliance’s energy consumption, which creates more shortage of electricity. Industrial and commercial areas are also consuming large amount of energy, but residential energy demand is more flexible as compared to other two. Nowadays, many of the techniques are presente...

Nowadays, the Internet of Things enabled Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (IoT-UWSN) is suffering from serious performance restrictions, i.e., high End to End (E2E) delay, low energy efficiency, low data reliability, etc. The necessity of efficient, reliable, collision and interference-free communication has become a challenging task for the rese...

Smart grid (SG) is one of the most advanced technologies, which plays a key role in maintaining balance between demand and supply by implementing demand response (DR). In SG the main focus of the researchers is on home energy management (HEM) system, that is also called demand side management (DSM). DSM includes all responses, which adjust the cons...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) facilitate a wide range of aquatic applications in many domains. However, harsh underwater environment poses challenges like low bandwidth, long propagation delay, high bit error rate, etc. Node mobility and uneven distribution of sensor nodes create void holes in UWSNs. Avoiding void hole creation benefi...

The greenhouse gas emission is increasing around the globe. In order to reduce its emission factor, the concept of microgrid is introduced, which integrates renewable energy sources. The microgrid has a point of common coupling which helps to exchange power with utility during different times of a day to meet load demand. Based on all the system co...

Energy efficient routing, minimum network lifetime, adaptation to continuous variation in topology of nodes and high energy consumption for data transmission are the major limitations in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Different routing techniques of WSNs have been presented to tackle the above mentioned challenges. These techniques are Direct Tra...

With the advent of smart grid and demand side management techniques, users have opportunity to reduce their electricity cost without compromising their comfort much. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of home energy management system based on user satisfaction. Our objective is to maximize the total user satisfaction within user defined bud...

Smart grid is an emerging technology which is considered as an ultimate solution to meet the increasing power demand challenges. Modern communication technologies has enabled the successful implementation of smart grid, which aims at provision of demand side management mechanisms, such as demand response. In this paper, we propose residential load...

Energy management plays a vital role in maintaining sustainability and reliability of smart grid. It also helps to prevent blackouts. Energy management at consumers side is a complex task. Utility provides incentives like: demand response, time of use and real time pricing models to encourage consumers to reduce electricity consumption in certain p...

The design of routing protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) holds many challenges, due to long propagation, high mobility, limited bandwidth and multi path routing. As a consequence of the occurrence of the void hole, and uneven distribution of nodes in the network, the selection of next forwarding in one hop or even two hops ma...

Increasing demand of power and emergence of smart grid has gain maximum attention of researchers which has further opened new opportunities for Home Energy Management System (HEMS). HEMS under Demand Response (DR) helps to reduce the On-peak hour load by shifting the load toward the Off-peak hours. This load shifting strategy effects the user comfo...

Unlike existing centralized grids, smart grids (SGs) have the ability to reduce fossil fuel combustion and carbon emissions up to a significant mark. Smart homes and smart building are becoming more attractable due to low energy consumption and high comfort. Different demand side management (DSM) programs have been proposed to involve users in deci...

The distinctive features of acoustic communication channel-like high propagation delay, multi-path fading, quick attenuation of acoustic signal, etc. limit the utilization of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). The immutable selection of forwarder node leads to dramatic death of node resulting in imbalanced energy depletion and void hole c...

With the advent of Smart Grid (SG), it provides the consumers with the opportunity to schedule their power consumption load efficiently in such a way that it reduces their energy cost while also minimizing their Peak to Average Ratio (PAR) in the process. We in this paper target the appliances to schedule in such a way that it increases User Comfor...

A smart grid is a modernized form of the traditional grid. Smart grid benefits both, consumer and energy services provider. Demand side management is one of the key component of smart grid to fulfill consumersi electricity demands in an efficient manner. It helps consumers to manage their load in an effective way to reduce their electricity bill. I...

Smart grid faces a number of challenges to efficiently and effectively transmit power from generation to end users. So, a robust monitoring mechanism is essential to monitor the status of transmission lines and towers. Many state-of-the-art techniques are present in literature , to timely and precisely locate the problem. In this paper, we present...

Smart grid is an emerging technology which is considered as an ultimate solution to meet the increasing power demand challenges. Modern communication technologies has enabled the successful implementation of smart grid, which aims at provision of demand side management mechanisms, such as demand response. In this paper, we propose residential load...

The design of routing protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) holds many challenges, due to long propagation, high mobility, limited bandwidth and multi path routing. As a consequence of the occurrence of the void hole, and uneven distribution of nodes in the network, the selection of next forwarding in one hop or even two hops ma...

Energy efficient routing, minimum network lifetime, adaptation to continuous variation in topology of nodes and high energy consumption for data transmission are the major limitations in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Different routing techniques of WSNs have been presented to tackle the above mentioned challenges. These techniques are Direct Tra...

Increasing demand of power and emergence of smart grid has gain maximum attention of researchers which has further opened new opportunities for Home Energy Management System (HEMS). HEMS under Demand Response (DR) helps to reduce the On-peak hour load by shifting the load toward the Off-peak hours. This load shifting strategy effects the user comfo...

With the advent of smart grid and demand side management techniques, users have opportunity to reduce their electricity cost without compromising their comfort much. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of home energy management system based on user satisfaction. Our objective is to maximize the total user satisfaction within user defined bud...

Unlike existing centralized grids, smart grids (SGs) have the ability to reduce fossil fuel combustion and carbon emissions up to a significant mark. Smart homes and smart building are becoming more attractable due to low energy consumption and high comfort. Different demand side management (DSM) programs have been proposed to involve users in deci...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) facilitate a wide range of aquatic applications in many domains. However, harsh underwater environment poses challenges like low bandwidth, long propagation delay, high bit error rate, etc. Node mobility and uneven distribution of sensor nodes create void holes in UWSNs. Avoiding void hole creation benefi...

Energy management plays a vital role in maintaining sustainability and reliability of smart grid. It also helps to prevent blackouts. Energy management at consumers side is a complex task. Utility provides incentives like: demand response, time of use and real time pricing models to encourage consumers to reduce electricity consumption in certain p...

The greenhouse gas emission is increasing around the globe. In order to reduce its emission factor, the concept of microgrid is introduced, which integrates renewable energy sources. The microgrid has a point of common coupling which helps to exchange power with utility during different times of a day to meet load demand. Based on all the system co...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) facilitate a wide range of aquatic applications in many domains. However, harsh underwater environment poses challenges like low bandwidth, long propagation delay, high bit error rate, etc. Node mobility and uneven distribution of sensor nodes create void holes in UWSNs. Avoiding void hole creation benefi...

Smart grid (SG) is one of the most advanced technologies, which plays a key role in maintaining balance between demand and supply by implementing demand response (DR). In SG the main focus of the researchers is on home energy management (HEM) system, that is also called demand side management (DSM). DSM includes all responses, which adjust the cons...

Wireless body area networks are captivating growing interest because of their suitability for wide range of applications. However, network lifetime is one of the most prominent barriers in deploying these networks for most applications. Moreover, most of these applications have stringent QoS requirements such as delay and throughput. In this paper,...

In this paper, we propose depth and reliability aware delay sensitive (DRADS) routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). We take motivation from underwater opportunistic routing (UWOR) protocol which introduces a new E E L|success (Fi) metric, i.e., the expected end-to-end latency from sender node i to sink. We consider two f...

This paper presents cooperative routing scheme to improve data reliability. The proposed protocol achieves its objective, however, at the cost of surplus energy consumption. Thus sink mobility is introduced to minimize the energy consumption cost of nodes as it directly collects data from the network nodes at minimized communication distance. We al...

In this paper, we comparatively evaluate the performance of home energy management controller which is designed on the basis of heuristic algorithms; genetic algorithm (GA), binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) and ant colony optimization (ACO). In this regard, we introduce a generic architecture for demand side management (DSM) which integrat...

In this paper, we present an energy optimization technique to schedule three types of household appliances (user dependent, interactive schedulable and unschedulable) in response to the dynamic behaviours of customers, electricity prices and weather conditions. Our optimization technique schedules household appliances in real time to optimally cont...

This paper presents real time information based energy management algorithms to reduce electricity cost and peak to average ratio (PAR) while preserving user comfort in a smart home. We categorize household appliances into thermostatically controlled (tc), user aware (ua), elastic (el), inelastic (iel) and regular (r) appliances/loads. An optimizat...

In this paper, we propose an optimization scheme for avoiding void zone and minimization of uncertainty in glider’s position estimation. Gliders stay at sojourn positions for predefined time. At these stops, self-confidence (s-confidence) and neighbor- confidence (n-confidence) regions are estimated. On the basis of present state of glider, it esti...

Design of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is difficult because of limited battery energy of sensor nodes. Low bandwidth and energy consumption are major problems that we face in UWSNs, due to dynamic behavior of water in underwater environment. In our scheme, circular field is divided into ten sub-regions and each region is divided into...

In this paper, we have proposed a two-tiered wireless sensor network (WSN) in which sensor nodes transmit data packets to their connected relay nodes (cluster heads). Each sensor node is associated with at least one relay node in the network. The proposed strategy determines the best set of relay nodes for upper-tier communication. These relay node...

This paper, provides comparative assessment of performance for home energy management (HEM) controller which categories the household appliances into three different categories 1) Fixed appliances 2) Interrupt able appliances and 3) Non-interrupt able appliances on the bases of their load profiles and user preference. It is designed on the bases of...

In this paper we propose an energy balanced routing algorithm. Our scheme called Balanced Energy Adaptive Routing protocol, forwards data packets towards the sink through dense energy area to protect the nodes with relatively low residual energy. The key point in our proposed protocol is the presence of three conceited virtual fields. The first fie...

One of the most promising concepts which make smart grid (SG) superior over the traditional grid is demand side management (DSM). However, most of the recent DSM techniques are centralized by nature and primarily focus on industrial consumers. In contrast, this paper proposes a realistic home energy management system (RHEMS) which incorporate the r...

Impairments of the acoustic channel impose the requirement of improvement in throughput efficiency of the network. Therefore, efficient mechanisms must be proposed to increase throughput while conserving energy at the same time. In this paper, we propose two energy efficient geographic opportunistic routing protocols for underwater wireless sensor...

Deployment of sensor nodes in underwater wireless sensor networks with a goal of maximum network field coverage is very difficult. Moreover, to access the information from sensor nodes efficiently in aquatic environment is very unpredictable. In our scheme sensor nodes are randomly deployed in the network filed. We have cover the maximum network fi...

Increase in traffic over internet by large number of mobile devices results into high energy consumption on network devices. In this paper, we address the necessity to reduce the energy consumption in a campus network that includes both wired and wireless network devices. Specifically, we propose dynamic link rate adaptation mechanism on Software D...

Due to unique characteristics of underwater environment , it is difficult to achieve energy efficiency, high through-put and low bit error rate. Radio signals do not propagate well in underwater environment so acoustic signals are used for communication. Acoustic signals offer low bandwidth, high bit error rate, low throughput and high end-to-end d...

This paper embeds a bi-fold contribution for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks 1 (UWSNs); performance analysis of incremental relaying in terms of outage and error probability, 2 and based on the analysis proposition of two new cooperative routing protocols. Subject to 3 the first contribution, a three step procedure is carried out; a system mode...

In this paper, we investigate some aspects related to microgrid (MG) stability. Due to different applications of MG, its structure and deployment topology vary depending upon the nature of application and operating modes (islanded or grid connected). So, the stability of MGs varies accordingly. This paper precisely explains the stability aspects (e...

In wireless body area sensor networks (WBASNs), energy efficiency is an area of extreme significance. At first, we present a mathematical model for a non-invasive inductive link which is used to recharge the battery of an implanted biomedical device (pacemaker). Afterwards, we propose a distance-aware relaying energy-efficient (DARE) and mutual inf...

In Smart Grid (SG), integration of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind is a challenging task due to their intermittent nature. Most of the existing Demand Side Management (DSM) techniques are based on Day Ahead Pricing (DAP) or Time of Use (TOU) pricing which can deviate from Real Time Pricing (RTP) due to unpredictable energy consumpti...

In this paper, we overcome the problem of energy holes in UWSNs while considering the unique characteristics of underwater communication. In proposed scheme we consider UWSNs where nodes are manually deployed according to the defined deployment pattern to satisfy our application requirements in terms of energy saving. We used mixed routing techniqu...

In this paper, we propose a reliable and interference-aware routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). Proposed protocol follows end-to-end path from source node to sink and selects next forwarder node of a data packet on the basis, having already established a path to sink. In this way, the problem of encounters void hole in...

In Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs), reliability is one of the major concerns for large number of applications. The underwater environment is very harsh and noisy. Fading is common and unavoidable, therefore achieving reliable data transfer requires innovative routing solutions. This paper presents a energy efficient cooperative routing...

This work analyzes major energy management solutions in terms of their practical implementation. Every EMS proposed has its own merits and demerits. Energy management solutions are based upon 4 major categories i.e., EMS by a sensor network, EMS by using optimization technique, EMS by merging sensory information with optimization algorithm to yield...

Smart grid is one of the most advanced technologies which plays a key role in maintaining balance between demand and supply by implementing demand response (DR). Residential users basically effect the overall performance of traditional grid due to maximum requirement of their energy demand. Home energy management (HEM) benefit the end user by monit...

The acoustic environment suffers from a number of impairments which effect transmitted data reliability and integrity leads toward low-quality routing. Integral part of cooperative routing is reliable data delivery with trade-off energy consumption is high, because of multiple transmissions. In order to overcome this problem and getting advantage o...

Today, energy is the most valuable resource, new methods and techniques are being discovered to fulfill the demand of energy. However, energy demand growth causes a serious energy crisis, especially when demand is comparatively high and creates the peak load. This problem can be handled by integrating Demand Side Management (DSM) with traditional S...

In this paper, an energy efficient, interference and route aware (EEIRA) protocol is proposed for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). The protocol combines the direct and relay forwarding mechanisms in transmitting the packets from source to destination. The relaying process involves selection of the best relay from a set of relay nodes. A...

Demand Side Management (DSM) technique encourages the consumers to adjust their energy usage pattern to get optimized results for achieving the goal of minimizing the electricity consumption cost. This mechanism provides benefits to both side customer and utility in terms of cost reduction and grid stability. To regulate the increasing energy deman...

In this paper, we propose depth and reliability aware delay sensitive (DRADS) routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). We take motivation from underwater opportunistic routing (UWOR) protocol which introduces a new EEL| success (Fi) metric, i.e., the expected end-to-end latency from sender node i to sink. We consider two fl...

In this paper, we propose a region based cooperative routing protocol (RPCRP). This protocol performs analysis of amplify and forward technique over Rayleigh fading channels. The source node sends the sensed signal to the destination and available relay nodes. At the destination node, bit error rate (BER) is checked on the basis of which, either po...

In this paper, we propose Geographic and Oppor-tunistic Clustering (GOC) protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks. GOC is an improved version of Geographic and Opportunistic Routing for UWSNs (GEDAR). GOC uses a hybrid system in which the recovery algorithm of GEDAR is implemented alongside the clustering approach depending on the neighbor...

In this paper, we present the mobile autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)-aided efficient localization scheme for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). Localization is one of the major issues in UWSNs as it is important in some large scale applications to know the accurate position of sensor nodes. It is more difficult to localize a node in u...

Home Energy Management System (HEMS) enhances the load scheduling in the next-generation electric grid. Residential users send responses to utilities for scheduling their appliances to the off peak hours when prices are low. The scheduling of the household appliances still not succeeded too much by having some drawbacks. In this research, we have p...

In this paper, performance of hydraulic pressure based routing protocol (HydroCast) is examined, and (Improved HydroCast) a technique for reliable HydroCast is proposed. Pressure level of sensor nodes is used to route data packet in greedy multi hop fashion to sinks deployed on the surface of water. The goal of this paper is to define reliable rout...

Developing an energy efficient routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is a challenging task due to long propagation delay, low bandwidth, high error probability, and most importantly limited energy. Unlike terrestrial sensor networks, UWSN environment is harsh. Nodes are provided with limited energy. The replacement or cha...

In this paper, we propose a routing protocol AVN-AHH-VBF for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). Sensor nodes forward data packets in multi-hop fashion within a virtual pipeline. As nodes outside pipeline do not forward data packets, thus, flooding is avoided in the network. Mitigating flooding in network, in turn, decreases energy consump...

Demand Side Management (DSM) through optimization of home energy consumption in smart grid environment is now one of the well-known research areas. Appliances scheduling has been done through many different algorithms to reduce peak load and consequently the Peak to Average Ratio (PAR). This paper presents a Comprehensive Home Energy Management Arc...

Large propagation delay, high error rate, low bandwidth and limited energy in Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) attract the attention of most researchers. In UWSNs, efficient utilization of energy is one of the major issue, as the replacement of energy sources in such environment is very expensive. In this paper, we have proposed a Cluster Depth B...

In this work, we propose a Realistic Scheduling Mechanism (RSM) to reduce user frustration and enhance appliance utility by classifying appliances with respective constraints and their time of use effectively. Algorithms are proposed regarding functioning of home appliances. A 24 hour time slot is divided into four logical sub-time slots, each comp...

Underwater acoustic communications are a hastily growing field of research and engineering, which once were exclusively for military applications are now extending into commercial fields. Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) appeal the research community, facing challenges as sensor nodes have energy constraint and radio signals are not suit...

Due to smart grid applications the consumers and producers are able to meet the demand of each others and thus take part in demand side management and demand response program. Hence smart grid leads to optimization of energy consumption and reduce high cost in today extensive demand of energy. In this research work we are reducing electricity consu...

In this paper we propose an ECG optimization model for a smart home based on DSM.The proposed model is an efficient SHEM strategy. The model is proposed keeping in view the minimization of energy consumption,energy consumption cost and energy generation cost.The model is based on efficient scheduling of appliances and an ECG optimization algorithm...

In this paper, we introduce a generic architecture for demand side management (DSM) and use combined model of time of use tariff and inclined block rates. The problem formulation is carried via multiple knapsack and its solution is obtained via ant colony optimization (ACO). Simulation results show that the designed model for energy management achi...

A non-cooperative power control game (NCPCG) is designed for efficient power consumption in the wireless sensor and adhoc networks by introducing a novel cost function. The proposed cost function in a game theoretic framework facilitates the nodes in increasing power efficiency by making independent decisions in a distribu