Data quality of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) is receiving increasing attention as it has been identified as one of the limiting factors that affect many wide-area measurement system (WAMS) based applications. In general, existing PMU calibration methods include offline testing and model based approaches. However, in practice, the effectiveness of both is limited due to the very strong assumpti...

The paper proposes a novel multi-area state estimator based on wide area measurements where only boundary buses are considered in the coordination level. The power injection measurements are not used during the coordination level reducing the number of states and therefore size of the problem. Instead, a set of pseudo-measurements are included whenever a power injection measurement is available...

Carbon nanotubes are of great interest due to their high surface area and rich edge sites, which are favorable for wide applications. Here, a simple and efficient routine is presented by decoration of multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) with nickel oxide (NiO) nanoparticles.The morphologies of NiO-MWCNT  were  investigated  by  using scanning  electron  microscope  (SEM)  and energydispersive X-...

1 Abstract-This paper proposed the design of wide-area robust damping (WARD) controller for multiple Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices to enhance the stability of power system with considering time delay of wide-area signals. Firstly, as power systems interconnect more and more to exchange large amounts, wide-area measurement system (WAMS) is widely applied to monitor and control...

Bonneville Power Administration is investigating wide-area stability and voltage control. The control provides a flexible platform for rapid implementation of generator tripping and reactive power compensation for voltage support and stability. Features include phasor measurements, digital fiber optic communications, and fuzzy logic control. The control includes both fast and slow subsystems. T...

This paper shows how to run multithreaded programs on a DRAM (Distributed Random Access Memory) parallel computer and demonstrates that such programs can run efficiently on a collection of machines distributed across thousands of miles over the internet. Suppose we have a fully strict multithreaded program has work and critical-path length , and we have a processor DRAM machine with an upper bo...

In distributed applications, a group of multiple processes cooperate by exchanging multimedia messages. It is critical to support the group of application processes with enough quality of service (QoS) in addition to the ordered delivery of messages. The delay time and the message loss ratio are signi cant QoS parameters. In the Internet application, the delay time and the loss ratio are signi ...