Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Benchmarking Service Availability for Cloud Computing
Country	::	India
Authors	::	Antony T Jose ||, Manoj Kumar K V
Page No.	::	01-03
	::	10.9790/3021-03860103
		0.4/3021-03860103
		3021-0308-0603

Benchmarks have historically played a key role in guiding the progress of computer science systems research and development, But the areas such as availability have been neglected. For cloud computing, the areas such as availability are critically important.In this a new methodology to measure the availability by measuring the service availability is introduced.Service availability deals with the amount of services under process at an instant of time. Since we are measuring the amount of services under process and not whether the system is up or not, this will give a clear cut idea about the availability of cloud for the users.

 

Keywords: - Availability,Cloud , Benchmarks.

[1] Mohammed Hussain and Hanady Abdulsalam, Secaas: Security as a servicefor cloud-based applications, IEEE (2012).

[2] Smith E Ramgovind S, Eloff MM, The management of security in cloud computing, IEEE (2010).

[3] John C. Roberts II,Who Can You Trust in the Cloud? A Review of Security Issues Within Cloud Computing,Information Security Curriculum Development Conference (2011).

[4] Ertaul, L. and Singhal, S. 2009. Security Challenges in Cloud Computing, California State University, East Bay,Academic paper

[5] Aaron Brown and David A. Patterson,Towards Availability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems,University of California at Berkeley,Academic paper

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Interpolative Empirical Model for Stability of Sway Frames
Country	::	Nigeria
Authors	::	Solomon Teminusi Orumu Ph.D
Page No.	::	04-09
	::	10.9790/3021-03860409
		0.4/3021-03860409
		3021-0308-0609

This paper derives mathematical formulae for the estimation of critical loads for rigid sway frames with pinned or fixed base restraints. This is informed by understanding that the critical loads of sway frames have values, which always fall within those of a pinned ended strut and a cantilever strut zero depending on the beam to column stiffness. Based on this, interpolation formulae that rely on the stiffness of the sway frame are developed using numerical integration. The results of the method have been found to be striking the result of the exact method. The method can be extended to multi-bay, multi-storey sway frames with ease.

 

Keywords: - Sway frame, critical load, stability functions, and Euler load

[1] Steven, LIK, "Elastic Stability of Practical Multi-storey Frames" Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Vol. 36 Jan. 1967.
[2] Horne, M.R. and Merchant, W. "The Stability of Frames, Pergamon Press, New York, N.Y. 1965.
[3] Horne, M.R. "An Approximate Method for Calculating the Elastic Critical Loads of Multistorey Plane Frames". The Structural Engineer Vol. 53 No. 6 June, 1975.
[4] Bolton, A. "A Simple Understanding of Elastic Critical Loads". The Structural Engineer Vol. 54 No. June, 1976.
[5] Wood, R.H. "Effective Lengths of Columns in Multistory Buildings". The Structural Engineer Vol. 52 No. 8 August, 1984.

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	The Application of Dynamic Voltage Restorers (Dvr) On Power Distribution Systems For Mitigation Of Voltage Sags / Swells
Country	::	India
Authors	::	Dr.K.Ravichandrudu ||, V.Nalini ||, Mr.P.Yohan Babu ||, Mr.G.V.P.Anjaneyulu
Page No.	::	10-16
	::	10.9790/3021-03861016
		0.4/3021-03861016
		3021-0308-0616

This project presents voltage sag/swell mitigation device in electric power distribution networks. Voltage sag/swell is one of the most important power quality problems challenging the utility industry. Voltage sag/swell can be compensated for voltage and power injection into distribution system. The DVR is the excellent device for dynamic responses. A new topology based on Z-source inverter is presented in order to enhance the voltage restoration property of DVR. The derived controllers are based on a suitable stabilizing damping injection scheme. The modeling of Z- source based DVR is carried out component wise and their performances are analyzed using MATLAB software. The simulation shows that the control technique is very effective and yields excellent compensation for voltage sag/swell mitigation.

[1]. Choi S. S, Li B. H, and Vilathgamuwa D. M (2000) "Dynamic voltage restoration with minimum energy injection," IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol.15, pp. 51-57.

[2]. Gajanayake C. J, Vilathgamuwa D. M, and LohP. C (2005) "Smallsignal and signal-flow-graph modeling of switched Z-source impedance network," IEEE Power Electronics Letters, vol. 3, pp. 111-116.

[3]. Jimichi T, Fujita H., and Akagi H. (2005) "Design and experimentation of a dynamic voltage restorer capable of significantly reducing an energystorage element," in Conf. Record Industry Applications Conference,14th IAS Annual Meeting..

[4]. Loh P. C, Vilathgamuwa D. M, Lai Y. S, Chua G. T, and Li Y (2004) "Pulse-width modulation of Z-source inverters," in Conf. Record IEEE Industry Applications Conference, 39th IAS Annual Meeting.

[5]. Peng F. Z. (2003) "Z-source inverter," IEEE Trans. Industry Applications, vol.39, pp. 504-510.

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Stratified Multiscale Local Binary Patterns: Application to Face Recognition
Country	::	India
Authors	::	Udhayakumar.M ||, Gayathri.S ||, Mary Jeya Priya.R ||, Arunkumar.M
Page No.	::	17-22
	::	10.9790/3021-03861722
		0.4/3021-03861722
		3021-0308-0622

This paper presents a efficient facial image recognition based on multi scale local binary pattern (LBP) texture features .It's a fast and simple for implementation, has shown its superiority in face recognition. To extract representative features, "uniform" LBP was proposed and its effectiveness has been validated. However, all "non-uniform" patterns are clustered into one pattern, so a lot of useful information is lost. In this study, propose to build a hybrid multiscale LBP histogram for an image. The face image is divided into several regions from which the LBP feature distributions are extracted and concatenated into an enhanced feature vector to be used as a face descriptor. The useful information of "non-uniform" patterns at large scale is dug out from its counterpart of small scale, The performance of the proposed method is that it can fully utilize LBP information while it does not need any training step, which may be sensitive to training samples assessed in the face recognition problem under different challenges. Other applications and several extensions are also discussed.

 

Index Terms: - Facial image representation, local binary pattern, multiscale, component based face recognition, texture features, face misalignment

[1] Jain, A., Bolle, R., and Pankanti, S., (eds), Biometrics: Personal Identification in Network Society, Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1999.

[2] M. Turk, and A. Pentland, "Face recognition using eigenfaces,"IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.586-591, 1991.

[3] D. Zhang, A. Kong, J. You and M. Wong, "Online palmprint identification," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, no. 9, pp.1041-1050, 2003.

[4] T. Ahonen, A. Hadid, and M. Pietikäinen, "Face description with local binary patterns: application to face recognition," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.28, no. 12, pp.2037-2041, 2006.

[5] G. Zhang, Z. Huang, and S. Z. Li, "Boosting local binary pattern (LBP)-based face recognition," SinoBiometrics, pp. 179-186, 2004.