Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Advanced manufacturing technology adoption in manufacturing companies in Kenya
(2015)Over the past few decades, manufacturing has evolved from a more labor-intensive set of mechanical processes to a sophisticated set of information based technology processes. With the existence of various advanced ... -
An Optimal Eigenvalue Based Spectrum Sensing Algorithm for Cognitive Radio
(2015)Spectrum is a scarce resource, and licensed spectrum is intended to be used only by the spectrum owners. Various measurements of spectrum utilization have shown unused resources in frequency, time and space. Cognitive ... -
A review of techniques in optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy systems
(2015)This paper presents a review of techniques usedin recent published works on optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy sources. Hybridization of renewable energy sources is an emergent promising trend born out of the need ... -
Combined Real and Reactive Power Economic Dispatch using Multi-Objective Reinforced Learning with Optimized Losses
(2015)Most of the economic dispatch (ED) works so far deal with real power dispatch only. With the integration of renewable energy into the grid, reactive power dispatch cannot be ignored any longer due to its importance in ... -
Distributed transmit-power control in cognitive radio networks using a hybrid-adaptive game-theoretic technique
(2015)This paper studies game-theoretic distributed transmit-power control in a cognitive radio network. It presents a hybrid-adaptive algorithm that interfaces Iterative Water-Filling with two learning algorithms: the Hedging ... -
Optimal error analysis of receive diversity schemes on arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh fading channels
(2016)A simple optimal error analysis of multiple-branch equal gain combining (EGC) and selection combining (SC) in the presence of arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh fading channels is presented. It is shown that the error rates ... -
Optimized Routing and Component Placement to Improve the Continuity And Uniformity of the PCBPIFL Antenna’s Co-Planar Ground Plane to Achieve an Overall Improved Antenna Performance
(2015)A ground plane forms the other half for quarter wave PCB antennas. Integration of these type of antennas with other components within the same PCB of a mobile device compromise the uniformity and continuity of the ground ... -
A Case for Judicial Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Kenya
(2016)This aim of this study was to demonstrate how the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process can be utilized to assist the Kenyan Judiciary address challenges of data integration in its operational systems and hence provide ... -
Optimization of the Angle of Frog in Mouldboard Tillage Operations in Sandy Clay Soil
(2015)This paper investigated the effect of three independent variables including: tillage speed (ranges of below 2.5 m/s and between 2.5 m/s and 5 m/s), tillage depth (range of 10 cm from 0 cm to 30 cm) and frog angle (30° 40°, ... -
The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system
(Elsevier, 2015)In many of the world's growing cities, semi-formal buses form the basis of public transit systems. However, little open and standardized data exist on these systems. The Digital Matatus project in Nairobi, Kenya set out ... -
A hardware based model for an asset monitoring and tracking system: Case of laptops
(2015)Corporate mobility initiatives and the anytime, anywhere information workers is on the rise. This is mostly fuelled by availability of affordable and more powerful mobile computing devices, especially laptops and tablets. ... -
A Hierarchical Multilayer Service Composition Model for Global Virtual Organizations
(2015)A major benefit of service composition is the ability to support agile global collaborative virtual organizations. However, being global in nature, collaborative virtual organizations can have several virtual industry ... -
Inherent Diversity in Replicated Architectures
(2015)In this paper, we report our ongoing investigations of the inherent non-determinism in contemporary execution environments that can potentially lead to divergence in state of a multi-channel hardware/software system. Our ... -
Numerical Study Of County Solid Waste Management At The Dumpsite
(2015)This study presents the development of one dimensional mathematical model capab le of simulating simultaneous processes of oxygen flow. It is based on some assumptions like the dumpsite ... -
Optimal Under - voltage Load Shedding using Cuckoo Search with Levy Flight Algorithm for Voltage Stability Improvement
(2015)Voltage stability has become a serious threat of modern power system operation nowadays. To tackle this problem properly, load shedding is a countermeasure taken as a last resort. However, its consequences ... -
Review of municipal solid waste management: a case study of Nairobi, Kenya
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The era of the glass skyscraper: Is it an option for the Eastern Africa Climates?
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
