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Recently, Pulse Coupled Oscillator (PCO)-based travelling waves have attracted substantial attention by researchers in wireless sensor network (WSN) synchronization. Because WSNs are generally artificial occurrences that mimic natural phenomena, the PCO utilizes firefly synchronization of attracting mating partners for modelling the WSN. However, given that sensor nodes are unable to receive messages while transmitting data packets (due to deafness), the PCO model may not be efficient for sensor network modelling. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposed a new scheme called the Travelling Wave Pulse Coupled Oscillator (TWPCO). For this, the study used a self-organizing scheme for energy-efficient WSNs that adopted travelling wave biologically inspired network systems based on phase locking of the PCO model to counteract deafness. From the simulation, it was found that the proposed TWPCO scheme attained a steady state after a number of cycles. It also showed superior performance compared to other mechanisms, with a reduction in the total energy consumption of 25%. The results showed that the performance improved by 13% in terms of data gathering. Based on the results, the proposed scheme avoids the deafness that occurs in the transmit state in WSNs and increases the data collection throughout the transmission states in WSNs.

A protective relay performance analysis is only feasible when the hypothesis of expected relay operation characteristics as decision rules is established as the knowledge base. This has been meticulously accomplished by soliciting the relay knowledge domain from protection experts who are usually constrained by their experience and expertise. Manually analyzing an event report is also cumbersome due to the tremendous amount of data to be perused. This paper addresses these issues by intelligently divulging the knowledge hidden in the relay recorded event report using a data-mining strategy based on rough set theory and a rulequality measure under supervised learning to discover the relay decision algorithm and association rule. The high prediction accuracy rate and the close-to-unity areas under ROC curve value of the relay operating characteristic curve of the discovered relay decision algorithm verifies its generalized ability to predict trip status in an expert system of relay performance analysis. The relay association rule that was subsequently discovered by using the rule-quality analysis had also been verified as being a reliable hypothesis of the relay operation characteristics. This hypothesis helps the protection engineers understand the behavior of the distance relay. These rules would then be compared with and validated by benchmarking decision-tree-based data-mining analysis.

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Various types of natural phenomena are regarded as primary sources of information for artificial occurrences that involve spontaneous synchronization. Among the artificial occurrences that mimic natural phenomena are Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and the Pulse Coupled Oscillator (PCO), which utilizes firefly synchronization for attracting mating partners. However, the PCO model was not appropriate for wireless sensor networks because sensor nodes are typically not capable to collect sensor data packets during transmission (because of packet collision and deafness). To avert these limitations, this study proposed a self-organizing time synchronization algorithm that was adapted from the traditional PCO model of fireflies flashing synchronization. Energy consumption and transmission delay will be reduced by using this method. Using the proposed model, a simulation exercise was performed and a significant improvement in energy efficiency was observed, as reflected by an improved transmission scheduling and a coordinated duty cycling and data gathering ratio. Therefore, the energy-efficient data gathering is enhanced in the proposed model than in the original PCO-based wave-traveling model. The battery lifetime of the Sensor Nodes (SNs) was also extended by using the proposed model.