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First Author#1, Second Author*2, Third Author#3


#
First-Third Department, First-Third University
Address Including Country Name
1
[email protected]
3
[email protected]
*
Second Company
Address Including Country Name
2
[email protected]
Abstract— This document gives formatting instructions for The entire document should be in Times New Roman or
authors preparing papers for publication in the Proceedings of Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used. Other font types
an IEEE conference. The authors must follow the instructions may be used if needed for special purposes.
given in the document for the papers to be published. You can
Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1.
use this document as both an instruction set and as a template
into which you can type your own text. B. Title and Author Details
Title must be in 24 pt Regular font. Author name must be
Index Terms— Include at least 5 keywords or phrases in 11 pt Regular font. Author affiliation must be in 10 pt
Italic. Email address must be in 9 pt Courier Regular font.
I. INTRODUCTION
Traffic is one of the most common issues in a country and
TABLE I
by the use of technology, many devices or equipment have FONT SIZES FOR PAPERS
been invented or are still being invented by other researchers.
So as technology improves, ways of minimizing traffic has Font Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)
Size Regular Bold Italic
been increasing as well. Among those ways are about building
8 table caption (in reference item
more highways to give more space for the increasing numbers
Small Caps), (partial)
of vehicles which are caused by the rapid growth of figure caption,
population. Another use for highways is that some devices are reference item
appropriate enough to be installed on it which could make 9 author email address abstract abstract heading
people and the country itself obtain multiple benefits from it. (in Courier), body (also in Bold)
Renewable energy such as solar energy and wind cell in a table
energy can be acquired from highways. As solar energy is 10 level-1 heading (in level-2 heading,
harvested only from the sun and that highways are always Small Caps), level-3 heading,
located in an open area where sun can be seen and is paragraph author affiliation
producing sunlight directly to the asphalt, while wind energy 11 author name
24 title
can be acquired from the wind itself but can also acquire wind
from vehicles passing by at high speeds. The combination of
both the solar and wind power is an elective way to deal with All title and author details must be in single-column format
delivering clean, non-contaminating vitality renewable and must be centered.
energy. Every word in a title must be capitalized except for short
This research paper aims to know the potential of minor words such as “a”, “an”, “and”, “as”, “at”, “by”, “for”,
utilizing hybrid solar-wind power generator to harvest energy “from”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”, “with”.
from highways where people would have the benefit of having Author details must not show any professional title (e.g.
a more affordable, clean and sustainable energy for their Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any
homes which could also help to reduce energy shortages as membership of any professional organization (e.g. Senior
well as give benefit to the economy. Member IEEE).
To avoid confusion, the family name must be written as the
II. PAGE LAYOUT last part of each author name (e.g. John A.K. Smith).
An easy way to comply with the conference paper Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name of
formatting requirements is to use this document as a template the company and the name of the country where the author is
and simply type your text into it. based (e.g. Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).
Email address is compulsory for the corresponding author.
A. Page Layout
C. Section Headings
Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4
which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm (11.69") long. The No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All
margins must be set as follows: headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in a heading must
be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in
 Top = 19mm (0.75")
Section III-B.
 Bottom = 43mm (1.69")
 Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56") 1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must be in Small
Your paper must be in two column format with a space of Caps, centered and numbered using uppercase Roman
4.22mm (0.17") between columns. numerals. For example, see heading “III. Page Style” of this
document. The two level-1 headings which must not be
III. PAGE STYLE numbered are “Acknowledgment” and “References”.
All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be 2) Level-2 Heading: A level-2 heading must be in Italic,
justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified. left-justified and numbered using an uppercase alphabetic
A. Text Font of Entire Document letter followed by a period. For example, see heading “C.
Section Headings” above.
3) Level-3 Heading: A level-3 heading must be indented,
in Italic and numbered with an Arabic numeral followed by a
right parenthesis. The level-3 heading must end with a colon.
The body of the level-3 section immediately follows the level-
3 heading in the same paragraph. For example, this paragraph
begins with a level-3 heading.
D. Figures and Tables
Figures and tables must be centered in the column. Large
figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table
or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be
positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page.
Graphics may be full color. All colors will be retained on
the CDROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns
because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use
only SOLID FILL colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image

Fig. 1 A sample line graph using colors which contrast well both on screen
and on a black-and-white hardcopy

Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image which


would not be acceptable, whereas Fig. 3 shows an example of Fig. 3 Example of an image with acceptable resolution
an image with adequate resolution. Check that the resolution
is adequate to reveal the important detail in the figure.
Please check all figures in your paper both on screen and on F. Table Captions
a black-and-white hardcopy. When you check your paper on Tables must be numbered using uppercase Roman
a black-and-white hardcopy, please ensure that: numerals. Table captions must be centred and in 8 pt Regular
 the colors used in each figure contrast well, font with Small Caps. Every word in a table caption must be
 the image used in each figure is clear, capitalized except for short minor words as listed in Section
 all text labels in each figure are legible. III-B. Captions with table numbers must be placed before
their associated tables, as shown in Table 1.
E. Figure Captions
Figures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure G. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers
captions must be in 8 pt Regular font. Captions of a single Page numbers, headers and footers must not be used.
line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centered whereas multi-line captions
H. Links and Bookmarks
must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure numbers
must be placed after their associated figures, as shown in All hypertext links and section bookmarks will be removed
Fig. 1. from papers during the processing of papers for publication.
If you need to refer to an Internet email address or URL in
your paper, you must type out the address or URL fully in
Regular font.
I. References Causal Productions permits the distribution and revision of
The heading of the References section must not be these templates on the condition that Causal Productions is
numbered. All reference items must be in 8 pt font. Please credited in the revised template as follows: “original version
use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish different fields as of this template was provided by courtesy of Causal
shown in the References section. Number the reference items Productions (www.causalproductions.com)”.
consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]).
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
When referring to a reference item, please simply use the
reference number, as in [2]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or The heading of the Acknowledgment section and the
“Reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g. References section must not be numbered.
“Reference [3] shows …”. Multiple references are each Causal Productions wishes to acknowledge Michael Shell
numbered with separate brackets (e.g. [2], [3], [4]–[6]). and other contributors for developing and maintaining the
Examples of reference items of different categories shown IEEE LaTeX style files which have been used in the
in the References section include: preparation of this template. To see the list of contributors,
 example of a book in [1] please refer to the top of file IEEETran.cls in the IEEE LaTeX
 example of a book in a series in [2] distribution.
 example of a journal article in [3] REFERENCES
 example of a conference paper in [4] [1] S. M. Metev and V. P. Veiko, Laser Assisted Microtechnology, 2nd
 example of a patent in [5] ed., R. M. Osgood, Jr., Ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1998.
 example of a website in [6] [2] J. Breckling, Ed., The Analysis of Directional Time Series:
Applications to Wind Speed and Direction, ser. Lecture Notes in
 example of a web page in [7] Statistics. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1989, vol. 61.
 example of a databook as a manual in [8] [3] S. Zhang, C. Zhu, J. K. O. Sin, and P. K. T. Mok, “A novel ultrathin
 example of a datasheet in [9] elevated channel low-temperature poly-Si TFT,” IEEE Electron Device
Lett., vol. 20, pp. 569–571, Nov. 1999.
 example of a master’s thesis in [10] [4] M. Wegmuller, J. P. von der Weid, P. Oberson, and N. Gisin, “High
 example of a technical report in [11] resolution fiber distributed measurements with coherent OFDR,” in
 example of a standard in [12] Proc. ECOC’00, 2000, paper 11.3.4, p. 109.
[5] R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn, “High-speed digital-
IV. CONCLUSIONS to-RF converter,” U.S. Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997.
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Productions offers both A4 templates and US Letter templates [9] “PDCA12-70 data sheet,” Opto Speed SA, Mezzovico, Switzerland.
for LaTeX and Microsoft Word. The LaTeX templates [10] A. Karnik, “Performance of TCP congestion control with rate
depend on the official IEEEtran.cls and IEEEtran.bst files, feedback: TCP/ABR and rate adaptive TCP/IP,” M. Eng. thesis, Indian
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templates have the same appearance. Amherst, MA, CMPSCI Tech. Rep. 99-02, 1999.
[12] Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specification, IEEE Std. 802.11, 1997.

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