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Blind separation of complex-valued satellite-AIS data for marine surveillance: a spatial quadratic time-frequency domain approach
Authors: Cherrak Omar , Ghennioui Hicham , Moreau Nadege Thirion , Abarkan El Hossein
Published: April 2019

In this paper, the problem of the blind separation of complex-valued Satellite-AIS data for marine surveillance is addressed. Due to the specific properties of the sources under consideration: they are cyclo-stationary signals with two close cyclic frequencies, we opt for spatial quadratic time-frequency domain methods. The use of an additional diversity, the time delay, is aimed at making it possible to undo the mixing of signals at the multi-sensor receiver. The suggested method involves three main stages. First, the spatial generalized mean Ambiguity function of the observations across the array is constructed. Second, in the Ambiguity plane, Delay-Doppler regions of high magnitude are determined and Delay-Doppler points of peaky values are selected. Third, the mixing matrix is estimated from these Delay-Doppler regions using our proposed non-unitary joint zero-(block) diagonalization algorithms as to perform separation.
Improve performance of the digital sinusoidal generator in FPGA by memory usage optimization
Authors: Jidin Aiman Zakwan , Mahzan Irna Nadira , A. Subki A. Shamsul Rahimi , Wan Hassan Wan Haszerila
Published: April 2019

This paper presented the improvement in the performance of the digital sinusoidal signal generator, which was implemented in FPGA, by optimizing the usage of the available memory onboard. The sine wave was generated by using a Lookup Table method, where its pre-calculated values were stored in the onboard memory, and its frequency can be adjustable by changing the incremental step value of the memory address. In this proposed research, the memory stores only 25000 samples of the first quarter from a period of a sine wave and thus, the output signal accuracy was increased and the output frequency range was expanded, compared to the previous research. The proposed design was successfully developed and implemented in ALTERA Cyclone III DE0 FPGA Development Board, and its functionality was validated via functional simulation in Modelsim and also hardware experimental results observation in SignalTap II.
RTL Implementation of image compression techniques in WSN
Authors: Deepthi S. Aruna , Rao E. Sreenivasa , Prasad M. N. Giri
Published: April 2019

The Wireless sensor networks have limitations regarding data redundancy, power and require high bandwidth when used for multimedia data. Image compression methods overcome these problems. Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) method is useful in approximating high dimensional data where the data has non-negative components. Another method of the NMF called (PNMF) Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization is used for learning spatially localized visual patterns. Simulation results show the comparison between SVD, NMF, PNMF compression schemes. Compressed images are transmitted from base station to cluster head node and received from ordinary nodes. The station takes on the image restoration. Image quality, compression ratio, signal to noise ratio and energy consumption are the essential metrics measured for compression performance. In this paper, the compression methods are designed using Matlab.The parameters like PSNR, the total node energy consumption are calculated. RTL schematic of NMF SVD, PNMF methods is generated by using Verilog HDL.
CMOS ring oscillator delay cell performance: a comparative study
Authors: Hadi D. A. , Jidin A. Z. , Wahab N. Ab , Z. Madiha , Mutalib Nurliyana Abd , Johari Siti Halma , Ahmad Suziana , Nuzaimah M.
Published: April 2019

A common voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) architecture used in the phase locked loop (PLL) is the ring oscillator (RO). RO consist of number of inverters cascaded together as the input of the first stage connected to the output of the last stage. It is important to design the RO to be work at desired frequency depend on application with low power consumption. This paper presents a review the performance evaluation of different delay cell topologies the implemented in the ring oscillator. The various topologies analyzed includes current starved delay cell, differential delay cell and current follower cell. Performance evaluation includes frequency range, frequency stability, phase noise and power consumption had been reviewed and comparison of different topologies has been discussed. It is observed that starved current delay cell have lower power consumption and the different of the frequency range is small as compared to other type of delay cell.
Optimum range of angle tracking radars: a theoretical computing
Authors: Samadi Sadegh , Khosravi Mohammad Reza , Alzubi Jafar A. , Alzubi Omar A. , Menon Varun G.
Published: April 2019

In this paper, we determine an optimal range for angle tracking radars (ATRs) based on evaluating the standard deviation of all kinds of errors in a tracking system. In the past, this optimal range has often been computed by the simulation of the total error components; however, we are going to introduce a closed form for this computation which allows us to obtain the optimal range directly. Thus, for this purpose, we firstly solve an optimization problem to achieve the closed form of the optimal range (Ropt.) and then, we compute it by doing a simple simulation. The results show that both theoretical and simulation-based computations are similar to each other.
Automatic traffic light controller for emergency vehicle using peripheral interface controller
Authors: Hashim Norlezah , Idris Fakrulradzi , Kadmin Ahmad Fauzan , Sidek Siti Suhaila Jaapar
Published: April 2019

Traffic lights play such important role in traffic management to control the traffic on the road. Situation at traffic light area is getting worse especially in the event of emergency cases. During traffic congestion, it is difficult for emergency vehicle to cross the road which involves many junctions. This situation leads to unsafe conditions which may cause accident. An Automatic Traffic Light Controller for Emergency Vehicle is designed and developed to help emergency vehicle crossing the road at traffic light junction during emergency situation. This project used Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) to program a priority-based traffic light controller for emergency vehicle. During emergency cases, emergency vehicle like ambulance can trigger the traffic light signal to change from red to green in order to make clearance for its path automatically. Using Radio Frequency (RF) the traffic light operation will turn back to normal when the ambulance finishes crossing the road. Result showed the design is capable to response within the range of 55 meters. This project was successfully designed, implemented and tested.
Development of an automatic can crusher using programmable logic controller
Authors: Hadi N. A. A. , Yee Lim Hui , Annuar K. A. M. , Zaid Zulhilmi Bin , Ghani Z. A , Ab Halim M.F. Mohd , Abidin Amar Faiz Zainal , Shah M. B. N.
Published: April 2019

The invention of a can crusher machine in this project is to reduce the wasted storage space occupied by the tremendous amount of use aluminium can at the commercial establishment like in the restaurant, cafeteria and bar. Basically, can crusher machine be operated in manual effort and time in the can crushing process. Shrinking the initial volume of empty used-aluminium cans down to 50% in more effective, faster and effortless way, as well as to develop a low-cost device that is suitable for the small-industry usage are mainly the objectives for the Automatic Can Crusher, where an automated process is executed in Automatic Can Crusher due to the automation in the modern world is inevitable and nominal to be used. The Automatic Can Crusher is run by a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) with the aid of an inductive and capacitive sensor, where it is applied to detect whether the object is metal or non-metal. Overall, the system can be controlled manually through the push start and stop button as well as using the Human Machine Interface (HMI) using NB-Designer, for displaying the total of cans being crushed per day. The average result of empty can could shrink from 31% to 60 % of the original value, by using the attuned and compatible pressure for this system.
Automated medical surgical trolley
Authors: Saad N. M. , Abdullah A. R. , Noor N. S. M. , Hamid N. A. , Syahmi M. A. Muhammad , Ali N. M.
Published: April 2019

Operating theatre is a place in a hospital where surgical operations are conducted on patients by surgeons. In the operating theatre, the surgical equipment is placed on stainless steel table or on surgical instrument tray. However, during the operation accidents can occur where the surgical tools placed near to the surgeon could be accidentally be hit by them during the surgical operation. This may cause the surgical tools to fall on the floor which may lead to injuries. Hence, this paper presents an automatic medical surgical trolley for surgeons to grab operating tools easily. The proposed system is implemented for automaticmedical surgical trolley movement using Arduino Uno R3. The invention provides an automatic medical surgical trolley which comprises automatic guidance, a wireless controller, an obstacle avoiding detection device, a touch screen controller via smart phone, an IP camera, a trolley, an integrated power supply and a processor. The trolley with stainless steel shelves is ideal for use in clinical environments and operation theatres. Medical equipment is loaded in the trolley, the wireless remote drives the trolley to move forwards and backwards. Automatic visual guidance is achieved via an IP camera attached to the trolley and a touch screen controller via a smart phone. A large amount of space and a large number of materials are saved, the workload of medical workers will be greatly relieved, and the working efficiency will be improved.
Automated segmentation and classification technique for brain stroke
Authors: Noor N. S. M. , Saad N. M. , Abdullah A. R. , Ali N. M.
Published: April 2019

Difussion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) plays an important role in the diagnosis of brain stroke by providing detailed information regarding the soft tissue contrast in the brain organ. Conventionally, the differential diagnosis of brain stroke lesions is performed manually by professional neuroradiologists during a highly subjective and time- consuming process. This study proposes a segmentation and classification technique to detect brain stroke lesions based on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). The type of stroke lesions consists of acute ischemic, sub-acute ischemic, chronic ischemic and acute hemorrhage. For segmentation, fuzzy c-Means (FCM) and active contour is proposed to segment the lesion’s region. FCM is implemented with active contour to separate the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) with the hypointense lesion. Pre-processing is applied to the DWI for image normalization, background removal and image enhancement. The algorithm performance has been evaluated using Jaccard Index, Dice Coefficient (DC) and both false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR). The average results for the Jaccard index, DC, FPR and FNR are 0.55, 0.68, 0.23 and 0.23, respectively. First statistical order method is applied to the segmentation result to obtain the features for the classifier input. For classification technique, bagged tree classifier is proposed to classify the type of stroke. The accuracy results for the classification is 90.8%. Based on the results, the proposed technique has potential to segment and classify brain stroke lesion from DWI images.
Intelligent fire detection and alert system using labVIEW
Authors: Idris Fakrulradzi , Hashim Norlezah , Kadmin Ahmad Fauzan , Yee Lee Boon
Published: April 2019

Fire detection systems are designed to discover fires and allow the safe evacuation of occupants as well as protecting the safety of emergency response personnel. This paper describes the design and development of a fire detection and alert system. Temperature and flame sensors are used to indicate the occurrence of fire. This work consists of two parts, which are transmitter and receiver, both using ZigBee wireless technology. Arduino Uno is used as the microcontroller at the transmitter part to control the sensor nodes and give alert when over temperature and flame are detected. At the transmitter, the collected data from the sensors are transmitted by an XBee module operated as router node. At the receiver side, an XBee coordinator module which is attached to a computer using USB to serial communication captured the data for further processing. In addition, an interactive and user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) is developed. LabVIEW software is used to design the GUI which displays and analyze the possibility of fire happening. The system can display the fire location and provides early warning to allow occupants to escape the building safely.
Tchebichef image watermarking along the edge using YCoCg-R color space for copyright protection
Authors: Ernawan Ferda
Published: April 2019

Easy creation and manipulation of digital images present the potential danger of counterfeiting and forgery. Watermarking technique which embeds a watermark into the images can be used to overcome these problems and to provide copyright protection. Digital image watermarking should meet requirements, e.g. maintain image quality, difficult to remove the watermark, quality of watermark extraction, and applicable. This research proposes Tchebichef watermarking along the edge based on YCoCg-R color space. The embedding region is selected by considering the human visual characteristics (HVC) entropy. The selected blocks with minimum of HVC entropy values are transformed by Tchebichef moments. The locations of C(0,1), C(1,0), C(0,2) and C(2,0) of the matrix moment are randomly embedded for each watermark bit. The proposed watermarking scheme produces a good imperceptibility by average SSIM value around 0.98. The watermark recovery has greater resistant after several types of attack than other schemes.
Black-box modeling of nonlinear system using evolutionary neural NARX model
Authors: Son Nguyen Ngoc , Khanh Nguyen Duy , Chinh Tran Minh
Published: April 2019

Nonlinear systems with uncertainty and disturbance are very difficult to model using mathematic approach. Therefore, a black-box modeling approach without any prior knowledge is necessary. There are some modeling approaches have been used to develop a black box model such as fuzzy logic, neural network, and evolution algorithms. In this paper, an evolutionary neural network by combining a neural network and a modified differential evolution algorithm is applied to model a nonlinear system. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed modeling are tested on a piezoelectric actuator SISO system and an experimental quadruple tank MIMO system.
Fingereye: improvising security and optimizing ATM transaction time based on iris-scan authentication
Authors: Omolara Abiodun Esther , Jantan Aman , Abiodun Oludare Isaac , Arshad Humaira , Mohamed Nachaat AbdElatif
Published: April 2019

The tumultuous increase in ATM attacks using eavesdropping, shoulder-surfing, has risen great concerns. Attackers often target the authentication stage where a customer may be entering his login information on the ATM and thus use direct observation techniques by looking over the customer's shoulder to steal his passwords. Existing authentication mechanism employs the traditional password-based authentication system which fails to curb these attacks. This paper addresses this problem using the FingerEye. The FingerEye is a robust system integrated with iris-scan authentication. A customer’s profile is created at registration where the pattern in his iris is analyzed and converted into binary codes. The binary codes are then stored in the bank database and are required for verification prior to any transaction. We leverage on the iris because every user has unique eyes which do not change until death and even a blind person with iris can be authenticated too. We implemented and tested the proposed system using CIMB bank, Malaysia as case study. The FingerEye is integrated with the current infrastructure employed by the bank and as such, no extra cost was incurred. Our result demonstrates that ATM attacks become impractical. Moreover, transactions were executed faster from 6.5 seconds to 1.4 seconds.
Bulk binding approach for PMIPv6 protocol to reduce handoff latency in IoT
Authors: Jabir Adnan J.
Published: April 2019

Mobility management protocols are very essential in the new research area of Internet of Things (IoT) as the static attributes of nodes are no longer dominant in the current environment. Proxy MIPv6 (PMIPv6) protocol is a network-based mobility management protocol, where the mobility process is relied on the network entities, named, Mobile Access Gateways (MAGs) and Local Mobility Anchor (LMA). PMIPv6 is considered as the most suitable mobility protocol for WSN as it relieves the sensor nodes from participating in the mobility signaling. However, in PMIPv6, a separate signaling is required for each mobile node (MN) registration, which may increase the network signaling overhead and lead to increase the total handoff latency. The bulk binding approaches were used to enhance the mobility signaling for MNs which are moving together from one MAG to another by exchanging a single bulk binding update message. However, in some cases there might be several MNs move at the same time but among different MAGs. In this paper, a bulk registration scheme based on the clustered sensor PMIPv6 architecture is proposed to reduce the mobility signaling cost by creating a single bulk message for all MNs attached to the cluster. Our mathematical results show that the proposed bulk scheme enhances the PMIPv6 performance by reducing the total handoff latency.
Single feed circularly polarized crescent-cut and extended corner square microstrip antennas for wireless biotelemetry
Authors: Chowdhury Mehdi Hasan , Hossain Quazi Delwar , Hossain Md. Azad , Cheung Ray Chak Chung
Published: April 2019

In this paper, the development of two novel circularly polarized microstrip antennas is thoroughly explained. These antennas are fed by coaxial feeding technique. One of the primary objectives of the proposed work is to tune the antennas to work in ISM band. This frequency band refers to the internationally recognized radio frequency bandwidth which is to be used explicitly for Industrial, Scientific, and Medical applications. Therefore, these antennas would be suitable to use in the field of wireless biotelemetry. Two new antenna design techniques have been introduced to produce circular polarization, and details of these schemes are described. The proposed microstrip antennas are designed and simulated on Advanced Design System (ADS) software. The return loss of the proposed crescent-cut antenna is -19.3 dB at the operating frequency. The extended corner antenna has the return loss of -29.3 dB at the tuned frequency. The simulation results are also presented and discussed.
Efficiency and effectiveness video on demand over worldwide interoperability for microwave access
Authors: Abbas Muthanna Jaafar , Mahmood Abeer Abd Al Hameed
Published: April 2019

(WiMAX) is another solution for readiness broadband networks inside the region, covered or not, by alternative technologies like (ADSL) or cable through this paper by deploying many mobility patterns such as static, random and path for Video on Demand (VoD) over (WiMAX) Network. The performance of varied (QPSK) and (QAM) modulation techniques, by applying the (OPNET) simulator version 17.5. This work is finished in terms of the transmitted traffic and received traffic. Simulation result indicates that once nodes are moving by (SVC) code schema in (WiMAX). The result is an effective and attainable overall performance of (QPSK) which is better than (QAM) modulation technique.
A collaborative physical layer security scheme
Authors: Efstathiou Dimitrios
Published: April 2019

High level of security is essential in wireless 5G communications. The last few years there has been an increase in research interest in the potential of the radio channel’s physical properties to provide communications security. These research efforts investigate fading, interference, and path diversity to develop security techniques for implementation in 5G New Radio (NR). In this paper, we propose a collaborative scheme to existing physical layer security schemes, taking advantage of the characteristics of the OFDM technique. An OFDM symbol includes the pilot subcarriers, typically essential for the pilot channel estimation process performed at the legitimate receiver. In this work we propose the positions of the subcarriers to change on every OFDM symbol following a probability distribution known only to the legitimate transmitter and legitimate receiver. An eavesdropper, does not have access to the information of the pilot subcarriers positions so, it performs blind channel estimation. The theoretical analysis is based on the information theoretic problem formulation and is confirmed by simulations. The performance metrics used are the secrecy capacity and the outage probability. The proposed scheme is very simple and robust, strengthening security in multimedia applications.
Adaptive resources assignment in OFDM-based cognitive radio systems
Authors: Razmi Shirin , Parhizgar Naser
Published: April 2019

Spectrum efficiency of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cognitive radio (CR) systems can be improved by adaptive resources allocation. In resources allocation, transmission resources such as modulation level and transmission power are adaptively assigned based on channel variations. The goal of this paper is maximize the total transmission rate of secondary user (SU). Hence, we investigate adaptive power and modulation allocation to achieve this purpose. For power allocation, we investigate optimal and conventional methods and then introduce a novel suboptimal algorithm to calculate the transmission power of each subcarrier. In addition, for adaptive modulation, we consider two kinds of modulations including multi-quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) and multi-phase-shift keying (MPSK). Also, simulation results are indicated the performance of our algorithm.
Intelligent black hole detection in mobile AdHoc networks
Authors: Khamayseh Yaesr , Yassein Muneer Bani , Abu-Jazoh Mai
Published: April 2019

Security is a critical and challenging issue in MANET due to its open-nature characteristics such as: mobility, wireless communications, self-organizing and dynamic topology. MANETs are commonly the target of black hole attacks. These are launched by malicious nodes that join the network to sabotage and drain it of its resources. Black hole nodes intercept exchanged data packets and simply drop them. The black hole node uses vulnerabilities in the routing protocol of MANETS to declare itself as the closest relay node to any destination. This work proposed two detection protocols based on the collected dataset, namely: the BDD-AODV and Hybrid protocols. Both protocols were built on top of the original AODV. The BDD-AODV protocol depends on the features collected for the prevention and detection of black hole attack techniques. On the other hand, the Hybrid protocol is a combination of both the MI-AODV and the proposed BDD-AODV protocols. Extensive simulation experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms. Simulation results show that the proposed protocols improved the detection and prevention of black hole nodes, and hence, the network achieved a higher packet delivery ratio, lower dropped packets ratio, and lower overhead. However, this improvement led to a slight increase in the end-to-end delay.
Development of a Java-based application for environmental remote sensing data processing
Authors: Semlali Bad-reddine Boudriki , Amrani Chaker El , Denys Siegfried
Published: April 2019

Air pollution is one of the most serious problems the world faces today. It is highly necessary to monitor pollutants in real-time to anticipate and reduce damages caused in several fields of activities. Likewise, it is necessary to provide decision makers with useful and updated environmental data. As a solution to a part of the above-mentioned necessities, we developed a Java-based application software to collect, process and visualize several environmental and pollution data, acquired from the Mediterranean Dialog earth Observatory (MDEO) platform [1]. This application will amass data of Morocco area from EUMETSAT satellites, and will decompress, filter and classify the received datasets. Then we will use the processed data to build an interactive environmental real-time map of Morocco. This should help finding out potential correlations between pollutants and emitting sources.
Evaluation of earth fault location algorithm in medium voltage distribution network with correction technique
Authors: Jamili N. S. B. , Adzman M. R. , Rahim S. R. A. , Zali S. M. , Isa M. , Hanafi H.
Published: April 2019

This paper focused on studying an algorithm of earth fault location in the medium voltage distribution network. In power system network, most of the earth fault occurs is a single line to ground fault. A medium voltage distribution network with resistance earthing at the main substation and an earth fault attached along the distribution network is modeled in ATP Draw. The generated earth fault is simulated, and the voltage and current signal produced is recorded. The earth fault location algorithm is simulated and tested in MATLAB. The accuracy of the earth fault location algorithm is tested at several locations and fault resistances. A possible correction technique is explained to minimize the error. The results show an improvement fault location distance estimation with minimum error.
How software size influence productivity and project duration
Authors: Bhardwaj Mridul , Rana Ajay , Sharma Neeraj Kumar
Published: April 2019

To make a perfect project plan, the software size of the order from the customer is the most important factor. The biggest challenge for the project manager is to estimate the project end date in the beginning of the project i.e. in project planning phase with realistic accuracy. Apart from other major inputs to estimate the project end date, expected team capability (productivity) and estimated software size are the major inputs that may influence the project end date. Software size is one of the most significant independent metric available in the planning phase and project manager has to estimate the other metrics based on the initial estimated software size. There is no direct relationship available between software size and project duration or software size and team productivity, however, there are industry data published by Quantitative Software Management and ISBSG that shows how these metrics influence each other. In this paper, using the data published by ISBSG and Quantitative Software Management, we try to statistically establish how productivity and project duration are influenced by software size. We have done linear regression analysis by generating the secondary data based on the data published by ISBSG and Quantitative Software Management. Linear regression equation validated with the actual project data and experimental results suggest that that productivity is significantly dependent on software size, however, project duration does not significantly depend on software size but may also be dependent on other metrics like team size, apart from software size.
Arabic named entity recognition using deep learning approach
Authors: Bazi Ismail El , Laachfoubi Nabil
Published: April 2019

Most of the Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems depend massively on external resources and handmade feature engineering to achieve state-of-the-art results. To overcome such limitations, we proposed, in this paper, to use deep learning approach to tackle the Arabic NER task. We introduced a neural network architecture based on bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and experimented with various commonly used hyperparameters to assess their effect on the overall performance of our system. Our model gets two sources of information about words as input: pre-trained word embeddings and character-based representations and eliminated the need for any task-specific knowledge or feature engineering. We obtained state-of-the-art result on the standard ANERcorp corpus with an F1 score of 90.6%.
Design of a multi-agent system using the "MaSE" method for learners' metacognitive help
Authors: Elbasri Hanane , Haddi Adil , Allali Hakim
Published: April 2019

This article addresses a multi-agent approach to solving the problem of integrating metacognitive incentives into Learning Management System. The behavior of the teacher in a classroom-teaching situation, where teacher adopting the competency-based approach, is characterized by a set of didactic interventions dynamically adaptable according to the actions-reactions of the learners. These interventions are continually subjected to perfection by experience. In this article, we are interested in modeling the multi-agent system in order to help the learners develop their metacognitive skills in a continuous way. The purpose of this system is to supervise the activities and statements of the learner and communicate them to the metacognitive agent. The latter focuses on the assessment of the learner's metacognitive skills in order to trigger, automatically, metacognitive incentives to provide help messages. Integrating the agent for metacognitive control and assistance, allows learners to maintain motivation and confidence, and elicit their attention to the importance of metacognitive skills during learning activity. The "MaSE" methodology and the "agentTool" are used to model the multi-agent system.
Reengineering framework for open source software using decision tree approach
Authors: Singh Jaswinder , Singh Kanwalvir , Singh Jaiteg
Published: April 2019

A Software engineering is an approach to software development. Once software gets developed and delivered, it needs maintenance. Changes in software incur due to new requirements of the end-user, identification of bug in software or failure to achieve system objective. It has been observed that successive maintenance in the developed software reduces software quality and degrades the performance of software system. Reengineering is an approach of retaining the software quality and improving maintainability of the software system. But the question arises “when to reengineer the software”. The paper proposed a framework for software reengineering process using decision tree approach which helps decision makers to decide whether to maintain or reengineer the software systems.
Information system to enhance medical services quality in Indonesia
Authors: Limanto Susana , Andre Andre
Published: April 2019

The consequence of disproportionate distribution and placement of Doctor in Indonesia is affecting people who live in rural area. Patient have to travel to city to receive medical treatment and must encounter another different problem such as: patients often have to wait a long time in the doctor's office even sometimes do not get the service because of holiday or rejected because the queue is full. Medical record in some cases may lost due in Indonesia mostly medical record recorded manually (paper based). Therefore doctor treatment is not optimal because doctor can no longer inspect patient illness history and any treatment that have been conducted before. This research proposes a new concept to help people who live in rural area to get better medical treatment. People could register and monitor doctor service queue via smart phone. System expanded with medical record management facilities to improve service quality of patient. Research object was doctor service in Sulawesi, Indonesia. This research indicates system could increase time efficiency, energy, and cost efficiency for patient and also the doctor. Additionally current system will be optimal if supported with stable internet network.
Equity-Based free channels assignment for secondary users in a cognitive radio network
Authors: Lakhal Said , Guennoun Zouhair
Published: April 2019

The present paper addresses the equity issue among the secondary users in a cognitive radio network. After using a multi scheduler algorithm and a fairness metric namely Jain’s Equity Index; we enhance the equity between the secondary users’ transfer rates by 0.64 in average, relative to a previous work.
AWSQ: an approximated web server queuing algorithm for heterogeneous web server cluster
Authors: Ramana Kadiyala , Ponnavaikko M.
Published: April 2019

With the rising popularity of web-based applications, the primary and consistent resource in the infrastructure of World Wide Web are cluster-based web servers. Overtly in dynamic contents and database driven applications, especially at heavy load circumstances, the performance handling of clusters is a solemn task. Without using efficient mechanisms, an overloaded web server cannot provide great performance. In clusters, this overloaded condition can be avoided using load balancing mechanisms by sharing the load among available web servers. The existing load balancing mechanisms which were intended to handle static contents will grieve from substantial performance deprivation under database-driven and dynamic contents. The most serviceable load balancing approaches are Web Server Queuing (WSQ), Server Content based Queue (QSC) and Remaining Capacity (RC) under specific conditions to provide better results. By Considering this, we have proposed an approximated web server Queuing mechanism for web server clusters and also proposed an analytical model for calculating the load of a web server. The requests are classified based on the service time and keep tracking the number of outstanding requests at each webserver to achieve better performance. The approximated load of each web server is used for load balancing. The investigational results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism by improving the mean response time, throughput and drop rate of the server cluster.
Data mining techniques application for prediction in OLAP cube
Authors: Lamani Asma , Erraha Brahim , Elkyal Malika , Sair Abdallah
Published: April 2019

Data warehouses represent collections of data organized to support a process of decision support, and provide an appropriate solution for managing large volumes of data. OLAP online analytics is a technology that complements data warehouses to make data usable and understandable by users, by providing tools for visualization, exploration, and navigation of data-cubes. On the other hand, data mining allows the extraction of knowledge from data with different methods of description, classification, explanation and prediction. As part of this work, we propose new ways to improve existing approaches in the process of decision support. In the continuity of the work treating the coupling between the online analysis and data mining to integrate prediction into OLAP, an approach based on automatic learning with Clustering is proposed in order to partition an initial data cube into dense sub-cubes that could serve as a learning set to build a prediction model. The technique of data mining by regression trees is then applied for each sub-cube to predict the value of a cell.
Complete agglomerative hierarchy document’s clustering based on fuzzy luhn’s gibbs latent dirichlet allocation
Authors: Prihatini P. M. , Putra I. K. G. D. , Giriantari I. A. D. , Sudarma M.
Published: April 2019

Agglomerative hierarchical is a bottom up clustering method, where the distances between documents can be retrieved by extracting feature values using a topic-based latent dirichlet allocation method. To reduce the number of features, term selection can be done using Luhn’s Idea. Those methods can be used to build the better clusters for document. But, there is less research discusses it. Therefore, in this research, the term weighting calculation uses Luhn’s Idea to select the terms by defining upper and lower cut-off, and then extracts the feature of terms using gibbs sampling latent dirichlet allocation combined with term frequency and fuzzy Sugeno method. The feature values used to be the distance between documents, and clustered with single, complete and average link algorithm. The evaluations show the feature extraction with and without lower cut-off have less difference. But, the topic determination of each term based on term frequency and fuzzy Sugeno method is better than Tsukamoto method in finding more relevant documents. The used of lower cut-off and fuzzy Sugeno gibbs latent dirichlet allocation for complete agglomerative hierarchical clustering have consistent metric values. This clustering method suggested as a better method in clustering documents that is more relevant to its gold standard.
Crops diseases detection and solution system
Authors: Alam Mohammad Jahangir , Awal Md. Abdul , Mustafa Md. Nurul
Published: April 2019

The technology based modern agriculture industries are today’s requirement in every part of agriculture in Bangladesh. In this technology, the disease of plants is precisely controlled. Due to the variable atmospheric circumstances these conditions sometimes the farmer doesn’t know what type of disease on the plant and which type of medicine provide them to avoid diseases. This research developed for crops diseases detection and to provide solutions by using image processing techniques. We have used Android Studio to develop the system. The crops diseases detection and solution system is compared the image of affected crops with database of CDDASS (Crops Diseases Detection and Solution system). If CDDASS detect any disease symptom, then provide suggestion so that farmers can take proper decision to provide medicine to the affected crops. The application has developed with user friendly features so that farmers can use it easily.
Data collection algorithm for wireless sensor networks using collaborative mobile elements
Authors: Abdullah Alhasanat , Khaled Alhasanat , Maamoun Ahmed
Published: April 2019

The simplest approach to reduce network latency for data gathering in wireless sensor networks (WSN) is to use multiple mobile elements rather than a single mobile sink. However, the most challneging issues faced this approach are firstly the high network cost as a result of using large number of mobile elements. Secondly, it suffers from the difficulty of network partitioning to achieve an efficient load balancing among these mobile elements. In this study, a collaborative data collection algorithm (CDCA) is developed. Simulation results presented in this paper demonstrated that with this algorithm the latency is significantly reduced at small number of mobile elements. Furthermore, the performance of CDCA algorithm is compared with the Area Splitting Algorithm (ASA). Consequently, the CDCA showed superior performance in terms of network latency, load balancing, and the required number of mobile elements.
Testing embedded system through optimal mining technique (OMT) based on multi-input domain
Authors: Sastry J. K. R. , Prasad M. Lakshmi
Published: April 2019

Testing embedded systems must be done carefully particularly in the significant regions of the embedded systems. Inputs from an embedded system can happen in multiple order and many relationships can exist among the input sequences. Consideration of the sequences and the relationships among the sequences is one of the most important considerations that must be tested to find the expected behavior of the embedded systems. On the other hand combinatorial approaches help determining fewer test cases that are quite enough to test the embedded systems exhaustively. In this paper, an Optimal Mining Technique that considers multi-input domain which is based on built-in combinatorial approaches has been presented. The method exploits multi-input sequences and the relationships that exist among multi-input vectors. The technique has been used for testing an embedded system that monitors and controls the temperature within the Nuclear reactors.
Opinion mining on newspaper headlines using SVM and NLP
Authors: Rameshbhai Chaudhary Jashubhai , Paulose Joy
Published: April 2019

Opinion Mining also known as Sentiment Analysis, is a technique or procedure which uses Natural Language processing (NLP) to classify the outcome from text. There are various NLP tools available which are used for processing text data. Multiple research have been done in opinion mining for online blogs, Twitter, Facebook etc. This paper proposes a new opinion mining technique using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and NLP tools on newspaper headlines. Relative words are generated using Stanford CoreNLP, which is passed to SVM using count vectorizer. On comparing three models using confusion matrix, results indicate that Tf-idf and Linear SVM provides better accuracy for smaller dataset. While for larger dataset, SGD and linear SVM model outperform other models.
Image watermarking based on integer wavelet transform-singular value decomposition with variance pixels
Authors: Ernawan Ferda , Ariatmanto Dhani
Published: April 2019

With the era of rapid technology in multimedia, the copyright protection is very important to preserve an ownership of multimedia data. This paper proposes an image watermarking scheme based on Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The binary watermark is scrambled by Arnold transform before embedding watermark. Embedding locations are determined by using variance pixels. Selected blocks with the lowest variance pixels are transformed by IWT, thus the LL sub-band of 8×8 IWT is computed by using SVD. The orthogonal U matrix component of U3,1 and U4,1 are modified using certain rules by considering the watermark bits and an optimal threshold. This research reveals an optimal threshold value based on the trade-off between robustness and imperceptibility of watermarked image. In order to measure the watermarking performance, the proposed scheme is tested under various attacks. The experimental results indicate that our scheme achieves higher robustness than other scheme under different types of attack.
Design and implementation of laser based intelligent embedded dual modes cruise control system using FPGA
Authors: Ow HuiNee , Salih Muataz H. , Lim ChinBeng
Published: April 2019

Cruise control system is also known as speed control which use to take over the car from the driver and stabilize the car with the speed had been set. It is one of the important elements in the intelligent vehicles. Currently, driver has to accelerate the car until certain speed in order to activate cruise control system. After it had been activated, driver still needs to put on attention to decelerate the car when there is another one in front and possibility to get accident is high. To overcome this problem and enhance current cruise system, this project has two laser-based working modes. First one is normal mode that following the same current cruise system procedure. Second is pre-set mode that allow driver to enter required speed without necessity to use petrol pedal. Both modes will use laser transceivers to add on perception feature to cruise control system. The system is designed and implemented using FPGA as main processing technology. Also, Quartus II 13.0 SP is used and DE0-Nano board is utilized as project platform. The input management is implemented to handle all sensors data and feed main processing unit with proper data stream. The result is efficient in term of system response, accurate cruise control and trustable design as well. The implement system is achieved up to 1.3GHz and 1,337 logic elements are consumed.
Internet of things (IoT) based I-V curve tracer for photovoltaic monitoring systems
Authors: Chi H. B. , Tajuddin M. F. N. , Ghazali N. H. , Azmi A. , Maaz M. U.
Published: April 2019

This paper presents a low-cost PV current-voltage or I-V curve tracer that has the Internet of Things (IoT) capability. Single ended primary inductance converter (SEPIC) is used to develop the I-V tracer, which is able to cope with rapidly changing irradiation conditions. The I-V tracer control software also has the ability to automatically adapt to the varying irradiation conditions. The performance of the I-V curve tracer is evaluated and verified using simulation and experimental tests.
Performance analysis of supercapacitors for transportation industry
Authors: Jonathan Nagarajah Vinoth , Jing Lee Hui , Guan Tan King , Khunprasit Nathawat
Published: April 2019

Monitoring device is essential to ensure a reliable and a healthy lifespan of the energy storage system. Hence, a monitoring device is needed to monitor the state of health and state of charge of a Supercapacitor. This project aims to demonstrate a method to monitor Supercapacitors using a microcontroller in both hardware and software approaches. The data was successfully collected by an online platform called ThingSpeak.
Development of real time internet of things (IoT) based air quality monitoring system
Authors: Hawari Huzein Fahmi , Zainal Aideed Ahmad , Ahmad Mohammad Radzi
Published: April 2019

The atmospheric air pollution is a major concern in modern cities, especially in developing countries like Malaysia. In this paper, we have reported an effective implementation for Internet of Things used for monitoring the level of air pollution based on Malaysia Air Pollution Index (API). The low-cost and real time system would be able to monitor regular air quality pollutants including Particulate Matter (PM) of PM2.5, PM10 and Carbon Monoxide (CO) gas as well as the temperatures and humidity of the surroundings. The system has capability to detect Good, Moderate, Unhealthy, Very Unhealthy and Hazardous API status. Based on 5 weeks of experimental API monitoring result on specified test location, the system was able to demonstrate promising results in providing a reliable real time monitoring of the air quality condition.
Design of modified booth based multiplier with carry pre-computation
Authors: CVS Chaitanya , C Sundaresan , R Venkateswaran P , Prasad Keerthana
Published: April 2019

Arithmetic unit is the most important component of modern embedded computer systems. Arithmetic unit generally includes floating point and fixed-point arithmetic operations and trigonometric functions. Multipliers units are the most important hardware structures in a complex arithmetic unit. With increase in chip frequency, the designer must be able to find the best set of trade-offs. The ability for faster computation is essential to achieve high performance in many DSP and Graphic processing algorithms and is why there is at least one dedicated Multiplier unit in all of the modern commercial DSP processors. Tremendous advances in VLSI technology over the past several years resulted in an increased need for high speed multipliers and compelled the designers to go for trade-offs among speed, power consumption and area. A novel modified booth multiplier design for high speed VLSI applications using pre-computation logic has been presented in this paper. The proposed architecture modeled using Verilog HDL, simulated using Cadence NCSIM and synthesized using Cadence RTL Compiler with 65nm TSMC library.The proposed multiplier architecture is compared with the existing multipliers and the results show significant improvement in speed and power dissipation.
Biomedical health monitoring system design and analysis
Authors: Rahman Nur Athilah Abdul , Jambek Asral Bahari
Published: April 2019

e-Health remote monitoring systems have bloomed rapidly with a myriad of applications. This paper discusses a design of a remote monitoring device for biomedical field. Four biomedical sensors which are electrocardiography (ECG), airflow, galvanic skin response and temperature with two boards which are the e-Health Shield Board V2.0 and Arduino Uno Board are used. The results show satisfactory output for each experiment using two test subjects. The device able to achieve high accuracy where percentage of temperature difference is less than 1% compared to the commercial devices with an average power consumption of each working sensor on board is ≤9W.