{"title":"Comparative Analysis of High Speed and Low Area Architectures of Blake SHA-3 Candidate on FPGA","authors":"M. Arsalan, A. Aziz","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.51","url":null,"abstract":"On Nov. 2, 2007, NIST announced a public competition to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm SHA-3. After long run selection process, five finalists were selected for Round 3. Winner of this competition will be announced later in 2012. Blake is one of the candidates of round three of this competition. Along with the strength of security, efficient hardware implementation is also major evaluation criteria for final selection. Blake algorithm compression function is based on G-Function which executes 8 times in one round. In this paper, different architecture schemes named as 8G, 4G and 1G has been implemented on FPGA, based on serialization of Round Function processes. Optimization is performed by selecting appropriate numbers of LUTs and Slice Registers according to the Virtex 5 Device Architecture Resources. Implementation results of each design are compared with each other and with other design contributions. Full autonomous design for each scheme is implemented on Virtex 5 xc5vlx50t-3 FPGA. Common I/O and control interface is provided to find out the fair comparison results. For tradeoff analysis three design optimization techniques based on 'area', 'speed' and 'balance' designs are used. We found 8G architecture provides the best through-put, 1G provides least area implementation and 4G provides the most efficient results in terms of throughput per area (TPA). 4G design gives Tpa of 2.1. Our design methodology and optimization strategy gives improved results from previous contributions.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133677614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Smart Solution for Fair Value Compensation (FVC) in EV-Batteries Based Mobile Microgrid","authors":"R. Yaqub, A. Tariq, Yu Cao","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.47","url":null,"abstract":"Discharging large scale of Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries when power demand is high, and charging them back when the peak is over, is relatively a new area in smart grid energy management. An Independent System Operator (ISO) will coordinate, control and monitor such operation. Since the battery lifespan is a function of number of cycles the battery is charged or discharged, the EV driver, who agrees to sign up for such a program, will need to learn about the number of cycles his EV battery is charged and discharged by the ISO to discover if incentive offered by the ISO is a fair value in contrast to the depreciation of the EV battery so caused. This paper presents a smart solution for FAIR VALUE COMPENSATION (FVC) in EV-batteries based mobile micro grid. The proposed architecture consists of three key functional elements: i.e.: a Cycle Counter, that will count the number of cycles the battery is charged and discharged. A Computation Logic, that will compile and present real time battery depreciation and compute fair value the EV owner deserves, decision parameters intended to help EV driver make educated decision.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133188859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Case Study Analyzing the Impact of Software Process Adoption on Software Quality","authors":"Reham Tufail, Ali Afzal Malik","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.52","url":null,"abstract":"A constant focus on improving the quality of software lies at the heart of better customer satisfaction, increased market share, and higher profit margins. This paper presents the results of a case study designed to analyze the impact on software quality of the adoption of Scrum -- an agile software development process -- by a Pakistani software house that was not using any particular process earlier. Pre- and post-process adoption data on the severity of errors and defects and the ratio of passed to failed test cases is gathered and analyzed for four web-based financial applications developed by the software house. The results of the quantitative analysis clearly indicate that the adoption of an agile process improved the quality of the software produced by the software house by reducing the percentage of serious errors and defects and by increasing the ratio of passed to failed test cases.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123544710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welding Defect Detection and Classification Using Geometric Features","authors":"J. Hassan, A. M. Awan, A. Jalil","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.33","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a welding defect detection system using radiographic images. Main goal is to craft a dependable system because a human evaluator is not a stable evaluator besides other humanoid constraints. We present a novel technique for the detection and classification of weld defects by means of geometric features. Firstly noise reduction is done as radiographic images contain noise due to several effects. After this we tend to localize defects with maximum interclass variance and minimum intra class variance. Further we move towards extracting features describing the shape of localized objects in segmented images. Using these shape descriptors (geometric features) we classify the defects by Artificial Neural Network.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114388337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Image Retrieval by Shape and Color Contents and Relevance Feedback","authors":"Mussarat Yasmin, S. Mohsin","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.57","url":null,"abstract":"In the current era of digital communication, the use of digital images has grown high for expressing, sharing and interpreting information. While working with the digital images it is quite often that one needs to search for a specific image for a particular situation based on the visual contents of the image. Image retrieval by contents is one of the modern ways for searching huge digital image repositories for specific images. With the growing usage of World Wide Web CBIR is now very commonly used on most of the websites, software and database systems. In past years much of the research has been conducted in this domain and many CBIR systems have been proposed, implemented and being used. Different CBIR systems have different approaches to find images based on their contents and thus they have different performance and accuracy measures. There are some really smart techniques proposed by researchers for efficient and robust content based image retrieval. In this research, the aim is to highlight the efforts of researchers who conducted some brilliant work, based on this knowledge I will propose new combinational techniques for Content Based Image Retrieval focusing high performance and improved relevance and will provide proof of concept for intelligent content based image retrieval.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"77 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122765266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of Pricing Policy for Demand Response of Home Appliances in Smart Grid Based on M2M","authors":"Safdar Ali, Rashid Ahmad, Do-Hyeun Kim","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.48","url":null,"abstract":"Demand Response (DR) is one of the core components of smart grid. Demand response is the management of electricity consumption of customer in response to supply conditions of smart grids, for example, during the peak hours or in response to electricity price the customers reduce their electricity consumption. In Demand response mechanisms, the shut off request is explicitly made, whereas the demand devices passively shut off when the grid observes the stress. Demand response curtail the power used and it can also start on-site power generation which may or may not be connected in parallel the smart grid. DR is different from the energy efficiency which means using less power to perform the same tasks or perform the same task on a continuous basis. At the same time, demand response is a component of smart energy demand, which also includes energy efficiency, home and building energy management, distributed renewable resources, and electric vehicle charging. In this paper, we propose a pricing policy mechanism based on the provider's prices announcement and control of the appliances remotely during peak hours of the day.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131096074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad Din, B. Bona, J. Morrissette, Moazzam Hussain, Massimo Violante, M. Naseem
{"title":"Embedded Low Power Controller for Autonomous Landing of UAV Using Artificial Neural Network","authors":"Ahmad Din, B. Bona, J. Morrissette, Moazzam Hussain, Massimo Violante, M. Naseem","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.42","url":null,"abstract":"We present real-time, stereo vision based autonomous landing system for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) onto an unknown landing target. The paper describes the algorithms and design of FPGA based co-processor implementing Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to implement real time object tracking, 3D position estimation using Visual Odometry(VO), Horizontal displacement and Euclidean distance from landing target. This approach doesn't require any explicit marker or landing target, it estimates attitude, track safe landing area, and compute distance and horizontal displacement form landing target. Experimental results show suitability of the real-time stereo vision landing approach using FPGA for tracking, that doesn't require any explicit landing marker.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133898955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying Catastrophic Failures in Offline Level Generation for Mario","authors":"Adeel Zafar, H. Mujtaba","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.20","url":null,"abstract":"Video games are pushing the boundaries of the creative medium to be more realistic. This realism demands the game content to be tailored to improve the gaming experience. Generating content is a challenging task and automated approaches based on Artificial Intelligence techniques can help the gaming industry with this problem. The focus of our research is to produce adaptive levels for action-adventure games. We present a technique to identify catastrophic failures in offline level generation of the popular game \"Mario\". Our approach produces levels that have high replay value and have limited catastrophic failures, thereby improving the quality of the levels generated. This paper also presents taxonomy of Procedural content generation and Search-based PCG techniques. That is to our best knowledge the first wide-ranging survey of both the approaches.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132721110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical Examination of Complex Network File Formats for Bioinformatics Data Sources","authors":"A. Ghaffar, M. Niazi, F. Mustafa","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.70","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of using complex networks for studying complex biological interactions. The process often involves conversion of biological data such as gene expressions or biochemical interactions into one of numerous complex network file formats. However, the exact selection of an appropriate file format for a particular dataset often poses a non-trivial decision problem, biologists are non-specialist end-users and find it difficult to select a particular format for data storage and conversion. In this paper, we propose a solution to this problem of the selection of a suitable network format by means of a critical evaluation based on performance analysis of empirical experiments on biological data sets of different sizes. Experimental results substantiate the hypothesis of being extra careful in the selection of a suitable complex network format based primarily on the size of the biological dataset.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117080081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TSEP: Threshold-Sensitive Stable Election Protocol for WSNs","authors":"Aasia Kashaf, N. Javaid, Z. Khan, I. Khan","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2012.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2012.37","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are expected to find wide applicability and increasing deployment in near future. In this paper, we propose a new protocol, Threshold Sensitive Stable Election Protocol (TSEP), which is reactive protocol using three levels of heterogeneity. Reactive networks, as opposed to proactive networks, respond immediately to changes in relevant parameters of interest. We evaluate performance of our protocol for a simple temperature sensing application and compare results of protocol with some other protocols LEACH, DEEC, SEP, ESEP and TEEN. And from simulation results it is observed that protocol outperforms concerning life time of sensing nodes used.","PeriodicalId":166149,"journal":{"name":"2012 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123274617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}