{"title":"An Efficient Power Divider for Dual-Band Microwave Applications","authors":"F. Mughal, M. M. Ahmed, U. Rafique","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.15","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a modified Cheng dual-band power divider is proposed. In modified design, output ports of the divider have been redesigned by incorporating extended lines having electrical length (π/2)(f1/f2) where, f1 and f2 are center frequencies. The impedance of extended lines is calculated from an average value of bi-section impedance transformers used in the Cheng design. Dependent upon the frequencies, the modified design offered 5-20 dB improvement in return loss and thus exhibited enhanced transmission.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125063629","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":"SSTCSC: A Semantic Structure of Test Cases and Source Code","authors":"Muhammad Bilal Bashir, T. Malik, T. Afzal","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.51","url":null,"abstract":"If the World Wide Web is taken as a mountain of information containing data regarding every aspect of life, then Semantic Web is its extended version, that structures the information and makes it machine process able. Semantic Web has many advantages which have proved it as an innovative approach to structure the data for multipurpose domains. Its characteristics of annotation enable the extraction of precise information which is required by the user. Software testing is the process which evaluates a systems behavior to ensure whether it meets user's requirement or not. In software engineering, specifically in the software testing domain, semantic structuring the relevant artifacts is new. Researchers provided XML based representations for many languages and approaches but their context is different when we try to apply it on the software testing domain. In this paper, we focus on the shortcomings of the software testing domain when its concerned activities are required to represent semantically. We present a novel approach, Semantic Structure of Test Cases and Source Code (SSTCSC) which relates the RDF based test cases satisfying white box testing coverage criterion statement coverage, with the RDF based target java class(s). After the execution of semantically presented information (test cases against program) is then passes through two phases further i.e. Code Categorization and Code Visualization which shows the final output of the classified code segments visually. Whole process of the presented approach is supported by the tool which performs the related steps with ease automatically.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127749746","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":"Detecting Edges in an Image with the Help of Fuzzy Parameters","authors":"Isra Javaid Alam, M. Kadri","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.11","url":null,"abstract":"In this research paper a novel image processing technique based on fuzzy logic has been proposed to detect edges in an image. The algorithm formulated for this purpose utilizes the concept of Attanassov's intuitionistic theory of fuzzy sets, which takes into account a hesitation degree. From this parameter, a new distance measure has been derived, which is termed as the intuitionistic fuzzy divergence or IFD, and is used for calculating the edges. The results obtained are better when compared to other edge detection techniques.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127758093","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}
Mohsin Ikram, Qurrat-ul-Ain Babar, Z. Anwar, A. Malik
{"title":"GSAN: Green Cloud-Simulation for Storage Area Networks","authors":"Mohsin Ikram, Qurrat-ul-Ain Babar, Z. Anwar, A. Malik","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.55","url":null,"abstract":"The drive towards utilizing green and renewable energy to power large IT data centers is rapidly gaining momentum. Considerable research has gone into developing simulation models to comprehensively study the energy dynamics of different types of data center equipment in order to better understand how best to conserve it. Most of this research has gone towards modeling of servers and switches but relatively less amount of work is available on Storage Area Networks (SAN). Storage Area Networks play a very vital role in the data center architecture by using specialized storage hardware to manage data. In this paper, we have extended the Green Cloud simulator for computing the energy consumed by different SAN components. A simulation environment for SAN has been presented using the 'Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling' (DVFS) and 'Dynamic Shutdown' (DNS) techniques. The simulation results obtained through two SAN prototype models shows the energy consumption of SAN components to vary with the network topology and type of technique used in scheduling of the workloads. Our experimental simulations revealed that there is an increasing percentage of energy savings in DNS mode for both topologies for an increasing number of servers. Results demonstrated up to 35.6% energy savings.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134183585","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":"Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing in Various Applications","authors":"M. Ashraf, Naveed Khan","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.22","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous Computing is a paradigm containing the characteristics to break away from the traditional desktop computing system and turn to such computer systems where everything is available & accessible everywhere through various devices while keeping them effectively invisible. The accomplishment of this vision requires a deep involvement of multiple areas including software engineering. Software engineering plays a major role in ubi-comp world, but the lack of appropriate software engineering approaches is identified as a major obstacle on the route to propose a general level framework that should be adopted for all kinds of ubi-comp applications. The very initial step which is still required for this vision is to identify all potential software engineering challenges in the ubi-comp era. In this paper we have made a survey of various ubi-comp applications and extracted a number of software engineering challenges faced by other researchers during the development of such applications. This work provides a future direction for other researchers and developers to make the process of providing an appropriate framework for building ubi-comp application more effectively.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"355 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115019399","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":"Online Adaptive Full Car Active Suspension Control Using B-Spline Fuzzy-Neural Network","authors":"S. Qamar, L. Khan, Z. Qamar","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.45","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the Adaptive B-spline Fuzzy Neural Network (ABFNN) based an active suspension system for full car is presented. The passive suspension system cannot reduce the vibrations which are transmitted from the road disturbances to the frame which affect the ride comfort and vehicle stability. The magnitude of these vibrations can be reduced by using ABFNN based an active suspension system. The ABFNN has ability to approximate the nonlinearity of the vehicle. By using B-spline membership function in the fuzzy neural network the approximation ability of the network is increased. The shape of B-spline membership function is adjusted self adaptively by changing control points during learning process. B-spline membership functions give a structure for choosing the shape of the fuzzy sets. The update parameters of ABFNN are trained by gradient-based technique that may fall into local minima during the learning process. The ABFNN is successfully applied to full car suspension model which reduces the seat, heave pitch and roll displacement of the vehicle. Simulation is based on the full car mathematical model by using MATLAB/SIMULINK. The simulation results show that the ABFNN control technique gives better results than passive and semi-active suspension systems.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124853766","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":"Towards Improving Vehicular Communication in Modern Vehicular Environment","authors":"M. A. Qureshi, R. M. Noor","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.40","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is a challenging field of wireless technology that offers a wide variety of useful applications. These applications span from safety related applications to infotainment services. IEEE 802.11p standard that operates in 5.9 GHz frequency band is widely adopted in VANETs for physical and MAC layers. The radio signals in 5.9 GHz band are less penetrating as compared to Wi-Fi that operates in 2.4 GHz band. Obstacles that impede radio signals have high impact on vehicular communication. Thus, maintaining line-of-sight among communicating vehicles improves vehicular communication. Modern day vehicular environment contains road infrastructure units such as curve roads, flyovers, underpasses, tunnels and irregular roads. The modern road infrastructure units introduce non line-of-sight conditions which result in either costly or no communication. This paper introduces a mechanism to maintain line-of-sight among communicating vehicles while considering modern road infrastructure units. The geometrical concepts are used here to model and formulate the line-of-sight (LOS) conditions in various real world scenarios. We have calculated the relative optimal position of signal repeaters / reflectors for maintaining line-of-sight condition in different road infrastructure units.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"719 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121741226","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":"Analytical Model for Delay Distribution of PRMAC","authors":"S. Siddiqui, S. Ghani","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.8","url":null,"abstract":"Delay is one of the most important parameters of interest while providing QOS guarantees for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Various MAC layer protocols for WSN have been proposed for efficient management of delay. Analyzing single hop and end to end delay using queuing analysis can provide significant help in modeling various real time WSN applications. This paper parameterizes the cross-layer analysis framework for investigating the single hop delay distribution of a cross layer WSN MAC protocol PRMAC. The analysis demonstrates how the methodology can be applied to a cross layer protocol embedding key details of the protocol such as impact of control packets (PION) modeling. An example of the analysis is illustrated using a single hop delay for a node with a small buffer.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"136 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113977643","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 Study of Selected Classification Algorithms for Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever","authors":"Wajeeha Farooqi, Sadaf Ali","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.33","url":null,"abstract":"Dengue fever is viral infection caused by dengue virus which is transmitted in human body by bite of female Eddie mosquito. There are 50 million people suffer from it globally every year. Pakistan has been victim of this rapidly growing disease from last few years. The world health organization identified two main types of dengue fever. This paper appraises the selected classification algorithms for the classification of dengue fever (DF) and dengue haemraghic fever (DHF) datasets. Naïve Bayes classifier, Decision Tree, K-nearest neighbor algorithm, multilayered perception algorithm and Support vector machines are considered here for classification of dengue fever. These algorithms are measured based on five criteria: Accuracy, Precision, Sensitivity, Specificity and false negative rate.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133648964","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}
J. Kolodziej, M. Szmajduch, Tahir Maqsood, S. Madani, N. Min-Allah, S. Khan
{"title":"Energy-Aware Grid Scheduling of Independent Tasks and Highly Distributed Data","authors":"J. Kolodziej, M. Szmajduch, Tahir Maqsood, S. Madani, N. Min-Allah, S. Khan","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2013.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2013.46","url":null,"abstract":"Data-aware scheduling in today's large-scale computing systems has become a major complex research issue. This problem becomes even more challenging when data is stored and accessed from many highly distributed servers and energy-efficiency is treated as a main scheduling objective. In this paper we approach the independent batch scheduling in grid environment as a bi-objective minimization problem with make span and energy consumption as the scheduling criteria. We used the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) model for reducing the cumulative power energy utilized by the system resources for tasks executions. We developed for data transmission a general logical network topology and policy based on the sleep link-based Adaptive Link Rate (ALR) on/off technique. Two developed energy-aware grid schedulers are based on genetic algorithms (GAs) frameworks with elitist and struggle replacement mechanisms and were empirically evaluated for four grid size scenarios in static and dynamic modes. The simulation results show that the proposed schedulers perform to a level that is sufficient to maintain the desired quality levels.","PeriodicalId":179067,"journal":{"name":"2013 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133092877","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}