{"title":"A Web-Based Lightweight Testbed for Supporting Network Security Hands-on Labs","authors":"Wei Liu, Quamar Niyaz, Weiqing Sun, A. Javaid","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500270","url":null,"abstract":"We implement a web-based lightweight testbed that can support multiple virtual networks (VNs) on a single physical network to provide hands-on experience in teaching courses for computer network and security. The testbeds leveraging virtualization are preferred to manage VNs. However, most of the employed techniques are heavyweight. Also, user-friendly access to VNs in a testbed is another important issue. In this work, a testbed is implemented using Linux Containers (LXC), Open vSwitch (OVS), and shellinabox that attempts to address the challenges mentioned above. LXC-based virtualization makes the testbed lightweight. A terminal embedded web-based user interface (UI) is implemented using shellinabox. The web-based UI eliminates extraneous software installation at the user-end to access the VNs and enables the users to access their virtual hosts through a web page. An implementation to automate the creation of VNs with varying topology is also discussed.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123864411","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":"Source Classification of Indoor Air Pollutants Using Principal Component Analysis for Smart Home Monitoring Applications","authors":"Y.-T. Chen, S. Shrestha","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500198","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor air pollution has much greater impact on our health than we perceive. Presence of particulates and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in indoor air are in much higher concentrations than outdoor air. These particulates and VOCs are known to cause numerous health problems to millions of people every year. This paper presents a solution for passive and continuous monitoring of harmful VOCs using a sensor array. We tested common household products for VOCs emissions. The items were tested in a controlled laboratory setting which simulated an indoor environment. In the laboratory, the developed system was able to detect the presence of the harmful VOCs and classify the sources of those VOCs. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used for identification and classification. The presented system aims to assist the users to monitor the presence of harmful VOCs and inform about their possible sources. How we designed the system and the test results are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121234718","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 Python-Based Simulation Software for Monitoring the Operability State of Critical Infrastructures Under Emergency Conditions","authors":"T. Koch, D. Möller, Andreas Deutschmann","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500219","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the increasing number of cyber attacks and blackouts at critical infrastructures, the topic of critical infrastructure security and safety did not only reach a high media presence within the last years, but also gained attention within security research. The first step to increase the resilience and preparedness of critical infrastructures is to understand the impact of external stimulation on its operability. Therefore, we successfully build a Python-based simulation software based on the cyber-physical system model from Koch et al. (IEEE EIT 2017 [1]), which is able to predict the operating conditions in cases of blackouts, power shortages or cyber attacks. The software is dynamically verified by building and simulating the time-dependent operability state of a small network in cases of varying load conditions and a cyber attack event. With its easy understandable graphical user interface the software will be able to support the future planning of critical infrastructures and testing its performance under emergency conditions.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116084733","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":"Analysis of Data Rate vs. SNR in MIMO Wireless Communication Systems","authors":"Yoonill Lee","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500091","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops a simple algorithm to estimate signal power to noise power ratio (SNR) in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. The given data rates in the Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS) are used as a reference to estimate corresponding SNRs with different transmit power disparities and channel bandwidths. Path loss is accounted for by using the IEEE break point path loss model.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114669148","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":"Indoor Navigation System Using Acoustic Cuing for Visually Impaired People","authors":"Guojun Yang, J. Saniie","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500192","url":null,"abstract":"Guiding visually impaired people autonomously is a challenging task. One of the major challenges is interfacing with visually impaired people efficiently. Sighted people are able to perceive information through their visions. Therefore, most human-computer interfaces are graphic based. These interfaces provide no help for visually impaired users. Existing UIs (User Interface) designed for visually impaired people are inadequate in terms of efficiency. A typical UI designed for visually impaired people helps its users using verbal cues. To be more specific, through a series of descriptive language, all information is passed to its users sequentially. In some applications, visually impaired users need to be updated constantly with information of their surroundings. Descriptive verbal cues might be insufficient when surroundings of users are constantly changing. In this paper, an UI using acoustic cues will be introduced. Unlike sequential verbal cues, acoustic cues can update its users constantly, therefore more adaptive to changing environments. To demonstrate the advantage of such acoustic cuing UI, an indoor object localization system was built. Regardless the complexity of the scenes, the proposed UI can always update its users in real-time using acoustic cues. The rules for generating such cues will be presented. Finally, the effectiveness of the UI will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124120693","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":"Enhancement of the word2vec Class-Based Language Modeling by Optimizing the Features Vector Using PCA","authors":"Tiba Zaki Abdulhameed, I. Zitouni, I. Abdel-Qader","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500303","url":null,"abstract":"Neural word embedding, such as word2vec, produces very large features' vectors. In this paper, we are investigating the length of the feature vector aiming to optimize the word representation results, and also to speed up the algorithm by addressing noise impact. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has a proven record in dimensionality reduction as we selected it to achieve our objectives. We also selected class based Language Modeling as extrinsic evaluation of the features vectors and are using Perplexity (pp) as our metric. K-means clustering is used as words classification. The execution time of the classification is also computed. As a result, we concluded that for a given test data, if the training data is of same domain then large vector size can increase the precision of describing word relations. In contrast, if the training data is from different domain and contains large amount of contexts not expected to occur in the test data then a small vector size will give a better description to help reducing the noise effect on clustering decisions. Two different data training domains were used in this analysis; Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) broadcast news and reports, and Iraqi phone conversations with testing data of the same Iraqi data domain. Depending on this analysis, same domain training data and test data have execution times reduced by 61% while keeping same representation efficiency. In addition, for different domain training data i.e. MSA, pp reduction ratio of 6.7% is achieved with time reduced by 92%. This implies the importance of carefully choosing feature vector size on the overall performance.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123473499","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}
Mitch Campion, A. S. Nair, Anupam Mukherjee, D. Hollingworth, P. Ranganathan
{"title":"Investigation of Two-Stage Load Forecasting to Minimize Error Residuals","authors":"Mitch Campion, A. S. Nair, Anupam Mukherjee, D. Hollingworth, P. Ranganathan","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500094","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses preliminary results obtained using a two-stage forecasting method for PJM Interconnection data sets. In stage 1, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) was deployed, and in stage 2, residuals from stage 1 was fed as an input to exponential smoothing (ES) method. The data contained demand values from 11 regions of PJM Interconnection. The datasets used to predict day-ahead demand values are both in 24-hour and 30-day format for 2016 calendar year. The accuracy of forecasting is evaluated using Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) parameters. An economic dispatch was then carried using a linear programming formulation in Algebraic Mathematical Programming Language (AMPL) environment. The preliminary results indicate two stage process of ARIMA with ES and ARIMA with ARIMA outperforms one-stage application for this data set.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124612487","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 Real-World Implementation of SQL Injection Attack Using Open Source Tools for Enhanced Cybersecurity Learning","authors":"Shriya Vyamajala, Tauheed Khan Mohd, A. Javaid","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500136","url":null,"abstract":"SQL injection is well known a method of executing SQL queries and retrieving sensitive information from a website connected database. This process poses a threat to those applications which are poorly coded in the today's world. SQL is considered as one of the top 10 vulnerabilities even in 2018. To keep a track of the vulnerabilities that each of the websites are facing, we employ a tool called Acunetix which allows us to find the vulnerabilities of a specific website. This tool also suggests measures on how to ensure preventive measures. Using this implementation, we discover vulnerabilities in an actual website. Such a real-world implementation would be useful for instructional use in a foundational cybersecurity course.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133368298","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 Defined Ultrasonic System for Communication Through Solid Structures","authors":"Boyang Wang, J. Saniie, S. Bakhtiari, A. Heifetz","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500306","url":null,"abstract":"RF signals are commonly used as a carrier signal in wireless communications. In some situations, like underwater, underground, closed containers or even intra-body, ultrasonic signal is a better carrier signal because RF signal attenuate very fast in these types of channels. Therefore, it is our objective is to assess the capability of using ultrasonic waves as a carrier waveform for communications. Ultrasonic signal is a type of waveform which has a frequency higher than 20 kHz. In this study, a ZYNQ System-on-Chip (SoC) platform is used to conduct ultrasonic communication experiments. This system consists of a transmitting transducer and a receiving transducer operating at MHz range frequencies. The transceiver unit operates using In-phase and Quadrature (IQ) modulation. With IQ modulation, different modulation schemes such as quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), phase shift keying (PSK) can be readily implemented on the platform without modifying the hardware setup. Experiments are conducted in solid channels with various shape, material and size to explore the ultrasonic communication feasibility in diverse environments. Performance of different modulation methods are discussed and compared in this paper.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129792485","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":"Symmetric Eigen-Wavefunctions of Quantum Dot Bound States Resulting from Geometric Confinement","authors":"Wei Li, S. Belling","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500244","url":null,"abstract":"Self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots possess an intrinsic geometric symmetry due to the crystal periodic structure. In order to systematically analyze the symmetric properties of quantum dots' bound states resulting only from geometric confinement, we apply group representation theory. We label each bound state for two kinds of popular quantum dot shapes: pyramid and half ellipsoid with the irreducible representation of the corresponding symmetric groups, i.e., C4v and C2v, respectively. Our study completes all the possible irreducible representation cases of groups C4v and C2v. Using the character theory of point groups, we predict the selection rule for electric dipole induced transitions. We also investigate the impact of quantum dot aspect ratio on the symmetric properties of the state wavefunction. This research provides a solid foundation to continue exploring quantum dot symmetry reduction or broken phenomena because of strain, band-mixing and shape irregularity. The results will benefit the researchers who are interested in quantum dot symmetry related effects such as absorption or emission spectra, or those who are studying quantum dots using analytical or numerical simulation approaches.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130246364","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}