{"title":"Real Time Analysis of Telephone Conversation to Detect and Prevent Attacks in Nigeria","authors":"Aliyu Dadan Garba, Ridwan Salahudeen, Sandip Rakshit","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949621","url":null,"abstract":"Nigeria is a country with wide spectrum of ethnic groups with a population of about 195 million. The country has been having security challenges such as Insurgency, Arm banditry, Cattle rustling, Kidnapping, Political thugs, among others which leads to loss of lives and properties. The most occurring and challenging is the insurgencies that spread into many parts (Borno, Adamawa, Yobe etc) of the country. It has been a quite challenge to the security forces to track down and/or to prevent any insurgency before it occurs. This proposal tends to address these challenges by analysing the phone conversations through telecommunication networks to prevent the attack before it occurs. The analyser engine is to be developed which processes the most common spoken languages (English, Hausa, Yaruba, and Igbo) in the country and passes it to inference engine for decision making. The inference engine qualifies the processed conversions as either threats or not. If found to be suspected, a notification will be sent to the security forces to investigate and/or prevent.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133244730","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}
Muhammad Bashir Abdulrazaq, Yusuf Suleiman Tahir, S. Sha’aban, Muhammed Sani Jibia
{"title":"Polynomial Reduction of TSP to Freely Open-loop TSP","authors":"Muhammad Bashir Abdulrazaq, Yusuf Suleiman Tahir, S. Sha’aban, Muhammed Sani Jibia","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949664","url":null,"abstract":"Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the earliest combinatorial problem that is identified to be NP-hard problem. It is a problem that seeks to find the shortest possible route in a graph problem which passes through all nodes only once and return to the starting point. A variant of TSP is the Freely Open-loop TSP (FOTSP) which seeks to find the shortest route in the graph without having to return to starting point and with no specific starting or end node. In this paper, a reduction of polynomial complexity for TSP problem into FOTSP is presented and vice versa. This reduction proves that FOTSP is also NP-complete just as TSP.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125021963","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":"Blockchain: Panacea for Corrupt Practices in Developing Countries","authors":"A. I. Sanka, R. Cheung","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949626","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain technology is one of the most exciting emerging technologies and has the capability to digitally revolutionize many systems for better security, autonomy, transparency, auditability, speed, reduced cost and efficiency. Blockchain can be regarded as a revolutionized distributed ledger technology which uses temper proof database in conjunction with consensus algorithms and cryptography. On the other hand, corruption has been a major problem in developing countries like Nigeria that bedevils their progress and development. In this paper, we investigate corrupt practices in developing countries with Nigeria as a case study. We study some blockchain use cases in some countries like Estonia and Georgia. We propose a blockchain framework to curb corrupt practices related to public funds embezzlement as the biggest corruption act. All transactions made by government agencies are stored in the blockchain shared by anti-corruption agencies, police, judiciaries and other related offices at the same time. We also propose the blockchain architecture and consensus suitable for the framework. Blockchain technology is immune to the influence of central authorities and intermediaries. It is secure against tempering and provides transparency and auditability. Hence using blockchain technology will help to tackle corrupt practices for betterment of developing countries such as Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123916711","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}
Ibrahim Bako Abdulhamid, Mustapha Muhammad, Amina Ibrahim Khaleel
{"title":"Control of a Double Pendulum Crane System Using PSO-Tuned LQR","authors":"Ibrahim Bako Abdulhamid, Mustapha Muhammad, Amina Ibrahim Khaleel","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949631","url":null,"abstract":"A Gantry crane system is commonly used for point to point transportation as well as lowering and lifting of payload. The use of cables for hosting of payload can lead to natural swaying which makes it difficult to perform alignment, fine positioning as well as detrimental to safe and efficient operations. This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) based linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controller; for position and sway control of a double pendulum crane system. The major problem of designing an LQR controller is that, the Q and R parameter are obtained by trial and error which is quiet laborious. This paper optimized Q and R parameters by using PSO algorithm to obtain the best or optimal results. Simulation studies were carried out on the double pendulum nonlinear crane model which is created in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed controller in terms of reducing the trolley position percentage overshoot, hook oscillation and payload oscillation by 65%, 89.8% and 88.6% respectively.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123059875","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":"Electric Power-Assisted Steering: A Review","authors":"A. Isah, Ameer Mohammed, Aminu Hamza","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949620","url":null,"abstract":"For safe operation of a vehicle, the driver must be able to maintain absolute control of the vehicle’s serious operating dynamics. To achieve this, extensively power steering systems have been employed today. This has been as a result of the increase in the front axle loads of vehicles, making it require more power to turn its wheels. In addition, there is a need for vehicles with more responsive steering properties. As a result, the quest for higher efficiency of the system necessitates the need for a more flexible and efficacious system. Electric Power-Assisted Steering (EPAS) systems can serve as alternatives to hydraulic power-assisted steering systems. The EPAS system offered the desired flexibility, engine and space efficiency. In addition, no pollution is emitted to the environment because of the omission of all hydraulic components. However, it has issues with system inertia and vehicle stability. Therefore, the requirement for vehicle steering stability becomes strict. As such, the focus of this paper is to give an overview of the EPAS system, its different configurations and subsystems, in addition to prospects and challenges of adopting the technology in vehicles.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115766457","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":"Performance Evaluation of Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Radial Basis Function (RBF)","authors":"A. Musa, F. Aliyu","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949669","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of character recognition cannot be overemphasized. It finds applications in many automated systems. In most cases, these applications require high precision (e.g. automatic grading system, document digitization, license plate recognition systems, e.t.c) as well as low resource overhead. However, these are conflicting requirements, because the more the precision required, the more computation needed hence the more increase in resource overhead. In the research, two classification algorithms in Artificial Neural Networks (ANN): Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) were applied to hand-written digit recognition and their performance is investigated. The duo was compared in terms of resources required for training and accuracy. It is found that MLP-NN is much faster to train (5.5min) compared to RBF (50.0min). However, during testing, it is found that both have an accuracy of ≈ 95%.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115434075","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}
Solomon Adelowo Adepoju, Ayobami Ekundayo, Adeniyi Oluwaseun Ojerinde, R. Ahmed
{"title":"Usability and Accessibility Evaluation of Nigerian Mobile Network Operators’ Websites","authors":"Solomon Adelowo Adepoju, Ayobami Ekundayo, Adeniyi Oluwaseun Ojerinde, R. Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949622","url":null,"abstract":"Usability and accessibility of websites have been a subject of great importance to human computer interaction researchers. Hence, this paper carries out the usability and accessibility evaluation of the four main Nigeria mobile network operators’ websites. The websites tested are: www.mtnonline.com, www.gloworld.com, www.ng.airtel.com, and www.9mobile.com.ng. Four online automated tools were used which are: Mobile SEO, WAVE, TAW and Achecker. User testing was also conducted in a controlled environment with forty participants who were given five tasks to perform on the websites. The activities of the participants were recorded using Camtasia studio to get the total time taken to complete the task. Questionnaire for Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) was used to get users feedback on the tested websites. The QUIS was designed based on five categories with each category dealing with an aspect of usability. The results show that the overall usability level of MTN was the best among the four. This was followed by GLO, 9mobile and Airtel respectively. From the results obtained, it is recommended that the web designers of the mobile network operators compare their website design with web content accessibility guideline (WCAG 2.0) to make sure the different categories of subscribers are satisfied with the features and services provided by the websites.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131113050","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}
G. Salami, N. Faruk, N. Surajudeen-Bakinde, Felix Ngobigha
{"title":"Challenges and Trends in 5G Deployment: A Nigerian Case Study","authors":"G. Salami, N. Faruk, N. Surajudeen-Bakinde, Felix Ngobigha","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949675","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in mobile operator deployment from Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) to fifth generation (5G) networks. With the completion of the 3GPP Release 15 standards supporting “Non-Standalone 5G” in late 2018, attention has shifted to Standalone 5G, whilst operators across the globe continue to accelerate deployment of 5G based on the latest specifications. This paper addresses the global trends and challenges for early 5G rollout with focus on the Nigeria market. It also provides solutions to guide Nigerian mobile operator on pitfalls and barriers to entry, to allow smooth transitioning from 4G to 5G technology in Nigeria. Finally, the paper provides empirical evidence suggesting UE connected to the small cells use lower transmit power, hence improving uplink performance.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123823701","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 Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Improved Flight Performance","authors":"Aminu Hamza, Ameer Mohammed, A. Isah","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949672","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have applications in military, reconnaissance, disaster management, communication support, geographical survey and photography among others. Their use in everyday life is increasing. A common shortcoming of UAV is limited endurance. Most UAVs make use of conventional fuel for their propulsion as well as for powering on-board equipment. Relative to the size of these UAVs, the amount of fuel they can carry limits their endurance. Hence, there is a need for alternative ways to enhance their endurance as well to free the environment from pollutants. Sub-Saharan Africa is endowed with abundant solar radiation in which solar-powered UAVs have the potential to achieve optimum flight performance. Therefore, this paper is focused on providing insight on the prospects of using a solar-powered UAV in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve optimum flight performance.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124860331","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}
D. Wisdom, Ahmed Yusuf Tambuwal, Aminu Mohammed, Ahmed Audu, M. B. Soroyewun, S. Isaac
{"title":"A Delay Aware Power Saving Scheme (DAPSS) Base on Load in Traffic IEEE 802.16e Networks","authors":"D. Wisdom, Ahmed Yusuf Tambuwal, Aminu Mohammed, Ahmed Audu, M. B. Soroyewun, S. Isaac","doi":"10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NigeriaComputConf45974.2019.8949666","url":null,"abstract":"IEEE 802.16 Standard also known as worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is designed to support wider coverage, higher bandwidth, less cost of deployment with different traffic classes’ support for power savings. The IEEE added mobility characteristics which made batterylife of Mobile Station (MS) a critical challenge, since MS are battery powered with an impose rechargeable life. An Efficient Battery Lifetime Aware Power Saving Scheme was proposed. The Scheme minimizes frequent transition of MS in order-to reduce power consumption but increases average response delay due to a longer sleep interval used. Thus, a Delay Aware Power Saving Scheme (DAPSS) Based on Traffic Load is proposed to reduce the excessive response delay. The Scheme introduces a modified minimum and maximum sleep interval in order to reduce the longer sleep time of a MS, and dynamically tunes the sleep parameters more appropriately according to the traffic load. It employed a delay aware algorithm to save power. The Scheme was evaluated using discrete event simulator, the results showed that the proposed DAPSS achieves superior performance compared to the existing Scheme in terms of the average power consumption and response delay.","PeriodicalId":228657,"journal":{"name":"2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134148409","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}