{"title":"BUDI: Building Urban Designs Interactively A Spatial-Based Visualization and Collaboration Platform for Urban Planning","authors":"Xi Sun, Matthew Plaudis, Y. Coady","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623112","url":null,"abstract":"BUDI (Building Urban Designs Interactively) is an integrated 3D visualization and remote collaboration platform for complex urban design tasks. Users with different backgrounds can remotely engage in the entire design cycle, improving the quality of the end result. In BUDI, the display and interactive environment were designed to seamlessly expand beyond a traditional two-dimensional surface into a fully immersive three-dimensional space. Clients on various devices connect with servers for different functionalities tailored for various user groups. A demonstration with a local urban planning use-case shows the costs and benefits of BUDI as a geographic information visualization and spatial-based collaborative platform. We consider the trade-offs encountered when trying to make the collaboration seamless. Specifically, we detail the multi-dimensional data visualization and interaction the platform provides, and outline how users can interact with and analyze various aspects of urban design.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128383603","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":"Anomaly Detection in Election Data and its Representation of U.S. Infrastructure Vulnerability","authors":"Jason Green","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623111","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to showcase an idea to research election data fraud attempting to alter outcomes and to assess if the implications fall in line with weaknesses of the U.S. infrastructures. By employing supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques such as Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Isolation Forest on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Polling datasets, this paper explores potential data fraud via any possible detected anomalies. Through the experiment and analysis, results indicate a ~9% anomalous data entries in the polling results dataset. Due to lack of ground truth on the latter dataset, it is impossible to determine its accuracy. Therefore, the link between possible anomalies and data fraud attempts cannot be drawn. Further research can be done to better examine this link. Despite that, sufficient known publications about the dangers of data manipulation, especially to US infrastructures, can already indicate an alarming vulnerability of the US infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130567157","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}
Gagani Senarathne, Dilpri Punchihewa, Dilini Ishara Liyanage, G. Wimalaratne, H. De Silva
{"title":"BlindAid - Android-based Mobile Application Guide for Visually Challenged People","authors":"Gagani Senarathne, Dilpri Punchihewa, Dilini Ishara Liyanage, G. Wimalaratne, H. De Silva","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623189","url":null,"abstract":"Millions of people across the world are affected by visual impairments. The proposed application is designed for visually impaired people consists of three components which are face recognition with emotion, obstacle identification through distance measurement, extract and convey critical information like text, labels, and currency details. Most works reported in the literature depends on the availability of specific hardware. The proposed proof of concept prototype aims to make visually impaired people more independent and carry out tasks conveniently and safely.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"287 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120984519","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}
Albert H Carlson, Bhaskar Ghosh, I. Dutta, Shivanjali Khare, Michael W. Totaro
{"title":"Key Space Reduction Using Isomorphs","authors":"Albert H Carlson, Bhaskar Ghosh, I. Dutta, Shivanjali Khare, Michael W. Totaro","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623158","url":null,"abstract":"Block ciphers are said to have key spaces that are large enough to prevent a brute force attack from breaking them within the lifetime of the attacker; however, messages obscured using those ciphers are regularly broken. Some are broken because of increased computer capabilities, while others are broken because of industry reliance on invalid assumptions. These assumptions include the idea that all encrypted blocks of text are equally likely to appear in a message and that only the original key can decrypt a message. In this paper, we show that information theory techniques using isomorphs can reduce the key space to a size that makes the subsequent brute force attack possible in a shorter and easily achievable time frame.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133783339","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}
Md. Riazul Alam, Abrar Raiyan, Shabab Rahman, Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan
{"title":"Effect of COVID-19 on Medical Intern Students: Bangladesh Perspective","authors":"Md. Riazul Alam, Abrar Raiyan, Shabab Rahman, Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623093","url":null,"abstract":"To observe and analyze the impact of covid-19 on medical interns based on some factors, such as their career perception, training, mental and physical wellbeing, treating covid-19 patients, and availability of protective gear. We surveyed the medical interns of Bangladesh. We prepared a set of 18 questions based on the factors that have impacted the medical interns. The response of the medical interns was analyzed to check how big of an impact did the pandemic have on the interns. The survey showed a significant effect on the physical and mental health of the interns due to covid-19 compared to other factors. The interns were concerned for their family members at home for the risk they posed to them due to being in close proximity to coronavirus patients during work. The survey revealed no significant impact on the career perception of the interns. However, the interns had a relatively bad training experience. The study clarified the different ways in which medical interns were affected by the pandemic. As the interns were in the frontline of battling this virus and other healthcare workers, they had to face challenges they had not anticipated.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129908701","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}
O. Zadorozhnyi, Pavlos Tsiantis, Erricos Michaelides, Christos C. Constantinou, I. Kyriakides, Ilias Alexopoulos, Ehson Abdi, J. Reodica, D. Hayes
{"title":"Marine Vehicle Tracking using Agile Maritime IoTs","authors":"O. Zadorozhnyi, Pavlos Tsiantis, Erricos Michaelides, Christos C. Constantinou, I. Kyriakides, Ilias Alexopoulos, Ehson Abdi, J. Reodica, D. Hayes","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623187","url":null,"abstract":"Marine surveillance deals with the complex problem of modeling and estimating natural and human processes while operating with limited information acquisition resources. The complexity of the problem and the scarcity of resources, such as power, processing, and communications, requires agile distributed sensing and computing that provides scalability, diversity in information acquisition, and adaptive allocation of limited resources. This work deals with tracking multiple marine vehicles using data from heterogeneous sensors. Accurate tracking is achieved by a synergy between a network of agile maritime IoTs, with limited processing resources, and a fusion center, with computationally intensive capability. The IoTs can reconfigure their elementary processing operations settings to produce informative yet low volume measurement statistics. The fusion center handles heterogeneous data fusion and solves the complex problem of vehicle state estimation. We demonstrate that by configuring its agile distributed computing capabilities, the proposed system provides significant savings in processing and communications resources without deteriorating tracking performance.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133835251","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":"Frequency Optimized FPGA-Based Digital FIR Filters with Data Inputs and Coefficients of Large Size","authors":"N. Chabini, A. Aaroud","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623213","url":null,"abstract":"Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are used in realizing real-life applications. Finite Impulse Response (FIR) is widely used in digital signal processing applications. Digital FIRs are made from multiplication and addition operations and registers. In this paper, we target digital FIRs with data inputs and coefficients of large size. Since embedded multiplier blocks in FPGAs are of limited input sizes, this implies that the inputs of the filters have to be segmented first. Next, the small multiplications have to be carried out using the embedded blocks and the resulting partial products have to be added together to get the final result. In this paper, using the state of the art results, we synthesis FIRs on FPGAs with data inputs and coefficients of sizes ranging from 20 to 50 bits. Experimental results show that both the frequency and the area can be optimized for the case of Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGAs. For Xilinx Vertix 6 FPGAs, the frequency has been improved while the area has been increased for some sizes and has been decreased in other cases; when the number of used DSP blocks is reduced, some area metrics have been increased, and viceversa.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130957410","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":"Resource Allocation in Multi-access Edge Computing: Optimization and Machine Learning","authors":"Xian Liu","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623076","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-access edge computing (MEC) equipped with artificial intelligence is a promising technology in B5G wireless systems. Some refined investigations and analysis are needed to gain more insights. This paper addresses that the core concept could be stemmed from the wait-and-see model in stochastic programming and indicates the quasi-separable property. Moreover, both small-scale fading and pathloss issues are included in the investigations. Two aspects of this study are the optimization model itself, followed by the simulation with machine learning (ML). One of the main interests of using ML is in improving the computational efficiency. Simulations showed that the efficiency may be improved from 93% to 96%.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132314538","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}
Juan D. Arcila-Moreno, Diego Alejandro Cifuentes Garcia, Francisco Jose Correa Zabala, Esteban Echeverri Jaramillo, C. Trefftz, Andres Felipe Zapata-Palacio
{"title":"PyPacho: A Python library that implements parallel basic operations on GPUs","authors":"Juan D. Arcila-Moreno, Diego Alejandro Cifuentes Garcia, Francisco Jose Correa Zabala, Esteban Echeverri Jaramillo, C. Trefftz, Andres Felipe Zapata-Palacio","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623197","url":null,"abstract":"Python has become an extremely popular programming language that is widely used in many different domains including scientific computing. Numpy is a Python library that includes numerous functions for numerical linear algebra. Numpy uses code that has been parallelized to take advantage of microprocessors with several cores making Numpy very fast and efficient on current microprocessors. Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are available on many computers. Originally designed to accelerate the performance of graphical applications, they have become very useful to improve the speed of general purpose applications. In particular, GPUs work very well on large arrays. In this paper we present PyPacho, a library that is, by design, similar to Numpy. This library has been written to accelerate the execution of code on GPUs by using the services provided by PyCuda and OpenCL. Our goal is to create a library that will allow Python code originally written using Numpy methods to execute efficiently on GPUs. Our main strategy is to take advantage of the use of parallelism in basic operations on matrices and vectors. Furthermore, we implemented three different methods to solve systems of linear equations: Jacobi, Gradient Descent and Conjugate Gradient. We compared the execution times of those methods on different platforms. Initial results are encouraging.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132413948","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":"Evaluation of a bio-socially inspired secure DSA scheme using testbed-calibrated hybrid simulations","authors":"A. Wiśniewska, Nirnimesh Ghose, Bilal Khan","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623249","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing explosion of embedded wireless capabilities in contemporary systems has made the availability of wireless spectrum insufficient. The proposed solution to this problem is dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technology where wireless devices (secondary users) opportunistically forage for unused spectrum (for example, TV whitespace and 3.5GHz bands) arising when the licensed users are idle. We put forward a novel bio-social protocol for DSA networks in which the secondary users forage for bands with low contention. The SUs estimate utilization using a novel wireless physical layer signature method to provide security against rogue nodes that seek to benefit by injecting spoofed traffic on behalf of other SUs. We report on the system performance of this formally specified model of bio-social behavior, using simulations that are parameterized by hardware testbed measurements. The results show that a more accurate estimation of band contention improves the efficiency of resource utilization. More broadly, the findings point to the importance of biosocial paradigms in the design of distributed leaderless resource sharing schemes for the wireless ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"42 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114195837","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}