{"title":"First and second order statistics analysis for the RSS measurement in an indoor environment","authors":"Zhe Dang, I. Howitt, R. McKinney, J. Conrad","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453866","url":null,"abstract":"This paper illustrates the use of empirical data to characterize received signal strength (RSS) within an indoor environment. The RSS covers both line-of-sight (LOS) area and non-LOS area. We performed a sufficient number of trials to ensure that the RSS data converges, and then analyzed the first and second order statistics of the RSS so that the characteristics of the shadowing and multi-path fading can be captured.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128574775","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 genetic algorithm approach to the solution of a differential equation","authors":"P. MacNeil, S. Schultz","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453833","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an approach to solving differential equations by using a genetic algorithm to adjust parameter values in candidate solutions so as to minimize the sum squared error of the differential equation. An example solution is developed for a differential equation representing an electron in the Coulomb potential of two protons. Two measurable parameter values are estimated via this process and compared with published values.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130701524","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}
W. Cilio, M. Linder, Chris Porter, J. Di, S. Smith, D. Thompson
{"title":"Side-channel attack mitigation using dual-spacer Dual-rail Delay-insensitive Logic (D3L)","authors":"W. Cilio, M. Linder, Chris Porter, J. Di, S. Smith, D. Thompson","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453826","url":null,"abstract":"Side-channel attacks have become a threat to secure electronic circuits, due to the strong correlation between data pattern and leaking power/timing information. By monitoring the power/timing behavior of a synchronous circuit, an attacker can easily obtain the secret data stored in the device. Although dual-rail asynchronous circuits have more stable power traces, they still show power fluctuation because of the imbalanced load between two rails. Moreover, asynchronous circuits are the most prone to timing attacks since delay is data dependent. Dual-spacer Dual-rail Delay-insensitive Logic (D3L), presented in this paper, is able to mitigate power and timing based side-channel attacks. Power fluctuation is decoupled from data pattern by the use of a dual-spacer protocol, while timing-data correlation is broken by insertion of random delays.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127991160","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":"Secret sharing with extended coefficient use for improved data capacity","authors":"Feng Shen, C. Mei, Hai Jiang, Zhiqian Xu","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453906","url":null,"abstract":"Secret sharing is a well-known method to distribute a secret amongst a group of participants whereas each of them holds a share of the secret. If a number of such shares are collected, the original secret will be retrieved. Since these shares look different from the secret itself, data security is accomplished. However, Shamir's secret sharing scheme imposes one potential restriction: the secret size should not be too big. To eliminate this scalability obstacle, this paper intends to modify the Shamir's scheme and utilize multiple coefficients in polynomials so that secret sharing can be turned into data sharing for data management in distributed environments. Both security and reliability are achieved. Performance analysis and experimental results have demonstrated the revised scheme's effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128872955","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":"Improving the effectiveness of microcontroller education","authors":"R. Reese, Bryan A. Jones","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453894","url":null,"abstract":"The increased power and functionality of modern microcontrollers provides both an opportunity and a challenge to educators. Increased complexity, the necessity of integrating a hands-on lab experience, and downward pressure on total curriculum hours demand a significant investment of time to modernize microcontroller education, which few educators can afford. However, a successful microcontrollers course provides a unique opportunity to equip students to produce large, complex systems in their capstone design course. This paper details the evolution of an approach which provides an integrated course and laboratory experience for students. Results of these changes produced quantitative differences in the resulting capstone design courses, validating the approach.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121540409","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 low-cost heading sensor for airborne applications","authors":"T. V. Trimeloni, R. Klenke, J. M. McCollum","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453855","url":null,"abstract":"Determination of heading, the direction an aircraft's nose is pointing, is typically computed using global positioning system or inertial measurement unit data. These technologies, though quite accurate, can be cost prohibitive for recreational pilots or low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles. Here we investigate the implementation of a low-cost heading sensor by integrating data from a magnetometer and tilt sensor. We show that using the tilt sensor we are able to achieve a significant improvement over measurement using the magnetometer alone, providing a low-cost solution for determination of heading in turbulent aerial applications.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121263313","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":"Survey on Smart Grid","authors":"R. Hassan, G. Radman","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453886","url":null,"abstract":"Creation of a Smart Grid provides utilities and their customers a significant improvement in power reliability and services. To date, Smart Grid has attracted various researchers from different perspectives. This paper presents a review of Smart Grid technologies and its characteristics. An extensive literature review is introduced. One can see variety of problems and challenges in the field of Smart Grid. Hence, this paper can provide a help to find a new research point in this field.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"1124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116064881","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":"An improved FDTD model for the feeding gap of a dipole antenna","authors":"N. Homsup, T. Jariyanorawiss, W. Homsup","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453827","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the Finite-Different Time-Domain (FDTD) schemes were used to find antenna parameters of the simulated dipole antenna. The dipole model has a feeding gap, and there are four FDTD cells around the feeding point. For flexibility in the simulation, the width of the feeding gap can be varied, and results were compared with results from simulations using the Moment Method (MOM). For standard FDTD scheme, there are four equations represent field variations at the center-fed cell. However, this paper proposes a field formulations that reduce from four equations to two equations. In this paper, input impedances and the return losse are ploted as a function of the ratio of dipole's length and a wavelength (L/λ). Simulations show that FDTD schemes give results agree well with the results from MoM. However, FDTD simulation time is much less than the one used in the MOM simulation.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123867433","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":"Hybrid control of a simple walking autonomous robot","authors":"Adam C. Harris, J. Conrad","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453839","url":null,"abstract":"A very simple walking robot based on the BEAM (Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics) model of design and control was developed. This robot uses a simple design based on single neurons to drive modified servo motors and propel the vehicle quickly across many surfaces. This paper describes the design steps and results of this robot.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121418036","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}
B. A. Correa, Anton H. C. Smith, Wei-Zhe Jiang, R. Dougal
{"title":"Gas turbine emulator for testing of high-speed generators","authors":"B. A. Correa, Anton H. C. Smith, Wei-Zhe Jiang, R. Dougal","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2010.5453882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2010.5453882","url":null,"abstract":"This work demonstrates, in simulation, a method by which the speed-torque behavior of a gas turbine engine can be emulated by a synchronous motor. The method applies modelbased vector control to the drive of the synchronous motor in order to permit testing of a new high speed generator prior to the availability of the actual gas turbine engine. The credibility of this approach is established by simulating the step load response of the gas turbine engine emulator. Results show that the emulator is able to track the steady-state and transient speed behavior of a gas turbine engine following step increases and decreases of electrical load with a tracking error below 1 percent.","PeriodicalId":286940,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125618416","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}