M. Shemis, M. Gondal, Emad Alkhazraji, M. Najmi, M. Abalkhail, I. Khan, T. B. Susilo, S. G. Rashid, M. Alsunaidi
{"title":"Synthesis and photoluminescence of metal coated ZnO nanoparticles","authors":"M. Shemis, M. Gondal, Emad Alkhazraji, M. Najmi, M. Abalkhail, I. Khan, T. B. Susilo, S. G. Rashid, M. Alsunaidi","doi":"10.1109/HONET.2014.7029365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HONET.2014.7029365","url":null,"abstract":"ZnO nanoparticles were prepared by precipitation method from zinc nitrate and ammonium carbonate solutions, and annealing at 500°C. The XRD pattern shows that the ZnO nanoparticles have pure wurtzite structure. ZnO nanoparticles were coated with Au, Ag and Pd atoms using wet chemical treatment. The effect of coating ZnO nanoparticles with Au, Ag and Pd atoms on the photoluminescence properties is investigated. Results show that ZnO-plasmonics can play an important role in emission enhancement. In particular, it was found that coating ZnO nanoparticles with metals enhances the ZnO band edge emission by about 11 to 20 %, depending on the type of metal, and quenches the visible emission by about 50 %.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128085624","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. Baehr, Steve McKinney, Aaron J. Quirk, K. Harfoush
{"title":"On the practicality of elliptic curve cryptography for medical sensor networks","authors":"D. Baehr, Steve McKinney, Aaron J. Quirk, K. Harfoush","doi":"10.1109/HONET.2014.7029358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HONET.2014.7029358","url":null,"abstract":"Biomedical sensors have long been used to monitor patients in hospitals and emergency settings. Until recently, these sensors were connected to their respective monitors through an array of cumbersome wires. Recent research has made it possible for biomedical sensors to communicate over wireless links, creating new opportunities for patients and caregivers. Not only can the hassle of physical wires be eliminated, but wireless communication has enabled the ability for sensors to form ad-hoc mesh networks with each other. With wireless communication, however, effective secure communication must now become a priority in countries like the United States where a patient's privacy is mandated by law. Until now, security in biomedical sensor networks has been provided by symmetric key cryptography. While computationally efficient, pre-shared keys introduce the new obstacles of key management, deployment and protection. Public key cryptography is typically used as a solution to this overhead, but has not been feasible on remote sensors due to their limited computational resources. To this end, TinyECC is a public key algorithm with optimizations for resource constrained hardware platforms. In this paper, we implement a prototype biomedical sensor application implementing TinyECC to secure the wireless communication between sensor nodes, and study the feasilbility of using TinyECC in a real-time sensor network.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"576 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124214524","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":"Antenna array design for multi-UAVs communication in next generation Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs)","authors":"A. A. Razzaqi, Muhammad Mustaqim, B. A. Khawaja","doi":"10.1109/HONET.2014.7029355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HONET.2014.7029355","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a microstrip patch antenna and its 1×2, 1×4 and 2×4 arrays are proposed for Flying Ad-hoc Network (FANET) communication in multi-UAV systems. The antennas and arrays resonate in the 5GHz band and have been optimized for high bandwidth and gain. The antennas and arrays are proposed and designed using Rogers RT/duroid 5880LZ substrate which is light weight and has specific applications in UAV antennas. The bandwidth achieved by 5880LZ antenna and arrays is 500-530MHz. The efficiency of the single element 5880LZ antenna is 91.7%. The gain and directivity of the 5880LZ antenna has been increased from 9.2dBi to 15.8dBi and 9.6dBi to 17.6dBi respectively by designing 1×2, 1×4 and 2×4 arrays. The antennas are designed using Agilent advance design system - momentum simulator.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124859322","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}
A. Ragheb, H. Fathallah, Halmo Fischer, A. Doberstein, H. Haisch, S. Alshebeili, S. Alhumaidi
{"title":"384Gb/s per carrier Quad-DAC based dual-polarization software defined optical transmitter","authors":"A. Ragheb, H. Fathallah, Halmo Fischer, A. Doberstein, H. Haisch, S. Alshebeili, S. Alhumaidi","doi":"10.1109/HONET.2014.7029380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HONET.2014.7029380","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a 32Gbaud Quad-DAC based software defined optical transmitter. Our transmitter is able to generate up to 128QAM and 64QAM for single and dual polarizations, respectively. In addition, this transmitter emulates laser phase noise effect.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129031968","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 novel and robust fingerprinting technique for digital data based on Genetic Algorithm","authors":"S. Iftikhar, Z. Anwar, Muhammad Kamran","doi":"10.1109/HONET.2014.7029385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HONET.2014.7029385","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid sharing of secret documents over the Internet, identifying an unauthorized copying and identity of the guilty agent is becoming more important. Fingerprinting techniques ensure ownership protection and tamper proofing and help in identifying the guilty agent who is responsible for the data leakage. However, these techniques are not robust when the guilty agent attacks the data in a large amount. In this paper a novel and robust, fingerprinting technique is proposed through employing Genetic Algorithm (GA) - a biologically inspired evolutionary computation technique. The robustness of the proposed technique is demonstrated against collusion, deletion and alteration attacks.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"10 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113942500","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":"Progressive Shifting Geographic Midpoint — An enhanced constraint-based trail routing protocol for all- optical networks","authors":"K. Maamoun, H. Mouftah","doi":"10.1109/HONET.2014.7029361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HONET.2014.7029361","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an enhancement to the novel Geographic Midpoint (GMP) routing algorithm is introduced. The proposed enhancement improves the original algorithm to be more efficient in providing the targeted route. This is done by producing a new midpoint for every iteration of the algorithm that adds more accuracy to the process. A number of direct applications like the solution of the Monitoring-Trail (m-trail) design, which is used in fault localization in optical networks, are illustrated. An introduction to the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem in Wavelength-Routed optical networks is presented as well as briefs of optical trails. A simulation of both the original and the modified algorithms is carried out and examples are provided for demonstration purposes. An optimal solution for the algorithms is also demonstrated for comparison.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133995338","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":"Lossless compression of DNA Microarray images with Inversion Coder","authors":"B. Koc, Z. Arnavut, H. Kocak","doi":"10.1109/DCC.2014.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DCC.2014.59","url":null,"abstract":"DNA Microarray images are used to identify and monitor gene activity, or expression. In a single experiment, a large number of microarray images may be produced. Storage and archiving of these images are an important problem for researchers. Since microarray images can have a wide variety of nearly random patterns with no discernible structures, general entropy coders, e.g. Bzip2, or generic image compressors, e.g. JPEG-LS, do not perform well. In this work, we investigate performance of the inversion coding technique in lossless compression of DNA microarray images. We show that inversion coding outperforms commonly used entropy coders and image compressors.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121142981","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}
M. Adnan, Muhammad Afzal, M. Aslam, Roohi Jan, A. MARTÍNEZ-ENRIQUEZ
{"title":"Minimizing big data problems using cloud computing based on Hadoop architecture","authors":"M. Adnan, Muhammad Afzal, M. Aslam, Roohi Jan, A. MARTÍNEZ-ENRIQUEZ","doi":"10.1109/HONET.2014.7029370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HONET.2014.7029370","url":null,"abstract":"This paper emphasizes importance and solution of big data problems through cloud computing. Knowledge embedded in big data generated by sensors, personal computers and mobile devices is compelling many companies to spend millions of dollars to solve problems of information and knowledge extraction to make intelligent decisions in time for the growth of their businesses. Google BigQuery, Rackspace Big Data Cloud, Amazon Web Services are some platforms that are providing limited solutions and infrastructures to deal with big data problems. However, our study motivates IT companies to use open source Hadoop architecture to develop cloud systems for reliable distributed computing to process their large data sets efficiently and effectively. Our main guideline is to resolve the big data through a company's own infrastructure and integrating various other big data infrastructures into their clouds. Also that, Hadoop reduce/map technique can be implemented on the clusters within and across the private and public clouds.","PeriodicalId":297826,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th Annual High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (Photonics for Energy)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125019801","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}