{"title":"Survey of biometric authentication for e-assessment","authors":"S. O. Ojo, T. Zuva, S. Ngwira","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374150","url":null,"abstract":"Problems of impersonation and other malpractices of various degrees have continued to mar the electronic-assessment (e-assessment) of students at various levels. The use of traditional methods of password and token passing for identity management and control has failed to provide acceptable solution to these problems, due to their susceptibility to theft and various forms of violations. The failure of these and other methods in identity management has propelled the emergence of different biometric-based systems as solutions. The biometric systems use naturally endowed traits which include fingerprint, face, iris, voice, etc. for more reliable human identification and authentication. In this paper, various biometric modes are discussed along with their application within the domain of eassessment. The results in this paper show that the need for multimodal biometrics and transparent authentication in an e-assessment is still an open issue.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127276641","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":"Developing a mobile application for taxi service company in Nigeria","authors":"A. Adewumi, V. Odunjo, S. Misra","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374204","url":null,"abstract":"Transportation is an issue of concern in big cities of many developing countries today. Due to the large population in these cities, there is constant traffic congestion and pollution. As a result taxi services are common. In Nigeria, companies offering these services have discovered that they can better serve the large population by providing their services through the mobile platform. Given the wide spread adoption of smart phones in these regions, we designed, developed and deployed an Android-based application for one of the taxi service company called Red Cab. The application makes it easier for Red Cab to cater for its current customers and also reach out to newer ones.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126161986","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":"Characteristics of transfer function of power lines having tapped branches in the propagation path","authors":"B. Tiru","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374152","url":null,"abstract":"Power lines can be used for communication purpose. However, the channel is highly frequency selective arising from discontinuities in the network. In this work, the effect of tapped branches in different topologies (STAR and BUS) is studied. The frequency selectiveness is measured in terms of the Coherence Bandwidth. It is found that the Coherence Bandwidth is more for STAR than a BUS one. In STAR topology, the same at first decreases and then increases for increasing number of taps at the nodes. For large number of components, the transfer function of STAR branch is governed by the characteristics of the connecting cable while for in BUS topology, the same becomes very complex. The paper gives an idea of the dependency of the efficiency of the communication system on branches with different topologies encountered.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114753484","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":"The impact and opportunities of e-tutoring in a challenged socio-economic environment","authors":"Petra le Roux, Marianne Loock","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374167","url":null,"abstract":"As social network sites rise in popularity, the youth spends large amounts of their time browsing the Internet and interacting via social network sites. Furthermore, social network sites creates opportunities that allow the youth to connect to different learning environments and thus opens up options for new dimensions to learn. This gives rise to research on a shift from conversational to education content of social media. However, due to social and economic challenged circumstances, many children in third world countries cannot share in these opportunities. Poor numeracy and literacy levels achieved in basic education, predict huge stumble blocks for these learners during their school career. Added the huge shortage of teachers who can provide mother tongue education to non-English speaking learners, a challenge is inevitable. But the rapid technological changes in information and communication technology enable people to help one another, even over distance. Situated in this context, the broad aim of this ongoing research is to investigate how the use of social networking tools as a platform for cross-age e-tutoring addresses the social and educational needs of social and economic challenged learners. The first part of this ongoing research used an experimental study and the conclusions drawn clearly indicates that the possibility exists for adolescent tutors to develop a higher self-esteem when administered in a position as tutors of younger tutees. The younger tutee also indicated that it was a positive learning and social experience. These results are enough reason to redo this research by moving to a quasi-experimental research method with a control group.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125019884","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 detection mechanism of DoS attack using adaptive NSA algorithm in cloud environment","authors":"Sumana Maiti, Chandan Garai, R. Dasgupta","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374128","url":null,"abstract":"Security of any distributed system is not only complex in nature, it also needs much more attention as most of the applications being used and developed in recent past are on distributed platform. Denial of Service (DoS) attack causes drop in quality of service and may also reach to entire absence of service for some `real' users. Identifying some users as attackers also need appropriate algorithm. Negative selection algorithm (NSA) is a very effective approach in identifying some user as attacker. However declaring some `real' user as an attacker is a very common limitation of these types of algorithms unless and until the mechanism of detection is updated at regular intervals. In this research work we have modified NSA algorithm to take into account the necessity of updating the detector set from time to time. We have introduced a second detection module to accommodate the updation. Both the algorithms are implemented on common data set and comparative study is presented. Our proposed algorithm comes out with much improved results and significantly reduces false positive (false alarm) cases.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130433143","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}
Kriangkrai Limthong, K. Fukuda, Yusheng Ji, S. Yamada
{"title":"Weighting technique on multi-timeline for machine learning-based anomaly detection system","authors":"Kriangkrai Limthong, K. Fukuda, Yusheng Ji, S. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374168","url":null,"abstract":"Anomaly detection is one of the crucial issues of network security. Many techniques have been developed for certain application domains, and recent studies show that machine learning technique contains several advantages to detect anomalies in network traffic. One of the issues applying this technique to real network is to understand how the learning algorithm contains more bias on new traffic than old traffic. In this paper, we investigate the dependency of the time period for learning on the performance of anomaly detection in Internet traffic. For this, we introduce a weighting technique that controls influence of recent and past traffic data in an anomaly detection system. Experimental results show that the weighting technique improves detection performance between 2.7-112% for several learning algorithms, such as multivariate normal distribution, knearest neighbor, and one-class support vector machine.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"11 47","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114044352","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":"Memristor model for massively-parallel computations","authors":"D. Biolek, V. Biolková, Z. Kolka","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374183","url":null,"abstract":"The model of memristor described in the paper is designed for building models of large networks for analog computations. A circuit containing thousands of memristors for finding the shortest path in a complicated maze is a typical example. The model is designed to meet the following criteria: 1. It is a model of HP memristor with linear dopant drift while respecting the physical bounds of the internal state variable. 2. Reliable operation in the SPICE environment also when simulating extremely large networks. 3. Minimization of the simulation time while computing bias points and during transient analyses. A benchmark circuit for testing the applications of various complexities is presented. The results confirm a perfect operation of the model also in applications containing thousands of memristors.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128389842","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":"Computation beyond moore's law: Adaptive field-effect devices for reconfigurable logic and hardware-based neural networks","authors":"U. Schwalke","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374177","url":null,"abstract":"The success of integrated silicon technology is based on the down-scaling of minimum feature sizes of silicon field-effect devices (MOSFETs) in a complementary circuit configuration (CMOS) according to Moore's Law. Reducing the feature size provides more components per chip and higher speed. However, this continuous miniaturization of MOSFETs will come to an end as CMOS scaling will soon approach atomic dimensions. To take computation beyond Moore's Law requires breaking at least with two major paradigms: (1) High computing performance is directly related to high switching speeds of the single device and (2), the separation of memory and computing. In this work we report on a novel adaptive nanowire field-effect transistor (a-NWFET) architecture which provides a release from paradigms (1) as well as (2). The fabricated a-NWFETs are originally ambipolar nanowire devices, using midgap Schottkybarrier contacts as source and drain (S/D) electrodes. The final unipolar a-NWFET device type (i.e. NMOS or PMOS) can be created by applying an electric bias at the back-gate. The ability to select the transistor type by the application of an electrical signal to the back-gate adds to the versatility of the device concept, where the two complementary device types are interchangeable on the fly. A simple and versatile device structure for logic and intrinsic memory applications with the potential to realize novel reconfigurable logic architectures and hardware-based neural networks will be presented.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128601197","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":"Physical layer secrecy solution for passive wireless sensor networks","authors":"Thombre Avinash Sarjerao, A. Trivedi","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374120","url":null,"abstract":"The backscatter communication system has tremendous potential in commercial applications, still very less work has been done to study the benefits of it. Backscatter communication system is the backbone of many low cost and low power distributed wireless systems. The data transmission between various nodes in wireless communication system always comes with the risk of third party interception. This leads to privacy and security breaches of the information. In this paper, physical layer security of backscatter wireless system for multiple eavesdropper, single tag, and single reader case is studied. Unique characteristics of the channel are used to provide security to signal transmission. In order to degrade the reception of the signal by eavesdropper, a noise injection scheme is proposed. The advantages of this approach are discussed for various cases while evaluating the impact of the key factors like antenna gain and location of the eavesdropper on the secrecy of the transmission. Analytical results indicate that if properly employed, the noise injection scheme improves the performance of backscatter wireless system.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126483969","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 efficient key management scheme in hierarchical wireless sensor networks","authors":"Xinyang Zhang, Jidong Wang","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374122","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a secure efficient hierarchical key management scheme (SEHKM) for wireless sensor networks is proposed. It satisfies several requirements of WSN. The design of the scheme is motivated by the constraints of sensor networks and high resources cost in traditional key management techniques. The key management scheme supports the establishment of three types of keys to encrypt messages sent among sensor nodes. They are network key, group key and pairwise key. Network key encrypts broadcast messages and authenticates new nodes. Group key is shared by all nodes in the same cluster. Pairwise key is shared with a specific pair of nodes. In hierarchical WSN, cluster heads are very important due to the structure of the network. In order to improve security strength and reduce resource cost and risk after cluster head compromise, an assistant node is introduced in the scheme. SHEKM includes key establishment, key transportation, mechanisms after node operation and dynamical freshness of keys. The evaluation of SEHKM is presented as well as the comparison with some existing key management schemes. The performance analysis and simulation show that SEHKM is very efficient in computation, communication, and storage while the security strength is high.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"484 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116028348","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}