J. Al-Jaroodi, Alyaziyah Al-Dhaheri, Fatmah Al-Abdouli, N. Mohamed
{"title":"A Survey of Security Middleware for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems","authors":"J. Al-Jaroodi, Alyaziyah Al-Dhaheri, Fatmah Al-Abdouli, N. Mohamed","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.31","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, pervasive and ubiquitous computing evolved tremendously and has become an integral part of many fields. This is widely attributed to their efficiency in integrating with everyday components and handling tasks in a faster and better way. As a result, technologies to facilitate their development, integration and security also evolved. Middleware is an essential component in this field and recently more emphasis has been put on security middleware as an enabling component for pervasive and ubiquitous applications. This is due to the high levels of personal and private data sharing in these systems. In this paper we survey some representative security middleware approaches and highlight their various properties and characteristics. We also discuss and compare these approaches in terms of their design, target environments, and main features. The review reveals that several options are available; however, there are still many issues and problems to be addressed to achieve more efficient security middleware.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115802935","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":"Locals Search Algorithms for Efficient Router Nodes Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks","authors":"F. Xhafa, C. Sánchez, L. Barolli","doi":"10.1109/NBIS.2009.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBIS.2009.21","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are an important networking infrastructure for providing cost-efficient broadband wireless connectivity to a group of users. WMNs are increasingly being used in urban areas, metropolitan and municipal area networks for deployment of medical, transport, surveillance systems, etc. The good performance and operability of WMNs largely depends on placement of mesh routers nodes in the geographical area to achieve network connectivity and stability. Therefore, optimal placement of router nodes in WMNs is a main issue in deployment of WMNs. In this work we propose and evaluate local search methods for placement of mesh routers in WMNs with a two fold objective: maximizing the size of the giant component in the network and user coverage. Given a grid area where to distribute a given number of mesh router nodes, which can have different radio coverage, and a number of fixed clients a priori distributed in the given area, local search methods explore different local movements and incrementally improve the quality of the router nodes placement in terms of network connectivity and user coverage. We have experimentally evaluated the considered local search methods through a benchmark of generated instances varying from small to large size. In the instances, different distributions of mesh clients (Uniform, Normal, Exponential and Weibull) are considered aiming to evaluate the quality of achieved solutions for different client distributions. Although local search methods can be stuck in local optima, the experimental evaluation showed their good performance; local search methods could thus be applied as a first choice for optimizing network connectivity and user coverage in WMNs.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123956283","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 Configuration Method for Structured P2P Overlay Network Considering Delay Variations","authors":"T. Kitani, Yoshitaka Nakamura","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.99","url":null,"abstract":"P2P networks can achieve high scalability since they distribute service contents/resources to multiple nodes in the network. In a P2P network, it is necessary to search the resource location on the network when we use some contents/resources. Space filling curve is known as technique to map information of the multi-dimensional space such as the location information onto the one-dimensional space such as ID. In this paper, we propose a novel space filling curve for configuring structured P2P overlay network considering delay based on the geographic information of each node. By using the proposed space filling curve, we can convert geographic information of nodes into their ID (label) of P2P network. Through the numerical evaluation, we confirmed that the proposed curve is more suitable for handling hierarchical spread nodes than the conventional curves.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127352339","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 Mobile Graphics System for Ubiquitous Environment","authors":"Hiroaki Nishino, Tsuneo Kagawa, K. Utsumiya","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.50","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an intuitive computer graphics creation environment usable on tiny mobile devices. We adopted a 3D modeling method based on interactive genetic algorithm (iGA). It allows users to intuitively produce high quality graphics contents on site by evolving a set of 3D models. The proposed system enables the users to easily design 3D graphics contents by using a mobile device anywhere at any time without sacrificing visual quality. The computing power of the mobile devices is not enough for visualizing realistic 3D objects. We therefore employed client/server architecture for balancing computing loads between a server and a mobile client. The client plays a role for handling user interactions and 3D contents visualization whereas the server is responsible for all heavy computations such as 3D graphics modeling, rendering, and evolutionary processing by iGA. Providing good user interface is a crucial factor for mobile software design. We prototyped multiple GUI layouts and conducted a comparative experiment to figure out a good design approach for mobile 3D graphics system.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129071831","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":"H-WSNMS: A Web-Based Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks Management System Architecture","authors":"Wei Zhao, Yao Liang, Qun Yu, Yan Sui","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.81","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract-As heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being widely deployed for various applications, we are faced with a new challenge of network management for heterogeneous WSNs. On one hand, current available WSN management tools are either application specific, or platform specific, thus suffering from the lack of reusability in heterogeneous WSNs management environment. On the other hand, to develop a new WSN management system for heterogeneous WSNs from scratch is time consuming and may not be feasible. In this paper, motivated by such a challenge, we propose a novel WSN management system architecture targeted for heterogeneous WSNs (H-WSNMS). By introducing the concept of Virtual Command Set, H-WSNMS decouples management functions for specific WSN applications from the individual WSN platforms. Therefore, H-WSNMS facilitates the reuse of each individual WSN’s preliminary management command service as much as possible, and at the same time, presents to users a unified management interface across multiple WSNs. We demonstrate H-WSNMS architecture though design and implementation of a prototype system.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126672018","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":"Privacy Preserving Portable Health Record (P^3HR)","authors":"Pavan Roy Marupally, V. Paruchuri, S. Chellappan","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.59","url":null,"abstract":"Personal health records (PHRs) offer significant potential to stimulate transformational changes in health care delivery and self-care by patients. There is a gap between today’s personal health records (PHRs) and what patients say they want and need from this electronic tool for managing their health information. Current barriers to PHR adoption among patients include cost, concerns that information is not protected or private, inconvenience, design shortcomings, and the inability to share information across organizations. We propose a novel architecture to bridge the gap based on Privacy Preserving Portable Health Record(P3HR), a device that incorporates a smart card into a USB flash drive which provides encrypted flash memory for secure mobile data storage. The salient features of the proposed Privacy Preserving Portable Health Record (P3HR) include: strong multifactor authentication using biometrics, public key infrastructure to verify the credentials of the applicants, SSL based authentication protocol suite for authorization and secure online updates, local backup to store patient data which ensures that the patient will have access to data in case of P3HR theft, lost device, hardware failure, software failure or a Computer virus.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114235611","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 Survey on Bandwidth Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"M. Chitnis, P. Pagano, G. Lipari, Yao Liang","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.77","url":null,"abstract":"Bandwidth resource allocation and scheduling has posed a challenging problem in wireless sensor networks. This paper provides a survey on the current state-of-the-art researches in this important area. Bandwidth reservation is considered in terms of time slot allocation in a pure TDMA or TDMA/CSMA based networks. We first overview different approaches for time slot allocation in a star network topology, and then elaborate the problem of time slot allocation and scheduling in a multihop wireless communication network in the presence of interference. Since the problem in multihop wireless network is proved to be NP-complete, most of the exiting solutions use different heuristics to resolve this problem. We address some of these heuristics and algorithms and their impact in wireless sensor networks. Finally, we provide some of the advantages, limitations and possible extensions in the context of IEEE 802.15.4 communications protocol which is being widely used for wireless sensor networks.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116131041","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 Context-Aware Framework to Enable Adaptation in Pervasive Computing Environments","authors":"A. Malatras, B. Hirsbrunner","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.11","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive computing environments based on the ubiquitous communications paradigm have attracted significant research interest and have found increased applicability in commercial settings, attributed to the fact that they provide seamless, customized and unobtrusive services to their users. The majority of solutions proposed in the related literature to enable pervasive computing involves specific platforms and rigid architectures that are tightly bound with their target applications and services. This approach suffers from having to introduce new context-aware applications, thus limiting deployment in existing configurations. Nevertheless, the notion of pervasive computing calls for solutions to be tailored to user needs and not conversely. In this paper we introduce a framework that enables systems to become pervasive in a transparent manner, handling context monitoring and ubiquitous communications issues behind the scenes without affecting existing applications. Pervasive behavior is guaranteed by adapting systems based on monitored context information and guiding their re-configuration. We present the architecture of our proposed framework and discuss application scenarios, while considering evaluation aspects.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134018991","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":"Multiresolution Learning on Neural Network Classifiers: A Systematic Approach","authors":"Q. Lu, Yao Liang","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.83","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most crucial challenges for classifiers is generalization. In this paper, we present a novel and systematic multiresolution learning approach for neural network classifiers to improve their generalization performance on classification tasks with feature based input space. The proposed approach adopts agglomerative hierarchical clustering to generate coarser resolution training data from the original data because hierarchical clustering captures the detailed structure of clustering for any given data set in feature space, and an effective algorithm is developed to automatically extract critical coarser resolution levels for each class. The proposed approach is thoroughly evaluated through experiments on six real-world benchmark data sets, where traditional learning (i.e., single resolution learning) is used as the baseline. The empirical results demonstrate that multiresolution learning significantly improves neural network classifiers' generalization performance when compared to the baseline, especially for very difficult tasks.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115623799","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":"Study on Realistic Communication Technology with Tiled Displays Wall","authors":"Yasuo Ebara, Y. Shibata","doi":"10.1109/NBiS.2009.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NBiS.2009.86","url":null,"abstract":"In tele-communication via WAN, the existence of participant by transmission of a video in real scene is important. In addition, we consider that non-verbal communication such as eye-to-eye contact and gesture play an important role. In order to realize realistic communication between remote places, the display of video image in remote site with the large-scale screen is effective. However, the video image by wide-area display using a projector and large screen is low-resolution, and sufficient presence is not obtained. In this paper, we have constructed tele-immersive environment with scalable tiled displays wall and study on the possibility of realistic communication. We have implemented an application to display high-resolution real video streaming, and realized to display by setting parallel transmission video images captured by 2 sets of cameras on tiled displays wall in remote place. Moreover, we have proposed the technique for automatic switching of transmission video in remote communication by the estimation of face direction from participant’s video with image-recognition technique in order to realize effective remote communication method between multi-point remote sites.","PeriodicalId":312802,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116963115","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}