{"title":"A hands-off approach to network intrusion detection","authors":"Yuning Ling, Marcus Rosti, Gregory Swanson","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489302","url":null,"abstract":"Networks are inherently vulnerable to attack and we need dynamic detection methods to find the evergrowing number and types of attacks. We assume that the access pattern of an attacker fundamentally differs from that of benign users. If that is true, we may be able to tease out the differences in the underlying structure of attackers and normal activity. Our research investigates unsupervised clustering techniques for network intrusion detection. The data comes from our most readily available source, the University of Virginia's network traffic. Our approach collapses all of the network communication between a host-source pair into a single descriptive data point, or netflow. The extracted features are then clustered to determine the different access patterns and separate types of communications. Features extracted from the netflow will be used to devise features that summarize all the network activity of an IP node. This aggregated IP level information is then used to cluster the IPs, which should enable us to differentiate between user groups. When a node's behavior changes by switching its associated cluster or it differs substantially from other similar nodes it may reveal a compromise. This approach should allow us to identify outliers that differ significantly from typical traffic of its corresponding cluster.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"12 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114028586","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":"Secure Smart Parking at James Madison University via the Cloud Environment (SPACE)","authors":"Michael Garcia, P. Rose, R. Sung, Samy El-Tawab","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489313","url":null,"abstract":"Parking at James Madison University has been a challenge for years. With the increase of enrollment, this continues to be a more difficult problem. Currently at JMU, a few parking garages (e.g. Champions Drive Parking Deck & Grace Street Parking Deck) have some capability of counting how many vehicles are entering or leaving the garage, but the technology has not been widely embraced across campus. JMU is in need of a smart system that allows a student/faculty/staff/visitor to know how many available parking spaces are in a particular lot at any given time. With this information, users are given a suggestion for a place to park. The JMU Secure Smart Parking via the Cloud Environment initiative aims to address this parking problem. Using a Radio-frequency identification scanner, our system is able to count the number of vehicles entering and leaving each parking lot on campus. The current decal that is provided to each vehicle will be replaced with a smart decal with an embedded tag inside of it. We also developed a secure, mobile-friendly web application and mobile apps (both on an iOS and Android platforms) that can inform the driver of the number of available spots in a desired parking lot. By harnessing the power of the MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node) and cloud-based computing, the JMU community will gain a near real-time perspective of the parking situation on-campus.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"412 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114058048","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}
Gang Xiang, A. Hardy, Mohammed Rajeh, Lahari Venuthurupalli
{"title":"Design of the life-ring drone delivery system for rip current rescue","authors":"Gang Xiang, A. Hardy, Mohammed Rajeh, Lahari Venuthurupalli","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489295","url":null,"abstract":"Over 40% of the United States population visit the beach each year. For the 10 year period between 2003 and 2012, lifeguards made on average 67,700 rescues per year. Rip currents account for 80% of annual beach rescues and fatalities. When a lifeguard spots the victim, the lifeguards must reach the victim before a mean time of 102 seconds (σ = 30s). This paper presents the design of the Life-ring Delivery Drone System, which delivers life-rings to victims faster than a lifeguard. Once victims have a life-ring, they can survive long enough until the lifeguard reaches them. A stochastic simulation of rip-current victim's location and time-to-drown was used to determine the optimal drone launch location of near a lifeguard tower, and operational range covering one lifeguard section while using a flight path avoiding overhead flight of beach goers. An Analytical Hierarchy Process determined that a tethered life ring is the best flotation device for this application. The drone size-weight-power design space was analyzed with a system dynamics model to determine that an octocopter with a 1000 mm wheelbase, 10.2 kg total weight, using a battery with 20000 mAh energy capacity provided the optimal size, power, and endurance. The Life-ring Delivery Drone System results in a reduction in mean time to reach a victim of 39% (reducing standard deviation by 66%), increasing the probability of a successful rescue from 92.3% to 99.4%.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126803063","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}
Tony X. Lin, Matthew A. Baron, Bradley Hallier, Michael Raiti, S. Olivero, Sydney Johnson, J. Dugan
{"title":"Design of a low-cost, open-source, humanoid robot companion for large retail spaces","authors":"Tony X. Lin, Matthew A. Baron, Bradley Hallier, Michael Raiti, S. Olivero, Sydney Johnson, J. Dugan","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489329","url":null,"abstract":"With continuing developments in automation, robots will begin to supplement tasks that ordinary humans find dull, dirty or dangerous. In situations where robots and humans are interacting or working together, humanoid robots can better navigate human environments and make humans more comfortable with their appearance. Until recently, most humanoid robots were custom-made and designed for one specific environment. The development of open-source, low-cost humanoid robotics platforms, such as Trossen's HR-OS1, provide skeleton platforms that can be developed for mass use in environments with extensive human-robot interaction, such as retail settings. With this future in mind, the base HR-OS1 platform was modified with additional hardware and a new software framework to give it the navigation and communication skills required to be a personal attendant. This design can serve as a model for a humanoid robot in other settings where human-robot interaction is advantageous.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122052797","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}
Joseph D. Fitzsimmons, Samantha J. Kritzer, Vishnu A. Muthiah, Jonathan J. Parmer, Tamara J. Rykal, Michelle T. Stone, Madeleine C. Brannon, John P. Wheeler, David L. Slutzky, J. Lambert
{"title":"Simulation of an electric vehicle fleet to forecast availability of grid balancing resources","authors":"Joseph D. Fitzsimmons, Samantha J. Kritzer, Vishnu A. Muthiah, Jonathan J. Parmer, Tamara J. Rykal, Michelle T. Stone, Madeleine C. Brannon, John P. Wheeler, David L. Slutzky, J. Lambert","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489300","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology utilizes the batteries of electric vehicles (EV) to provide ancillary services to the electric power grid on the order of milliseconds to seconds. An e-commerce market for frequency regulation (FR) will be served into the future by EV fleets that would otherwise remain idle for much of the day. Fleet operators typically utilize vehicles on predictable schedules. When idle and appropriately charged, EVs are able to interact with the grid. However, bidding into the FR market requires hourly forecasts of EV resource availability. This paper describes an effort to model FR via V2G on a large scale, with an emphasis on forecasting the availabilities of the vehicles at hour-long intervals, including route locations, and states of charge. The effort is in three parts: agent-based simulation, route data analysis, and empirical validation. With EV-fleet operations data and experiments in a small municipality, a simulation model incorporates both fleet and FR parameters and random events to characterize and distinguish the performance of various bidding and operations strategies. The results suggest how fleet operators should bid in the FR market to maximize revenues and compatibility with logistics services, with schedule demands and the available vehicles and chargers. The paper concludes with recommendations for future research that will advance the implementation of V2G in the FR market, addressing real-world perspectives of technology, business, information, and operations.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124730918","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}
C. Young, E. Hanks, L. Humphries, Michael Bunting, G. Lewin
{"title":"WAHOO 2.0: Weatherproof acquisition for headless onboard operations","authors":"C. Young, E. Hanks, L. Humphries, Michael Bunting, G. Lewin","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489326","url":null,"abstract":"To effectively design, deploy, operate, and retire its fleet of boats, the U.S. Navy requires data-driven testing and evaluation of 50-foot boats throughout the lifecycle of the boat design. This project involves the development of an inexpensive, stand-alone instrumentation box capable of gathering motion, GPS, and engine data for the evaluation of boats and boat designs used by the U.S. Navy. Analysis of the data will reveal causes of failures, human and vehicle exposure to sea conditions, and leading indicators of boat failure. The project builds on a prototype developed during the summer of 2015. Entitled \"WAHOO 1.0\", the prototype consisted of a BeagleBone Black microcomputer and a 3DM-GX3 miniature inertial sensor. However, the GX3 sensor alone costs $3,700, and the client requires a new system with more cost-efficient sensors. A successful design must cost less than $500 per unit without sacrificing data fidelity, and the code must be easy to access to allow tailoring of reports for mission-specific environments. The revised system, WAHOO 2.0, is being developed with the same BeagleBone microcomputer along with less expensive IMU and GPS sensors, which are attached to the microcomputer via a custom expansion board. The system utilizes a battery capable of powering WAHOO 2.0 for at least 24 hours. The system is housed in a waterproof enclosure with a clear lid to allow viewing of live status LEDs for cursory reporting of errors. The system will provide the user automatically-generated one-page summary reports based on the collected data, while also storing the raw data for more sophisticated analyses and providing the capability to add automatic tests to the system as needed.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133487827","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}
G. Johnson, Jeremy Kiernan, A. Swan, Elliott Botwick, Walker Spier, K. P. White, Jose Valdez, Hyojung Kang, J. Lobo
{"title":"Designing patient throughput and task management innovations in orthopaedics","authors":"G. Johnson, Jeremy Kiernan, A. Swan, Elliott Botwick, Walker Spier, K. P. White, Jose Valdez, Hyojung Kang, J. Lobo","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489284","url":null,"abstract":"The Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinics of the University of Virginia Health System are collocated in the Fontaine Research Park. The two departments operate in separate clinics, but share a Radiology Department. Collectively, the clinics serve about 42,000 outpatient visits annually. With patient visits projected to increase substantially in the coming years, the clinics seek process improvements that will accommodate growth and sustain strong patient satisfaction well into the future. This paper describes a simulation study of patient flows in the clinics under various future demand scenarios, including alternative patient volumes and no-show rates. The study explored the impact of best practices for in-clinic task management, patient and staff scheduling, and patient communications. Key performance measures included patient waiting times, total time in clinic, facility utilization, and on-time clinic closings. The model was developed based on patient schedule and tracking data. The results of the simulation model and clinic observations provided evidence to support multiple process improvements within the clinics. Introducing an additional front desk attendant in each clinic during busy times to assist with incoming phone calls and patient check-ins will allow for patients to be seen sooner and for more efficient appointment scheduling. Altering appointment time slots from 15 minutes to 10 minutes and distributing scheduled appointments more evenly throughout the day will allow providers to see more patients and reduce the need for overbooking, effectively decreasing patient waiting time. Based on the results of our analysis, implementing these changes to the clinics may allow for future growth while preserving patient satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129947616","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}
Christian Yip, Phillip J. Fiorenzo, Kil Do Jung, Jaime Tupper, Yaraslau Loban, J. Santos
{"title":"A network-based congestion management model for Safety Service Patrol vehicle deployment","authors":"Christian Yip, Phillip J. Fiorenzo, Kil Do Jung, Jaime Tupper, Yaraslau Loban, J. Santos","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489310","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic congestion is one of the most pressing issues in the US highway transportation systems and is a primary concern for motorists nationwide. Not only does it pose a psychological strain on commuters, it also results in monetary losses through wasted working hours and heightened transportation costs. The Hampton Roads metropolitan area is one of the most congested urban regions in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and monetary losses due to traffic have amounted to $1 billion annually. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has been incorporating the Safety Service Patrol (SSP) program to assist highway incident management through the continuous deployment of SSP vehicles, thus resolving incidents faster and providing other means of reducing congestion. The research team has adopted a systems engineering approach for designing a network-based modeling framework for analyzing traffic congestion scenarios in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The end goal of this study is to develop a probabilistic simulation model that will enable the analysis of the current system as well as alternative strategies for positioning the SSP vehicles throughout the network and to ultimately alleviate the ripple effects propagated by highway congestions. Statistical analysis of results is expected to reveal the most influential highway mobility factors in the region, as well as provide other benefits of the SSP program to Virginia motorists.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129628499","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 design study for the safe integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems into the National Airspace System","authors":"Arthur Branch, Kris Cate, W. Chaudry, Mark Palmer","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489293","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2013 Unmanned Aerial Systems, commonly called drones, have become a disruptive technology in the consumer market and the National Airspace System due to their decreasing costs and increased consumer interest. Sales of drones have experienced growth in excess of 500 percent from 2014 to 2016. According to the Federal Aviation Administration the number of incidents involving drones has also grown. The Federal Aviation Administration currently provides few regulations for drones, instead offering advisories to drone operators. In order to determine a course of action for safe integration, the Federal Aviation Administration instituted a pilot reporting database of incidents involving drones. In over 97% of the incidents reported, the drone operators were not following altitude and location advisories. This paper examines the effectiveness of geofencing systems for drones and compares its effectiveness to the current proposed regulations and traditional collision avoidance systems. A Monte Carlo simulation using growth and incident rates of drones based on the incident data is used to determine the utility of each alternative. The alternatives are then analyzed through a utility function and evaluated on a cost/utility basis. The result shows that limiting flight operations to the regulated thresholds provides a cost effective method for adding safety to the operation of drones within the National Airspace System.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121456268","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}
I. Clark, Antoine Rigaut, A. Mathers, Donald Brown, L. Barnes
{"title":"Survival analysis of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae infections in hospital patients","authors":"I. Clark, Antoine Rigaut, A. Mathers, Donald Brown, L. Barnes","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2016.7489334","url":null,"abstract":"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that more than two million people are sickened every year with antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, and at least 23,000 die as a result of these infections in the U.S. alone. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are a particularly important subgroup with the ability to share genetic material, including the gene responsible for the production of carbapenemase enzyme. As a major threat to public health, CRE primarily affects sick patients in acute long-term health care facilities, such as Intensive Care Units. This study uses clinical data from a major U.S. hospital, as well as survival analysis methods to estimate time-to-colonization, patient risk of CRE colonization, and risk factors. A survival model was developed using Cox proportional-hazards regression to estimate time of infection. Additionally, we also used Kaplan-Meier estimation to approximate survival time. Our results support CDC's understanding of CRE infection. Sick patients with a history trauma and of staying in an ICU, which undergo certain procedures such as dialysis, fluoroscopy, respiratory intubation and mechanical ventilation, are more likely to get colonized by CRE. The fit was evaluated using the likelihood ratio test and we have found all our models to be significant.","PeriodicalId":426864,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123660634","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}