International Journal of Informatics and Communication Technology (IJ-ICT)
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Cloud-based platforms for LoRa internet of things: a survey
Get PDFInternet of Things (IoT) establishes a smart communication system between the human being and the surrounding objects (or “things”) while using the internet as the backbone of this system. Cloud is the fundamental constituent of IoT. It offers important application services in numerous application domains. Indeed, many IoT cloud platforms are competing to provide appropriate and very specific IoT services. The LoRa platform in particular presents a long-range, low-bit rate, low-power, wireless telecommunication protocol for IoT. As such, end-devices make use of LoRa through a sole wireless hop in order to communicate to the gateway(s) that is (are) considered as relay messages and transparent bridges between these end-devices and an IoT cloud while connecting to the Internet. This article surveys the most used IoT cloud platforms suitable for the LoRa communication protocol through a deep and detailed study of previously published works related to this topic. Moreover, a comparison is made between these IoT cloud platforms according to their characteristics and application domains. The overall aim of the present paper is to provide researchers in the field with detailed knowledge concerning the IoT cloud platforms appropriate to the LoRa communication system including the advantages and drawbacks of each one of them
Guard lines conformal slotted antenna array for multiband application
Get PDFThis work investigated a miniaturized slotted conformal antenna array for multiband application. Three guard lines are incorporated to the side of main patch and top of main patch to reduce surface current for planner surface and observe the effect of guard line due to which it resonate at three frequencies in X band and Ku band to be useful for multiband. A rectangular slot is etched at center of patches to increase the current path for wide band application. A quarter wavelength feeding network is used with good agreement of impedance matching. The main lobe width and direction shows through the radiation pattern which remains stable even it is significantly curved. This structure is wrapped around a cylinder with a diameter of 41.4 mm in the circumferential direction. It is observed that the planner antenna array operating at 8.4 GHz, 11.2 GHz &18.2 GHz with a return loss of -20 dB to -45 dB with fractional BW of 25% at 3rd frequency range and the directivity from 3.4 dBi-6.8 dBi. By doing some alteration in dimensions for the conformal antenna producing fractional BW of 20% and the directivity 5.5 to 9.1 dBi at resonating frequencies of 8.4 GHz, 11.4 GHz, and 17.5 GHz. This proposed array is simulated on CST software
Service-aware LSP selection with fuzzy based packet scheduling scheme for non-real time traffics
Get PDFAn essential solution is available in Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS), which solve the problems faced by present-day networks: speed, scalability, quality-of-service (QoS) management, and traffic engineering. This paper is an extension of work on Fuzzy based Packet Scheduling Algorithm (FPSA) combined with Packets Processing Algorithm (PPA) in an Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) networks. This will make provision for an intelligent service to the Label Switched Path (LSP) in MPLS networks. Several research work have been proposed on the MPLS Traffic Engineering. However, it is still imperative to further research on the effect of bandwidth increment on the core network using different mechanisms such as the analytical model of MPLS, expert-based packet scheduling algorithm for MPLS QoS support. Since MPLS is not able to provide intelligent routing, it is necessary to propose an intelligent expert system of FPSA combined with PPA. And analytical model of packet forwarding in the MPLS network would be given to provide suitable solution to traffic congestion and reliable services. Furthermore, the network model created using Network Simulator (NS 2), which carries non-real time application such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) with bandwidth variations. The results obtained from trace files are interpreted by AWK script and used for the further analysis
ZigBee based data collection in wireless sensor networks
Get PDFWireless sensor networks (WSN), referring to groups of technologies wirelessly controlled, are widely used in many different fields, agriculture, medical, military, etc. These technologies are mainly used for monitoring physical or environmental conditions, such as temperatures, sound, pressure, and so on. In WSN fields, there are technologies as Wi-Fi, radio frequency (RF), Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z-Wave, and so on. Furthermore, there is one of this technology that offers more outstanding futures to provide more energy-saving and long distances of transmissions compared to other technologies, and that is Zigbee technology, and this had become for many applications, the first high-quality to use and consequently the most used in WSNs. In Zigbee aided WSNs, are included three main devices used to communicate data, that is a Zig-Bee coordinator (network coordinator), ZigBee router, and ZigBee end-devices. The data sensed is transmitted from sensor nodes through coordinators to a base-station (BS), this device (coordinator), collects the data, stores it in a memory, processes, and finally forward to the next suitable nodes or the BS. This research presents the concepts and discussions of Zigbee technologies used in WSNs. Utmost ZigBee communication technologies are revised and analyzed, as well as simulation results with different scenarios are addressed comprehensively. Proposals for advance applications in WSNs are presented. Suggestions for future developments are provide
Narrow-band filter for satellite communication systems
Get PDFDesign narrow-band compact filters, based on high-quality waveguide-dielectric resonators with anisotropic materials is the subject of this paper. Filter represents a segment of a rectangular waveguide rotated around the longitudinal axis of the waveguide 90 degrees and containing one or more dielectric inserts that completely fill the resonator along the narrow wall of the waveguide and partially along the wide one. A distinctive feature of the proposed filter is higher slope steepness of the amplitude-frequency characteristic, and high manufacturability in the centimeter range. The designed narrow-band filter satisfies contradictory requirements: it combines narrow bandwidth (≈ 0.1% of center frequency f0) with low passband insertion loss (≤ 1 dB)
Knowledge and utilization of health informatics among medical doctors in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika-Zaria
Get PDFThe strategic visions in the health care system now underpin application of Information Communication Technology for effective care delivery. Recognising the potentials of ICT for Health, the Nigerian government as part of its policy derive towards achieving effective health care delivery by the year 2020, adopted use of ICT for effective healthcare delivery. Part of the target was establishment of ICT/Health informatics units in teaching hospitals in the country. This study assessed level of knowledge and utilization of health informatics among medical doctors in Ahmadu Bello University, Shika-Zaria. Premised on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, this study adopted descriptive survey method and structured questionnaire as its instrument of data collection. Findings revealed that 91.4% (n=201) of the 220 sampled medical doctors in ABUTH are aware of health informatics and that 68.2% (n=150) have knowledge of how to use it. The most prominent areas of health informatics among the medical doctors are ‘Management Information System’, ‘Electronic Health Record System’ and ‘Electronic Medical Record’. However, only 58.6% (n=129) of the medical doctors in BUTH Shika- Zaria are actually utilizing health informatics. Internet (n=133, 60.5%) and interpersonal sources (n= 71, 32.3%) were found to be the major sources of information of knowledge and utilization of health informatics among the medical doctors. The study therefore recommends that ABUTH, Shika-Zaria should put in place more mechanism for creating awareness on use of health informatics varieties and a strong need for time-series research to examine future development in respect to knowledge and utilization of health informatics in Nigerian health institutions
An enhanced WPA2/PSK for preventing authentication cracking
Get PDFWi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA 2) currently is the most widely used mechanism for protecting the users in wireless networks. We have discussed the weakness of 4-way handshake procedure in Wi-Fi WPA2/PSK and proposed an enhance WPA2/PSK by adding timestamp parameter to prevent authentication cracking. The experiments have compared WPA2/PSK with Enhanced WPA2/PSK cracking and the result is also given
Forensic steganalysis for identification of steganography software tools using multiple format image
Get PDFToday many steganographic software tools are freely available on the Internet, which helps even callow users to have covert communication through digital images. Targeted structural image steganalysers identify only a particular steganographic software tool by tracing the unique fingerprint left in the stego images by the steganographic process. Image steganalysis proves to be a tough challenging task if the process is blind and universal, the secret payload is very less and the cover image is in lossless compression format. A payload independent universal steganalyser which identifies the steganographic software tools by exploiting the traces of artefacts left in the image and in its metadata for five different image formats is proposed. First, the artefacts in image metadata are identified and clustered to form distinct groups by extended K-means clustering. The group that is identical to the cover is further processed by extracting the artefacts in the image data. This is done by developing a signature of the steganographic software tool from its stego images. They are then matched for steganographic software tool identification. Thus, the steganalyser successfully identifies the stego images in five different image formats, out of which four are lossless, even for a payload of 1 byte. Its performance is also compared with the existing steganalyser software tool
An efficient coverage and maximization of network lifetime in wireless sensor networks through metaheuristics
Get PDFIn wireless sensor networks (WSNs), energy, connectivity, and coverage are the three most important constraints for guaranteed data forwarding from every sensor node to the base station. Due to continuous sensing and transmission tasks, the sensor nodes deplete more quickly and hence they seek the help of data forwarding nodes, called relay nodes. However, for a given set of sensor nodes, finding optimal locations to place relay nodes is a very challenging problem. Moreover, from the earlier studies, the relay node placement is defined as a non-deterministic polynomial tree hard (NP-Hard) problem. To solve this problem, we propose a multi-objective firefly algorithm-based relay node placement (MOFF-RNP) to deploy an optimal number of relay nodes while considering connectivity, coverage, and energy constraints. To achieve network lifetime, this work adopted energy harvesting capabilities to the sensor nodes and backup relay strategy such that every sensor node is always connected to at least one relay to forward the data. The optimal relay placement is formulated as an objective function and MOFF is applied to achieve a better solution. Extensive Simulations are carried out over the proposed model to validate the performance and the obtained results are compared with state-of-art methods
Real power loss diminution by predestination of particles wavering search algorithm
Get PDFIn this work Predestination of Particles Wavering Search (PPS) algorithm has been applied to solve optimal reactive power problem. PPS algorithm has been modeled based on the motion of the particles in the exploration space. Normally the movement of the particle is based on gradient and swarming motion. Particles are permitted to progress in steady velocity in gradient-based progress, but when the outcome is poor when compared to previous upshot, immediately particle rapidity will be upturned with semi of the magnitude and it will help to reach local optimal solution and it is expressed as wavering movement. In standard IEEE 14, 30, 57,118,300 bus systems Proposed Predestination of Particles Wavering Search (PPS) algorithm is evaluated and simulation results show the PPS reduced the power loss efficiently