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Fingerprint Recognition Using Neural Networks, Eng Hoe Kennie Yeoh

Student Works (2000-2009)

Traditional methods of fingerprint verification uses either complicated feature detection algorithms that are not specific to each fingerprint, or compare two fingerprint images directly using image processing toots. The former involves very complicated calculations and tedious algorithms, and the latter tend to work poorly. In this paper it is described a new method which takes the middle ground. This paper studies the implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform and Artificial Neural Networks into the recognition of fingerprints. With tests conducted on the implementation of the Fourier Transform as a method of fingerprint feature extraction, the use of the Fourier Transform …

Aplikasi Wayarles Menggunakan Telefon Bimbit Dengan-Wap, Wan Osman Wan Maria

Student Works (2000-2009)

“Wireless Site Solution using WAP-enabled Mobile Phone” is an application developed based on WAP technology. It makes use of the N-tier Client/Server Architecture to provide users especially those who are still new in this technology. With wireless access to manage their daily task and get latest information as well. The main purpose of this project is to provide an alternative for users in managing their daily tasks in some simple clicks and also to allow users to access information in a very interesting way. There are two major modules in this application which are the user module and administrator module. …

Vpn-Data Center System Database, Thai Hwan Gan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Computer has advanced from high technology equipment that only by large company in the old days to office equipment that is essential in an office. In the world of computer, improvement on service provided and lock out competition is very important The quantity of service, speed of processing, productivity, efficiency and effectiveness is very vital. The purpose of this project is to create a database system to a company that provides services and selling computer product. Beside that, we also provide VPNVirtual Private Network for the company's branch to access and to update the database. This is to provide more …

Atm Lane Simulator, Kim Joo Ching

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project describes the development of ATM Local Area Network Emulation (LANE) simulator components. In LANE, an A TM network is configured to simulate an Ethernet or token ring network and coexist with the legacy network without making any modification to Them.The development of this simulator incorporates several important features. The most important feature of the simulator is that it is build based on object-oriented approach, which is able to provide the benefits of re usability, flexibility and extensibility. The second important feature is that it supports multi threaded operations. This means that every object able to act simultaneously. Besides …

Messaging Application, Hooi Phaik Yew

Student Works (2000-2009)

Statistics have shown that more and more people are switching to WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) handphones and most people would have heard of WAP before. Undeniably WAP's future is bright and WAP applications prospects are even better. This alone has encouragrd many programmers into developing WAP applications. Study had shown that this is true in part of the world with more and more hooking up to WAP hand phones. Internet Messaging programs have existed for a long time. Currently there's no WAP Messaging Application (WAP-MA) but it's just a matter of time before somebody invented it. This project is involved …

Sistem Penganalisa Rangkaian (Nas), Mohd Haris Afiatul Syahrizat

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Penganalisa Rangkaian (Nas) merupakan tajuk untuk latihan ilmiah saya bagi memenuhi keperluan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sains Komputer. Projek ini di bawah penyeliaan Cik Fazidah Othman merupakan sebuah sistem pemantauan aktiviti rangkaian (LAN) “standalone” dan interaktif. Sistem ini dibangunkan berlandaskan kehendak penggunanya yang lebih ditumpukan kepada pentadbir dan jurutera rangkaian sendiri. Sistem ini dapat membantui pentadbir rangkaian dalam memantau aktiviti semasa rangkaian. Ini membolehkan pentadbir rangkaian mendapatkan statistik aktiviti-aktiviti rangkaian yang berjalan yang merangkumi aktiviti internet dan keluar masuk data di dalam rangkaian. Sistem ini dibangunkan menggunakan perisian Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Access 2000 dan boleh dilarikan pada persekitaran …

Bluetooth Software On Linux, Wireless Hand-Held Devices, Teck Khoon Low

Theses : Honours

In order to enable existing computers (non-Bluetooth ready) to connect to a Bluetooth piconet, a Bluetooth hardware device comprising of the Radio antenna, the baseband and control circuit is used. The digital portion of this device is also known as a Host Controller, HC. In the traditional communication lingo, the Bluetooth Hardware functions, as the Data Communication Equipment (DCE) while the Host is the Data terminal Equipment (DTE). This report discusses the theory and implementation of the communication protocol between the Host and the Host Controller, enabling communication between the computer and the Bluetooth hardware

Design And Implementation Of An Intranet-Solution Especially With Workflow Aspects, Robert Loew

Theses

An Intranet support a new or simply an easier information system for all the workers within a company using internet technology. On the one hand, employees can use Web technology and very simple tools to provide and navigate information. On the other hand, the costly and time-consuming business of installing and maintaining software on local PCs can be avoided by using Browser-based Intranet applications. Ideally, it would be possible to access all forms of information processing using one and the same Web browser. This is the aim of the Intranet Project upon which this thesis is based.

Various technologies for …

Keyboard - Smart Card Reader Controller Using Vhdl, Lani Mohd Zuwairi

Student Works (2000-2009)

As the time fly by the technology of computers has improves and much security is needed in every transaction of data that being done. In this project, designing a microcontroller for keyboard and smart card reader terminal integration is being done. At first stage, the architecture of the controller will analyze and studied. This will need some practice of knowledge in computer organization and architecture, as well as microprocessors architecture designs. Then the architecture is design using hardware prototyping. This is by using the VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL). The codes done using the language then being simulate to get …

Online Whiteboard (Audio Conferencing Module), Chan Weng Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Computer technology is a very dynamic and changing field. There are always new technologies being developed and adopted on all fronts, which makes it an exciting field to be in. So, in order to catch up with the technology, I choose myself to investigate some of the telecommunication technology specifically voice networking on the computer. Through this project, I hope I can learn everything regarding to voice networking and thus can build a complete voice communication package for the whiteboard system project as an enhancement to the system. In order to accomplish this project, me together with two of my …

Development Of Object-Oriented Components For Atm Network Simulation With Emphasis On Congestion Control, Wai Kit Sin

Student Works (2000-2009)

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a very high-speed transmission technology. The barrage of technological advancements has continuously enhanced the network performance. There is an increasing dependence on the network. Thus, there is a need to accurately predict the impact of network and applications changes in the dynamic network environment. The network simulator is a tool to analyze the behavior of ATM networks without the expense of building a real network. The simulation of this simulator will give the results that imitate the real network environment. The aim of this project is to develop object-oriented components for an ATM Network Simulator …

Cubic Hamiltonian Graphs And Generalized Knight's Tours, Siew Hui Ong

Student Works (2000-2009)

This thesis is divided into two parts, both related to hamiltonian graphs. The first part deals with 3-connected cubic bipartite planar graphs. By assuming that all 3-connected cubic bipartite planar graphs are hamiltonian, lower bounds for the number of Hamilton cycles in cubic bipartite planar graphs with given cyclic connectivity are obtained in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, we show that Barnette's Conjecture is equivalent to the conjecture which states that for any two edges x and y on the same face of a 3-connected cubic bipartite planar hamiltonian graph, there is a Hamilton cycle passing through x and y1 …

Vhdl Implementation For Jawi Character Recognition, Mustafa Norita Adila

Student Works (2000-2009)

Kewujudan tulisan jawi sejak dahulu lagi telah menghasilkan pelbagai karya penting dalam perkembangan islam. Sebagai satu bahasa pengantara, tulisan jawi dianggap penting dalam bidang penulisan. Tidak terhad hanya kepada buku-buku, dokumen-dokumen dan manuskrip-manuskrip yang ditulis dalam tulisan jawi, malah penggunaanya amat meluas dan meliputi keseluruhan bidang. Menyedari kepentingannya, timbul minat saya untuk mengkaji dengan lebih mendalam bagaimana komputer boleh mengenali dan memahami tulisan ini tanpa menggunakan tenaga manusia berdasarkan kepada beberapa kajian yang sedia ada yang telah dijalankan oleb mereka yang pakar dalam teknologi komputer digital. Secara keseluruhan, kajian ini akan membantu memudahkan lagi pengecaman tulisan tangan jawi yang dilakukan …

Sistem Pengendalian @ Penyelenggaraan Kenderaan Um, Tat San Tan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Pengendalian & Penyelenggaraan Kenderaan UM (SPPKUM) adalah satu sistem dibangunkan untuk: membantu pengguna dalam pengendalian dan penyelenggaraan kenderaan- kenderaan UM terutamanya bagi kakitangan Jabatan Pembangunan & Penyelenggaraan Harta Benda di Universiti Malaya (JPPHBUM). Ia membolehkan pengguna merekod, menyelenggara, dan menghasilkan laporan data yang dikehendaki. Bahagian memasukkan data tentang penyelenggaraan kenderaan adalah tujuan merekod, menyimpan, dan menyemak semula. Bahagian laporan adalah menghasilkan maklumat yang berguna kepada pengguna untuk menyelenggarakan kenderaan UM. Bahagian yang lain, iaitu bahagian Peringatan yang bertujuan untuk: memberi peringatan pada masa yang dikehendaki dan bahagian Penukaran Katalaluan adalah untuk membolehkan pengguna menukar katalaluan dan nama pengguna sistem …

Design And Develop A Generic Cut-Through Switch, Nazaruddin Noraini

Student Works (2000-2009)

Today's advancement in network is related to the advancement of packet switching technology. Switching directs network traffic in an efficient manner – it sends information directly from the port of origin to only its destination port. Without switching, many networks are experiencing bandwidth shortages because of an increase in traffic due to the increased numbers of users, the amount of data transported between client/server applications, and the inefficient traffic patterns of some networks. Transmission of data from one destination to another is unguaranty successful. Sometimes the data will lost or conupted during transmission to destination port. To make data more …

Isolated Ramp Metering Feedback Control Utilizing Mixed Sensitivity For Desired Mainline Density And The Ramp Queues, Pushkin Kachroo, Kaan Ozbay, Donald E. Grove

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

This paper presents a feedback control design for isolated ramp metering control. This feedback control design, unlike the existing isolated feedback ramp controllers, also takes into account the ramp queue length. Using a nonlinear H∞ control design methodology, we formulate the problem in the desired setting to be able to utilize the results of the methodology.

Dres: Internet Resource Management Using Deferred Reservations, Samphel Norden

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

In this proposal, we consider the problem of resource reservation for Integrated Services (IntServ) and Differentiated Services (DiffServ) networks. Current approaches for resource reservation in INtegrated Service Networks adopt an all-or-nothing approach, where partially acquired resources must be released if resources are not available at all routers on the chosen path. Furthermore, under high load, end-systems must retry requests repeatedly leading to inefficient allocation and increased traffic. We propose a new approach called Deferred REServation (DERS) that substantially improves performance (reduces the overall cell rejection probability and increases link utilization) over the all-or-nothing reservation approach. Call admissibility is increased by …

Layered Protocol Wrappers For Internet Packet Processing In Reconfigurable Hardware, Florian Braun, John Lockwood, Marcel Waldvogel

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

The ongoing increases of line speed in the Internet backbone combined with the need for increased functionality of network devices presents a major challenge. These demands call for the use of reprogrammable hardware to provide the required flexible, high-speed functionality, at all network layers. The Field Programmable Port Extender (FPX) provides such an environment for development of networking components in reprogrammable hardware. We present a framework to streamline and simplify networking applications that process ATM cells, AAL5 frames, Internet Protocol (IP) packets and UDP datagrams directly in hardware.

Scalable Ip Lookup For Programmable Routers, David E. Taylor, John W. Lockwood, Todd Sproull, David B. Parlour

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

Continuing growth in optical link speeds places increasing demands on the performance of Internet routers, while deployment of embedded and distributed network services imposes new demands for flexibility and programmability. IP adress lookup has become a significant performance bottleneck for the highest performance routers. New commercial products utilize dedicated Content Addressable Memory (CAM) devides to achieve high lookup speeds. This paper describes an efficient, scalable lookup engine design, able to achieve high-performance with the use of a small portion of a reconfigurable logic device and a commodity Random Access Memory (RAM) device. Based on Eatherton's Tree Bitmap algorithm [1] the …

Synthesizable Design Of A Multi-Module Memory Controller, Sarang Dharmapurikar, John W. Lockwood

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

Random Access Memory (RAM) is a common resources needed by networking hardware modules. Synchronous Dynamic RAM (SDRAM) provides a cost effective solution for such data storage. As the packet processing speeds in the hardware increase memory throughput can be a bottleneck to achieve overall high performance. Typically there are multiple hardware modules which perform different operations on the packet payload and hence all try to access the common packet buffer simultaneously. This gives rise to a need for a memory controller which arbitrates between the memory requests made by different modules and maximizes the memory throughput. This paper discusses the …

Obiwan - An Internet Protocol Router In Reconfigurable Hardware, Florian Braun, Marcel Waldvogel, John Lockwood

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

The ongoing exponential increase of line speed in the Internet and combined with the uncountable requests for increased functionality of network devices presents a major challenge. These demands call for the use of reprogrammable hardware to provide the required flexible high-speed functionaltiy. The Field Programmable Port Extender (FPX) provides such an environment for development of networking components in reprogrammable hardware. We present the high-speed IP routing components in reprogrammable hardware. We present the high-speed IP routing module "OBIWAN" (Optimal Binary search IP lookup for Wide Area Networks) built on top of an IP processing framework.

Network Abstractions For Context-Aware Mobile Computing, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Christine Julien, Qingfeng Huang

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

Context-Aware computing is characterized by the ability of a software system to continuously adapt its behavior to a changing environment over which it has little or no control. Previous work along these lines presumed a rather narrow definition of context, one that was centered on resources immediately available to the component in question, e.g., communication bandwidth, physical location, etc. This paper explores context-aware computing in the setting of ad hoc networks consisting of numerous mobile hosts that interact with each other opportunistically via transient wireless interconnections. We extend the context to encompass awareness of an entire neighborhood within the ad …

Implementation Of An Open Multi-Service Router, Fred Kuhns, John Dehart, Ralph Keller, John Lockwood, Prashanth Papu, Jyoti Parwatikar, Ed Spitznagel, David Richard, David Taylor, Jon Turner, Ken Wong

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

This paper describes the design, implementation, and performance of an open, high-performance, dynamically reconfigurable Multi-Service Router (MSR) being developed at Washington University in St. Louis. This router provides an experimentation platform for research on protocols, router software, and hardware design, network management, quality of service and advanced applications. The MSR has been designed to be flexible, without sacrificing performance. It support gigabit links and uses a scalable architecture suitable for supporting hundreds or even thousands of links. The MSR's flexibility makes it an ideal platform for experimental research on dynamically extensible networks that implement higher level functions in direct support …

Efficient Queue Management For Tcp Flows, Anshul Kantawala, Jonathan Turner

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

Packets in the Internet can experience large queueing delays during busy periods. Backbone routers are generally engineered to have large buffers, in which packets may wait as long as half a second (assuming FIFO service, longer otherwise). During congestion periods, these bufferfs may stay close to full, subjecting packets to long delays, even when the intrinsic latency of the path is relatively small. This paper studies the performance improvements that can be obtained by using more sophisticated packet schedulers, than are typical of Internet routers. The results show that the large buffers found in WAN routers ocntribute only marginally to …

Routing In Overlay Multicast Networks, Sherlia Y. Shi, Jonathan S. Turner

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

Multicast servises can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated features, and since they don't require network supoprt for multicast, they can provide multicast services, where no network layer support is available. Overlay multicast networks offer an intermediate option, potentially combining the flexibility and advanced features of application layer multicast with the greater efficiency of network layer multicast. Overlay multicast networks play an important role in the Internet. Indeed, since Internet Service Providers have been slow to enable IP multicast in their networks, Internet multicast is …

Generalized Rad Module Interface Specification Of The Field-Programmable Port Extender (Fpx) Version 2.0, David E. Taylor, John W. Lockwood, Sarang Dharmapurikar

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

The Field-programmable Port eXtender (FPX) provides dynamic, fast, and flexible mechanisms to process data streams at the ports of the Washington University Gigabit Switch (WUGS-20). By performing all computations in FPGA hardware, cells and packets can be processed at the full line speed of the transmission interface, currently 2.4 Gbits/sec. In order to design and implement portable hardware modules for the Reprogrammable Application Devide (RAD) on the FPX board, all modules should conform to a standard interface. This standard interface specifies how modules receive and transmit ATM cells of data flows, prevent data loss during reconfiguration, and access off-chip memory. …

Accurate Parameter Estimation For An Articulatory Speech Synthesizer With An Improved Neural Network Mapping, Hali̇s Altun, Tankut Yalçinöz, K. Mervyn Curtis

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Neural network (NN) applications have recently been employed to extract the parameters of an articulatory speech synthesizer from a given speech signal. Results from these attempts showed that a single NN is insufficient to cover all of the possible configurations uniquely. Moreover, apart from their computational advantages, NN mapping is so far not superior to the other mapping techniques [1]. Thus there is a clear need to improve NN solution to the inverse problem. Results from our earlier experiments with an articulatory speech synthesizer have shown that the statistical characteristic of the articulatory target pattern vectors can be exploited for …

Scalar Wave Diffraction By A Perfectly Soft Infinitely Thin Circular Ring, Fati̇h Di̇kmen, Ertuğrul Karaçuha, Yury Alexanderovich Tuchkin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A new strong mathematically rigorous and numerically effective method for solving the boundary value problem of scalar (for example acoustic) wave diffraction by a perfectly soft (Dirichlet boundary condition) infinitely thin circular ring is proposed. The method is based on the combination of the Orthogonal Polynomials Approach, and on the ideas of the methods of analytical regularization. As a result of the suggested regularization procedure, the initial boundary value problem is equivalently reduced to the infinite system of the linear algebraic equations of the second kind, i.e., to an equation of the type ( (I + H) x = b …

Modal Rules Are Co-Implications, Alexander Kurz

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

In [13], it was shown that modal logic for coalgebras dualises—concerning definability— equational logic for algebras. This paper establishes that, similarly, modal rules dualise implications:It is shown that a class of coalgebras is definable by modal rules iff it is closed under H (images) and Σ (disjoint unions). As a corollary the expressive power of rules of infinitary modal logic on Kripke frames is characterised.

Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Using Neural-Fuzzy In Atm Network, Yan Sing Chua

Student Works (2000-2009)

Dynamic bandwidth allocation is becoming one of the crucial issues in the design and research in the computer network. This is due to the continuous increasing demand of intensive applications that require more bandwidth while retaining higher quality. Dynamic bandwidth allocation utilises the current network state information to optimise the bandwidth distribution. The state information can be gathered through prediction using past data and measurement on current state. Agility and flexibility of dynamic bandwidth allocation using Neural-Fuzzy has the advantage that it can adapt to the state changes of the network. ATM network carries heterogeneous traffic and this causes the …