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Studying Routing Issues In Vanets Using Ns-3 And Sumo, Mohammad Mahmoud Abdellatif, Omar E. Aly

Electrical Engineering

ehicular Ad-hoc Networks VANETs are normally sparse, highly dense, and highly mobile with many different and ever-changing topologies. These characteristics impose a challenge on finding a routing algorithm that fits the requirements of such network. The aim of this work is to study the performance issues of VANETs under different scenarios using realistic mobility models. In this paper, a comparative study is done among Ad-hoc On- Demand Distance Vector (AODV), Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and position-based routing protocols, namely Greedy Perimeter stateless routing (GPSR), and Max duration Min angle GPSR (MMGPSR). The comparison is done using key quality of …

A Stochastic Spectrum Trading And Resource Allocation Framework For Opportunistic Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Mohamed Abdelraheem, Mohammad Mahmoud Abdellatif

Electrical Engineering

In this article, the spectrum trading problem between primary users and secondary networks is investigated. The secondary network requests multiple channels with the targeted availability to satisfy its users’ demands. Due to the uncertainty about the channels availability, stochastic optimization techniques are adopted to find the optimal set of channels for each secondary network for the lowest cost. Two different constraints on the secondary demand are defined. The first one is when the throughput has to be fully satisfied for a certain percentage of time, and the second one is when the expected value of the throughput has to exceed …

Hvac Hardware Modeling Using Programmable Automatic Controller, Panthil Ketan Patel, Lumanti Tuladhar

Electrical Engineering

The primary purpose of this project is to use the donated programmable logic controllers (PLC) from Schneider Electric to develop experiments for a future lab class at Cal Poly. Our goal as the first group working on this project is to develop an experiment where the PLC can control the HVAC system based on temperature and humidity sensors and user inputs to maintain a desired consistent temperature. The PLC will be controlled using Unity Pro XLS/Control Expert software for simulations. The overall purpose of the experiments will be to demonstrate the potential of the PLC to minimize manual intervention while …

Smart Bottle Ble Integration, Joshua M. Rizzolo

Electrical Engineering

In 1975, four percent of children aged five to nineteen were categorized as overweight or obese. As of 2016, this figure climbed above 18 percent [1]. Researchers at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) want to investigate the effect of overeating in early childhood on later childhood obesity. This research requires collecting feeding pattern data on infants, which proves challenging. Parents cannot be relied on to regularly collect clean data due to factors including work schedule, multitasking, and general exhaustion. Thus, we have developed a tool to automatically collect data on feeding frequency and duration, as well …

Remote Healthcare Monitoring Using Wearable Iot Devices And Cloud Services, Mohammad Abdellatif, Menatalla Abdel-Gawad, Manar Usama, Haidy Hesham, Omar Ibrahim

Electrical Engineering

With the strain on healthcare infrastructure and healthcare workers due to the ongoing COVID'19 pandemic, the need for novel ways to simplify the interaction between patients and physicians has increased. The aim is mainly to reduce face-to-face interactions and free more time and resources for those who urgently need it. This paper presents a Telemedicine system which can be used as an alternative method to a doctor's visit. The proposed system is considered as an interface that remotely connects the patient and the doctor. The system regularly measures and uploads readings from the patient to a database which the doctor …

Massive Mimo Beamforming Analysis For 5g Systems, Mohammad M. Abdellatif, Aya Abdel Moniem

Electrical Engineering

Multiple input multiple outputs, MIMO Technology is based on the usage of multiple receivers and transmitters or antennas at the sending and receiving end of a signal, to increase the throughput and capacity of the network. The number of antennas in a MIMO station can reach up to eight. The Massive MIMO is like the simple MIMO, with the only difference is the number of antennas can reach hundreds. Massive MIMO operates in time division duplex mode, which means the channel has reciprocal properties of radio propagation. The base station calculates an estimate the channel capacity from the uplink pilots …

Spectrum Sensing Limitations In Cognitive Radio Networks, Mohammad M. Abdellatif, Hazim E. Mustafa

Electrical Engineering

As the number of wireless devices is increasing daily, the radio frequency spectrum is becoming more crowded. Moreover, due to the stochastic nature of wireless communications technologies, some frequency bands which are allocated to services or users can be underutilized. On the other hand, some users may not be able to access the medium as all the frequency bands have been already allocated to different users. Cognitive radio has gained a lot of interest in the past few years as it tackles the problem of spectrum scarcity by taking advantage of spectrum holes that are available in the frequency spectrum. …

Survey And Design Of Microwave Low-Noise Amplifiers, Omri Yaari, Pavin Virdee

Electrical Engineering

This project is a contest entry in the Wide In-band Receiver area of the 2020 International Microwave Symposium, 5G Low Noise Amplifier Competition [1]. The project includes RF transistor selection, single, two-stage, and cascode models, and RF parameter optimization to maximize the IMS Competition figure of merit along with a supplemental figure of merit [2]. 5G technologies (used in cellphones, IoT, etc.), first introduced in 2018, are on the rise in current society. Fifth generation hardware requires extended capabilities in comparison to 4G (5-20MHz bandwidth EU: 0.6-2.6GHz), including the newly allocated sub 6GHz frequency bands (EU: 3.4-3.8GHz) and wider bandwidth …

Wildfire Early Detection System (Weds), Mason Mciver, Vincent Liang, Jeanreno Racines

Electrical Engineering

With climate change causing an increase in temperature over the past several decades, wildfires have been burning hotter and moving quicker leaving a trail of destruction in their path. Detecting a wildfire early allows firefighters to respond efficiently and effectively to ensure containment. With the rise of advanced computer vision and algorithms, autonomous systems can be used to monitor and report any fire activity. Having multiple devices spread out across a large area will allow first responders to map out the fire location and track the fire. By utilizing smart technologies, property damage can be minimized and residents living in …

Iotiwc: Iot Industrial Wireless Controller, Mohammad Abdellatif, Tassnim , Awad, Walaa Mohamed

Electrical Engineering

Industrial controller systems are crucially essential to the cutting edge power systems industries. Industrial controllers link the integrated technologies of a computer, communication devices, and electric devices. The communication systems act as a physical intermediary layer for transferring, controlling, and acquirement of data within the system from distant locations. This chapter discusses the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and proposes a similar system that is an IoT based industrial wireless controller. The proposed system can control multiple devices through the network without the need to be physically near the devices. Because it uses simple and cheap devices, the …

Ofdm Simulation, Joseph W. Bednar

Electrical Engineering

The project objective is to provide a tool that will allow the user to simulate an adaptive OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) communication system in the presence of various types of interference and noise. The open-source code allows students and engineers to adjust the modulation, threshold settings, and distortion effects in the channel while observing the output bit error rate. The results the simulation provides will aid researchers in attempting to characterize the interference of OFDM based systems and their effectiveness in the presence of noise.

Iot Asset Tracker, Jonny M. Erickson, Matt A. Murray

Electrical Engineering

This senior project will be the completion of an IoT asset Tracker. In today’s day and age, technology is weaving its way into every aspect of life. Because of this, we demand to know more and more information about everything that is going on in our lives. One of these needed pieces of information is knowing the location of our most valuable assets. This is the main goal of this project: to build a portable SMS driven GNSS tracking device. The device is designed to provide two methods of tracking for any mobile asset. The device will utilize a large …

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Maximum A Posteriori As A Detection Technique For Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Mohammad Abdellatif, Ahmed Tohamy, Usama Sayed Mohamed, Taha A. Khalaf, Mohamed Abdelraheem

Electrical Engineering

Over the past few years, dynamic spectrum access has been gaining an increasing attention as a solution to the spectrum scarcity problem. In this paper, a primary user detection technique based on Maximum A Posteriori estimation is proposed for dynamic spectrum access networks. In the proposed technique, a set of secondary users acting as sensing nodes send their individual decisions about the existence of the primary user to a central fusion center. The fusion center uses the received data to form a codeword then, applies the maximum a posteriori estimation rule to make a final decision regarding the presence of …

Telemedicine: An Iot Based Remote Healthcare System., Mohammad Abdellatif, Walaa Mohamed

Electrical Engineering

This paper proposes a remote healthcare system which is referred to as Telemedicine. Telemedicine is a platform that establishes a connection be-tween the patient and the doctor. This platform belongs to the internet of medical things (IoMT) by enabling multiple medical sensors to connect to a server either using multiple communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GSM technologies. The system collects data from several sensors and sends them using one of the aforementioned technologies using an Arduino Board, while the inter-face is made with matlab and C#. Additionally, a comparative study between the three communications technologies used to connect …

Controller Area Network (Can) Bus Simulator And Data-Logger For In-Vehicle Infotainment Testing, Sandra Roksic

Electrical Engineering

In the infotainment testing environment, various tools simulate a select range of Controller Area Network (CAN) bus signals onto the infotainment workbench. The integration of signal input devices and trace-gathering tools often results in a cluttered workspace and an inefficient testing environment. This project eliminates the need for multiple signal simulators and allows for a single system source for various input CAN-bus messages. This system enables the tester to store output CAN-bus data from the test vehicle for future reference and analysis through the same integrated system. It optimizes the time it takes the tester to complete testing catalogs and …

Polyone Smartphone, Joshua Zalmanowitz, Chi Nguyen, Gerome Cacho, Chris Lim

Electrical Engineering

The Poly One Smartphone is a student designed smartphone built to explore the implementation of 5G, provide a hardware solution to ensure personal information security and privacy, and provide longer battery life. The key features of this smartphone include but are not limited to a main cpu, some form of network connectivity in the form of Wi-fi or Cellular Data, calling functionality, a rechargeable battery that works with common power connection protocols, and compatibility with popular applications.

Wildland Fire Location Management System (Wflms), Robert G. Goldie, Jack A. Gallegos

Electrical Engineering

Wildland firefighters work in complex, dangerous environments where effective communication is key to developing situational awareness. Currently, the only communication firefighters have is with Very High Frequency (VHF) 160 MHz band analog radios. While digital radio protocols could potentially allow location data and commands to be sent to field crews, the technology is primarily for voice communication. This project presents a new system that frees up voice channels and uses LoRa transceivers for robust communication. The system allows for emergency and location reports to be sent to a dispatcher via an airborne repeater. The entire system is software-defined, so it …

Lawn Buddy, Jayson Johnston, Andrew Brown, Jacob Maljian

Electrical Engineering

Grass lawns are a common hallmark of the American home. In 2019, a survey from the National Association of Landscape Professionals found that 81% of all Americans owned a lawn [1]. Mowing is a time consuming and costly chore that is part of maintaining a grass lawn. The manual labor in mowing a lawn can exceed 40 hours per year [2]. People commonly incur weekly costs on mowing services to save time. Traditional gas powered mowers are physically demanding and use engines that need routine maintenance. They operate loudly enough that users should be wearing hearing protection and the noise …

Provenance-Enabled Packet Path Tracing In The Rpl-Based Internet Of Things, Mohammad Abdellatif, Sabah Suhail, Rasheed Hussain, Shashi Raj Pandey, Abid Khan, Choong Seon Hong

Electrical Engineering

The interconnection of resource-constrained and globally accessible things with unreliable Internet make them vulnerable to attacks such as, but not limited to, data forging, false data injection, and packet drop. Such attacks may affect mission-critical applications that rely on sensor data for decision-making processes, hence, necessitates high assurance of trustworthy data. For the data trustworthiness, provenance is considered to be an effective mechanism that tracks both data acquisition and data transmission. However, provenance management for IoT networks is faced with several challenges such as low energy, bandwidth consumption, and efficient storage. In this paper, we propose a bi-fold Provenance-enabled Packed …

Implementation Of A Low Cost, Solar Charged Rf Modem For Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks, Mohammad Abdellatif, Salma M. Maher, Ghazal M. Al-Sayyad, Sameh O. Abdellatif

Electrical Engineering

Underwater communication (UWC) has become an attractive research field over the past few decades. This is mainly due to the increase in underwater applications such as exploration, monitoring, and warning systems. Traditional communications techniques face many obstacles when used underwater. Optical communications require line of sight which is not always maintained underwater due to turbulence. Acoustic communication does not suffer from that, however, it can only operate with very low rates. While radio frequency (RF) communication can only operate over short distances due to the attenuation from the water, it can deliver relatively high data rates and does not require …

Iot For Smart Parking, Mohammad Abdellatif, Noura Elshabasy

Electrical Engineering

Nowadays, technology has become more reliable that allowed human interaction to decrease while the machines have started to take over in many fields of interest. The Internet of things (IoT) represents the idea of machines ability to control entire systems without any human interactions. This paper proposes an IoT system that takes a picture of parked cars in a garage, extract the plate number and the location of the car, and places these information in a database. At the garage entrance, a terminal linked to the system allows the user to locate the parked car using the license plate no.. …

Enhancing The Performance Of 433 Mhz Underwater Wsn Using Handover Mechanisms., Mohammad Abdellatif, Sameh Abdellatif, Salma M. Maher, Ziad M. Ali

Electrical Engineering

Wireless technology has taken part of our daily life which paved the way to underwater wireless communication to flourish as a research area. This research field is important for exploration of the seabed as oceanographers stated that there are still unexplored ocean perceptions. Latency and distance are considered to be the main factors that confronts this particular field and degrades the overall performance. This paper investigates the performance of RF signals in varying water depths. A point to point system was first considered with 2 nodes, the results of this experiment along with our previous work aroused the idea of …

Performance Of Detection Algorithms For Massive Mimo Systems, Mohammad Abdellatif, Ayatalla Abdelrahman

Electrical Engineering

MIMO or Multiple- input- Multiple- output is one of the latest technologies, which has been developed to combat the major problems encountering wireless communications. MIMO was developed to improve communication's capacity, range, reliability, throughput, to overcome bandwidth limitations, and to combat fading. This paper investigates the performance of massive MIMO which is the core of the fifth generation that is expected to be released by 2020. Massive MIMO is a promising technology that allows the use of hundreds of antennas at the base station to achieve optimal reliability, capacity, and throughput. However, it suffers from multiple limitations in the detection …

Telemedicine: An Iot Application For Healthcare Systems, Mohammad Abdellatif, Walaa Mohamed

Electrical Engineering

Telemedicine is the abstract term used to define medical services delivered through Information Technology and Telecommunications. With the growing advancements in the field of data mining, pattern recognition, expert systems, and image processing, the motivation of such a technology has increased. This allowed Telemedicine to be a stable solution especially because people are starting to trust the system more for its higher accuracy. This paper proposes a Telemedicine platform between the patient and the doctor. This platform belongs to the internet of medical things (IoMT) by enabling multiple medical sensors to connect to a server either using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or …

Submerged Solar Energy Harvesters Performance For Underwater Applications, Mohammad Abdellatif, Salsabeel Kamal, Ghazal M. Al-Sayyad, Rana Abdelmoteleb, Sameh O. Abdellatif

Electrical Engineering

underwater communications is the transmission of data in an unguided water medium through wireless carriers such as; optical waves, radio-frequency waves and acoustic waves. Such type of communication system is utilized to enable the realization of the ocean exploration system and other marine monitoring/exploration systems. Seeking for a sustainable setup, the enrolment of energy harvesting sources in these wireless nodes have been presented as a replacement of the short-life-time battery sources. In this paper, there are experimental measurements as well as theoretical studies for two different light harvesters have been conducted underwater with considering the air measurements as a reference. …

Wirelessly Powered Cognitive Radio Communication Networks., Mohammad Abdellatif, Haitham H. Mahmoud

Electrical Engineering

Many energy harvesting techniques have been investigated in the literature to solve the limitation of power supply problems as it has been one of the crucial challenges in wireless communication networks. With the relatively large numbers of sensors that are expected to be deployed in the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and Internet-of-Things (IoT), it has become harder to implement reasonably priced networks with the normal power supplying techniques. In this paper, a proposal of a Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is presented where the SUs have the ability of Secondary-Users (SUs) to wirelessly harvest energy from a broadcasted energy which is …

An Intrusion Detection Framework For Energy Constrained Iot Devices, Mohammad Abdellatif, Junaid Arshad, Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Khaled Salah

Electrical Engineering

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) exemplifies IoT with applications in manufacturing, surveillance, automotive, smart buildings, homes and transport. It leverages sensor technology, cutting edge communication and data analytics technologies and the open Internet to consolidate IT and operational technology (OT) aiming to achieve cost and performance benefits. However, the underlying resource constraints and ad hoc nature of such systems have significant implications especially in achieving effective intrusion detection. Consequently, contemporary solutions requiring a stable infrastructure and extensive computational resources are inadequate to fulfill these characteristics of an IIoT system. In this paper, we propose an intrusion detection framework for the …

Performance Analysis Of A Wirelessly Powered Cognitive Radio Communication Network, Mohammad Abdellatif, Haitham Hassan

Electrical Engineering

Over the years, many energy harvesting techniques were proposed in the literature. These techniques are used to solve power supply problems as it has been one of the crucial challenges in wireless communication. With the relatively large numbers of devices that are expected to be deployed starting 2020, it has become harder to implement reasonably priced networks with sufficient power supplying techniques. In this paper, a novel cognitive radio network (CRN) is proposed in which the secondary-users (SUs) have the ability to wirelessly harvest energy from a broadcasted energy signal sent from a central node (CN). Additionally, nodes that might …

3d Signal Strength Mapping Of 2.4ghz Wifi Networks, Brett D. Glidden

Electrical Engineering

Many commercial businesses operate out of multi-story office buildings. These companies often use many Wi-Fi access points to set up their own wireless network. IT personnel determine proper Wi-Fi access point placement using Wi-Fi strength maps. Conventional Wi-Fi strength maps only provide a two-dimensional view representing the wireless access point's effective range. The signal quality and strength measurements do not include changing vertical elevation. Efficient network layout in a multi-story building requires a system calculating signal quality metrics in three dimensions.

This project involves designing and prototyping a system to achieve 2.4GHz Wi-Fi signal quality measurements in a three-dimensional reference …

High-Bandwidth Iop Sensing Backscatter Transceiver, Mark Manuel

Electrical Engineering

This document describes the design and build of a mobile phone attachment that communicates with an ASIC embedded smart contact lens. The portable device enables patients and clinicians to conveniently and instantaneously measure intraocular pressure (IOP). The device replaces bulky and expensive benchtop RF synthesizer and signal analyzer machines required for communication to the smart contact lens into a portable and convenient device. The transceiver transmits VHF ISM band radio and can capture reflected backscatter On-Off-Keying modulated message signals at bandwidths from DC to 130MHz.