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Final Year Project Proposals Semester II, 2016/2017

FYP1 Coordinators:

Computer and Information Engineering: Assistant/Prof. Dr. Nor

Farahidah, [email protected]

Communication Engineering: Assistant/Prof. Dr. Rosminazuin,

[email protected]

Last updated on 2nd February 2017

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................ 2

Design and Simulation of Timing Circuit for Gate Control Triggering Circuits .................. 5

Performance Evaluation of Current Controller for Distributed Power Generation Systems

.......................................................................................................................................................... 6

Resonant Contactless Energy Transfer with Improved Efficiency.......................................... 7

Contactless Energy Transfer with Improved Efficiency to Passive Devices Using Selective

Resonant Frequency ...................................................................................................................... 8

Coplanar Intermediate Coil Structures in Inductive Power Transfer Systems ..................... 9

Double-sided LCC compensation topology for Wireless Power Transfer System ............. 10

Load Coils for Multiple Loads of Resonant Wireless Power Transfer ................................. 11

A High-Efficiency Low-Voltage CMOS Rectifier for Non-Contact Energy Harvesting..... 12

Hybrid Energy Storage System Based on the Asymmetric Bidirectional Z-Source

Topology for Electric Vehicle..................................................................................................... 13

Solar Energy for Battery-Charging of on Electric Vehicles .................................................... 14

On-The-Fly RF Energy Harvesting Transceiver for Zigbee Wireless Sensor Networks .... 17

Sensor and Gateway Location Optimization in Body Sensor Networks.............................. 18

RF-metric Identification System in Constrained Environment ............................................. 19

Performance Evaluation of LoRa Radio Links ......................................................................... 20

Land Slide Sensory and Alarm System .................................................................................... 21

DTW-Based Speech Recognition System for Isolated Words of Arabic Language............. 22

Speech Dereverberation Enhancement ..................................................................................... 23

Automatic Diagnosis of Diabetic Disease using Image Processing ...................................... 24

Video-Based Abnormal Behaviour Detection in Smart Surveillance Systems ................... 25

Driving Assistance System: Computer Vision based Drowsiness Detection ...................... 26

User's Authentication Hashed based Encryption System for E-government ....................... 27

Java Card Implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard ............................................. 28

Weight Distribution of Various Error Control Codes used in 3G Data Networks and its

effect on their Error Performance .............................................................................................. 29

Weight Distribution of Various Error Control Codes used in 4G Data Networks and its

effect on their Error Performance .............................................................................................. 30

Operation of “substitute byte” function used in Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

using spectral (transform) techniques....................................................................................... 31

Antenna Array for (RF) Power Harvesting Applications for Indoor Environment ............. 34

Design of Wearable/Implantable Antenna for Pacemaker Application ............................... 35

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Multi-homing-based Approach to Address Handoff Issues in NEMO ................................ 36

Supporting Inter-domain Handoff in PNEMO ....................................................................... 36

Capacitance Tilt Sensor for Inclination Measurement ........................................................... 37

Active Power Factor Correction Circuit .................................................................................... 39

Development of an Efficient Mining Model of High Utility Item-Sets from Transactional

Databases ...................................................................................................................................... 40

Developing Mobile Healthcare Apps to Facilitate User Needs using Agile Software

Development ................................................................................................................................ 41

A Remote Smart Data Back-up Technique for Cloud Computing: Toward Effective

algorithm ...................................................................................................................................... 42

Effective Privacy Concerns in Sharing Mobile Healthcare Data ........................................... 43

Cost Minimization for Big Data Processing in Geo-Distributed Data Centres ................... 44

Towards Practical Self-Embedding for JPEG-Compressed Digital Images ......................... 45

Design a Simulator to integrate Human Sense with Animals’ senses: Hearing .................. 46

Design a Simulator to integrate Human Sense with Animals’ senses: Sight ...................... 46

Design a Simulator to integrate Human Sense with Animals’ senses: Taste ...................... 46

Study of UWB Antenna for Microwave Direction-Finding Systems ..... Error! Bookmark not

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Simulation of a Biosensor using Nanowires ............................................................................ 47

Design and Simulation of a Fast Fourier Transform Processor Using Verilog .................... 48

Development of Handwriting Recognition System using Tensorflow Deep LearningError!

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Investigation of Penetration Testing using Kali Linux ............ Error! Bookmark not defined.

Speech Emotion Recognition using Deep Neural Network ..... Error! Bookmark not defined.

Design and Simulation of Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) Resonators ................... 51

Design and Simulation of Piezoelectric MEMS Vibration Energy Harvester ..................... 52

Analysis of X-band Satellite Signal Rain Attenuation in Tropical Region .......................... 53

Analysis of Ku-band Satellite Signal Rain Attenuation in Tropical Region ....................... 54

Analysis of C-band Satellite Signal Rain Attenuation in the Tropical Region ................... 55

Analysis of Rain Fall Intensity Measurement for Satellite Ground Station in Cyberjaya /

Sg. Buloh/Bukit Jalil.................................................................................................................... 56

Modelling of Attenuation due to Rain in Satellite Communications link........................... 57

Development of Ruqyah as Syarriah Apps .............................................................................. 58

Efficient Peer to Peer Similarity Query Processing for High dimensional Data ................. 59

Honey Pots a Security System to Identify Black Hat Community in the Networks ........... 60

Detection of Adventitious Sound in Lung Cancer Patients ..... Error! Bookmark not defined.

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Feature Extraction and Classification of Adventitious Sound in Lung Cancer Patients

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Optimizing Distribution System Restoration using Multi-objective Method .................... 61

Design of an GPS GSM Based Vehicle Tracker ...................................................................... 62

Design of an Arduino Microcontroller Based Electrostatic Field Meter .............................. 63

Design of a Smart, Vertical Indoor Garden using Intel Edison and Grove IoT .................. 64

Design of an Audio Recording System for Active Noise Control using Rasberry-Pi ......... 65

FPGA-based True Random Number Generation Using Adaptive Feedback Control ........ 66

Energy Management System Regression Analysis ................................................................. 67

Indoor Navigation System ......................................................................................................... 68

Mobile Biometric Verification System ..................................................................................... 68

Internet Based Remote Electrocardiogram Monitoring System ............................................ 68

Performance study of interference mitigation techniques in femtocell networks ........ Error!


Design and implementation of Intelligent CPU Scheduler ................................................... 69

Enhancing Security Prospectus of AES..................................................................................... 70

Performance Characterization of Data Transmission on Free Space Optics (FSO) ............. 71

A Mach–Zehnder Interferometric Humidity Sensor Based on Core Diameter Mismatch . 72

Electric Field Simulation of Biological Cells Separation using COMSOL Software.......... 73

Design and Characterization of Screen Printing Microelectrode for DNA Sensing ........... 74

Fabrication of Muscle Stimulation Electrode Using Screen Printing Technique................ 75

Web-based Surveillance System with Web Applications Phase II ....................................... 76

Development of Digital Spirometer using NI-RIO ................................................................ 77

Characterization and Interpretation of Lung Diseases using Portable Digital Spirometer78

An Automated Web Based Water Monitoring System Phase II ............................................ 79

Frequency Mapping for Wimax, GSM900 and GSM1800 frequency bands in IIUM

Gombak Campus ........................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

Frequency Mapping for 4G-LTE frequency bands in IIUM Gombak Campus ................... 80

Load Profile Analysis for Load Forecast in IIUM University Campus ................................. 81

Simulation of Piezoelectric MEMS Speaker for Implantable Hearing Aid Applications


Development of Energy Harvester using Flexible PVDF Thin Film ..... Error! Bookmark not

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Ultra-Wideband Antenna Design for CubeSat Application .................................................. 82

Absorption characterization with HRR Femtosecond Laser by Z-scan technique ........ Error!


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Laser Beam Expansion Characterization for Nonlinear Optical Z-Scan Characterization


Heat Characterization of Low Absorption Material by Z-Scan with HRR Femtosecond

Laser .............................................................................................................................................. 83

Optical Chopper Characterization for HRR Femtosecond laser ............. Error! Bookmark not

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TITLE Design and Simulation of Timing Circuit for Gate Control Triggering Circuits

SUPERVISORS ASSOC. PROF. DR. SHEROZ KHAN

SUMMARY An inductive RF link for powering low power devices (buried or implanted) is similar to what is shown in Fig. 1. Although, the internal consumption of devices is reduced considerably, some of the implants need power in the W range, and that is how an inductive link offers more attractions than before. This project is to generate clock to control the gate drive timing of the driver side as shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

OBJECTIVES

1. To simulate the effect of inter-coil gap on signals transfer 2. To derives plots similar to what are presented in Fig. 12, 13 in reference [1]

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review 2. Using MULTISIM for simulation of contemporary circuits.

REFERENCES

1. Michael W. Baker, Student Member, IEEE, and Rahul Sarpeshkar, Member, IEEE, “Feedback Analysis and Design of RF Power Links for Low-Power Bionic Systems,” EEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, VOL. 1, NO. 1, MARCH 2007

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RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY)

1. Library for literature survey 2. Simulation tool (available)

TITLE Performance Evaluation of Current Controller for Distributed Power Generation Systems

SUPERVISOR ASSOC. PROF. DR. SHEROZ KHAN

SUMMARY This project is to evaluate different current controllers employed for grid-connected distributed power generation systems derived from non-conventional sources, such as wind turbines and photovoltaic systems. The focus is mainly set on linear controllers such as proportional-integral, and proportional-resonant. Experimental results in each case are presented in order to evaluate the performance of the controllers.

OBJECTIVES

1. To mathematically derive the equations describing the principle of operation 2. To validate the simulation through experimental results.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1. Literature review 2. Using MULTISIM for simulation of contemporary circuits. 3. Experimental validation of simulation results

REFERENCES

1. Yazdani, D. ; Mojiri, M. ; Bakhshai, A. ; Joos, G.. "A Fast and Accurate Synchronization Technique for Extraction of Symmetrical Components” IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vol. 24 , No: 3, pp. 674-684, 2009

2. Timbus, A. ; Corp. Res., ABB Switzerland Ltd., Baden-Daettwil ; Liserre, M. ; Teodorescu, R. ; Rodriguez, P., “Evaluation of Current Controllers for Distributed Power Generation Systems” IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vol. 24 , No: 3, pp. 654-664, 2009

3. Valtchev, S. ; Inst. de Telecomun.-IST, Lisbon ; Borges, B. ; Brandisky, Kostadin ; Klaassens, J.B., “Resonant Contactless Energy Transfer With Improved Efficiency,” IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vol. 24 , No: 3, pp. 684-699, 2009

4. Julu Sun ; Center for Power Electron. Syst., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA ; Ming Xu ; Yuancheng Ren ; Lee, F.C., “Light-Load Efficiency Improvement for Buck Voltage Regulators,” IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vol. 24 , No: 3, pp. 684-699, 2009


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TITLE Resonant Contactless Energy Transfer with Improved Efficiency

SUPERVISOR

ASSOC. PROF. DR. SHEROZ KHAN SUMMARY

This paper describes the theoretical and experimental results achieved in optimizing the application of the series loaded series resonant converter for contactless energy transfer. Nevertheless, the current distribution between the primary and the secondary windings changes significantly due to the large variation of the magnetizing inductance. An approximation in the circuit analysis permits to obtain more rapidly the changing values of the converter parameters. The analysis results in a set of equations which solutions are presented graphically. The graphics show a shift of the best efficiency operation zone, compared to the converter with an ideally coupled transformer. Experimental results are presented confirming that expected tendency.

OBJECTIVES




REFERENCES 1. Yazdani, D. ; Mojiri, M. ; Bakhshai, A. ; Joos, G.. "A Fast and Accurate Synchronization

Technique for Extraction of Symmetrical Components” IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vol. 24 , No: 3, pp. 674-684, 2009


































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TITLE Contactless Energy Transfer with Improved Efficiency to Passive Devices Using Selective

Resonant Frequency


SUMMARY This project describes the theoretical and simulation details of contact-less energy transfer to loads using resonant converter. Using this feature, selective power transfer can be achieved by setting the receiving loops at different resonant frequencies. The efficiency of a particular load is greatly influenced by the driving frequency. The multiple-load system with different resonant frequencies is modeled and the efficiency expression of each load is deduced. The mutual inductances of the receiving coils have a small impact on the efficiency distribution. The closer the resonant frequencies of the receiving loops, the less isolated the related loads. The calculations and the experiments confirm the analysis [1].

OBJECTIVES




REFERENCES 1. Yiming Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, Ting Lu, Member, IEEE, Zhengming Zhao, Senior

Member, IEEE, Fanbo He, Member, IEEE, Kainan Chen, and Liqiang Yuan, Member, IEEE, “Selective Wireless Power Transfer to Multiple Loads Using Receivers of Different Resonant Frequencies,” Letters, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

2. Yazdani, D. ; Mojiri, M. ; Bakhshai, A. ; Joos, G.. "A Fast and Accurate Synchronization Technique for Extraction of Symmetrical Components” IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vol. 24 , No: 3, pp. 674-684, 2009

























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RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. Simulation tool (available)

TITLE Coplanar Intermediate Coil Structures in Inductive Power Transfer Systems


SUMMARY Intermediate couplers have been shown to increase the coupling from primary to secondary pads in inductive power transfer (IPT) systems. This paper investigates embedding a coplanar intermediate coupler coil with the primary coil inside the primary pad to boost the coupling to the secondary pad and improve the efficiency of the system. Several coil designs are simulated and a mathematical model is developed to evaluate the efficiency of parallel–parallel and series–series tuned systems. As shown a coplanar, independently tuned intermediate coupler coil improves the efficiency of a series–series-tuned system since it reduces source losses. However, there appears to be no benefit to having an intermediate coupler with a parallel–parallel-tuned system. Furthermore, boosts in coupling are a result of adding extra current carrying windings to the primary pad and simulations show that operating the system as a traditional two-coil IPT system may be simpler and more effective based on tuning topology. An experimental system was constructed to validate the simulations. [1].

OBJECTIVES




REFERENCES 1. Abhilash Kamineni, Student Member, IEEE, Grant A. Covic, Senior Member, IEEE, and John T. Boys,

“Analysis of Coplanar Intermediate Coil Structures in Inductive Power Transfer Systems,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

2. Junjun Deng, Member, IEEE, Weihan Li, Student Member, IEEE, Trong Duy Nguyen, Siqi Li, Member, IEEE, and Chunting Chris Mi, Fellow, IEEE , “Compact and Efficient Bipolar Coupler for Wireless Power Chargers: Design and Analysis,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

3. Yiming Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, Ting Lu, Member, IEEE, Zhengming Zhao, Senior Member, IEEE, Fanbo He, Member, IEEE, Kainan Chen, and Liqiang Yuan, Member, IEEE, “Selective Wireless Power Transfer to Multiple Loads Using Receivers of Different Resonant Frequencies,” Letters, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

4. Julu Sun ; Center for Power Electron. Syst., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA ; Ming Xu ; Yuancheng Ren ; Lee, F.C., “Light-Load Efficiency Improvement for Buck Voltage Regulators,”













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IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vol. 24 , No: 3, pp. 684-699, 2009


TITLE Double-sided LCC compensation topology for Wireless Power Transfer System


SUMMARY Compactness and efficiency are the two basic considerations of the wireless battery chargers for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid EVs. The double-sided LCC compensation topology for wireless power transfer (WPT) has been proved to be one of the efficient solutions lately. However, with the increase of the numbers of compensation components, the volume of the system may become larger, which makes it less attractive. To improve the compactness, a bipolar coupler structure with a compensation-integrated feature is proposed. The inductors of the LCC compensation networks are designed as planar-type and attached to the power-transferring main coils. Extra space and magnetic cores for the compensated inductors outside of the coupler are saved. The cost is that extra couplings between the compensated coils (inductors) and the main coils are induced. To validate the feasibility, the proposed coupler is modeled and investigated by 3-D finite-element analysis tool first. The positioning of the compensated coils, the range of the extra couplings, and the tolerance to misalignment are studied. The circuit modeling and characteristic analysis of the proposed WPT topology based on the fundamental harmonic approximation follow this. At last, a 600 mm × 600 mm with a nominal 150-mm-gap wireless charger prototype, operated at a resonant frequency of 95 kHz and a rated power of 5.6 kW has been built and tested. A peak efficiency of 95.36% from a dc power source to the battery load is achieved at rated operation condition. [1].

OBJECTIVES




REFERENCES 1. Junjun Deng, Member, IEEE, Weihan Li, Student Member, IEEE, Trong Duy Nguyen, Siqi Li, Member,

IEEE, and Chunting Chris Mi, Fellow, IEEE , “Compact and Efficient Bipolar Coupler for Wireless Power Chargers: Design and Analysis,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

2. Yiming Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, Ting Lu, Member, IEEE, Zhengming Zhao, Senior Member, IEEE, Fanbo He, Member, IEEE, Kainan Chen, and Liqiang Yuan, Member, IEEE, “Selective Wireless Power



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Transfer to Multiple Loads Using Receivers of Different Resonant Frequencies,” Letters, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015



TITLE Load Coils for Multiple Loads of Resonant Wireless Power Transfer

SUPERVISOR

ASSOC. PROF. DR. SHEROZ KHAN

SUMMARY The load coils are employed for multiple loads of resonant wireless power transfer in this paper. With the addition of the load coil, this three-coil structure has easy access to transferring power to multiple loads with the advantages of a compact structure and controllable power flow. Both single-load transfer and multiple-load transfer are modeled and analyzed by means of the circuit theory. The transfer quality factor and the load-matching factor are utilized in the analysis of efficiency. In the single-load transfer, the load matching condition is fully explored. Based on the single-load transfer, the multiple-load transfer is researched. The double-load transfer, acting as an illustration, is studied with the uncoupled and coupled load coils. Equivalent reflected resistances are introduced to decouple the model of the double-load transfer with coupled load coils mathematically. An experimental prototype is implemented to verify the aforementioned analysis. The experimental results agree with the theoretical calculations [1].

OBJECTIVES




REFERENCES 1. Yiming Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, Ting Lu, Member, IEEE, Zhengming Zhao, Senior Member, IEEE,

Fanbo He, Member, IEEE, Kainan Chen, Member, IEEE, and Liqiang Yuan, Member, IEEE, “Employing Load Coils for Multiple Loads of Resonant Wireless Power Transfer,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

2. Abhilash Kamineni, Student Member, IEEE, Grant A. Covic, Senior Member, IEEE, and John T. Boys, “Analysis of Coplanar Intermediate Coil Structures in Inductive Power Transfer Systems,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

3. Junjun Deng, Member, IEEE, Weihan Li, Student Member, IEEE, Trong Duy Nguyen, Siqi Li, Member, IEEE, and Chunting Chris Mi, Fellow, IEEE , “Compact and Efficient Bipolar Coupler for Wireless Power Chargers: Design and Analysis,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015

4. Yiming Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, Ting Lu, Member, IEEE, Zhengming Zhao, Senior Member, IEEE,








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Fanbo He, Member, IEEE, Kainan Chen, and Liqiang Yuan, Member, IEEE, “Selective Wireless Power Transfer to Multiple Loads Using Receivers of Different Resonant Frequencies,” Letters, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 30, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2015



TITLE A High-Efficiency Low-Voltage CMOS Rectifier for Non-Contact Energy Harvesting


SUMMARY The utility of this project can be understood by referring to Figure 1.

Figure 1: Block diagram of a typical wireless power transfer system.

We know that A (sint)2 + A (cost)2 = A. This implemented for making an A-level DC output from an alternating ac input of amplitude A. The above results are compared with the results we obtain from CMOS rectified where

two full-gate cross-coupled of two pairs of transistors with one pair made from two NMOS transistor and another pair from two PMOS transistor

The simulations so obtained will be experimentally verified and being benchmarked against analytical derivations.

OBJECTIVES 1. To implement in a circuit the well know trigonometrically identity shown above. 2. To implement CMOS rectifier made from two legs consisting of PMOS and NMOS

transistor pairs. 3. To compare their results for making low-voltage supplies. 4. To experimentally verify the results

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A stepwise approach consisting of 2 or more activites to achieve the above four objectives makes our methodology

REFERENCES 1. S. Saeid Hashemi, Mohamad Sawan, Fellow, IEEE, and Yvon Savaria, Fellow, IEEE, “A

High-Efficiency Low-Voltage CMOS Rectifier for Harvesting Energy in Implantable Devices,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, VOL. 6, NO. 4, AUGUST 2012









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Basic circuit theory approach MATLAB Multisim

TITLE Hybrid Energy Storage System Based on the Asymmetric Bidirectional Z-Source Topology for

Electric Vehicle SUPERVISOR

ASSOC. PROF. DR. SHEROZ KHAN

SUMMARY The issue of solar panels feeding a grid is addressed. A solar generation profile from 12 rooftop panel over a single day (7am-7pm) is obtained [1-2]. The generated DC is transferred to a rectifier using capacitive coupling approach instead of inductive coupling based on electric field coupling.

The system level asymmetric operation is analysed and a control strategy for the dynamic performance is presented to show how uneven power distribution is handled.

OBJECTIVES 1. To obtain generation profile of roof-top panels 2. To make an analysis of the generation profile. 3. To compare the results varying environmental conditions. 4. To experimentally verify the results.


REFERENCES 1. Sideng Hu, Associate Member, IEEE, Zipeng Liang, and Xiangning He, Fellow, IEEE,

“Ultracapacitor-Battery Hybrid Energy Storage System Based on the Asymmetric Bidirectional Z-Source Topology for EV,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 31, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2016

2. Liang Huang, Student Member, IEEE, Aiguo Patrick Hu, Senior Member, IEEE, Akshya Kumar Swain, Member, IEEE, and Yugang Su, Member, IEEE, “Z-Impedance Compensation for Wireless Power Transfer Based on Electric Field,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 31, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2016


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TITLE Solar Energy for Battery-Charging of on Electric Vehicles


SUMMARY In this project, an analysis of the solar panels generation is made. Then an impedance-based bidirectional topology for conversion into AC and use for the EV is presented. The issue of solar panels feeding another solar is addressed. A solar generation profile for a single day (7am-7pm from roof-top panels [1-2] ) is obtained.

The simulated circuit is designed using Z impedance compensation network, a capacitive coupling interface consisting of two pairs of coupling plates, and a full-bridge rectifier followed by a dc load.

OBJECTIVES 1. To simulate a capacitive power transfer technique 2. To test the designed circuit on of solar generation profile. 3. To convert the resulting voltage profile into DC using Z-impedance, capacitive

coupling and rectifier. 4. To experimentally verify the results.


REFERENCES 1. Sideng Hu, Associate Member, IEEE, Zipeng Liang, and Xiangning He, Fellow, IEEE,

“Ultracapacitor-Battery Hybrid Energy Storage System Based on the Asymmetric Bidirectional Z-Source Topology for EV,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 31, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2016

2. Liang Huang, Student Member, IEEE, Aiguo Patrick Hu, Senior Member, IEEE, Akshya Kumar Swain, Member, IEEE, and Yugang Su, Member, IEEE, “Z-Impedance Compensation for Wireless Power Transfer Based on Electric Field,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 31, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2016

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TITLE Inductive & Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System


SUMMARY Wireless power transfer could be obtained through inductive coupling (IPT) as well as through capacitive coupling (CPT). This paper proposes a wireless power transfer system that combines IPT and CPT techniques reported in [1]. The innovation is that the inductive coupler and capacitive coupler resonate together, using the compensation components to transfer power. An LC compensation topology is required at both the primary and secondary sides. The working principle of the IPT and CPT system is analyzed to derive the expression of the output power and the system design process. The inductive and capacitive couplers are designed using 3-D simulations in Maxwell. A 3.0kW prototype is constructed to verify the proposed concept. The output power of the combined system is the sum of the IPT and CPT systems.

OBJECTIVES 1. To obtain IPT & CPT link design 2. To make an analysis of the resulting link efficiency profile 3. To derive theoretical results using the associated theory equations 4. To validate and verify the theory results through simulation.


A stepwise approach consisting of 2 or more activites to achieve the above four objectives makes our methodology

REFERENCES Fei Lu, Student Member, IEEE, Hua Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, and Chunting Chris Mi, Fellow, IEEE Heath Hofmann, Senior Member, IEEE, “An Inductive and Capacitive Combined Wireless Power Transfer System With LC-Compensated Topology,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 31, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2016


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TITLE

Beaming of Inductive Field with An Asymmetric Four-Coil Resonator For Wireless Power

Transfer System


SUMMARY Inductive coupling has been under research focus for wireless power transfer to devices employed at locations not accessible through wires. Inductive coupling is associated with loss of power due to focus leakages, affecting efficiency and range. This FYP is focused on exploring a high-efficiency wireless power transfer system with improved field beaming, making use of technical details reported in [1]. We focus on the theoretical analysis, an optimizing the design method, and trying to validate the analytical details with experimental results. The coupling coefficient is enhanced through the use of Multi-coils on the primary, ensuring a long distance transfer over a wide operating frequency range.

OBJECTIVES

1. To obtain link design 2. To make an analysis of the resulting multiple coils for better field beaming profile 3. To compare the results with theoretical details. 4. To experimentally validate the results.


REFERENCES

Sang Cheol Moon, Member, IEEE, and Gun-Woo Moon, Member, IEEE, “Wireless Power Transfer System With an Asymmetric Four-Coil Resonator for Electric Vehicle Battery Chargers,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 31, NO. 10, OCTOBER 2016

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RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) Basic circuit theory approach MATLAB Multisim

TITLE On-The-Fly RF Energy Harvesting Transceiver for Zigbee Wireless Sensor Networks

SUPERVISOR ASSOC. PROF. DR. MOHAMED HADI HABAEBI

SUMMARY There is a growing research into the area of RF energy harvesting recently. An interesting idea is to use the receiver circuitry of the RF signal to power up (even partially) the transceiver circuitry of the Zigbee modem used in wireless sensor networks. This process will, at least, prolong the battery life but might need additional hardware; hence, it’s an investigation (research) problem rather than a traditional FYP engineering design/development problem only. The investigation involves understanding the circuitry of the Zigbee mote and where to tap the signal from exactly. An initial idea on how to start is available and it will be discussed with the student once the FYP starts. The end product is a working prototype of the (may be partially) self-energized Zigbee mote for wireless sensor networks applications.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the Zigbee modem circuitry including the RF stage and the baseband stage. 2. To identify the amount of energy that can be generated and to measure it in the RF

laboratory. 3. To develop a supporting circuitry if necessary for the energy harvesting and to embed it into

the Zigbee mote. 4. To verify the final design and to test it under normal operational conditions.


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1. Literature review 2. Study the Zigbee modem circuitry and test it in the laboratory for power requirements. 3. Develop an energy harvesting circuitry from the transceiver board interfacing. 4. Test and measure amount of energy harvested. 5. Performance evaluation and Verification Process 6. Report writing

REFERENCES 1. Available upon request from the Supervisor.


1. Library for literature survey 2. Commmunication Hardware/software for Zigbee motes SKD (available with the supervisor) 3. MATLAB (available)

TITLE Sensor and Gateway Location Optimization in Body Sensor Networks


SUMMARY

In body sensor networks (BSNs), energy-constrained sensors monitor the vital signs of human beings in healthcare applications. Energy consumption is a fundamental issue, since BSNs must operate properly and autonomously for long period of time without battery recharge or replacement. In addition, the human exposure to electromagnetic radiation must be limited. For all these reasons, the energy consumption in BSNs should be minimized. In this project, sensor and gateway location optimization for BSNs has been analysed, and a mathematical model has been proposed to minimize the energy consumption of the BSN and the heating effects on human tissues in the open literature. Students will verify the models using measurement campaign and MATLAB analysis for data fitting. A transmit power control developed by the supervisor will be evaluated in order to further improve the performance of optimized location of nodes in BSNs.

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1. To understand the sensor node and gateway location optimization models in BSNs in the literature.

2. To identify the test scenarios and design the experiments for on-body and in-body lab environments.

3. To develop a statistical models for the collected data through FYP1 and FYP2. 4. To verify the developed models against analytical models in the literature.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review 2. Study the propagation modelling of RF signals in BSN environments. 3. Design and conduct a measurement campaign for the RF signal in on-body and in-body

environments. 4. Develop a curve-fitting and data regression modelling on the collected data. 5. Test and verify the developed model against the commonly used models in the

literature. 6. Report writing and paper publishing.


RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. RF signal measurement Hardware /software (available with the supervisor). 3. MATLAB (available) 4. Excellent student for the curious Future-Scientist and who enjoys how stuff works.

TITLE RF-metric Identification System in Constrained Environment


SUMMARY There is a growing research into the area of personal identification from radio frequency signature or fingerprint generated by human beings in a room. Home networking concept involves the use of wireless sensors around the house to control and detect signal in the home-setting. In this study, Zigbee motes-based array will be designed to detect a composite signature generated by different individuals around the room and then a MATLAB based algorithm will attempt to identify them based on their recorded RF fingerprints. The work is being carried out by MSCE student. Your job is to help him achieve the final system.

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1. To develop an identification offline phase from recorded RF signatures for specific individuals (FYP1) sharing a room.

2. To develop an online algorithm using MATLAB that maps the collected array composite signal to the database and to provide a matching score (FYP1-2).

3. To verify the results against several human samples from students (male/female) and children (FYP2).

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review - Thesis reading. 2. Help develop the offline database from the RF signature of the different human samples. 3. Help develop a matching algorithm in MATLAB for an online phase for personal

identification. 4. Performance evaluation and Verification Process 5. Report writing


RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. Communication Hardware/software for Zigbee motes SKD (available with the

supervisor) 3. MATLAB (available) 4. Excellent student who wants to be a Future-Scientist.

TITLE Performance Evaluation of LoRa Radio Links


SUMMARY In this challenging FYP, you will learn to work with simulators (either develop or use existing ones) to study LoRa wide area network technology solution for IOT. LoRa technology promises long range solution for sensory data aggregation across town utilizing low frequency narrow band low power transmitters. However, very little is known about this technology and its radio link performance needs to be verified. The objective of this study is to look into the performance of such technology and evaluate its performance in Malaysia environment context.

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1. To investigate LoRa technology simulation modelling. 2. To design a suitable Wireless simulator and to implement it using (for example)

MATLAB. 3. To evaluate LoRa radio link performance in Malaysian environment.


1. Literature Review 2. Prototyping of a LoRa simulation software.

REFERENCES Available upon request.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. MATLAB

TITLE Land Slide Sensory and Alarm System


SUMMARY In this challenging FYP, you will learn to work with acoustic and low frequency electronics used in sensing landslides. Malaysia recently has experienced massive landslides, destroying roads, property and endangering human lives, due to heavy rain and the expansion of concrete buildings into the surrounding jungles. You will design an acoustic sensor followed by a wireless transmitter for landslide sensory and alarm applications. The design will be tested in IIUM Campus hills and slopes to verify its usability in detecting minute land movements. The complex engineering issues the design has to address are detection of minute land movements, locating optimal placement of sensors, aggregating and analysing the sensory data to trigger alarm system.

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1. To investigate different designs of acoustic sensors in detecting landslides. 2. To design a suitable Wireless transmitter system to aggregate sensory data to the lab. 3. To test the system in real environment. 4. To develop a sensory data-based analytical tool for alarm system.


1. Literature Review 2. Prototyping of a landslide sensory and alarm system.

REFERENCES Available up on request.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. Electronic tool kits for assembly

TITLE DTW-Based Speech Recognition System for Isolated Words of Arabic Language

SUPERVISOR PROF. DR. OTHMAN O. KHALIFA

SUMMARY Despite the fact that Arabic language is currently one of the most common languages worldwide, there has been only a little research on Arabic speech recognition relative to other languages. Generally, digital speech processing and voice recognition algorithms are of special importance for designing efficient, accurate, as well as fast automatic speech recognition system. In this project, the speech recognition process will be carried out and divided into three stages as follows: firstly, the signal is pre-processed to reduce noise effects. After that, the signal is digitized. Consequently, the voice activity regions will be segmented using voice activity detection (VAD) algorithm. Secondly, features will be extracted from the speech signal using Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) algorithm. Moreover, delta and acceleration (delta-delta) coefficients will be added for the reason of improving the recognition accuracy. Finally, each test word’s features will be compared to the training database using dynamic time warping

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(DTW) algorithm.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the current approaches in Speech Recognition System for Isolated Words of Arabic

Language 2. To design a scheme using the suggested approach 3. To simulate and test the performance of the proposed scheme 4. To compare it with related work

1. Literature review, survey. 2. Propose the project scheme 3. Simulate the algorithms 4. Design , Build and Evaluate the performance

REFERENCES 1. Khalid A. Darabkh, Ala F. Khalifeh, Baraa A. Bathech, and Saed W. Sabah , Efficient DTW-

Based Speech Recognition System for Isolated Words of Arabic Language, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol:7 2013-05-25

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library /google for literature review 2. MATLAB, C++, Java for simulation

TITLE Speech Dereverberation Enhancement


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Reverberation in speech is one of the primary factors which degrade the quality of the audio by persistence of audio in space by creating large number of echoes. Reverberation degrades the speech signal when recorded by a distant microphone and in the hands free telephonic scenarios. This reverberation corrupts the speech signal and it is difficult to carrying out communication in automatic voice recognition applications in which the voice is not properly recognized by the voice recognition applications. The aim of this project is to propose a solution to enhance both blind dereverberation and non-blind dereverberation. The results should show the improvement of the performance of single channel speech dereverberation.

OBJECTIVES 1. To propose an approach to dereverberate the reverberated signals which degrade the

quality of a speech signal 2. To simulate and test the performance of the proposed scheme 3. To compare it with related work

Methodology 1. Literature review, survey. 2. Propose the solution scheme 3. Simulate the algorithm 4. Design , Build and Evaluate the performance

REFERENCES 1. J. Benesty, S. Makino, J. Chen, “Speech enhancement signals and communication

technology,” Springer, New York 2007. 2. Te.W. Lee and H. Sawada, “Blind Speech Separation,” Springer, Netherlands, 2007. [3] A.U.

Suryavamsi, “Blind deconvolution and adaptive algorithms for de-reverberation,” Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2012.

3. C Paleologu, S.Ciochina, J.Benesty, “Variable Step-Size NLMS Algorithm for Under-Modeling Acoustic Echo Cancellation,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.15, no., pp.5-8, 2008.

4. B.W.Gillespie, D.A.F.Florencio and H.S.Malvar, “Speech dereverberation via maximum-kurtosis sub band adaptive filtering,” in ICASSP '01: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2001, vol. 6, pp. 3701-3704,


TITLE Automatic Diagnosis of Diabetic Disease using Image Processing


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SUMMARY Recently, many countries of the world have been faced with an increase in age and society related diseases like diabetes. A high percentage of many country populations have been diagnosed of diabetes disease alone and it have been recognize and accepted as one of the main cause of blindness. Early detection and diagnosis have been identified as one of the way to achieve a reduction in the percentage of visual impairment caused by diabetes with more emphasis on routine medical check which the use of special facilities for detection and monitoring of the said disease. In this project, an image processing algorithms will be investigated to diagnose the diabetic disease using Fundus image. Method of diagnosis of red spots, bleeding and detection of vein-artery crossover points will be developed in this work using the colour information, shape, size, object length to breadth ration as contained in the digital fundus image in the detection of this disease.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the algorithms that may be used to diagnose the diabetic disease. 2. To identify the methods of diagnosis such as red spots, bleeding and detection of vein-

artery 3. To simulate and test the performance of the proposed scheme 4. To compare it with related work


REFERENCES 1. Abate Diabetes: Diabetes. Retrieved August, 26, 2016 from Website:

http://www.abatediabetes.com/diabetes.html 2. Junichiro Hayashi, Takamitsu Kunieda, Joshua Cole, Ryusuke Soga, Yuji Hatanaka, Miao

Lu, Takeshi Hara and Hiroshi Fujita: A development of computer-aided diagnosis system using fundus images. Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM 2001), pp. 429-438

3. Vallabha,D., Dorairaj, R., Namuduri K. R., and Thompson, H., "Automated Detection and Classification of Vascular Abnormalities in Diabetic Retinopathy", 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 2004.


TITLE Video-Based Abnormal Behaviour Detection in Smart Surveillance Systems

SUPERVISOR

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PROF. DR. OTHMAN O. KHALIFA

SUMMARY In today's society, the world suffering from serious security crisis, having the ability to detect potential suspicion agents is crucial to safe and effective emergency response and ensuring the

security at various public places like bus stops, railway stations, shopping malls, airports etc.

Suspicious activity recognition helps to prevent from threats, decrease the cost of security incidents

and identify the causes after threat. To a large extent, the currently applied semi-automatic approaches depends on human intervention to detect the uncommon activities and suspicious behaviour from

video context. Due to these limitations, they become non-intelligence, very slow and required more

human observers. The aim of this project is to design an automatic and independent detection of abnormal behaviour in surveillance videos. The state of the art and the motion analysis and activities

detection and tracking will be carried out.

OBJECTIVES 5. To investigate the current algorithms in the area of Detection in Surveillance Videos.

6. To design a video surveillance system that detects and predicts abnormal behaviour of human.

7. To simulate and test the performance of the proposed scheme


REFERENCES 1. Ying-Ying Zhu, Yan-Yan Zhu,

1 Wen Zhen-Kun, Wen-Sheng Chen, and Qiang Huang,

Detection and Recognition of Abnormal Running Behavior in Surveillance Video,

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 296407. 2. Tsz-Ho Yu , Yiu-Sang Moon , Unsupervised Abnormal Behavior Detection for Real-time

Surveillance Using Observed History, MVA2009 IAPR Conference on Machine Vision

Applications, May 20-22, 2009, Yokohama, JAPAN. 3. Anisul Amin, Abnormal Behavior Detection of Human by Video Surveillance System, BRAC

University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2104


https://www.hindawi.com/54896170/

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TITLE Driving Assistance System: Computer Vision based Drowsiness Detection


SUMMARY Driver Fatigue is a significant risk factor in both commercial and private transportation. Every year, hundreds of thousands of drivers, passengers and pedestrians are injured, maimed or killed in road accidents caused by driver drowsiness. Drowsy driver detection systems can help reduce accidents related to drowsy driving. As the eye closure occurrences dramatically may cause an accident, monitoring such closures is a good way to determine drowsiness and prevent the accident. A calculation of time duration to determine if the driver is drowsy in only a few seconds. The objective of this project is to design a driving assistance system using computer vision techniques in real time The proposed scheme will be used should not only be fast but effective with as less false alarms (alerting when the driver is awake) and false findings (mistaking other features in the image as eyes) as possible. The system will be offline that may use a recorded video which is pointed to the driver's face. Using the image acquisition toolbox, images will be acquired and processed using MATLAB or/ OpenC code.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the current algorithms to detection the driver drowsiness. 2. To design a system that detects and predicts the driver drowsiness. 3. To simulate and test the performance of the proposed scheme


REFERENCES 1. Jaeik Jo Sung Joo Lee , Ho Gi Jung , Vision-based method for detecting driver drowsiness and

distraction in driver monitoring system, Optical Engineering 50(12), 127202 (December 2011.

2. Qiang Ji and Xiaojie Yang, Real-Time Eye, Gaze, and Face Pose Tracking for Monitoring Driver Vigilance, Real-Time Imaging 8, 357–377 (2002).

3. Vandna Saini , Rekha Saini , Driver Drowsiness Detection System and Techniques: A Review, Vandna Saini et al, / (IJCSIT) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies, Vol. 5 (3) , 2014, 4245-424.


1. Library /google for literature review 2. MATLAB, C++, Java for simulation

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TITLE User's Authentication Hashed based Encryption System for E-government


SUMMARY Government information is a vital asset that must be kept in a trusted environment and efficiently managed by only authorised parties. Even though e-Government provides a number of advantages, it also introduces a range of new security risks. Sharing confidential and top-secret information in a secure manner among government sectors tend to be the main element that government agencies look for. Thus, developing an effective methodology is essential and it is a key factor for e-Government success. This project, Hashed based encryption is used in e-Government scheme. The aim of this scheme to improve the security in authentication systems, which provides a reliable identity with a high degree of assurance.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the current schemes for e-government security 2. To design a web-based user authentication for e-government with encryption based. 3. To simulate and test the performance of the proposed scheme


REFERENCES 1. Erfaneh Noroozi, Salwani Mohd Daud, Ali Sabouhi, Secure Digital Signature Schemes

Based on Hash Functions, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE) ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-2, Issue-4, March 2013.

2. SecureGov: Secure Data Sharing for Government Services, http://nsl.cs.columbia.edu/papers/2013/securegov.dgo13.pdf


1. Library /google for literature review 2. MATLAB, C++, Java for simulation

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TITLE Java Card Implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard

SUPERVISOR

PROF. DR. UMAR SIDDIQI

SUMMARY Study and implement Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) on Java Card. The implementation should allow the user to select his/her data block size and the key size.

OBJECTIVES 1. Understanding the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 2. Understanding of the Java Card Technology 3. Provide state of the art implementation of AES on Java Card


REFERENCES 1. AES web pages 2. Sun Java Card web pages


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TITLE Weight Distribution of Various Error Control Codes used in 3G Data Networks and its effect on

their Error Performance SUPERVISOR


SUMMARY Error control coding schemes are vital for the successful deployment of 3G data networks. Error performance of the codes used is strongly dependent on their weight distribution. The objective of the project is to study various error control codes used in 3G data networks and obtain the weight distribution of these codes. The project also envisages software implementation of various error control coding schemes used in 3G data networks and study the effect of weight distribution of these codes on their error performance. The software implementation is to make use of appropriate MATLAB simulation tools.

OBJECTIVES 1. Understanding of various error control codes used in 3G data networks 2. Understanding the role of weight distribution of error control codes on their error

performance 3. Understanding of MATLAB simulation tools 4. Software package for calculating the weight distribution of various error control codes

used in 3G data networks 5. Software package for calculating the error performance of various error control codes

used in 3G data networks


REFERENCES 1. 3GPP and 3GPP2 web pages 2. MATLAB simulation tools

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. MATLAB

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TITLE Weight Distribution of Various Error Control Codes used in 4G Data Networks and its effect on

their Error Performance SUPERVISOR


SUMMARY Error control coding schemes are vital for the successful deployment of 4G data networks. Error performance of the codes used is strongly dependent on their weight distribution. The objective of the project is to study various error control codes used in 4G data networks and obtain the weight distribution of these codes. The project also envisages software implementation of various error control coding schemes used in 4G data networks and study the effect of weight distribution of these codes on their error performance. The software implementation is to make use of appropriate MATLAB simulation tools.

OBJECTIVES 1. Understanding of various error control codes used in 4G data networks 2. Understanding the role of weight distribution of error control codes on their error

performance 3. Understanding of MATLAB simulation tools 4. Software package for calculating the weight distribution of various error control codes

used in 4G data networks 5. Software package for calculating the error performance of various error control codes

used in 4G data networks


REFERENCES 1. 4G web pages 2. MATLAB simulation tools

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. MATLAB

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TITLE Operation of “substitute byte” function used in Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) using

spectral (transform) techniques SUPERVISOR


SUMMARY AES is the most recent standard used/recommended for block encryption of sensitive information in several applications. For example, use of AES is mandatory in Wi Fi networks for WPA (Wireless Protected Access). One of the key operations used in AES is associated with the “substitute byte” function. The objective of the project is to study the operation of the substitute byte function and use transform domain techniques to analyse its role in providing data confidentiality. Walsh-Hadamard transform is suggested for this project. The project will require software implementation of work in various stages of the study. The software implementation is to make use of C++ or Java.

OBJECTIVES 1. Understanding the role of AES in securing data confidentiality 2. Understanding the functioning of “substitute byte” function in time domain as well as

transform domain. 3. Understanding the use of C++ or Java in a security environment. 4. Software package for computing forward and inverse transforms used in the study. 5. Software package for cryptanalysis of substitute byte function in transform domain.


REFERENCES 1. AES web pages 2. C++ / Java reference books


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TITLE Performance comparison of the conventional method and the Active Element Pattern of

Antenna Array SUPERVISOR

DR. NORUN FARIHAH BINTI ABDUL MALEK

SUMMARY An antenna array is a set of 2 or more antennas. The signals from the antennas are combined or processed in order to achieve improved performance over that of a single antenna. The antenna array can be used to increase the overall gain, provide diversity reception, cancel out interference from a particular set of direction, steer the array towards desired direction, determine the direction of arrival of the incoming signals and to maximize the SINR. As the field of signal processing developed, arrays could be used to receive energy (or information) from a particular direction while rejecting information or nulling out the energy in unwanted directions. Consequently, arrays could be used to mitigate intentional interference (jamming) or unintentional interference (radiation from other sources not meant for the system in question) directed toward the communication system. The radiation pattern of an antenna array depends strongly on the weighting method and the geometry of the array. Those task can easily be performed using optimization method. Several optimization methods available such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization and simulated annealing. However, the conventional mathematical model to calculate the pattern of antenna array does not account the mutual coupling between them and thus resulting inaccuracies in array optimization. The active element pattern can be used to mitigate the problem. This project will compare the performance of conventional and active element pattern method of antenna array.

OBJECTIVES 1. Understand the active element pattern methods. 2. Understand the conventional method. 3. Compare the performance of conventional and the active element pattern method.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review 2. Develop the simulation antenna model for active element pattern method. 3. Develop .conventional method 4. Analyze the results. 5. Report writing and paper publishing.

REFERENCES 1. D. F. Kelley and W. L. Stutzman , "Array antenna pattern modeling methods that include

mutual coupling effects," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 41, pp. 1625-1632, Dec, 1993.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature survey 2. CST software. 3. MATLAB.

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TITLE Beamforming for 5G applications

SUPERVISOR DR. NORUN FARIHAH BINTI ABDUL MALEK

SUMMARY

While 5G standards are still very much evolving, the goals for higher data rates, lower-latency network accesses, and more energy-efficient implementations are clear. And with higher data rates comes the need for wider bandwidth spectrums. Today, available bandwidth in the spectrum up through 6 GHz isn’t sufficient to satisfy these requirements. This, in turn, has helped move the target operating frequency bands up into the millimeter-wave range for the next generation of wireless communication systems.

The small wavelengths at these higher frequency bands enable implementations with many more antenna elements per system within very small form factors. However, it also increases the signal-path and propagation challenges associated with operating at these frequencies. For example, the path loss for a 60-GHz waveform is approximately 10.5 dB/km, while a 700-MHz waveform experiences path loss on the order of 0.01 dB/km.

These losses can be offset with intelligent array design and the use of spatial signal-processing techniques, including beamforming. This type of processing is enabled by large arrays and can be used directly to provide higher link-level gains to overcome path loss and undesirable interference sources.

This project will develop a beamforming algorithm in order for better efficiency, cost and power saving.

1. Investigate the existing beamforming method. 2. Develop the beamforming algorithm. 3. Test the beamforming algorithm.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review 2. Develop the algorithm 3. Analyze the results. 4. Report writing and paper publishing.

REFERENCES 1. D. F. Kelley and W. L. Stutzman , "Array antenna pattern modeling methods that include

mutual coupling effects," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 41, pp. 1625-1632, Dec, 1993.


1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature survey 2. CST software. 3. MATLAB.

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TITLE Antenna Array for (RF) Power Harvesting Applications for Indoor Environment

SUPERVISOR DR. NORUN FARIHAH BINTI ABDUL MALEK

SUMMARY

Beam-steered antennas are highly desirable for RF power harvesting applications. The main beam direction can be altered without physically rotating the antenna. This is specifically desirable to power-harvesting applications where the harvesting unit need to be placed on a planar surface, cannot be rotated, and volume constrained. The antenna is one of the most critical elements of an RF energy harvesting system. It collects ambient RF energy from various sources and delivers it to a rectifier that converts the RF power into dc voltage. An antenna array can improve the gain and efficiency of an RF harvester. Various antenna topologies and arrangements have been proposed for RF power harvesting. However, none of the previous topology employs beam steering for RF power harvesting. In this research, the antenna array operating at 2.4 GHz for RF power harvesting applications will be designed using CST. The antenna requirement is a small and wideband antenna, reconfigurable and continuous beam steering.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the antenna for RF power harvesting application. 2. To develop the simulation model in CST. 3. To fabricate the antenna and compare the performance with simulation.


1. Literature review 2. Develop the simulation antenna model using CST. 3. Fabricate the antenna. 4. Analyze the results. 5. Report writing and paper publishing.

REFERENCES Shuai Shao, Ken Gudan, and Jonathan J. Hull ‘A mechanically beam-steered phased array antenna for power-harvesting applications’

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature survey 2. CST software. 3. Vector Network Analyser (upto 40GHz) to do measurement.

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TITLE Design of Wearable/Implantable Antenna for Pacemaker Application

SUPERVISOR DR. NORUN FARIHAH AND DR. SITI NOORJANNAH

SUMMARY

Microstrip antennas are extensively employed in communication system. The advantageous of microstrip antennas include attractive features such as low profile, flexible, light weight, small volume and low production cost. Moreover, the benefit of a compact low cost feed network is attained by integrating the RF front end with the radiating elements on the same substrate. However, the effect of human body on the electrical performance of wearable antennas at medical application is still new. RF transmission properties of human tissues have been investigated in several articles. Several wearable antennas have been presented in the last decade. Work by [1] reviews the research of wearable and body mounted antennas designed and developed for various applications at different frequency bands over the last decade. In [2] meander wearable antennas in close proximity of a human body are presented in the frequency range between 800 MHz and 2700 MHz. In [3] a textile antenna performance in the vicinity of the human body is presented at 2.4 GHz. In [4] the effect of human body on wearable 100 MHz portable radio antennas is studied. In [4] the authors concluded that wearable antennas need to be shorter by 15% to 25% from the antenna length in free-space. This research will design and fabricate a wearable/implantable antenna for pacemaker application. Requirements and the frequency range for pacemaker applications (at 400 Mhz) are different from those for cellular applications

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the wearable/implantable antenna for pacemaker application. 2. To develop the simulation model in CST. 3. To fabricate the antenna and compare the performance with simulation.


1. Literature review 2. Develop the simulation antenna model using CST. 3. Fabricate the antenna. 4. Analyze the results. 5. Report writing and paper publishing.

REFERENCES 1. Gupta, B., Sankaralingam S., Dhar, S.,"Development of wearable and implantable an‐tennas

in the last decade", Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2010 Mediterranean 2010 , Page(s): 251 – 267.

2. Thalmann T., Popovic Z., Notaros B.M, Mosig, J.R.," Investigation and design of a multi-band wearable antenna", 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propaga‐ tion, EuCAP 2009. Pp. 462 – 465.

3. Salonen, P., Rahmat-Samii, Y., Kivikoski, M.," Wearable antennas in the vicinity of human body", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. Vol.1 pp. 467 – 470.

4. Kellomaki T., Heikkinen J., Kivikoski, M., " Wearable antennas for FM reception", First European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2006 , pp. 1-6.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature survey 2. CST software. 3. Vector Network Analyser (upto 40GHz) to do measurement.

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TITLE Supporting Inter-domain Handoff in PNEMO

SUPERVISOR PROF. AISHA HASSAN ABDALLA HASHIM

TITLE Multi-homing-based Approach to Address Handoff Issues in NEMO

SUPERVISOR PROF. AISHA HASSAN ABDALLA HASHIM

SUMMARY NEMO Basic Support protocol (NEMO-BSP) has been proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to support network mobility. Simplicity is the most important feature of this protocol since it is a logical extension of the MIPv6 operation However, the NEMO-BSP inherits all the limitations of MIPv6 (i.e. single point of failure during handoff). Therefore, this project aims to propose an enhanced multi-homing approach in NEMO Environment.

OBJECTIVES The main aim of this project is to achieve seamless handoff in NEMO. The detailed objectives are to:

1. Propose a multi-homing-based scheme to address NEMO limitations in order to achieve seamless handoff in NEMO.

2. Evaluate the performance of the proposed approach by simulation approach and Benchmark it with the standard NEMO BSP.


1. Investigate the design issues of NEMO scheme to have a good understanding of the advantages and shortcomings.

2. Propose an enhanced multi-homing-based approach to ensure seamless handoff in NEMO.

3. Evaluation of the proposed approach via simulation approach.

REFERENCES 1. Johnson D., Perkins C., & Arkko J., (2011). Mobility Support in IPv6. Information

Engineering Task Force (IETF), RFC 6275. 2. Devarapalli V., Wakikawa R., Petrescu A., & Thubert P.., (2005). Network Mobility

(NEMO) basic support protocol. RFC 3963. 3. Ng C., Paik E., Ernst T., & Bagnulo M., (2007). Analysis of multi-homing in network

mobility support. RFC 4980. 4. Tsirtsis G., Soliman H., Montavont N., Giaretta G., & Kuladinithi K., (2011). Flow

Bindings in Mobile IPv6 and Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support. RFC 6089.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library and Internet resource for literature Review 2. Network Simulator version 2/3 (NS2)/(NS3)

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SUMMARY NEMO-BSP, proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), inherits the limitations of MIPv6 (i.e. the extra signalling cost and long handoff delay). Hence, Proxy NEMO (PNEMO) is introduced to cut down the extra signalling overhead as well as to evade the mobility stack in the terminal. However, supporting inter-domain handoff in PNEMO environment a challenging issue. Therefore, this project aims to propose an enhancement for PNEMO Environment.

OBJECTIVES The main aim of this project is to address the extra signalling cost and long handoff delay and other challenges associated with NEMO and PNEMO environments. The detailed objectives are to:

1. Propose techniques to address PNEMO limitations in order to achieve seamless handoff during inter-domain handoff.

2. Evaluate the performance of the proposed techniques by analytical approach and Benchmark it with the standard NEMO BSP.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Investigate the current researches in NEMO &PNEMO environments.

2. Propose Propose techniques to address PNEMO limitations.

3. Evaluation of the proposed scheme via analytical approach.

REFERENCES 1. Johnson D., Perkins C., & Arkko J., (2011). Mobility Support in IPv6. Information

Engineering Task Force (IETF), RFC 6275. 2. Devarapalli V., Wakikawa R., Petrescu A., & Thubert P.., (2005). Network Mobility

(NEMO) basic support protocol. RFC 3963. 3. Jeon S., Kim Y., & Jang J., (2010). Network Mobility Support in the Proxy Mobile IPv6

Domain. Information Engineering Task Force, Internet draft< draft-sijeon-mext-nemo-pmip6-00.txt >

4. Ma, Z., Wang, K., & Zhang, F. (2012). Network-based Inter-domain handover Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6. Network.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library and Internet resource for literature Review 2. Analytical Approach using MATLAB (R20013)

TITLE Capacitance Tilt Sensor for Inclination Measurement

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PROF. AHM ZAHIRUL ALAM

SUMMARY An inclinometer measures the degree of deviation from a horizontal plane (i.e., it measures the angle of inclination). Inclinometers can be used to precisely measure the straightness of a guide rail, the inclination of the equipment, the flatness of a workbench, and so on. Corresponding angle sensors have been widely applied in many practical engineering and technical fields, such as navigation, harvesting, automobile manufacturing, civil construction, and hydrogeology. The inclination can be realized easily by measuring the difference between two capacitors.

OBJECTIVES Student should come out with the objective based on title and comprehensive literature review.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Come out after literature review.

REFERENCES An Annular Planar-Capacitive Tilt Sensor with a 360◦ Measurement Range, Pengcheng Hu, Jiahao Guo, and Jiubin Tan, IEEE Transactions On Industrial Electronics, Vol. 63, No. 4, April 2016, p. 2469.


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TITLE Active Power Factor Correction Circuit

SUPERVISOR PROF. AHM ZAHIRUL ALAM

SUMMARY The proliferation of electronic loads on power distribution systems has led to inefficient and unsafe conditions due to the typically poor power factor of electronic power conversion equipment. Waveform distortion and the overheating of transformers and neutral conductors in three-phase systems are just a few of the effects. Consequently, economic and safety concerns—along with new regulations designed to maintain the integrity of power distribution systems—have created an acute interest in power factor correction (PFC) strategies.

OBJECTIVES Student should come out with the objective based on title and comprehensive literature review.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Finalized after literature review

REFERENCES 1. Active Power Factor Correction for DC-DC Converter, Arpit D. Patel , Hardik Pandya

International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2016,

2. Comparison and Evaluation of Power Factor Correction Topologies for Industrial Applications, Energy and Power Engineering, 2013, 5, 401-410


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TITLE Development of an Efficient Mining Model of High Utility Item-Sets from Transactional

Databases SUPERVISOR

PROF. DR SHIHAB A. HAMEED

SUMMARY Data mining is one of the key topics in information technology, Mining high utility item- sets from a transactional database refers to the discovery of item-sets with high utility like profits. Several algorithms have been proposed in recent years, but they incur the problem of producing a large number of candidate item-sets for high utility item-sets. This will degrades the mining performance in terms of execution time and space requirement. The situation may become worse when the database contains lots of long transactions or long high utility item-sets. This project, try to use sample algorithms such as utility pattern growth (UP-Growth) and UP-Growth+, for mining high utility item-sets with a set of effective strategies for pruning candidate item-sets. Tree-based data structure (UP-Tree) is used such that candidate item-sets can be generated efficiently with only two scans of database. Results expected to reduce the number of candidates effectively. .

OBJECTIVES To develop a model for efficient mining


1. LR and Investigation. 2. Design a model for Efficient Mining 3. Build a prototype 4. Testing and Evaluation. 5. Finalizing the a model for Efficient Mining 6. Writing report and publications

REFERENCES Available upon request


1. Software tools. 2. Computer 3. Download of related papers

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TITLE Developing Mobile Healthcare Apps to Facilitate User Needs using Agile Software Development

SUPERVISOR

PROF. DR. SHIHAB A. HAMEED

SUMMARY Background: Studies found that for patients/users, usability of apps were the major obstacles to the adoption of health IT technology including healthcare apps. Agile practice is widely used nowadays to drive software development, however its execution is often of problem due to the focus of Agile is to deliver working software fast. This project involved individuals as consumers and end-users of app, physiotherapists and software developers. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used at different phases of study to collect feedback from individuals and physiotherapists. At the end of the study, involved software developers were interviewed. Response data will collect from medical specialists and consumers regarding their attitude towards the potential physiotherapy app features. A high-fidelity prototype of the consumer physiotherapy app will develop, and summative usability evaluation of the prototype will perform. Finally developers’ opinion regarding the process is obtained through interview.

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TITLE A Remote Smart Data Back-up Technique for Cloud Computing: Toward Effective algorithm

SUPERVISOR PROF. DR. SHIHAB A. HAMEED

SUMMARY In cloud computing, data generated in electronic form are large in amount. To maintain this data efficiently, there is a necessity of data recovery services. This project proposes a smart remote data backup algorithm. The objective of proposed algorithm is twofold; first it help the users to collect information from any remote location in the absence of network connectivity and second to recover the files in case of the file deletion or if the cloud gets destroyed due to any reason. The time related issues are also being solved by proposed SBA such that it will take minimum time for the recovery process. Proposed SBA also focuses on the security concept for the back-up files stored at remote server, without using any of the existing encryption techniques.

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TITLE Effective Privacy Concerns in Sharing Mobile Healthcare Data

SUPERVISOR

PROF. DR. SHIHAB A. HAMEED

SUMMARY Mobile health has become essential part in healthcare information technology. Patients begin to use mobile devices to record their daily activities and vital signs. Mobile devices can record personal health information even outside the hospital setting. Mobile might record sensitive information that might not be relevant for medical purposes and in some cases may be misused. Patients need expressive privacy controls so that they can trade potential health benefits of the technology with the privacy risks. To provide such privacy controls, it is important to understand what patients feel are the benefits and risks associated with the technology and what controls they want over the information. Project focus on understanding the privacy concerns that patients have when they use Mobile-Health devices. A user study is required to understand how willing patients are to share their personal health information that was collected using a Mobile-Health device. Finally, based on project discoveries, we will propose some guidelines to develop a defaults for sharing settings in Mobile-Health systems.

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TITLE Cost Minimization for Big Data Processing in Geo-Distributed Data Centres


SUMMARY The explosive growth of demands on big data processing imposes a heavy burden on computation, storage, and communication in data centers, which hence incurs considerable operational expenditure to data center providers. Therefore, cost minimization has become an emergent issue for the upcoming big data era. Different from conventional cloud services, one of the main features of big data services is the tight coupling between data and computation as computation tasks can be conducted only when the corresponding data is available. As a result, three factors, i.e., task assignment, data placement and data movement, deeply influence the operational expenditure of data centers. This project, we are motivated to study the cost minimization problem via a joint optimization of these three factors for big data services in geo-distributed data centers. To describe the task completion time with the consideration of both data transmission and computation, we propose a two-dimensional Markov chain and derive the average task completion time in closed-form. Furthermore, we model the problem as a mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) and propose an efficient solution to linearize it. The high efficiency of our proposal is validated by extensive simulation based studies.

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TITLE Towards Practical Self-Embedding for JPEG-Compressed Digital Images


SUMMARY This project deals with the design of a practical self-recovery mechanism for glossy compressed JPEG images. We extend a recently proposed model of the content reconstruction problem based on digital fountain codes to take into account the impact of emerging watermark extraction and block classification errors. Instead of introducing reconstruction artifacts, emerging watermark extraction errors penalize the achievable tampering rates. We introduce new mechanisms that allow for handling high-resolution and color images efficiently. In order to analyze the behavior of our scheme, we derive an improved model to calculate the reconstruction success probability. We introduce a new hybrid mechanism for spreading the reference information over the entire image, which allows to find a good balance between the achievable tampering rates and the computational complexity. Such an approach reduced the watermark embedding time from the order of several minutes to the order of single seconds, even on mobile devices.

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TITLE Design a Simulator to integrate Human Sense with Animals’ senses: Hearing

SUPERVISOR PROF. DR SHIHAB A. HAMEED

SUMMARY Please email Prof. Shihab for further details. His email is [email protected]

TITLE Design a Simulator to integrate Human Sense with Animals’ senses: Sight



TITLE Design a Simulator to integrate Human Sense with Animals’ senses: Taste



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TITLE Simulation of a Biosensor using Nanowires

SUPERVISOR DR. NOR FARAHIDAH ZA’BAH

SUMMARY A biosensor is generally a device that translates biological response into electrical signal. The responses could be in the form of a heat and optical output or changes in the electrical properties of the detector. Therefore, the latter response would be more compatible with the concept of utilizing silicon nanowires as bio-medical sensors. The surface of the nanowire is normally functionalized to allow the surface to bind with molecules such as DNA or proteins. As the nanowire is exposed to an environment to bind with specific charges, and by having the charges in contact with its surface, it will induce an electric field. Once this binding occurs, it provides a variation in the electrical property of the nanowire due to the charge transfer from/to the ‘bulk’ of the silicon nanowire, resulting in changes in the electrical parameters such as conductance or threshold voltage.

OBJECTIVES 1. To incorporate the proposed silicon nanowire FET structure as a biosensor 2. To investigate the effectiveness of the silicon nanowire sensor for bio-medical diagnostic by

referring to the changes in its electrical properties such as the threshold voltage or conductivity via simulation

Methodology

1. Literature review on the simulations of nanowires as biosensors 2. Designing of Silicon Nanowire FET into sensors where the nanowire surface will be

functionalized to bind with the target species 3. Simulate the proposed biosensor design

REFERENCES

1. MSc Thesis (available) 2. Studying Effect Dimensions of Design and Simulation Silicon Nanowire Field Effect

Biosensor, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 754-755 (2015) pp 854-858 3. Nanowire-Based Biosensors, Analytical Chemistry 78(13): 4260-9 · August 2006


1. COMSOL (Semiconductor Module) 2. Silvaco

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TITLE Design and Simulation of a Fast Fourier Transform Processor using Verilog

SUPERVISOR PROF MASHKURI YAACOB

SUMMARY The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and its inverse (IFFT) are very important algorithms in digital signal processing and communication systems. The objective of this research is to explore the best techniques of FFT using HDL tools particularly Verilog and simulate the functional operation of an FFT processor using ModelSim or similar tools. The initial step is to familiarize with the tools (Quartus Lite, ModelSim and Verilog HDL) and review the available literature on the subject of FFT. The next step is to initiate attempts to design simple adders and multipliers which are the building blocks of an FFT processor and explore the techniques of designing faster adders and multipliers progressively. The final piece will be a synthesized functional FFT processor that can be burnt on to an FPGA and tested for actual physical operation.

OBJECTIVES 1. To understand the basic operation of a FFT algorithm and its implementation in

hardware. 2. To design and simulate an FFT processor using Verilog HDL and associated design tools

including MATLAB. 3. To investigate the techniques of improving the speed of the FFT processor

Methodology

1. Literature review of the basics of digital adders, multipliers and FFT algorithms. 2. Familiarization with the features of the design and simulation tools. 3. Design the required processor in modular fashion to facilitate easy debugging. 4. Test and simulate each module and build the FFT processor progressively.

REFERENCES 1. Lakshmi Santhosh , Anoop Thomas “Implementation of Radix 2 and Radix 22 FFT

Algorithms on Spartan6 FPGA”, 4th ICCCNT - 2013 July 4 - 6, 2013, Tiruchengode, India. 2. G.M.Vijayasri, A. Raja, M.E, “Implementation of Redundant Carry Save Adders on FPGA”,

IEEE Sponsored 2nd International Conference on Innovations in Information Embedded and Communication Systems ICIIECS'15.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. Simulation tools (Quartus Lite and ModelSim, MATLAB)

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TITLE Real-Time Digital Signal Processing using Arduino

SUPERVISOR PROF MASHKURI YAACOB

SUMMARY The ability to perform simple, yet effective real-time DSP is now easily achieved using the Arduino microcontroller coupled with accessories such as the Analog Shield developed jointly by Stanford University and Texas Instruments and sold by Digilent. The Analog Shield provides analogue signal interfacing capabilities which will allow investigations on the detailed performance of analogue and digital electronics. The objective of this research therefore is to explore the basics of DSP starting with the basic sampling theory, speech and music processing using FIR filters. The next step is to design and develop a prototype digital signal processor using the features of the Arduino and the Analog Shield. Initially, MATLAB can be used to simulate several DSP techniques beginning with the design of digital filters and implementing them progressively on the Arduino.

OBJECTIVES 1. To understand the basic operation of the Arduino microcontroller kit and the Analog Shield. 2. To design and simulate FIR digital filters using MATLAB for purposes of DSP. 3. To implement the DSP system on the Arduino and compare real performance with the

MATLAB simulation.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review of the basics of digital filters and digital signal processing. 2. Familiarization with the features of the Arduino microcontroller and the Analog Shield. 3. Design the required DSP system in modular fashion using MATLAB to facilitate easy

debugging. 4. Test and simulate each module and build the DSP system progressively using MATLAB and

on the actual Arduino board. REFERENCES

1. Mark Wikcett, “Real Time Basics Using Arduino and the Analog Shield SAR Codec Board”, 2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop, pp. 59-64.

2. Juana Fernández, Walter Gemin, Raúl Rivera, Miguel Revuelta, Melisa Kuzman, Roberto Hidalgo, “Digital Filter Design With Arduino DUE and Matlab”,

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey. 2. Simulation tools (MATLAB). 3. Arduino Microcontroller kit. 4. The Analog Shield.

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TITLE Design and Simulation of a Booth Encoded Multiplier Using Verilog

SUPERVISOR

PROF MASHKURI YAACOB

SUMMARY The multiplication operation is one of the most complex arithmetic operation as it involves a lot of additions and carry propagations. The objective of this research is to explore the best techniques using HDL tools particularly Verilog and simulate the functional operation of a Booth encoded multiplier using ModelSim or similar tools. The initial step is to familiarize with the tools (Quartus Lite, ModelSim and Verilog HDL) and review the available literature on the subject of multipliers. The next step is to initiate attempts to design simple adders and multipliers which are the building blocks of a Booth multiplier and explore the techniques of designing faster adders and multipliers progressively. The final piece will be a synthesized functional multiplier that can be burnt on to an FPGA and tested for actual physical operation.

OBJECTIVES 1. To understand the basic operation of a Booth encoded multiplier and its implementation in

hardware. 2. To design and simulate the multiplier using Verilog HDL and associated design tools. 3. To investigate the techniques of improving the speed of the multiplier by refining the speed

of the adders. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1. Literature review of the basics of digital adders and multipliers. 2. Familiarization with the features of the design and simulation tools. 3. Design the required multiplier in modular fashion to facilitate easy debugging. 4. Test and simulate each module and build the multiplier progressively.

REFERENCES

1. Mark Wikcett, “Real Time Basics Using Arduino and the Analog Shield SAR Codec Board”, 2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop, pp. 59-64.

2. Juana Fernández, Walter Gemin, Raúl Rivera, Miguel Revuelta, Melisa Kuzman, Roberto Hidalgo, “Digital Filter Design With Arduino DUE and Matlab”,

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. Simulation tools (Quartus Lite and ModelSim)

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TITLE Design and Simulation of Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) Resonators

SUPERVISOR

DR. ALIZA AINI MD RALIB

SUMMARY

The Internet has evolved from Internet of Data to Internet of Things. To achieve this, a wireless transceiver system consists of RF integrated circuits and passive devices are needed. The potential to integrate passive devices with circuitry for wireless transceiver system can be found with Radio Frequency Micro Electromehcanical System (RF-MEMS). Traditionally, piezoelectric crystals such as quartz have been widely used as filter. However, they cannot be easily integrated in a single chip because they have to be fabricated on piezoelectric substrates. Compared to surface acoustic wave (SAW), BAW resonator offer better performance with higher frequency range. Addressing to this, it is important to study the fundamental characteristics of thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator that is compatible with integrated circuits. The acoustoelectric interaction characteristics (resonance frequency, quality factor and electromechanical coupling coefficient) will be investigated.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design and simulate bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators. 2. To investigate the most significant parameters that effect the performance of BAW

resonators 3. To evaluate the performance of BAW resonators and evaluate with existing design for

benchmarking

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review on bulk acoustic wave resonators for RF applications 2. Literature review on piezoelectricity for BAW devices 3. Study the background of finite element simulation for BAW Resonator 4. Finite element simulation using COMSOL Multiphysics 5. Analysis of the results

REFERENCES 1. Ralib, A. A. M., & Nordin, A. N. Silicon compatible acoustic wave resonators (2013). IIUM

Engineering Journal 2013 2. Ioana Voiculescu a nd Anis N. Nordin Acoustic Wave Based MEMS Devices, Development and

Applications. 3. Dr Nazmul Islam (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0306-6, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/28214. Available

from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/microelectromechanical-systems-and-devices/acoustic-wave-based-mems-devices-development-and-applications 2012, 1–22.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature review 2. COMSOL Multiphysics software (available with the supervisor).

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TITLE Design and Simulation of Piezoelectric MEMS Vibration Energy Harvester

SUPERVISOR

DR. ALIZA AINI MD RALIB

SUMMARY

The growing demand of wireless sensor networks has created the necessity of miniature, portable and long lasting source of power. Traditional hazardous batteries are unacceptable due to their limited lifetime, environmental pollution and high battery replacement cost. Hence, energy harvesters offer a reliable and robust solution to harvest wasted energy produced by vibrations. Piezoelectric devices are the perfect candidate as they demonstrate high efficiencies for mechanical to electrical energy conversion. Addressing to this, it is important to study the fundamental characteristics of piezoelectric MEMS vibration energy harvester which promise a cleaner environment. The performance of the devices (resonance frequency, displacement and output voltage) will be analyzed using finite element simulation.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design and simulate piezoelectric MEMS vibration energy harvester 2. To investigate the most significant parameters that effect the performance of piezoelectric

MEMS vibration energy harvester 3. To evaluate the performance of piezoelectric MEMS vibration energy harvester and evaluate

with existing design for benchmarking

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review on piezoelectric MEMS vibration energy harvester 2. Literature review on piezoelectricity 3. Study the background of finite element simulation for piezoelectric MEMS vibration

energy harvester 4. Finite element simulation using COMSOL Multiphysics 5. Analysis of the results

REFERENCES 1. Ralib, A.A.M., Nordin, A.N. & Salleh, H. A comparative study on MEMS piezoelectric

microgenerators Microsyst Technol (2010) 16: 1673. doi:10.1007/s00542-010-1086-9 2. A. Toprak and O. Tigli, "MEMS Scale PVDF-TrFE-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters,"

in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 1989-1997, Dec. 2015 doi: 10.1109/JMEMS.2015.2457782

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature review 2. COMSOL Multiphysics software (available with the supervisor)

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TITLE Analysis of X-band Satellite Signal Rain Attenuation in Tropical Region

SUPERVISOR IR. YASSER ASRUL AHMAD

SUMMARY The X-band satellite communication (sat-com) has been conventionally used for commercial and government organizations. It is also commonly known as the military band. In addition, X-band link is also anticipated to offer a more substantial increased of system capacity due to its higher frequencies compared to the forerunner S-band and C-band. However, there are many aspects of X-band that are harder to realize than of those of at lower frequencies. X-band frequencies certainly have higher atmospheric propagation losses, higher RF losses, and certainly much severe signal degradation due to rain. It is would be in the best interest of the satellite designers and engineers alike to accurately appraise the challenges of an X-band sat-com link especially in the case of tropical regions where heavy rains are copious whilst the required technological advancements are in pursuit.

OBJECTIVES

1. To analyse the X-band satellite signal attenuation data in Malaysia 2. To generate and analyse a time series of the X-band satellite data. 3. To generate and analyse the Annual Cumulative Distributive Function of the X-band

Data


1. Literature Review 2. Analyze the X-band data 3. Generate hourly time series of the X-band data 4. Generate Annual CDF 5. Analyzed and compare data.

REFERENCES 1. Assessment of X-band earth-satellite link rain attenuation prediction in Malaysia.

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences , 8 (24). pp.254-259.

2. Statistics of rainfall rate at 60 minutes integration time in Malaysia. Australian Journal of

Basic and Applied Sciences , 8 (14). pp.420-425

3. Rain fade estimations for the X-Band satellite communication link in the tropics.

International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering , 2 (4). pp.408-412.

4. Analyses of worst month rain fade for Ku band(26Ghz) in the tropics. Radiomatics

Journal on Communications Engineering , 3 (2). pp.22-27

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Satellite data is provided 2. MATLAB

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TITLE Analysis of Ku-band Satellite Signal Rain Attenuation in Tropical Region


SUMMARY The Ku-band satellite communication (sat-com) has been conventionally set aside for broadcasting and satellite television. The Ku-band sat-com technology is considered a reliable solution in the temperate region. However, there are many aspects of Ku-band that are harder to realize in the tropical region compared to the temperate climate. Ku-band frequencies certainly have higher atmospheric propagation losses, higher RF losses, and certainly much severe signal degradation due to heavy rain in the tropic. It would be in the best interest of the satellite designers and engineers alike to accurately appraise the challenges of a Ku-band sat-com link especially in the case of tropical regions where heavy rains are copious whilst the required technological advancements are in pursuit.

OBJECTIVES

1. To analyse the Ku-band satellite signal attenuation data in Malaysia 2. To generate and analyse a time series of the Ku-band satellite data. 3. To generate and analyse the Annual Cumulative Distributive Function (CDF) of the Ku-

band data


1. Literature Review 2. Analyze the Ku-band data 3. Generate hourly time series of the Ku-band data 4. Generate Annual CDF 5. Analyzed and compare data.







4. Analyses of worst month rain fade for ku band(26Ghz) in the tropics. Radiomatics



1. Satellite data is provided 2. MATLAB

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TITLE Analysis of C-band Satellite Signal Rain Attenuation in the Tropical Region


SUMMARY The C-band satellite communication (sat-com) technology is considered a reliable solution in the tropical region. However, there are many aspects of C-band that are harder to realize than of those of at lower frequencies such as L-band and S-Band. C-band frequencies certainly have higher atmospheric propagation losses, higher RF losses, and certainly much severe signal degradation due to rain. It is would be in the best interest of the satellite designers and engineers alike to accurately appraise the challenges of an C-band sat-com link especially in the case of tropical regions where heavy rains are copious whilst the required technological advancements are in pursuit.

OBJECTIVES

1. To analyse the C-band satellite signal attenuation data in Malaysia 2. To generate and analyse a time series of the C-band satellite data. 3. To generate and analyse the Annual Cumulative Distributive Function of the C-band data


1. Literature Review 2. Analyze the C-band data 3. Generate hourly time series of the C-band data 4. Generate Annual CDF 5. Record children brain activity (both normal & attention deficiency) 6. Analyzed and compare data.











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TITLE Analysis of Rain Fall Intensity Measurement for Satellite Ground Station in Cyberjaya /

Sg. Buloh/Bukit Jalil


SUMMARY Rainfall intensity or rain fall rate is one of the most critical phenomena that causes severe degradation of satellite-Earth communications. The characteristics of the rainfall in tropical regions must be investigated to meet the satellite operational reliability. It is common knowledge that the rainfall rate cumulative distributions vary greatly from area to area. This research is intended to analyse the effect of rainfall intensity for three satellite stations in Cyberjaya, Sg. Buloh and Bukit Jalil

OBJECTIVES Analyse effect of rainfall rate to satellite communications.

1. To analyse the hourly time series of rainfall rate data 2. To analyse the Diurnal rain fall rate 3. To analyse the monthly and annually CDF of rainfall intensity


1. Literature Review 2. Generate hourly time series of the rain fall rate data 3. Generate the Diurnal Rain fall are 4. Analyze the rain fall rate data 5. Generate the monthly and annually CDF of rainfall intensity 6. Analyzed and compare data.







4. Analyses of worst month rain fade for Ku band(26Ghz) in the tropics. Radiomatics




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TITLE Modelling of Attenuation due to Rain in Satellite Communications link


SUMMARY Rainfall intensity or rain fall rate is one of the most critical phenomena that causes severe degradation of satellite-Earth communications. The characteristics of the rainfall in tropical regions must be investigated to meet the satellite operational reliability. Proper modelling of attenuation due to rain is required for reliable satellite link.

OBJECTIVES Analyse effect of rainfall rate to satellite communications.

1. To derive the specific attenuation rate 2. To predict the satellite attenuation in the tropical region


1. Literature Review 2. Determine the rain intensity 3. Derive the frequency dependent coefficient 4. Derive the specific attenuation 5. Predict the satellite attenuation

REFERENCES

1. Assessment of X-band earth-satellite link rain attenuation prediction in Malaysia.








5. http://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/p/R-REC-P.618-12-201507-I!!PDF-E.pdf



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TITLE Development of Ruqyah as Syarriah Apps


SUMMARY Despite in the modern world there are problems that are not able to be tackle by modern medicine such as sihr and by Djinn. There are many people who faced problems with disruption from jinn and sihr. Quranic verses used to overcome in this problem are available but are compiled in documents. An app that contains the quranic verses in proper manner would be a help people as they carry smart phone anywhere.

OBJECTIVES

1. To develop an app for Quranic Verses used for Ruqyah as Syarriah. 2. To test the functionality of the app.


1. Identify the requirements 2. Design the interface and flow chart 3. Coding 4. Test the codes 5. Implementation

REFERENCES

Textbook, internet, paper, Al Quran

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Quranic Verses will be provided. 2. Android Studio / Java

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TITLE Efficient Peer to Peer Similarity Query Processing for High dimensional Data

SUPERVISOR DR NURUL FARIZA ZULKURNAIN

SUMMARY Objects, such as a digital image, a text document or a DNA sequence are usually represented in a high dimensional feature space. A fundamental issue in (peer-to-peer) P2P systems is to support an efficient similarity search for high-dimensional data in metric spaces. Prior works suffer from some fundamental limitations, such as being not adaptive to a highly dynamic network, poor search efficiency under skewed data scenarios, large maintenance overhead and etc. Similarity search for high-dimensional data in metric spaces has received considerable attention in the database research community [1], [2], [3]. Objects are represented in a high dimensional feature space and a distance function, usually more complex than the L2 norm (Euclidean distance), defines the similarity of two objects [2], such as the Levenshtein distance for text retrieval or quadratic-form distances for multimedia data [5]. P2P systems have been widely used for exchange of voluminous information and resources among thousands or even millions of users. Users often issue similarity queries to retrieve data objects for high-dimensional data from P2P systems. For instance, a user might issue following queries: “return all documents with similarity to q within r” (range query), or “return the k documents most similar to q” (k nearest neighbour query). Thus, one of the fundamental issues faced by P2P systems is to support similarity queries on high-dimensional data objects efficiently.

OBJECTIVES 1. To propose an efficient scheme to support P2P similarity search in metric spaces. 2. To find all objects that are similar to a given query object, such as a digital image, a text

document or a DNA sequence.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Understanding the limitations of current P2P similarity processing. 2. Design an algorithm that could overcome one or more of those limitations. 3. Compare the proposed algorithm with existing state-of-the-art algorithms. *Students are required to have skill and passion in algorithm design and programming.

REFERENCES

1. Liu, S., Maljovec, D., Wang, B., Bremer, P. T., & Pascucci, V. (2016). Visualizing high-dimensional data: Advances in the past decade. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

2. Singh, K., Guntuku, S. C., Thakur, A., & Hota, C. (2014). Big data analytics framework for peer-to-peer botnet detection using random forests. Information Sciences, 278, 488-497.

3. Szklarczyk, D., Franceschini, A., Wyder, S., Forslund, K., Heller, D., Huerta-Cepas, J., ... & Kuhn, M. (2014). STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life. Nucleic acids research, gku1003.


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TITLE Honey Pots a Security System to Identify Black Hat Community in the Networks

SUPERVISOR DR NURUL FARIZA ZULKURNAIN

SUMMARY Honey pots allow us to turn the tables on the bad guys. A honeypot is used in the area of computer and Internet security. It is a resource, which is intended to be attacked and computerized to gain more information about the attacker, and used tools. Compared to an intrusion detection system, honeypots have the big advantage that they do not generate false alerts as each observed traffic is suspicious, because no productive components are running in the system. Honey pots are an exciting new technology. A honeypot is a resource whose value is being attacked or compromised. This means, that a honeypot is expected to get probed, attacked and potentially exploited. Honeypots do not perform computer networks security. On the contrary, they do attract intruders and can therefore attract some interest from the black hat community on the network, where the honeypot is located.

OBJECTIVES 1. To show the possibilities of honeypots and their use in research as well as productive

environment. 2. To detect the main cause of the several counter attacks on the selected network. 3. To propose an idea that relies on honey pot technique to overcome the cause.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Understanding honey pot, its architecture, characteristics and types. 2. Identify types of attacks that exists on the network. 3. Provide a method that uses honey pot to overcome the attack.

*Students are required to have skill and passion in network and programming.

REFERENCES 1. Selvaraj, R., Kuthadi, V. M., & Marwala, T. (2016). Honey Pot: A Major Technique for

Intrusion Detection. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies (pp. 73-82). Springer India.

2. Shyamasundar, L.B.: An auto configured hybrid honeypot for improving security in computer systems. Int. J. Comput. Sci. Infom. Technology. ^(1). 84-88 (2015)

3. Parimala, H.C., Kavitha, B,: Achieving higher network security by preventing DDoS attack using honeypot. Int. J. Comput. Netw. Secur. 6(1), 40-45 (2014)


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TITLE Optimizing Distribution System Restoration using Multi-objective Method

SUPERVISOR DR. MOHD SHAHRIN ABU HANIFAH

SUMMARY Since electricity is a vital source in our daily lives, service restoration after a fault has become more important, especially as distribution systems become automated to improve service quality. The problem of service restoration consists of choosing a procedure for the resumption of power transmission to distribution system sections that were blacked out by a feeder fault or construction work. Therefore, it is a difficult, complex, delicate, and time-consuming task, as losses to customers and the industry mount rapidly until service is restored. Moreover, as the number of switches in the system increases, the solution options to choose from are increased, and switch reconfiguration becomes increasingly complicated. Furthermore, service restoration problems involve multi-objective and multi-constraint problems, further complicating the algorithms. Addressing to this, numerous heuristic methods have been applied and improved in service restoration recently. Unfortunately, the improvement of some method have reached the limit, necessitating the application of other approaches. On the other hand, the non-dominated genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) is one of the best solution for a multi-objective problem. In this work, the NSGA-II will be used to find the optimal solution for service restoration in term of distribution loss and outage load.

OBJECTIVES

1. To develop the simulation model for restoration system using NSGA-II algorithm 2. To obtain the minimum number of outage load and distribution loss. 3. To analyze the results and compare with available previous works.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review 2. Develop the simulation restoration system using NSGA-II algorithm. 3. Determine the optimal number of outage load and distribution loss after restoration based

on findings from the literature review. 4. Analyze the results. 5. Report writing and paper publishing.

REFERENCES Available upon request from the Supervisor.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature survey 2. NSGA-II coding (available with the supervisor).

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TITLE Design of an GPS GSM Based Vehicle Tracker

SUPERVISORS DR. S. M. A. MOTAKABBER

SUMMARY Identify the vehicle is a challenging task, so the research on finding out the solution for stolen vehicle or accidental location by using global positioning system (GPS) and global system mobile communication (GSM) are now becoming popular [1][2]. The proposed system is a two-way GPS communication system wherein communication will be done in both ways with GPS satellites. This project uses only one GPS device and two-way communication which will be achieved by using a GSM modem. The GSM modem with a SIM card is used to implement the same communication technique as in a regular cell phone [3]. The system will be mounted in a suitable compartment inside the vehicle for tracking. The tracking will be done via mobile phone by dialing the mobile number to the SIM attached to the GSM modem. The location of the vehicle can be known automatically from the implemented SMS of the vehicle. As a result, the proposed system will allow to track a vehicle from anywhere and anytime.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design an GPS GSM Based Vehicle Tracker 2. To Develop the Programing Code 3. To Proto Typing Development

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review. 2. Programing code develop for mobile application 3. Design and development of the hardware circuit

REFERENCES

1. N Dhanasekar and GG Subramanian,“Accidental Navigation and Rescue System Using GSM and GPS Technology,” Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 6(11), pp.154-166, 2016.

2. B. H. Kumar, S. F. Tehseen, S. Thanveer, G. V. Krishna and S. M. Akram,“Vehicle Monitoring and Tracking System using GPS and GSM Technologies,” International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), vol. 3(4), pp.72-74, 2016.

3. N. A. Yekini., A. O. Oloyede, A. K. Agnes, F. M. Okikiola,“Microcontroller-Based Automobile Tracking System with Audio Surveillance using GPS and GSM Module,”International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business(IJIEEB), vol. 8(3), pp. 41-46, 2016.


1. Library and internet for literature survey 2. Simulation tool (available) 3. Hardware is available in the local market

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TITLE Design of an Arduino Microcontroller Based Electrostatic Field Meter

SUPERVISORS DR. S. M. A. MOTAKABBER

SUMMARY The static electric field can damage the electronic device and circuit easily. So the measurement and monitoring of electric fields are essential to prevent the severe damage and losses in the industrial, manufacturing and electronic lab environment, where the sensitive devices are used [1]. Nowadays, different types of electrostatic field meter (ESFM) have been developed, employing different electronic measurement techniques for measuring the static electric field. Each of them has merits and demerits in the design and applications. The capacitive coupling field measurement sensor is dependent on both geometry and spacing. In addition, the field is frequently not uniform in real measurement situations. This may lead to ambiguity between different measurement setups and field meters, causing inconsistencies and the introduction of considerable errors in measured values [2]. The induction probe type meter uses a sensing plate that is connected through a capacitor to ground. The plate grows a net surface charge via induction when it is exposed to an electric field; as a result, a voltage is developed across the capacitor. This type of meter is produced a zero drift current and input bias current is required for the amplifier and sensitive to free charges in the surrounding atmosphere [3]. This can be partially remedied by repeatedly zeroing the input using a ground plane [4]. This project proposed an improved approach to use a high impedance amplifying device to overcome the existing problem. An Arduino microcontroller will be used for controlling and display the reading.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design an Arduino Microcontroller Based Electrostatic Field Meter 2. To Develop the Programing Code for Arduino Microcontroller 3. To produce a prototype of the Electrostatic Field Meter

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review 2. Design an electronic sensor circuit for electrostatic field 3. Programing code develop for Arduino Microcontroller 4. Design and development of the hardware circuit

REFERENCES 1. Aydin, P. B. Stiffell, R. J. Prance and H. Prance, “A high sensitivity calibrated electric field

meter based on the electric potential sensor,” Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 21(1), pp.1-5, 2010.

2. V. A. Tishchenko, V. I. Tokatly and V. I. Luk'yanov, “Comparison and metrological investigation of electrostatic and low-frequency electric field meters,” Meas. Tech. vol. 41, pp. 939-940, 1998.

3. D. M. Taylor, “Measuring techniques for electrostatics,” J. Electrost., vol. 51-52, pp. 502-508, 2001.

4. J. N. Chubb, “Developments in electrostatic field meter instrumentation,” J. Electrost., vol. 14, pp. 349-358, 1983.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library and internet for literature survey 2. Simulation tool (available) 3. Hardware is available in the local market

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TITLE Design of a Smart, Vertical Indoor Garden using Intel Edison and Grove IoT

SUPERVISOR ASSOC. PROF. DR. ANIS NURASHIKIN NORDIN

DR. NABILAH RAMLI SUMMARY

The project will involve the development of a smart vertical garden using Intel Edison that allows automated management for any type of plant. Intel Edison and Grove Internet of Things sensors will be used to control the pump to water the plants, measure the moisture of the soil, current temperature and display the status of the plants to the user via LCD and a mobile app.

BioEdison is a smart vertical garden based on the new Intel Edison that allows a simple, automated management of any type of vegetable or plant.

Advantages of BioEdison control device than a traditional vegetable garden are the efficient use of space and resources and the ability to communicate to the user the status of the plants and the possible need for human intervention (such as supply of water tank).

The project is based almost entirely on the components contained in the Groove Kit for Intel Edison.

OBJECTIVES

1. To develop an automated plant management system using Intel Edison and Grove IoT sensors.


1. Literature review. 2. Design and develop a vertical indoor garden. 3. Design the automated water management system for the garden that is equipped with

sensors that can also measure the temperature and moisture content of the soil. 4. Test the developed system.

REFERENCES 1. http://www.instructables.com/id/Intel-Edison-Hydroponics-Controller/ 2. https://www.hackster.io/veronafablab/vertical-garden-and-weather-powered-by-

intel-edison-f29706

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Intel Edison (available) 2. Grove IoT sensors (available)

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TITLE Design of an Audio Recording System for Active Noise Control using Rasberry-Pi

SUPERVISOR ASSOC. PROF. DR. ANIS NURASHIKIN NORDIN

DR. NABILAH RAMLI SUMMARY

The project will involve the development of an audio recording system intended to be used as the reference signal to an Active Noise Control (ANC) system. Raspberry PI provides a low cost platform to implement an ANC system. The performance of an ANC system relies heavily on the quality of captured reference noise signal without any significant time delay. The noise signal will be captured by 20 Hz – 20 kHz Omnidirectional electret microphone and fed into a Raspberry PI as input. This project will focus on analog-to-digital converter that converts the input analog signal into digital signals before being processed by the ANC algorithm.

OBJECTIVES 1. To develop an audio recording system with Raspberry PI platform. 2. To evaluate the performance of the developed platform with an ANC algorithm with an

electret microphone as the input.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review. 2. Design of an ADC system for noise input. 3. Evaluate the performance of the build system with a measurement standard microphone. 4. Test the developed system on a commonly used ANC algorithm.

REFERENCES 1. QIU, Xiaojun, et al. "A new era for applications of active noise control." Proceedings of the

43rd international congress & exhibition on noise control engineering. Melbourne, Australia. 2014.

2. Lima, P. H. R., L. Vieira, and E. L. Oliveira. "Evaluation Of Low Cost Microphones For Active

Noise Control In Duct." Revista Interdisciplinar de Pesquisa em Engenharia-RIPE 2.13 (2017): 120-130.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Raspberry PI 2. Electret microphone

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TITLE FPGA-based True Random Number Generation Using Adaptive Feedback Control

SUPERVISORS ASSOC. PROF. DR. MUHAMMAD IBN IBRAHIMY

SUMMARY Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a reprogrammable hardware device which can be used to develop and verify for simple to complex circuit. The design of a FPGA system is time saving, cost effective and simple compare to design a direct hardware system. A random number has many applications like, security key, pseudo code generation etc. The design of a true random number generator is a complex task. The proposed adaptive feedback control is an efficient and easy method to generate true random numbers on FPGAs by inducing meta-stability in bi-stable circuit elements, e.g. flip-flops. In addition a real time adaptive feedback control system will be utilized to assure a high degree of randomness in the generated output bits, resilience against fluctuations in environmental conditions, as well as robustness against active adversarial attacks.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design a FPGA-based True Random Number Generation 2. To Develop the Programing Code for Altera FPGA board 3. To verify the function of the hardware circuit

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Design a True Random Number Generation for an FPGA 2. Programing code develop for Altera FPGA board using Quartus II 3. Uploaded the code into the Altera test board for verify the function of the hardware

circuit REFERENCES

1. Barak, B., Shaltiel, R., Tromer, E.: True random number generators secure in a changing environment. In: Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems workshop (CHES). pp. 166–180. Springer-Verilog (2003)

2. Bergeron, E., Feeley, M., Daigneault, M.A., David, J.: Using dynamic reconfiguration to implement high-resolution programmable delays on an FPGA. In: NEWCAS-TAISA. pp. 265 –268 (2008)

3. Lee, J., Lim, D., Gassend, B., Suh, G., van Dijk, M., Devadas, S.: A technique to build a secret key in integrated circuits for identification and authentication applications. In: Symposium on VLSI Circuits. pp. 176 – 179 (2004)

4. Majzoobi, M., Dyer, E., Elnably, A., Koushanfar, F.: Rapid FPGA characterization using clock synthesis and signal sparsity. In: International Test Conference (ITC) (2010)

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library and internet for literature survey 2. Quartus II Simulation tool (available) 3. Altera FPGA board (available)

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TITLE Energy Management System Regression Analysis

SUPERVISOR DR. SITI HAJAR YUSOFF

SUMMARY Climate change has caused extreme weather patterns and a rising sea level. The concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emitted by human activities keeps increasing, which leads to greenhouse effect and global warming. The primary anthropogenic source of carbon emissions is from direct burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. Despite the recent development on renewable sources of energy (e.g. solar energy, biofuels, etc.), fossil fuels still play the major role in global energy mix as the primary source for generating electricity. Since the announcement of Copenhagen Accord and Kyoto Protocol, the international community has been aware of the urgency of reducing GHG in order to limit the increase of global mean temperature below 2°C based on pre-industrial level. To this end, many countries have released new energy saving measures. By adopting energy management system into an organization, including small and medium enterprises can provide organizations with a number of benefits including helping to achieve energy use reduction and carbon emissions in a systematic way. Thus, this can help the enterprises to save on electricity and gas bills.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate the equipment that contribute to main energy usage for a chosen building

block 2. To calculate the energy usage 3. To analyze the result and compare with previous work 4. To suggest and implement the improvement on energy performance

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review 2. Implementing regression formula in excel and matlab 3. Analyze the results. 4. Report writing and paper publishing.

REFERENCES Available upon request from the Supervisor.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library, online sources (IEEExplore, Google Scholar) for literature survey 2. MATLAB

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TITLE Indoor Navigation System

SUPERVISOR PROF. DR. FARHAT ANWAR

SUMMARY Please email Prof. Farhat for further details. His email is [email protected]

TITLE Mobile Biometric Verification System



TITLE Internet Based Remote Electrocardiogram Monitoring System



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TITLE Design and implementation of Intelligent CPU Scheduler

SUPERVISOR DR .RASHIDAH FUNKE OLANREWAJU

SUMMARY CPU scheduling is the basis of multi‐programmed operating system. By switching the CPU among processes, the operating system can make the computer more productive. CPU scheduling deals with the problem of deciding which of the processes in the ready queue is to be allocated the CPU. Whenever the CPU becomes idle, the operating system must select one of the processes in the ready queue to be executed. The selection process is carried out by the short-term scheduler. The scheduler selects from among the processes in memory that are ready to execute, and allocates the CPU to one of them. For the choice of processes to execute, CPU must have a strategy for deciding which process to run at a given time. This strategy follows Processor Scheduling Policy. Different process scheduling algorithms have different properties and may favour one class of processes over another. In choosing which algorithm to use in a particular situation, we compare the characteristics in order to compare the algorithms. Thus, a system that combine most of this scheduling algorithm is required to compare the characteristics as well as enables selection of the best algorithm is been suggested.

OBJECTIVES 1. To investigate CPU scheduling algorithms and the effect of such on process and OS 2. Implement neuro-fuzzy CPU scheduling algorithms such as FCFS ( First Come First Served),

SJF ( Shortest Job First), SRTF( Shortest Remaining Time First), Priority Scheduling, Round‐Robin.

3. To design a GUI that accomplished the scheduling algorithms. 4. Evaluate the algorithm using objective metrics such as process waiting time, turnaround

time, queuing time, response time etc. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1. Literature review on CPU scheduling algorithms 2. Develop Scheduling criteria for CPU I/O burst 3. Design GUI for the CPU scheduler algorithms

REFERENCES

1. Stallings, W. (2014). Computer Organization and Architecture Designing for Performance (10th ed). Prentice Hall.

2. Abbas N., Ali K. and Seifedine K., (2011) A New Round Robin Based Scheduling Algorithm for Operating Systems: Dynamic Quantum Using the Mean Average, International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 8, Issue 3, No. 1,

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library and online database for literature survey 2. MATLAB for model development (available)

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TITLE

Enhancing Security Prospectus of AES

SUPERVISOR

DR .RASHIDAH FUNKE OLANREWAJU

SUMMARY

Advance Encryption Standard (AES) Supersedes Data Encryption Standard (DES) and is the best known and most widely used block cipher. As for now, there are no known practical attacks that would allow anyone to read correctly implemented AES encrypted data. However, a number of theoretical attacks have been announced until now. A theoretical attack called as Biclique Attack is known to have broken Full AES & requires 2^126.1, 2^189.7, 2^254.4 operations to recover an AES-128, AES-192, AES-256 respectively. Biclique Attack is faster than Brute force attack by a factor of four. As such, these theoretical attacks are of high computational complexity, they do not threaten the practical use of AES in any way. However, attacks always get better, they never get worse. As the technology evolves, successful attacks (using Quantum Computing & Faster GPU) against AES may turn up & they may be difficult to ignore. In this project, we aim to enhance the security prospectus of AES with inclusion of Dynamicity character in AES S-Box for enhanced resilience against Brute Force Attack and Biclique Attack and hashing technique is combined with AES algorithm to achieve variance in security using MD4, SHA3 or SHA5. The novel key dispersion technique is introduced to increase the avalanche effect of AES algorithm.

OBJECTIVES

1. To modify the existing AES Algorithm a. To enhance the resilience of AES against various attacks particularly Brute

Force Attack & Biclique Attack. b. To Increase the resistance against traffic analysis and monitoring.

2. To improve the Confusion and diffusion factors in AES algorithm and hence increase the Avalanche Effect of AES Algorithm.

3. To Achieve the variance in security using different hashing Techniques: MD5, SHA-I, SHA-III.

4. To create a working prototype based on the proposed enhanced AES algorithm using JAVA Platform.


1. Literature review 2. Enhancement Design and Visualisation. 3. Cryptographic Deployment 4. Performance Evaluation 5. Documentation

REFERENCES

1. Lenstra and E. Verheul, "Selecting Cryptographic Key Sizes", Journal of Cryptology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 255-293, 2001.

2. J. Lu, "The (related-key) impossible boomerang attack and its application to the AES block cipher", Designs, Codes and Cryptography, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 123-143, 2010.

3. H. Cui, Y. Mu and M. Au, "Signcryption Secure Against Linear Related-Key Attacks", The Computer Journal, vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 1472-1483, 2013.


1. Java EE 7 (Open Source) 2. Eclipse IDE 3.5.2 (Open Source)

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TITLE Performance Characterization of Data Transmission on Free Space Optics (FSO)

SUPERVISOR DR. NORAZLINA BINTI SAIDIN

SUMMARY Free Space Optics (FSO) communication technique is a unique method for the communication between optical transmitter and optical receiver using a free space as a medium. The advantages of FSO over other wireless communication techniques is its low power, high security, low cost infrastructure and high data rates. There are many atmospheric disturbances like rain, fog, water molecules particles which degrade the performance of the FSO link. The FSO link is optimized at different optical wavelengths of 1550 nm, 850 nm, 650 nm and 532 nm keeping into consideration the various atmospheric challenges and weather conditions. The performance of the proposed FSO link is evaluated in terms of BER and Quality factor. The simulation model of the FSO link software, Optisystem 14.0 which is used for evaluation and design analysis will be used to present the above principle.

OBJECTIVES

1. To determine the atmospheric disturbances that affect the FSO link. 2. To design the FSO transmission system of the laser propagation distance between the

specific FSO channels. 3. To optimize the parameters of a FSO link. 4. To evaluate the performance of the parameters on the FSO link in terms of Bit Error

Rate (BER), Q-factor and etc. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1. Literature review on the related topics of FSO. 2. Design of the FSO link using Optisys software. 3. Evaluate the design performance. 4. Report writing

REFERENCES 1. Soni, G. (2017). A Performance Analysis of Free-Space Optical Link at 1,550 nm, 850 nm,

650 nm and 532 nm Optical Wavelengths . Journal of Optical Communications, 0(0), pp. -. Retrieved 1 Feb. 2017, from doi:10.1515/joc-2016-0118

2. N. Dayal, P. Singh, and P. Kaur, "Performance Enhancement in WDM-FSO System Using Optical Amplifiers Under Different Rain Conditions," in Proceeding of International Conference on Intelligent Communication, Control and Devices : ICICCD 2016, R. Singh and S. Choudhury, Eds., ed Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017, pp. 293-298.

3. A. Vanderka, L. Hajek, L. Bednarek, J. Latal, J. Vitasek, S. Hejduk, et al., "Testing FSO WDM communication system in simulation software optiwave OptiSystem in different atmospheric environments," 2016, pp. 997914-997914-9.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library and online database for literature survey 2. Simulation tool

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TITLE A Mach–Zehnder Interferometric Humidity Sensor Based on Core Diameter Mismatch

SUPERVISOR DR. NORAZLINA BINTI SAIDIN

SUMMARY A humidity sensor based on an in-fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) will be proposed and demonstrated. The sensor head is formed by a single-mode–multimode–single-mode (SM–MM–SM) fiber structure through arc fusion splicing. The fabricated sensor head will then be used as a humidity sensing. The intermodal interference is achieved by two waist-enlarged fiber tapers at the coupling points of the multimode fiber and single-mode fibers. Such easily fabricated, cost-effective and temperature-immune fiber interferometer could be used for high sensitivity humidity sensing applications. The effectiveness of the humidity sensor using MZI will be evaluated in terms of its sensitivity, resolution and linear range.

OBJECTIVES

1. To investigate the technique used for detecting humidity using fiber optic sensor 2. To develop the sensor head by a single-mode–multimode–single-mode (SM–MM–SM) fiber

structure. 3. To apply the fabricated sensor for measuring humidity effect. 4. To analyze the performance of the humidity sensor


1. Literature review on the related topics. 2. Identify method to use in the experiment 3. Conduct experiment to verify the performance of the humidity sensor

REFERENCES 1. Yong Zhao, Lu Cai, Hai-Feng Hu, "Fiber-Optic Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multi-

Tapered SMS Fiber Structure", Sensors Journal IEEE, vol. 15, pp. 6348-6353, 2015, ISSN 1530-437X.

2. Y. Ma et al., "Mach–Zehnder Interferometer Based on a Sandwich Fiber Structure for Refractive Index Measurement," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 2081-2085, June 2012. doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2184751

3. J. Villatoro and D. Monzón-Hernández, "Low-Cost Optical Fiber Refractive-Index Sensor Based on Core Diameter Mismatch," J. Lightwave Technol. 24, 1409- (2006).


1. Library and online database for literature survey 2. Experiment tools available at University of Malaya

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TITLE Electric Field Simulation of Biological Cells Separation using COMSOL Software

SUPERVISOR DR. SITI NOORJANNAH IBRAHIM

SUMMARY There are many microelectrode designs can be used to move and separate biological cells. Therefore, a circular shape interdigitated (IDT) microelectrode will be developed to separate biological cells. The project is related to the numerical analysis of the microelectrode using COMSOL software. Parameters such as finger width, length, and finger pairs will be varied to analyze its effect on the resistance, coupling capacitance, and frequency response.

OBJECTIVES 1. To simulate a electric field profile using COMSOL Software. 2. To characterize Electric Field properties for cells separation.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review on microelectrode and separation techniques for cells. 2. Simulate the microelectrode design. 3. Characterize the m properties.

REFERENCES 1. A. V. Mamishev, K. Sundara-Rajan, and M. Zahn, “Interdigital sensors and transducers,”

Proc. IEEE, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 808–845, May 2004. 2. M.R. Zakaria, et al, “Design and Fabrication of IDT SAW by Using Conventional

Lithography Technique” Middle-East J. Scientific Research , vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1281-1285, 2013.

3. P. Leonard, et al, “Advances in biosensors for detection of pathogens in food and water,”

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Books, journals, conference papers, thesis 2. COMSOL software.

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TITLE Design and Characterization of Screen Printing Microelectrode for DNA Sensing


SUMMARY Early application of IDT microelectrode was in telecommunication field as filter and resonators. However, due its sensitivity to mass, viscosity and velocity changes on the path between two IDTs, it is can be used as biosensors. Therefore, a circular shape interdigitated (IDT) microelectrode will be developed to measure impedance of biological cells. The fabrication will use screen printing technique on a substrate (material used to create the surface for the microelectrode). Parameters such as finger width, length, and finger pairs will be varied to analyze its effect on the resistance, coupling capacitance, and frequency response. After the fabrication, the completed microelectrode will be characterized with respect to impedance parameters.

OBJECTIVES 1. To create a circular IDT for biosensor application. 2. To characterize the circular IDT properties. 3. To characterize the substrate material.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review on IDT microelectrode, impedance sensing, and screen printing. 2. Fabricate the IDT using screen printing technique. 3. Characterize the IDT properties.

REFERENCES 1. A. V. Mamishev, K. Sundara-Rajan, and M. Zahn, “Interdigital sensors and transducers,”

Proc. IEEE, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 808–845, May 2004. 2. M.R. Zakaria, et al, “Design and Fabrication of IDT SAW by Using Conventional

Lithography Technique” Middle-East J. Scientific Research , vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1281-1285, 2013.

3. P. Leonard, et al, “Advances in biosensors for detection of pathogens in food and water,”

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Books, journals, conference papers, thesis 2. Screen printing, PDMS material.

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TITLE Fabrication of Muscle Stimulation Electrode Using Screen Printing Technique

SUPERVISOR DR. SITI NOORJANNAH IBRAHIM AND DR. NOREHA ABDUL MALEK

SUMMARY This project is to study electronic device with unique mechanical properties allowing them to bend, fold, stretch or conform to their environment. For the last decade, research on improving the stretchability of circuits on elastomeric substrates has made significant progresses but designing printed circuit assemblies on elastomers remains challenging. The project will use screen printing a simple, cost-effective, cleanroom-free process to produce large scale soft electrode. The electrode will be design to be used in Muscle Stimulation application. Muscle Stimulation is a technique in rehabilitation process of functional therapy for neurological patients. Muscle Stimulation aims to produce movements or functions which mimic normal voluntary movements, and so to restore functions which those movements serve, through artificial electrical stimulation of the neuromuscular system. For electrical stimulation to cause a muscle to contract, both the muscle and the nerve that connects it to the spinal cord must be intact and when a peripheral nerve is damaged, the distal part, i.e. the part furthest from the spinal cord, will degenerate and will not be excitable by electrical stimulation. This project is to study novel wearable electrode to be the used in transmitting electrical stimulus to the specific hamstring muscles.

OBJECTIVES 1. To create a stretchable electrode for Muscle Stimulation. 2. To characterize the electrode properties. 3. To characterize the PDMS material to be used as biosensor substrate.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review on Muscle Stimulation electrode and PDMS. 2. Fabricate the electrode using screen printing technique. 3. Characterize the electrode properties. 4. Characterize the PDMS properties.

REFERENCES 1. Kim, D. H., Ghaffari, R., Lu, N. S. & Rogers, J. A. Flexible and Stretchable Electronics for

Biointegrated Devices. Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 14, 113–128 (2012). 2. Yan, C. et al. Stretchable and wearable electrochromic devices. ACS Nano 8, 316–322

(2014). 3. Rosset, S., Niklaus, M., Dubois, P. & Shea, H. R. Metal Ion Implantation for the Fabrication

of Stretchable Electrodes on Elastomers. Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 470–478 (2009).

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Books, journals, conference papers, thesis 2. Screen printing, PDMS material.

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TITLE Web-based Surveillance System with Web Applications Phase II


SUMMARY A web-based surveillance system was successfully designed. This project is a continuation of previous works to more versatile web-based surveillance system. Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging computing system that incorporates many technologies from different areas. This project is related to create a web-based surveillance system using Arduino/Intel galileo to develop an automated surveillance system. The system comprises a web GUI with joystick functions to control camera positioning in the surveillance system. The main focus of the project is on the design of web page with the system parameters for camera positioning such as left, right, tilt, etc. The implementation of the project will include a microcontroller board to handle the databases, web-GUI and control communications between the surveillance system and the web-based system. This system will enable users to easily monitor environments in their home, building virtually and control the camera using their mobile devices.

OBJECTIVES 1. To program the Intel Galileo/Arduino Boards for surveillance system. 2. To develop network connection between cameras and controller.


1. Literature review on Intel Galileo/Arduino and surveilance system. 2. Design an algorithm for the surveillance system. 3. Coding and Design a GUI of the web based application. 4. Testing and evaluation of the system.

REFERENCES 1. http://www.instructables.com/id/Streaming-USB-Webcam-with-the-Intel-Galileo-Gen-2/ 2. ITU Internet Reports, the Internet of Things, November 2005. 3. Jodyalbritton. ThingLayer: An open source real-time web interface for IoT. Mar 6, 2015.

[Online]. Available: community.smartthings.com/t/thinglayer-an-open-source-real-time-web-interface-for-iot/12295

4. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/galileo/galileo-overview.html

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKNiLiR6R6E

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. Microcontroller board (Arduino/intel galileo) 3. Camera

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TITLE Development of Digital Spirometer using NI-RIO

SUPERVISOR DR. SITI NOORJANNAH IBRAHIM AND DR. NOREHA ABDUL MALIK

SUMMARY A digital spirometer was successfully designed using NI FPGA board. This project is a continuation of previous works to develop a digital spirometer. Spirometer is a medical instrument for lung function test. It is conducted by measuring the differential pressure and volume/speed of air when a patient exhaled and inhaled through a mouthpiece. This project is to develop a portable digital spirometer using National Instrument (NI) myRio board. The project requires user-friendly, interactive, data management, and improved GUI for the present Spirometer using Labview or other methods which is deemed suitable. The GUI will also be able to analyse, store, and interpret the data obtained from the Spirometer.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design a GUI for the digital spirometer using Labview 2. To create database for the spirometer data 3. To interpret the data for diagnosis of respiratory problem

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review on digital spirometer 2. Design the GUI 3. Programming and interpretation of data

REFERENCES 1. An Approach to Interpreting Spirometry, TIMOTHY J. BARREIRO, D.O., and IRENE

PERILLO, M.D. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

2. SPIROMETRY FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung

3. Chest 2005, 128; 2443 – 7. 4. Enright P. Does screening for COPD by Primary Care Physicians have the potential to cause more harm than good? Chest 2006, 129; 833-


RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Books, journals, conference papers, thesis 2. Labview, Intel galileo board

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TITLE Characterization and Interpretation of Lung Diseases using Portable Digital Spirometer

SUPERVISOR DR. SITI NOORJANNAH IBRAHIM AND DR. NOREHA ABDUL MALIK

SUMMARY A digital spirometer GUI was successfully developed in previous FYP project. This project is a continuation of previous works to develop a characterization algorithm to identify lung diseases, differentiate between normal lung and abnormal lung through data recorded via digital spirometer. Spirometer is a medical instrument for lung function test. It is conducted by measuring the differential pressure and volume/speed of air when a patient exhaled and inhaled through a mouthpiece. This project is to develop a portable digital spirometer using single board RIO. The project requires user-friendly, interactive, data management, and improved GUI for the present Spirometer using LabView or other methods which is deemed suitable. The GUI will also be able to analyse, store, and interpret the data obtained from the Spirometer.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design a GUI for the digital spirometer using Lab view 2. To program the single board NI myRIO as a digital spirometer 3. To interpret the data for diagnosis of respiratory problem

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature review on digital spirometer 2. Construct the hardware of the digital spirometer 3. Programming and interpretation of data

REFERENCES 1. An Approach to Interpreting Spirometry, TIMOTHY J. BARREIRO, D.O., and IRENE

PERILLO, M.D. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

2. SPIROMETRY FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung

3. Chest 2005, 128; 2443 – 7. 4. Enright P. Does screening for COPD by Primary Care Physicians have the potential to cause more harm than good? Chest 2006, 129; 833-

4. Van Schayck CP,Loozen JM, Wagena et al. Detecting patients at high risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice; BMJ 2002, 324; 1370-4.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Books, journals, conference papers, thesis 2. Labview and Single board Rio

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TITLE An Automated Web Based Water Monitoring System Phase II


SUMMARY A web-based water monitoring system was successfully designed in previous FYP project. This project is a continuation of previous works to add more features to the monitoring system. Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging computing system that incorporates many technologies from different areas. This project is related to enhance the current state of system by introducing more sensors such as pH, CO2 and other suitable sensors. Currently the system has the capability to self-filter the water once the turbidity reached a threshold value

OBJECTIVES 1. To program the Intel Galileo/Arduino Boards for monitoring system. 2. To develop network connection between sensors and controller.


1. Literature review on Intel Galileo/Arduino and surveillance system. 2. Design an algorithm for the surveillance system. 3. Coding and Design a GUI of the web based application. 4. Testing and evaluation of the system.

REFERENCES 1. http://www.instructables.com/id/Streaming-USB-Webcam-with-the-Intel-Galileo-Gen-2/ 2. ITU Internet Reports, the Internet of Things, November 2005. 3. Jodyalbritton. ThingLayer: An open source real-time web interface for IoT. Mar 6, 2015.

[Online]. Available: community.smartthings.com/t/thinglayer-an-open-source-real-time-web-interface-for-iot/12295


5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKNiLiR6R6E

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Library for literature survey 2. Microcontroller board (Arduino/intel galileo) 3. Sensors

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TITLE Frequency Mapping for 4G-LTE frequency bands in IIUM Gombak Campus

SUPERVISOR DR KHAIRAYU BADRON

SUMMARY Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a standard for high-speed wireless communication for mobile phones and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA technologies. It increases the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvements.[1][2]. The projects will map the availability of the 4G-LTE within Gombak Campus.

OBJECTIVES

1. To study the characteristics of 4G and LTE in Malaysia 2. To measure the4G LTE frequency within the IIUM Gombak Campus 3. To map the 4G LTE frequency using open source software


1. Literature Review 2. Measure the4G LTE frequency within IIUM campus 3. Mapping the frequency range in the open software

REFERENCES Saman, Mohamad Afif, Ahmad Fadzil Ismail, Khairayu Badron, Huda Adibah Mohd Ramli,

Wahidah Hashim, and Ahmad Nasruddin ’Atiqullah Fakrullah. Development of Spectrum

Management Tool for Malaysia Using Open-source GIS Software. Springer International

Publishing, 2015.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) GIS software/any other

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TITLE Load Profile Analysis for Load Forecast in IIUM University Campus

SUPERVISOR

DR KHAIRAYU BADRON

SUMMARY Nowadays, advanced metering infrastructure allows us to record building energy consumption at much higher resolutions. This project will analyse the method for building load profile analysis and forecast using the 30-minute data collected at a PMU (Pencawang Meter Utama) at the IIUM Gombak Campus University. Building load signatures for benchmarking building load consumptions will be analyzed and extracted from load related environmental factors such as time of the day, temperature and humidity, etc. Then, methods to forecast hours-ahead building energy consumptions will be developed. Comparisons will be made to derive the benefit of having high resolution environmental data sets.

OBJECTIVES

1. To measure the daily power consumption of each IIUM Gombak building 2. To map the load profile of the electrical energy and carbon usage in IIUM 3. To forecast the energy and electricity cost estimation for the university


1. Literature Review 2. Measure the current and power consumption within IIUM campus 3. Mapping the power consumption in the open software

REFERENCES Xinda Ke, Anjie Jiang and Ning Lu, "Load profile analysis and short-term building load forecast

for a university campus," 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM),

Boston, MA, 2016, pp. 1-5.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) GIS software/any other

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TITLE Ultra-Wideband Antenna Design for CubeSat Application

SUPERVISOR DR. FARAH NADIA MOHD ISA

SUMMARY In order to maximize solar panel surface area, small satellite or microsatellite should be designed according to the CubeSat standard in order to generate enough power to operate [1]. CubeSat is a mini satellite with a 10×10×10 cm dimension and weighing a maximum of 1 kg. There were several designs that have been proposed for CubeSat application such as wire antennas, deployable helical antennas, patch antennas and quadrifillar helix antennas [2,3]. To enable new communications capabilities, several characteristics such as high gain, circularly-polarized radiation and wideband has been opted for the use of CubeSat.

OBJECTIVES 1. To design, simulate, build and measure an antenna array with beam-steering capabilities for

CubeSat application. 2. To achieve an antenna with a wide bandwidth to utilize all the commonly used CubeSat

frequencies, exhibit circular polarization with axial ratio as close to 1, provide high gain radiation patterns, and have a compact size to accommodate 3U CubeSat form factor within an affordable budget.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Literature Review 2. Determine the characteristic of UWB cubesat antenna 3. CST simulation - results etc. 4. Antenna fabrication 5. Antenna measurement

REFERENCES 1. “Circularly polarized meshed patch antenna for cubesats and other small satellites,” in 2016

IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), pp. 1547–1548, 2016.

2. J. Costantine, Y. Tawk, C. G. Christodoulou, J. Banik, and S. Lane, “Cubesat deployable antenna using bistable composite tape-springs,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 11, pp. 285–288, 2012.

3. S. Lee, “Cubesat design specification,” in The Cubesat Program, pp. 22, 2009. 4. S. Mohamad, R. Cahill, and V. Fusco, “Selective high impedance surface active region loading

of Archimedean spiral antenna,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 13, pp. 810–813, 2014.

5. S. Mohamad, R. Cahill and V. Fusco, “Design of a cavity backed spiral antenna with improved pattern symmetry,” in Proc. 7th European Conference on Antennas Propag., pp. 3963–3967, 2013.

6. H. Nakano, S. Sasaki, H. Oyanagi, and J. Yamauchi, “Cavity-backed Archimedean spiral antenna with strip absorber,” IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 725–730, 2008.

7. S. Palreddy, A. I. Zaghloul, and S. J. Weiss, “Performance of spiral antenna over broadband uniform-height progressive EBG surface,” in Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Gothenburg, pp. 3941–3944, 2013.

RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY) 1. Literature - Online journal database, books, papers etc. 2. CST 3. MATLAB

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TITLE Heat Characterization of Low Absorption Material by Z-Scan with HRR Femtosecond Laser

SUPERVISOR DR. MOHD SHAHNAN BIN ZAINAL ABIDIN

SUMMARY Z-scan method is a versatile nonlinear characterization technique of optical material. Nonlinearity of any optical material is important to categorize the material for any optical nonlinear application such as two-photon absorption and nonlinear refractive index. Low absorption material such as solvents are widely used to dissolve optical material crystal. Heat deposition by HRR laser into the material masks the real nonlinear data. Heat characterization by the HRR on the material will determine the degree of changes due to the heat and consequently recovers the right data.

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