Category: Capstone Project Titles

Abstract—Graph-based ranking models have been widely applied in information retrieval area. In this paper, we focus on a wellknown graph-based model – the Ranking on Data Manifold model, or Manifold Ranking (MR). Particularly, it has been successfullyapplied to content-based image retrieval, because of its outstanding ability to discover underlying geometrical structure of the givenimage database.…

Effective Key Management in DynamicWireless Sensor NetworksAbstract—Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) havebeen deployed for a wide variety of applications, includingmilitary sensing and tracking, patient status monitoring, trafficflow monitoring, where sensory devices often move betweendifferent locations. Securing data and communications requiressuitable encryption key protocols. In this paper, we propose acertificateless-effective key management (CL-EKM) protocol forsecure communication…

The massive proliferation of wireless infrastructures with complementary characteristics prompts the bandwidth aggregation for Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) over heterogeneous access networks. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is the standard transport-layer solution to enable CMT in multihomed communication environments. However, delivering high-quality streaming video with the existing CMT solutions still remains problematic due to the…

Abstract: The timing channel is a logical communication channel in which information is encoded in the timing between events. Recently, the use of the timing channel has been proposed as a countermeasure to reactive jamming attacks performed by an energy- constrained malicious node. In fact, while a jammer is able to disrupt the information contained…

In this paper, we will focus on the security of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), which is one of the most crucial components of SG. AMI serves as a bridge for providing bidirectional information flow between user domain and utility domain. AMI’s main functionalities encompass power measurement facilities, assisting adaptive power pricing and demand side management,…

This paper presents a systematic data-driven approach to assisting situational application development. We first propose a technique to extract useful information from multiple sources to abstract service capabilities with set tags. This supports intuitive expression of user’s desired composition goals by simple queries, without having to know underlying technical details. A planning technique then exploits…