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This paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture based on the combination of ontologies, rules, web services, and the autonomic computing paradigm to manage data in home-based telemonitoring scenarios.
The architecture includes two layers: 1) a conceptual layer and 2) a data and communication layer. On the one hand, the conceptual layer based on ontologies is proposed to unify the management procedure and integrate incoming data from all the sources involved in the telemonitoring process. On the other hand, the data and communication layer based on REST web service (WS) technologies is proposed to provide practical backup to the use of the ontology, to provide a real implementation of the tasks it describes and thus to provide a means of exchanging data (support communication tasks).
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order to evaluate the efficiency of the architecture. This proposed
ontology-based solution defines a flexible and scalable architecture in order
to address main challenges presented in home-based telemonitoring scenarios and
thus provide a means to integrate, unify, and transfer data supporting both clinical
and technical management tasks.
1.2 INTRODUCTION
Patient empowerment is considered as a philosophy of health care based on the perspective that better outcomes are achieved when patients become active participants in their own health management. This new paradigm is a central idea in the European Union (EU) health strategy supported by international health organizations including the World Health Organization among others, and its effectiveness in yielding quality of care is an obvious and essential area of research. This new idea invites to look for new ways of providing healthcare, e.g., by using information and communications technologies. In this context, home-based telemonitoring systems can be used as self-care management tools, while collaborative processes among healthcare personnel and patients are maintained, thus the patient’s safe control is guaranteed. Telemonitoring systems face the problem of delivering medicine to the current growing population with chronic conditions while at the same time covering the dimensions of quality of care and new paradigms such as empowerment can be supported.
By periodically collecting patients’
themselves clinical data (located at their home sites) and transferring them to
physicians located in remote sites, patient’s health status supervision and
feedback provision are possible. This type of telemedicine system guarantees
patient control while reducing costs and avoiding hospital overflows. These two
sites (home site and healthcare site) comprised a typical home-based
telemonitoring system. At home site, data acquired by using MDs together with
the patient’s feedback are collected in a concentrator device (HG) used to
evaluate and/or transfer the acquired data outside the patient’s home if
necessary. At the health-care site, a server device is used to manage information
from the home site as well as to manage and store the patient’s monitoring
guidelines defined by physicians (TS, telemonitoring server). In fact, this
telemonitoring process, and consequently the evolution of the patient’s health
status, ismanaged through the indications or monitoring guidelines provided by
physicians.
Although significant contributions have been made in this field in recent decades, telemedicine and in e-health scenarios in general still pose numerous challenges that need to be addressed by researchers in order to take maximum advantage of the benefits that these systems provide and to support their long-term implementation. Interoperability and integration are critical challenges that also need to be addressed when developing monitoring systems in order to provide effective healthcare and to make possible seamless communication among the different heterogeneous health entities that participate in the monitoring process. This integration should be addressed at both end sites of the scenario but also in the communication link, thus integrating the way of transferring and exchanging information efficiently between them.
We providing personalized care services and taking into account the patient’s context have been identified as additional requirements. Furthermore, apart from clinical data aspects, technical issues should be also addressed in this scenario. Technical management of all the devices that comprise the telemonitoring scenario (e.g., the MDs and HG) is an important task that may or may not be integrated under the same architecture as clinical management. Hence, at this technical level, research is still required to address these challenges. Consequently there is a need for the development of new telemonitoring architectures.
Great efforts have been made in recent years in developing standards to deal with interoperability at different points of the e-health communication infrastructure such as the ISO/IEEE 11073 (X73) for MDs interoperability, the OpenEHR initiative for storage, management and retrieval of electronic health record (EHR) information or as the standardized Health Level Seven7 (HL7) messages to solve clinical data transferences. Nevertheless, additional efforts are required to enable them to work together and ultimately provide a higher level of integration.
Specifically, in this telemonitoring scenario, there is not a unique standard-based solution to address data and management integration. Since several standards can be used (some of them in combination with proprietary protocols or other standards) at different points of this scenario, the interoperability problem remains unsolved unless these standards would merge into one or alignments and combination of them would be done. According to Berges et al. interoperability does not mean to have a unique representation but a semantically acknowledged equivalent one. That is the reason to propose in this study an ontology-based architecture in order to provide with a common knowledge about the exchanged data and the management of such data. This ontology constitutes the knowledge equivalent one. Then, at both ends of the architecture other standards could be used for other managing purposes relating this model with the specific desired approach. Using this alternative, a knowledge model is first provided that avoids alignment of models two by two, while all being related through the main ontology.
Ontologies-based solutions have been popularized over the past few years. Ontologies provide a higher level of abstraction and have been successfully used in telemonitoring scenarios and other areas to provide knowledge representation and semantic integration, thus a common understanding about data exchanged by all the entities. Furthermore, its combination with rules allows providing personalized management services and thus personalized care. Although there are works that describe the details of an ontology approach in this domain, they do not devote much attention to the architecture implementation and the communication used to exchange the information described. Consequently, fewworks have given details about this practical implementation of the ontology-based system which may be of interest for the development of other ontology-based applications in and outside the e-health domain.
This paper presents an ontology-driven
architecture to integrate data management and enable its communication in a
telemonitoring scenario. The proposed architecture includes two layers: the
conceptual layer (the ontology) and the communication and data layer. The
conceptual layer uses the HOTMES and its extensions introduced. Specifically,
the OWL-DL language was selected to define this ontology model. The second
layer is based on WS technologies. WSs have been successfully used in network
management and also in other works to exchange data modeled by ontology.
However, our proposal, inspired on the representational state transfer (REST)
style and based on a generic communication method, provides a different design
approach that may be reusable for other systems based on ontologies.
Furthermore, security issues have been considered. The aim is to define a
flexible and scalable architecture in order to address main challenges
presented in home-based telemonitoring scenarios and thus provide a means to
integrate and transfer data supporting both clinical and technical data
management.
1.3 LITRATURE SURVEY
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: JD. Trigo, I. Mart´ınez, A. Alesanco, A. Kollmann, J. Escayola, D. Hayn, G. Schreier, and J. Garc´ıa, “AN INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR END-TO-END STANDARDIZED EXCHANGE AND HOMOGENEOUS MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL ECG FORMATS,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed., vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 518–529, Jul. 2012.
EXPLANATION:
This paper investigates the application of the enterprise information system (EIS) paradigm to standardized cardiovascular condition monitoring. There are many specifications in cardiology, particularly in the ECG standardization arena. The existence of ECG formats, however, does not guarantee the implementation of homogeneous, standardized solutions for ECG management. In fact, hospital management services need to cope with various ECG formats and, moreover, several different visualization applications. This heterogeneity hampers the normalization of integrated, standardized healthcare information systems, hence the need for finding an appropriate combination of ECG formats and suitable EIS-based software architecture that enables standardized exchange and homogeneous management of ECG formats. Determining such a combination is one objective of this paper.
We develop the integrated healthcare information system that satisfies the requirements posed by the previous determination. The ECG formats selected include ISO/IEEE11073, Standard Communications Protocol for Computer-Assisted Electrocardiography, and an ECG ontology. The EIS-enabling techniques and technologies selected include web services, simple object access protocol, extensible markup language, or business process execution language. Such a selection ensures the standardized exchange of ECGs within, or across, healthcare information systems while providing modularity and accessibility.
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: D. Ria˜no, F. Real, J. A. L´opez-Vallverd´u, F. Campana, S. Ercolani, P. Mecocci, R. Annicchiarico, and C. Caltagirone, “AN ONTOLOGY-BASED PERSONALIZATION OF HEALTH-CARE KNOWLEDGE TO SUPPORT CLINICAL DECISIONS FOR CHRONICALLY ILL PATIENTS,” J. Biomed. Informat., vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 429–446, 2012.
EXPLANATION:
Chronically ill patients are complex health care cases that require the coordinated interaction of multiple professionals. A correct intervention of these sort of patients entails the accurate analysis of the conditions of each concrete patient and the adaptation of evidence-based standard intervention plans to these conditions. There are some other clinical circumstances such as wrong diagnoses, unobserved comorbidities, missing information, unobserved related diseases or prevention, whose detection depends on the capacities of deduction of the professionals involved. In this paper, we introduce ontology for the care of chronically ill patients and implement two personalization processes and a decision support tool. The first personalization process adapts the contents of the ontology to the particularities observed in the health-care record of a given concrete patient, automatically providing a personalized ontology containing only the clinical information that is relevant for health-care professionals to manage that patient. The second personalization process uses the personalized ontology of a patient to automatically transform intervention plans describing health-care general treatments into individual intervention plans. For comorbid patients, this process concludes with the semi-automatic integration of several individual plans into a single personalized plan. Finally, the ontology is also used as the knowledge base of a decision support tool that helps health-care professionals to detect anomalous circumstances such as wrong diagnoses, unobserved comorbidities, missing information, unobserved related diseases, or preventive actions. Seven health-care centers participating in the K4CARE project, together with the group SAGESA and the Local Health System in the town of Pollenza have served as the validation platform for these two processes and tool. Health-care professionals participating in the evaluation agree about the average quality 84% (5.9/7.0) and utility 90% (6.3/7.0) of the tools and also about the correct reasoning of the decision support tool, according to clinical standards.
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: I.Berges, J. Bermudez, and A. Illarramendi, “TOWARDS SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 424–431, May 2012.
EXPLANATION:
Although the goal of
achieving semantic interoperability of electronic health records (EHRs) is
pursued by many researchers, it has not been accomplished yet. In this paper,
we present a proposal that smoothes out the way toward the achievement of that
goal. In particular, our study focuses on medical diagnoses statements. In
summary, the main contributions of our ontology-based proposal are the
following: first, it includes a canonical ontology whose EHR-related terms
focus on semantic aspects. As a result, their descriptions are independent of
languages and technology aspects used in different organizations to represent
EHRs. Moreover, those terms are related to their corresponding codes in
well-known medical terminologies. Second, it deals with modules that allow
obtaining rich ontological representations of EHR information managed by
proprietary models of health information systems. The features of one specific
module are shown as reference. Third, it considers the necessary mapping axioms
between ontological terms enhanced with so-called path mappings. This feature
smoothes out structural differences between heterogeneous EHR representations,
allowing proper alignment of information.
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: N. Lasierra,A.Alesanco, J.Garc´ıa, andD.O’Sullivan, “DATA MANAGEMENT IN HOME SCENARIOS USING AN AUTONOMIC ONTOLOGY-BASED APPROACH,” in Proc. of the 9th IEEE Int. Conf. Pervasive Workshop on Manag. Ubiquitous Commun. Services part of PerCom, 2012, pp. 94–99.
EXPLANATION:
An ontology-based approach to deal
with data and management procedure integration in home-based scenarios is
presented in this paper. The proposed ontology not only provides a means to
represent exchanged data but also to unify the way of accessing, controlling,
evaluating and transferring information remotely. The structure of this
ontology has been inspired by the autonomic computing paradigm, thus it
describes the tasks that comprise the MAPE (Monitor, Analyze, Plan and Execute)
process. Furthermore the use of SPARQL (Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language)
is proposed in this paper to express conditions and rules that determine the
performance of these tasks according to each situation. Finally two practical
application cases of the proposed ontology-based approach are presented.
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
Telemonitoring systems face the problem of delivering medicine to the current growing population with chronic conditions while at the same time covering the dimensions of quality of care and new paradigms such as empowerment can be supported. By periodically collecting patients’ themselves clinical data (located at their home sites) and transferring them to physicians located in remote sites, patient’s health status supervision and feedback provision are possible.
This type of telemedicine system
guarantees patient control while reducing costs and avoiding hospital
overflows. These two sites (home site and healthcare site) comprised a typical
home-based telemonitoring system. At home site, data acquired by using MDs
together with the patient’s feedback are collected in a concentrator device
(HG) used to evaluate and/or transfer the acquired data outside the patient’s
home if necessary.
2.1.1 DISADVANTAGES:
- Existing models for chronic diseases pose several technology-oriented challenges for home-based care, where assistance services rely on a close collaboration among different stakeholders, such as health operators, patient relatives, and social community members.
- An ontology-based context model and a related context management system providing a configurable and extensible service-oriented framework to ease the development of applications for monitoring and handling patient chronic conditions.
- The system has been developed in a prototypal version, and integrated with a service platform for supporting operators of home-based care networks in cooperating and sharing patient-related information and coordinating mutual interventions for handling critical and alarm situations.
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
We present an ontology-driven architecture to integrate data management and enable its communication in a telemonitoring scenario. It enables to not only integrate patient’s clinical data management but also technical data management of all devices that are included in the scenario. The proposed architecture includes two layers: the conceptual layer (the ontology) and the communication and data layer.
The conceptual layer uses the HOTMES and its extensions introduced specifically in the OWL-DL language was selected to define this ontology model. The second layer is based on WS technologies. WSs have been successfully used in network management and also in other works to exchange data modeled by ontology is our proposal, inspired on the representational state transfer (REST) style and based on a generic communication method, provides a different design approach that may be reusable for other systems based on ontologies.
Furthermore, security issues have been
considered. The aim is to define a flexible and scalable architecture in order
to address main challenges presented in home-based telemonitoring scenarios and
thus provide a means to integrate and transfer data supporting both clinical
and technical data management.
2.2.1 ADVANTAGES:
Ontologies provide a higher level of abstraction and have been successfully used in telemonitoring scenarios and other areas to provide knowledge representation and semantic integration, thus a common understanding about data exchanged by all the entities. Furthermore, its combination with rules allows providing personalized management services and thus personalized care.
We describe the details of an ontology approach in this domain, they do not devote much attention to the architecture implementation and the communication used to exchange the information described.
Our implementation of the ontology-based
system which may be of interest for the development of other ontology-based
applications in and outside the e-health domain the ontology for interpreting
the data transferred for the communication of end sources of the architecture.
The data and communication layer deals with data management and transmission.
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP or Win7
- Front End : Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- Back End : MSSQL Server
- Server : ASP .NET Web Server
- Script : C# Script
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN:
Data Flow Diagram / Use Case Diagram / Flow Diagram:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data’s in the physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
3.1 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM
3.2 DATAFLOW DIAGRAM
UML DIAGRAMS:
3.2 USE CASE DIAGRAM:
3.3 CLASS DIAGRAM:
3.4 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:
3.5 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
ONTOLOGIES:
According to one of the most widely accepted definitions of ontologies in computer science, ontology can be described as “an explicit and formal specification of a shared conceptualization”. In simple words, ontologies represent concepts and basic relationships for the purpose of comprehension of a common knowledge area. To develop an ontology means to formalize a common view of a certain domain.
1) OWL Language: In computer science, there are plenty of formal languages that can be used to define and constructontologies. These languages allow encoding knowledge contained in ontology in a simple and formal way. However, the standardized RDF and OWL have been gaining popularity in the semantic web world. Ontology can be formally described in OWL using following basic elements: 1) classes; 2) individuals; and 3) properties. These elements are used in order to describe concepts, instances, or members of a class and relationships between individuals of two classes (object properties) or to link individuals with datatype values, respectively (data type properties). Apart from these basic elements OWL provides with class descriptors used to precisely describe OWL classes which includes properties restrictions (value and cardinality constraints), class axioms, properties axioms, and properties over individuals.
2) Rules: Generally, ontology-based solutions combine knowledge presented in ontologies with dynamic knowledge presented by the use of rules. A system based on the use of rules usually contains a set of if-then rules (which indicate what should be done according to a situation) and a rule engine used to apply them. By using rules, the behavior of individuals can be expressed inside a domain. Hence, they can be used to generate new knowledge and can also be used to provide personalized services. One of the most popular languages for rules definition is SWRL.
However, in our study, we used SPARQL to define some rules is a query language it can be used as a rule language by combining CONSTRUCT clause and FILTER restrictions. On the one hand, the CONSTRUCT query form returns a single RDF graph built based on the results of matching with the graph pattern of the query and by taking the specified graph template. On the other hand, the FILTER clause can be used to restrict solutions to those which the filter expression considers as TRUE. Only if the filter function evaluates to true is the solution to be included in the solution sequence. Note that although this language was good enough for our purpose, its limitations should be studied for other purposes (e.g., recursive tasks) and the adequacy of SWRL could be studied for complex applications.
WEB SERVICES
Web services are used in this study as software technology to access and exchange information modeled by the ontology. According to the W3C, a WS is a “software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a communication network”. Systems may interact with the web services by exchanging SOAP messages serialized in XML for its message format and sent over other application layer protocols, usually HTTP. Although SOAP-based web services are the most popular types of WSs, there are other styles of programming a WS such as the REST style.
1) Rest Style for DesigningWeb Services: REST is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web first defined in 2000 by Fielding. This style is based on the idea of transferring the representations of resources, a resource being any item of interest. One of the key advantages of the REST architecture are scalability of components and generality of interfaces. Although REST was initially described in the context of HTTP, this paradigm can be applied to other protocols or implementations. Web services can also be described using this style. A WS implemented using HTTP and the principles of REST architecture is designated as REST(ful) WS. Requests made from the client and responses from the WS are used to transfer resources information. Each resource is identified through an URI. Stateless behavior of data using XML and/or JSON and explicitly used HTTP methods (PUT, GET, POST, DELETE) to exchange resources are the key characteristics of a REST(ful) WS.
4.1 MODULES:
MANAGEMENT PROFILE:
DATA AND COMMUNICATION LAYER:
HG AND TS MANAGEMENT MODULES:
COMMUNICATION FLOW AND WORKFLOW:
4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTION:
CLINICAL MANAGEMENT PROFILE:
COPD patients were identified as candidates to be monitored at home sites. From a clinical point of view, it was an interesting case study (some estimations suggest that up to 10% of the European population suffers COPD). From a technical point of view, the case of the COPD patient led to define a complex technical management profile (because different MDs are required to be used by the patient) and interesting option to test the performance of the agent. Hence, one patient profile was designed according to the clinical HOTMES ontology and one technical management profile was designed according to the technical HOTMES ontology.
The patient profile includes the required
tasks to monitor a COPD patient such as controlling the FEV1 measurement in
order to detect the presence and severity of the airway obstruction. It was
configured by a primary care physician by means of published clinical
guidelines in patient profile included 15 monitoring task, 11 analysis
task, 9 planning task, and 3 execution task. This configuration led to include
144 new instances and to configure 18 rules. The details of this profile and
its evaluation to configure other type of profiles can be technical
management profile was designed to monitor the state of theMDs used by the
COPD patient (weighing scale, a blood pressure monitor, a pulse-oximeter, and a
glucometer) and the consumption of resources of the correspondent HG. In
addition rules were configured and 83 new instances were required to be
configured in the technical management profile in additional information
of the application of the HOTMES ontology for technical tasks.
DATA AND COMMUNICATION LAYER:
In the data layer, the communication between the end sites is established using WS technologies. Consequently, a WS has been designed to be placed in the TS and also a web client to be installed in the HG (to establish a communication with the TS). This communication allows the HG to ask for its associated management profile to the TS and to transmit acquired information from the HG to the TS.
A REST WS was developed in order to enhance the scalability and flexibility of the architecture and improve the performance (efficiency). This WS comprises and defines a set of operations over the following resources: an OWL ontology, the rules (transferred by means of an XML), OWL individuals (sent by the IndividualWS structure), properties datatype values corresponding to an individual (identified by the URI of the individual and the URI of the property sent in a string generic type), and inform messages to provide some control functions to the web pair communication.
Each one of these resources was
identified by an URI, and a set of operations was defined for each particular
resource using HTTP methods (e.g., GET or PUT). This WS interface allows
information described in the ontology to be exchanged in a generic manner. This
is one key that contributes to the reusability and easy extension of the architecture.
Described communication methods do not depend on the knowledge itself described
in the ontology (related to the service) but on the fact of using an ontology
to represent such knowledge. A summary of the resources and defined operations is
depicted in Table I. As mentioned in the description of the converter module, individuals
are exchanged by using a developed structure designated as IndividualWS.
Using OWL language, an individual of the ontology can be described as a member
of a class with individual axioms or facts as individual property values
(datatype and object properties).
HG AND TS MANAGEMENT MODULES:
Two management modules and web technology modules inside the HG and the TS constitute the main parts of the telemedicine system (see Fig. 1). The modules that comprise the architecture have been developed using .NET technologies. Specifically, the .NET framework (version 3.5) has been used to process the ontology and create new instances, data acquisition, and manipulation when the rules are applied. Regarding the web modules the components of the remote management module installed in the TS are depicted in Fig. 1. This management module includes the following three components:
1) Ontology knowledge base module: This module contains the ontology knowledge models and the instances of the registered management profiles. The TDB triple-store has been used to store the ontology model and new instances in this knowledge base module.
2) Converter module: The communication module of this architecture is mainly based on OWL instances exchanged generically by means of a developed object structure named IndividualWS. The converter module is used to wrap and unwrap the individuals structure used to exchange information with web clients. Furthermore, this module incorporates some reasoning tasks. Ontology-based reasoning is used in order to check instances before including new information
in the model and to ensure the consistency of the model.
3)
Rules module: This module is used to store rules
associated with each management profile. These rules are subsequently transferred
by means of an XML file. As shown in Fig. 1, an additional GUI is required in
order to make easier for EM, technical or clinical (physician), the process of
defining the profiles and the rules. We are currentlyworking in the development
of this GUI combining ontology visualization techniques and usability methods.
The methodology used to design this interface components of the management module
installed in the HG are equally depicted in Fig. 1. This last management module
has been designated the “Semantic Autonomic Agent.” This module plays a key
role in the architecture. It is in charge of integrating incoming data and
executing the management tasks described in the management profile.
The communication between this agent and the management module installed at the remote site is established through a web client connection to the WS installed in the remote TS. The architecture of the agent comprises the ontology knowledge base module, the rules module, the converter module, and the following modules.
1) MAPE module: This module constitutes the computing core of the agent. It will be used to run the tasks specified in each management profile, hence to execute the closed loop from the MAPE loop process.
2) Integrator module: Information transferred by MDs and also contextual data provided by patients will be acquired in this module, which integrates data coming from different data sources.
3) Reminders and alarms module: This module includes clock functionalities to ask patients about data (reminders) or to collect information from a specific software resource.
4) Actions module: This last module is
used to execute actions described within the execution tasks of the management
profile if an abnormal finding occurs.
FLOW AND WORKFLOW PERFORMANCE:
All the modules and sources involved in the management procedure. The first step (see Fig. 3) consists in the download of the management profile (patient profile or technical profile). First of all, an instance of the management profile should be configured by an EM placed at a remote site. Furthermore, a set of individual rules should be configured for each particular management purpose. As shown in Fig. 3, the designed GUI helps the physician with the ontology instantiation process and the rules definition. The outputs of this interface (which uses selected classes of the ontology as a navigation tool) are a personalized management profile and a set of rules gathered in an XML file. Other functionalities such as queries over acquired data or crossing data among patients to take some decisions could be of interest to be included in this tool.
The communication is always initiated by the user (web client at HG). Through a connection to the web service, the user (the patient in the telemonitoring scenario) situated at home site will acquire the required management profile. As shown in Fig. 3, if the user requests for an update of his/her management profile, then the version of the available profile at the TS will be requested for its evaluation (GET property value). When the user requests a new management profile, first, it is checked whether the ontology to download it is available (GET ontology). After that, the rules and the management profile will be downloaded when required.
The methods involved are 1) GET (rules)
and 2) GET (individual). Note that the TLS authentication phase is not depicted
in Fig. 3, but it is initially carried out in order to allow the web client
connection to the web service. As depicted in Fig. 3, the associated management
profile is extracted from the ontology and the instances of the ontology
managed by Jena are wrapped into the IndividualWS structure through the
converter module. Once the management profile is in the HG, it will be
processed into the converter module, unwrapped, and inserted as individuals
managed by Jena in the ontology. Once the management profile has been
included in the ontology knowledge base module of the HG, it will be evaluated in
the MAPE module and the management procedure will be performed by running the
tasks specified in the profile.
CHAPTER 5
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of
acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the
user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the
system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the
users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about
the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be
raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is
welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months. This creates two problems, the time lag between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
A program
represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run
satisfactorily, it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly
with other programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of
the programmer. Program testing checks
for two types
of errors: syntax
and logical. Syntax error is a
program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it
is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are
common syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by
the computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output
carefully.
UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
5.1.3 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional
testing of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct
results, using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will
work correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to
prove that the application works for each client type and that personalization
function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is
compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of
instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the
program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain
key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated
values to isolate the problems.
FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 4 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.5 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Load Testing
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance
tests are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the
software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the code,
response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to identify
weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software
reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required
functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is
being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of
the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the
specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate
without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses
on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software
quality control team.
RELIABILITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security
testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability,
integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients
should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known
at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the
designers and testers.
SECURITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.7 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box
testing, sometimes called glass-box
testing is a test case
design method that uses
the control structure
of the procedural design to
derive test cases. Using
white box testing
method, the software engineer
can derive test
cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the
software structure to be tested.
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box
testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements
of the software. That is,
black testing enables
the software engineer to derive
sets of input
conditions that will
fully exercise all
functional requirements for a
program. Black box testing is not
alternative to white box techniques.
Rather it is
a complementary approach that
is likely to
uncover a different class
of errors than
white box methods. Black box
testing attempts to find errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle
function of a software module. The starting point of the black box testing is
either a specification or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the
stimulated software should produce the desired results.
5.1.10 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 7
7.0 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION:
7.1 FEATURES OF .NET:
Microsoft .NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies for rapidly building and integrating XML Web services, Microsoft Windows-based applications, and Web solutions. The .NET Framework is a language-neutral platform for writing programs that can easily and securely interoperate. There’s no language barrier with .NET: there are numerous languages available to the developer including Managed C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java Script.
The .NET framework provides the foundation for components to interact seamlessly, whether locally or remotely on different platforms. It standardizes common data types and communications protocols so that components created in different languages can easily interoperate.
“.NET” is
also the collective name given to various software components built upon the
.NET platform. These will be both products (Visual Studio.NET and Windows.NET
Server, for instance) and services (like Passport, .NET My Services, and so
on).
7.2 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework has two main parts:
1. The Common Language Runtime (CLR).
2. A hierarchical set of class libraries.
The CLR is described as the “execution engine” of .NET. It provides the environment within which programs run. The most important features are
- Conversion from a low-level assembler-style language, called Intermediate Language (IL), into code native to the platform being executed on.
- Memory management, notably including garbage collection.
- Checking and enforcing security restrictions on the running code.
- Loading and executing programs, with version control and other such features.
- The following features of the .NET framework are also worth description:
Managed Code
The code
that targets .NET, and which contains certain extra Information – “metadata” –
to describe itself. Whilst both managed and unmanaged code can run in the
runtime, only managed code contains the information that allows the CLR to
guarantee, for instance, safe execution and interoperability.
Managed Data
With Managed Code comes Managed Data. CLR provides memory allocation and Deal location facilities, and garbage collection. Some .NET languages use Managed Data by default, such as C#, Visual Basic.NET and JScript.NET, whereas others, namely C++, do not. Targeting CLR can, depending on the language you’re using, impose certain constraints on the features available. As with managed and unmanaged code, one can have both managed and unmanaged data in .NET applications – data that doesn’t get garbage collected but instead is looked after by unmanaged code.
Common Type System
The CLR uses something called the Common Type System (CTS) to strictly enforce type-safety. This ensures that all classes are compatible with each other, by describing types in a common way. CTS define how types work within the runtime, which enables types in one language to interoperate with types in another language, including cross-language exception handling. As well as ensuring that types are only used in appropriate ways, the runtime also ensures that code doesn’t attempt to access memory that hasn’t been allocated to it.
Common Language Specification
The CLR provides built-in support for language interoperability. To ensure that you can develop managed code that can be fully used by developers using any programming language, a set of language features and rules for using them called the Common Language Specification (CLS) has been defined. Components that follow these rules and expose only CLS features are considered CLS-compliant.
7.3 THE CLASS LIBRARY
.NET provides a single-rooted hierarchy of classes, containing over 7000 types. The root of the namespace is called System; this contains basic types like Byte, Double, Boolean, and String, as well as Object. All objects derive from System. Object. As well as objects, there are value types. Value types can be allocated on the stack, which can provide useful flexibility. There are also efficient means of converting value types to object types if and when necessary.
The set of classes is pretty comprehensive, providing collections, file, screen, and network I/O, threading, and so on, as well as XML and database connectivity.
The class library is subdivided into a number of sets (or namespaces), each providing distinct areas of functionality, with dependencies between the namespaces kept to a minimum.
7.4 LANGUAGES SUPPORTED BY .NET
The multi-language capability of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET enables developers to use their existing programming skills to build all types of applications and XML Web services. The .NET framework supports new versions of Microsoft’s old favorites Visual Basic and C++ (as VB.NET and Managed C++), but there are also a number of new additions to the family.
Visual Basic .NET has been updated to include many new and improved language features that make it a powerful object-oriented programming language. These features include inheritance, interfaces, and overloading, among others. Visual Basic also now supports structured exception handling, custom attributes and also supports multi-threading.
Visual Basic .NET is also CLS compliant, which means that any CLS-compliant language can use the classes, objects, and components you create in Visual Basic .NET.
Managed Extensions for C++ and attributed programming are just some of the enhancements made to the C++ language. Managed Extensions simplify the task of migrating existing C++ applications to the new .NET Framework.
C# is Microsoft’s new language. It’s a C-style language that is essentially “C++ for Rapid Application Development”. Unlike other languages, its specification is just the grammar of the language. It has no standard library of its own, and instead has been designed with the intention of using the .NET libraries as its own.
Microsoft Visual J# .NET provides the easiest transition for Java-language developers into the world of XML Web Services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of other programming languages.
Active State has created Visual Perl and Visual Python, which enable .NET-aware applications to be built in either Perl or Python. Both products can be integrated into the Visual Studio .NET environment. Visual Perl includes support for Active State’s Perl Dev Kit.
Other languages for which .NET compilers are available include
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- Eiffel
ASP.NET XML WEB SERVICES | Windows Forms |
Base Class Libraries | |
Common Language Runtime | |
Operating System |
Fig1 .Net Framework
C#.NET is also compliant with CLS (Common Language Specification) and supports structured exception handling. CLS is set of rules and constructs that are supported by the CLR (Common Language Runtime). CLR is the runtime environment provided by the .NET Framework; it manages the execution of the code and also makes the development process easier by providing services.
C#.NET is
a CLS-compliant language. Any objects, classes, or components that created in
C#.NET can be used in any other CLS-compliant language. In addition, we can use
objects, classes, and components created in other CLS-compliant languages in
C#.NET .The use of CLS ensures complete interoperability among applications,
regardless of the languages used to create the application.
CONSTRUCTORS AND DESTRUCTORS:
Constructors are used to initialize objects, whereas destructors are used to destroy them. In other words, destructors are used to release the resources allocated to the object. In C#.NET the sub finalize procedure is available. The sub finalize procedure is used to complete the tasks that must be performed when an object is destroyed. The sub finalize procedure is called automatically when an object is destroyed. In addition, the sub finalize procedure can be called only from the class it belongs to or from derived classes.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
Garbage Collection is another new feature in C#.NET. The .NET Framework monitors allocated resources, such as objects and variables. In addition, the .NET Framework automatically releases memory for reuse by destroying objects that are no longer in use.
In C#.NET, the garbage collector checks for the objects that are not currently in use by applications. When the garbage collector comes across an object that is marked for garbage collection, it releases the memory occupied by the object.
OVERLOADING
Overloading is another feature in C#. Overloading enables us
to define multiple procedures with the same name, where each procedure has a
different set of arguments. Besides using overloading for procedures, we can
use it for constructors and properties in a class.
MULTITHREADING:
C#.NET also supports multithreading. An application that supports multithreading can handle multiple tasks simultaneously, we can use multithreading to decrease the time taken by an application to respond to user interaction.
STRUCTURED EXCEPTION HANDLING
C#.NET supports structured handling, which enables us to
detect and remove errors at runtime. In C#.NET, we need to use
Try…Catch…Finally statements to create exception handlers. Using
Try…Catch…Finally statements, we can create robust and effective exception
handlers to improve the performance of our application.
7.5 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet.
OBJECTIVES OF .NET FRAMEWORK
1. To provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object codes is stored and executed locally on Internet-distributed, or executed remotely.
2. To provide a code-execution environment to minimizes software deployment and guarantees safe execution of code.
3. Eliminates the performance problems.
There are
different types of application, such as Windows-based applications and
Web-based applications.
7.6 FEATURES OF SQL-SERVER
The OLAP Services feature available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. The term OLAP Services has been replaced with the term Analysis Services. Analysis Services also includes a new data mining component. The Repository component available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Meta Data Services. References to the component now use the term Meta Data Services. The term repository is used only in reference to the repository engine within Meta Data Services
SQL-SERVER database consist of six type of objects,
They are,
1. TABLE
2. QUERY
3. FORM
4. REPORT
5.
MACRO
7.7 TABLE:
A database is a collection of data about a specific topic.
VIEWS OF TABLE:
We can work with a table in two types,
1. Design View
2. Datasheet View
Design View
To build or modify the structure of a table we work in the table design view. We can specify what kind of data will be hold.
Datasheet View
To add, edit or analyses the data itself we work in tables datasheet view mode.
QUERY:
A query is
a question that has to be asked the data. Access gathers data that answers the
question from one or more table. The data that make up the answer is either
dynaset (if you edit it) or a snapshot (it cannot be edited).Each time we run
query, we get latest information in the dynaset. Access either displays the
dynaset or snapshot for us to view or perform an action on it, such as deleting
or updating.
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2 SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
8.1 CONCLUSION:
This study describes architecture to enable data integration and its management in an ontology-driven telemonitoring solution implemented in home-based scenarios. This is an innovative architecture that facilitates the integration of several management services at home sites using the same software engine. The architecture has been specifically studied to support both technical and clinical services in the telemonitoring scenario, thus avoiding installing additional software for technical purposes.
HOTMES ontology used at the conceptual layer to describe a management profile on the one hand, our ontology contributes to integrate data and its management offering benefits in terms of knowledge representation, workflow organization, and self-management capabilities to the system. Its combination with rules allows providing personalized services.
This application ontology could be in
future improved by introducing concepts from domain ontology. On the other hand,
the data and communication layer of the architecture, based on the REST WS, was
oriented to minimizing the consumption of resources and providing reusable key
ideas for future ontology-based architecture developments.
8.2 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
This solution represents a further step toward the possibility of establishing more effective home-based telemonitoring systems and thus improving the remote care of patientswith chronic diseases. As it was reported in, good telemedicine implementations are developed after a process where the dynamic interaction among a combination of socio-technical and also clinical factors is optimized. It means that additional work should be done (e.g., to measure the interaction of the
patient–doctor using the system and also the truthfulness of the system for a long period of time) before adopting this solution in a real scenario its complete development, first, a concordance study should be conducted in order to determine its clinical efficiency. Then, a social impact study should be conducted in order to determine how the system allowed improving patient’s quality of life. Regarding these last studies, the results presented in evidence the benefits of telemonitoring systems while linking their success to the usability design issues and features.
Decentralized Access Control with Anonymous Authentication of Data Stored in Clouds
Cloud computing is a rising computing standard in which assets of the computing framework are given as a service over the Internet. As guaranteeing as it may be, this standard additionally delivers a lot of people new challenges for data security and access control when clients outsource sensitive data for offering on cloud servers, which are not inside the same trusted dominion as data possessors. In any case, in completing thus, these results unavoidably present a substantial processing overhead on the data possessor for key distribution and data administration when fine-grained data access control is in demand, and subsequently don’t scale well. The issue of at the same time accomplishing fine-grainedness, scalability, and data confidentiality of access control really still remains uncertain. This paper addresses this open issue by, on one hand, characterizing and implementing access policies based on data qualities, and, then again, permitting the data owner to representative the majority of the calculation undertakings included in fine-grained data access control to un-trusted cloud servers without unveiling the underlying data substance. We accomplish this goal by exploiting and combining techniques of decentralized key policy Attribute Based Encryption (KP-ABE). Extensive investigation shows that the proposed approach is highly efficient and secure.
1.2 INTRODUCTION
Research in cloud computing is receiving a lot of attention from both academic and industrial worlds. In cloud computing, users can outsource their computation and storage to servers (also called clouds) using Internet. This frees users from the hassles of maintaining resources on-site. Clouds can provide several types of services like applications (e.g., Google Apps, Microsoft online), infrastructures (e.g., Amazon’s EC2, Eucalyptus, Nimbus), and platforms to help developers write applications (e.g., Amazon’s S3, Windows Azure).
Much of the data stored in clouds is highly sensitive, for example, medical records and social networks. Security and privacy are thus very important issues in cloud computing. In one hand, the user should authenticate itself before initiating any transaction, and on the other hand, it must be ensured that the cloud does not tamper with the data that is outsourced. User privacy is also required so that the cloud or other users do not know the identity of the user. The cloud can hold the user accountable for the data it outsources, and likewise, the cloud is itself accountable for the services it provides. The validity of the user who stores the data is also verified. Apart from the technical solutions to ensure security and privacy, there is also a need for law enforcement.
Recently, Wang et al. addressed secure and dependable cloud storage. Cloud servers prone to Byzantine failure, where a storage server can fail in arbitrary ways. The cloud is also prone to data modification and server colluding attacks. In server colluding attack, the adversary can compromise storage servers, so that it can modify data files as long as they are internally consistent. To provide secure data storage, the data needs to be encrypted. However, the data is often modified and this dynamic property needs to be taken into account while designing efficient secure storage techniques.
Efficient search on encrypted data is also an important concern in clouds. The clouds should not know the query but should be able to return the records that satisfy the query. This is achieved by means of searchable encryption. The keywords are sent to the cloud encrypted, and the cloud returns the result without knowing the actual keyword for the search. The problem here is that the data records should have keywords associated with them to enable the search. The correct records are returned only when searched with the exact keywords.
Security and privacy protection in clouds are being explored by many researchers.Wang et al. addressed storage security using Reed-Solomon erasure-correcting codes. Authentication of users using public key cryptographic techniques has been studied in. Many homomorphic encryption techniques have been suggested to ensure that the cloud is not able to read the data while performing computations on them. Using homomorphic encryption, the cloud receives ciphertext of the data and performs computations on the ciphertext and returns the encoded value of the result. The user is able to decode the result, but the cloud does not know what data it has operated on. In such circumstances, it must be possible for the user to verify that the cloud returns correct results. Accountability of clouds is a very challenging task and involves
technical issues and law enforcement. Neither clouds nor users should deny any operations performed or requested. It is important to have log of the transactions performed; however, it is an important concern to decide how much information to keep in the log.
Accountability has been addressed in TrustCloud. Secure provenance has been studied in. Considering the following situation: A Law student, Alice, wants to send a series of reports about some malpractices by authorities of University X to all the professors of University X, Research chairs of universities in the country, and students belonging to Law department in all universities in the province. She wants to remain anonymous while publishing all evidence of malpractice. She stores the information in the cloud.
Access control is important in such case, so that only authorized users can access the data. It is also important to verify that the information comes from a reliable source. The problems of access control, authentication, and privacy protection should be solved simultaneously. We address this problem in its entirety in this paper. Access control in clouds is gaining attention because it is important that only authorized users have access to valid service. A huge amount of information is being stored in the cloud, and much of this is sensitive information. Care should be taken to ensure access control of this sensitive information which can often be related to health, important documents (as in Google Docs or Dropbox) or even personal information (as in social networking). There are broadly three types of access control: User Based Access Control (UBAC), Role Based Access Control (RBAC), and Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC). In UBAC, the access control list (ACL) contains the list of users who are authorized to access data. This is not feasible in clouds where there are many users. In RBAC, users are classified based on their individual roles. Data can be accessed by users who have matching roles. The roles are defined by the system. For example, only faculty members and senior secretaries might have access to data but not the junior secretaries. ABAC is more extended in scope, in which users are given attributes, and the data has attached access policy. Only users with valid set of attributes, satisfying the access policy, can access the data. For instance, in the above example certain records might be accessible by faculty members with more than 10 years of research experience or by senior secretaries with more than 8 years experience. The pros and cons of RBAC and ABAC are discussed in. There has been some work on ABAC in clouds. All these work use a cryptographic primitive known as Attribute Based Encryption (ABE). The The eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) has been proposed for ABAC in clouds. An area where access control is widely being used is health care. Clouds are being used to store sensitive information about patients to enable access to medical professionals, hospital staff, researchers, and policy makers. It is important to control the access of data so that only authorized users can access the data. Using ABE, the records are encrypted under some access policy and stored in the cloud. Users are given sets of attributes and corresponding keys. Only when the users have matching set of attributes, can they decrypt the information stored in the cloud. Access control in health care has been studied. Access control is also gaining importance in online social networking where users (members) store their personal information, pictures, videos and share them with selected groups of users or communities they belong to. Access control in online social networking has been studied. Such data are being stored in clouds.
It is very important that only the authorized users are given access to those information. A similar situation arises when data is stored in clouds, for example in Dropbox, and shared with certain groups of people. It is just not enough to store the contents securely in the cloud but it might also be necessary to ensure anonymity of the user. For example, a user would like to store some sensitive information but does not want to be recognized. The user might want to post a comment on an article, but does not want his/her identity to be disclosed. However, the user should be able to prove to the other users that he/she is a valid user who stored the information without revealing the identity. There are cryptographic protocols like ring signatures, mesh signatures, group signatures, which can be used in these situations. Ring signature is not a feasible option for clouds where there are a large number of users. Group signatures assume the pre-existence of a group which might not be possible in clouds. Mesh signatures do not ensure if the message is from a single user or many users colluding together. For these reasons, a new protocol known as Attribute Based Signature (ABS) has been applied. ABS was proposed by Maji et al. In ABS, users have a claim predicate associated with a message. The claim predicate helps to identify the user as an authorized one, without revealing its identity. Other users or the cloud can verify the user and the validity of the message stored. ABS can be combined with ABE to achieve authenticated access control without disclosing the identity of the user to the cloud.
Existing work on access control in cloud
are centralized in nature. Except and, all other schemes use attribute based
encryption (ABE). The scheme uses a symmetric key approach and does not support
authentication. The schemes do not support authentication as well. Earlier work
by Zhao et al. provides privacy preserving authenticated access control
in cloud. However, the authors take a centralized approach where a single key
distribution center (KDC) distributes secret keys and attributes to all users.
Unfortunately, a single KDC is not only a single point of failure but difficult
to maintain because of the large number of users that are supported in a cloud
environment. We, therefore, emphasize that clouds should take a decentralized
approach while distributing secret keys and attributes to users. It is also
quite natural for clouds to have many KDCs in different locations in the world.
Although Yang et al. proposed a decentralized approach, their technique
does not authenticate users, who want to remain anonymous while accessing the
cloud. In an earlier work, Ruj et al.proposed a distributed access
control mechanism in clouds. However, the scheme did not provide user
authentication. The other drawback was that a user can create and store a file
and other users can only read the file. Write access was not permitted to users
other than the creator. In the preliminary version, we extend our previous work
with added features which enables to authenticate the validity of the message
without revealing the identity of the user who has stored information in the
cloud. In this version we also address user revocation, that was not addressed.
We use attribute based signature scheme to achieve authenticity and privacy.
Unlike, our scheme is resistant to replay attacks, in which a user can replace
fresh data with stale data from a previous write, even if it no longer has
valid claim policy. This is an important property because a user, revoked of
its attributes, might no longer be able to write to the cloud. We therefore add
this extra feature in our scheme and modify appropriately. Our scheme also
allows writing multiple times which was not permitted in our earlier work.
1.3 LITRATURE SURVEY
PRIVACY PRESERVING ACCESS CONTROL WITH AUTHENTICATION FOR SECURING DATA IN CLOUDS
PUBLICATION: S. Ruj, M. Stojmenovic and A. Nayak, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, pp. 556–563, 2012.
TOWARD SECURE AND DEPENDABLE STORAGE SERVICES IN CLOUD COMPUTING
PUBLICATION: C. Wang, Q. Wang, K. Ren, N. Cao and W. Lou, IEEE T. Services Computing, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 220–232, 2012.
FUZZY KEYWORD SEARCH OVER ENCRYPTED DATA IN CLOUD COMPUTING
PUBLICATION: J. Li, Q. Wang, C. Wang, N. Cao, K. Ren, and W. Lou, in IEEE INFOCOM. , pp. 441–445, 2010.
CRYPTOGRAPHIC CLOUD STORAGE
PUBLICATION: S. Kamara and K. Lauter, in Financial Cryptography Workshops, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6054. Springer, pp. 136–149, 2010.
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
To accomplish secure data transaction in cloud, suitable cryptography method is utilized. The data possessor must encrypt the record and then store the record to the cloud. Assuming that a third person downloads the record, they may see the record if they had the key which is utilized to decrypt the encrypted record. Once in a while this may be failure because of the technology improvement and the programmers. To overcome the issue there is lot of procedures and techniques to make secure transaction and storage.
2.2 DISADVANTAGES:
- The access control and authentication are both collusion resistant, meaning that no two users can collude and access data or authenticate themselves, if they are individually not authorized.
- Revoked users cannot access data after they have been revoked.
2.3 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
KP-ABE is a public key cryptography primitive for
one-to-many correspondences. In KP-ABE, information is associated with
attributes for each of which a public key part is characterized. The encrypted
associates the set of attributes to the message by scrambling it with the
comparing public key parts. Every client is assigned an access structure which
is normally characterized as an access tree over information attributes, i.e.,
inside hubs of the access tree are limit doors and leaf hubs are connected with
attributes. Client secret key is characterized to reflect the access structure
so the client has the ability to decode a cipher-text if and just if the
information attributes fulfill his access structure.
2.4 ADVANTAGES:
- Distributed access control of data stored in cloud so that only authorized users with valid attributes can access them.
- Authentication of users who store and modify their data on the cloud.
- The identity of the user is protected from the cloud during authentication.
- The architecture is decentralized, meaning that there can be several KDCs for key management.
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP or Win 7
- Front End : Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
- Back End : MSSQL Server 2005
- Server : ASP Web Server
- Script : C# Script
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN:
ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM / UML DIAGRAMS / DAT FLOW DIAGRAM:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data. The physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
MODELING RULES:
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
3.1 DATAFLOW DIAGRAM
UML DIAGRAMS:
3.2 USE CASE DIAGRAM:
3.3 CLASS DIAGRAM:
3.4 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:
3.5 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
We propose our privacy preserving authenticated access control scheme. According to our scheme a user can create a file and store it securely in the cloud. This scheme consists of use of the two protocols ABE and ABS, as discussed in Sections 3.4 and 3.5, respectively. We will first discuss our scheme in details and then provide a concrete example to demonstrate how it works. We refer to the Fig. 1. There are three users, a creator, a reader, and writer. Creator Alice receives a token _ from the trustee, who is assumed to be honest. A trustee can be someone like the federal government who manages social insurance numbers etc. On presenting her id (like health/social insurance number), the trustee gives her a token _. There are multiple KDCs (here 2), which can be scattered. For example, these can be servers in different parts of the world.
A creator on presenting the token to one or more KDCs receives keys for encryption/decryption and signing. In the Fig. 1, SKs are secret keys given for decryption, Kx are keys for signing. The message MSG is encrypted under the access policy X. The access policy decides who can access the data stored in the cloud. The creator decides on a claim policy Y, to prove her authenticity and signs the message under this claim. The ciphertext C with signature is c, and is sent to the cloud. The cloud verifies the signature and storesthe ciphertext C. When a reader wants to read, the cloud sends C. If the user has attributes matching with access policy, it can decrypt and get back original message.
Write proceeds in the same way as file creation. By designating the verification process to the cloud, it relieves the individual users from time consuming verifications. When a reader wants to read some data stored in the cloud, it tries to decrypt it using the secret keys it receives from the KDCs. If it has enough attributes matching with the access policy, then it decrypts the information stored in the cloud.
4.1 ALGORITHM:
ATTRIBUTE-BASED ENCRYPTION:
ABE with multiple authorities as proposed as follows:
4.2 MODULES:
CLOUD USER MODULE:
ATTRIBUTE-BASED SIGNATURES:
ANONYMOUS AUTHENTICATION:
CLOUD USER OPERATIONS:
4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTION:
CLOUD USER MODULE:
User: users, who have data to be stored in the cloud and rely on the cloud for data computation, consist of both individual consumers and organizations.
Cloud Service Provider (CSP): a CSP, who has significant resources and expertise in building and managing distributed cloud storage servers, owns and operates live Cloud Computing systems.
Third Party Auditor (TPA): an optional TPA, who has expertise and capabilities that users may not have, is trusted to assess and expose risk of cloud storage services on behalf of the users upon request.
ATTRIBUTE-BASED SIGNATURES:
Cryptographic protocols like ring signatures mesh signatures group signatures which can be used in these situations. Ring signature is not a feasible option for clouds where there are a large number of users. Group signatures assume the preexistence of a group which might not be possible in clouds. Mesh signatures do not ensure if the message is from a single user or many users colluding together. For these reasons, a new protocol known as attribute-based signature (ABS) has been applied. ABS was proposed by Maji et al. In ABS, users have a claim predicate associated with a message. The claim predicate helps to identify the user as an authorized one, without revealing its identity. Other users or the cloud can verify the user and the validity of the message stored. ABS can be combined with ABE to achieve authenticated access control without disclosing the identity of the user to the cloud.
ANONYMOUS AUTHENTICATION:
In our scheme a writer whose rights have been revoked cannot create a new signature with new time stamp and, thus, cannot write back stale information. It then signs the message and calculates the message signature as.
CLOUD USER OPERATIONS:
Update Operation
In cloud data storage, sometimes the user may need to modify some data block(s) stored in the cloud, we refer this operation as data update. In other words, for all the unused tokens, the user needs to exclude every occurrence of the old data block and replace it with the new one.
Delete Operation
Sometimes, after being stored in the cloud, certain data blocks may need to be deleted. The delete operation we are considering is a general one, in which user replaces the data block with zero or some special reserved data symbol. From this point of view, the delete operation is actually a special case of the data update operation, where the original data blocks can be replaced with zeros or some predetermined special blocks.
Append Operation
In some cases, the user may want to increase the size of his stored data by adding blocks at the end of the data file, which we refer as data append. We anticipate that the most frequent append operation in cloud data storage is bulk append, in which the user needs to upload a large number of blocks (not a single block) at one time.
CHAPTER 5
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of
acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the
user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the
system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the
users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about
the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be
raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is
welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months. This creates two problems, the time lag between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
A program
represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run
satisfactorily, it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly
with other programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of
the programmer. Program testing checks
for two types
of errors: syntax
and logical. Syntax error is a
program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it
is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are common
syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by the
computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output carefully.
UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
5.1.3 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional testing
of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct results,
using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will work
correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to prove
that the application works for each client type and that personalization
function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is
compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of
instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the
program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain
key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated
values to isolate the problems.
FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 4 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.5 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Load Testing
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance
tests are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the
software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the code,
response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to identify
weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software
reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required
functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is
being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of
the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the
specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate
without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses
on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software
quality control team.
RELIABILITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security
testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability,
integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients
should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known
at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the
designers and testers.
SECURITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.7 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box
testing, sometimes called glass-box
testing is a test case
design method that uses
the control structure
of the procedural design to
derive test cases. Using
white box testing
method, the software engineer
can derive test
cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the
software structure to be tested.
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box
testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements
of the software. That is, black testing
enables the software
engineer to derive
sets of input
conditions that will
fully exercise all
functional requirements for a
program. Black box testing is not
alternative to white box techniques.
Rather it is
a complementary approach
that is likely
to uncover a different
class of errors
than white box methods. Black box testing attempts to find
errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle function of a software
module. The starting point of the black box testing is either a specification
or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the stimulated software should
produce the desired results.
5.1.10 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 7
7.0 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION:
7.1 FEATURES OF .NET:
Microsoft .NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies for rapidly building and integrating XML Web services, Microsoft Windows-based applications, and Web solutions. The .NET Framework is a language-neutral platform for writing programs that can easily and securely interoperate. There’s no language barrier with .NET: there are numerous languages available to the developer including Managed C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java Script.
The .NET framework provides the foundation for components to interact seamlessly, whether locally or remotely on different platforms. It standardizes common data types and communications protocols so that components created in different languages can easily interoperate.
“.NET” is
also the collective name given to various software components built upon the
.NET platform. These will be both products (Visual Studio.NET and Windows.NET
Server, for instance) and services (like Passport, .NET My Services, and so
on).
7.2 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework has two main parts:
1. The Common Language Runtime (CLR).
2. A hierarchical set of class libraries.
The CLR is described as the “execution engine” of .NET. It provides the environment within which programs run. The most important features are
- Conversion from a low-level assembler-style language, called Intermediate Language (IL), into code native to the platform being executed on.
- Memory management, notably including garbage collection.
- Checking and enforcing security restrictions on the running code.
- Loading and executing programs, with version control and other such features.
- The following features of the .NET framework are also worth description:
Managed Code
The code
that targets .NET, and which contains certain extra Information – “metadata” –
to describe itself. Whilst both managed and unmanaged code can run in the
runtime, only managed code contains the information that allows the CLR to
guarantee, for instance, safe execution and interoperability.
Managed Data
With Managed Code comes Managed Data. CLR provides memory allocation and Deal location facilities, and garbage collection. Some .NET languages use Managed Data by default, such as C#, Visual Basic.NET and JScript.NET, whereas others, namely C++, do not. Targeting CLR can, depending on the language you’re using, impose certain constraints on the features available. As with managed and unmanaged code, one can have both managed and unmanaged data in .NET applications – data that doesn’t get garbage collected but instead is looked after by unmanaged code.
Common Type System
The CLR uses something called the Common Type System (CTS) to strictly enforce type-safety. This ensures that all classes are compatible with each other, by describing types in a common way. CTS define how types work within the runtime, which enables types in one language to interoperate with types in another language, including cross-language exception handling. As well as ensuring that types are only used in appropriate ways, the runtime also ensures that code doesn’t attempt to access memory that hasn’t been allocated to it.
Common Language Specification
The CLR provides built-in support for language interoperability. To ensure that you can develop managed code that can be fully used by developers using any programming language, a set of language features and rules for using them called the Common Language Specification (CLS) has been defined. Components that follow these rules and expose only CLS features are considered CLS-compliant.
7.3 THE CLASS LIBRARY
.NET provides a single-rooted hierarchy of classes, containing over 7000 types. The root of the namespace is called System; this contains basic types like Byte, Double, Boolean, and String, as well as Object. All objects derive from System. Object. As well as objects, there are value types. Value types can be allocated on the stack, which can provide useful flexibility. There are also efficient means of converting value types to object types if and when necessary.
The set of classes is pretty comprehensive, providing collections, file, screen, and network I/O, threading, and so on, as well as XML and database connectivity.
The class library is subdivided into a number of sets (or namespaces), each providing distinct areas of functionality, with dependencies between the namespaces kept to a minimum.
7.4 LANGUAGES SUPPORTED BY .NET
The multi-language capability of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET enables developers to use their existing programming skills to build all types of applications and XML Web services. The .NET framework supports new versions of Microsoft’s old favorites Visual Basic and C++ (as VB.NET and Managed C++), but there are also a number of new additions to the family.
Visual Basic .NET has been updated to include many new and improved language features that make it a powerful object-oriented programming language. These features include inheritance, interfaces, and overloading, among others. Visual Basic also now supports structured exception handling, custom attributes and also supports multi-threading.
Visual Basic .NET is also CLS compliant, which means that any CLS-compliant language can use the classes, objects, and components you create in Visual Basic .NET.
Managed Extensions for C++ and attributed programming are just some of the enhancements made to the C++ language. Managed Extensions simplify the task of migrating existing C++ applications to the new .NET Framework.
C# is Microsoft’s new language. It’s a C-style language that is essentially “C++ for Rapid Application Development”. Unlike other languages, its specification is just the grammar of the language. It has no standard library of its own, and instead has been designed with the intention of using the .NET libraries as its own.
Microsoft Visual J# .NET provides the easiest transition for Java-language developers into the world of XML Web Services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of other programming languages.
Active State has created Visual Perl and Visual Python, which enable .NET-aware applications to be built in either Perl or Python. Both products can be integrated into the Visual Studio .NET environment. Visual Perl includes support for Active State’s Perl Dev Kit.
Other languages for which .NET compilers are available include
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- Eiffel
ASP.NET XML WEB SERVICES | Windows Forms |
Base Class Libraries | |
Common Language Runtime | |
Operating System |
Fig1 .Net Framework
C#.NET is also compliant with CLS (Common Language Specification) and supports structured exception handling. CLS is set of rules and constructs that are supported by the CLR (Common Language Runtime). CLR is the runtime environment provided by the .NET Framework; it manages the execution of the code and also makes the development process easier by providing services.
C#.NET is
a CLS-compliant language. Any objects, classes, or components that created in
C#.NET can be used in any other CLS-compliant language. In addition, we can use
objects, classes, and components created in other CLS-compliant languages in
C#.NET .The use of CLS ensures complete interoperability among applications,
regardless of the languages used to create the application.
CONSTRUCTORS AND DESTRUCTORS:
Constructors are used to initialize objects, whereas destructors are used to destroy them. In other words, destructors are used to release the resources allocated to the object. In C#.NET the sub finalize procedure is available. The sub finalize procedure is used to complete the tasks that must be performed when an object is destroyed. The sub finalize procedure is called automatically when an object is destroyed. In addition, the sub finalize procedure can be called only from the class it belongs to or from derived classes.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
Garbage Collection is another new feature in C#.NET. The .NET Framework monitors allocated resources, such as objects and variables. In addition, the .NET Framework automatically releases memory for reuse by destroying objects that are no longer in use.
In C#.NET, the garbage collector checks for the objects that are not currently in use by applications. When the garbage collector comes across an object that is marked for garbage collection, it releases the memory occupied by the object.
OVERLOADING
Overloading is another feature in C#. Overloading enables us
to define multiple procedures with the same name, where each procedure has a
different set of arguments. Besides using overloading for procedures, we can
use it for constructors and properties in a class.
MULTITHREADING:
C#.NET also supports multithreading. An application that supports multithreading can handle multiple tasks simultaneously, we can use multithreading to decrease the time taken by an application to respond to user interaction.
STRUCTURED EXCEPTION HANDLING
C#.NET supports structured handling, which enables us to
detect and remove errors at runtime. In C#.NET, we need to use
Try…Catch…Finally statements to create exception handlers. Using
Try…Catch…Finally statements, we can create robust and effective exception
handlers to improve the performance of our application.
7.5 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet.
OBJECTIVES OF .NET FRAMEWORK
1. To provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object codes is stored and executed locally on Internet-distributed, or executed remotely.
2. To provide a code-execution environment to minimizes software deployment and guarantees safe execution of code.
3. Eliminates the performance problems.
There are
different types of application, such as Windows-based applications and
Web-based applications.
7.6 FEATURES OF SQL-SERVER
The OLAP Services feature available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. The term OLAP Services has been replaced with the term Analysis Services. Analysis Services also includes a new data mining component. The Repository component available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Meta Data Services. References to the component now use the term Meta Data Services. The term repository is used only in reference to the repository engine within Meta Data Services
SQL-SERVER database consist of six type of objects,
They are,
1. TABLE
2. QUERY
3. FORM
4. REPORT
5.
MACRO
7.7 TABLE:
A database is a collection of data about a specific topic.
VIEWS OF TABLE:
We can work with a table in two types,
1. Design View
2. Datasheet View
Design View
To build or modify the structure of a table we work in the table design view. We can specify what kind of data will be hold.
Datasheet View
To add, edit or analyses the data itself we work in tables datasheet view mode.
QUERY:
A query is a question that has to be asked the data. Access gathers data that answers the question from one or more table. The data that make up the answer is either dynaset (if you edit it) or a snapshot (it cannot be edited).Each time we run query, we get latest information in the dynaset. Access either displays the dynaset or snapshot for us to view or perform an action on it, such as deleting or updating.
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2
SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
8.0 CONCLUSION
We have presented a decentralized access control technique with anonymous authentication, which provides user revocation and prevents replay attacks. The cloud does not know the identity of the user who stores information, but only verifies the user’s credentials. Key distribution is done in a decentralized way. One limitation is that the cloud knows the access policy for each record stored in the cloud. In future, we would like to hide the attributes and access policy of a user.
Congestion Aware Routing in Nonlinear Elastic Optical Networks
Sensor networks are composed of small sensing devices that have the capability to take various measurements of their environment such as temperature, sound, light etc. These devices are equipped with a processor and wireless communication antenna and are powered with a battery. Upon deployment in a field, they form an ad hoc network and communicate with each other and with data processing centers. The routing protocol in such networks has an important effect on congestion, especially with increasing sizes of the deployments. Congestion becomes worse when a particular area is generating most of the data. This may occur in some deployments when sensors in one area of interest are requested to gather and transmit data at a higher rate than others.
We believe that all data generated in a sensor network may not be equally important; some may have a low priority while others have a higher priority and hence differentiated service must be provided to these data. In such a scenario, routing dynamics can lead to congestion on specific paths. Since congestion is a self-compounding problem, these paths are usually close to each other which lead to an entire zone in the network facing congestion. We refer to this zone as the congestion zone or conzone.
Congestion can adversely affect the network in two ways.
First, it can lead to indiscriminate dropping of data, i.e. some packets of high priority might be dropped while others of less priority are delivered. This happens because sensor nodes are very simple devices and do not have the capability to differentiate packets (i.e. they do not have multiple queues for different priority levels). Second, congestion can cause an increase in energy consumption as links become saturated. This can lead to depletion of the limited energy available in the sensor nodes in the congested area.
In this paper, we examine data delivery issues in the presence of congestion in wireless sensor networks. We propose the use of data prioritization and a simple priority aware routing protocol, Congestion Aware Routing (CAR). CAR does not use multiple priority queues, a QoS aware MAC layer or specialized scheduling algorithms. The first step in this protocol is to dynamically discover the conzone. The second step is to enforce differentiated routing; high priority packets are routed in the conzone. Low priority packets generated outside the conzone stay outside while those generated within the conzone are routed out. In effect, conzone nodes are dedicated to serving high priority data which will enable them to provide better service and lengthen their lifetime.
Our extensive simulations show that CAR leads to a significant increase in the successful packet delivery ratio of high priority data to the sink, and a clear decrease in the average delay to CAR also provides low jitter which makes it able to support real-time multimedia applications. It also reduces the energy consumed in the nodes that lie on the conzone which leads to an increase in connectivity lifetime. We now consider the network formation process. Once the sink node discovers its surrounding neighbors, it broadcasts a “Build Mesh” message asking all nodes in the network to organize as a mesh. In that message the sink provides its ID and zero as its depth. Once a neighboring node hears this message it will check if it has already joined the routing network (i.e. if it knows its depth); if not then it sets its depth to one plus the depth in the message received and sets the source of the message as a parent.
Each node then rebroadcasts the Build Mesh message, with its own ID and depth to its neighbors. If a node is already a member of the network, then it will check the depth in the message, and if that depth is less than its own, then the source of the message is added as a parent. In that case, the message is not rebroadcast. In this fashion, the Build Mesh message is sent down the network until all nodes become part of this routing structure. Similar to TAG, the Build Mesh message can be periodically broadcast to maintain the topology and adapt to changes caused by the failure, addition or mobility of nodes.
1.3 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
Design goals of the congestion aware routing (CAR) protocol for sensor networks are to provide high priority data with better service quality compared to other routing schemes. These include higher delivery ratios, lower delays and lower jitter to support real-time data. We also aim at decreasing energy consumption which will lengthen the lifetime of the network. To achieve these goals, CAR divides the network into two regions; the congestion zone (conzone) and the remaining part of the network. While high priority data is routed through the conzone, low priority data is routed using the other nodes. Low priority data that originates outside the conzone is routed exclusively on off-conzone nodes using regular routing protocols such as low priority data that originate inside the conzone are efficiently routed out of the conzone.
- LITRATURE SURVEY
ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKING: A NEW DAWN FOR THE OPTICAL LAYER?
PUBLICATION: O. Gerstel, M. Jinno, A. Lord, and S. J. B. Yoo, IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 50, no. 2, pp. s12–s20, Feb. 2012.
Optical networks are undergoing significant changes, fueled by the exponential growth of traffic due to multimedia services and by the increased uncertainty in predicting the sources of this traffic due to the ever changing models of content providers over the Internet. The change has already begun: simple on-off modulation of signals, which was adequate for bit rates up to 10 Gb/s, has given way to much more sophisticated modulation schemes for 100 Gb/s and beyond. The next bottleneck is the 10-year-old division of the optical spectrum into a fixed “wavelength grid,” which will no longer work for 400 Gb/s and above, heralding the need for a more flexible grid. Once both transceivers and switches become flexible, a whole new elastic optical networking paradigm is born. In this article we describe the drivers, building blocks, architecture, and enabling technologies for this new paradigm, as well as early standardization efforts.
MODELING THE ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ALLOCATION PROBLEM FOR FLEXGRID OPTICAL NETWORKS
PUBLICATION: L. Velasco, M. Klinkowski, M. Ruiz, and J. Comellas, Photon. Netw. Commun., vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 177–186, 2012.
Flexgrid optical networks are attracting huge interest due to their higher spectrum efficiency and flexibility in comparison with traditional wavelength switched optical networks based on the wavelength division multiplexing technology. To properly analyze, design, plan, and operate flexible and elastic networks, efficient methods are required for the routing and spectrum allocation (RSA) problem. Specifically, the allocated spectral resources must be, in absence of spectrum converters, the same along the links in the route (the continuity constraint) and contiguous in the spectrum (the contiguity constraint). In light of the fact that the contiguity constraint adds huge complexity to the RSA problem, we introduce the concept of channels for the representation of contiguous spectral resources. In this paper, we show that the use of a pre-computed set of channels allows considerably reducing the problem complexity. In our study, we address an off-line RSA problem in which enough spectrum needs to be allocated for each demand of a given traffic matrix. To this end, we present novel integer lineal programming (ILP) formulations of RSA that are based on the assignment of channels. The evaluation results reveal that the proposed approach allows solving the RSA problem much more efficiently than previously proposed ILP-based methods and it can be applied even for realistic problem instances, contrary to previous ILP formulations.
DISTANCE-ADAPTIVE SPECTRUM RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN SPECTRUM-SLICED ELASTIC OPTICAL PATH NETWORK
PUBLICATION: M. Jinno et al., “,” IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 138–145, Aug. 2010.
The rigid nature of current wavelength-routed optical networks brings limitations on network utilization efficiency. One limitation originates from mismatch of granularities between the client layer and the wavelength layer. The recently proposed spectrum-sliced elastic optical path network (SLICE) is expected to mitigate this problem by adaptively allocating spectral resources according to client traffic demands. This article discusses another limitation of the current optical networks associated with worst case design in terms of transmission performance. In order to address this problem, we present a concept of a novel adaptation scheme in SLICE called distance-adaptive spectrum resource allocation. In the presented scheme the minimum necessary spectral resource is adaptively allocated according to the end-to-end physical condition of an optical path. Modulation format and optical filter width are used as parameters to determine the necessary spectral resources to be allocated for an optical path. Evaluation of network utilization efficiency shows that distance-adaptive SLICE can save more than 45 percent of required spectrum resources for a 12-node ring network. Finally, we introduce the concept of a frequency slot to extend the current frequency grid standard, and discuss possible spectral resource designation schemes.
QOT PREDICTION FOR CORE NETWORKS WITH UNCOMPENSATED COHERENT TRANSMISSION
PUBLICATION: M. Angelou, P. N. Ji, I. Tomkos, and T. Wang, in Proc. OECC/PS Jul. 2013, pp. 1–2, paper TuQ3-4.
We propose a
comprehensive QoT prediction tool based on fast analytical modeling for
on-the-fly signal assessments in networks with uncompensated coherent systems
and confirm its superiority in reducing over-engineering compared to
system-reach methods.
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
The Problem of Existing Solutions in these scenario nodes in the network sends all high priority data to a single sink, tree-based routing is the most appropriate. In this routing scheme, a spanning tree is built with the high priority sink as its root. The setup of such a tree uses controlled flooding from the sink to all nodes in the network. Low priority data, on the other hand, do not need to follow the same routing scheme. This is true because there may be multiple low priority sinks and a node might send data to any of them. For example, temperature readings might be forwarded to one sink while the motion detection measurements go to another sink, and tree based routing schemes suffer from congestion, especially if the number of messages generated in the leaves is high.
This problem becomes worse when we have a mixture of high priority and low priority traffic traveling through the network. This is because low priority messages will cross the tree that is formed to route high priority data in order to reach their destinations. Therefore even when the rate of high priority data is relatively low, the background noise created by low priority traffic will create a congestion zone that spans the deployment from the critical area to the high priority sink. Nodes in this zone become overwhelmed and indiscriminately drop high and low priority messages. These nodes also consume more energy compared to other nodes in the network and hence die sooner. This will lead to only sub-optimal paths being available to route high priority data, or a total loss of connectivity from critical area to the sink even though other nodes outside a single routing scheme is used to route both types of traffic.
2.1.1 DISADVANTAGES:
In such a scenario, routing dynamics can lead to congestion on specific paths. Since congestion is a self-compounding problem, these paths are usually close to each other which lead to an entire zone in the network facing congestion. Congestion can adversely affect the network in two ways. First, it can lead to indiscriminate dropping of data, i.e. some packets of high priority might be dropped while others of less priority are delivered. This happens because sensor nodes are very simple devices and do not have the capability to differentiate packets (i.e. they do not have multiple queues for different priority levels). Second, congestion can cause an increase in energy consumption as links become saturated. This can lead to depletion of the limited energy available in the sensor nodes in the congested area.
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
We proposed Congestion Aware Routing (CAR) which is a simple routing protocol that uses data prioritization and treats packets according to their priorities. We defined a conzone as the set of sensors that will be required to route high priority packets from the data sources to the sink.
We presented algorithms to build a high priority routing mesh, dynamically discover and configure conzones, and perform differentiated routing. Our solutions do not require active queue management, maintenance of multiple queues or scheduling algorithms, or the use of specialized MAC protocols.
The proposed algorithm for RMSA in a nonlinear elastic network utilizing Nyquist pulse shaping is as follows:
- Determine the optimum signal power spectral density given the fiber and amplifier parameters.
- For a pair of nodes, select the shortest path that avoids the link with the highest spectral usage (determined by measuring the total optical power which is proportional to spectral usage).
- For this path determine the total number of amplifier spans (100 km herein) in order to determine the received signal to noise ratio (SNR).
- For this SNR, determine the maximum net spectral efficiency (NSE) based on known relationship between SNR and NSE for a range of polarization division multiplexed formats with Nyquist spectra where variable rate FEC is also included.
- Finally determine the gross symbol rate and assign spectrum to serve the demand between the two nodes. We showed that with the inclusion of small playout buffers at the sink, the CAR-based routing is suitable for delivering real-time traffic, such as video, over a wide range of conditions.
2.2.1 ADVANTAGES:
- High priority data delivery is assured without loss
- Conzone (congestion zone discovery) is an overhead.
- Low priority data is often dropped
- Low priority data delivery is also assured along with high priority data. The channel is virtually divided for both priorities.
- Still low priority data is often dropped
- Low Priority data delivery is assured to maximum extent.
- The burden on intermediate nodes is decreased for discovering
- The request and acknowledgements traffic is reduced in this method.
- The Low Priority data has to travel in long path which has less congestion
- In the long path all the sensor nodes has to be in active position which increases battery consumption
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP
- Front End : Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN
ARCHITECUTRE DIAGRAM / UML DIAGRAM / DATA FLOW DIAGRAM:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data in the physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
MODELING RULES:
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
3.1 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM:
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
4.1 ALGORITHM
4.2 MODULES:
SERVER CLIENT MODULE:
FIBER NONLINEARITIES:
DISCOVERY FROM SINK:
NETWORK PROBABILITY (NBP):
ROUTING ALGORITHMS (CAR):
4.3
MODUL DISCRIPTION:
CHAPTER 5
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of
acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the
user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the
system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the
users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about
the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be
raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is
welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months. This creates two problems, the time lag between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
A program represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run satisfactorily, it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly with other programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of the programmer. Program testing checks for two types of errors: syntax and logical. Syntax error is a program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are common syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by the computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output carefully.
UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
5.1.3 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional
testing of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct
results, using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will
work correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to
prove that the application works for each client type and that personalization
function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is
compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of
instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the
program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain
key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated values
to isolate the problems.
FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 4 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.5 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Load Testing
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance
tests are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the
software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the code,
response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to identify
weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software quality control team.
RELIABILITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security
testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability,
integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients
should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known
at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the
designers and testers.
SECURITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.7 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box
testing, sometimes called glass-box
testing is a test case
design method that uses
the control structure
of the procedural design to
derive test cases. Using
white box testing
method, the software engineer
can derive test
cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the
software structure to be tested.
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements of the software. That is, black testing enables the software engineer to derive sets of input conditions that will fully exercise all functional requirements for a program. Black box testing is not alternative to white box techniques. Rather it is a complementary approach that is likely to uncover a different class of errors than white box methods. Black box testing attempts to find errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle function of a software module. The starting point of the black box testing is either a specification or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the stimulated software should produce the desired results.
5.1.10 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 6
6.0 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION:
6.1 FEATURES OF .NET:
Microsoft .NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies for rapidly building and integrating XML Web services, Microsoft Windows-based applications, and Web solutions. The .NET Framework is a language-neutral platform for writing programs that can easily and securely interoperate. There’s no language barrier with .NET: there are numerous languages available to the developer including Managed C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java Script.
The .NET framework provides the foundation for components to interact seamlessly, whether locally or remotely on different platforms. It standardizes common data types and communications protocols so that components created in different languages can easily interoperate.
“.NET” is
also the collective name given to various software components built upon the
.NET platform. These will be both products (Visual Studio.NET and Windows.NET
Server, for instance) and services (like Passport, .NET My Services, and so
on).
6.2 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework has two main parts:
1. The Common Language Runtime (CLR).
2. A hierarchical set of class libraries.
The CLR is described as the “execution engine” of .NET. It provides the environment within which programs run. The most important features are
- Conversion from a low-level assembler-style language, called Intermediate Language (IL), into code native to the platform being executed on.
- Memory management, notably including garbage collection.
- Checking and enforcing security restrictions on the running code.
- Loading and executing programs, with version control and other such features.
- The following features of the .NET framework are also worth description:
Managed Code
The code
that targets .NET, and which contains certain extra Information – “metadata” –
to describe itself. Whilst both managed and unmanaged code can run in the
runtime, only managed code contains the information that allows the CLR to
guarantee, for instance, safe execution and interoperability.
Managed Data
With Managed Code comes Managed Data. CLR provides memory allocation and Deal location facilities, and garbage collection. Some .NET languages use Managed Data by default, such as C#, Visual Basic.NET and JScript.NET, whereas others, namely C++, do not. Targeting CLR can, depending on the language you’re using, impose certain constraints on the features available. As with managed and unmanaged code, one can have both managed and unmanaged data in .NET applications – data that doesn’t get garbage collected but instead is looked after by unmanaged code.
Common Type System
The CLR uses something called the Common Type System (CTS) to strictly enforce type-safety. This ensures that all classes are compatible with each other, by describing types in a common way. CTS define how types work within the runtime, which enables types in one language to interoperate with types in another language, including cross-language exception handling. As well as ensuring that types are only used in appropriate ways, the runtime also ensures that code doesn’t attempt to access memory that hasn’t been allocated to it.
Common Language Specification
The CLR provides built-in support for language interoperability. To ensure that you can develop managed code that can be fully used by developers using any programming language, a set of language features and rules for using them called the Common Language Specification (CLS) has been defined. Components that follow these rules and expose only CLS features are considered CLS-compliant.
6.3 THE CLASS LIBRARY
.NET provides a single-rooted hierarchy of classes, containing over 7000 types. The root of the namespace is called System; this contains basic types like Byte, Double, Boolean, and String, as well as Object. All objects derive from System. Object. As well as objects, there are value types. Value types can be allocated on the stack, which can provide useful flexibility. There are also efficient means of converting value types to object types if and when necessary.
The set of classes is pretty comprehensive, providing collections, file, screen, and network I/O, threading, and so on, as well as XML and database connectivity.
The class library is subdivided into a number of sets (or namespaces), each providing distinct areas of functionality, with dependencies between the namespaces kept to a minimum.
6.4 LANGUAGES SUPPORTED BY .NET
The multi-language capability of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET enables developers to use their existing programming skills to build all types of applications and XML Web services. The .NET framework supports new versions of Microsoft’s old favorites Visual Basic and C++ (as VB.NET and Managed C++), but there are also a number of new additions to the family.
Visual Basic .NET has been updated to include many new and improved language features that make it a powerful object-oriented programming language. These features include inheritance, interfaces, and overloading, among others. Visual Basic also now supports structured exception handling, custom attributes and also supports multi-threading.
Visual Basic .NET is also CLS compliant, which means that any CLS-compliant language can use the classes, objects, and components you create in Visual Basic .NET.
Managed Extensions for C++ and attributed programming are just some of the enhancements made to the C++ language. Managed Extensions simplify the task of migrating existing C++ applications to the new .NET Framework.
C# is Microsoft’s new language. It’s a C-style language that is essentially “C++ for Rapid Application Development”. Unlike other languages, its specification is just the grammar of the language. It has no standard library of its own, and instead has been designed with the intention of using the .NET libraries as its own.
Microsoft Visual J# .NET provides the easiest transition for Java-language developers into the world of XML Web Services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of other programming languages.
Active State has created Visual Perl and Visual Python, which enable .NET-aware applications to be built in either Perl or Python. Both products can be integrated into the Visual Studio .NET environment. Visual Perl includes support for Active State’s Perl Dev Kit.
Other languages for which .NET compilers are available include
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- Eiffel
ASP.NET XML WEB SERVICES | Windows Forms |
Base Class Libraries | |
Common Language Runtime | |
Operating System |
Fig1 .Net Framework
C#.NET is also compliant with CLS (Common Language Specification) and supports structured exception handling. CLS is set of rules and constructs that are supported by the CLR (Common Language Runtime). CLR is the runtime environment provided by the .NET Framework; it manages the execution of the code and also makes the development process easier by providing services.
C#.NET is
a CLS-compliant language. Any objects, classes, or components that created in
C#.NET can be used in any other CLS-compliant language. In addition, we can use
objects, classes, and components created in other CLS-compliant languages in
C#.NET .The use of CLS ensures complete interoperability among applications,
regardless of the languages used to create the application.
CONSTRUCTORS AND DESTRUCTORS:
Constructors are used to initialize objects, whereas destructors are used to destroy them. In other words, destructors are used to release the resources allocated to the object. In C#.NET the sub finalize procedure is available. The sub finalize procedure is used to complete the tasks that must be performed when an object is destroyed. The sub finalize procedure is called automatically when an object is destroyed. In addition, the sub finalize procedure can be called only from the class it belongs to or from derived classes.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
Garbage Collection is another new feature in C#.NET. The .NET Framework monitors allocated resources, such as objects and variables. In addition, the .NET Framework automatically releases memory for reuse by destroying objects that are no longer in use.
In C#.NET, the garbage collector checks for the objects that are not currently in use by applications. When the garbage collector comes across an object that is marked for garbage collection, it releases the memory occupied by the object.
OVERLOADING
Overloading is another feature in C#. Overloading enables us to define multiple procedures with the same name, where each procedure has a different set of arguments. Besides using overloading for procedures, we can use it for constructors and properties in a class.
MULTITHREADING:
C#.NET also supports multithreading. An application that supports multithreading can handle multiple tasks simultaneously, we can use multithreading to decrease the time taken by an application to respond to user interaction.
STRUCTURED EXCEPTION HANDLING
C#.NET supports structured handling, which enables us to
detect and remove errors at runtime. In C#.NET, we need to use
Try…Catch…Finally statements to create exception handlers. Using
Try…Catch…Finally statements, we can create robust and effective exception
handlers to improve the performance of our application.
6.5 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet.
OBJECTIVES OF .NET FRAMEWORK
1. To provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object codes is stored and executed locally on Internet-distributed, or executed remotely.
2. To provide a code-execution environment to minimizes software deployment and guarantees safe execution of code.
3. Eliminates the performance problems.
There are
different types of application, such as Windows-based applications and Web-based
applications.
6.6 FEATURES OF SQL-SERVER
The OLAP Services feature available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. The term OLAP Services has been replaced with the term Analysis Services. Analysis Services also includes a new data mining component. The Repository component available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Meta Data Services. References to the component now use the term Meta Data Services. The term repository is used only in reference to the repository engine within Meta Data Services
SQL-SERVER database consist of six type of objects,
They are,
1. TABLE
2. QUERY
3. FORM
4. REPORT
5.
MACRO
TABLE:
A database is a collection of data about a specific topic.
VIEWS OF TABLE:
We can work with a table in two types,
1. Design View
2. Datasheet View
Design View
To build or modify the structure of a table we work in the table design view. We can specify what kind of data will be hold.
Datasheet View
To add, edit or analyses the data itself we work in tables datasheet view mode.
QUERY:
A query is a question that has to be asked the data. Access gathers data that answers the question from one or more table. The data that make up the answer is either dynaset (if you edit it) or a snapshot (it cannot be edited).Each time we run query, we get latest information in the dynaset. Access either displays the dynaset or snapshot for us to view or perform an action on it, such as deleting or updating.
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2
SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
8.0 CONCLUSION:
Congestion aware routing has been
investigated in nonlinear elastic optical networks and shown to be effective for
the reference NSFNET topology. We observe that the network blocking probability
(NBP) follows a generalized extreme value distribution, allowing robust
estimates of the load for a given NBP to be obtained. When NSFNET is sequentially
loaded with 100 GbE demands the proposed algorithm with a flexgrid, allows the
network to support 1744 demands compared to 328 demands using a fixed 50 GHz
grid with shortest path routing for NBP = 1%. The congestion aware routing algorithms
investigated resulted in longer average paths, with 5% of all routes exceeding
the maximum shortest path in order to increase the overall network capacity.
Behavior Rule Specification-Based Intrusion Detection for Safety Critical Medical Cyber Physical Syst
We propose and analyze a behavior-rule specification-based technique for intrusion detection of medical devices embedded in a medical cyber physical system (MCPS) in which the patient’s safety is of the utmost importance. We propose a methodology to transform behavior rules to a state machine, so that a device that is being monitored for its behavior can easily be checked against the transformed state machine for deviation from its behavior specification. Using vital sign monitor medical devices as an example; we demonstrate that our intrusion detection technique can effectively trade false positives off for a high detection probability to cope with more sophisticated and hidden attackers to support ultra safe and secure MCPS applications. Moreover, through a comparative analysis, we demonstrate that our behavior-rule specification based IDS technique outperforms two existing anomaly-based techniques for detecting abnormal patient behaviors in pervasive healthcare applications.
- INTRODUCTION
The most prominent characteristic of a medical cyber physical system (MCPS) is its feedback loop that acts on the physical environment. In other words, the physical environment provides data to the MCPS sensors whose data feed the MCPS control algorithms that drive the actuators which change the physical environment. MCPSs are often characterized by sophisticated patient treatment algorithms interacting with the physical environment including the patient. In this paper, we are concerned with intrusion detection mechanisms for detecting compromised sensors or actuators embedded in an MCPS for supporting safe and secure MCPS applications upon which patients and healthcare personnel can depend with high confidence.
Intrusion detection system (IDS) design for cyber physical systems (CPSs) has attracted considerable attention because of the dire consequence of CPS failure. However, IDS techniques for MCPSs is still in its infancy with very little work reported. Intrusion detection techniques in general can be classified into four types: signature, anomaly, trust, and specification-based techniques. In this paper, we consider specification rather than signature-based detection to deal with unknown attacker patterns. We consider specification rather than anomaly based techniques to avoid using resource constrained sensors or actuators in an MCPS for profiling anomaly patterns (e.g., through learning) and to avoid high false positives. We consider specification rather than trust based techniques to avoid delay due to trust aggregation and propagation to promptly react to malicious behaviors in safety critical MCPSs.
To accommodate resource-constrained sensors and actuators in an MCPS, we propose behavior-rule specification-based intrusion detection (BSID) which uses the notion of behavior rules for specifying acceptable behaviors of medical devices in an MCPS. Rule-based intrusion detection thus far has been applied only in the context of communication networks which have no concern of physical environments and the closed-loop control structure as in an MCPS. For example, Da Silva et al. propose an IDS that applies seven types of traffic-based rules to detect intruders: interval, retransmission, integrity, delay, repetition, radio transmission range and jamming. Ioannis et al. propose a multi trust IDS with traffic-based collection that audits the forwarding behavior of suspects to detect black hole and grey hole attacks launched by captured devices based on the rate of specification violations.
Our contribution relative to prior work cited above is that we specifically consider behavior rules for MCPS actuators controlling patient treatment algorithms as well as for physiological sensors providing information concerning the physical environment. Further, we propose a methodology to transform behavior rules to a state machine, so that a device that is being monitored for its behavior can easily be checked against the transformed state machine for deviation from its behavior specification. Existing work only considered specification-based state machines for intrusion detection of communication protocol misbehaving patterns.
Untreated in the literature, in this paper we also investigate the impact of attacker behaviors on the effectiveness of MCPS intrusion detection. We demonstrate that our specification based IDS technique can effectively trade higher false positives off for lower false negatives to cope with more sophisticated and hidden attackers. We show results for a range of configurations to illustrate this trade. Because the key motivation in MCPS is safety, our solution is deployed in a configuration yielding a high detection rate without compromising the false positive probability. Our approach is monitoring-based relying on the use of peer devices to monitor and measure the compliance degree of a trustee device connected to the monitoring node by the CPS network. The rules comparing monitor and trustee physiology (blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pulse, respiration and temperature) exceeds protection possible by considering devices in isolation.
The fundamental difference in designing IDSs for safety critical CPSs versus for other brands of systems is that the intrusion detection is closely tied with the physical components of the CPS, so the detection is less about communication protocol compliance but more about behavior compliance specific to the physical components to be controlled in the CPS. Thus, instead of monitoring packet routing or packet loss data for misbehavior detection of communication protocol compliance during packet transmission, IDSs for MCPSs may test medical sensor measurements and actuator settings for misbehavior detection of physical properties manifested because of attacks. For example, a patient requesting analgesic must have a pulse greater than some threshold, otherwise it may cause an overdose of analgesic delivered. Thus, if a patient requests analgesic while having a pulse below the threshold then an intruder may be involved. The behavior rules proposed in our work specifically address the expected behavior of individual physical components in the MCPS. The compliance threshold proposed in this paper specifically measures the goodness of a physical component. A challenge is to provide a high detection rate without introducing high false positives. We demonstrate that our IDS design based on the compliance threshold can effectively distinguish benign abnormalities from malicious attacks. To the best of our knowledge, there is no prior work discussing the difference between CPS intrusion detection and communication systems intrusion detection.
It is necessary to build an IDS per CPS domain/application since the behavior rules for specifying the behaviors of physical components/devices in a CPS are inherently domain/application specific. In the literature, ISML and T-Rex are also specification-based approaches for intrusion detection in CPSs. However, none of them considered MCPSs. In the field of intrusion detection for MCPSs or healthcare systems, Asfaw et al. studied an anomaly-based IDS for MCPSs. The authors focus on attacks that violate privacy of an MCPS; in contrast, our investigation focuses on attacks that violate the integrity of an MCPS. They use an anomaly-based approach while we use a specification-based approach. Asfaw et al. do not provide numerical results in the form of false negatives or positives which are the critical metrics for this research area; our investigation does provide these results.
Venkatasubramanian and Gupta survey security solutions for pervasive healthcare applications. Like , the authors focus on attacks on a passive pervasive healthcare system that violate patient privacy while our investigation considers integrity attacks on an MCPS that harm a patient. Their countermeasures focus on encryption and authentication/access control.
Yang and Hwang investigated an approach to fraud and abuse detection in healthcare applications. In contrast, our investigation focuses on the treatment, rather than the administrative, domain of healthcare. The authors use an anomaly-based approach while we use a specification-based approach. They provide numerical results that measure internal validity (the effectiveness of the data mining implementation) but do not provide externally valid metrics like Receiver Operating Characteristic(ROC) which can reveal the tradeoff between the detection rate vs. the false positive probability Porras and Neumann study a hierarchical multi trust behavior-based IDS called Event Monitoring Enabling Responses to Anomalous Live Disturbances (EMERALD) using complementary signature based and anomaly-based analysis. The authors identify a signature-based analysis trade between the state space created/runtime burden imposed by rich rule sets and the increased false negatives that stem from a less expressive rule set.
Porras and Neumann highlight two specific anomaly-based techniques using statistical analysis: one studies user sessions (to detect live intruders), and the other studies the runtime behavior of programs (to detect malicious code). EMERALD provides a generic analysis framework that is flexible enough to allow anomaly detectors to run with different scopes of multi trust data (service, domain or enterprise). However, Porras and Neumann did not report false positive or false negative probability data. While EMERALD pursues a domain-independent CPS security solution combining anomaly and signature-based analysis, our investigation focuses on one that is relevant for MCPSs using specification-based analysis. Park et al.propose a semi-supervised anomaly-based IDS targeted for assisted living environments. Their design is behavior-based and audits series of events which they call episodes. The authors’ events are 3-tuples comprising sensor ID, start time and duration. Park et al. test data sets using four similarity functions based on: LCS, count of common events not in LCS, event start times and event durations. They control episode length and similarity function as independent variables. The authors provide excellent ROC data which we use for a comparative analysis.
Tsang and Kwong propose a multi trust IDS called Multi-agent System (MAS) that includes an analysis function called Ant Colony Clustering Model (ACCM). The authors intend for ACCM to reduce the characteristically high false positive rate of anomaly-based approaches while minimizing the training period by using an unsupervised approach to machine learning. MAS is hierarchical and contains a large number of roles: monitor agents collect audit data, decision agents perform analysis, action agents effect responses, coordination agents manage multi trust communication, user interface agents interact with human operators and registration agents manage agent appearance and disappearance. Their results indicate ACCM slightly outperforms the detection rates and significantly outperforms the false positive rates of k means and expectation-maximization approaches. Like, MAS pursues a domain-independent CPS security solution using anomaly-based analysis; our investigation focuses on MCPS-specific IDS using specification-based analysis. We will use Park et al. and Tsang and Kwong as base schemes against which BSID will be compared because no others provide meaningful pfp/pfn data for a comparative analysis.
Our study of IDS warrants distinct treatment for medical versus generic CPSs because the behavior rule set we propose is application specific. CPSs in other domains will not have temperature sensors, medication dispensers or actuators supporting cardiac function. Furthermore, each CPS domain will have a unique environment: For example, while the population in an MCPS may be around 1000 based on the number of beds in a hospital, the population for a smart grid CPS may be in the millions. Also, while the geography of a MCPS may span a single square kilometer based on the size of a medical campus, the area of operation for a unmanned air vehicle (UAV) may be thousands of km2.
1.3 LITRATURE SURVEY
REDUNDANCY MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPATH ROUTING FOR INTRUSION TOLERANCE IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS.
PUBLICATION: H. Al-Hamadi and I. R. Chen. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 10(2):189–203, 2013.
In this paper we propose redundancy management of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs), utilizing multipath routing to answer user queries in the presence of unreliable and malicious nodes. The key concept of our redundancy management is to exploit the tradeoff between energy consumption vs. the gain in reliability, timeliness, and security to maximize the system useful lifetime. We formulate the tradeoff as an optimization problem for dynamically determining the best redundancy level to apply to multipath routing for intrusion tolerance so that the query response success probability is maximized while prolonging the useful lifetime. Furthermore, we consider this optimization problem for the case in which a voting-based distributed intrusion detection algorithm is applied to detect and evict malicious nodes in a HWSN. We develop a novel probability model to analyze the best redundancy level in terms of path redundancy and source redundancy, as well as the best intrusion detection settings in terms of the number of voters and the intrusion invocation interval under which the lifetime of a HWSN is maximized. We then apply the analysis results obtained to the design of a dynamic redundancy management algorithm to identify and apply the best design parameter settings at runtime in response to environment changes, to maximize the HWSN lifetime.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEMAND AND PRICING STRUCTURE: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS.
PUBLICATION: M. Aldebert, M. Ivaldi, and C. Roucolle. Telecommunication Systems, 25:89–115, 2004.
The main objective of this paper is to analyse residential demand by traffic destination, using a translogarithmic indirect utility function. We focus on five traffic directions, in order to construct a model adapted to evaluate the characteristics of telecommunications demand in a competitive market. The resulting price elasticities express high reactivity to own price changes for the main traffic directions, as well as little interactions between the different types of traffic. Moreover the high values of income elasticities confirm the importance of income effects when analysing residential telecommunications demand. This model shows useful for welfare analysis. The computation of customers’ income equivalent variation shows, on average, a higher willingness to pay for some traffic directions than the bill actually paid. Finally we show that the optimal prices for the operator, in a cost minimisation point of view, are higher than the observed prices for local and national traffic directions. This emphasises the existence of important cross-subsidies among the different segments of customers.
SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NEXT GENERATION CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS.
PUBLICATION: M. Anand, E. Cronin, M. Sherr, M. Blaze, Z. Ives, and I. Lee. Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber Physical Systems, 2006.
The advent of low-powered wireless networks of embedded sensors has spurred the development of new applications at the interface between the real world and its digital manifestation. Following this trend, the next generation Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system is expected to replace traditional data gathering – a distributed network of Remote Terminal Units (RTU) or Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), with devices such as the wireless sensing devices. Before these intelligent systems can be deployed in critical infrastructure such as emergency rooms and power plants, the security properties of sensors must be fully understood. Existing wisdom has been to apply the traditional security models and techniques to sensor networks: as in conventional computing environments, the goal has been to protect physical entities: devices, packets, links, and ultimately networks. Sensors have unique characteristics that warrant novel security considerations: the geographic distribution of the devices allows an attacker to physically capture nodes and learn secret key material, or to intercept or inject messages; the hierarchical nature of sensor networks and their route maintenance protocols permit the attacker to determine where the root node is placed. Perhaps most importantly, most sensor networks rely on redundancy (followed by aggregation) to accurately capture environmental information even with poorly calibrated and unreliable devices. This results in a fundamental distinction between a physical message in a sensor network and a logical unit of sensed information: a message with a single sensor reading may reveal very little information about the real environment, whereas a message containing an aggregate or collection of readings may reveal a great deal more.
HOST-BASED ANOMALY DETECTION FOR PERVASIVE MEDICAL SYSTEMS.
PUBLICATION: B. Asfaw, D. Bekele, B. Eshete, A. Villafiorita, and K. Weldemariam. In Fifth International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, pages 1–8, October 2010.
Intrusion detection systems are deployed on hosts in a computing infrastructure to tackle undesired events in the course of usage of the systems. One of the promising domains of applying intrusion detection is the healthcare domain. A typical healthcare scenario is characterized by high degree of mobility, frequent interruptions and above all demands access to sensitive medical records by concerned stakeholders. Migrating this set of concerns in pervasive healthcare environments where the traditional characteristics are more intensified in terms of uncertainty, one ends up with more challenges on security due to nature of pervasive devices and wireless communication media along with classic security problems for desktop based systems. Despite evolution of automated healthcare services and sophistication of attacks against such services, there is a reasonable lack of techniques, tools and experimental setups for protecting hosts against intrusive actions. This paper presents a contribution to provide a host-based, anomaly modeling and detection approach based on data mining techniques for pervasive healthcare systems. The technique maintains normal usage profile of pervasive healthcare applications and inspects current work flow against normal usage profile so as to classify it as anomalous or normal. The technique is implemented as a prototype with sample data set and the results obtained revealed that the technique is able to perform classification of anomalous activities.
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
Existing work only considered specification-based state machines for intrusion detection of communication protocol misbehaving patterns. Before that not using trust based techniques to avoid delay due to trust aggregation and propagation to promptly react to malicious behaviors in safety critical MCPSs.
2.1.1 DISADVANTAGES:
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
We propose a methodology to transform behavior rules to a state machine, so that a device that is being monitored for its behavior can easily be checked against the transformed state machine for deviation from its behavior specification. We also investigate the impact of attacker behaviors on the effectiveness of MCPS intrusion detection. We demonstrate that our specification based IDS technique can effectively trade higher false positives off for lower false negatives to cope with more sophisticated and hidden attackers. We show results for a range of configurations to illustrate this trade. Because the key motivation in MCPS is safety, our solution is deployed in a configuration yielding a high detection rate without compromising the false positive probability. Our approach is monitoring-based relying on the use of peer devices to monitor and measure the compliance degree of a trustee device connected to the monitoring node by the CPS network. The rules comparing monitor and trustee physiology (blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pulse, respiration and temperature) exceeds protection possible by considering devices in isolation.
2.2.1
ADVANTAGES:
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP
- Front End : Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008
- Back End : MS-SQL Server 2005
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN:
Data Flow Diagram / Use Case Diagram / Flow Diagram:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data. The physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
MODELING RULES:
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
3.1 BLOCK DIAGRAM
3.2 DATAFLOW DIAGRAM
UML DIAGRAMS:
3.2 USE CASE DIAGRAM:
3.3 CLASS DIAGRAM:
3.4 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:
3.5
ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
4.1 ALGORITHM
4.2 MODULES:
The system is proposed to have the following modules along with functional requirements.
- THREAT MODEL
- ATTACKER ARCHETYPES
- BEHAVIOR RULES
- INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM
4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTION:
1. THREAT MODEL
We focus on defeating inside attackers that violate the integrity of the MCPS with the objective to disable the MCPS functionality. Our design is also effective against attacks such as subtle manipulations that change medical doses slightly to cause long term harm to patients or medical or billing record exfiltrations which violate privacy. There are two distinct stages in an attack: before a node is compromised and after a node is compromised. Before a node is compromised, the adversary focuses on the tactical goal of achieving a foothold on the target system.
2. ATTACKER ARCHETYPES
We differentiate two attacker archetypes: reckless, random and opportunistic. A reckless attacker performs attacks whenever it has a chance to impair the MCPS functionality as soon as possible. A random attacker, on the other hand, performs attacks only randomly to avoid detection. It is thus insidious and hidden with the objective to cripple the MCPS functionality. We model the attacker behavior by a random attack probability pa. When pa = 1 the attacker is a reckless adversary. Random attacks are typically implemented with on off attacks in real-world scenarios, so pa is not a random variable drawn from uniform distribution U(0, 1) but rather a probability that a malicious node is performing attacks at any time with this on-off attack behavior. An opportunistic attacker is the third archetype. An opportunistic attacker exploits ambient noise modeled by perr (probability of mis-monitoring)to perform attacks.
3. BEHAVIOR RULES
Behavior rules for a device are specified during the design and testing phase of an MCPS. Our intrusion detection protocol takes a set of behavior rules for a device as input and detects if a device’s behavior deviates from the expected behavior specified by the set of behavior rules. Since the intrusion detection activity is performed in the background, it allows behavior rules to be changed if incomplete or imprecise specifications are discovered during the operational phase
Without disrupting the MCPS operation. Our IDS design for the reference MCPS model relies on
The use of lightweight specification-based behavior rules for each sensor or actuator medical device.
4. INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM
Intrusion detection system (IDS) design for cyber physical systems (CPSs) has attracted considerable because of the dire consequence of CPS failure. In this paper, we consider specification rather than signature-based detection to deal with unknown attacker patterns. We consider specification rather than anomaly based techniques to avoid using resource constrained
Sensors or actuators in an MCPS for profiling
anomaly patterns (e.g., through learning) and to avoid high false positives. We
consider specification rather than trust based techniques to avoid delay due to
trust aggregation and propagation to promptly react to malicious behaviors in Safety
critical MCPSs.
CHAPTER 5
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of
acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the
user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the
system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the
users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about
the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be
raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is
welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months. This creates two problems, the time lag between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
A program represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run satisfactorily, it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly with other programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of the programmer. Program testing checks for two types of errors: syntax and logical. Syntax error is a program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are common syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by the computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output carefully.
UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
5.1.3 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional testing of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct results, using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will work correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to prove that the application works for each client type and that personalization function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated values to isolate the problems.
FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 4 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.5 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Load Testing
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance tests are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the code, response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to identify weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software quality control team.
RELIABILITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security
testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability,
integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients
should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known
at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the
designers and testers.
SECURITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.7 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box
testing, sometimes called glass-box
testing is a test case
design method that uses
the control structure
of the procedural design to
derive test cases. Using
white box testing
method, the software engineer
can derive test
cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the
software structure to be tested.
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements of the software. That is, black testing enables the software engineer to derive sets of input conditions that will fully exercise all functional requirements for a program. Black box testing is not alternative to white box techniques. Rather it is a complementary approach that is likely to uncover a different class of errors than white box methods. Black box testing attempts to find errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle function of a software module. The starting point of the black box testing is either a specification or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the stimulated software should produce the desired results.
5.1.10 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 6
6.0 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION:
6.1 FEATURES OF .NET:
Microsoft .NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies for rapidly building and integrating XML Web services, Microsoft Windows-based applications, and Web solutions. The .NET Framework is a language-neutral platform for writing programs that can easily and securely interoperate. There’s no language barrier with .NET: there are numerous languages available to the developer including Managed C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java Script.
The .NET framework provides the foundation for components to interact seamlessly, whether locally or remotely on different platforms. It standardizes common data types and communications protocols so that components created in different languages can easily interoperate.
“.NET” is also the collective name given to various software components built upon the .NET platform. These will be both products (Visual Studio.NET and Windows.NET Server, for instance) and services (like Passport, .NET My Services, and so on).
6.2 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework has two main parts:
1. The Common Language Runtime (CLR).
2. A hierarchical set of class libraries.
The CLR is described as the “execution engine” of .NET. It provides the environment within which programs run. The most important features are
- Conversion from a low-level assembler-style language, called Intermediate Language (IL), into code native to the platform being executed on.
- Memory management, notably including garbage collection.
- Checking and enforcing security restrictions on the running code.
- Loading and executing programs, with version control and other such features.
- The following features of the .NET framework are also worth description:
Managed Code
The code that targets .NET, and which contains certain extra Information – “metadata” – to describe itself. Whilst both managed and unmanaged code can run in the runtime, only managed code contains the information that allows the CLR to guarantee, for instance, safe execution and interoperability.
Managed Data
With Managed Code comes Managed Data. CLR provides memory allocation and Deal location facilities, and garbage collection. Some .NET languages use Managed Data by default, such as C#, Visual Basic.NET and JScript.NET, whereas others, namely C++, do not. Targeting CLR can, depending on the language you’re using, impose certain constraints on the features available. As with managed and unmanaged code, one can have both managed and unmanaged data in .NET applications – data that doesn’t get garbage collected but instead is looked after by unmanaged code.
Common Type System
The CLR uses something called the Common Type System (CTS) to strictly enforce type-safety. This ensures that all classes are compatible with each other, by describing types in a common way. CTS define how types work within the runtime, which enables types in one language to interoperate with types in another language, including cross-language exception handling. As well as ensuring that types are only used in appropriate ways, the runtime also ensures that code doesn’t attempt to access memory that hasn’t been allocated to it.
Common Language Specification
The CLR provides built-in support for language interoperability. To ensure that you can develop managed code that can be fully used by developers using any programming language, a set of language features and rules for using them called the Common Language Specification (CLS) has been defined. Components that follow these rules and expose only CLS features are considered CLS-compliant.
6.3 THE CLASS LIBRARY
.NET provides a single-rooted hierarchy of classes, containing over 7000 types. The root of the namespace is called System; this contains basic types like Byte, Double, Boolean, and String, as well as Object. All objects derive from System. Object. As well as objects, there are value types. Value types can be allocated on the stack, which can provide useful flexibility. There are also efficient means of converting value types to object types if and when necessary.
The set of classes is pretty comprehensive, providing collections, file, screen, and network I/O, threading, and so on, as well as XML and database connectivity.
The class library is subdivided into a number of sets (or namespaces), each providing distinct areas of functionality, with dependencies between the namespaces kept to a minimum.
6.4 LANGUAGES SUPPORTED BY .NET
The multi-language capability of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET enables developers to use their existing programming skills to build all types of applications and XML Web services. The .NET framework supports new versions of Microsoft’s old favorites Visual Basic and C++ (as VB.NET and Managed C++), but there are also a number of new additions to the family.
Visual Basic .NET has been updated to include many new and improved language features that make it a powerful object-oriented programming language. These features include inheritance, interfaces, and overloading, among others. Visual Basic also now supports structured exception handling, custom attributes and also supports multi-threading.
Visual Basic .NET is also CLS compliant, which means that any CLS-compliant language can use the classes, objects, and components you create in Visual Basic .NET.
Managed Extensions for C++ and attributed programming are just some of the enhancements made to the C++ language. Managed Extensions simplify the task of migrating existing C++ applications to the new .NET Framework.
C# is Microsoft’s new language. It’s a C-style language that is essentially “C++ for Rapid Application Development”. Unlike other languages, its specification is just the grammar of the language. It has no standard library of its own, and instead has been designed with the intention of using the .NET libraries as its own.
Microsoft Visual J# .NET provides the easiest transition for Java-language developers into the world of XML Web Services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of other programming languages.
Active State has created Visual Perl and Visual Python, which enable .NET-aware applications to be built in either Perl or Python. Both products can be integrated into the Visual Studio .NET environment. Visual Perl includes support for Active State’s Perl Dev Kit.
Other languages for which .NET compilers are available include
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- Eiffel
ASP.NET XML WEB SERVICES | Windows Forms |
Base Class Libraries | |
Common Language Runtime | |
Operating System |
Fig1 .Net Framework
C#.NET is also compliant with CLS (Common Language Specification) and supports structured exception handling. CLS is set of rules and constructs that are supported by the CLR (Common Language Runtime). CLR is the runtime environment provided by the .NET Framework; it manages the execution of the code and also makes the development process easier by providing services.
C#.NET is a CLS-compliant language. Any objects, classes, or components that created in C#.NET can be used in any other CLS-compliant language. In addition, we can use objects, classes, and components created in other CLS-compliant languages in C#.NET .The use of CLS ensures complete interoperability among applications, regardless of the languages used to create the application.
CONSTRUCTORS AND DESTRUCTORS:
Constructors are used to initialize objects, whereas destructors are used to destroy them. In other words, destructors are used to release the resources allocated to the object. In C#.NET the sub finalize procedure is available. The sub finalize procedure is used to complete the tasks that must be performed when an object is destroyed. The sub finalize procedure is called automatically when an object is destroyed. In addition, the sub finalize procedure can be called only from the class it belongs to or from derived classes.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
Garbage Collection is another new feature in C#.NET. The .NET Framework monitors allocated resources, such as objects and variables. In addition, the .NET Framework automatically releases memory for reuse by destroying objects that are no longer in use.
In C#.NET, the garbage collector checks for the objects that are not currently in use by applications. When the garbage collector comes across an object that is marked for garbage collection, it releases the memory occupied by the object.
OVERLOADING
Overloading is another feature in C#. Overloading enables us to define multiple procedures with the same name, where each procedure has a different set of arguments. Besides using overloading for procedures, we can use it for constructors and properties in a class.
MULTITHREADING:
C#.NET also supports multithreading. An application that supports multithreading can handle multiple tasks simultaneously, we can use multithreading to decrease the time taken by an application to respond to user interaction.
STRUCTURED EXCEPTION HANDLING
C#.NET supports structured handling, which enables us to
detect and remove errors at runtime. In C#.NET, we need to use
Try…Catch…Finally statements to create exception handlers. Using
Try…Catch…Finally statements, we can create robust and effective exception
handlers to improve the performance of our application.
6.5 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet.
OBJECTIVES OF .NET FRAMEWORK
1. To provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object codes is stored and executed locally on Internet-distributed, or executed remotely.
2. To provide a code-execution environment to minimizes software deployment and guarantees safe execution of code.
3. Eliminates the performance problems.
There are
different types of application, such as Windows-based applications and
Web-based applications.
6.6 FEATURES OF SQL-SERVER
The OLAP Services feature available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. The term OLAP Services has been replaced with the term Analysis Services. Analysis Services also includes a new data mining component. The Repository component available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Meta Data Services. References to the component now use the term Meta Data Services. The term repository is used only in reference to the repository engine within Meta Data Services
SQL-SERVER database consist of six type of objects,
They are,
1. TABLE
2. QUERY
3. FORM
4. REPORT
5.
MACRO
TABLE:
A database is a collection of data about a specific topic.
VIEWS OF TABLE:
We can work with a table in two types,
1. Design View
2. Datasheet View
Design View
To build or modify the structure of a table we work in the table design view. We can specify what kind of data will be hold.
Datasheet View
To add, edit or analyses the data itself we work in tables datasheet view mode.
QUERY:
A query is a question that has to be asked the data. Access gathers data that answers the question from one or more table. The data that make up the answer is either dynaset (if you edit it) or a snapshot (it cannot be edited).Each time we run query, we get latest information in the dynaset. Access either displays the dynaset or snapshot for us to view or perform an action on it, such as deleting or updating.
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2
SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
8.1 CONCLUSION For safety-critical MCPSs, being able to detect attackers while limiting the false alarm probability to protect the welfare of patients is of utmost importance. In this paper we proposed a behavior-rule specification-based IDS technique for intrusion detection of medical devices embedded in a MCPS. We exemplified the utility with VSMs and demonstrated that the detection probability of the medical device approaches one (that is, we can always catch the attacker without false negatives) while bounding the false alarm probability to below 5% for reckless attackers and below 25% for random and opportunistic attackers over a wide range of environment noise levels. Through a comparative analysis, we demonstrated that our behavior-rule specification-based IDS technique outperforms existing techniques based on anomaly intrusion detection. In future work, we plan to analyze the overheads of our detection techniques such as the various distance-based methods in comparison with contemporary approaches. We also plan to deepen adversary modeling research based on stochastic Petri net techniques such that the system can dynamically adjust CT to maximize intrusion detection performance in response to changing attacker behaviors at runtime.
A System for Automatic Notification and Severity Estimation of Automotive Accidents
New communication technologies integrated into modern vehicles offer an opportunity for better assistance to people injured in traffic accidents. Recent studies show how communication capabilities should be supported by artificial intelligence systems capable of automating many of the decisions to be taken by emergency services, thereby adapting the rescue resources to the severity of the accident and reducing assistance time. To improve the overall rescue process, a fast and accurate estimation of the severity of the accident represent a key point to help emergency services better estimate the required resources.
This paper proposes a novel intelligent system which is able to automatically detect road accidents, notify them through vehicular networks, and estimate their severity based on the concept of data mining and knowledge inference. Our system considers the most relevant variables that can characterize the severity of the accidents (variables such as the vehicle speed, the type of vehicles involved, the impact speed, and the status of the airbag).
Results show that a complete Knowledge
Discovery in Databases (KDD) process, with an adequate selection of relevant
features, allows generating estimation models that can predict the severity of
new accidents. We develop a prototype of our system based on off-the-shelf
devices and validate it at the Applus+ IDIADA Automotive Research Corporation
facilities, showing that our system can notably reduce the time needed to alert
and deploy emergency services after an accident takes place.
1.2 INTRODUCTION
1.3
LITRATURE SURVEY
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
Most ITS applications, such as road
safety, fleet management, and navigation, will rely on data exchanged between
the vehicle and the roadside infrastructure (V2I), or even directly between
vehicles (V2V). The integration of sensoring capabilities on-board of vehicles,
along with peer-to-peer mobile communication among vehicles, forecast
significant improvements for failure. Existing V2V architecture, the transportation network
is broken into zones in which a single vehicle is known as the super vehicle.
Only super vehicles are able to communicate with the central infrastructure or
with other Super Vehicles, and all other vehicles can only communicate with the
super vehicle responsible for the zone in which they are previously traversing
in describe the super vehicle detection (SVD) algorithm for how a vehicle can
find or become a super vehicle of a zone and how super vehicles can aggregate
the speed and location data from all of the vehicles within their zone to still
ensure an accurate representation of the network.
2.1.1 DISADVANTAGES:
- Zero accident objectives on the long term, a fast and efficient rescue operation during the hour following a traffic accident significantly increase the probability of survival of the injured, and reduce the injury severity.
- Communication systems between vehicles, the infrastructure should be supported by intelligent systems capable of estimating the severity of accidents, and automatically deploying the actions required, thereby reducing the time needed to assist injured passengers.
- Many of the manual decisions taken nowadays by emergency services are based on incomplete or inaccurate data, which may be replaced by automatic systems that adapt to the specific characteristics of each accident.
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
The proposed system consists of several components with different functions. Firstly, vehicles should incorporate an On-Board unit (OBU) responsible for: (i) detecting when there has been a potentially dangerous impact for the occupants, (ii) collecting available information coming from sensors in the vehicle, and (iii) communicating the situation to a Control Unit (CU) that will accordingly address the handling of the warning notification. Next, the notification of the detected accidents is made through a combination of both V2V and V2I communications. Finally, the destination of all the collected information is the Control Unit; it will handle the warning notification, estimating the severity of the accident, and communicating the incident to the appropriate emergency services.
Our proposed architecture provides: (i)
direct communication between the vehicles involved in the accident, (ii) automatic
sending of a data file containing important information about the accident to
the Control Unit, and (iii) a preliminary and automatic assessment of the
damage of the vehicle and its occupants, based on the information coming from
the involved vehicles, and a database of accident reports. According to the
reported information and the preliminary accident estimation, the system will alert
the required rescue resources to optimize the accident assistance.
2.2.1 ADVANTAGES:
- In-vehicle sensors: They are required to detect accidents and provide information about its causes. Accessing the data from in-vehicle sensors is possible nowadays using the On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) standard interface, which serves as the entry point to the vehicles.
- Data Acquisition Unit (DAU): This device is responsible for periodically collecting data from the sensors available in the vehicle (airbag triggers, speed, fuel levels, etc.), converting them to a common format, and providing the collected data set to the OBU Processing Unit.
- OBU Processing Unit: It is in charge of processing the data coming from sensors, determining whether an accident occurred, and notifying dangerous situations to nearby vehicles, or directly to the Control Unit.
- The information from the DAU is
gathered, interpreted and used to determine the vehicle’s current status. This
unit must also have access to a positioning device (such as a GPS receiver),
and to different wireless interfaces, thereby enabling communication between
the vehicle and the remote control center.
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP or Win7
- Front End : Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008
- Script : C# Script
- Back End : MS-SQL Server 2005
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN:
Data Flow Diagram / Use Case Diagram / Flow Diagram:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data’s in the physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to
a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
3.1 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM
3.2 DATAFLOW DIAGRAM
UML DIAGRAMS:
3.2 USE CASE DIAGRAM:
3.3 CLASS DIAGRAM:
3.4 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:
3.5
ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
The KDD approach can be defined as the nontrivial process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and understandable patterns from KDD process begins with the understanding of the application specific domain and the necessary prior knowledge. After the acquisition of initial data, a series of phases are performed:
1) Selection: This phase determines the information sources that may be useful, and then it transforms the data into a common format.
2) Preprocessing: In this stage, the selected data must be cleaned (noise reduction or modeling) and preprocessed (missing data handling).
3) Transformation: This phase is in charge of performing a reduction and projection of the data to find relevant features that represent the data depending on the purpose of the task.
4) Data mining: This phase basically selects mining algorithms and selection methods which will be used to find patterns in data.
5) Interpretation/Evaluation: Finally,
the extracted patterns must be interpreted. This step may also include
displaying the patterns and models, or displaying the data taking into account
such models.
4.1 ALGORITHM
We propose to develop a complete KDD process, starting by selecting a useful data source containing instances of previous accidents. The data collected will be structured and preprocessed to ease the work to be done in the transformation and data mining phases. The final step will consist on interpreting the results, and assessing their utility for the specific task of estimating the severity of road accidents. The phases from the KDD process will be performed using the open-source Weka collection, which is a set of machine learning algorithms.
Weka is open source software issued under the GNU General Public License which contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. We will deal with road accidents in two dimensions: (i) damage on the vehicle (indicating the possibility of traffic problems or the need of cranes in the area of the accident), and (ii) passenger injuries. These two dimensions seem to be related, since heavily damaged vehicles are usually associated with low survival possibilities of the occupants.
We will use the estimations obtained with our
system about the damage on the vehicle to help in the prediction of the occupants’
injuries. Finally, our system will benefit from additional knowledge to improve
its accuracy, grouping accidents according to their degree of similarity. We
can use the criteria used in numerous studies about accidents in which crashes
are divided and analyzed separately depending on the main direction of the impact
registered due to the collision. The following sections contain the results of
the different phases of our KDD proposal.
4.2 MODULES:
USER MODULES:
VEHICULAR NETWORKS (ITS):
OBU AND CU STRUCTURE:
DATA ACQUISITION:
KDD MACHINE LEARNING:
4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTION:
USER MODULES:
VEHICULAR NETWORKS (ITS):
OBU AND CU STRUCTURE:
DATA ACQUISITION:
KDD MACHINE LEARNING:
CHAPTER 8
8.1 CONCLUSION:
The new communication technologies integrated into the automotive sector offer an opportunity for better assistance to people injured in traffic accidents, reducing the response time of emergency services, and increasing the information they have about the incident just before starting the rescue process. To this end, we designed and implemented a prototype for automatic accident notification and assistance based on V2V and V2I communications.
However, the effectiveness of this technology can be improved with the support of intelligent systems which can automate the decision making process associated with an accident. A preliminary assessment of the severity of an accident is needed to adapt resources accordingly. This estimation can be done by using historical data from previous accidents using a Knowledge Discovery in Databases process.
We showed that the vehicle speed is a crucial factor in front crashes, but the type of vehicle involved and the speed of the striking vehicle are more important than speed itself in side and rear-end collisions. The status of the airbag is also very useful in the estimation, since situations where it was not necessary to deploy the airbag rarely produce serious injuries to the passengers.
We developed a prototype that shows how
inter-vehicle communications can make accessible the information about the
different vehicles involved in an accident. Moreover, the positive results
achieved on the real tests indicates that the accident detection and severity estimation
algorithms are robust enough to allow a mass deployment of the proposed system.
A Stochastic Model to Investigate Data Center Performance and QoS in IaaS Cloud Computing Systems
Cloud data center management is a key problem due to the numerous and heterogeneous strategies that can be applied, ranging from the VM placement to the federation with other clouds. Performance evaluation of Cloud Computing infrastructures is required to predict and quantify the cost-benefit of a strategy portfolio and the corresponding Quality of Service (QoS) experienced by users. Such analyses are not feasible by simulation or on-the-field experimentation, due to the great number of parameters that have to be investigated.
In this paper, we present an analytical
model, based on Stochastic Reward Nets (SRNs), that is both scalable to model
systems composed of thousands of resources and flexible to represent different
policies and cloud-specific strategies. Several performance metrics are defined
and evaluated to analyze the behavior of a Cloud data center: utilization,
availability, waiting time, and responsiveness. A resiliency analysis is also
provided to take into account load bursts. Finally, a general approach is
presented that, starting from the concept of system capacity, can help system
managers to opportunely set the data center parameters under different working
conditions.
EXISTING SYSTEM:
In order to integrate business requirements and application level needs, in terms of Quality of Service (QoS), cloud service provisioning is regulated by Service Level Agreements (SLAs): contracts between clients and providers that express the price for a service, the QoS levels required during the service provisioning, and the penalties associated with the SLA violations. In such a context, performance evaluation plays a key role allowing system managers to evaluate the effects of different resource management strategies on the data center functioning and to predict the corresponding costs/benefits.
Cloud systems differ from traditional distributed systems. First of all, they are characterized by a very large number of resources that can span different administrative domains. Moreover, the high level of resource abstraction allows implementing particular resource management techniques such as VM multiplexing or VM live migrations that, even if transparent to final users, have to be considered in the design of performance models in order to accurately understand the system behavior.
Finally, different clouds, belonging to
the same or to different organizations, can dynamically join each other to
achieve a common goal, usually represented by the optimization of resources
utilization. This mechanism, referred to as cloud federation, allows providing
and releasing resources on demand thus providing elastic capabilities to the
whole infrastructure.
DISADVANTAGES:
- On-the-field experiments are mainly focused on the offered QoS, they are based on a black box approach that makes difficult to correlate obtained data to the internal resource management strategies implemented by the system provider.
- Simulation does not allow conducting comprehensive analyses of the system performance due to the great number of parameters that have to be investigated.
PROPOSED SYSTEM:
In this paper, we present a stochastic model, based on Stochastic Reward Nets (SRNs), that exhibits the above mentioned features allowing capturing the key concepts of an IaaS cloud system. The proposed model is scalable enough to represent systems composed of thousands of resources and it makes possible to represent both physical and virtual resources exploiting cloud specific concepts such as the infrastructure elasticity.
We present work is that a generic and
comprehensive view of a cloud system is presented. Low level details, such as
VM multiplexing, are easily integrated with cloud based actions such as
federation, allowing investigating different mixed strategies. An exhaustive
set of performance metrics are defined regarding both the system provider
(e.g., utilization) and the final users (e.g., responsiveness).
ADVANTAGES:
To provide a fair comparison among different resource management strategies, also taking into account the system elasticity, a performance evaluation approach is described. Such an approach, based on the concept of system capacity, presents a holistic view of a cloud system and it allows system managers to study the better solution with respect to an established goal and to opportunely set the system parameters.
Our analytical techniques represent a good candidate, thanks to the limited solution cost of their associated models. However, to accurately represent a cloud system, an analytical model has to be:
. Scalable: To deal with very large systems composed of hundreds or thousands of resources.
. Flexible: Allowing us to easily implement different strategies and policies and to represent different working conditions.
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP or Win 7
- Front End : Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008
- Back End : MSSQL Server
- Script Coding : C# Script
- Server : ASP .NET Web Server
- Document : MS-Office 2007
SYSTEM DESIGN:
ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM / UML DIAGRAMS / DAT FLOW DIAGRAM:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data. The physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to
a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
MODELING RULES:
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
SYSTEM
ARCHITECTURE:
IMPLEMENTATION:
SRNs allow us to define reward functions that can be associated to a particular state of the model to evaluate the performance level reached by the system during the sojourn in that state.
In the following, we are interested in
performance metrics able to characterize the system behavior from both the provider
and the user point of views. Such metrics will help system designer to size and
manage the cloud data center and they will also be determinant in the SLA
definitions.
Responsiveness It is the steady-state probability R that the system is able to accept a request within a given time deadline _. The computation of such a parameter requires the knowledge of the waiting time cumulative distribution function (CDF). To this end, it is possible to apply the tagged customer technique by modifying the SRN model to isolate the behavior of a single user request u and to observe its movements through the system. In the tagged customer model shown in Fig. 3, the system queue is modeled through two places. Place Pcustomer contains a single token that represents the arrival of request u. The P tokens initially present in place Pqueue represent the number of requests still waiting in the queue when u arrives, while the M1 and M2 tokens initially present in places Pres and Prun represent the corresponding system status.
MODULES:
USER MODULE:
- ADMIN:
- USER:
IAAS CLOUD SYSTEM:
ANALYTICAL MODEL:
CLOUD FEDERATION:
MODELING VM MULTIPLEXING:
RESILIENCY
ANALYSIS:
MODULES DESCRIPTION:
USER MODULE:
ADMIN:
In this module is used to help the server to view details and upload files with the security. Admin upload the data’s to database. Also view the subscriber details and user details. Admin find the redistribute details. Also who send the data and receive the data’s.
USER:
In this module, Users are having authentication and security to access the detail which is presented in the ontology system. Before accessing or searching the details user should have the account in that otherwise they should register first user can register their details like name, password, gender, age, and then. We develop this module, where the cloud storage can be made secure.
IAAS CLOUD SYSTEM:
Cloud computing is a promising technology able to strongly modify the way computing and storage resources will be accessed in the near future in the provision of on-demand access to virtual resources available on the Internet, cloud systems offer services at three different levels: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). In particular, IaaS clouds provide users with computational resources in the form of virtual machine (VM) instances deployed in the provider data center, while PaaS and SaaS clouds offer services in terms of specific solution stacks and application software suites, respectively.
Our business requirements and application-level needs, in terms of quality of service (QoS), cloud service provisioning is regulated by service-level agreements (SLAs): contracts between clients and providers that express the price for a service, the QoS levels required during the service provisioning, and the penalties associated with the SLA violations. In such a context, performance evaluation plays a key role allowing system managers to evaluate the effects of different resource management strategies on the data center.
ANALYTICAL MODEL:
IaaS cloud system composed of N physical resources job requests (in terms of VM instantiation requests) are enqueued in the system queue. Such a queue has a finite size Q; once its limit is reached, further requests are rejected. The system queue is managed according to a FIFO scheduling policy. When a resource is available, a job is accepted and the corresponding VM is instantiated.
We assume that the instantiation time is negligible and that the service time (i.e., the time needed to execute a job) is exponentially distributed with mean 1=_. According to the VM multiplexing technique in the cloud system can provide a number M of logical resources greater than N. In this case, multiple VMs can be allocated in the same physical machine (PM), for example, a core in a multicore architecture.
Multiple VMs sharing the same PM can incur in a reduction of the performance mainly due to I/O interference between VMs. We define the degradation factor d (_ 0) as the percentage increase in the expected service time experienced by a VM when multiplexed with another VM. The performance degradation of multiplexed VMs depends on the multiplexing technique.
CLOUD FEDERATION:
Cloud federation allows the system to use, in particular situations, the resources offered by other public cloud systems through a sharing and paying model. In this way, elastic capabilities can be exploited to respond to particular load conditions. Job requests can be redirected to other clouds by transferring the corresponding VM disk images through the network. With respect to the federation technique, we make the following assumptions:
Finally, with respect to the arrival process, we will investigate three different scenarios. In the first one (constant arrival process), we assume the arrival process be a homogeneous Poisson process with rate _. However, largescale distributed systems with thousands of users, such as cloud systems, could exhibit self-similarity/long-range dependence with respect to the arrival process. For these reasons, to take into account the dependences of the job arrival rate on both the days of a week and the hours of a day, in the second scenario (Periodic arrival process), we also choose to model the job arrival process as a Markov Modulated Poisson Process (MMPP).
MODELING VM MULTIPLEXING:
The proposed model is scalable enough to represent systems composed of thousands of resources and it makes possible to represent both physical and virtual resources exploiting cloud-specific concepts such as the infrastructure elasticity. With respect to the existing literature, the innovative aspect of the present work is that a generic and comprehensive view of a cloud system is presented. Low-level details, such as VM multiplexing, are easily integrated with cloud-based actions such as federation, allowing us to investigate different mixed strategies. An exhaustive set of performance metrics is defined regarding both the system provider (e.g., utilization) and the final users (e.g., responsiveness).
Moreover, different working conditions are investigated and a resiliency analysis is provided to take into account the effects of load bursts. Finally, to provide a fair comparison among different resource management strategies, also taking into account the system elasticity, a performance evaluation approach is described. Such an approach, based on the concept of system capacity, presents a holistic view of a cloud system and it allows system managers to study the better solution with respect to an established goal and to opportunely set the system parameters.
VM multiplexing technique in the cloud system can provide a number M of logical resources greater than N. In this case, multiple VMs can be allocated in the same physical machine (PM), for example, a core in a multicore architecture. Multiple VMs sharing the same PM can incur in a reduction of the performance mainly due to I/O interference between VMs. We define the degradation factor d (_ 0) as the percentage increase in the expected service time experienced by a VM when multiplexed with another VM. The performance degradation of multiplexed VMs depends on the multiplexing technique and on the VM placement strategy. We assume that, to reduce the degradation and to obtain a fair distribution of VMs, the system is able to optimally balance the load among the PMs with respect to the resources required by VMs (e.g., trying to multiplex CPU-bound VMs only with I/O-bound VMs), thus reaching a homogeneous degradation factor. Then, indicating with T ¼ 1=_ the expected service time of a VM in isolation, we can derive the expected time needed to execute two multiplexed VMs as T2 ¼ T _ ð1 þ dÞ. In general, we can express the expected execution time of I multiplexed VMs
RESILIENCY ANALYSIS:
Through a transient solution of the cloud performance model of it is possible to investigate the trend over time of some performance metrics. Such an analysis is straightforward to assess the resiliency of the cloud infrastructure, in particular when the load is characterized by bursts. In fact, even if the infrastructure is optimally sized with respect to the expected load, during a load burst, users can experience a degradation of the perceived QoS with corresponding violations of SLAs. For this reason, it is needed to predict the effects of a particular load condition to study the ability of the system to react to an overload situation. To study the system resiliency, we highlight the arrival of a single burst taking into account a bursty arrival process characterized by the following behavior:
The bursty arrival process is modeled by opportunely changing the exponentially distributed firing time of the transition Tarr in the cloud performance model through the adoption of the technique described in of all; we can identify three temporal phases:
In each phase, the model is solved in transitory by setting the firing rate of Tarr with the corresponding mean value: _n for the regular load, _b for the load burst. Moreover, at the beginning of each phase (i.e., before the change on the firing rate is applied), the initial state probabilities of the model.
CHAPTER 5
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of
acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the
user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the
system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the
users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about
the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be
raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is
welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months. This creates two problems, the time lag between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
A program
represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run
satisfactorily, it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly
with other programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of
the programmer. Program testing checks
for two types
of errors: syntax
and logical. Syntax error is a
program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it
is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are
common syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by
the computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output
carefully.
UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
5.1.3 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional
testing of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct
results, using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will
work correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to
prove that the application works for each client type and that personalization
function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is
compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of
instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the
program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain
key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated
values to isolate the problems.
FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 4 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.5 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Load Testing
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance tests
are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the
software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the
code, response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to
identify weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software
reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required
functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is
being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of
the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the
specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate
without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses
on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software quality
control team.
RELIABILITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security
testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability,
integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients
should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known
at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the
designers and testers.
SECURITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.7 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box
testing, sometimes called glass-box
testing is a test case
design method that uses
the control structure
of the procedural design to
derive test cases. Using
white box testing
method, the software engineer
can derive test
cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the
software structure to be tested.
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box
testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements
of the software. That is, black testing
enables the software
engineer to derive
sets of input
conditions that will
fully exercise all
functional requirements for a
program. Black box testing is not
alternative to white box techniques.
Rather it is
a complementary approach
that is likely
to uncover a different
class of errors
than white box methods. Black box testing attempts to find
errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle function of a software
module. The starting point of the black box testing is either a specification
or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the stimulated software should
produce the desired results.
5.1.10 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 7
7.0 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION:
7.1 FEATURES OF .NET:
Microsoft .NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies for rapidly building and integrating XML Web services, Microsoft Windows-based applications, and Web solutions. The .NET Framework is a language-neutral platform for writing programs that can easily and securely interoperate. There’s no language barrier with .NET: there are numerous languages available to the developer including Managed C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java Script.
The .NET framework provides the foundation for components to interact seamlessly, whether locally or remotely on different platforms. It standardizes common data types and communications protocols so that components created in different languages can easily interoperate.
“.NET” is
also the collective name given to various software components built upon the
.NET platform. These will be both products (Visual Studio.NET and Windows.NET
Server, for instance) and services (like Passport, .NET My Services, and so
on).
7.2 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework has two main parts:
1. The Common Language Runtime (CLR).
2. A hierarchical set of class libraries.
The CLR is described as the “execution engine” of .NET. It provides the environment within which programs run. The most important features are
- Conversion from a low-level assembler-style language, called Intermediate Language (IL), into code native to the platform being executed on.
- Memory management, notably including garbage collection.
- Checking and enforcing security restrictions on the running code.
- Loading and executing programs, with version control and other such features.
- The following features of the .NET framework are also worth description:
Managed Code
The code
that targets .NET, and which contains certain extra Information – “metadata” –
to describe itself. Whilst both managed and unmanaged code can run in the
runtime, only managed code contains the information that allows the CLR to
guarantee, for instance, safe execution and interoperability.
Managed Data
With Managed Code comes Managed Data. CLR provides memory allocation and Deal location facilities, and garbage collection. Some .NET languages use Managed Data by default, such as C#, Visual Basic.NET and JScript.NET, whereas others, namely C++, do not. Targeting CLR can, depending on the language you’re using, impose certain constraints on the features available. As with managed and unmanaged code, one can have both managed and unmanaged data in .NET applications – data that doesn’t get garbage collected but instead is looked after by unmanaged code.
Common Type System
The CLR uses something called the Common Type System (CTS) to strictly enforce type-safety. This ensures that all classes are compatible with each other, by describing types in a common way. CTS define how types work within the runtime, which enables types in one language to interoperate with types in another language, including cross-language exception handling. As well as ensuring that types are only used in appropriate ways, the runtime also ensures that code doesn’t attempt to access memory that hasn’t been allocated to it.
Common Language Specification
The CLR provides built-in support for language interoperability. To ensure that you can develop managed code that can be fully used by developers using any programming language, a set of language features and rules for using them called the Common Language Specification (CLS) has been defined. Components that follow these rules and expose only CLS features are considered CLS-compliant.
7.3 THE CLASS LIBRARY
.NET provides a single-rooted hierarchy of classes, containing over 7000 types. The root of the namespace is called System; this contains basic types like Byte, Double, Boolean, and String, as well as Object. All objects derive from System. Object. As well as objects, there are value types. Value types can be allocated on the stack, which can provide useful flexibility. There are also efficient means of converting value types to object types if and when necessary.
The set of classes is pretty comprehensive, providing collections, file, screen, and network I/O, threading, and so on, as well as XML and database connectivity.
The class library is subdivided into a number of sets (or namespaces), each providing distinct areas of functionality, with dependencies between the namespaces kept to a minimum.
7.4 LANGUAGES SUPPORTED BY .NET
The multi-language capability of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET enables developers to use their existing programming skills to build all types of applications and XML Web services. The .NET framework supports new versions of Microsoft’s old favorites Visual Basic and C++ (as VB.NET and Managed C++), but there are also a number of new additions to the family.
Visual Basic .NET has been updated to include many new and improved language features that make it a powerful object-oriented programming language. These features include inheritance, interfaces, and overloading, among others. Visual Basic also now supports structured exception handling, custom attributes and also supports multi-threading.
Visual Basic .NET is also CLS compliant, which means that any CLS-compliant language can use the classes, objects, and components you create in Visual Basic .NET.
Managed Extensions for C++ and attributed programming are just some of the enhancements made to the C++ language. Managed Extensions simplify the task of migrating existing C++ applications to the new .NET Framework.
C# is Microsoft’s new language. It’s a C-style language that is essentially “C++ for Rapid Application Development”. Unlike other languages, its specification is just the grammar of the language. It has no standard library of its own, and instead has been designed with the intention of using the .NET libraries as its own.
Microsoft Visual J# .NET provides the easiest transition for Java-language developers into the world of XML Web Services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of other programming languages.
Active State has created Visual Perl and Visual Python, which enable .NET-aware applications to be built in either Perl or Python. Both products can be integrated into the Visual Studio .NET environment. Visual Perl includes support for Active State’s Perl Dev Kit.
Other languages for which .NET compilers are available include
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- Eiffel
ASP.NET XML WEB SERVICES | Windows Forms |
Base Class Libraries | |
Common Language Runtime | |
Operating System |
Fig1 .Net Framework
C#.NET is also compliant with CLS (Common Language Specification) and supports structured exception handling. CLS is set of rules and constructs that are supported by the CLR (Common Language Runtime). CLR is the runtime environment provided by the .NET Framework; it manages the execution of the code and also makes the development process easier by providing services.
C#.NET is
a CLS-compliant language. Any objects, classes, or components that created in
C#.NET can be used in any other CLS-compliant language. In addition, we can use
objects, classes, and components created in other CLS-compliant languages in
C#.NET .The use of CLS ensures complete interoperability among applications,
regardless of the languages used to create the application.
CONSTRUCTORS AND DESTRUCTORS:
Constructors are used to initialize objects, whereas destructors are used to destroy them. In other words, destructors are used to release the resources allocated to the object. In C#.NET the sub finalize procedure is available. The sub finalize procedure is used to complete the tasks that must be performed when an object is destroyed. The sub finalize procedure is called automatically when an object is destroyed. In addition, the sub finalize procedure can be called only from the class it belongs to or from derived classes.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
Garbage Collection is another new feature in C#.NET. The .NET Framework monitors allocated resources, such as objects and variables. In addition, the .NET Framework automatically releases memory for reuse by destroying objects that are no longer in use.
In C#.NET, the garbage collector checks for the objects that are not currently in use by applications. When the garbage collector comes across an object that is marked for garbage collection, it releases the memory occupied by the object.
OVERLOADING
Overloading is another feature in C#. Overloading enables us
to define multiple procedures with the same name, where each procedure has a
different set of arguments. Besides using overloading for procedures, we can
use it for constructors and properties in a class.
MULTITHREADING:
C#.NET also supports multithreading. An application that supports multithreading can handle multiple tasks simultaneously, we can use multithreading to decrease the time taken by an application to respond to user interaction.
STRUCTURED EXCEPTION HANDLING
C#.NET supports structured handling, which enables us to
detect and remove errors at runtime. In C#.NET, we need to use
Try…Catch…Finally statements to create exception handlers. Using
Try…Catch…Finally statements, we can create robust and effective exception
handlers to improve the performance of our application.
7.5 THE .NET FRAMEWORK
The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet.
OBJECTIVES OF .NET FRAMEWORK
1. To provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object codes is stored and executed locally on Internet-distributed, or executed remotely.
2. To provide a code-execution environment to minimizes software deployment and guarantees safe execution of code.
3. Eliminates the performance problems.
There are
different types of application, such as Windows-based applications and
Web-based applications.
7.6 FEATURES OF SQL-SERVER
The OLAP Services feature available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. The term OLAP Services has been replaced with the term Analysis Services. Analysis Services also includes a new data mining component. The Repository component available in SQL Server version 7.0 is now called Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Meta Data Services. References to the component now use the term Meta Data Services. The term repository is used only in reference to the repository engine within Meta Data Services
SQL-SERVER database consist of six type of objects,
They are,
1. TABLE
2. QUERY
3. FORM
4. REPORT
5.
MACRO
7.7 TABLE:
A database is a collection of data about a specific topic.
VIEWS OF TABLE:
We can work with a table in two types,
1. Design View
2. Datasheet View
Design View
To build or modify the structure of a table we work in the table design view. We can specify what kind of data will be hold.
Datasheet View
To add, edit or analyses the data itself we work in tables datasheet view mode.
QUERY:
A query is a question that has to be asked the data. Access gathers data that answers the question from one or more table. The data that make up the answer is either dynaset (if you edit it) or a snapshot (it cannot be edited).Each time we run query, we get latest information in the dynaset. Access either displays the dynaset or snapshot for us to view or perform an action on it, such as deleting or updating.
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2
SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
8.1 CONCLUSION:
In this paper, we have presented a stochastic model to evaluate the performance of an IaaS cloud system. Several performance metrics have been defined, such as availability, utilization, and responsiveness, allowing us to investigate the impact of different strategies on both provider and user point of views. In a market-oriented area, such as the cloud computing, an accurate evaluation of these parameters is required to quantify the offered QoS and opportunely manage SLAs.
We present an analytical model, based on
Stochastic Reward Nets (SRNs), that is both scalable to model systems composed
of thousands of resources and flexible to represent different policies and
cloud-specific strategies. Several performance metrics are defined and
evaluated to analyze the behavior of a Cloud data center: utilization,
availability, waiting time, and responsiveness. A resiliency analysis is also
provided to take into account load bursts. Finally, a general approach is
presented that, starting from the concept of system capacity, can help system
managers to opportunely set the data center parameters under different working
conditions.
8.2 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT:
Future works will include the analysis
of autonomic techniques able to change on-the-fly the system configuration to
react to a change on the working conditions. We will also extend the model to
represent PaaS and SaaS cloud systems and to integrate the mechanisms needed to
capture VM migration and data center consolidation aspects that cover a crucial
role in energy saving policies.
Web-Based Traffic Sentiment Analysis Methods and Applications
In the recent of social media, sentiment analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. However, only a few studies focused on the field of transportation, which failed to meet the stringent requirements of safety, efficiency, and information exchange of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). We propose the traffic sentiment analysis (TSA) as a new tool to tackle this problem, which provides a new prospective for modern ITSs.
Our methods and models in TSA are
proposed in this paper, and the advantages and disadvantages of rule- and
learning-based approaches are analyzed based on web data. Practically, we
applied the rule-based approach to deal with real problems, presented an architectural
design, constructed related bases, demonstrated the process, and discussed the
online data collection.
1.2 INTRODUCTION
Transportation systems serve the people in essence, but the modern intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) failed to concern about the public opinions. For the completeness of ITS space, it is necessary to collect and analyze the public wisdom and opinions. With the remarkable advancement of Web 2.0 in the last decade, communication platforms, such as blogs, wikis, online forums, and social-networking groups, have become a rich data-mining source for the detection of public opinions. Therefore, we propose traffic sentiment analysis (TSA) for processing traffic information from websites. As taking consideration of human affection, TSA will enrich the performance of the current ITS space.
TSA is a subfield of sentiment analysis, which concerns about the issues of traffic in particular. Due to the field sensitivity of sentiment analysis, it is necessary to discuss the TSA problems and construct TSA systems specifically. The TSA treats the traffic problems in a new angle, and it supplements the capabilities of current ITS systems. Fig. 1 illustrates the modules of ITS and exhibits that the TSA plays the role of sensing, computing, and supporting the decision making in ITSs.
The functions of the TSA system can be illustrated as follows.
1) Investigation: It is more economical and efficient than the public poll to collect the public opinion through the TSA system.
2) Evaluation: The computational production of the TSA system can be used to evaluate the performance of traffic services and policies.
3)
Prediction: The TSA system can be further developed
to predict the trends of some social events. For example, to predict whether a
cancelled flight would bring chaos, we can analyze the emotion of passengers on
their words published on Twitter or Weibo through TSA systems.
In addition, specific parts of the TSA system can be viewed as another form of “social sensors” compared with traditional sensor systems; it can detect the situation from a new humanized perspective. The TSA system is independent of current systems, which is particularly useful in an emergency when other systems were ruined. For example, in 2009, the volcano ash from Iceland caused the malfunction of many cameras in several European countries. In this paper, by constructing a specific TSA system, we addressed the issues and methods in this field and illustrated two cases to demonstrate the value of this research.
Our contribution in this paper can be addressed as follows.
1) We proposed TSA to view the traffic problems in a new perspective.
2) The main issues of TSA applications on web data were discussed based on the web data.
3) The key problems of TSA were
addressed, including the design of architecture, the improved rule-based approach,
and the construction of related bases.
1.3 LITRATURE SURVEY
CHINESE WORD SEGMENTATION FOR TERRORISM-RELATED CONTENTS
PUBLICATION: D. Zeng, D. Wei, M. Chau, and F. Wang, Intelligence and Security Informatics.New York, NY, USA: Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 1–13.
EXPLANATION:
In order to analyze
security and terrorism related content in Chinese, it is important to perform
word segmentation on Chinese documents. There are many previous studies on
Chinese word segmentation. The two major approaches are statistic-based and
dictionary-based approaches. The pure statistic methods have lower precision,
while the pure dictionary-based method cannot deal with new words and are
restricted to the coverage of the dictionary. In this paper, we propose a
hybrid method that avoids the limitations of both approaches. Through the use
of suffix tree and mutual information (MI) with the dictionary, our segmenter,
called IASeg, achieves a high accuracy in word segmentation when domain
training is available. It can identify new words through MI-based token merging
and dictionary update. In addition, with the Improved Bigram method it can also
process N-grams. To evaluate the performance of our segmenter, we compare it
with the Hylanda segmenter and the ICTCLAS segmenter using a terrorism-related
corpus. The experiment results show that IASeg performs better than the two
benchmarks in both precision and recall.
AGENT-BASED CONTROL FOR NETWORKED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
PUBLICATION: F.-Y. Wang, IEEE Intell. Syst., vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 92–96, Sep./Oct. 2005.
EXPLANATION:
Agent or multiagent
systems have evolved and diversified rapidly since their inception around the
mid 1980s as the key concept and method in distributed artificial intelligence.
They have become an established, promising research and application field
drawing on and bringing together results and concepts from many disciplines,
including AI, computer science, sociology, economics, organization and
management science, and philosophy. However, multiagent systems have yet to
achieve widespread use for controlling traffic management systems. Most
research focuses on developing hierarchical structures, analytical modeling,
and optimized algorithms that are effective for real-time traffic applications,
as you can see from well-known traffic control systems such as CRONOS, OPAC,
SCOOT, SCAT, PRODYN, and RHODES. Although those functional-decomposition-based
systems are useful and successful for many traffic management problems, costs
and difficulties associated with their development, operation, maintenance,
expansion, and upgrading are often prohibitive and sometimes unnecessary,
especially in the rapidly arriving age of connectivity. We need to rethink
control systems and reinvestigate the use of simple task-oriented agents for
traffic control and management of transportation systems.
OPINION FEATURE EXTRACTION USING CLASS SEQUENTIAL RULES
PUBLICATION: M. Hu and B. Liu, presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium Computational
Approaches Analyzing Weblogs, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2006, Paper AAAI-CAAW-06.
EXPLANATION:
The paper studies the problem of
analyzing user comments and reviews of products sold online. Analyzing such
reviews and producing a summary of them is very useful to both potential
customers and product manufacturers. By analyzing reviews, we mean to extract
features of products (also called opinion features) that have been commented by
reviewers and determine whether the opinions are positive or negative. This
paper focuses on extracting opinion features from Pros and Cons, which
typically consist of short phrases or incomplete sentences. We propose a
language pattern based approach for this purpose. The language patterns are
generated from Class Sequential Rules (CSR). A CSR is different from a classic
sequential pattern because a CSR has a fixed class (or target). We propose an
algorithm to mine CSR from a set of labeled training sequences. To perform
extraction, the mined CSRs are transformed into language patterns, which are
used to match Pros and Cons to extract opinion features. Experimental results
show that the proposed approach is very effective.
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
Existing approaches to sentiment analysis can be categorized into rule- and learning based approaches. Rule-based approaches often require an expert-defined dictionary of subjective words; this approach predicts the polarity of a sentence or document by analyzing the occurring patterns of such words in text. For example, Wiebe et al. provided a lexicon source of subjectivity clues, such as verbs, adjectives, and nouns, with their polarity (i.e., positive, negative, or neutral) and strength (i.e., strong or weak) annotated. However, this lexicon is able to define the original polarity of a word only, and the actual polarity of a word may be modified by its context in a sentence. Several approaches that consider the context of words have been proposed to determine the sentiment orientation of words.
Previous studies, the data set contains
several subjective texts that could not be easily analyzed by the rules. The
most typical phenomenon is the ironic sentiment sentences. For instance, in
posts regarding fuel prices, the thread title used was “the fuel price will
rise,” to which one user replied, “go to sell the car.” Such a reply apparently
carries an ironic tone; thus, all annotators manually labeled the reply as
“negative.” However, given that the computer cannot detect from the given text
any word expressing a negative sentiment, the methods cannot recognize the sentiment
polarity. Therefore, numerous problems remain unsolved.
2.1.1 DISADVANTAGES:
- Rule-based approach, the disadvantage is that the sentiment polarity results cannot be as precise as expected if the context of the texts is not considered. Nevertheless, for handling web data, this type of approach has the following advantages.
- The precision of the rule-based approach is independent of the sizes of the clauses. Second, the syntax rule of a certain language is basic and static despite the differences in the stylistic features of various users. The thought process and word choice basically remain unchanged.
- Existing the rules of the rule-based approach is relatively static in the rule-based approach can be easily extended by simply updating the sentiment lexicon, although new sentimental words rapidly emerge and the sentiment of several words may be changed with words.
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
We propose traffic sentiment analysis (TSA) for processing traffic information from websites. As taking consideration of human affection, TSA will enrich the performance of the current ITS space. TSA is a subfield of sentiment analysis, which concerns about the issues of traffic in articular. Due to the field sensitivity of sentiment analysis, it is necessary to discuss the TSA problems and construct TSA systems specifically.
The TSA treats the traffic problems in a new angle, and it supplements the capabilities of current ITS systems in the modules of ITS and exhibits that the TSA plays the role of sensing, computing, and supporting the decision making in ITSs. The functions of the TSA system can be illustrated as follows. 1) Investigation: It is more economical and efficient than the public poll to collect the public opinion through the TSA system. 2) Evaluation: The computational production of the TSA system can be used to evaluate the performance of traffic services and policies. 3) Prediction: The TSA system can be further developed to predict the trends of some social events.
For example, to predict whether a
cancelled flight would bring chaos, we can analyze the emotion of passengers on
their words published on Twitter or Weibo through TSA systems. In addition,
specific parts of the TSA system can be viewed as another form of “social
sensors” compared with traditional sensor systems; it can detect the situation
from a new humanized perspective.
2.2.1 ADVANTAGES:
- We approach is adopted here to address the distinct challenges posed by the web data set illustrated the architecture of TSA; the architecture is based on the tackling process; and its main components, including 1) web data collection, 2) preprocessing, 3) extraction of subjects and objects, 4) extraction of sentiment properties, 5) sentiment calculation and classification, 6) evaluation or applications, and 7) feed-back, improve the construction of the sentiment, rule, and TSA object bases.
- Data collection: We gathered data from several websites, such ensuring that the conclusions are definitely based on public opinion or, at least, represent part of the public opinion.
- Preprocessing: As previously mentioned,
web documents must be processed additionally because that segment words by
spaces in sentences. In the preprocessing, the following steps are included: 1)
the segmentation of text, 2) the labeling of words, and 3) the replacement of
synonymous expressions.
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP or Win7
- Front End : JAVA JDK 1.7
- Back End : MS ACCESS 2007
- Tools : Netbeans 7
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN:
Data Flow Diagram / Use Case Diagram / Flow Diagram:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data’s in the physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
3.1 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM
3.2 DATAFLOW DIAGRAM
UML DIAGRAMS:
3.2 USE CASE DIAGRAM:
3.3 CLASS DIAGRAM:
3.4 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:
3.5
ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
TSA ARCHITECTURE
Previous studies on Chinese texts have devoted considerable efforts on architectural design. Che et al. designed the architecture of the language technology platform (LTP), an integrated Chinese processing platform including a suite of high-performance natural language processing (NLP) modules and relevant corpora. They achieved plausible results in several relevant evaluations, particularly for syntactic and semantic parsing modules. Li et al. designed the architecture of sentiment analysis application in the financial domain on the basis of morphemes. A rule-based approach is adopted here to address the distinct challenges posed by the Chinese data set. Fig. 2 illustrated the architecture of TSA; the architecture is based on the tackling process; and its main components, including 1) web data collection, 2) preprocessing, 3) extraction of subjects and objects, 4) extraction of sentiment properties, 5) sentiment calculation and classification, 6) evaluation or applications, and 7) feed- back, improve the construction of the sentiment, rule, and TSA object bases.
Data collection: To address the problem, we gathered data from several websites, such as Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, Tianya, and autohome (the upper block in Fig. 2), ensuring that the conclusions are definitely based on public opinion or, at least, represent part of the public opinion details of data collection are discussed in Section V.
Preprocessing: As previously mentioned, Chinese documents must be processed additionally because that Chinese language does not segment words by spaces in sentences. In the preprocessing, the following steps are included: 1) the segmentation of text, 2) the labeling of words, and 3) the replacement of synonymous expressions. The first two steps are done by a Chinese segmentation tool; we employ the Chinese Lexical Analysis System 3 launched by the social media, various expressions denote the same meaning. For example, several users commonly use “d,” which represents the Chinese character “ ” (support), to express agreement with others. Therefore, the replacement of synonymous expressions (step 3) is necessary to reduce the complexity and increase the precision of following processes.
Word segmentation optimization: To avoid unnecessary disturbances and improve precision, preprocessing should be conducted according to the material and the demand of the algorithms. However, in practice, the result of word segmentation in Chinese is far from expected. In some cases, this step may even reduce the precision. For example, “” is separated as ( /n). In fact, “ ” is an abbreviation of a company name, which represents one of the two Chinese oil giants. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the performance of the Chinese segmentation. In this paper, we propose to construct the “sentiment base” in the application of TSA. In practice, the “sentiment base” consists of the TSA sentiment base and HowNet (subsection B).
Extraction of subjects and objects: Subjects
and objects are mainly extracted by context mining and document analysis. In
TSA, appropriate models should be designed in context mining according to
different data sets and resources. Context mining should obtain results as
efficiently as possible to provide the necessary background knowledge for the
subsequent steps. In practice, context mining includes conservation extraction
and coreference analysis. Conservation extraction refers to handling the text,
such as “citation, @.” In addition, coreference analysis refers to mining the
object represented by other words. For example, the address in Sina Weibo is
usually represented by a hyperlink.
4.1 ALGORITHM
In this paper, we propose to construct the sentiment, modifier, object, and rule bases. Assume that the sentiment polarity of a word is determined by its morphemes. If the morphemes of a word appear in the positive lexicon more frequently than they do in the negative lexicon, the word is positive; otherwise, the word is negative. To measure the positive and negative tendencies of the morpheme q, we assign positive and negative weights to the morphemes as follows:
In formula (3), the polarity Sci depends on morphemes Ci, and the absolute value of Sci is the degree of tendency of morphemes Ci. The steps for calculating the sentiment polarity of words are as follows. Scan the positive and negative word lexicons; if the word w appears in the positive word lexicon, Sw = 1; if the word appears in the negative word lexicon, Sw = −1. Otherwise, the sentiment polarity is computed using morphemes by
Where Sw represents the sentiment polarity of the word w, which consists of c1, c2, . . . , cp. If Sw > 0, the sentiment polarity of the word is positive; otherwise, the sentiment polarity of the word is negative. If the value obtained is close to zero, the word can be considered neutral.
4.2 MODULES:
DATA COLLECTION TSA:
IT’S TRANSPORT SYSTEMS:
RULE BASED APPROACH:
TSA
ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE:
4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTION:
DATA COLLECTION TSA:
Information regarding traffic on the Web can be classified
into three categories. The first category consists of news, expert
commentaries, announcements, etc., from the traffic website.
The second includes posts from the transport sector in forums.
These forums provide a platform through which users
can exchange information about social topics, such as traffic
congestions and transportation policies. The third includes realtime
information about traffic in microblogging, which can be
found from the social media, such as weibo.com. The sentiment
polarity of the first category is not easily distinguished, but its
content is true and meaningful. The sentiment polarity of the
second category is clear, and usually, a discussion on certain
events or topics may be highly valuable for tracking public
opinion. The third category, which includes real-time traffic
information, may not have a fixed topic but often located in a
certain place. Such information bears significance for obtaining
real-time information of travelers and creating a backup sensor
network system. Data from the specific websites can be collected by the open
application programming interface or correspondent crawler,
such as the first and third categories of information. However,
collecting a data set on a specific topic is more difficult. In most
forums, the information-publishing platform can be divided
into a series of boards containing various categories or topics. In
a predefined subject board, the topics are designed for specific
events, providing a relatively better framework for the readers
and commenters. Nevertheless, the categorization is too simple
and indistinct for analysis and research because of the following
reasons: 1) not all topics can be mapped to a single board; 2) the
contents of the post are not strictly related to the object topics;
and 3) a board of forum often contains more than one topic.
Therefore, to precisely collect a topic line and gather the
information to one post, we first design a special crawler by
using depth retrieval. Traffic-related terms are adopted to build
the key ontological vocabulary used for the built-in search
engine of
the website.
IT’S TRANSPORT SYSTEMS:
The advances in cloud computing and internet of things (IoT) have provided a promising opportunity to further address the increasing transportation issues, such as heavy traffic, congestion, and vehicle safety. In the past few years, researchers have proposed a few models that use cloud computing for implementing intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). For example, a new vehicular cloud architecture called ITS-Cloud was proposed to improve vehicle-to-vehicle communication and road safety A cloud-based urban traffic control system was proposed to optimize traffic control a service-oriented architecture (SOA), this system uses a number of software services (SaaS), such as intersection control services, area management service, cloud service discovery service, and sensor service, to perform different tasks.
These services also interact with each other to exchange information and provide a solid basis for building a collaborative traffic control and processing system in a distributed cloud environment. As an emerging technology caused by rapid advances in modern wireless telecommunication, IoT has received a lot of attention and is expected to bring benefits to numerous application areas including health care, manufacturing, and transportation. Currently, the use of IoT in transportation is still in its early stage and most research on ITSs has not leveraged the IoT technology as a solution or an enabling infrastructure.
We propose to use both cloud computing and IoT as an
enabling infrastructure for developing a vehicular data cloud platform where
transportation-related information, such as traffic control and management, car
location tracking and monitoring, road condition, car warranty, and maintenance
information, can be intelligently connected and made available to drivers,
automakers, part-manufacturer, vehicle quality controller, safety authorities,
and regional transportation division. An experiment of using data mining models
to analyze vehicular data clouds in the IoT environment was also conducted to
demonstrate the feasibility of vehicular data mining service.
RULE BASED APPROACH:
Rule-based approach is needed, e.g., whether a noun that could represent the sentiment of the texts exists. As emphasized in previous studies, the data set contains several subjective texts that could not be easily analyzed by the rules. The most typical phenomenon is the ironic sentiment sentences. For instance, in posts regarding fuel prices, the thread title used was “the fuel price will rise,” to which one user replied, “go to sell the car.” Such a reply apparently carries an ironic tone; thus, all annotators manually labeled the reply as “negative.” However, given that the computer cannot detect from the given text any word expressing a negative sentiment, the methods cannot recognize the sentiment polarity. Therefore, numerous problems remain unsolved. For the limitations of the existing lexicons, an improved lexicon should be developed, which requires long-term and arduous efforts. We proposed the construction of ITSs under the architecture of artificial, computational, and parallel (ACP) methods, with the TSA system as one of the data sources.
TSA ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE:
Text sentiment calculation can be categorized into three levels, namely, word, sentence, and document levels. The calculation of the sentiment polarity of words is a basic step in the construction of the sentiment word base. In practice, we consider the words or phrases as another form of sentence. Therefore, text processing includes two main parts, the polarity calculation of the sentence- and document-level text. Fig. 3 shows the overall process involved in the proposed approach. The method includes two major steps, i.e., the sentence sentiment analysis and document sentiment aggregation. Considering the subtlety of Chinese expression, we first decompose a document into constituting sentences and determine the sentiment polarity of each sentence. In contrast to early document-level analytical approaches we regard sentences as atomic units for semantic analysis. The polarity scores of all the sentences are subsequently synthesized to compute for the overall polarity of the entire document. The sentiment polarity of a sentence is defined as ps. ps is determined to extract the SND patterns and calculate the sentiment polarity score according to the SND patterns identified in the text.
CHAPTER 5
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months.
This creates two problems, the time lag
between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the
system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error
can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in
the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced
number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a
user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if
it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
A program
represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run satisfactorily,
it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly with other
programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of the
programmer. Program testing checks
for two types
of errors: syntax
and logical. Syntax error is a
program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it
is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are
common syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by
the computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output
carefully.
5.1.2 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional testing of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct results, using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will work correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to prove that the application works for each client type and that personalization function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated values to isolate the problems.
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 3 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.4 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance tests are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the code, response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to identify weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software quality control team.
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the designers and testers.
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box testing, sometimes called glass-box testing is a test case design method that uses the control structure of the procedural design to derive test cases. Using white box testing method, the software engineer can derive test cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the software structure to be tested.
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements of the software. That is, black testing enables the software engineer to derive sets of input conditions that will fully exercise all functional requirements for a program. Black box testing is not alternative to white box techniques. Rather it is a complementary approach that is likely to uncover a different class of errors than white box methods. Black box testing attempts to find errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle function of a software module. The starting point of the black box testing is either a specification or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the stimulated software should produce the desired results.
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 6
6.0 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION:
6.1 JAVA TECHNOLOGY:
Java technology is both a programming language and a platform.
The Java Programming Language
The Java programming language is a high-level language that can be characterized by all of the following buzzwords:
- Simple
- Architecture neutral
- Object oriented
- Portable
- Distributed
- High performance
- Interpreted
- Multithreaded
- Robust
- Dynamic
- Secure
With most programming languages, you either compile or interpret a program so that you can run it on your computer. The Java programming language is unusual in that a program is both compiled and interpreted. With the compiler, first you translate a program into an intermediate language called Java byte codes —the platform-independent codes interpreted by the interpreter on the Java platform. The interpreter parses and runs each Java byte code instruction on the computer. Compilation happens just once; interpretation occurs each time the program is executed. The following figure illustrates how this works.
You can think of Java byte codes as the machine code instructions for the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM). Every Java interpreter, whether it’s a development tool or a Web browser that can run applets, is an implementation of the Java VM. Java byte codes help make “write once, run anywhere” possible. You can compile your program into byte codes on any platform that has a Java compiler. The byte codes can then be run on any implementation of the Java VM. That means that as long as a computer has a Java VM, the same program written in the Java programming language can run on Windows 2000, a Solaris workstation, or on an iMac.
6.2 THE JAVA PLATFORM:
A platform is the hardware or software environment in which a program runs. We’ve already mentioned some of the most popular platforms like Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris, and MacOS. Most platforms can be described as a combination of the operating system and hardware. The Java platform differs from most other platforms in that it’s a software-only platform that runs on top of other hardware-based platforms.
The Java platform has two components:
- The Java Virtual Machine (Java VM)
- The Java Application Programming Interface (Java API)
You’ve already been introduced to the Java VM. It’s the base for the Java platform and is ported onto various hardware-based platforms.
The Java API is a large collection of ready-made software components that provide many useful capabilities, such as graphical user interface (GUI) widgets. The Java API is grouped into libraries of related classes and interfaces; these libraries are known as packages. The next section, What Can Java Technology Do? Highlights what functionality some of the packages in the Java API provide.
The following figure depicts a program that’s running on the Java platform. As the figure shows, the Java API and the virtual machine insulate the program from the hardware.
Native code is code that after you compile it, the compiled code runs on a specific hardware platform. As a platform-independent environment, the Java platform can be a bit slower than native code. However, smart compilers, well-tuned interpreters, and just-in-time byte code compilers can bring performance close to that of native code without threatening portability.
6.3 WHAT CAN JAVA TECHNOLOGY DO?
The most common types of programs written in the Java programming language are applets and applications. If you’ve surfed the Web, you’re probably already familiar with applets. An applet is a program that adheres to certain conventions that allow it to run within a Java-enabled browser.
However, the Java programming language is not just for writing cute, entertaining applets for the Web. The general-purpose, high-level Java programming language is also a powerful software platform. Using the generous API, you can write many types of programs.
An application is a standalone program that runs directly on the Java platform. A special kind of application known as a server serves and supports clients on a network. Examples of servers are Web servers, proxy servers, mail servers, and print servers. Another specialized program is a servlet.
A servlet can almost be thought of as an applet that runs on the server side. Java Servlets are a popular choice for building interactive web applications, replacing the use of CGI scripts. Servlets are similar to applets in that they are runtime extensions of applications. Instead of working in browsers, though, servlets run within Java Web servers, configuring or tailoring the server.
How does the API support all these kinds of programs? It does so with packages of software components that provides a wide range of functionality. Every full implementation of the Java platform gives you the following features:
- The essentials: Objects, strings, threads, numbers, input and output, data structures, system properties, date and time, and so on.
- Applets: The set of conventions used by applets.
- Networking: URLs, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP (User Data gram Protocol) sockets, and IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.
- Internationalization: Help for writing programs that can be localized for users worldwide. Programs can automatically adapt to specific locales and be displayed in the appropriate language.
- Security: Both low level and high level, including electronic signatures, public and private key management, access control, and certificates.
- Software components: Known as JavaBeansTM, can plug into existing component architectures.
- Object serialization: Allows lightweight persistence and communication via Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
- Java Database Connectivity (JDBCTM): Provides uniform access to a wide range of relational databases.
The Java platform also has APIs for 2D and 3D graphics, accessibility, servers, collaboration, telephony, speech, animation, and more. The following figure depicts what is included in the Java 2 SDK.
6.4 HOW WILL JAVA TECHNOLOGY CHANGE MY LIFE?
We can’t promise you fame, fortune, or even a job if you learn the Java programming language. Still, it is likely to make your programs better and requires less effort than other languages. We believe that Java technology will help you do the following:
- Get started quickly: Although the Java programming language is a powerful object-oriented language, it’s easy to learn, especially for programmers already familiar with C or C++.
- Write less code: Comparisons of program metrics (class counts, method counts, and so on) suggest that a program written in the Java programming language can be four times smaller than the same program in C++.
- Write better code: The Java programming language encourages good coding practices, and its garbage collection helps you avoid memory leaks. Its object orientation, its JavaBeans component architecture, and its wide-ranging, easily extendible API let you reuse other people’s tested code and introduce fewer bugs.
- Develop programs more quickly: Your development time may be as much as twice as fast versus writing the same program in C++. Why? You write fewer lines of code and it is a simpler programming language than C++.
- Avoid platform dependencies with 100% Pure Java: You can keep your program portable by avoiding the use of libraries written in other languages. The 100% Pure JavaTM Product Certification Program has a repository of historical process manuals, white papers, brochures, and similar materials online.
- Write once, run anywhere: Because 100% Pure Java programs are compiled into machine-independent byte codes, they run consistently on any Java platform.
- Distribute software more easily: You can upgrade applets easily from a central server. Applets take advantage of the feature of allowing new classes to be loaded “on the fly,” without recompiling the entire program.
6.5 ODBC:
Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard programming interface for application developers and database systems providers. Before ODBC became a de facto standard for Windows programs to interface with database systems, programmers had to use proprietary languages for each database they wanted to connect to. Now, ODBC has made the choice of the database system almost irrelevant from a coding perspective, which is as it should be. Application developers have much more important things to worry about than the syntax that is needed to port their program from one database to another when business needs suddenly change.
Through the ODBC Administrator in Control Panel, you can specify the particular database that is associated with a data source that an ODBC application program is written to use. Think of an ODBC data source as a door with a name on it. Each door will lead you to a particular database. For example, the data source named Sales Figures might be a SQL Server database, whereas the Accounts Payable data source could refer to an Access database. The physical database referred to by a data source can reside anywhere on the LAN.
The ODBC system files are not installed on your system by Windows 95. Rather, they are installed when you setup a separate database application, such as SQL Server Client or Visual Basic 4.0. When the ODBC icon is installed in Control Panel, it uses a file called ODBCINST.DLL. It is also possible to administer your ODBC data sources through a stand-alone program called ODBCADM.EXE. There is a 16-bit and a 32-bit version of this program and each maintains a separate list of ODBC data sources.
From a programming perspective, the beauty of ODBC is that the application can be written to use the same set of function calls to interface with any data source, regardless of the database vendor. The source code of the application doesn’t change whether it talks to Oracle or SQL Server. We only mention these two as an example. There are ODBC drivers available for several dozen popular database systems. Even Excel spreadsheets and plain text files can be turned into data sources. The operating system uses the Registry information written by ODBC Administrator to determine which low-level ODBC drivers are needed to talk to the data source (such as the interface to Oracle or SQL Server). The loading of the ODBC drivers is transparent to the ODBC application program. In a client/server environment, the ODBC API even handles many of the network issues for the application programmer.
The advantages
of this scheme are so numerous that you are probably thinking there must be
some catch. The only disadvantage of ODBC is that it isn’t as efficient as talking
directly to the native database interface. ODBC has had many detractors make
the charge that it is too slow. Microsoft has always claimed that the critical
factor in performance is the quality of the driver software that is used. In
our humble opinion, this is true. The availability of good ODBC drivers has
improved a great deal recently. And anyway, the criticism about performance is
somewhat analogous to those who said that compilers would never match the speed
of pure assembly language. Maybe not, but the compiler (or ODBC) gives you the
opportunity to write cleaner programs, which means you finish sooner.
Meanwhile, computers get faster every year.
6.6 JDBC:
In an effort to set an independent database standard API for Java; Sun Microsystems developed Java Database Connectivity, or JDBC. JDBC offers a generic SQL database access mechanism that provides a consistent interface to a variety of RDBMSs. This consistent interface is achieved through the use of “plug-in” database connectivity modules, or drivers. If a database vendor wishes to have JDBC support, he or she must provide the driver for each platform that the database and Java run on.
To gain a wider acceptance of JDBC, Sun based JDBC’s framework on ODBC. As you discovered earlier in this chapter, ODBC has widespread support on a variety of platforms. Basing JDBC on ODBC will allow vendors to bring JDBC drivers to market much faster than developing a completely new connectivity solution.
JDBC was announced in March of 1996. It was released for a 90 day public review that ended June 8, 1996. Because of user input, the final JDBC v1.0 specification was released soon after.
The remainder of this section will cover enough information about JDBC for you to know what it is about and how to use it effectively. This is by no means a complete overview of JDBC. That would fill an entire book.
6.7 JDBC Goals:
Few software packages are designed without goals in mind. JDBC is one that, because of its many goals, drove the development of the API. These goals, in conjunction with early reviewer feedback, have finalized the JDBC class library into a solid framework for building database applications in Java.
The goals that were set for JDBC are important. They will give you some insight as to why certain classes and functionalities behave the way they do. The eight design goals for JDBC are as follows:
SQL Level API
The designers felt that their main goal was to define a SQL interface for Java. Although not the lowest database interface level possible, it is at a low enough level for higher-level tools and APIs to be created. Conversely, it is at a high enough level for application programmers to use it confidently. Attaining this goal allows for future tool vendors to “generate” JDBC code and to hide many of JDBC’s complexities from the end user.
SQL Conformance
SQL syntax varies as you move from database vendor to database vendor. In an effort to support a wide variety of vendors, JDBC will allow any query statement to be passed through it to the underlying database driver. This allows the connectivity module to handle non-standard functionality in a manner that is suitable for its users.
JDBC must be implemental on top of common database interfaces
The JDBC SQL API must “sit” on top of other common SQL level APIs. This goal allows JDBC to use existing ODBC level drivers by the use of a software interface. This interface would translate JDBC calls to ODBC and vice versa.
- Provide a Java interface that is consistent with the rest of the Java system
Because of Java’s acceptance in the user community thus far, the designers feel that they should not stray from the current design of the core Java system.
- Keep it simple
This goal probably appears in all software design goal listings. JDBC is no exception. Sun felt that the design of JDBC should be very simple, allowing for only one method of completing a task per mechanism. Allowing duplicate functionality only serves to confuse the users of the API.
- Use strong, static typing wherever possible
Strong typing allows for more error checking to be done at compile time; also, less error appear at runtime.
- Keep the common cases simple
Because more often than not, the usual SQL calls
used by the programmer are simple SELECT’s,
INSERT’s,
DELETE’s
and UPDATE’s,
these queries should be simple to perform with JDBC. However, more complex SQL
statements should also be possible.
Finally we decided to precede the implementation using Java Networking.
And for dynamically updating the cache table we go for MS Access database.
Java ha two things: a programming language and a platform.
Java is a high-level programming language that is all of the following
Simple Architecture-neutral
Object-oriented Portable
Distributed High-performance
Interpreted Multithreaded
Robust Dynamic Secure
Java is also unusual in that each Java program is both compiled and interpreted. With a compile you translate a Java program into an intermediate language called Java byte codes the platform-independent code instruction is passed and run on the computer.
Compilation happens just once; interpretation occurs each time the program is executed. The figure illustrates how this works.
6.7 NETWORKING TCP/IP STACK:
The TCP/IP stack is shorter than the OSI one:
TCP is a connection-oriented protocol; UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a connectionless protocol.
IP datagram’s:
The IP layer provides a connectionless and unreliable delivery system. It considers each datagram independently of the others. Any association between datagram must be supplied by the higher layers. The IP layer supplies a checksum that includes its own header. The header includes the source and destination addresses. The IP layer handles routing through an Internet. It is also responsible for breaking up large datagram into smaller ones for transmission and reassembling them at the other end.
UDP:
UDP is also connectionless and unreliable. What it adds to IP is a checksum for the contents of the datagram and port numbers. These are used to give a client/server model – see later.
TCP:
TCP supplies logic to give a reliable connection-oriented protocol above IP. It provides a virtual circuit that two processes can use to communicate.
Internet addresses
In order to use a service, you must be able to find it. The Internet uses an address scheme for machines so that they can be located. The address is a 32 bit integer which gives the IP address.
Network address:
Class A uses 8 bits for the network address with 24 bits left over for other addressing. Class B uses 16 bit network addressing. Class C uses 24 bit network addressing and class D uses all 32.
Subnet address:
Internally, the UNIX network is divided into sub networks. Building 11 is currently on one sub network and uses 10-bit addressing, allowing 1024 different hosts.
Host address:
8 bits are finally used for host addresses within our subnet. This places a limit of 256 machines that can be on the subnet.
Total address:
The 32 bit address is usually written as 4 integers separated by dots.
Port addresses
A service exists on a host, and is identified by its port. This is a 16 bit number. To send a message to a server, you send it to the port for that service of the host that it is running on. This is not location transparency! Certain of these ports are “well known”.
Sockets:
A socket is a data structure maintained by the system
to handle network connections. A socket is created using the call socket
. It returns an integer that is like a file
descriptor. In fact, under Windows, this handle can be used with Read File
and Write File
functions.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
int socket(int family, int type, int protocol);
Here “family” will be AF_INET
for IP communications, protocol
will be zero, and type
will depend on whether TCP or UDP is used. Two
processes wishing to communicate over a network create a socket each. These are
similar to two ends of a pipe – but the actual pipe does not yet exist.
6.8 JFREE CHART:
JFreeChart is a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications. JFreeChart’s extensive feature set includes:
A consistent and well-documented API, supporting a wide range of chart types;
A flexible design that is easy to extend, and targets both server-side and client-side applications;
Support for many output types, including Swing components, image files (including PNG and JPEG), and vector graphics file formats (including PDF, EPS and SVG);
JFreeChart is “open source” or, more specifically, free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL), which permits use in proprietary applications.
6.8.1. Map Visualizations:
Charts showing values that relate to geographical areas. Some examples include: (a) population density in each state of the United States, (b) income per capita for each country in Europe, (c) life expectancy in each country of the world. The tasks in this project include: Sourcing freely redistributable vector outlines for the countries of the world, states/provinces in particular countries (USA in particular, but also other areas);
Creating an appropriate dataset interface (plus
default implementation), a rendered, and integrating this with the existing
XYPlot class in JFreeChart; Testing, documenting, testing some more,
documenting some more.
6.8.2. Time Series Chart Interactivity
Implement a new (to JFreeChart) feature for interactive time series charts — to display a separate control that shows a small version of ALL the time series data, with a sliding “view” rectangle that allows you to select the subset of the time series data to display in the main chart.
6.8.3. Dashboards
There is currently a lot of interest in dashboard displays. Create a flexible dashboard mechanism that supports a subset of JFreeChart chart types (dials, pies, thermometers, bars, and lines/time series) that can be delivered easily via both Java Web Start and an applet.
6.8.4. Property Editors
The property editor mechanism in JFreeChart only
handles a small subset of the properties that can be set for charts. Extend (or
reimplement) this mechanism to provide greater end-user control over the
appearance of the charts.
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2 SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 8
8.1 CONCLUSION
We have proposed Web-based TSA to analyze the traffic problems in a humanizer way. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply sentiment analysis on the area of traffic. The study of TSA will provide us a new perspective when facing with traffic problems.
Our work can be concluded as the following five folds: 1) designing the application architecture of TSA; 2) constructing the related bases for the TSA system; 3) comparing the advantages and disadvantages of both rule- and learning-based approaches based on the characters of web data; 4) proposing an algorithm for the sentiment polarity calculation based on the rule-based approach; and 5) taking consideration of the modifying relationships of sentence patterns and locations in the sentiment polarity calculations.
The task to implement the TSA system
into existing ITSs is also critically important, and it does need further
research. We suggested that take the policy evaluation part to support decision
making of managers and view the evaluation results related to specific location
as sensor information. The keynote of implementation is jointly accommodating
the traveler’s best interest and reasonable workload. Since TSA is still in its
infancy, we anticipate that more techniques will be developed for the joint
performance of ITS with the TSA system in the future.
Video Dissemination over Hybrid Cellular and Ad Hoc Networks
We study the problem of disseminating videos to mobile users by using a hybrid cellular and ad hoc network. In particular, we formulate the problem of optimally choosing the mobile devices that will serve as gateways from the cellular to the ad hoc network, the ad hoc routes from the gateways to individual devices, and the layers to deliver on these ad hoc routes.
We develop a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP)-based algorithm, called POPT, to solve this optimization problem. Pocket delivers the highest possible video quality and optimization problem that determines:
1) The mobile devices that will serve as gateways and relay video data from the cellular network to the ad hoc network,
2) The multihop ad hoc routes for disseminating video data
3) The subsets of video data each mobile device relays to the next hops under capacity constraints. We formulate the optimization problem into a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP), and propose an MILP-based algorithm, called POPT, to optimally solve the problem.
We recommend the THS algorithm for video streaming over hybrid cellular and ad hoc networks. Last, we also build a real video dissemination system among multiple Android smart phones over a live cellular network. Via actual experiments, we demonstrate the practicality and efficiency of the proposed THS algorithm.
We call it Tree-Based Heuristic Scheduling (THS) algorithm, and it works as follows: We first sort all the transmission units in the W-segment scheduling window in descending order of importance, by layer, segment, and video. We then go through these WL units, and sequentially schedule the transmissions to all mobile devices.
1.2 INTRODUCTION
Mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, are getting increasingly popular, and continue to generate record-high amount of mobile data traffic. For example, a Cisco report indicates that mobile data traffic will increase 39 times by 2015. Sixty six percent of the increase is due to video traffic. Unfortunately, existing cellular networks were designed for unicast voice services, and do not natively support multicast and broadcast. Therefore, cellular networks are not suitable for large-scale video dissemination. This was validated by a measurement study, which shows that each HSDPA cell can only support up to six mobile video users at 256 kbps. Thus, disseminating videos to many mobile users over cellular networks could lead to network congestion and degraded user experience.
This network capacity issue may be partially addressed by deploying more cellular base stations, installing dedicated broadcast networks (such as Digital Video Broadcast- Handheld, DVB-H), or upgrading the cellular base stations to support Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS). However, these approaches all result in additional costs for new network infrastructure, and might not be fully compatible with existing mobile devices. Hence, a better way to disseminate videos to many mobile users is critical to the profitability of cellular service providers.
We study video dissemination in hybrid cellular and ad hoc networks in the underlying network, consisting of one or several base stations and multiple mobile devices equipped with heterogeneous network interfaces. Mobile devices not only connect to the base station over the cellular network, but also form an ad hoc network using short-range wireless protocols such as WiFi and Bluetooth. Mobile devices relay video traffic among each other using ad hoc links, leveraging such a free spectrum to alleviate bandwidth bottlenecks and cut down the expense of cellular service providers. Throughout the paper, we denote mobile devices that directly receive video data over the cellular network and relay the receiving data to other mobile devices over the ad hoc network as gateways.
1.3 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
3G, and 4G cellular
networks, and examples of ad hoc networks are WiFi ad hoc and Bluetooth
networks. Mobile devices can always receive video data from the base station
via cellular links. Distributing videos in a hybrid network is challenging because:
Wireless networks are dynamic in terms of connectivity, latency, and capacity
and video data require high throughput and low latency. To cope with these
challenges, we employ layered video coding, such as H.264/MPEG4.
1.4 LITRATURE SURVEY
RATE CONTROL AND STREAM ADAPTATION FOR SCALABLE VIDEO STREAMING OVER MULTIPLE ACCESS NETWORKS
Author: C. Hsu, N. Freris, J. Singh, and X. Zhu
Publish:” Proc. Int’l Packet Video Workshop (PV ’10), pp. 1-8, Dec.2010.
In a
multihomed video streaming system, a video sequence is simultaneously
transmitted over multiple access networks to a client. In this paper, we
formulate the rate control and a stream adaptation problem into a unified
optimization problem, which determines the sending rates of individual networks,
selects which video packets to transmit, and assigns each packet to an access
network. We propose two heuristic algorithms with a trade-off between
optimality and computational complexity. One of the proposed algorithms runs
faster, while the other one results in better video quality. We propose a
hybrid algorithm that demonstrates a good balance between optimality and
computational complexity. We conduct extensive packet-level simulations to
evaluate our algorithms using real network conditions and actual scalable video
streams. We compare our algorithms against the rate control algorithms defined
in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) standard. The simulation
results show that our algorithms significantly outperform current systems while
being TCP-friendly. Our algorithms achieve at least 10 dB quality improvements
over DCCP and result in up to 83% packet delivery delay reduction.
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
Linear Program (LP)-based algorithm called MTS, for lower time complexity generic ad hoc protocols do not work well in hybrid cellular and WiFi ad hoc networks, and may lead to:
1) degraded overall throughput, 2) unfair resource allocation, and 3) low resilience to mobility. They propose two approaches to improve the efficiency of ad hoc protocols. First, the base station can run optimization algorithms for the WiFi ad hoc network, for example, to build optimized routes. Second, mobile devices connected to other access networks can offload traffic from the cellular network to those access networks, so as to avoid network congestion around the base station.
2.1.1 DISADVANTAGES:
Existing
algorithms achieve at least 10 dB quality improvements and result in up to 80%
packet delivery delay reduction.
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
We propose a hybrid network, in which each multicast group is either in the cellular in the ad hoc mode. Initially, all multicast groups are in ad hoc mode, and when the bandwidth requirement of a group exceeds the ad hoc network capacity, the base station picks up that group and switches it into the cellular mode.
In the ad hoc network, a flooding routing protocol is used to discover neighbors and a heuristic is employed to forward video data. Our work differs from in several aspects: 1) we propose a unified optimization problem that jointly finds the optimal gateway mobile devices, ad hoc routes, and video adaptation, 2) we consider existing cellular base stations that may not natively support multicast, and 3) we employ Variable-Bit-Rate (VBR) streams.
More specifically,
we empirically measure the mapping between the node location and link capacity
several times, and use the resulting values for capacity estimation. We adopt
the video traces of H.264/MPEG4 layered videos from an online video library.
The mean bit rate and average video quality for each layer of the considered videos
are given in Table 2. In this paper, we report sample simulation results of
distributing Crew. However, the proposed formulation and solutions are general
and also work for the scenarios where mobile devices watch different videos.
2.2.1 ADVANTAGES:
1. The links into mobile devices on breadth-first trees of transmission units with higher quality improvement values are given higher priorities.
2. The links with higher ad hoc link capacities are given higher priorities.
3. The links from
mobile devices with higher cellular link capacities are given higher
priorities.
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
- Operating System : Windows XP
- Front End : JAVA JDK 1.7
- Tool : Eclipse
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN:
Data Flow Diagram / Use Case Diagram / Flow Diagram:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data. The physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
MODELING RULES:
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
3.1 BLOCK DIAGRAM:
ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM:
3.2 DATAFLOW DIAGRAM:
UML DIAGRAMS:
3.2 USE CASE DIAGRAM:
3.3 CLASS DIAGRAM:
3.4 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:
3.5 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
UNICAST DATA TRANSFER:
We design a hybrid network that uses a WiFi ad hoc network to route cellular data via other mobile devices with higher cellular data rates. Two neighbor discovery and routing protocols, proactive and on-demand, are proposed. With the former protocol, all devices proactively maintain the states of their immediate neighbors. When a device wants to discover a route to the base station, it issues a route discovery message to a neighbor with the highest cellular data rate. The message is further relayed by the neighbor to its highest rate neighbor until there is no neighbor with higher rate than the relayer or the hop count limit is reached. The final relayer is the one that receives data from the cellular network and propagates data to the original requester. With the on-demand protocol, devices do not maintain their neighbors’ states. A requester discovers a route to the base station by flooding a route discovery message to all its neighbors within a given range.
Higher data rates than that of the
previous hops forward the message to the base station, which eventually selects
the best path to the requester. Simulation results show that the on-demand protocol
typically incurs higher traffic overhead on the cellular network, while the
proactive protocol consumes more energy. Through simulations show that generic
ad hoc protocols do not work well in hybrid cellular and WiFi ad hoc networks,
and may lead to: 1) degraded overall throughput, 2) unfair resource allocation,
and 3) low resilience to mobility. They propose two approaches to improve the
efficiency of ad hoc protocols. First, the base station can run optimization
algorithms for the WiFi ad hoc network, for example, to build optimized routes.
Second, mobile devices connected to other access networks can offload traffic
from the cellular network to those access networks, so as to avoid network
congestion around the base station.
MULTICAST DATA TRANSFER:
Evaluate a hybrid network in which a
cellular base station reduces its transmission range to achieve a higher data
rate for mobile devices inside its range. Some mobile devices act as gateways
and relay data to mobile devices outside the range via a multihop ad hoc
network. The analysis and simulation results indicate that up to 70 percent
downlink capacity improvement over pure cellular networks is possible. We propose
a hybrid network, in which each multicast group is either in the cellular mode
or in the ad hoc mode. Initially, all multicast groups are in ad hoc mode, and when
the bandwidth requirement of a group exceeds the ad hoc network capacity, the
base station picks up that group and switches it into the cellular mode. Park
and Kasera consider the gateway node discovery problem, and model the ad hoc
interference as a graph coloring problem. Solving this problem allows them to
approximate the number of other mobile devices in the transmission range of a
specific mobile device in the ad hoc routing problem for multicast services,
and also abstract ad hoc interference as a graph. They formulate a problem of
finding the relay forest to maximize the overall data rate, and they propose an
approximation algorithm.
4.1 ALGORITHM:
A Tree-Based Heuristic Algorithm: THS Both POPT and MTS algorithms employ optimization problem solvers. Although commercial and open-source solvers are available, these solvers might lead to long running time in the worst-case scenarios. Hence, we next propose a greedy scheduling algorithm that does not rely on any solvers. We call it Tree-Based Heuristic Scheduling (THS) algorithm, and it works as follows: We first sort all the transmission units in the W-segment scheduling window in descending order of importance, by layer, segment, and video. We then go through these WL units, and sequentially schedule the transmissions to all mobile devices.
4.2 MODULES:
SERVER CLIENT MODULE:
RESOURCE ALLOCATION:
VIDEO STREAMING:
QUALITY
OPTIMIZATION:
4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTION:
SERVER CLIENT MODULE:
Client-server computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between service providers (servers) and service requesters, called clients. Often clients and servers operate over a computer network on separate hardware. A server machine is a high-performance host that is running one or more server programs which share its resources with clients. A client also shares any of its resources; Clients therefore initiate communication sessions with servers which await (listen to) incoming requests.
WIMAX RELAY NETWORKS:
WiMAX bandwidth allocation schemes in
employ multiple loops to examine the performance of the different combinations
of recipients, which results in extremely high computational complexity. The
bandwidth allocation scheme proposed in this study applies greedy methods to
achieve low computational complexity while incorporating the table-consulting
mechanisms to avoid redundant bandwidth allocation scheme can efficiently
allocate bandwidth while maintaining low computational complexity. WiMAX
provide diverse data rates, H.264/SVC allow a video stream to be split into one
base layer and multiple enhancement layers. This study assumes that a video can
be split into six layers (one base layer and five enhancement layers)
corresponding to the six video quality levels a user with the requirements of 64kbit/s
128 kbit/s can be satisfied by receiving the base layer and one enhancement
layer.
RESOURCE ALLOCATION:
Our resource allocation model for two-hop WiMAX relay networks consists of one BS, M RSs, and N SSs. For consistency, the BS is regarded as the 0th RS and is denoted by RS0 in the following discussion, while the RSs are denoted by RS1 to RSM.An SS can associate either with the BS or with one of the RSs, and the number of SSs associated with RSm is denoted by Nm. The notation SSm;n represents the nth SS associated with RSm.
CQm represents the channel quality of the link between the BS and RSm while CQm;n represents the channel quality between RSm and SSm;n. Assume that the video streams for the links with lower channel quality should be transmitted by the modulation schemes with higher reliability.
VIDEO STREAMING:
Scalable video broadcast/multicast solutions efficiently integrates scalable video coding, 3G broadcast and ad-hoc forwarding to balance the system-wide and video quality of all viewers at 3G cell. In our solution, video is downloading into multiple layers. The base station broadcasts different layers at different rates to cover viewers at different ranges. All viewers are guaranteed to receive the base layer, and viewers closer to the base station can receive more enhancement layers. Using WiMAX Relay Networks connections, viewers far away from the base station can obtain from their neighbors closer to the base station the enhancement layers that they cannot receive directly from the base station. Our solution strikes a good balance between the average and worst-case performance for all viewers in the cell. We design multi-hop relay routing schemes to exploit the broadcast nature of ad-hoc transmissions and eliminate redundant video relays from helpers to their receivers.
QUALITY OPTIMIZATION:
Our channel qualities of these links, BSs and RSs can dynamically adapt the downlink modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) for data transmission. When RSs are deployed at appropriate locations between the BSs and SSs, the end-to-end channel qualities can be improved and the BSs and RSs can adopt high data-rate MCSs. Based on this improvement in data rate, IEEE 802.16j systems can offer higher throughput and serve more users than IEEE 802.16e systems. Based on the performance enhancements above, IEEE 802.16j has the potential to provide real-time video multicast services such as mobile IPTV, live video streaming (e.g., athletic events), and online gaming).
However, the BSs should allocate bandwidth efficiently to support such bandwidth-hungry services while guaranteeing the quality of user experience (QoE). The bandwidth allocation problems in IEEE 802.16j networks are more challenging than those in IEEE 802.16e networks because the BSs allocate bandwidth not only to the SSs, but also to the RSs. Multicasting also complicates the bandwidth allocation problems of these factors, designing an efficient bandwidth allocation scheme for video multicast services.
We have presented
various bandwidth allocation approaches for video services in IEEE 802.16e
networks (i.e., single-hop WiMAX systems). The approaches in and allocate
bandwidth by exploiting the common technology of scalable video coding (SVC)
specified in the H.264/SVC standard. The H.264/SVC standard is extended from
H.264/AVC, and can further split a video stream into a base layer for providing
the basic video quality and multiple enhancement layers for providing better
video quality layer by-layer.
4.4 EXPRIMENTAL RESULTS
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT:
We investigate the performance improvement achieved by the hybrid network compared to the cellular-only network with varied number of mobile devices U. Fig. 6a shows with 95 percent confidence intervals that, for a PSNR requirement of 30 dB, the Current* scheduler can only support 10 mobile devices. POPT, MTS, and THS algorithms all achieve that quality with any investigated number of mobile devices. Note that these schedulers provide an advantage over Current*—mobile devices receive almost equally—good PSNR. That is, the longest range of 95 percent confidential interval achieved by POPT, MTS, and THS is merely 0.30 dB, while Current* suffers from a much larger range of up to 3.78 dB.
We observe that two algorithms, MTS and THS, achieve similar PSNR, at most 2 dB lower than POPT. Fig. 6b indicates that MTS is more efficient than POPT, but MTS’ running time still increases prohibitively with the increase of device density more device network, MTS takes more than half an hour to generate a schedule. In contrast, the THS algorithm always terminates in very short time under any number of devices. This shows that the THS algorithm achieves a good tradeoff between complexity and solution quality. Because MTS and THS achieve similar PSNR, but THS runs faster than MTS, we do not consider MTS in the remaining comparisons.
CHAPTER 4
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of
acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the
user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the
system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the
users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about
the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be
raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is
welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months. This creates two problems, the time lag between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
A program
represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run
satisfactorily, it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly
with other programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of
the programmer. Program testing checks
for two types
of errors: syntax
and logical. Syntax error is a
program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it
is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are
common syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by
the computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output
carefully.
UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
5.1.3 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional
testing of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct
results, using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will
work correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to
prove that the application works for each client type and that personalization
function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is
compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of
instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the
program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain
key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated values
to isolate the problems.
FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 4 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.5 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Load Testing
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance
tests are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the
software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the code,
response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to identify
weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software
reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required
functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is
being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of
the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the
specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate
without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses
on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software
quality control team.
RELIABILITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security
testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability,
integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients
should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known
at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the
designers and testers.
SECURITY TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.7 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box
testing, sometimes called glass-box
testing is a test case
design method that uses
the control structure
of the procedural design to
derive test cases. Using
white box testing
method, the software engineer
can derive test
cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the
software structure to be tested.
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box
testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements
of the software. That is,
black testing enables
the software engineer to derive
sets of input
conditions that will
fully exercise all
functional requirements for a
program. Black box testing is not
alternative to white box techniques.
Rather it is
a complementary approach that
is likely to
uncover a different class
of errors than
white box methods. Black box
testing attempts to find errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle
function of a software module. The starting point of the black box testing is
either a specification or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the
stimulated software should produce the desired results.
5.1.10 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 7
7.0 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION:
7.1 JAVA TECHNOLOGY:
Java technology is both a programming language and a platform.
The Java Programming Language
The Java programming language is a high-level language that can be characterized by all of the following buzzwords:
- Simple
- Architecture neutral
- Object oriented
- Portable
- Distributed
- High performance
- Interpreted
- Multithreaded
- Robust
- Dynamic
- Secure
With most programming languages, you either compile or interpret a program so that you can run it on your computer. The Java programming language is unusual in that a program is both compiled and interpreted. With the compiler, first you translate a program into an intermediate language called Java byte codes —the platform-independent codes interpreted by the interpreter on the Java platform. The interpreter parses and runs each Java byte code instruction on the computer. Compilation happens just once; interpretation occurs each time the program is executed. The following figure illustrates how this works.
You can think of Java byte codes as the machine code instructions for the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM). Every Java interpreter, whether it’s a development tool or a Web browser that can run applets, is an implementation of the Java VM. Java byte codes help make “write once, run anywhere” possible. You can compile your program into byte codes on any platform that has a Java compiler. The byte codes can then be run on any implementation of the Java VM. That means that as long as a computer has a Java VM, the same program written in the Java programming language can run on Windows 2000, a Solaris workstation, or on an iMac.
7.2 THE JAVA PLATFORM:
A platform is the hardware or software environment in which a program runs. We’ve already mentioned some of the most popular platforms like Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris, and MacOS. Most platforms can be described as a combination of the operating system and hardware. The Java platform differs from most other platforms in that it’s a software-only platform that runs on top of other hardware-based platforms.
The Java platform has two components:
- The Java Virtual Machine (Java VM)
- The Java Application Programming Interface (Java API)
You’ve already been introduced to the Java VM. It’s the base for the Java platform and is ported onto various hardware-based platforms.
The Java API is a large collection of ready-made software components that provide many useful capabilities, such as graphical user interface (GUI) widgets. The Java API is grouped into libraries of related classes and interfaces; these libraries are known as packages. The next section, What Can Java Technology Do? Highlights what functionality some of the packages in the Java API provide.
The following figure depicts a program that’s running on the Java platform. As the figure shows, the Java API and the virtual machine insulate the program from the hardware.
Native code is code that after you compile it, the compiled code runs on a specific hardware platform. As a platform-independent environment, the Java platform can be a bit slower than native code. However, smart compilers, well-tuned interpreters, and just-in-time byte code compilers can bring performance close to that of native code without threatening portability.
7.3 WHAT CAN JAVA TECHNOLOGY DO?
The most common types of programs written in the Java programming language are applets and applications. If you’ve surfed the Web, you’re probably already familiar with applets. An applet is a program that adheres to certain conventions that allow it to run within a Java-enabled browser.
However, the Java programming language is not just for writing cute, entertaining applets for the Web. The general-purpose, high-level Java programming language is also a powerful software platform. Using the generous API, you can write many types of programs.
An application is a standalone program that runs directly on the Java platform. A special kind of application known as a server serves and supports clients on a network. Examples of servers are Web servers, proxy servers, mail servers, and print servers. Another specialized program is a servlet.
A servlet can almost be thought of as an applet that runs on the server side. Java Servlets are a popular choice for building interactive web applications, replacing the use of CGI scripts. Servlets are similar to applets in that they are runtime extensions of applications. Instead of working in browsers, though, servlets run within Java Web servers, configuring or tailoring the server.
How does the API support all these kinds of programs? It does so with packages of software components that provides a wide range of functionality. Every full implementation of the Java platform gives you the following features:
- The essentials: Objects, strings, threads, numbers, input and output, data structures, system properties, date and time, and so on.
- Applets: The set of conventions used by applets.
- Networking: URLs, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP (User Data gram Protocol) sockets, and IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.
- Internationalization: Help for writing programs that can be localized for users worldwide. Programs can automatically adapt to specific locales and be displayed in the appropriate language.
- Security: Both low level and high level, including electronic signatures, public and private key management, access control, and certificates.
- Software components: Known as JavaBeansTM, can plug into existing component architectures.
- Object serialization: Allows lightweight persistence and communication via Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
- Java Database Connectivity (JDBCTM): Provides uniform access to a wide range of relational databases.
The Java platform also has APIs for 2D and 3D graphics, accessibility, servers, collaboration, telephony, speech, animation, and more. The following figure depicts what is included in the Java 2 SDK.
7.4 HOW WILL JAVA TECHNOLOGY CHANGE MY LIFE?
We can’t promise you fame, fortune, or even a job if you learn the Java programming language. Still, it is likely to make your programs better and requires less effort than other languages. We believe that Java technology will help you do the following:
- Get started quickly: Although the Java programming language is a powerful object-oriented language, it’s easy to learn, especially for programmers already familiar with C or C++.
- Write less code: Comparisons of program metrics (class counts, method counts, and so on) suggest that a program written in the Java programming language can be four times smaller than the same program in C++.
- Write better code: The Java programming language encourages good coding practices, and its garbage collection helps you avoid memory leaks. Its object orientation, its JavaBeans component architecture, and its wide-ranging, easily extendible API let you reuse other people’s tested code and introduce fewer bugs.
- Develop programs more quickly: Your development time may be as much as twice as fast versus writing the same program in C++. Why? You write fewer lines of code and it is a simpler programming language than C++.
- Avoid platform dependencies with 100% Pure Java: You can keep your program portable by avoiding the use of libraries written in other languages. The 100% Pure JavaTM Product Certification Program has a repository of historical process manuals, white papers, brochures, and similar materials online.
- Write once, run anywhere: Because 100% Pure Java programs are compiled into machine-independent byte codes, they run consistently on any Java platform.
- Distribute software more easily: You can upgrade applets easily from a central server. Applets take advantage of the feature of allowing new classes to be loaded “on the fly,” without recompiling the entire program.
7.5 ODBC:
Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard programming interface for application developers and database systems providers. Before ODBC became a de facto standard for Windows programs to interface with database systems, programmers had to use proprietary languages for each database they wanted to connect to. Now, ODBC has made the choice of the database system almost irrelevant from a coding perspective, which is as it should be. Application developers have much more important things to worry about than the syntax that is needed to port their program from one database to another when business needs suddenly change.
Through the ODBC Administrator in Control Panel, you can specify the particular database that is associated with a data source that an ODBC application program is written to use. Think of an ODBC data source as a door with a name on it. Each door will lead you to a particular database. For example, the data source named Sales Figures might be a SQL Server database, whereas the Accounts Payable data source could refer to an Access database. The physical database referred to by a data source can reside anywhere on the LAN.
The ODBC system files are not installed on your system by Windows 95. Rather, they are installed when you setup a separate database application, such as SQL Server Client or Visual Basic 4.0. When the ODBC icon is installed in Control Panel, it uses a file called ODBCINST.DLL. It is also possible to administer your ODBC data sources through a stand-alone program called ODBCADM.EXE. There is a 16-bit and a 32-bit version of this program and each maintains a separate list of ODBC data sources.
From a programming perspective, the beauty of ODBC is that the application can be written to use the same set of function calls to interface with any data source, regardless of the database vendor. The source code of the application doesn’t change whether it talks to Oracle or SQL Server. We only mention these two as an example. There are ODBC drivers available for several dozen popular database systems. Even Excel spreadsheets and plain text files can be turned into data sources. The operating system uses the Registry information written by ODBC Administrator to determine which low-level ODBC drivers are needed to talk to the data source (such as the interface to Oracle or SQL Server). The loading of the ODBC drivers is transparent to the ODBC application program. In a client/server environment, the ODBC API even handles many of the network issues for the application programmer.
The advantages
of this scheme are so numerous that you are probably thinking there must be
some catch. The only disadvantage of ODBC is that it isn’t as efficient as
talking directly to the native database interface. ODBC has had many detractors
make the charge that it is too slow. Microsoft has always claimed that the
critical factor in performance is the quality of the driver software that is
used. In our humble opinion, this is true. The availability of good ODBC
drivers has improved a great deal recently. And anyway, the criticism about
performance is somewhat analogous to those who said that compilers would never
match the speed of pure assembly language. Maybe not, but the compiler (or
ODBC) gives you the opportunity to write cleaner programs, which means you
finish sooner. Meanwhile, computers get faster every year.
7.6 JDBC:
In an effort to set an independent database standard API for Java; Sun Microsystems developed Java Database Connectivity, or JDBC. JDBC offers a generic SQL database access mechanism that provides a consistent interface to a variety of RDBMSs. This consistent interface is achieved through the use of “plug-in” database connectivity modules, or drivers. If a database vendor wishes to have JDBC support, he or she must provide the driver for each platform that the database and Java run on.
To gain a wider acceptance of JDBC, Sun based JDBC’s framework on ODBC. As you discovered earlier in this chapter, ODBC has widespread support on a variety of platforms. Basing JDBC on ODBC will allow vendors to bring JDBC drivers to market much faster than developing a completely new connectivity solution.
JDBC was announced in March of 1996. It was released for a 90 day public review that ended June 8, 1996. Because of user input, the final JDBC v1.0 specification was released soon after.
The remainder of this section will cover enough information about JDBC for you to know what it is about and how to use it effectively. This is by no means a complete overview of JDBC. That would fill an entire book.
7.7 JDBC Goals:
Few software packages are designed without goals in mind. JDBC is one that, because of its many goals, drove the development of the API. These goals, in conjunction with early reviewer feedback, have finalized the JDBC class library into a solid framework for building database applications in Java.
The goals that were set for JDBC are important. They will give you some insight as to why certain classes and functionalities behave the way they do. The eight design goals for JDBC are as follows:
SQL Level API
The designers felt that their main goal was to define a SQL interface for Java. Although not the lowest database interface level possible, it is at a low enough level for higher-level tools and APIs to be created. Conversely, it is at a high enough level for application programmers to use it confidently. Attaining this goal allows for future tool vendors to “generate” JDBC code and to hide many of JDBC’s complexities from the end user.
SQL Conformance
SQL syntax varies as you move from database vendor to database vendor. In an effort to support a wide variety of vendors, JDBC will allow any query statement to be passed through it to the underlying database driver. This allows the connectivity module to handle non-standard functionality in a manner that is suitable for its users.
JDBC must be implemental on top of common database interfaces
The JDBC SQL API must “sit” on top of other common SQL level APIs. This goal allows JDBC to use existing ODBC level drivers by the use of a software interface. This interface would translate JDBC calls to ODBC and vice versa.
- Provide a Java interface that is consistent with the rest of the Java system
Because of Java’s acceptance in the user community thus far, the designers feel that they should not stray from the current design of the core Java system.
- Keep it simple
This goal probably appears in all software design goal listings. JDBC is no exception. Sun felt that the design of JDBC should be very simple, allowing for only one method of completing a task per mechanism. Allowing duplicate functionality only serves to confuse the users of the API.
- Use strong, static typing wherever possible
Strong typing allows for more error checking to be done at compile time; also, less error appear at runtime.
- Keep the common cases simple
Because more often than not, the usual SQL calls
used by the programmer are simple SELECT’s,
INSERT’s,
DELETE’s
and UPDATE’s,
these queries should be simple to perform with JDBC. However, more complex SQL
statements should also be possible.
Finally we decided to precede the implementation using Java Networking.
And for dynamically updating the cache table we go for MS Access database.
Java ha two things: a programming language and a platform.
Java is a high-level programming language that is all of the following
Simple Architecture-neutral
Object-oriented Portable
Distributed High-performance
Interpreted Multithreaded
Robust Dynamic Secure
Java is also unusual in that each Java program is both compiled and interpreted. With a compile you translate a Java program into an intermediate language called Java byte codes the platform-independent code instruction is passed and run on the computer.
Compilation happens just once; interpretation occurs each time the program is executed. The figure illustrates how this works.
7.7 NETWORKING TCP/IP STACK:
The TCP/IP stack is shorter than the OSI one:
TCP is a connection-oriented protocol; UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a connectionless protocol.
IP datagram’s:
The IP layer provides a connectionless and unreliable delivery system. It considers each datagram independently of the others. Any association between datagram must be supplied by the higher layers. The IP layer supplies a checksum that includes its own header. The header includes the source and destination addresses. The IP layer handles routing through an Internet. It is also responsible for breaking up large datagram into smaller ones for transmission and reassembling them at the other end.
UDP:
UDP is also connectionless and unreliable. What it adds to IP is a checksum for the contents of the datagram and port numbers. These are used to give a client/server model – see later.
TCP:
TCP supplies logic to give a reliable connection-oriented protocol above IP. It provides a virtual circuit that two processes can use to communicate.
Internet addresses
In order to use a service, you must be able to find it. The Internet uses an address scheme for machines so that they can be located. The address is a 32 bit integer which gives the IP address.
Network address:
Class A uses 8 bits for the network address with 24 bits left over for other addressing. Class B uses 16 bit network addressing. Class C uses 24 bit network addressing and class D uses all 32.
Subnet address:
Internally, the UNIX network is divided into sub networks. Building 11 is currently on one sub network and uses 10-bit addressing, allowing 1024 different hosts.
Host address:
8 bits are finally used for host addresses within our subnet. This places a limit of 256 machines that can be on the subnet.
Total address:
The 32 bit address is usually written as 4 integers separated by dots.
Port addresses
A service exists on a host, and is identified by its port. This is a 16 bit number. To send a message to a server, you send it to the port for that service of the host that it is running on. This is not location transparency! Certain of these ports are “well known”.
Sockets:
A socket is a data structure maintained by the system
to handle network connections. A socket is created using the call socket
. It returns an integer that is like a file
descriptor. In fact, under Windows, this handle can be used with Read File
and Write File
functions.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
int socket(int family, int type, int protocol);
Here “family” will be AF_INET
for IP communications, protocol
will be zero, and type
will depend on whether TCP or UDP is used. Two
processes wishing to communicate over a network create a socket each. These are
similar to two ends of a pipe – but the actual pipe does not yet exist.
7.8 JFREE CHART:
JFreeChart is a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications. JFreeChart’s extensive feature set includes:
A consistent and well-documented API, supporting a wide range of chart types;
A flexible design that is easy to extend, and targets both server-side and client-side applications;
Support for many output types, including Swing components, image files (including PNG and JPEG), and vector graphics file formats (including PDF, EPS and SVG);
JFreeChart is “open source” or, more specifically, free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL), which permits use in proprietary applications.
7.8.1. Map Visualizations:
Charts showing values that relate to geographical areas. Some examples include: (a) population density in each state of the United States, (b) income per capita for each country in Europe, (c) life expectancy in each country of the world. The tasks in this project include: Sourcing freely redistributable vector outlines for the countries of the world, states/provinces in particular countries (USA in particular, but also other areas);
Creating an appropriate dataset interface (plus
default implementation), a rendered, and integrating this with the existing
XYPlot class in JFreeChart; Testing, documenting, testing some more,
documenting some more.
7.8.2. Time Series Chart Interactivity
Implement a new (to JFreeChart) feature for interactive time series charts — to display a separate control that shows a small version of ALL the time series data, with a sliding “view” rectangle that allows you to select the subset of the time series data to display in the main chart.
7.8.3. Dashboards
There is currently a lot of interest in dashboard displays. Create a flexible dashboard mechanism that supports a subset of JFreeChart chart types (dials, pies, thermometers, bars, and lines/time series) that can be delivered easily via both Java Web Start and an applet.
7.8.4. Property Editors
The property editor mechanism in JFreeChart only
handles a small subset of the properties that can be set for charts. Extend (or
reimplement) this mechanism to provide greater end-user control over the
appearance of the charts.
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2 SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
8.1 CONCLUSION
We proposed algorithms: 1) an MILP-based algorithm called POPT a greedy algorithm, THS. Via packet-level simulations, we found that neither POPT nor MTS scale to large hybrid networks. This is because they both employ numerical methods to solve optimization problems. Therefore, we recommend the THS algorithm, which terminates in real time even when there are 70+ mobile devices in the hybrid network.
The experimental results from the actual testbed confirm the observations we made in Qualnet simulations: the THS algorithm clearly outperforms the Current* algorithm. Furthermore, the THS algorithm may outperform POPT in real systems, which can be attributed to the long running time of the POPT algorithm. This demonstrates that the THS algorithm is practical and efficient.
The simulation results indicate that the THS algorithm not only runs fast, but also achieves overall video quality close to the optimum: at most 2 dB difference is observed, compared to the POPT algorithm. In contrast, optimum schedules over the cellular network achieve much lower video quality compared to POPT: more than 15 dB difference is observed. We also validated the practicality and efficiency of the THS algorithm using a real testbed in a live cellular network. The experimental results confirm that the THS algorithm result in high video quality. Moreover, the THS algorithm could outperform the POPT algorithm in real systems. This is because although POPT could generate optimal schedules, its high running time may lead to many late segments, which in turn render inferior video quality.
VeDi A Vehicular Crowd-Sourced Video Social Network for VANETs
CHAPTER 1
1.1 ABSTRACT:
As one of the important members of Internet of Things (IoT), vehicles have seen steep advancement in communication technology. With the advent of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs), vehicles now can evolve into social interactions to share safety, efficiency, and comfort related messages with other vehicles. In this paper, we study vehicular social network from Social Internet of Things (SIoT) perspective and propose VeDi, a vehicular crowd-sourced video social network for VANETs.When a user shares a video in the VeDi, it can be accessed by other surrounding vehicles. Any social interaction (e.g. view, comment, like) with the video on the roadway are stored in the social network cloud along with the video itself.
In VeDi,
every vehicle maintains a list of video related metadata (e.g. blur and
shakiness) of available videos which are used to selectively retrieve quality videos
by surrounding vehicles. We also present a method to determine representative
quality scores for an entire video clip using blur and shakiness values. The
prototype implementations and experimental results denote that the proposed
system can be a viable option to create video social networks such as youtube, vine,
and vimeo by employing vehicular crowd.
1.2 INTRODUCTION
State-of-the-art vehicles are equipped with advanced technologies that enable them to communicate with nearby vehicles by forming vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). There has been growing interest in building a social network of vehicles that can ensure safety of the driver and passengers, and also improve travel efficiency through collaborative application. While main purpose of VANETs is safety and efficiency, there is plenty of room in the allocated bandwidth for comfort applications as well. In this work we study vehicular social network from video sharing perspective. We propose VeDi, a crowd sourced video social network over VANETs. We envision it to be integrated part of future vehicular social network and eventually Internet of Things.
The distribution of multimedia content
over vehicular networks is a challenging task for several reasons such as
network partitioning due to nodes mobility, and medium contention due to
broadcasting nature of the technology. Therefore users cannot browse through
all the videos. In VeDi, OBUs automatically calculate metadata
description of video through content processing. This metadata description is
shared among other OBUs through a Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC1)
type message called tNote. Furthermore, it is difficult for the users to
comprehend quality of complete video from individual frame quality. We
experimentally analyse mobile recorded short video clips and find
representative blur and shakiness scores for the entire video. The main
contributions of the paper are two-fold: an architecture of crowd sourced video
social network and quality based metadata description of videos.
1.3 LITRATURE SURVEY
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: N. Abbani, M. Jomaa, T. Tarhini, H. Artail, and W. El-Hajj. MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKS IN VEHICULAR NETWORKS USING TRUST RULES. In Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), 2011 IEEE Symposium on, pages 168–173, Sept 2011.
EXPLANATION:
Drivers and passengers
in urban areas may spend large portion of their time waiting in their cars on
the road while commuting to and from work, to school, or to the supermarket.
Regularities of driving patterns in time and in space motivate the formation of
communities of common backgrounds and interests. We propose a model for forming
and maintaining Vehicular Social Networks (VSNs) that uses trust principles for
admission to social groups, and controlling the interactions among members.
This paper describes the details of the design, and proposes a simple but
representative probabilistic model for deriving the probability of wrongful
admissions and the probability of an agent trusting a malicious node. The
experimental results, which were obtained from simulations using the network
simulation software ns2, describe metrics related to the dynamics of group
formation and time to form groups as well as to detecting malicious members.
Our system was able to form social groups with agents of common interests and
maintain an accurate trust evaluation of their behavior.
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: M. Asefi, J. W. Mark, and X. Shen. AN APPLICATION-CENTRIC INTER-VEHICLE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR VIDEO STREAMING OVER MULTI-HOP URBAN VANETS. In Communications (ICC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, pages 1–5. IEEE, 2011.
EXPLANATION:
Service-oriented
vehicular networks face challenge to deliver delay-sensitive data such as video
packets. Most research on video streaming consider network-centric quality of
service (QoS) metrics rather than the user perceived quality. In this paper, we
propose an application-centric routing framework for real-time video
transmission over urban multi-hop vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) scenarios.
Queueing based mobility model, spatial traffic distribution and probability of
connectivity for sparse and dense VANET scenarios are taken into consideration
in designing the routing protocol. The numerical results demonstrate the gain
achieved by the proposed routing protocol versus geographic greedy forwarding
in terms of video frame distortion and streaming start-up delay in several
urban communication scenarios for various vehicle entrance rate and traffic
densities.
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: M. Asefi, J. W. Mark, and X. Shen. A MOBILITY-AWARE AND QUALITYDRIVEN RETRANSMISSION LIMIT ADAPTATION SCHEME FOR VIDEO STREAMING OVER VANETS. Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on, 11(5):1817– 1827, 2012.
EXPLANATION:
An adaptive medium
access control (MAC) retransmission limit selection scheme is proposed to
improve the performance of IEEE 802.11p standard MAC protocol for video
streaming applications over vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). A
multi-objective optimization framework, which jointly minimizes the probability
of playback freezes and start-up delay of the streamed video at the destination
vehicle by tuning the MAC retransmission limit with respect to channel
statistics as well as packet transmission rate, is applied at road side unit
(RSU). Periodic channel state estimation is performed at the RSU using the information
derived from the received signal strength (RSS) and Doppler shift effect.
Estimates of access probability between the RSU and the destination vehicle is
incorporated in the design of the adaptive MAC scheme. The adaptation
parameters are embedded in the user datagram protocol (UDP) packet header.
Two-hop transmission is applied in zones in which the destination vehicle is
not within the transmission range of any RSU. For multi-hop scenario, we
discuss two-hop joint MAC retransmission adaptation and path selection.
Compared with the non-adaptive IEEE 802.11p standard MAC, numerical results
show that the proposed adaptive MAC protocol exhibits significantly fewer
playback freezes while introduces only a slight increase in start-up delay.
AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION: L. Atzori, A. Iera, and G. Morabito. SIOT: GIVING A SOCIAL STRUCTURE TO THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Communications Letters, IEEE, 15(11):1193–1195, 2011.
EXPLANATION:
The actual development
of the Internet of Things (IoT) needs major issues related to things’ service
discovery and composition to be addressed. This paper proposes a possible
approach to solve such issues. We introduce a novel paradigm of “social
network of intelligent objects”, namely the Social Internet of Things (SIoT),
based on the notion of social relationships among objects. Following the
definition of a possible social structure among objects, a preliminary
architecture for the implementation of SIoT is presented. Through the SIoT
paradigm, the capability of humans and devices to discover, select, and use
objects with their services in the IoT is augmented. Besides, a level of
trustworthiness is enabled to steer the interaction among the billions of
objects which will crowd the future IoT.
CHAPTER 2
2.0 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM:
2.1.1 DISADVANTAGES:
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
2.2.1
ADVANTAGES:
2.3 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
2.3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
v Processor – Pentium –IV
- Speed –
1.1 GHz
- RAM – 256 MB (min)
- Hard Disk – 20 GB
- Floppy Drive – 1.44 MB
- Key Board – Standard Windows Keyboard
- Mouse – Two or Three Button Mouse
- Monitor – SVGA
2.3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
JAVA
- Operating System : Windows XP or Win7
- Front End : JAVA JDK 1.7
- Back End : MYSQL Server
- Server : Apache Tomact Server
- Script : JSP Script
- Document : MS-Office 2007
.NET
- Operating System : Windows XP or Win7
- Front End : Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008
- Script : C# Script
- Back End : MS-SQL Server 2005
- Document : MS-Office 2007
CHAPTER 3
3.0 SYSTEM DESIGN:
Data Flow Diagram / Use Case Diagram / Flow Diagram:
- The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be used to represent a system in terms of the input data to the system, various processing carried out on these data, and the output data is generated by the system
- The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
- DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
- DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing information flow and functional detail.
NOTATION:
SOURCE OR DESTINATION OF DATA:
External sources or destinations, which may be people or organizations or other entities
DATA SOURCE:
Here the data referenced by a process is stored and retrieved.
PROCESS:
People, procedures or devices that produce data’s in the physical component is not identified.
DATA FLOW:
Data moves in a specific direction from an origin to a destination. The data flow is a “packet” of data.
There are several common modeling rules when creating DFDs:
- All processes must have at least one data flow in and one data flow out.
- All processes should modify the incoming data, producing new forms of outgoing data.
- Each data store must be involved with at least one data flow.
- Each external entity must be involved with at least one data flow.
- A data flow must be attached to at least one process.
SYSTEM DESIGN 🙁 user)
User Case Diagram
Class Diagram
Activity Diagram
Sequence Diagram
CHAPTER 4
4.0 IMPLEMENTATION:
4.1 ALGORITHM
4.2 MODULES:
4.3
MODULE DESCRIPTION:
CHAPTER 5
5.0 SYSTEM STUDY:
5.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY:
The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major requirements for the system is essential.
Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are
- ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
- TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
- SOCIAL FEASIBILITY
5.1.1 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased.
5.1.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
This study is carried out to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null changes are required for implementing this system.
5.1.3 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY:
The aspect of study is to check the level of acceptance of the system by the user. This includes the process of training the user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel threatened by the system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about the system and to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be raised so that he is also able to make some constructive criticism, which is welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.
5.2 SYSTEM TESTING:
Testing is a process of checking whether the developed system is working according to the original objectives and requirements. It is a set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. Testing is vital to the success of the system. System testing makes a logical assumption that if all the parts of the system are correct, the global will be successfully achieved. In adequate testing if not testing leads to errors that may not appear even many months.
This creates two problems, the time lag
between the cause and the appearance of the problem and the effect of the
system errors on the files and records within the system. A small system error
can conceivably explode into a much larger Problem. Effective testing early in
the purpose translates directly into long term cost savings from a reduced
number of errors. Another reason for system testing is its utility, as a
user-oriented vehicle before implementation. The best programs are worthless if
it produces the correct outputs.
5.2.1 UNIT TESTING:
Description | Expected result |
Test for application window properties. | All the properties of the windows are to be properly aligned and displayed. |
Test for mouse operations. | All the mouse operations like click, drag, etc. must perform the necessary operations without any exceptions. |
A program
represents the logical elements of a system. For a program to run satisfactorily,
it must compile and test data correctly and tie in properly with other
programs. Achieving an error free program is the responsibility of the
programmer. Program testing checks
for two types
of errors: syntax
and logical. Syntax error is a
program statement that violates one or more rules of the language in which it
is written. An improperly defined field dimension or omitted keywords are
common syntax errors. These errors are shown through error message generated by
the computer. For Logic errors the programmer must examine the output
carefully.
5.1.2 FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
Functional testing of an application is used to prove the application delivers correct results, using enough inputs to give an adequate level of confidence that will work correctly for all sets of inputs. The functional testing will need to prove that the application works for each client type and that personalization function work correctly.When a program is tested, the actual output is compared with the expected output. When there is a discrepancy the sequence of instructions must be traced to determine the problem. The process is facilitated by breaking the program into self-contained portions, each of which can be checked at certain key points. The idea is to compare program values against desk-calculated values to isolate the problems.
Description | Expected result |
Test for all modules. | All peers should communicate in the group. |
Test for various peer in a distributed network framework as it display all users available in the group. | The result after execution should give the accurate result. |
5.1. 3 NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING:
The Non Functional software testing encompasses a rich spectrum of testing strategies, describing the expected results for every test case. It uses symbolic analysis techniques. This testing used to check that an application will work in the operational environment. Non-functional testing includes:
- Load testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Reliability testing
- Security testing
5.1.4 LOAD TESTING:
An important tool for implementing system tests is a Load generator. A Load generator is essential for testing quality requirements such as performance and stress. A load can be a real load, that is, the system can be put under test to real usage by having actual telephone users connected to it. They will generate test input data for system test.
Description | Expected result |
It is necessary to ascertain that the application behaves correctly under loads when ‘Server busy’ response is received. | Should designate another active node as a Server. |
5.1.5 PERFORMANCE TESTING:
Performance tests are utilized in order to determine the widely defined performance of the software system such as execution time associated with various parts of the code, response time and device utilization. The intent of this testing is to identify weak points of the software system and quantify its shortcomings.
Description | Expected result |
This is required to assure that an application perforce adequately, having the capability to handle many peers, delivering its results in expected time and using an acceptable level of resource and it is an aspect of operational management. | Should handle large input values, and produce accurate result in a expected time. |
5.1.6 RELIABILITY TESTING:
The software reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time and it is being ensured in this testing. Reliability can be expressed as the ability of the software to reveal defects under testing conditions, according to the specified requirements. It the portability that a software system will operate without failure under given conditions for a given time interval and it focuses on the behavior of the software element. It forms a part of the software quality control team.
Description | Expected result |
This is to check that the server is rugged and reliable and can handle the failure of any of the components involved in provide the application. | In case of failure of the server an alternate server should take over the job. |
5.1.7 SECURITY TESTING:
Security testing evaluates system characteristics that relate to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of the system data and services. Users/Clients should be encouraged to make sure their security needs are very clearly known at requirements time, so that the security issues can be addressed by the designers and testers.
Description | Expected result |
Checking that the user identification is authenticated. | In case failure it should not be connected in the framework. |
Check whether group keys in a tree are shared by all peers. | The peers should know group key in the same group. |
5.1.8 WHITE BOX TESTING:
White box testing, sometimes called glass-box testing is a test case design method that uses the control structure of the procedural design to derive test cases. Using white box testing method, the software engineer can derive test cases. The White box testing focuses on the inner structure of the software structure to be tested.
Description | Expected result |
Exercise all logical decisions on their true and false sides. | All the logical decisions must be valid. |
Execute all loops at their boundaries and within their operational bounds. | All the loops must be finite. |
Exercise internal data structures to ensure their validity. | All the data structures must be valid. |
5.1.9 BLACK BOX TESTING:
Black box testing, also called behavioral testing, focuses on the functional requirements of the software. That is, black testing enables the software engineer to derive sets of input conditions that will fully exercise all functional requirements for a program. Black box testing is not alternative to white box techniques. Rather it is a complementary approach that is likely to uncover a different class of errors than white box methods. Black box testing attempts to find errors which focuses on inputs, outputs, and principle function of a software module. The starting point of the black box testing is either a specification or code. The contents of the box are hidden and the stimulated software should produce the desired results.
Description | Expected result |
To check for incorrect or missing functions. | All the functions must be valid. |
To check for interface errors. | The entire interface must function normally. |
To check for errors in a data structures or external data base access. | The database updation and retrieval must be done. |
To check for initialization and termination errors. | All the functions and data structures must be initialized properly and terminated normally. |
All
the above system testing strategies are carried out in as the development,
documentation and institutionalization of the proposed goals and related
policies is essential.
CHAPTER 6
6.0 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION:
6.1 JAVA TECHNOLOGY:
Java technology is both a programming language and a platform.
The Java Programming Language
The Java programming language is a high-level language that can be characterized by all of the following buzzwords:
- Simple
- Architecture neutral
- Object oriented
- Portable
- Distributed
- High performance
- Interpreted
- Multithreaded
- Robust
- Dynamic
- Secure
With most programming languages, you either compile or interpret a program so that you can run it on your computer. The Java programming language is unusual in that a program is both compiled and interpreted. With the compiler, first you translate a program into an intermediate language called Java byte codes —the platform-independent codes interpreted by the interpreter on the Java platform. The interpreter parses and runs each Java byte code instruction on the computer. Compilation happens just once; interpretation occurs each time the program is executed. The following figure illustrates how this works.
You can think of Java byte codes as the machine code instructions for the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM). Every Java interpreter, whether it’s a development tool or a Web browser that can run applets, is an implementation of the Java VM. Java byte codes help make “write once, run anywhere” possible. You can compile your program into byte codes on any platform that has a Java compiler. The byte codes can then be run on any implementation of the Java VM. That means that as long as a computer has a Java VM, the same program written in the Java programming language can run on Windows 2000, a Solaris workstation, or on an iMac.
6.2 THE JAVA PLATFORM:
A platform is the hardware or software environment in which a program runs. We’ve already mentioned some of the most popular platforms like Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris, and MacOS. Most platforms can be described as a combination of the operating system and hardware. The Java platform differs from most other platforms in that it’s a software-only platform that runs on top of other hardware-based platforms.
The Java platform has two components:
- The Java Virtual Machine (Java VM)
- The Java Application Programming Interface (Java API)
You’ve already been introduced to the Java VM. It’s the base for the Java platform and is ported onto various hardware-based platforms.
The Java API is a large collection of ready-made software components that provide many useful capabilities, such as graphical user interface (GUI) widgets. The Java API is grouped into libraries of related classes and interfaces; these libraries are known as packages. The next section, What Can Java Technology Do? Highlights what functionality some of the packages in the Java API provide.
The following figure depicts a program that’s running on the Java platform. As the figure shows, the Java API and the virtual machine insulate the program from the hardware.
Native code is code that after you compile it, the compiled code runs on a specific hardware platform. As a platform-independent environment, the Java platform can be a bit slower than native code. However, smart compilers, well-tuned interpreters, and just-in-time byte code compilers can bring performance close to that of native code without threatening portability.
6.3 WHAT CAN JAVA TECHNOLOGY DO?
The most common types of programs written in the Java programming language are applets and applications. If you’ve surfed the Web, you’re probably already familiar with applets. An applet is a program that adheres to certain conventions that allow it to run within a Java-enabled browser.
However, the Java programming language is not just for writing cute, entertaining applets for the Web. The general-purpose, high-level Java programming language is also a powerful software platform. Using the generous API, you can write many types of programs.
An application is a standalone program that runs directly on the Java platform. A special kind of application known as a server serves and supports clients on a network. Examples of servers are Web servers, proxy servers, mail servers, and print servers. Another specialized program is a servlet.
A servlet can almost be thought of as an applet that runs on the server side. Java Servlets are a popular choice for building interactive web applications, replacing the use of CGI scripts. Servlets are similar to applets in that they are runtime extensions of applications. Instead of working in browsers, though, servlets run within Java Web servers, configuring or tailoring the server.
How does the API support all these kinds of programs? It does so with packages of software components that provides a wide range of functionality. Every full implementation of the Java platform gives you the following features:
- The essentials: Objects, strings, threads, numbers, input and output, data structures, system properties, date and time, and so on.
- Applets: The set of conventions used by applets.
- Networking: URLs, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP (User Data gram Protocol) sockets, and IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.
- Internationalization: Help for writing programs that can be localized for users worldwide. Programs can automatically adapt to specific locales and be displayed in the appropriate language.
- Security: Both low level and high level, including electronic signatures, public and private key management, access control, and certificates.
- Software components: Known as JavaBeansTM, can plug into existing component architectures.
- Object serialization: Allows lightweight persistence and communication via Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
- Java Database Connectivity (JDBCTM): Provides uniform access to a wide range of relational databases.
The Java platform also has APIs for 2D and 3D graphics, accessibility, servers, collaboration, telephony, speech, animation, and more. The following figure depicts what is included in the Java 2 SDK.
6.4 HOW WILL JAVA TECHNOLOGY CHANGE MY LIFE?
We can’t promise you fame, fortune, or even a job if you learn the Java programming language. Still, it is likely to make your programs better and requires less effort than other languages. We believe that Java technology will help you do the following:
- Get started quickly: Although the Java programming language is a powerful object-oriented language, it’s easy to learn, especially for programmers already familiar with C or C++.
- Write less code: Comparisons of program metrics (class counts, method counts, and so on) suggest that a program written in the Java programming language can be four times smaller than the same program in C++.
- Write better code: The Java programming language encourages good coding practices, and its garbage collection helps you avoid memory leaks. Its object orientation, its JavaBeans component architecture, and its wide-ranging, easily extendible API let you reuse other people’s tested code and introduce fewer bugs.
- Develop programs more quickly: Your development time may be as much as twice as fast versus writing the same program in C++. Why? You write fewer lines of code and it is a simpler programming language than C++.
- Avoid platform dependencies with 100% Pure Java: You can keep your program portable by avoiding the use of libraries written in other languages. The 100% Pure JavaTM Product Certification Program has a repository of historical process manuals, white papers, brochures, and similar materials online.
- Write once, run anywhere: Because 100% Pure Java programs are compiled into machine-independent byte codes, they run consistently on any Java platform.
- Distribute software more easily: You can upgrade applets easily from a central server. Applets take advantage of the feature of allowing new classes to be loaded “on the fly,” without recompiling the entire program.
6.5 ODBC:
Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard programming interface for application developers and database systems providers. Before ODBC became a de facto standard for Windows programs to interface with database systems, programmers had to use proprietary languages for each database they wanted to connect to. Now, ODBC has made the choice of the database system almost irrelevant from a coding perspective, which is as it should be. Application developers have much more important things to worry about than the syntax that is needed to port their program from one database to another when business needs suddenly change.
Through the ODBC Administrator in Control Panel, you can specify the particular database that is associated with a data source that an ODBC application program is written to use. Think of an ODBC data source as a door with a name on it. Each door will lead you to a particular database. For example, the data source named Sales Figures might be a SQL Server database, whereas the Accounts Payable data source could refer to an Access database. The physical database referred to by a data source can reside anywhere on the LAN.
The ODBC system files are not installed on your system by Windows 95. Rather, they are installed when you setup a separate database application, such as SQL Server Client or Visual Basic 4.0. When the ODBC icon is installed in Control Panel, it uses a file called ODBCINST.DLL. It is also possible to administer your ODBC data sources through a stand-alone program called ODBCADM.EXE. There is a 16-bit and a 32-bit version of this program and each maintains a separate list of ODBC data sources.
From a programming perspective, the beauty of ODBC is that the application can be written to use the same set of function calls to interface with any data source, regardless of the database vendor. The source code of the application doesn’t change whether it talks to Oracle or SQL Server. We only mention these two as an example. There are ODBC drivers available for several dozen popular database systems. Even Excel spreadsheets and plain text files can be turned into data sources. The operating system uses the Registry information written by ODBC Administrator to determine which low-level ODBC drivers are needed to talk to the data source (such as the interface to Oracle or SQL Server). The loading of the ODBC drivers is transparent to the ODBC application program. In a client/server environment, the ODBC API even handles many of the network issues for the application programmer.
The advantages
of this scheme are so numerous that you are probably thinking there must be
some catch. The only disadvantage of ODBC is that it isn’t as efficient as talking
directly to the native database interface. ODBC has had many detractors make
the charge that it is too slow. Microsoft has always claimed that the critical
factor in performance is the quality of the driver software that is used. In
our humble opinion, this is true. The availability of good ODBC drivers has
improved a great deal recently. And anyway, the criticism about performance is
somewhat analogous to those who said that compilers would never match the speed
of pure assembly language. Maybe not, but the compiler (or ODBC) gives you the
opportunity to write cleaner programs, which means you finish sooner.
Meanwhile, computers get faster every year.
6.6 JDBC:
In an effort to set an independent database standard API for Java; Sun Microsystems developed Java Database Connectivity, or JDBC. JDBC offers a generic SQL database access mechanism that provides a consistent interface to a variety of RDBMSs. This consistent interface is achieved through the use of “plug-in” database connectivity modules, or drivers. If a database vendor wishes to have JDBC support, he or she must provide the driver for each platform that the database and Java run on.
To gain a wider acceptance of JDBC, Sun based JDBC’s framework on ODBC. As you discovered earlier in this chapter, ODBC has widespread support on a variety of platforms. Basing JDBC on ODBC will allow vendors to bring JDBC drivers to market much faster than developing a completely new connectivity solution.
JDBC was announced in March of 1996. It was released for a 90 day public review that ended June 8, 1996. Because of user input, the final JDBC v1.0 specification was released soon after.
The remainder of this section will cover enough information about JDBC for you to know what it is about and how to use it effectively. This is by no means a complete overview of JDBC. That would fill an entire book.
6.7 JDBC Goals:
Few software packages are designed without goals in mind. JDBC is one that, because of its many goals, drove the development of the API. These goals, in conjunction with early reviewer feedback, have finalized the JDBC class library into a solid framework for building database applications in Java.
The goals that were set for JDBC are important. They will give you some insight as to why certain classes and functionalities behave the way they do. The eight design goals for JDBC are as follows:
SQL Level API
The designers felt that their main goal was to define a SQL interface for Java. Although not the lowest database interface level possible, it is at a low enough level for higher-level tools and APIs to be created. Conversely, it is at a high enough level for application programmers to use it confidently. Attaining this goal allows for future tool vendors to “generate” JDBC code and to hide many of JDBC’s complexities from the end user.
SQL Conformance
SQL syntax varies as you move from database vendor to database vendor. In an effort to support a wide variety of vendors, JDBC will allow any query statement to be passed through it to the underlying database driver. This allows the connectivity module to handle non-standard functionality in a manner that is suitable for its users.
JDBC must be implemental on top of common database interfaces
The JDBC SQL API must “sit” on top of other common SQL level APIs. This goal allows JDBC to use existing ODBC level drivers by the use of a software interface. This interface would translate JDBC calls to ODBC and vice versa.
- Provide a Java interface that is consistent with the rest of the Java system
Because of Java’s acceptance in the user community thus far, the designers feel that they should not stray from the current design of the core Java system.
- Keep it simple
This goal probably appears in all software design goal listings. JDBC is no exception. Sun felt that the design of JDBC should be very simple, allowing for only one method of completing a task per mechanism. Allowing duplicate functionality only serves to confuse the users of the API.
- Use strong, static typing wherever possible
Strong typing allows for more error checking to be done at compile time; also, less error appear at runtime.
- Keep the common cases simple
Because more often than not, the usual SQL calls
used by the programmer are simple SELECT’s,
INSERT’s,
DELETE’s
and UPDATE’s,
these queries should be simple to perform with JDBC. However, more complex SQL
statements should also be possible.
Finally we decided to precede the implementation using Java Networking.
And for dynamically updating the cache table we go for MS Access database.
Java ha two things: a programming language and a platform.
Java is a high-level programming language that is all of the following
Simple Architecture-neutral
Object-oriented Portable
Distributed High-performance
Interpreted Multithreaded
Robust Dynamic Secure
Java is also unusual in that each Java program is both compiled and interpreted. With a compile you translate a Java program into an intermediate language called Java byte codes the platform-independent code instruction is passed and run on the computer.
Compilation happens just once; interpretation occurs each time the program is executed. The figure illustrates how this works.
6.7 NETWORKING TCP/IP STACK:
The TCP/IP stack is shorter than the OSI one:
TCP is a connection-oriented protocol; UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a connectionless protocol.
IP datagram’s:
The IP layer provides a connectionless and unreliable delivery system. It considers each datagram independently of the others. Any association between datagram must be supplied by the higher layers. The IP layer supplies a checksum that includes its own header. The header includes the source and destination addresses. The IP layer handles routing through an Internet. It is also responsible for breaking up large datagram into smaller ones for transmission and reassembling them at the other end.
UDP:
UDP is also connectionless and unreliable. What it adds to IP is a checksum for the contents of the datagram and port numbers. These are used to give a client/server model – see later.
TCP:
TCP supplies logic to give a reliable connection-oriented protocol above IP. It provides a virtual circuit that two processes can use to communicate.
Internet addresses
In order to use a service, you must be able to find it. The Internet uses an address scheme for machines so that they can be located. The address is a 32 bit integer which gives the IP address.
Network address:
Class A uses 8 bits for the network address with 24 bits left over for other addressing. Class B uses 16 bit network addressing. Class C uses 24 bit network addressing and class D uses all 32.
Subnet address:
Internally, the UNIX network is divided into sub networks. Building 11 is currently on one sub network and uses 10-bit addressing, allowing 1024 different hosts.
Host address:
8 bits are finally used for host addresses within our subnet. This places a limit of 256 machines that can be on the subnet.
Total address:
The 32 bit address is usually written as 4 integers separated by dots.
Port addresses
A service exists on a host, and is identified by its port. This is a 16 bit number. To send a message to a server, you send it to the port for that service of the host that it is running on. This is not location transparency! Certain of these ports are “well known”.
Sockets:
A socket is a data structure maintained by the system
to handle network connections. A socket is created using the call socket
. It returns an integer that is like a file
descriptor. In fact, under Windows, this handle can be used with Read File
and Write File
functions.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
int socket(int family, int type, int protocol);
Here “family” will be AF_INET
for IP communications, protocol
will be zero, and type
will depend on whether TCP or UDP is used. Two
processes wishing to communicate over a network create a socket each. These are
similar to two ends of a pipe – but the actual pipe does not yet exist.
6.8 JFREE CHART:
JFreeChart is a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications. JFreeChart’s extensive feature set includes:
A consistent and well-documented API, supporting a wide range of chart types;
A flexible design that is easy to extend, and targets both server-side and client-side applications;
Support for many output types, including Swing components, image files (including PNG and JPEG), and vector graphics file formats (including PDF, EPS and SVG);
JFreeChart is “open source” or, more specifically, free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL), which permits use in proprietary applications.
6.8.1. Map Visualizations:
Charts showing values that relate to geographical areas. Some examples include: (a) population density in each state of the United States, (b) income per capita for each country in Europe, (c) life expectancy in each country of the world. The tasks in this project include: Sourcing freely redistributable vector outlines for the countries of the world, states/provinces in particular countries (USA in particular, but also other areas);
Creating an appropriate dataset interface (plus
default implementation), a rendered, and integrating this with the existing
XYPlot class in JFreeChart; Testing, documenting, testing some more,
documenting some more.
6.8.2. Time Series Chart Interactivity
Implement a new (to JFreeChart) feature for interactive time series charts — to display a separate control that shows a small version of ALL the time series data, with a sliding “view” rectangle that allows you to select the subset of the time series data to display in the main chart.
6.8.3. Dashboards
There is currently a lot of interest in dashboard displays. Create a flexible dashboard mechanism that supports a subset of JFreeChart chart types (dials, pies, thermometers, bars, and lines/time series) that can be delivered easily via both Java Web Start and an applet.
6.8.4. Property Editors
The property editor mechanism in JFreeChart only
handles a small subset of the properties that can be set for charts. Extend (or
reimplement) this mechanism to provide greater end-user control over the
appearance of the charts.
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APPENDIX
7.1 SAMPLE SOURCE CODE
7.2
SAMPLE OUTPUT
CHAPTER 8
8.1 CONCLUSION
Sharing video over VANETs is challenging
due to dynamic and unpredictable topology, low bandwidth, and fleeting connections.
In this paper, we have proposed a framework, VeDi, for vehicular crowd
sourced video social network over VANETs. In the proposed work, vehicles share
metadata based description of videos that are captured by the occupants of the
vehicle and are accessible to surrounding vehicles. The metadata consists of
video specifications and derived blur and shakiness measures. These metadata
scores help video consumers to select the right video while on the roadway. VeDi
reduces the overall bandwidth consumption as users can select most
appropriate video without downloading them all. We have provided implementation
technique of DSRC type tNote message and encoding size analysis at
various system instances. A detail about system architecture implementation
approach is also provided with various observations. In our future work, we
envision presenting the modeling and simulation results of the proposed system
along with scalability measurements and required optimizations.
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