Android Application for E-Card Transaction Using NFC

Vol. 2  Issue 1
Year: 2015
Issue:Feb-Apr 
Title:Android Application for E-Card Transaction Using NFC
Author Name:A. Saranya, S. Vishnupriya, S. Sathyapriya, B. Pradeepa and N. Rajganesh
Synopsis:

People continuously try to improve their quality of life with respect to modern trends. Payment method using physical credit card is usual and it is not comfortable to undertake all the time. Modern technology computerizes everything and reduces the usage cost with the maximum user satisfaction. For the sophisticated use of credit card, there is a need to computerize it in our smartphones using Near Field Communication (NFC). The NFC is a new secure short-range wireless connectivity technology, which can play an important role on this kind of issue. It uses a secure element, and hence it stores the data in a secure manner. NFC technology can store multiple virtual credit cards in the secure element, and prevents skimming, and loss of credit card. In this paper, an android application which performs credit card transaction between the NFC enabled devices [Mobile–credit card machine] have been demonstrated. It enable the users to securely store their multiple virtual credit card and allows to perform transaction with NFC enabled POS terminal.

Energy Efficient Clustering with Mobile Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Vol. 2  Issue 1
Year: 2015
Issue:Feb-Apr 
Title:Energy Efficient Clustering with Mobile Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author Name:S. Kalaivani, C. Gomathi and N. Santhiyakumari
Synopsis:

The Wireless Sensor Networks consist of static sensors, which can be deployed in a wide environment for monitoring applications. While transmitting the data from source to static sink, the amount of energy consumption of the sensor node is high. This results in improved lifetime of the network. Some of the WSN architectures have been proposed based on mobile elements such as three-layer framework is for mobile data collection, which includes the sensor layer, cluster head layer, and mobile collector layer (called SenCar layer). This framework employs Distributed Load Balanced Clustering and Dual Data Uploading, it is referred to as LBC-DDU. In the sensor layer, a distributed Load Balanced Clustering (LBC) algorithm is used for sensors to self-organize themselves into clusters. The cluster head layer use inter- Cluster transmission range which is carefully chosen to guarantee the connectivity among the clusters. Multiple cluster heads within a cluster, cooperate with each other to perform energy-saving in the inter-cluster communications. Through this transmissions, cluster head information is send to the SenCar for its moving trajectory planning. This is done by utilizing Multi-User Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) technique. Then the results show each cluster has at most two cluster heads. LBC-DDU achieves over 50% energy saving per node. The 60% energy saving on cluster heads comparing with data collection through multi-hop relay to the static data sink. The 20% shorter data collection time compared to traditional mobile data gathering.

Friendbook: A Semantic Based Friend Recommendation System

Vol. 2  Issue 1
Year: 2015
Issue:Feb-Apr 
Title:Friendbook: A Semantic Based Friend Recommendation System
Author Name:Yashaswini S.
Synopsis:

Existing social networking services recommend friends to the users based on their social graphs, which may not be the most appropriate to reflect a user's preferences on a friend selection in their real life. Friendbook is a novel semanticbased friend recommendation system, which recommends friends to the users based on their lifestyles instead of social graphs. By taking advantage of sensor-rich smartphones, Friendbook discovers life styles of users from user-centric sensor data, measures the similarity of lifestyles between users, and recommends friends to the users if their life styles have high similarity. User's daily life is recorded as life activities, from which his/her life styles are extracted and further get stored in the cloud. Similarity metric is used to measure the similarity of life styles between users, and calculate users' impact in terms of life styles. When entering the friend recommendation system, Friendbook returns a list of people with highest recommendation scores to the query user. Finally, Friendbook integrates a feedback mechanism to further improve the recommendation accuracy. The idea is to implement Friendbook on the Android-based smart phones, and evaluate its performance on both small-scale simulations.

Applications of Wearable Technology in Elite Sports

Vol. 2  Issue 1
Year: 2015
Issue:Feb-Apr 
Title:Applications of Wearable Technology in Elite Sports
Author Name:Thomas Page 
Synopsis:

Wearable technology and biometrical data analysis have been around for a number of years within the Elite sports sector. In the last decade, significant progress has been made in the professional sports market; to the extent that many of the biometrics used by athletes are now available for consumers. The paper will focus primarily on four topics; the extent to which data from the wearable devices can be of benefit to the coaches and athletes; to what extent wearable devices can optimise training; the extent to which wearable technology could prevent injury; and also take a look at what the future holds for elite level wearable technology. Insights gathered include how the data provided by the wearable devices could benefit the health and well-being of an athlete. The data fed back to the coaches and medical staff could enable early detection of an injury and hence training could be adjusted accordingly. Furthermore, the data enables the athlete to monitor themselves and therefore, benchmark themselves against others and identify areas for improvement.

Security Profiles With Fine-Grained Policies On Smartphone

Vol. 1  Issue 4
Year: 2015
Issue:Nov-Jan
Title:Security Profiles With Fine-Grained Policies On Smartphone
Author Name:A. Malathy, T. A. Vijayalakshmi, V. Kumar, I. Rajesh and M. Banuchitra 
Synopsis:

Smart Phone is a single device that can be used in different environments, where corporate data and applications in it, are separated from the personal data and applications. Data and applications are stored in different compartments. Security profiles are created and applications are assigned to it. In general, access to data and applications will be implemented by a set of regulatory principles. In the case a Smartphone gets stolen and a third person tries to steal sensitive information it is currently prove to breach of the security system. To overcome this problem a new system is proposed. The user can protect their sensitive data and applications from hackers with the help of the security profiles they created and the profiles will be enabled automatically based on the location. If a third person tries to change the profile manually, the system may ask for security code. If he gives wrong code more than five times then the data will be deleted from the internal memory of the Smartphone. Hence data is secured and protected by means of the security profile.

Performance And Analysis Of Suitable Algorithms For Symmetric Encryption Of Messages In Mobile Phones

Vol. 1  Issue 4
Year: 2015
Issue:Nov-Jan
Title:Performance And Analysis Of Suitable Algorithms For Symmetric Encryption Of Messages In Mobile Phones
Author Name:P. Padmanabham and Shahebaz Ahmed Khan
Synopsis:

The aim of this paper is to study the symmetric algorithms like DES, RC5, AES, Triple DES, BLOWFISH etc. and to analyse their performance, mainly their beats and end memory requirements are studied to pick suitable algorithms to be implemented on the mobile and handheld devices. All the above algorithms will be first implemented in C, C++ or JAVA and their performances will be analysed. The suitable algorithm will be ported onto the mobile phones using Android. The proposal extends as when an encrypted message is sent from one mobile phone to the other, a standard and essential key is provided which is symmetric in nature. If any of the two or more parties want to open the message that is sent to them, they have to utilize the secret code in the provided key without leaving even a single digit. The message will be decrypted only after the full key version has matched with the given symmetry of the key. This makes the data or any information more secure even in the mobile devices for the common users by non-repudiation. This ensures the use of cryptography and its advantages by the end users of mobile phones for confidentiality.

Firefly Based Routing For Optimized Transmission Over MANETs

Vol. 1  Issue 4
Year: 2015
Issue:Nov-Jan
Title:Firefly Based Routing For Optimized Transmission Over MANETs
Author Name:Rahul Gupta and Rajesh Kumar
Synopsis:

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are infrastructure less networks that are very dynamic in nature. The main problem with such networks is mobility of the nodes, the nodes are free to roam arbitrarily, thus the topology changes from time to time, and the route acquisition in such a network is always a tedious task. In this paper, the authors describe an algorithm implemented based on a firefly algorithm (an implementation of swarm intelligence). Firefly algorithm capture the nature of fireflies i.e. how they do the task individually and how they coordinate with each other to create a system. This algorithm is compared with the state-of-the art routing algorithm and it thus improves MANETs routing performance in terms of the packet delivery ratio, packet loss, throughput and delay.