Murizah Kassim

Technical comparison analysis of encryption algorithm on site-to-site IPSec VPN

Virtual Private Network or VPN provide secure communication for remote users to access private data over public network. Although security is the main priority, the performance of VPN must also be considered. This paper presented how performance of VPN affected by choosing different encryption algorithms used by VPN devices. Analysis on performance of Windows Vista operating system was evaluated on a test-bed setup with combinations of encryption algorithms, different file sizes, and different protocols. Two encryption algorithms were used that are the AES 256 and 3DES and two hash algorithms that are MD5 and SHA-1 were used in the paper. Performance of the VPN is determined by the throughput parameter. Assessment task has found that different algorithms give different throughput readings. AES 256 — MD5 provide faster and more throughputs compared to other algorithm combination. Analysis also found that larger file size will reduce throughput of VPN, thus FTP performs faster than HTTP protocol.

A framework on halal product recognition system through smartphone authentication

Muslim consumer faces a problem in identifying the halal products in the market especially in Malaysia. A fake halal logo and unknown detail ingredients is the major problem for Muslim consumer. This framework study will be presented and with the implemented proposed system would help consumer to verify through Smartphone barcode capture straightaway on time with the applied halal product alert database system. All the information regarding halal logo, company, product name, barcode number, ingredients, license number and expiry date will be found in the database. This study focuses on 1-D European Article Numbering (EAN)-13 barcode since it is used internationally for tagging retail goods. However other types of 1-D and 2-D barcodes can still be readable and application will be developed on Android 2.1 (Eclair_MR1) Operating System. Android 2.1 is chosen since most of Android Smartphone is operating at minimum on Android 2.1.

A prototype Of Web Based Temperature Monitoring system

this research was developed to produce a prototype product of a Web Based Temperature Monitoring system that allows the user to continuously monitor the temperature condition of a room. This prototype system is enhancement from the existing system that allowed the data to be monitored anytime and anywhere from the Internet and using new approach. This research development project was divided into two parts that involved with the hardware and software. The hardware part involved building the temperature sensor board and for the software part involved written programming and construct coding using C language program. The programs then are uploaded into the microcontroller which then created Visual Basic 6.0 application to display the temperature and saves the data into a database. An active Server Page (ASP) scripting language is used as server side scripting to publish the current temperature at the web browser. This prototype of a Web-Based Temperature Monitoring has met all the objectives derived and planned. The research project is considered successful and ready to be launched in the real system implementations.

Systematic Test and Evaluation Process (STEP) approach on Shared Banking Services (SBS) System identification

this paper presented the concept of Systematic Test and Evaluation Process (STEP) for Shared Banking Services (SBS) System on one developed banking system at HeiTech, Malaysia. The approach using STEP provides a model process and a step-by-step sequence of activities and tasks for performing software testing at any level from unit testing through acceptance testing. STEP is a proprietary methodology developed by Software Quality Engineering for software development as guidance to measure the quality of a system. The process consists of a few activities, which includes developing test plan and strategy, test design, test execution and evaluation of test result. This project has identifying the Systematic Study was conducted in order to identify the specific modules in SBS and its characteristics which differentiate it from other software applications. STEP discipline were identify and tested based on existing banking system criteria such as main activities, roles and responsibilities, artifacts and level of testing. The result was chart, record and analyzed to produce better software testing for SBS. Results of the test is presented and compared.

A study on automated, speech and remote temperature monitoring for modeling Web based temperature monitoring system

on analyzing and designing a temperature monitoring system, understanding the situations and benchmark of the previous system that similar to the model is very important. The need to evaluate the current model, hardware and software development architecture for the temperature monitoring is important to build new architecture and designing model of a new system. In addition, most of the previous implementations include very complex architecture, broad areas of interest and various programming computing processes. This research was to study the comparison of speech temperature; automated and remote temperature monitoring that is similar to WEB monitoring system. It is to produce the model that allows the user to design continuously for monitoring temperature condition of a room while the data can be monitored anytime and anywhere from the Internet. The Model of designing the Web Based system is presented in this research. As a conclusion, Web-Based Temperature monitoring model then will be used and real system will be design in future project. This study is considered successful and preparation for the hardware and software for the development process of the real web based monitoring temperature is on the run.

An Approach Using RUP Test Discipline Process for Shared Banking Services (SBS) System

Software testing is one of the main activities in software development life cycle. This process consists of a few activities, which includes developing test plan and strategy, test design, test execution and evaluation of test result. However, a customized testing process is required for a specific domain in order to ensure the correctness and completeness of the test result. This project has identifying the Rational Unified Process (RUP) process for Shared Banking Services (SBS) system on one developed banking system by RaPIC, HeiTech, Malaysia. Study was conducted in order to identify the specific modules in SBS and its characteristics which differentiate it from other software applications. RUP Test Discipline were identify and tested based on criteria such as main activities, roles and responsibilities, artifacts and level of testing. The comparison result was then map to the characteristic of SBS to produce the proposed software testing process for SBS. Outcome of the test with the advantage and disadvantage of the process is presented.

Incorporating VHDL in teaching combinational logic circuit

Digital System Fundamentals is an elementary course offered by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) for semester 1 undergraduate students of the Electrical Engineering programs specializing in computer, electronics, communication and instrumentation. As this course is focusing more on designing circuit rather than only knowing the theoretical part of the circuit, students are introduced with a tool which is widely used in the industry known as Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language or better known as VHDL. This is also to ensure that these students are already exposed and equipped with updated technology and skills that would meet the industry requirement as well as for accreditation purposes. This paper outlines how the VHDL is incorporated in teaching combinational logic circuit of this course.

Broadband Internet performance (QoS measurement) view from home access gateway in Malaysia

The performance management is specified Quality of services (QoS) parameters is throughput, jitter, packet loss and delay. Network performance (NP) is very challenging to predict and guarantee in QoS performance because many service and applications rapidly increased. From that, Broadband wired assessment was conducted among 5 regions in Malaysia with 25 locations. Assessment is to benchmarking network and it is important to be used in operation and management of Network service providers (NSP) with MCMC requirement. The result of assessment was studied to find the best of benchmarking in a Network performance (NP). In addition from result, Internet Experience Measurement tool (IEMT) was developed also to more detail focusing a quality of experience (QoE) to cater user complaining slow browsing and slow connectivity.

Bandwidth gain analysis for HTTP and HTTPs traffic on IP based network

This paper presented a bandwidth gain analysis on HTTP and HTTPs traffic in an IP Based network. A framework model to run the analysis has been setup which caters about 40 thousand concurrent users to the internet that included wired and wireless access users in a university. All traffic flow to one access Virtual Local area Network (VLAN) is configured. Five bandwidth collectors (BC) are setup in the running framework. Network traffic then is filtered according to the identified policies that are based on type of applications, protocols and rules. Two main policies rules are configured called the static object and customized object rules. Three main filtered content are also configured which are Integrated uniform resource locator (URL) and content filtering, instant message and point to point applications and the third filtered objects is web category. The objective of the traffic analysis is to observe the bandwidth gain in the network and manage the bandwidth used according to the prioritized applications needed. One hour and one day of internet traffic are collected to analyze the bandwidth used. Bandwidth gain then is presented for the five setup bandwidth collector. Results shows that the model framework helps to reduced the bandwidth utilization mainly on http and https traffic. An analysis on bandwidth gain and byte saved are presented in multiple times and percentage.

Robustness analysis of the improved minimum descriptive length stopping criterion

Most of the turbo decoding stopping criteria assume perfect channel reliability available at the receiver since they require a threshold based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) information. However, operational environments can vary according to frame sizes, code structures and channel reliability requirements, further aggravating the difficulty in threshold determination and convergence or non-convergence detection. This paper aims to provide a robustness analysis of improved minimum descriptive length (IMDL) stopping criterion peculiar to these factors: the frame sizes, the channel reliability requirements, the code structures, and the code rate. The robustness analysis is benchmarked to the well-known Genie stopping criterion based on the average iteration number (AIN) and bit error rate (BER) performance.