KINDI Center for Computing Research: Recent submissions
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Virtual Reality Game for Falconry
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Traditions and culture play a major role in our society, as they are the source of a person's pride and honor. One of Qatar's National Vision 2030 pillars that relates to the social development aims at preserving Qatar's ... -
Image Stitching System With Scanning Microscopy for Histopathological Applications
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Histopathological analysis of biopsy or surgical specimen is a common clinical practice for diagnostic purposes. Essentially, the process involves slicing the biopsy or surgical sample into very thin slices, placing them ... -
A Reconfigurable Multipurpose SoC Mobile Platform for metal detection
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Background and Objectives One of the key problems in mobile robotics is the ability to understand and analyze the surrounding environment in a useful way. This is especially important in dangerous applications where human ... -
Almost BPXOR Coding Technique for Tolerating Three Disk Failures in RAID7 Architectures
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) storage architectures provide protection of digital infrastructure against potential disks failures. For example, RAID-5 and RAID-6 architectures provide protection against one ... -
SLiFi: Exploiting Visible Light Communication VLC to Authenticate WiFi Access Points
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)This work presents an effective and efficient solution (SLiFi) to the evil twin attack in wireless networks. The evil twin is a rogue Wifi Access Point (AP) that pretends to be an authentic one by using the same network ... -
Skyline Discovery and Composition of Multi-Cloud Mashup Services
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , 2016 , Article)A cloud mashup is composed of multiple services with shared datasets and integrated functionalities. For example, the elastic compute cloud (EC2) provided by Amazon Web Service (AWS), the authentication and authorization ... -
A new technique for compacting secret key in attribute-based broadcast encryption
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Conference Paper)Public-key encryption has been generalized to adapt to more and more practical applications. Broadcast encryption, introduced by Fiat and Naor in 1993, aims for applications in pay-TV or satellite transmission and allows ... -
MLP Neural Network Based Gas Classification System on Zynq SoC
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)Systems based on wireless gas sensor networks offer a powerful tool to observe and analyze data in complex environments over long monitoring periods. Since the reliability of sensors is very important in those systems, gas ... -
Privacy preserving computation in cloud using noise-free fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Conference Paper)With the wide adoption of cloud computing paradigm, it is important to develop appropriate techniques to protect client data privacy in the cloud. Encryption is one of the major techniques that could be used to achieve ... -
Real-time robotic avatar control using fuzzy gaze-classification for people with disability
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)Robotic control with gaze-classification has been an area of interest for quite some time. In this paper, a novel solution of implementing sensing system with intelligent visualization has been presented. Such a system can ... -
Monitoring DVT cuffs for long-term operation: A fuzzy approach
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)Stroke patients, as well as all those patients who are bed-bound for a long period of time are highly susceptible to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) as secondary complexity. DVT poses more dangers of a loose blood clot obstructing ... -
A scalable solution for finding overlaps between sequences using map-reduce
( The International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA) , 2016 , Conference Paper)The overlap stage of a string graph-based assembler is considered one of the most time- and space-consuming stages in any de novo overlap-based assembler. This is due to the huge output of the next-generation sequencing ... -
Image stitching system with scanning microscopy for histopathological applications
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)Histopathological analysis of biopsy or surgical specimen is a common clinical practice for diagnostic purposes. Essentially, the process involves slicing the biopsy or surgical sample into very thin slices, placing them ... -
Using block cipher for confidentiality of images in cloud-based systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)This paper deals with outsourcing of computing to cloud servers where clients' images are computed and stored. It proposes a technique that obfuscates images before sending them to servers. Cloud servers can perform ... -
Similarity Group-by Operators for Multi-Dimensional Relational Data
( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference Paper)The SQL group-by operator plays an important role in summarizing and aggregating large datasets in a data analytics stack. While the standard group-by operator, which is based on equality, is useful in several applications, ... -
Reasoning about Policies in Security-Aware Service Discovery Using Answer Set Programming
( World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd , 2016 , Article)In order to enable a secure interaction between dynamically discovered software services and the client's application in a cooperative information system such as service oriented system, one of the pre-requisites is the ... -
An efficient instance hiding scheme
( Association for Computing Machinery , 2016 , Conference Paper)Delegating computation, which is applicable to many practical contexts such as cloud computing or pay-TV system, concerns the task where a computationally weak client wants to securely compute a very complex function f on ... -
Green operator cooperation for radio frequency transmission minimization
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)The increasing demand for reliable mobile services with faster communications speed requires high capital investment in the radio access networks. This leads to enormous energy consumption, high operational costs (OPEX), ... -
A novel multi-hop body-To-body routing protocol for disaster and emergency networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, a new multi-hop routing protocol (called ORACE-Net) for disaster and emergency networks is proposed. The proposed hierarchical protocol creates an ad-hoc network through body-To-body (B2B) communication ... -
Group owner election in Wi-Fi direct
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)Wi-Fi Direct is a new protocol that standardizes the direct communication between Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices without requiring an access point. The specification proposes enhanced peer-to-peer functions to be supported ...
