You are cordially invited to attend the following seminars:
Wednesday, March 12, at 2:10 pm, Room 22/132.
Speaker: Mr. Bilal Saeed , COE Department
Title: Detecting and Tracking a Person using Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an emerging technology for person detection and tracking. In this seminar I will present a scheme for detecting and tracking a person/object using WSN. In an organization where employees possess unique Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, a WSN node detects the presence of a person/object using a PIR sensor and the identity of the person is obtained from the RFID tag. The accuracy of tracking a person in a WSN is limited due to the sensor’s detection capabilities also the packets can be lost in the wireless medium. Moreover, the location information in the sensor is not accurate indoors. In this project, I will present a unique algorithm for detecting and tracking an object and/or a person using passive RFID’s. As we know that passive RFID readers can detect tags that are only a few centimeters a part. Hence, there is a need for an algorithm that can efficiently utilize the passive RFID based networks and can give better results.
Biography
Bilal Saeed is a Masters student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He received his B.S in Telecommunications engineering from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan in 2011 and his F.S.c. in Engineering from Shah Abdul Latif Government College Mirpurkhas, Pakistan. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Android Development, Core networks, Network Planning, and RFID.
Speaker: Mr. Alaaddin Ismail Sidig
Title: Towards Reliable Parallel Computing
Abstract
Parallel computing is becoming the one of best ways to solve many scientific computationally intensive problems; it provides high speed of computation scalability with the increasing demand for high performance computing. Many parallel programming libraries are available providing APIs for task parallelization and communication between processor, but most of them assume a reliable infrastructure is available which may not be true. This work proposes a reliability scheme for parallel computing in simple yet efficient way by utilizing a publish-subscribe middleware. The way to decompose the problem is described by a case study of typical parallel programming problem. The outcomes of the case study shows ability to provide reliability with minimal overhead for both application programmer and underlying network.
Biography
Mr. Ala addin Isamaeil Sidig is a PhD student in CCSE in KFUPM, he got his BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from College of Engineering in Sudan University of Science and Technology. His research interest is in Computer Vision and Parallel Processing.
Dr. Muhamed Mudawar and Dr. Mahmood Niazi,
COE 599/CSE699/ICS 599/SWE 599 Coordinators