The main challenge during night-time driving is the visibility of the road ahead. The major challenge rests in controlling accidents during night as the night conditions differ from the day in environment conditions, vehicle lighting etc. The reduced cost of cameras and optical devices helped in installing front-mounted intelligent systems for identifying forward collision avoidance and mitigat...

Android is an open source mobile operating system that is developed mainly by Google. It is used on a significant portion of mobile devices worldwide. In this paper, I will be looking at an attack commonly known as tapjacking. I will be taking the attack apart and walking through each individual step required to implement the attack. I will then explore the various payload options available to ...

Orbital remote sensing instruments and systems benefit from high performance, adaptable computing systems. Field programmable SRAM-based gate arrays (FPGAs) are usually the chosen platform for real-time reconfigurable computing. This technology is driven by the commercial sector, so devices intended for the space environment must be adapted from commercial product. Total ionizing dose, heavy io...

Custom Power devices like Dynamic voltage restorer and STATCOM are normally employed as a solution for mitigation of power quality problems like voltage sag and swell. In this paper new voltage sag compensators based on an autotransformer and an IGBT switched by PWM technique and Hysteresis Voltage Control (HVC) method are compared. These two schemes are able to recognize the voltage sag condit...

In this paper, we provide a qualitative analysis with an experimental viewpoint for the Operation and Support Hazard Analysis O&SHA process applied to syringe infusion pumps as a cheap and accurate way of contributing with the mitigation of the safety problem in these devices. The proposed model takes as quality criteria the compliance within safety requirements defined by the Foods and Drugs A...

Utilization of multiport-antennas represents an appropriate way for the mitigation of multi-path fading in wireless communication systems [1], [2]. Furthermore, by using multiport-antennas at both ends (Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO) in combination with appropriate spatiotemporal coding techniques, channel capacity can be greatly enhanced [3], [4]. However, to obtain low correlation betw...

Radiation induced Single Event Effects (SEEs) are a serious problem for spacecraft flight software, potentially leading to a complete loss of mission. Conventional risk mitigation has been focused on hardware, leading to slow, expensive and outdated on-board computing devices, increased power consumption and launch mass. Our approach is to look at SEEs from a software perspective, and to explic...

The pervasiveness of the Internet, increased number of devices and the dissemination of ICT have played a big role in the increase in number of security incidents and adversaries in the cloud. However, there are limited proactive strategies that can enable mitigation of these incidents given the distributed nature of cloud resources. Therefore, the primary aim of the work described in this prop...

In this paper an error recovery mechanism for SRAM based FPGA systems is presented. Previous recovery methods employ processor cores as a reconfiguration controller consuming notable amount of device resources and introducing additional error detection and recovery latency. The described mechanism is controlled by a finite state machine architecture providing small hardware overhead and short r...

Threat Modeling Threat modeling is an important risk assessment and mitigation practice that provides the capability to secure a network environment. Threat modeling includes understanding and communicating the threats to the network computing environment. It is critical to be aware of the types of threats and how to reduce or mitigate the risk both in systems and applications on network aware ...