FYP OFFERING Sem 1 2010-2011

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Final Year Project Proposal SEM 1 2010/2011

Introduction
Final year project (FYP) is a two-semester long course offered in the both Communications and CIE (Computer and
Information Engineering) programmes at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an integral part
of the curricula.
It is divided into two parts which is called FYP1 and FYP2 with three (3) credit hours each. However, FYP shall be
considered as a special subject which is intended to provide avenue to students to actualize their dreams as
graduating engineers by integrating knowledge they have acquired in the first three years of study with their spirit
for intellectual pursuit. It is expected that students will gain experience to develop skills of problem solving, team
work, professional responsibility and technical report writing. These skills are essential for student who wants to
succeed in their professional carrier as engineer.
Students taking FYP must be fully aware that FYP requires more time and efforts compared to other subjects. FYP
is an avenue whereby students are expected to behave independently and responsibly with adequate supervision.
Specifically this course has specified the following learning outcomes (LO):
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
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Plan for engineering project utilizing relevant engineering principles and theories to design, built, operate,
simulate and analyze to develop new product or process.
Propose effective engineering solutions through the application of mathematics, science and engineering
fundamentals.
Design experiments to collect, archive and interpret data in order to make relevant decision on the
performance of a communication/electronic/computer product.
Evaluate specific engineering design in terms of the social, cultural, global and environmental
responsibilities of an engineer.
Practice ethical and professional norms for the implementation of engineering projects.
Present technical and scientific findings effectively through written and oral mode with the aid of
multimedia tools.
Therefore, it is highly expected that students will carefully decide which project to take. The decision shall come
from a full conscience of all the consequences and commitment required in order to complete the subject
successfully.
This compilation of offered FYP titles is meant to provide students with essential information of the projects. It is
expected that students will use it to find necessary literature to understand the subject before enquiring the respective
candidate supervisors.
We pray to Allah S.W.T. that He guide all of us and give us strength to strive for goodness. We also pray to Allah
that he guide our beloved students to excel in their completion of the FYP. May Allah accept all efforts spent in this
endeavor and reward it as good deeds. Amin
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TITLE
Radio propagation measurement at 2.39GHz for Wireless Body Area Network
SUPERVISOR
Akhmad Unggul Priantoro
SUMMARY
Wireless Body area network (WBAN) is a network of body-attached (wearable/implanted) devices that monitor body
parameters/movements, which is essential for healthcare services of the future. FCC (Federal Communication Commission) of the US
has considered frequency of 2.39 GHz (20 MHz wide) to be allocated for WBAN. This project is a continuation of previous project
which aims to reduce the antenna bandwidth and improving the accuracy of measurement campaigns conducted such as consideration of
the environment effect, absorption by human body, etc.
This project will also cover analysis of gathered data in order to characterize the radio propagation such as path loss exponent as a
function of distance, effect of antenna radiation patterns and position to the propagation path loss.
OBJECTIVES
1. To improve the antenna for WBAN (reducing bandwidth)
2. Conducting measurement of designed antennas radiation pattern
3. Analyze the measurement results
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
1. Literature review
2. Design (including simulation) and fabrication of antennas
3. Measurement of near-body radio propagation characteristics
4. Data analysis
REFERENCES
1. van Roy, S. Oestges, C. Horlin, F. De Doncker, P, A Spatially-Correlated Tapped Delay Line Model for Body
Area Networks, VTC 2008 Fall, 21-24 Sept 2008
2. Mohammad Ilyas Hasni and Hatim Kassim, FYP Report: Radio Channel Measurement for Body Area Network,
Kulliyyah of Engineering, May 2010
RESOURCES/TOOLS (AVAILABILITY)
1.
Library for literature survey
2.
Antenna design software and fabrication facilities (available)
3.
Network Vector Analyzer (VNA) (available)
4.
Spectrum Analyzer (available)

TITLE
Design and simulation of micro acoustic energy harvesters
SUPERVISOR
Anis Nurashikin Nordin
SUMMARY
The drive for green technology devices which are self-sustaining and self-powered has become increasingly crucial in a world of
depleting natural energy resources. The trend is to generate clean energy which does not depend on natural fossil fuels which are
limited and hazardous to the environment. Ambient energy produced by various environment sources such as solar, wind, light and
vibration can be transformed into useful electrical energy and can be used to power numerous electrical appliances. This work involves
the design and simulation of a novel green, nano energy harvester which is formed using Aluminium doped Zinc Oxide (AZO)
diaphragm on a silicon substrate with Al electrodes. The project will involve development of the simulation model of the proposed
resonator using equivalent circuits and 3D finite element models. The resonators device dimensions will be optimized to produce
maximum electrical power output.
OBJECTIVES
i) Design a nano-sized Aero-acoustic energy harvester
ii) Development of a theoretical model describing the equivalent circuit model of the acoustic energy harvester.
iii) Development of a 3-D finite-element model of the nano aero-acoustic energy harvester
1.
Literature review
2. Design and simulation of the equivalent circuit model for the acoustic energy harvester.
3. Design and simulation of the finite element model for the acoustic energy harvester.
4. Data analysis
[1]
REFERENCES
A. P. Joseph, "Energy Scavenging for Mobile and Wireless Electronics," vol. 4, S. Thad, Ed., 2005, pp. 18-27.
[2]
S. L. Kok, N. M. White, and N. R. Harris, "Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric device," Electronics Letters, vol. 44, pp. 280281, 2008.
[3]
J. Q. Liu, H. B. Fang, Z. Y. Xu, X. H. Mao, X. C. Shen, D. Chen, H. Liao, and B. C. Cai, "A MEMS-based piezoelectric power
generator array for vibration energy harvesting," Microelectronics Journal, vol. 39, pp. 802-806, 2008.
[4]
S. Roundy, P. K. Wright, and J. M. Rabaey, Energy scavenging for wireless sensor networks: with special focus on vibrations:
Springer Netherlands, 2004.
[5]
S. Priya and D. J. Inman, "Energy harvesting technologies," 2008.

1.
2.
Orcad/Cadence circuit simulation software (available)
3.
COMSOL finite element modeling software (available)

TITLE
Design and development of an impedance based biosensor
SUPERVISOR
Anis Nurashikin Nordin (ECE) & Maizirwan Mel (BIO)
SUMMARY
Electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) method can be used as a valuable tool for real time monitoring of cell behavior such as
attachment, mobility, and growth. Changes in impedance of the cells due to growth and attachment can be modeled as an equivalent
circuit consisting of resistors and capacitors of both the cell culture media and the cells. Cell-based sensing techniques provide
continuous and real-time measurements making it more efficient compared to existing methods of microscopic observation. In this
work, a biosensor which measures the impedance in breast cancer cells, Michigan Cancer Foundation 7 or MCF-7 will be designed
and tested. The biosensor will be designed and fabricated on a printed circuit board and combined with a small Teflon cell holder.
Impedance measurements of the MCF-7 cells will be used to deduce the cancer cell behaviors in different environments. An electrical
model of the cells will be developed and simulated. This electrical equivalent circuit will provide a theoretical electrical model of the
biological cancer cells.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To design a simple biosensor which can detect impedance of cancer cells.
2. To develop and utilize skills in printed circuit board fabrication to fabricate a biosensor.
3. To analyze impedance measurement results and extract a simple RLC circuit based on the measurement results.
1.
Literature review
2. Design of the biosensor using printed circuit board design software.

3. Fabrication of the biosensor using printed circuit board techniques.
4. Impedance measurements of the fabricated biosensor.
5. Simulation of the RLC model extracted from the measured results.
REFERENCES
1.
I. Giaever and C. R. Keese, "Use of Electric Fields to Monitor the Dynamical Aspect of Cell Behavior in Tissue
Culture," Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, vol. BME-33, pp. 242-247, 1986.
2.
D. J. Stephens and V. J. Allan, "Light microscopy techniques for live cell imaging," Science, vol. 300, pp. 82,
2003.
3.
X. Huang, D. W. Greve, D. D. Nguyen, and M. M. Domach, "Impedance based biosensor array for monitoring
mammalian cell behavior," presented at Sensors, 2003. Proceedings of IEEE, 2003.
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Printed circuit board software and fabrication equipment (available)
3.
Impedance Analyzer (available)
4.
Spice software for simulation of extracted equivalent circuit (available)

TITLE
Design and development of a programmable photoresist spinner
SUPERVISOR
Anis Nurashikin Nordin (ECE)
SUMMARY
Photolithography is a critical process in the manufacturing of silicon integrated circuits (ICs). The spinner is an essential device for the
deposition of a uniform and well-controlled photoresist layer on top of the silicon wafer. To attain uniform layer thickness, it is crucial
to have a high angular speed, which leads to a high centrifugal force that acts on the resist fluid to move away from the center of the
substrate. The Programmable Photoresist Spinner improves the precision control of the angular speed and acceleration. This component
will aid in the development of discrete silicon devices such as the ICs for the micro-fabrication purposes.
The program prompts the user for inputs and the Motorola 68HC11 / Intel 8088 processes high-level commands and outputs signals to
the motor control subsystem. The system is designed to accept user inputs for key parameters such as speed, acceleration and spin times
for a given load.
OBJECTIVES
1. To develop microprocessor (Intel or Motorola) programming skills.
2. To develop skills in integrating mechanical and electrical concepts in a single system.
3. Analyze
2. Design (drawings) of mechanical system
3. Programming the microprocessor.
4. Measurement of duty cycle output of the microprocessor.
5. Measurement of the spinner speed and acceleration with respect to the microprocessor input.
REFERENCES
1.
Balain, K.S., Singh, I., Simple design of a photoresist spinner, J. Sci. Instrum, 1967, vol. 44, pp.655
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Microprocessor and microprocessor programming software (available)
3.
Computer Aided Design Software to design mechanical system (available)

TITLE
Security Enhancement of Credit Card Purchasing System
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Ahmed Wathik Naji
SUMMARY
The low security of the online purchasing systems using credit card presents countless opportunities for fraud. This opportunity has
created a huge black market in stolen credit card numbers, which are generally used quickly before the cards are reported stolen.
Most internet fraud is done through the use of stolen credit card information which is obtained in many ways, the simplest being
copying information from retailers, either online or offline. The problem is, all that valuable information is located on the physical
credit card That is why the credit card online purchasing losses reached very high rates. This research aims to enhance the security of
credit card purchasing through incorporate a fingerprint authentication with the currently authentication scheme to achieve a
foolproof authentication system.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To design an integrated model for credit card online purchasing that enhances the online purchasing security.
2. To develop a prototype as a real time implantation that integrates the current authentication techniques with
biometrics.
3. To evaluate the performance of the prototype in terms of accuracy and processing time.
2. Design a model for credit card online purchasing based on fingerprint authentication.
3. Carry out a prototype through utilizing commercial fingerprint reader to capture and enrol the fingerprint template.
4. Evaluating and testing the prototype in different experiments.
REFERENCES
1. Chikkerur, S. S .(2005) .Online Fingerprint Verification System. M.Sc. Thesis, State University of New York, Buffalo.
2. Jain, A. K., Flynn, P., & Ross, A. A. (2008). Handbook of Biometrics. New York, NY, USA: Spring. pp:1-3.
3. Woong-Sik, K., Byung-Ik, K., & Yun-Seung, C. (2006). An Credit Card Verification System by Biometric Method. Paper presented
at ICARCV '06. 9th International Conference on the Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006. 1-4. 7: 3831 3837,
10.1109/ICMLC.2007.4370814.
1. BSAPI 3.0 for Linux SDK.
2. Linux, Ubuntu 9.04 environment.

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TITLE
Spectrum Allocation and sharing for coexistence of macrocell and femtocell
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Rashid A. Saeed
SUMMARY
A flexible spectrum sharing for coexistence of macrocell and femtocell is needed to avoid harm interference from both sides. In such a
networking environment, shared spectrum and dedicated spectrum are two common options in femtocell-macrocell spectrum allocation.
Dedicated spectrum allocation has many disadvantages like, spectrum scarcity, spectrum efficiency and cost are the major problems
associated with dedicated spectrum allocation. Spectrum sharing scheme can be a best solution for femtocell-macrocell and femtocellfemtocell scenarios. An efficient method for spectrum sharing will be developed and verification of coexistence will be discussed as
well.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To reduce the interference between FAP and mBS,
2. To improve the overall system capacity, i.e. data rate

3. To efficient spectrum utilization
1.
Literature review
2. Mathematical model for coexistence mechanism

3. Simulate the proposed scheme (using Matlab)
4. Results analysis
REFERENCES
1. V. Chandrasekhar, J. Andrews, Uplink Capacity and Interference Avoidance for Two-Tier Cellular Networks, In
GLOBECOM '07, IEEE, Washington DC, 2007, p. 5.
2. Yong Bai, Juejia Zhou, Lan Chen Hybrid Spectrum Usage for Overlaying LTE Macrocell and Femtocell,
GLOBECOM" 2009
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Simulation tools (Matlab)

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TITLE
Design of Power Amplifier (PA) for Millimeter-wave systems
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Rashid A. Saeed
SUMMARY
Millimeter-wave (MMW) gigabit per second point-to-point communication links [1] have grown in recent years. These emerging
systems using non-constant envelope modulations have stringent requirements on the efficiency and linearity of the power amplifiers
(PAs). Although many linearization techniques have been studied in MMW to improve the linearity of the PAs and transmitter, however
the PA efficiency is still a problematic. This project is intended to design and develop a power amplifier (PA) with post-distortion
linearization at millimeter-wave (MMW) frequency band.
OBJECTIVES
1. To develop and design an enhanced PA for MMW applications
2. To improve efficiency and linearity simultaneously in MMW PA design
3. To improve the the inter-modulation distortion (IMD) in the design
1.
Literature review
2. Circuit design,
3. To Select the suitable PA class with the MMW,
4. To develop the MMIC layout,
5. Results discussions.
REFERENCES
1.
K. Tsukamoto, S. Komaki, K. Takanashi, A. Kanazawa, Y. Shoji, H. Ogawa, M. Yoshikawa, S. Asami, M. Kaneta,

Y. Suzuki, and Y. Serizawa, Development of gigabit millimeter-wave broadband wireless access systemsystem
overview, in Proc. Asia-Pacific Microw. Conf., Seoul, Korea, 2003, pp. 957960.
2. K. Ohata, K. Maruhashi, M. Ito, and T. Nishiumi, "Millimeter-Wave Broadband Transceivers" NEC Journal of
Advanced Technology, Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2005, pp. 211-216.
3. K. Ohata, K. Maruhashi, M. Ito, S., et al. "Wireless 1.25 Gb/s Transceiver Module at 60 GHz-Band" ISSCC 2002,
Paper 17.7, pp. 298-299.
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2.
Microwave simulation software (available)

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TITLE
Influence of Velocity on the Handover Delay propagation at Road-Side Units (RSUs)
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Rashid A. Saeed
SUMMARY
In WLAN based vehicular communications the main challenge is the high velocity of the stations (STAs), which leads to frequent
handover between access points (AP), which called road-side units (RSUs). Many publications addressed the IEEE802.11 amendments
communication channel between AP i.e. 802.11f/r/s; however, all these standards struggle at high velocity scenario as in vehicular
communication scenario. Some other upper layers solutions has been implemented successfully in mobile-IP techniques, but this also
associated with unavoidable delay especially in the real time communication i.e. VOIP. In this project we will introduce a new field in
the TDMA frame for backbone communication. TDMA is used as an encapsulation protocol for CSMA/CA to avoid the delay
associated with contention in CSMA/CA. the influence of the velocity on handover will be studied for the previous solutions and
compared with the current proposals. The new scheme will be simulated in ns-2.
OBJECTIVES
1. To enhance the delay propagation associated with RSUs interworking
2. To reduce the influence of velocity in HO delay,
3. Improve the QoS for the real time applications.
1.
Literature review
2. develop a new scheme for RSU interworking,

3. simulate the developed scheme
4. Results discussions.
REFERENCES
1.
Lee, Jae-hwang, Kim, Pyung-soo, Lee, Hak-goo, Handover method in WLAN and mobile node device performing
handover in WLAN, United States Patent 7599330.
2. Balkrishna Sharma Gukhool, Soumaya Cherkaoui, " Handling handovers in vehicular communications using an
IEEE 802.11p model in NS-2 " International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems 2010 - Vol.
1, No.3 pp. 159 - 168
1.
2.
Ns-2 simulation (available)

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TITLE
Performance Evaluation of Lossless Speech and Audio Compression Algorithms
SUPERVISOR
Teddy Surya Gunawan
SUMMARY
Speech and audio compression if a form of data compression designed to reduce the transmission bandwidth requirement and/or the
storage size of speech and audio signals. Different from lossy audio compression such as MP3, lossless audio compression produces an
exact replication of the original audio stream. Compression ratios are found to be around 50 to 60% of the original size. This project
aims to evaluate the performance of various lossless speech and audio compression algorithms. The evaluation criteria will include
speed of compression and decompression, degree of compression, open source versus proprietary, and robustness and error correction.
OBJECTIVES
1. To study various lossless speech and audio compression algorithms
2. To select and set up the lossless speech and audio compression algorithms
3. To evaluate the performance
1.
Literature review
2. Select and set up the platform for speech and audio compression, including compilation of the source code, and
selection of speech and audio files.
3. Performance evaluation and data analysis
REFERENCES
1. M. Hans, R.W. Schafer, "Lossless compression of digital audio," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2001.
2. L. Hanzo, C. Somerville, J. Woodard, Voice and Audio Compression for Wireless Communications, Wiley-IEEE
Press, 2007.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_codecs
4. http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html
1.
2.
Computers at Mobile Communication Laboratory
3.
Matlab and MS-Visual C++ 2010 Express
Note: Only students which familiar with MS-Visual C++ (for compiling the source code) and Matlab (for evaluation
and data analysis) need to apply.

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TITLE
Parallel Algorithms for Edge Detection on Cluster Computers
SUPERVISOR
Teddy Surya Gunawan
SUMMARY
Cluster computer has been used for high performance computing platform for scientific and engineering applications. Cluster computers
is a group of linked computers working together closely so that they form a single computer. Basic image processing routines, such as
edge detection using Sobel operator, Canny edge detector, Robert operator, and other algorithms, are very well suited for parallel
processing, especially if the image size is large. In 2006, new toolboxes, i.e. Parallel Computing Toolbox and Matlab Distributed
Computing Server, were introduced in Matlab that facilitates the design and implementation of parallel algorithms. The objective of this
project is to develop and implement parallel edge detection algorithms on cluster system. The performance of the parallel algorithm will
be evaluated in terms of speed up, while the efficiency of the parallel program will be analyzed using Amdahls law. It is expected that
the speed up achieved will be as close as possible to the number of computers in a cluster provided that an efficient parallelization can
be accomplished.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To study parallel architectures and algorithms
2. To set up a front end for parallel processing using Matlab toolboxes

3. To implement edge detection algorithms on the cluster computers
4. To evaluate the performance
1.
Literature review
2. Set up a parallel processing platform on Matlab cluster computers

3. Develop and implement parallel edge detection algorithm
4. Performance evaluation and data analysis
REFERENCES
1. T. Braunl, "Tutorial in Data Parallel Image Processing," Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing
Systems (AJIIPS), Vol. 6 (3), pp. 164-174, 2001.
2. J. Kepner, Parallel MATLAB for Multicore and Multinode Computers(Software, Environments, and Tools), Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009.
3. Q. Zhang, R.T. Guy, R.J. Plemmons, "Matrix Structures and Parallel Algorithms for Image Superresolution
Reconstruction," SIAM. J. Matrix Anal. & Appl. Vol. 31(4), pp. 1873-1893, 2010.
1. Library for literature survey
2. A cluster of 4 computers at Mobile Communication Laboratory
3. Matlab Parallel Computing Toolbox and Matlab Distributed Computing Server installed in each computer
Note: Only students with a good Matlab programming background need to apply. A good command in signal and image
processing will be an added advantage.

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TITLE
Design and FPGA prototyping of high speed Carry Select Adder (8-bit)
SUPERVISOR
Muhammad Ibn Ibrahimy
SUMMARY
The algorithm for the design is based on the carry-select adder technique, where the operands are sliced for partial
additions. The choice of slices reduces the time delay associated with each partial addition equivalent to a single gate
(two input XOR gate) delay. FPGAs are very reliable, cost effective and quick to market. FPGAs are electronically
reconfigurable which makes them essential in algorithm development and design verification resulting in fast
prototyping.
OBJECTIVES
The aim of this project is to reduce carry propagation delay and resource (hardware) sharing.
1.
VHDL modeling
2.
Simulation
3.
Synthesis and
4.
FPGA realization
REFERENCES
1.
Available software i.e., FPGA Advantage / Quartus II will be used for the entire project work.
2.
Relevant documents, hardware and software are available at VLSI Design Lab.

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TITLE
VHDL modeling of Intelligent Traffic Light control system
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
The traditional traffic signal control system has become increasingly difficult to adapt to changes in traffic flow in
different time-slots. Therefore, adjustable intelligent traffic control system is required for the citys intersections based
on the time, structure of the intersections and changes of traffic flow. The design procedure will improve the reliability
and flexibility by overcoming the limitations of traditional traffic signal control system.
OBJECTIVES
The project is to carry out by modeling the design of multi-phase (2-phase/3-phase/4-phase) intelligent traffic light
control system.
1.
VHDL modeling
2.
Simulation and
3.
Synthesis using Quartus II
REFERENCES
1.
Available software i.e., Quartus II will be used for the entire project work.
2.

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TITLE
Design of IEEE standard floating-point multiplier on FPGA
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
Floating points operations are widely used in modern radar system, digital signal processing, multimedia etc. to
maintain high degree of precision. FPGAs are becoming more suitable because of its high operating frequencies, low
cost, low power consumption and simple hardware system.
OBJECTIVES
The aim is to design of a high speed floating point multiplier using VHDL in Quartus II for FPGA realization.
The prototyping of multiplier module will be performed in a top-down approach. Correct functional behavior will be
validated using ModelSim. Later, the designed floating point multiplier module will be tested on ALTERA DE2 FPGA
board.
REFERENCES
1.
2.

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TITLE
Design and hardware modeling of Decimal Adder in FPGA
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
Decimal arithmetic plays a key role in data processing environments such as commercial, financial and internet-based
applications. Currently, Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) is used for decimal arithmetic algorithm implementations though
other coding systems available. Decimal carry-chain and ripple-carry adders will be implemented on Quartus II FPGA
platform.
OBJECTIVES
The aim of this project is to hardware modeling of decimal arithmetic units which is widely open and potential
improvements are still waiting.
1.
VHDL modeling
2.
Simulation
3.
Synthesis and
4.
FPGA realization
REFERENCES
1.
2.

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TITLE
Mobile Detector for Smart Mobile Phone Jammer
SUPERVISOR
Jalel Chebil
SUMMARY
The last few years have witnessed a dramatic boom in the wireless communications industry, which causes an increase in number of
mobile users. This evolution of communication gives numerous advantages and convenience for mobile user, however, the ringing of
mobile phone becomes troublesome and annoying, especially in places where silence is required such as Mosques, University lecture
rooms, libraries, concert halls, meeting rooms etc. A possible solution for this problem is to use an intelligent jamming device capable
of preventing cell phones that operate within a restricted area. This project will study one of an important component of this jamming
device is to mobile phone detector. Its role is to detect any active mobile phone present in the restricted area.
OBJECTIVES
The mobile phone detector should
1.
detect any active mobile phone present in the restricted area.
2.
determine its location
3.
send information to the main system
1.
Literature review
2. Design (including simulation)
3. Testing
4. Fabrication
1.
2.
3.
REFERENCES
Wan Faziati bt Wan Saari, Nur Nadia bt Kamaruzaman, Inteligent mobile phone jammer, FYP, IIUM 2010.
Azzam, S., Hijazi, A. and Mahmoudy, A., Smart jammer for mobile phone systems, American University of Beirut, 2000.
Poisel, Richard. Modern communications jamming principles and techniques, Boston ; London : Artech House, c2004.
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5.
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TITLE
Smart Antenna for Intelligent Mobile Phone Jammer
SUPERVISOR
Jalel Chebil
SUMMARY
The last few years have witnessed a dramatic boom in the wireless communications industry, which causes an increase in number of
mobile users. This evolution of communication gives numerous advantages and convenience for mobile user, however, the ringing of
mobile phone becomes troublesome and annoying, especially in places where silence is required such as Mosques, University lecture
rooms, libraries, concert halls, meeting rooms etc. A possible solution for this problem is to use an intelligent jamming device capable
of preventing cell phones that operate within a restricted area. This project will study one of an important component of this jamming
device is to design a smart antenna.
OBJECTIVES
To design a smart antenna capable of
1.
determining the angle of arrivals of any incoming signal from any mobile phone present in the restricted area, and
2.
steering beams of the radiated jammed signal toward all intruding mobile phone in their respective location.
1.
Literature review
2. Design (including simulation)
3. Testing
4. fabrication
1.
2.
REFERENCES
Frank Gross , Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications, McGraw-Hill Book, 2005.
Ibrahim Abidrahman H. Adam, Design and optimization of linear array antenna for smart antenna application , MSc. Thesis
2010, IIUM.
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2.
Antenna lab
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TITLE
Voice Recognition System for Learning the Recitation of the Quran
SUPERVISOR
Jalel Chebil
SUMMARY
Voice recognition is basically the process of taking the spoken word and then converts it to the language only understood by computers.
Although, many voice recognition systems have been developed for western languages, only few researches can be found on the Arabic
language with low accuracy. The need to develop software that can recognize Quran recitation is increasingly crucial as more people
from the Arab and Muslims world are engaging with technology. This research is intended to examine different voice recognition
system and test them on Quran recitation, However, to build a voice recognition system a voice database is required. Database of the
best Quran recitation going to be used for training and comparison purpose
OBJECTIVES
The main objectives of this research is to establish a platform for the development of a voice recognition software that can assist in
learning the Quran recitation rules (tajwd),
The following are the activities that will be executed and implemented during the period of the research
1. A survey on the current/previous voice recognition techniques.
2. Collecting materials and data for Quranic recitations.
3. Analysis of pronunciations to identity characteristics of correct pronunciation and methods to achieve them.
4. Develop or select a software for Quranic voice recognition,
5. Testing the voice recognition software on Quranic recitation database.
1.
2.
3.
4.
REFERENCES
Elhadj, Y.O.M., Alghamdi, M., Alkanhal, M., Alansari, A.M. (2009). Sound Corpus of a part of the noble Quran (in Arabic).
Proc. of the International Conference on the Glorious Quran and Contemporary Technologies, King Fahd Complex for the
Printing of the Holy Quran, Almadinah, Saudi Arabia, October 13-15.
Alghamdi, M., Elhadj, Y.O.M, Alkanhal, M. A. (2007). Manual System to Segment and Transcribe Arabic Speech. Proc. of
IEEE/ICSPC'07, pp. 233-236, Dubai, UAE.
Razak, Zaidi., Ibrahim, Noor Jamaliah Ibrahim., Tamil, Emaran Mohd., Yousoff, Mohd Yakub @ Zulkifly Mohd. Abdul
Rahman, Noor Naemah. (2008). Quranic Verse Recitation Recognition Module for Support in j-QAF Learning: A review.
IJCSNS international Journal of Computer Science and Network Security. VOL 8. No. 8.
Tabbal, Hassan., El Falou, Wassim., Monla, Bassem.,(2006) Analysis and implementation of a Quranic verses delimitation
system in audio files using speech recognition techniques. Proceedings of IEEE conference on information and
communication technologies . 2006 ICTTA. Pg. 2979-2984.
1.

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TITLE
Narrowband Interference in OFDM System
SUPERVISOR
Khaizuran Abdullah
SUMMARY
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier system which utilizes a parallel processing technique allowing
the simultaneous transmission of data on many closely spaced, orthogonal sub-carriers. OFDM has been widely used as the standard
modulation schemes in many emerging wireless technologies such as terrestrial Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), Digital Audio
Broadcasting (DAB) and High Performance Radio LAN Version 2 (HIPERLAN/2).
This project will investigate the effect of narrowband interference to the OFDM system. The BER results of performance will be
obtained with respect to the level of the interference.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To study OFDM system transmission.
2. To simulate narrowband interference; sinusoidal and chirp to affect the OFDM system
3. To obtain the BER performance results with the effect of the interference level.
1.
Literature reviewing
2. Studying OFDM characteristics

3. Generating the narrowband interference
4. Performing performance results
3.
4.
REFERENCES
Alan J. Coulson, Bit Error Rate Performance of OFDM in Narrowband Interference with Excision Filtering, IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications, vol 5, no 9, Sept 2006.
Khaizuran Abdullah, Seed Mahmoud and Zahir M. Hussain, "Performance Analysis of an Optimal Circular 16-QAM for Wavelet
Based OFDM Systems", International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences (IJCNS), vol 2, no. 9, December
24, 2009.
J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications(McGraw-Hill, New York, NY,2001
R.V. Nee and R. Prasad, OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications, Boston: Artech House, 2000.
1.
2.
MATLAB tools
1.
2.

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TITLE
Modulation Schemes in OFDM Systems
SUPERVISOR
Khaizuran Abdullah
SUMMARY
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier system which utilizes a parallel processing technique allowing
the simultaneous transmission of data on many closely spaced, orthogonal sub-carriers. In addition, modulation techniques are
significant to ensure that an OFDM symbol is mapped from binary to complex signal with amplitude and phase represented in real and
imaginary number for transmitting the signal. On the other hand, the signal is de-mapped or extracted from complex signal to recover
back the OFDM symbol in the receiver.
This project will consider an image application with comparisons of QAM modulations for Fourier and wavelet based OFDM systems.
The experimental results about BER performances for different types of QAM modulations in OFDM systems will be obtained.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To study the modulation schemes for OFDM transceiver.
2. To simulate OFDM techniques using MATLAB and observe the effect of using different modulation techniques.
3. To obtain the BER results with respect to different types of modulation schemes.
1.
Literature reviewing
2. Studying types of modulation schemes in OFDM systems

3. Generating OFDM system using MATLAB
4. Performing BER results
REFERENCES
1.
3.
4.
Khaizuran Abdullah, Seyed M. Lajervadi and Zahir M. Hussain "QAM Modulations over Wavelet based OFDM Channel for
Facial Expression Recognition", IEEE Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, November 2009.
Khaizuran Abdullah, Seed Mahmoud and Zahir M. Hussain, "Performance Analysis of an Optimal Circular 16-QAM for Wavelet
Based OFDM Systems", International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences (IJCNS), vol 2, no. 9, December
24, 2009.
J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications(McGraw-Hill, New York, NY,2001
R.V. Nee and R. Prasad, OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications, Boston: Artech House, 2000.
1.
2.
MATLAB tools
3.
Image database
2.

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TITLE
Economic Time Series Analysis Using Wavelet Transform
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Md. Raihan Sharif
SUMMARY
The study of signals whose frequency contents change in time is prevalent in many academic fields. The joint time-frequency analysis is
a signal processing technique in which signals are analyzed in the time domain and the frequency domain simultaneously.
The aim of this project is to examine the use of time-frequency representations to the analysis of economic time series. In particular, the
short-time Fourier transform and the wavelet transform will be compared with emphasis on the wavelet transform.
OBJECTIVES
1. To explore different techniques for time-frequency analysis.
2. To demonstrate the time-frequency methods to the analysis of simulated nonstationary signals.
3. To explore the applicability of time-frequency methods to the analysis of economic time series.
1. Literature review.
2. Mathematical formulation and simulation.
3. Data analysis.
REFERENCES
1. Cohen L., Time-frequency analysis, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
2. Nikolaj H. N., Wickerhauser M. V., Wavelets and time-frequency analysis, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 84, no.
4, 1996, pp. 523-540.
1.
Library for literature survey.
2.
Matlab.

25
TITLE
Time-delay and Doppler-shift Estimation
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Md. Raihan Sharif
SUMMARY
Due to the growing human activities in sonar environments, study of wideband signals has been attracting increasing attention to the
researchers. A corresponding need of efficient processing techniques for wideband signals is also being felt. Unfortunately, a limited
amount of research work on this direction has been carried out so far, partly due to the computational difficulties involved in wideband
processing.
The projects aim is to investigate the use of efficient algorithms for target parameter estimation, such as time delay and Doppler shift.
The Gaussian liner FM waveforms will be used as the transmitted signal as the Gaussian linear FM signals possess very good resolution
properties, and are relatively easier to generate at the transmitter.
OBJECTIVES
1. To explore the wideband and narrowband signal processing.
2. To study the conventional 2-D peak search methods.
3. To investigate FFT-based narrowband processing for approximate estimation of the parameters.
1. Literature review.
2. Mathematical formulation and simulation.
3. Result analysis.
REFERENCES
1.
H. L. Van Trees, Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory, Part III. Wiley: New York, 2001.
1.
Library for literature survey.
2.
Matlab.

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TITLE
Optimization of House Hold Energy Efficiency Using Energy Saving (ES) Software
SUPERVISOR
Musse Mohamud Ahmed
SUMMARY
In this project practical Energy Saving Techniques in IIUM [International Islamic University Malaysia] Gombak Campus Facilities will
be studied and assessed in terms of energy saving techniques for pumping systems. The main goal is to study the ways and means to
reduce energy consumption for the pumping systems including the motors. Real data will be collected from IIUM pumping system
facilities and the data will be studied for energy efficiency analysis. ES software will be used to come up with an energy saving
reduction techniques for energy efficiency purposes. Data comparisons will be done to verify the integrity of the used data.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
OBJECTIVES
Determine the economic benefit of system modifications investigate the options are most economically viable when multiple
opportunities exist for system modification.
Determine the fan system efficiency
Identify degraded fans
Collect data for trending system operation
Examine the energy (and economic) impact of varying operating scenarios
Quantify potential cost and energy savings
1.
Go through the Literature review
2. Formulate fan energy efficiency assessment and verification of the assessment

3. Collect fan real data
4. Carry out Data analysis by using ES software
5. Compare the assessed data with the un assessed data for verifications
REFERENCES
1.
Building Energy Data Book 2009, U.S. Department of Energy
2.
3.
Book- Energy Efficiency Manual by D. R. Wulfinghoff 1999.

Other books and resources from the Library
1.
Literature resources from Library for literature review
2.
Energy assessment modeling using available standard techniques
3.
ES software

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TITLE
Improving the Energy Efficiency of Fan Systems Using Fan System Assessment Tool (FSAT) Software
SUPERVISOR
Musse Mohamud Ahmed
SUMMARY
In this project practical Energy Saving Techniques in IIUM [International Islamic University Malaysia] Gombak Campus Facilities will be
studied and assessed in terms of energy saving point of view. The main goal is to study the ways and means to reduce energy consumption
of IIUM Gombak Campus Facilities. Real data will be collected from IIUM facilities management and studied for analysis. FSAT
software will be used to come up with an energy saving reduction techniques for energy efficiency purposes. Data comparisons will be
done to verify the integrity of the used data.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
OBJECTIVES
Determine the economic benefit of system modifications investigate the options are most economically viable when multiple
opportunities exist for system modification.
Determine the fan system efficiency
Identify degraded fans
Collect data for trending system operation
Quantify potential cost and energy savings
1. Go through the Literature review

2. Formulate fan energy efficiency assessment and verification of the assessment
3. Collect fan real data
4. Carry out Data analysis by using FSAT software
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.

1.
2.
3.
FSAT software

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TITLE
Improving the Energy Efficiency of Electrical Motors Using Motor Master International Software
SUPERVISOR
Musse Mohamud Ahmed
SUMMARY
In this project practical Energy Saving Techniques in IIUM [International Islamic University Malaysia] Gombak Campus Facilities will be
studied and assessed in terms of energy saving point of view. The main goal is to study the ways and means to reduce energy consumption
of IIUM Gombak Campus Facilities. Real data will be collected from electrical motors available at IIUM facilities and studied for
analysis. Motor Master International software will be used to come up with an energy saving reduction techniques for energy efficiency
purposes. Data comparisons will be done to verify the integrity of the used data.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
OBJECTIVES
Study the current motor parameters
Determine the electrical motor efficiency
Identify degraded electrical motor efficiency
Collect data for motor energy efficiency analysis
Quantify potential cost and motor energy savings
1.
Go through the Literature review
2. Formulate electrical motor energy efficiency assessment and verification of the assessment
3. Collect fan real data and apply to Motor Master International Software
4. Carry out Data analysis by software using
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.

1.
2.
3.
Motor Master International software

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TITLE
DESIGN OF LIQUID LEVEL CONTROLLER USING LIQUID LEVEL SENSOR
SUPERVISOR
Musse Mohamud Ahmed
SUMMARY
Today, reliable liquid control system is one of the most important research areas for the modern industry such as oil & gas industry,
water utilities and others. After the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling disaster in USA history recently, it has been discovered that British
Petroleum (BP) has not had any credible system to stop the leaking of oil gashing into the sea when one of their drilling pumps exploded
and killed 11 people. It is therefore very important to look into this area of research to start some research projects. This project is to
design a preliminary research work to summarize the research area of liquid control system and start with a preliminary electronic
circuit as a FYP level.
Keywords: Liquid Level system, Liquid Level Controller & Liquid Sensor.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To study the state-of the art literature on liquid control systems
2. To design a preliminary circuit for liquid control along with a sensor circuit
3. Analyze the designed circuit and a propose a future enhanced liquid control system
1.
Study the liquid control system available in the literature
2.
To design an electronic circuit to control the flow of liquid in a tank
3.
To design electronic sensor to support the electronic circuit for the liquid control system
4.
Take an example of water level controller as a liquid controller
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
Electronics/power electronics text books

Available Catalogues
Take a reference from a Previous FYP
1.
Literature Review
2.
Electronics/circuits/engineering labs
3.
Online resources
4.
Electronics/power electronic text books

30
TITLE
Antenna Design for Ultra Wideband (UWB) Communications
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam
SUMMARY
UWB refers to electromagnetic signals have fractional bandwidth
f / f 0 1 , where f
is the bandwidth and
f0
is the center
frequency. Generating UWB signals have many applications in target identification, imaging, and recently in communication systems.
With increasing requirements for personal and mobile communications, the demand for smaller and low-profile antennas has brought
the Microstrip antennas to forefront.
In this project, modifying the shape and dimensions of conventional microstrip antennas will be studied, and eventually the student
will design a microstrip antenna for UWB communication system by tuning the shape and dimensions. Two of the commercial software
IE3d, CST, will be used to design the antenna and validate the results.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To design the microstrip antenna for UWB Application
2. Tune the shape and dimension

3. Analyze the results
4. Fabricate and validate the results
1.
2.
3.
Design using IE3d , CST
Fabrication can be done in PCB Lab, the materials for fabricating the substrate are available in the market.
Testing can be done using VNA
1.
2.
REFERENCES
C.A.Balanis, Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, John Wiley, 2007
X. H. Wu, Note on Antenna Design in UWB Wireless Communication Systems, IEEE Conference on Ultrawideband Systems
and Technologies, pp. 503-507, 16-17, 2003.
1.
2.
3.

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TITLE
Design and Develop a Low Noise Amplifier for RF Communication Systems
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
A low noise amplifier (LNA) is an electronic device used to filter out the noise of input signals received at the front ends of
communication systems. Low noise amplifier is used in a wide variety of applications such as RF communication systems including
wireless computer networks, mobile phones, and satellite receiver. The important design considerations in a microwave transistor
amplifier design are stability, gain and noise. Among these factors, the most important in the design of LNA are stability and noise. This
project aims to design and develop low noise amplifiers for L-Band and C-Band applications.
Microwave Office will be used to design the LNA and validate the results.
OBJECTIVES
1. To familiarize with RF Circuits and devices
2. To familiarize with RF design using microwave office
3. To design LNA for L-band and C-band application
4. Fabricate and validate the results
1.
2.
3.
Design using Microwave Office
Fabrication can be done in PCB Lab and the materials for construction depend on the availability in the market.
Testing can be done using VNA
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
4.
D. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 3rd ed., Wiley and Sons, New York, 2007 .
H. Sahoolizadeh, A. Kordalivand, and Z. Heidari, Design and Simulation of Low Noise Amplifier Circuit for 5 GHz to 6 GHz,
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2009.
W. Davis, K. Agarwal, "Radio Frequency Circuit Design", John Wiley & Sons,2001.
T. Pratt, C. W. Bostian, and J. E. Allnutt,Satellite communication Second Edition. McGraw Hill, New york.1990.
1.
2.
Microwave office software and fabrication facilities (available)
3.

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TITLE
Rain Rate Measurement for Microwave Attenuation Prediction in Malaysia
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
Terrestrial microwave system is the backbone line for mobile communication industry. In tropical region particularly in Malaysia, rain
attenuation is the major constraint for implementing microwave system above 10 GHz [1]. The high rainfall rate leads to outages that
compromise the availability and quality of service, making this one of the most critical factors in terrestrial and earth-to-satellite link
design. Therefore, to maintain the reliability of the system it is important to predict rain fade margin accurately. The rain intensity
distribution is the only parameter which can predict the rain attenuation for microwave propagation. This project aims to measure realtime rain intensity and model its distribution in Malaysia.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To collect rain intensity data
2.
To analyze the data using Matlab
3.
To investigate the distribution towards rain attenuation prediction
1.
Casella Rain Gauge Installation,
2.
Data Logger Integration,
3.
Programming for 1-minute data collection and analysis.

REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
4.
R. L. Freeman. Radio system design for telecommunications, 2nd edition. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007.
ITU-R P.837-4, Characteristics of precipitation for propagation modelling, ITU, Geneva, 2005.
Yagasena, Syed Idris Syed Hassan, B.C. Gargash, (1999). Annual And Worst-month Rain Statistics For Satellite-Earth Link
Design In Malaysia, Proceedings of MICC and ISCE99, Nov. 1999,Melaka, Malaysia, pp. 241-244.
Md. Rafiqul Islam, Sheroz Khan, Tharek Abdul Rahman & Syed Idris Syed Hassan, Time Dynamics Investigation of Rainfall
Intensities For The Design of Microwave Links in Malaysia, Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Vision,
Information and Signal Processing ROVISP2007, pp.763-766, Penang, Malaysia, November 28-30, 2007.
1.
2.
Rain Intensity data (collection is going on)
3.
Matlab for analysis (available)

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TITLE
Scintillation Measurement and Analysis for Ku-Band Satellite Signals
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
Scintillation arising from scattering atmospheric refractive index discontinuities and resulting in random fades and enhancements of the
received signals amplitude about a mean level is an important source of degradation especially on low-availability satellite
communication systems operating at frequencies above 10 GHz [10] [11]. The mathematical complexity of the problem of turbulent
scattering and the randomness of its occurrence necessitate a strong dependence on satellite beacon measurement to develop empirical
models for scintillation prediction. Before using the measured raw beacon propagation data for scintillation studies, contributions to data
fluctuations by other propagation factors must be excluded [11]. Based on the data analysis for tropical country that observed
tropospheric scintillation in the short and long term experiment on earth space paths with moderate elevation angle. This project aims to
measure real-time satellite signal from MEASAT3 and extract the scintillation data and analyze it.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To collect and extract scintillation data at Ku-band
2.
To analyze the data using programming
3.
To investigate its distribution
1.
Parabolic Dish antenna with 2.4 meter diameter for receiving satellite beacon at Ku-band.
2.
Spectrum Analyzer for receive signal level acquisition and monitoring.
3.
Software to sample the data in every second and save in a hard disk.
4.
Matlab program to analyze and display the data for investigating scintillation.
1.
2.
R. L. Freeman. Radio system design for telecommunications, 2nd edition. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007.
C.N. Kassianides and I.E. Otung, Dynamic model of tropospheric scintillation on earth-space paths, IEE Proc.-Microwave
Antennas Propagation, vol. 150, no.2, April 2003.
Y. Karasawa, Y. Matsuichi, and J.E Allnut., A new prediction Method for Trospheric Scintillation on Earth-Space Paths, IEEE
Transac. on Antenna and Propagation, vol.36, no.11, November 1998.
M.M.J.L. Van de Kamp, Climatic Radiowave Propagation Models for the design of Satellite Communication Systems, Ph.D.
Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, ISBN 90-386-1700-3, Section 4, 1999.
I.E. Otung, M.O. Al-Nuaimi, and B.G. Evans, Extracting Scintillations from satellite beacon propagation data, IEEE Transac. On
Antenna & Propagation, Vol.46, No.10, October 1998.
M.S.J. Singh, S.I.S. Hassan, and F. Ain, Measurement of Tropospheric Scintillation from Satellite Beacon at Ku-Band in South
East Asia, IJCSNS, Vol.7, No.2, February 2007.
REFERENCES
3.
4.
5.
6.

34
TITLE
Cantilever Beam vibration into useful energy
SUPERVISOR
Sheroz Khan
SUMMARY
Emerging application fields, the need to increase the life of electronic devices, increased computational capabilities that require more
energy and drastic reduction in device volume have been drivers of this field. Power management and wireless connection are becoming
major issues in many applications. Research communities all over the world are working to find solutions and harvesting methods to
optimize the power issue in sensors with the specific goal of implementing autonomous sensors. We discuss these concepts and two
examples: an autonomous sensing device and an energy harvester, capable to convert for us vibrations into energy.
The contactless working principle consists of an actuation principle based on a Lorentz force source: when forcing a sinusoidal current
in a solenoid facing the movable structure, a variable magnetic induction (Be) is generated, and simultaneously it induces eddy current
density in the conductive plate (J). The interaction between the currents and the radial component of the magnetic induction gives a
force along the z-axis (Fz) of the structure implying displacement.
The detection principle is based on a second periodic current having a higher frequency with respect to the one previously mentioned
and forced in a solenoid. The induced magnetic field creates eddy-current density in the conductive plate and generates a magnetic field
Bs. The oscillations of the mass generate an amplitude modulation on the carrier signal, and the information can be extracted using a
pick-up coil.
OBJECTIVES
1. To make an analysis to derive equations relating mechanical vibration of the beam into oscillating current.
2. To conduct measurement of designed system for obtaining data between vibrations and resulting current
oscillations.
3. To discuss and analyze the measurement results
1.
Literature review
2. Design (including simulation) and fabrication of the vibrations to oscillations system

3. Measurement of conversion characteristics
4. Analysis of resulting data
REFERENCES
1.
C. De Angelis, V. Ferrari, D. Marioli, E. Sardini, M. Serpelloni, and A. Taroni, Magnetically induced oscillations
on a conductive cantilever for resonant microsensors, Sensors and Actuators A, vol. 135, pp.197202, 2007.
2. M. Bau, V. Ferrari, D. Marioli, E. Sardini, M. Serpelloni, and A. Taroni, Contactless excitation and Readout of
Passive Sensing Elements Made by Miniaturized Mechanical Resonators, IEEE Sensors 2007, October 2831, pp.
3639, 2007.
3. M. Ferrari, V. Ferrari, M. Guizzetti, D. Marioli, and A. Taroni, Piezoelectric multifrequency energy converter for
powerharvesting in autonomous microsystems, Sensors and Actuators A, 142, Pages 329335, 2008
1.
2.
3.
4.

35
TITLE
Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Signals Acquisition Gadgets
SUPERVISOR
Sheroz Khan
SUMMARY
The acquisition of ambient energy for powering small electronic devices such as watches, devices used hand for monitoring purposes in
locations to which wiring accessibility is either hazardous or their maintenance is costly. No matter how little, but all such devices need
batteries as sources for continuous supply of energy.
The acquisition of ambient energy into a usable form is called energy harvesting. Examples of this ambient energy include light,
vibrations or oceanic waves, solar or wind energy. Energy harvesting can be employed on a small and a large scale depending on the
application it is being used for. Small scale energy harvesting is used in watches, and other electronic components employed in animals
and inaccessible locations for monitoring purposes.
Thermoelectric sensors are semiconductor devices that generate a usable voltage proportional to the difference in between the body and
room temperature. Of course, in commercially available devices an array of such junctions is used for producing positive and negative
terminals with a voltage difference of a required level. The project involves simulation using suitable software such as Cadence,
OBJECTIVES
1.
To use thermocouple for converting temperature difference into voltage.
2. To derive result data for verifying the linearity of the conversion system.
3. To justify and analyze the measurement results
1.
Literature review
2. Design (including simulation) and practical implementation of the thermocouple circuit.

3. Measurement of conversion data to study conversion characteristics
4. Analysis and verification of the resulting data.
1.
2.
3.
REFERENCES
A.C. Wang et al, A 1V, Micro-power System-on-Chip for Vital-Sign Monitoring in Wireless Body Sensor Networks, IEEE
International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008
N. V. Nair, R. V. Melapudi, H. Jimenez, X. Liu, Y. Deng, Z. Zeng,and L. Udpa, A GMR-based eddy current system for NDE
of aircraft structures, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 33123314, Oct. 2006.
A. Bernieri, L. Ferrigno, M. Laracca, and M. Molinara, Crack shape reconstruction in eddy current testing using machine
learning systems for regression, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 19581968, Sep. 2008.
1.
2.
Cadence tools
3.
Electronic and measurement laboratory

36
TITLE
Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan for a Comprehensive IT Infrastructure
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Wajdi Al-Khateeb
SUMMARY
Disaster recovery planning is a subset of a larger process known as business continuity planning and should include planning for
resumption of applications, data, hardware, communications (such as networking) and other IT infrastructure. In addition to data
replication measures, this project considers ways to provide high availability infrastructure and communication links allowing the
system to provide its normal service under partial failure or to recover as soon as possible from disastrous situation with minimum
disruption. Analysis to be carried out to reflect the merit of various measures.
OBJECTIVES
1. To develop a plan for IT infrastructure disaster recovery
2. Reliability and availability assessment of the recovery plan
2. Planning for data replication
3. Planning of high reliability infrastructure
4. Plan assessment through analysis and simulation
REFERENCES
1.
Toigo, J. W. Disaster Recovery Planning, preparing for the unthinkable, Prentice Hall, 2003
2. Bradbury, C. MBCI. The IT disaster recovery plan, http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0524.htm
1.
Library and Internet for literature survey
2.
Reliability Simulator (Available)

37
TITLE
Performance Optimization of Terrestrial Microwave Radio Links
SUPERVISOR
Dr. Wajdi Al-Khateeb
SUMMARY
Terrestrial Microwave Radio Links are exposed to a number of negative factors that compromise operational and reliability aspects of
these links, such as fading and co-channel interference. In this project these factors and other related ones are identified and analyzed
and ways are proposed to optimize and enhance the performance of these links.
OBJECTIVES
1.
Identify and analyze factors and parameters affecting the performance of microwave radio links
2. Consider and propose means for efficient link planning.

3. Consider tradeoff options for economical and highly reliable links
1.
Literature review
2. Analytical and simulation-based planning of links.

3. Considering and proposing efficient setup options
4. Planning assessment, analytically and through simulation
REFERENCES
1.
Microwave Radio Links, by C. Salema, Wiley
2. Fixed Broadband Wireless Communications, by D. H. Morais

3. Motorola PTP Link Planner
1.
Library and Internet for literature survey
2.
Motorola point-to-point link planner (available)

38
TITLE
Implementation of Capacitance to Voltage converter for capacitive transducers
SUPERVISOR
A.H.M. Zahirul Alam
SUMMARY
Sensor transducers are widely used in the instrument measurement systems such as in the biomedical, automotives, telecommunications,
food industry, water treatment plants and chemistry industry. The sensor transducer is suitably used for converting pressure variations,
humidity measurements into corresponding signal with equivalent frequency. Further, such transducers have been used in water level
measurement system or even telemetry systems.
Arfah et al (2010) proposed a simulation based capacitance to voltage converter for capacitive transducer. The authors proposed the
circuit based on 0.13m CMOS process. However, the project will emphasize on available OPAMPs, MOSFOTs, and digital logic
circuits (Inverter, Or, NOR, And, NAND, etc). The project target is to implement the circuit based on available ICs and validate the
authors claim.
OBJECTIVES
1.
Implement of capacitance to voltage converter for sensor transducers measurement system.
2. Measure voltage with the variation of capacitance with different band of capacitance value (nF, pF, etc.)
3. Simulate the circuit using PSPICE.
4. Analyze the measurement results and validate with experiment data.
1.
Literature review
2. Implementation of the circuit and measurement

3. Simulate the circuit with the variation of different parameters
4. Data analysis
5. Comparison between experimental data with simulation results.
REFERENCES
1.
Nurul Arfah, A.H.M. Zahirul Alam, Sheroz Khan, Design of Capacitive Measuring Systems for High Frequency
Band Sensor Transducer, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer and Communication
Engineering 2010 (ICCCE10).
1.
2.
Oscilloscope, voltmeter, ammeter, etc
3.
Electronics components

39
TITLE
Secure Physical Layer Hybrid ARQ Scheme using Parallel Concatenated Zigzag Code
SUPERVISOR
Sigit P.W. Jarot
SUMMARY
Recently there is new research trend to enhance the security level of wireless communication systems at the physical layer. One of the
approaches is by using secure Hybrid ARQ. Retransmission protocol for secure HARQ schemes are similar to the non-secure schemes.
One main differences is that for a secure HARQ schemes, the mother code is chosen to be a joint channel and secrecy code.
This project will consider some possibilities of using Parallel Contatenated Zigzag Code that has gained significant interest as the
simplified version of the powerful LDPC code. The PCZZ code was considered as one of the channel coding candidates for the LTE,
LTE-Advanced and Wimax systems. The project will evaluate their performance by using computer simulations, in terms of security
enhancement.
OBJECTIVES
4. To study the design and mechanism of HARQ and PCZZ
5. To study the physical layer security design and algorithms
6. To analyze the performance of PCZZ HARQ (i.e., security aspect) using computer simulation
7. To propose some improvement scheme (if possible)
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Literature survey
Computer simulation using Matlab
Performance Analysis
REFERENCES
- X. Tan etal, On the Throughput of Secure Hybrid-ARQ Protocols for Gaussian Block-Fading Channels, IEEE Transactions
on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 4, 2009
- X. Tan etal, Hybrid-ARQ Schemes for Reliable and Secret Wireless Communications, Securing Wireless Communincations
at the Physical layer, Springer Verlag.
- L. Ping etal, Zigzag codes and concatenated zigzag codes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 47(2), pp800, 2001

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TITLE
Automatic Billing System based on Digital Electricity Meter
SUPERVISOR
Prof. Dr. Khalid A. S. Al-Khateeb
SUMMARY
It is anticipated that Digital Electricity Meters will have a big impact worldwide. The measuring circuit is to be linked with a low cost
commercial mobile phone via a microcontroller for automatic data storage and wireless transmission to a central computer. Intelligent
features are readily available in mobile phone circuits to facilitate easy access and processing
OBJECTIVES
1. To change the concept of Meter Reading to a fully automated system.
2. To improve the efficiency of Existing Electricity Meter Reading by directly sending the reading to a central
computer at Tenaga.
3. To reduce the cost and give access to consumers to monitor their consumption
4. To build a prototype software and hardware system and analyze the performance
2. Design (including simulation) and fabrication
3. Determination of accuracy and preciseness by data analysis
1.
REFERENCES
FYP Report: Nur Syazana Binti Ramlan and Norfijannatun Tun Naim Bt Md Nooh
2.
Itex 2010 Silver Medal Award poster
1.
2.
Circuits and components already available, which need to be improved and supplemented
3.
A few research papers dealing with same subject are also available.

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TITLE
Autonomous Object tracking by Robotic Vision
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
It is anticipated that Robots will have a big impact in a variety of industrial, medical and military fields. Two cameras can be used to
emulate the human vision. A commercially available mobile robot with a microcontroller can be made to track maneuvering objects.
Automatic data acquisition and storage and a wireless transmission to a computer provide intelligent features, which are readily
available to facilitate easy access and processing.
OBJECTIVES
1. To design and operate a fully automated robotic system based on computer vision.
2. To improve the features of Existing Robotic System by directly sending the reading to a computer via wireless
transmission
3. To reduce possible error and improve the accuracy
4. To build a prototype software and hardware system and analyze the performance
2. Design (including simulation) and actual prototype building
3. Suggesting new applications based on the accuracy and performance analysis
REFERENCES
1. Two M.Sc. Project Theses
2. Catalogue and Instructions manual
1.
An operational robot already exists in the lab with TV monitor, cameras and camera mounts.
2.
3.
4.

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TITLE
Automatic Digital Electricity Meter
SUPERVISOR
SUMMARY
Common Electricity meters are bulky expensive and inaccurate. Such features are incompatible with modern technological trends of
miniaturization accuracy and neat design. This project presents a digital energy meter that overcomes the short comings of the present
meters. It is based on integrated circuit technology employing digital measurement techniques.
OBJECTIVES
1. To change the concept of Electromechanical Meters to fully Digital Electronic Meters
2. To improve the design of Existing Digital Electricity Meters
3. To reducing the size and cost of Electronic Meters
4. Conducting measurement and analyze the measurement results
2. Design (including simulation) and fabrication
3. Determination of accuracy and preciseness by data analysis
REFERENCES
1. FYP Report: Nur Syazana Binti Ramlan and Norfijannatun Tun Naim Bt Md Nooh
2. Itex 2010 Silver Medal Award poster
1.
2.
3.

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TITLE
Context transfer based Hand off in MPLS Network
SUPERVISOR
Omer Mahmoud
SUMMARY
When a mobile node moves and changes its connectivity from one RER to another, the new RER does not have the context unless it is
transferred from the old Radio Edge Router. The project aim to a study handoff situation in MPLS Network Domain considering a EF
traffic the project will focus on the effect of context transfer on the QoS of the applications. the context main is considered to be the
pervious QoS arrangement at old Radio Edge router
OBJECTIVES
1. To study Quality Of service in MPLS Networks
2.
Simulate the different scenarios of Network using NS2 Simulator
3. Analyze the results and draw conclusion
2. Design (including simulation) and fabrication of antennas
3. Measurement of near-body radio propagation characteristics
4. Data analysis
1.
2.
REFERENCES
F. Le Faucheur, W. Lai, Maximum allocation bandwidth constraints model for DiffServ-aware MPLS traffic
engineering, IETF, RFC 4125, June 2005.
B. Davie, A. Charny, J.C.R. Bennet, K. Benson, J.Y. Le Boudec, W. Courtney, S. Davari, V. Firoiu, D.
Stiliadis, An expedited forwarding PHB (per-hop behavior), RFC 3246, 2002
1.
2.
NS2 simulator , free open source software (available)

44
TITLE
Adaptive Quantization Scheme for Channel Pre-compensation based Wireless Physical Layer Security
SUPERVISOR
Sigit P.W. Jarot
SUMMARY
approaches that recently proposed is by using channel pre-compensation in conjunction with cryptography. This scheme works with
assumption that the channel state information is available in the transmitter side. Moreover, the CSI must be highly accurate and timely
to follow the variation of the wireless channel.
This project will analyze several quantization schemes for the system, and evaluate the performance by using numerical analysis as well
as computer simulations.
OBJECTIVES
1. To study the physical layer security design and algorithms
2. To study the design of physical layer security based on channel precompensation
3. To analyze the effect of quantization sheme using computer simulation
- Literature survey
- Computer simulation using Matlab
- Performance Analysis
REFERENCES
- A Tmar, An Adaptive Quantization Algorithm for Secret Key Generation using Radio Channel Measurement, 3rd
International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2009 , art. no. 5384826.
- M. Tahir, Wireless Physical Layer Security using Channel State Information, ICCCE 2010.

45
TITLE
Cooperative Jamming Scheme for Security Enhancement of Wireless Sensor Networks at the Physical Layer
SUPERVISOR
Sigit P.W. Jarot
SUMMARY
approaches is by using cooperative jamming. In contrast with the conventional wisdom, in secure communications, interference cane be
a potentially beneficial phenomenon if added to the system properly. Thus the legitimate entities in the wireless sensor network system
can ask the help of other nodes to jam the eavesdropper from whom the information flowing in the system is to be kept secret.
This project will analyze several scenarios of cooperative jamming schemes, and evaluate the performance by using numerical analysis
as well as computer simulations.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To study the physical layer security design and algorithms
2. To study the design of physical layer security based on cooperative jamming

3. To analyze the performance of cooperative jamming (i.e. security aspect) using computer simulation
-
Literature survey
Computer simulation using Matlab
Performance Analysis
REFERENCES
- H.He, A. Yener, The general Gaussina Multiple access and Two-way Wire-tap Chnnels: Achievable Rates and Cooperative
Jamming, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
- A. Yener Two-hop Secure Communication using an untrusted relay: A Case of Cooperative Jamming IEEE Globecom 2008

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REGISTRATION FLOW CHART

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Library for literature survey

Antenna design software and fabrication facilities (available)

Network Vector Analyzer (VNA) (available)

Spectrum Analyzer (available)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

S. Priya and D. J. Inman, "Energy harvesting technologies," 2008.

Library for literature survey

Orcad/Cadence circuit simulation software (available)

COMSOL finite element modeling software (available)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

To design a simple biosensor which can detect impedance of cancer cells.

2. Design of the biosensor using printed circuit board design software.

Library for literature survey

Printed circuit board software and fabrication equipment (available)

Impedance Analyzer (available)

Spice software for simulation of extracted equivalent circuit (available)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Library for literature survey

Microprocessor and microprocessor programming software (available)

Computer Aided Design Software to design mechanical system (available)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

To reduce the interference between FAP and mBS,

2. To improve the overall system capacity, i.e. data rate

2. Mathematical model for coexistence mechanism

Library for literature survey

Simulation tools (Matlab)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

K. Tsukamoto, S. Komaki, K. Takanashi, A. Kanazawa, Y. Shoji, H. Ogawa, M. Yoshikawa, S. Asami, M. Kaneta,

Library for literature survey

Microwave simulation software (available)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

2. develop a new scheme for RSU interworking,

Library for literature survey

Ns-2 simulation (available)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Library for literature survey

Computers at Mobile Communication Laboratory

Matlab and MS-Visual C++ 2010 Express

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

To study parallel architectures and algorithms

2. To set up a front end for parallel processing using Matlab toolboxes

2. Set up a parallel processing platform on Matlab cluster computers

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Synthesis using Quartus II

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

detect any active mobile phone present in the restricted area.

determine its location

send information to the main system

Library for literature survey

Network Vector Analyzer (VNA) (available)

Spectrum Analyzer (available)

Electrical and Computer Encvgineering Department

Library for literature survey