In this article, an enhanced version of address resolution protocol (ARP) is proposed to prevent ARP poisoningbased man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in wired or wireless LAN environments. The proposed mechanism is based on the idea that when a node knows the correct MAC address for a given IP address, if it does not delete the mapping while the machine is alive, then MITM attack is not possible...

Noise removal operation is commonly applied as pre-processing step before subsequent image processing tasks due to the occurrence of noise during acquisition or transmission process. A common problem in imaging systems by using CMOS or CCD sensors is appearance of  the salt and pepper noise. This paper presents Cellular Automata (CA) framework for noise removal of distorted image by the salt an...

AIM This study made use of acoustic quantification (AQ) to investigate if left atrial (LA) mechanical function was impaired in patients with diastolic dysfunction, which might not be detected by conventional Doppler echocardiography. METHODS One hundred and ten patients with coronary artery disease (mean age 65+/-11 years, 80% male) underwent echocardiography prospectively while AQ was perfor...

The poor quality of wireless electrocardiography (ECG) recordings can lead to misdiagnosis and waste of medical resources. This study presents an interpretation of Lempel-Ziv (LZ) complexity in terms of ECG quality assessment, and verifies its performance on real ECG signals. Firstly, LZ complexities for typical signals, namely high-frequency (HF) noise, low-frequency (LF) noise, power-line (PL...

This paper deals with time-varying parameter estimation of stochastic systems under dependent noise perturbations. The filter, which generates this dependent noise from a standard “white noise,” is assumed to be partially known (a nominal plant plus a bounded deviation). The considered approach consists of two consecutive steps. At the first step, the application of a sliding-mode-type algorith...