1. ABSTRACT: Data transmission through power lines has received increasing attention in recent years. In fact the electrical energy distribution system is a big back bone that can be use for data communication. The interest for this medium includes automatic reading of energy meter, management of electrical distribution system, automation of buildings, and high speed data rate connection within...

This paper describes an authentication and security protocol called data spread for use on the Internet The protocol applies address space diversity to outgoing messages and when combined with reasonable but not necessarily strong encryption techniques o ers fast secure and authentic able information exchange between communicating entities

Information theoretic methods of calculating the capacity of data hiding schemes allow for objective comparisons of watermarking algorithms. This paper applies these methods to the case of colour image watermarking, using a dual tree complex wavelet transform and non redundant complex wavelet transform along with a spread transform data hiding algorithm to compare levels of capacity between the...

Social Network systems, such as Twitter, can serve as important data sources to provide collective intelligence and awareness of health problems in real time. The challenges of utilizing social media data include that the volume of data is large but distributed and of a highly unstructured form. Appropriate data gathering, scrubbing and aggregating efforts for these data are required to transfo...

Conventional additive spread-spectrum (SS) data embedding has a dangerous security flaw that unauthorized receivers can blindly extract hidden information without the knowledge of carrier(s). In this paper, pseudo-noise (PN) masking technique is adopted as an efficient security measure against illegitimate data extraction. The proposed PNsequence masked SS embedding can offer efficient security...

The performance of quantization-based data hiding methods is commonly analyzed by assuming a flat probability density function for the host signal, i.e. uniform inside each quantization cell and with its variance large enough to assuming that all the centroids occur with equal probability. This paper comes to fill a gap in watermarking theory, analyzing the exact performance of the Scalar Costa...

Introduction MERS-CoV was discovered in 2012 in the Middle East and human cases around the world have been carefully reported by the WHO. MERS-CoV virus is a novel betacoronavirus closely related to a virus (NeoCov) hosted by a bat, Neoromicia capensis. MERS-CoV infects humans and camels. In 2015, MERS-CoV spread from the Middle East to South Korea which sustained an outbreak. Thus, it is clear...

This paper investigates how to restrict the spread of sensitive information. This work is situated in a military context, and provides a tractable method to decide what semantic information to share, with whom, and how. The latter decision is supported by obfuscation, where a related concept or fact may be shared instead of the original. We consider uncertain information, and utilize Subjective...

Transportation of livestock carries the risk of spreading foreign animal diseases 2 throughout a susceptible population, leading to costly public and private sector expenditures on disease containment and eradication. Individual animal tracing 4 systems that exist in countries other than the US have allowed epidemiologists and veterinarians in those countries to model the risks engendered by li...