International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing

Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2018
Research Article

1. Assessing Risk of Security Non-compliance of Banking Security Requirements Based on Attack Patterns

Krissada Rongrat, Twittie Senivongse
Pages: 1 - 10
Information systems such as those in the Banking sector need to comply with security regulations to assure that necessary security controls are in place. This paper presents an initial risk assessment method to assist a banking information system project in validating security requirements of the system....
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2. Visualization of Online Datasets

Christopher Johnston Downie, Taoxin Peng
Pages: 11 - 23
As computing technology advances, computers are being used to orchestrate and advance wide spectrums of commercial and personal life, information visualization becomes even more significant as we immerse ourselves into the era of big data, leading to an economy heavily reliant on data mining and precise,...
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3. UWB, miniaturized and directive metamaterial loaded antenna for satellite applications

Parul Dawar, N.S. Raghava, Asok De
Pages: 24 - 34
Antenna parameter optimization using S-shaped metamaterial embedded in antenna substrate at high frequency (THz) is elucidated in this paper. Upon incorporation of proposed metamaterials’ array inside the antenna substrate, bandwidth of antenna increases by 770 GHz and directivity by about 11%. Results...
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4. Providing a load balancing method based on dragonfly optimization algorithm for resource allocation in cloud computing

Zahra Amini, Mehrdad Maeen, Mohammad Reza Jahangir
Pages: 35 - 42
Nowadays cloud computing is being highly considered by many of researchers, organizations, governments and so on. According to processing happening inside of cloud computing, some of the most important problems and challenges in cloud computing are load balancing, managing resource allocations, scheduling...
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5. Dynamically Adjusting the Mining Capacity in Cryptocurrency with Binary Blockchain

Yoohwan Kim, Ju-Yeon Jo
Pages: 43 - 52
Many cryptocurrencies rely on Blockchain for its operation. Blockchain serves as a public ledger where all the completed transactions can be looked up. To place transactions in the Blockchain, a mining operation must be performed. However, due to a limited mining capacity, the transaction confirmation...