A Manhattan street network implementation for networks on chip

This paper introduces a new approach for implementing high-speed communications within a chip: in particular, the Manhattan street network (MSN) with the clockwork routing scheme is proposed as a particularly suitable candidate for use in high-speed networks. Significantly, the MSN has a contention-free network layer that removes the need for storage at routing nodes, whilst the throughput is comparable with conventional schemes. Moreover, this paper presents a quantitative comparison of techniques for providing medium access control under stringent performance requirement

A practical embedding problem exposing the affect of link failures in the Manhattan street network

This paper looks at a practical embedding problem exposing the affect of link failures in the Manhattan street networ

A novel approach towards tamper detection of digital holy Quran generation

Quran phrases are found in many Arabic websites. Lamentably, many mistakes and typos appear on most of the websites embedded with Quran texts. Therefore, it becomes very difficult to recognize the legal document of the religious book, whether the online document is tampered or not. Hence, verifying the Quran expression has become a crucial issue for most of the online users who read the digital copy. We propose a novel approach for the tamper detection of a digital document of the Holy Quran. We have implemented a desktop application, having modified UI that utilizes Jaro-Winkler distance and Difflib function as String Edit distance algorithm to highlight the words in the Holy Quran for the verification purpose. A reliable and trustworthy Quran database was taken for testing. The results obtained from the application show higher performance. The system achieved the detection accuracy of 95.9% and 95% by Jaro-Winkler and Difflib, respectively along with the precision of 93.29% and 96% in the case of diacritics. Additionally, F-score is 93.22% and 96.41% obtained by Jaro-Winkler and Difflib, respectively in the case of no diacritics

ICT Students, Stress and Coping Strategies: English Perspective A Case Study of Midsize Middle Eastern University

This study evaluates the perceptions of stress among Information and Communications Technologry (ICT) students and their coping strategies in dealing with English as the medium of instruction during their university studies. A semi-structured administered survey was conducted using a sample of 267 male students of a Computer Science college from a midsize Middle Eastern university The study also used a phenomenological approach with semi-structured interviews carried out with ten students in order to clarify some qfthefindings qfthis study. Since the research topic is based on student's stress perceptions, the phenomenological analysis of transcribed student's interviews was also an appropriate tool for this study. Phenomenology enables participants to express their feelings about a particular situation or incident in their own point afvieiv which may not be easy to express on a survey. All students who took part in this study thought that they had been stressed at one time or another due to having English as the medium of instruction without a Preparatory Year English Program (PYEP) befbre entering ICT courses. 62% of the students maintained that they have had episodeS of stress due to the English language during their studies at one time or another. The students use different mechanisms to cope up with stress outside the university by engaging themselves in sports, surfing the web, Meditation, hanging out with, friends, sleeping or going in to isolation. The students demand interactive' English language courses, more leisure time activities on campus, proper guidance in English language courses to ease their ICT course-studies. advisory services and peer counsel ling on campus to reduce their stress.PAPER TYPE: Research PaperKEYWORDS: Information Communication Technology (ICT); ICT students; English Language; Stress and Coping strategies; User Behaviour; Survey