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December 2008
Volume 55, Number 5
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter”
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The
IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
December
2008
Dec. 4 – “Annual Planning Meeting and Workshop”
by Terry Tamutus, NJ Consultants’ Network,
Dec. 4 – “Acoustic and Ultrasonic Sensing Technologies as
Applied to Structural/ Materials Testing and Process Control Monitor”
by Terry Tamutus, NJ Control Systems, 5:00-6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren &
Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor
Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519, chang “AT” njit.edu.
Dec. 8 – “Reconciling Protocol Mismatches to Facilitate
Web Service Composition” by Xitong Li, NJ SMC Society, 7:00 PM, New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Dec. 10 – “Engineers Meet:
For a Holiday Social”, NJ PACE, GOLD, & WIE,
Dec. 11 – “Timing Covert
Communications: A Method for Keyless
Security” by Dr. Shamik Sengupta, NJ Communications
Society, 6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Dec. 12 – “Adjustable Frequency Drives Seminar”
by Dan Kupersmith, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM to 2:00PM, PSE&G, 80 Park Plaza, Room
101, Newark, NJ. Ronald W.
Upcoming
Meetings
Jan. 7 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
NJ Communications Society:
Timing Covert Communications: A Method for Keyless Security
On Monday, December 11, 2008, the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “Timing Covert Communications: A Method for Keyless Security.” The speaker will be Dr. Shamik Sengupta.
About the Talk
Covert
channels primarily refer to the concept of stealth channel and hidden
information. For example, timing covert
channels are secret operations existing in a normal communication channel where
the output alphabet is constructed from different inter-arrival timing of the
packets. Thus timing covert channels
does not use header or payload embedded information to encode covert
messages. Due to its special capability
of key-less security and camouflaging, covert channels are gaining popularity
recently in wireless networking to secure information. However, currently, there is little
understanding on how such a timing covert networking with multiple timing
covert communications simultaneously would operate so as to make the system
secure from defense and security perspectives amidst foreign adversaries in
dynamic spectrum access systems.
In
this research, we present a game-theoretic framework to model an attack-defense
scenario in tactical network dynamic spectrum access system with multiple
timing covert channels based on cognitive radio nodes. An attacker (eavesdropper), which might
possibly be another cognitive radio node from a competitor network or a
competitor agent (e.g., terrorist organization), wants to sense the real time
secret messaging by sensing/snooping into the spectrum bands and upon
successful detection, tries to destroy (jam) the ongoing timing covert
operations. To defend the attack
successfully, DSA system, on the other hand, can potentially enable multiple
auxiliary cognitive radio node communications in the spectrum bands dynamically
that help the timing covert communications in each of the spectrum bands to
camouflage. We analyze the scenario with
twotier game model: i) sensing game (with passive eavesdropper) and ii) jamming
game (with active destroyer). With
regard to the aforementioned secrecy model, we propose a dynamic minimax
camouflaging strategy for DSA system and sensing and jamming strategies for
attacker to capture the conflict of interest between attacker and the DSA
system, both of whom try to maximize their respective net utilities. We show that even in such a greedy and
non-cooperative behavioral game model, it is in the best interest of the
attacker and DSA system to adhere to the proposed strategies to achieve
equilibrium point. Through numerical
analysis and simulation results, we show that how game strategies can be used
as an effective tool for developing secure timing covert networking based on
DSA
About the Speaker
Shamik
Sengupta (Shamik.Sengupta “AT” stevens.edu) is presently appointed as a
Post-Doctoral researcher in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, with Prof. R. Chandramouli. Prior to that, Shamik Sengupta received his
PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Central Florida in 2007 under the guidance of Prof. Mainak
Chatterjee. His research interests
include keyless security in wireless networking, dynamic spectrum access,
cognitive radio, network economics, auction and game theories, and WRAN
technologies. Currently, Shamik Sengupta
serves on the organizing and technical program committee of several IEEE
international conferences.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:00 PM, Thursday,
December 11, 2008. Refreshments will be
available at 5:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
NJ Consultants' Network:
Annual Planning Meeting and Workshop
On
About the Topic
The combined November/December meeting of the IEEE Consultants' Network is intended as a strategic planning event for Network members and for consultants who are considering membership in the Network.
The main purpose of the meeting will be to discuss ideas and expectations for the various Network functions in the upcoming year. Results of the annual election of officers will be announced at the time.
This working session is traditionally an open, informal forum to determine what the IEEE-CNNNJ is doing right or wrong. The floor will be open to suggestions for improvements, recommendations of new Network directions and activities and proposals of new feature topics for the general meetings.
This past year brought many changes in organization the Network and in the scope of its activities of. The discussion will evaluate the effect of these changes and will chart the course for 2009.
Certain major functions performed by the IEEE Consultants' Network are always open to reconsideration and to continuing input. These include:
Ä Focus of our group: publicity efforts and member networking.
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Ä Monthly General Meetings - Suggested feature topics.
Ä Alternate general meeting formats.
The December meeting is open to all. Non-members, who are interested in our activities or who are considering joining the group are strongly encouraged to participate in the workshop to gain in-depth insight into our organization.
Pastries and refreshments will be available during the course of the evening.
As always during the year-end workshops, there will be no pre-meeting dinner for members.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent technical consultants by business and industry.
CNNNJ Invites You to Join the Network For 2008
The IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ invites all engineers engaged in independent practice to join its ranks. We have recently revised our membership structure, hoping to make it even more worthwhile to participate.
For more details on member benefits and on sign-on requirements, please visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
All Welcome!
Everyone
welcome! No registration needed! Free admission.
Time:
Place: Aeroflex / KDI-Integrated Products,
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status,
call Robert Walker, 973-728-0344, or visit our website www.TechnologyOnTap.org. Map to KDI: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
NJ Control Systems Chapter:
Acoustic and Ultrasonic Sensing Technologies as Applied to Structural/ Materials Testing and Process Control Monitor
On
About
the Talk
Acoustics Emission and
Ultrasonics are two power techniques for inspection materials and structures. It is also used in process control
applications in pharmaceutical and manufacturing. This presentation will discuss applications
work with Boeing, NASA, Navair, Army, offshore oil platforms, nuclear reactors,
aircraft, concrete, steel, composites monitoring and testing. Other applications include granulation, axle
straightening, transformer testing, leak detection corrosion detection,
metallic and composite pressure vessels.
This presentation will cover current and new sensor development in
air-coupled ultrasonic applications, acoustic emission sensors and MEMS,
wireless and remote sensing systems for data acquisition and several other
applications. This presentation will not
focus on a detailed application but give a broad overview of the non-destructive
testing industry and sensors/data acquisition systems used.
About
the Speaker
Terry
Tamutus has his degree in Mechanical Engineering from NJIT (BS 1987); Terry
joined Physical Acoustics Corporation in 1988.
He is a Corporate Level II and Director at Physical Acoustics Corp.
(PAC) where he has been involved in acoustic emission and ultrasonic
applications for the past 18 years. He
has presented at universities, US Government agencies such as DoD, FAA, NASA, FHwA
and companies including Boeing, Lockheed, power generation and refineries. He has authored several papers on acoustic
emission. PAC has been working with
FHwA, universities and DOT for bridge testing since 1972. This presentation will cover advances in
acoustic emission and ultrasonics.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Professor Timothy Chang (973)596-3519, chang
“AT” njit.edu.
NJ Section PACE, GOLD, WIE:
Engineers Meet:
For a
On
About the Meeting
This
meeting is to bring members of the Section together for an evening of
conversation and hospitality.
These
meeting’s offer opportunities for lively discussions. Historically, once members get started they
just don’t want to leave. Our meetings
are entertaining and thought provoking.
All
are invited. We encourage North Jersey
Section Ex-Com officers to attend. When
they do, our Section membership can meet with them on a first name basis.
Bring
your associates, friends and spouses.
All Welcome!
Members and students from
all professional societies and engineering disciplines are welcome. We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE,
ASCE and AEA. For information about
these groups see:
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
CARE is the Congressional
Advocacy Recruitment Effort CARE is a voluntary network of IEEE members who are
interested in public policy. To help and
for information go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time:
Place:
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT”
aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” verizon.net, Kate Duncan,
(973) 209-8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
NJ SMC Society:
Reconciling Protocol Mismatches to Facilitate Web Service Composition
On
About the Talk
With
the increasing popularity of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), service
composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet for application
integration. However, services are not
always exactly compatible. Therefore,
these services cannot be directly composed with the mismatches (i.e.,
incompatibilities) among them. Service
mediation, roughly classified into signature and protocol ones, thus becomes
one key working area in SOA. As a
challenging problem, protocol mediation, which aims at reconciling mismatches
of message exchanging sequences, is still open and existing approaches can only
provide partial solutions. To this end,
a systematic approach based on mediator patterns is proposed to generate
executable mediators and glue partially compatible services together. The corresponding BPEL templates of these
patterns are developed to produce executable mediation codes where BPEL stands
for Business Process Execution Language for Web Services. The reconciliation process and its main steps
are introduced. Moreover, a prototype
system, namely Service Mediation Toolkit (SMT), is implemented as a
proof-of-concept to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the approach.
About the Speaker
Xitong
Li is a PhD candidate at the
All Welcome!
You
need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for admission.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information/RSVP: Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or
E-Mails: (itsmikesju “AT” aol.com or zhou “AT” njit.edu). Please RSVP and check the electronic
newsletter for any changes.
Thomas
A. Edison recognized in IEEE Milestone Event
The North Jersey Section sponsored an IEEE Milestone on
the 77th anniversary to
The event commemorating the
In 1886 Thomas
Edison bought Glenmont as a gift for his bride, Mina Miller. After moving in,
Mina was only 20 at the time and assumed responsibility
for
After the tour we proceeded to the West Orange
Township, NJ, Municipal Building for a welcome by Kirit Dixit, IEEE North
Jersey Chairman followed by opening remarks from the Honorable John F. McKeon,
State Assemblyman and Mayor of West Orange Township, NJ.
Mayor McKeon spoke on the dedication of the West Orange
Laboratories to recognize this important citizen of the township as being of
cultural, inventive, scientific, and engineering significance along with
establishing a commercial factory enterprise which provided hundreds of jobs
for the citizens of West Orange and still continues to attract numerous
tourists to the area.
Having a personality of such magnitude within the
boarders of your town gives many occasions for educational activities,
scientific adventure, civic gatherings, and other events. Mayor McKeon was instrumental in allowing the
placement of the milestone on the lawn of the Township Municipal Building when
it was determined that it could not be placed on the National Park Site.
The next speaker on the program was Carl Sulzberger,
IEEE History Committee Milestone Coordinator who spoke eloquently and at length
on the two year process of obtaining milestone status for the work of Thomas
Alva Edison in West Orange, NJ.
IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing
is a program that honors significant achievements in electrical, electronic,
and computer engineering and the associated sciences. Milestones recognize the technological
innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity found in unique products,
services, seminal papers and patents.
The program is administered for the IEEE History Committee by the IEEE
History Center. Each milestone
recognizes a significant achievement in an area of technology represented in
IEEE and having at least regional impact.
To date, over 80 Milestones have been approved and dedicated around the
world. This milestone was number
82.
The Keynote address was given by Dr. Paul Israel,
Director, Edison Paper’s Project, Rutgers University and author of the book
Edison: A Life of Invention.
Edison, Israel argues, was not only an educated
tinkerer and genius, but the creator of the prototype for the modern corporate
research lab. He stressed his two major
inventions the phonograph and light bulb that catapulted him to financial
wealth in addition he knew how to find talent, how to organize it to get the
most out of people, how to beat competition by both speed and the creation of
entire new systems of technology.
Edison knew how to manipulate the media and build on his fame, creating a myth to which he had to live up. That being said, he had a pitch-perfect intuitive sense not only of potential new markets, but of how to create technical solutions to exploit them. He learned from his failures and strove to apply his less-successful inventions elsewhere, often to great effect. Taken together, this was a true business genius and Israel explained it all succinctly, including the exposure of Edison's many weaknesses in management, his family, and his financial affairs. Some of his many flops nearly bankrupted him. His presentation was a masterpiece of scholarship, a plethora of different disciplines articulated in prose and good storytelling. Region 1 Director elect, Charles Rubenstein, had the honor to present Mr. Lewis Terman, IEEE President and CEO who indicate that the IEEE is not just concerned with past excellence; but more geared to the future: 125 years of Engineering the Future.
Terman, an IEEE Fellow, has been active as an IEEE
volunteer and member for almost 50 years.
A member of the IEEE Board of Directors, Terman has been involved with the
IEEE Awards Board for over three decades, and served as chair of the
presentation and publicity committee in 2005.
He also has served as special issue guest editor of four IEEE
publications. Retiring from IBM’s
Research Division in 2006 after 45 years, Terman currently holds the title of
IBM Research Emeritus. He stressed the
global aspect of the IEEE and its broad spectrum of involvement, not only in
Engineering and Electronics; but in all areas of related fields including
computers, design, concept, trade, production, etc. He stressed that in these financially
stressed times the future lies in new engineering and electronic concepts that
can bring a world of new inventions to us in a way similar to what Edison
did. Finally, to complete an inspiring
afternoon the IEEE milestone plaque was unveiled the following citation was
read:
“Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and
Factories, 1887
Thomas Alva Edison, a West Orange resident from 1886
until his death in 1931, established his final and most comprehensive
laboratory and factory complex about one-half mile (0.8 km) north of here in
1887. Edison's visionary combination in
one organization of basic and applied research, development, and manufacturing
became the prototype for industrial enterprises worldwide. Work here resulted in more than half of
Edison's 1,093 patents.”
IEEE MTT Graduate Fellowship Deadline - December
12th, 2008
The
purpose of the MTT graduate fellowship is to recognize and provide financial assistance
to graduate students who show promise and interest in pursuing a graduate
degree in microwave engineering.
Up
to six $6000 awards may be granted each year. The awards are presented at the
International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in June. Limited travel support is
available to enable the winners to attend the IMS.
For
more information please visit: http://www.mtt.org/
All
applications should be submitted by December 12th, 2008 to:
Prof.
John Papapolymerou
Georgia
Institute of Technology
85
5th Street -
e-mail:
papapol@ece.gatech.edu
NJ Section Seeks Training Facility
Sarnoff 2009 Symposium – Call for Papers
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/princeton-centraljersey/2009_Sarnoff_Symposium/CFP_Sarnoff2009_b-1.pdf
NJ
Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Adjustable Frequency Drives Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor
a technical seminar on the topic of variable frequency drives. The session will be held on Friday, December
12, 2008, at Public Service Electric & Gas Corporate Headquarters in
Newark, NJ.
Topics
Adjustable
Frequency Drives:
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Why use AFD's
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Motor Theory
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Drive Theory
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Energy Savings
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AFD Applications
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What are harmonics
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IEEE-519 Recommendations
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AC Drives and Harmonics
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Why Harmonics Matter
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How to Mitigate Harmonics
About the Instructor
The instructor will be Dan Kupersmith,
Senior Application Engineer with Eaton Corporation in Watertown,
Wisconsin. Dan is degreed in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He has 30 years of experience in the drives
industry, including drives and system design, systems engineering
management and application engineering. Prior to Eaton, Dan worked
for Allen Bradley, Louis Allis (later became Magnetek). His last 9 years have included a major focus
on practical harmonic mitigation solutions.
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The registration fee for this seminar
prior to November 26th will be $150 for non-IEEE members, $100 for
IEEE Members, $75 for GOLD Graduates (last 1-10 years) and $25 for students
with valid ID. The fee will be waived
for IEEE Life Member Grades with verification at the seminar. Registrations after November 26th
must include an additional late fee of $25.
The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of
the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration charge.
If desired, IEEE Continuing Education
Units will be offered for this course - a small fee of $25 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
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9:00 AM
to 2:00 PM (lunch is included), Friday, December 12, 2008. |
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PSE&G, 80 Park Plaza,
Room 101, Newark, NJ 07101 |
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http://www.pseg.com/about/directions.jsp
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Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade
“AT” ieee.org |
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Registration: Variable Frequency Drive Seminar
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Eaton Electrical
379 Thornall St, 8th Floor
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