Local area networks are built mainly for two essential goals, the first one is to support the framework’s business functionality such as email, file transferring, procurement systems, internet browsing, and so forth. Second, these common networks should be built using secure strategies to protect their components. Recent developments in network communication have heightened the need for both secure and high performance network. However, the performance of network sometime is effected by applying security rules. Actually, network security is an essential priority for protecting applications, data, and network resources. Applying resources isolation rules are very important to prevent any possible attack. This isolation can be achieved by applying DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) design. A DMZ extremely enhance the security of a network. A DMZ is used to add an extra layer of protection to the network. It is also used to protect a private information. A DMZ should be properly configured to increase the network’s security. This work reviewed DMZ with regard to its importance, its design, and its effect on the network performance. The main focus of this work was to explore a means of assessing DMZ effectiveness related to network performance with simulation under OpNet simulator.

The design of a double layer stacked microstrip loop shaped patch antenna for multiband operation has been proposed. The design has been evolved following the iterations of a rectangular patch and a single layer loop patch structure. The material considered for the substrate of both the layers is 1.6 mm thick FR4 epoxy and the feeding technique used for the bottom patch is coaxial/ probe feed. The radiations from the bottom layer patch have been electromagnetically coupled to the upper layer patch. The main results including the reflection coefficient, bandwidth, radiation pattern, gain, directivity and VSWR for single frequency operation in each case have been discussed separately and finally compared. The comparison shows that the proposed stacked structure is clearly advantageous over the conventional rectangular patch and the single layer designed prototype in terms of the standard parameters that have been obtained. The three stage designs are useful to serve the X-band aviation applications including radio location and fixed mobile radio location.

Generally, Bayesian networks are constructed either from the available information or starting from a naïve Bayes. In the medical domain, some systems refine Bayesian network manually created by domain experts. However, existing techniques verify the relation of a node with every other node in the network. In our previous work, we define a Refinement algorithm that verifies the relation of a node only with the set of its independent nodes using Markov Assumption. In this work, we did propose Extension of Refinement Algorithm that uses both Markov Blanket and Markov Assumption to find the list of independent nodes and adhere to the property of considering minimal updates to the original network and proves that less number of comparisons is needed to find the best network structure.

In this paper, simulation of rectangular ring micro-strip patch antenna for ultra wideband (UWB) wireless applications is done. The attractiveness of this antenna is that it employs solo patch that makes it easy to fabricate and economical as well. It also mitigates the issue of misalignment. By making use of matching rectangular strips, impedance bandwidth enhancement is also attained. At centre frequency return loss is not more than -10dB. It demonstrates superior radiation characteristics and reasonable gain in the whole operating band. In the designing of proposed antenna, micro-strip feeding is used for power supply purpose. CST Microwave studio suit 10 is used for the simulation purpose of the proposed antenna, which is a 3D electromagnetic field tool for simulation of electromagnetic field in all frequency bands. After simulation of proposed antenna, enhancement in impedance bandwidth of 20.60%, frequency range of 1.8533 GHz, radiation efficiency of 92.51%, and gain of 3.765dbi are obtained.

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing technology in this new era. Cloud is a platform where users get charged on the basis of the services and resources they have used. It enables its users to access the cloud resources from the remote locations i.e. from anywhere at any time. It needs only a working internet connection to access the cloud services. Cloud users have always been victim to the security issues and attacks which leads to the data loss. The data is not saved on the hard disk of the computer so it is highly prone to security risks. Identifying the attacks on cloud platform is a difficult task because everything on cloud is in virtual form. EDoS (Economic Denial of Sustainability) attack is a form of DDoS attacks; carried out for a long span of time and intended to put a financial burden and cause economical loss to the users of cloud. Such attacks do not exhaust the bandwidth of the user; their main aim is to put a huge financial loss or burden on the user. A technique named as SPART (Supervised Pattern Attack Recognition Technique) implemented to mitigate the EDoS attacks in cloud computing which consumes lesser energy as compared to the existing models. The experimental results have shown the less energy consumption in proposed model.

Pertaining to the rapid usage of cloud computing, cloud based approaches are growing as an fascinating domain for numerous malignant tasks. Security is one of the vital issues faced by the cloud computing environment while sharing resources over the internet. Consumers are facing distinct security hazards while using cloud computing platform. Previous works mainly attempted to mitigate the side channels attacks by altering the infrastructure and the internal procedures of the cloud stack. However, the deployments of these alterations are not so easy and could not resist the attacks. In this paper, the authors attempted to solve the issues by enhancing the VM Placement policies in such a way that, it is complex for the invaders to collocate their object. A secure Dynamic VM placement approach is presented for the VM allocations into different servers in the cloud. The performance comparison of the suggested methodology is shows that the proposed approach has better efficiency evaluations such as hit rate, loss rate and resource loss when compared to other V M placement policies.