Final Exams Timetable (Fall 2007)

 

Major Week Fair 10/12/2007

The Major Week Fair for the College of Science/Computer Science is going to be on this Monday 10 December. It is an important event for the department therefore, we need your participation for this event. Please register with Mrs Nida.

 

M.Sc. Seminar 10/12/2007

The MSc student Zahraa Al-Lawati will give her second MSc seminar on Monday 10 Dec 2007 from 9:00 to 10:00 in the DCS conference room. Below is the seminar title and abstract.

Title: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORKS

Abstract: Wireless network is an emerging new technology that allows users to access information and services electronically. Ad-hoc networks are self-organizing network that might consist of thousands of devices. One of the most important tasks is to deliver data from one device to another. Several routing algorithms were proposed and evaluated in the recent years. Wireless networks have special limitations such as limited bandwidth, highly dynamic topology, limited range of links due to the nature of the network that serves anyone anywhere and anytime. Ad-hoc networks are used in emergency search – and –rescue operations or for data acquisitions operations in inhospitable environment.

This project aims at conducting a comparative performance evaluation of selected routing protocols for ad-hoc networks including AODV, OLSR and ZRP. The project studies performance characteristics of the selected protocols using the NS-2 simulator. We measure the end-to-end delay, average routing distance and number of lost packets for different conditions of network load, network size and mobility intervals.

The delay is very much affected by the network load unlike the average routing distance. OLSR is not much affected by change in mobility as it gets the optimal paths to destinations. Number of lost packets in AODV is less than the lost packets in OLSR.

In large networks, using AODV may be preferred over OLSR to reduce the amount of overhead. If the ad-hoc networks are established for emergency and rescue purposes then, OLSR will be more helpful as the paths are optimal and ready and hence the delay is less compared with AODV.

Keyword: Ad-hoc wireless network, routing protocol, AODV, OLSR, ZRP

 

E-Learning Workshop: 11-12-12/2007

As per the College initiative in enhancing our traditional teaching using e-learning mode and a firm decision on e-Learning implementation, the College e-Learning committee has come with a course model for the phase 1 implementation of every Science course in the coming Spring 2008 semester. In order to help every instructor in the college to implement their courses in a standard manner, a workshop by CET has been organized on 11th and 12th December 2007 between 10am and 12 noon in the lab18 (open access lab). This workshop will be useful for the beginners as well as for all others to come to know about the model course implementation. Please don't ignore this opportunity. Every one is requested to register for one of the sessions (either 11th or 12th dec) in the Dean's office (the coordinators: Mr. Mohammed Al-Wehaibi or Ms. Malou) as soon as possible.

 

Final Year Project examination 12/12/2007

Final year project examination will be held on Wednesday 12 December from 9am  to 1pm in the department conference room

 

Preparation of Course Outcomes and Course Outlines (Wednesday 14/11)

The Department Accreditation and Curriculum Committees are organizing a Workshop on the "Preparation of Course Outcomes and Course Outlines" to the faculty on Wed 14 Nov, at 2:15 p.m. in the Department’s seminar room. The general outline of the Workshop will include:

    a. General guidelines on course oucomes preparation (KD).

    b. Examples of outcomes from accredited computer science programs (BA).

    c. Procedure for course outcomes preparation and approval (HZ).

    d. Course outline format (AA).

    e. Open discussion.

 All faculty members involved in teaching Core and Electives courses during the Spring 2008 are invited to attend this Workshop in order to pave the road for starting preparations to establishing Course Files for the course assessment process.

 

Itisalat University Contest (28-29 March 2007)

A team from our department participated in the 7th NPC,  28-29 March 2007 in Itisalat College, Sharjah UAE. The team consisted of Ali Hassan Abdulali, Hassan Omar Al Marhoon, Jaifar Hassan Al Shezawi (participants) and Dr. Hamza Zidoum (coach). The students selection was based on the following criteria: GPA, performance in programming-related courses and cohort.Our team ranked 6 out of 34 participating teams. They solved 5 out of 9 proposed problems.Actually, they solved the same number of problems as the  4th, and 5th but in longer time or with more penalties.

• Perfect numbers (solved)

• Sudoku

• Spiral Non-Maximum Suppression (solved)

• Palindromic Sqaures of Prime Numbers (solved)

• Champion (solved)

• Collding Trains

• Repeating Decimals

• Diagonal Digital Root (solved)

• Map Coloring

 

Rank	Name	Solved	Time
1	MoE1	7	1033
2	AUS-1	6	638
3	The One	6	854
4	SHARC	5	442
5	AUS-2	5	668
6	Sindbad	5	699
7	Ajman 1	5	777
8	EUC5	5	892
9	BITS - I	5	1072
10	UOWD2	4	387
11	SHARM	4	485
12	BITS-III	4	534
13	AUS-3	4
13	BITS - II	4
13	CLEVER TEAM	4
16	AGU Seniors	3
16	CIT	3
16	Mini-World	3