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The Network and ICT Applications Lab at the National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College pursues research on computer network, network protocols, and domains like e-health/ wellness, ICT for assisting seniors, smart agriculture, smart city, IOT and big data, technologies and services for emerging countries etc.
In order to achieve its mission, besides working with some current academic and industrial partners, the newly established lab seeks active collaboration with labs in academic institutions, research organizations, government bodies and the industrial actors in Japan and overseas.

Members

Salahuddin Muhammad Salim Zabir

Sou Takahashi

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Daigo Kamata

Class : control and information course, grade 5
Tastes : Playing guitar,composition

I'm from Shinjo city. I conduct research on IoT (Internet of Things) in this laboratory.
Due to sensor miniaturization, low cost, low power consumption, and communication technology, IoT has begun to spread recently.
So, depending on the idea, I think there are many business opportunities in this domain. I hope to develop something interesting in the coming days.

Maoto Igarashi

Hi,
I'm MAOTO IGARASHI.

My detailed profile↓↓↓↓
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Masato Toyoshima

Class: control and information course, grade 5
Taste: tennis, Motorsport watching

I’m from Obanazawa City. I belong to the tennis club at National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College. I conducted research on “genetic programming” last year. From this year, I am pursuing research on “IoT(internet of things)”. Currently, IoT is one of the most promising themes. Hence, I look forward to work on exciting stuffs.

Charat Khamsaeng

Hi I'm TOON, I'm studying 4th years in Information Technology at Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. I'm interesting in Networking, Server, and Internet of Things. I've got a JASSO scholarship to Japan for 3 months and working with Prof. Zabir. And I wish to rise more experiences during in Japan. I think I met Prof. Zabir is very lucky

Suppachok Kiatikitikul

Hello. My nickname is Bank. My major is Information Technology.I'm study at Thai-nichi Institute of Technology. I'm Short term foreign student from Thailand and stay at National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College for 3 months. I'm very interst about Japanese and Internet of Things and come to tsuruoka for research with Prof.Zabir.

Pongsakorn Yoosook

I'm from Bangkok Thailand. I'm studying in the field of programming and now focusing on the performance evaluation for mobile application. I'm also interested in IoT(Internet of Things) and hope to get some knowledges and experiences as much as I can during my stay in Japan.

Florian Rambur

Nicolas Juckel

Research

Some of our previous and/or ongoing proposals for congestion control mechanisms and protocol are as follows :

TCP I&RW
TCP IACK
TCP Seamless
TCP Cherry [improves throughput by up to 150%]
WFCC (Wireless Friendly Congestion Control) [improves throughput by up to 250%]
Utilization based congestion control (UCC) [improves performance by up to 150%]
Fair In-time Marking (FIM)
Fair In-time Dropping (FID)

Disaster resilient network (Never Die Network).
EMAC(Exhaustive Medium Access Control).
We have been devising new protocols and mechanisms to yield improved network performance in different environments like wireless or satellite links. Our proposed mechanisms have the following characteristics.

minimize waste of resource
easy to implement (free from complex parameters)
not affect existing protocols and mechanisms adversely
Fig.: Our proposed TCP Cherry leads to up to 150% higher throughput than existing schemes over satellite links.
Fig.: Our proposed TCP Cherry leads to up to 150% higher throughput than existing schemes over satellite links.

We are now working toward the realization of disaster resilient "Never Die Network" framework proposed by professor Norio Shiratori of Tohoku University.

Many seniors have started using tablets or smartphones.
However, since they are not familiar with these technologies, they face different issues.
An assistant may support them from remote location using this technology.

Use of keyboard is not easy for seniors.
Seniors would prefer more natural interfaces like handwriting or voice for communicating with ICT terminals.
If the calendar is shared with family members, they can remind of things to do as well as learn about the daily life of the senior person.

We have been working on different topics of e-health and wellness. For example,

We have worked on data acquisition from different health devices. We tried different communication technologies like Bluetooth, NFC/Felica, ZigBee etc. We also worked on interoperability of the collected health data.
We worked on an emergency notification system for seniors living alone. In case the senior person has fallen down, our prototype system would detect it using a camera mounted on the robot.
We are currently conducting investigations on topics related to genome database and health/medical big data.
We are in the process of launching a trial on wearable devices for players/athletes.

With aging, seniors become increasingly incapable of managing regular stuffs. We are conducting research with a view to assisting seniors in such situations using IOT.

Publications

Utsumi, S., Zabir, S.M.S., Wireless Friendly Congestion Control: A New High-Performance TCP Friendly Congestion Control over Wireless Networks, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 41, 2014, pp. 369-378.
Schiltz, A., Zabir, S.M.S., Rouille, P., Genestier, P., Ishigure, Y., and Maeda, Y., Business model analysis of eHealth use cases in Europe and in Japan, Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine and E-health, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2013, pp. 30-43.
Utsumi, S., and Zabir, S.M.S., Timestamp Retransmission Algorithm for TCP-Cherry over Interplanetary Internet, Network and Communication Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2012, pp. 59-65.
Utsumi, S., and Zabir, S. M. S., Utilization-Based Congestion Control, International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, Vol. 4, No. 5, September 2012, pp. 101-112.
Hasan, M.K., Mehedy, L., Zabir, S.M.S., Lee, S.Y., Lee, Y.K., A Middleware Based Network Hot Swapping Solution for SCA Compliant Radio, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 3, August, 2009, pp. 1315-1321.
Utsumi, S., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., TCP-Cherry for Satellite IP Networks: Analytical Model and Performance Evaluation, Computer Communications, Elsevier, 32(2009) pp. 1377-1383.
Utsumi, S., Zabir, S. M. S. and Shiratori, N., TCP Cherry: A New Approach for TCP Congestion Control over Satellite IP Networks, Computer Communications, Elsevier, 31(2008) pp. 2541-2561.
Mehedy, L., Lee S.Y., Zabir, S.M.S., and Lee, Y.K., Scalable and Adaptive Context Delivery Mechanism for Context-aware Computing, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Emerald, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2008, pp. 166-184.
Abusina, Z.U.M., Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Chakraborty, D., and Shiratori, N., An Engineering Approach to Dynamic Prediction of Network Performance from Application Logs, International Journal of Network Management, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2005, pp. 151-162.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., and Shiratori, N., An Efficient Flow Control Approach for TCP over Wireless Networks, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2004, pp. 341-360.
Zabir, S.M.S., Kitagata, G., A Proposal for Efficient TCP Flow Control over Satellite Networks, Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 25, No. 3-4, 2004, pp. 371-400.
Chakraborty, D., Zabir, S.M.S., Chayabejara, A. and Chakrabory, G., A Distributed Routing Method for Dynamic Multicasting, Telecommunication Systems, Vol 25, No. 3-4, 2004, pp. 299-315.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Kitagata, G. and Shiratori, N., A New Approach to Ensure Fairness over the Internet, International Journal of Network Management, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2004, pp. 241-255.
Utsumi, S., Zabir, S. M. S., Kitagata, G. and Shiratori, N., Improving TCP Performance over Wireless with Data Link Layer ARQ, IPSJ Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2004, pp. 1112-1120.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Kitagata, G., Suganuma, T. and Shiratori, N., Ensuring Fairness Among ECN and non ECN TCP over the Internet, International Journal of Network Management, Vol. 13, 2003, No. 5, 2003, pp. 337-348.
Chayabejara, A., Zabir, S. M. S., and Shiratori, N., An Enhancement of IEEE 802.11 MAC for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, FIT Information Technology Letters, 2003.
Khan, A., Zabir, S. M. S., and Shiratori, N., A Proactive Buffering Scheme to Improve Inter-domain Handoff Performance on Standard Mobile IP, FIT Information Technology Letters, 2003.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Kitagata, G., and Shiratori, N., A Proposal for Efficient On-demand Routing in MANET, Journal of Electronics and Computer Science, Vol. 5, June 2003.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Kitagata, G., Suganuma, T., and Shiratori, N., "ECN for Different TCP Performance Improvement", Journal of Electronics and Computer Science, Vol. 3, June 2002, pp.29-36.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Kitagata, G., Suganuma, T. and Shiratori, N., Toward Ensuring Fair Service among ECN and non ECN TCP Connections Over the Internet, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 5, 2002., pp.837-847.
Satoshi, U., Zabir, S. M. S. and Shiratori, N., A New TCP for Efficient Operations over Wireless Links, FIT Information Technology Letters, 2002, pp. 219-220.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Shiratori, N., An Efficient Approach to Performance Improvement of Different TCP Enhancements Using ECN, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E85-D, 2002, pp.1250-1257.

Zabir, S.M.S., Ishigure, Y., Genestier, P., and Maeda, Y., Toward Developing E-Health Services for Emerging Countries: Current Status and Challenges, In Proceedings of Med-e-Tel, 2015, Luxembourg, April, 2015.
Takahashi, G., Itoh, Y., Ishigure, Y., Maeda, Y., Genestier, P., Limeux, P., Graille, O., Prola, A., and Zabir, S.M.S., Interoperability Testing of Continua compliant RESTful eHealth Platform, In Proceedings of Med-e-Tel, 2015, Luxembourg, April, 2015.
Utsumi, S., Zabir, S.M.S., Utilization-based Congestion Control: Improvement of Friendliness with TCP over Wireless Links. AINA 2012, Fukuoka, Japan, March, 2012, pp. 215-220.
Wang, S., Zabir, S.M.S., Liebe, B., Lying Pose Recognition for Elderly Fall Detection, In Proceedings of Robotics Science and Systems, 2011, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 2011.
Togashi, K., Utsumi, S., Zabir, S.M.S., A Summary of TCP-Cherry for Satellite IP Networks, 2011 Joint Conference on Satellite Communications (JC-SAT), Japan, 2011 (JC-SAT Award).
Schiltz, A., Rouille, P., Genestier, P., Ishigure, Y., Maeda, Y. and Zabir, S.M.S., Analysis of Business Model Use Cases for E-Health in Europe and in Japan, Med-e-Tel 2011, Luxembourg, April 2011, pp. 158-162.
Sarkar, J., Hasan, K., Lee, Y.K., Lee, S.Y., and Zabir, S.M.S., "Distributed Activity Recognition using Key Sensors", 11th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, Phoenix Park, South Korea, 2009, pp: 2245-2250.
Abusina, Z.U.M., Uddin, M., Zabir, S.M.S., Efficient Medium Access Control with IEEE 802.11 for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, International Conference on Wireless Networking (ICWN), 2009, pp. 413-419.
Zabir, S.M.S., Ashir, A. and Yasuura, H., Digital Divide: The Amazing Facts at The BoP, IADIS International Conference. ICT, Society and Human Beings 2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 22 - 24 July 2008, pp. 155-162.
M.M. Uddin, S.M.S. Zabir, Y. Nohara, H. Yasuura, A Framework for Authentic Post-Issuance Program Modification for Multi-Application Smart Cards, In Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Networking, ICWN'08, July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Takeda, A., Hashimoto, K., Kitagata, G., Zabir, S.M.S., Kinoshita, T., Shiratori, N., A New Authentication Method with Distributed Hash Table for P2P Network In proceeding of International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2008, (AINA-08).
Sarkar, J., Lee, S.Y., Lee, Y.K., and Zabir, S.M.S., Distributed Activity Recognition Using Key Sensors, In proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science, 2008 (ICIS 2008).
Hasan, K., Mehedy, L., Zabir, S.M.S. and Lee, S.Y., and Oh, S.C., A Middleware Based Network Hot Swapping Solution for SCA Compliant Software Defined Radio, In proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, December 15-18, 2007, pp. 99-103, Cairo, Egypt.
Chayabejara, A., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., An Enhancement of the IEEE 802.11 MAC for Multihop Ad Hoc Networks, In Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology, 2003-Fall, October 6-9, 2003, pp. 3020-3024, Florida, USA.
Zabir, S.M.S., and Shiratori, N., An Approach for Efficient TCP Flow Control over Wireless Links, In Proceedings of IASTED Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, November 3-5, 2003, Vol. I, pp. 219-226, California, USA.
Khan, A., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., A Proactive Buffering Scheme to improve Macro-mobility over Mobile IP, In Proceedings of IASTED Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, November 3-5, 2003, Vol. I, pp. 227-231, California, USA.
Chayabejara, A., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., An Enhancement of IEEE 802.11 for Effcient Operations in MANET, In Proceedings of IASTED Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, November 3-5, 2003, Vol. I, pp. 201-206, California, USA.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Suganuma, T. and Shiratori, N., Improving QoS in MANET using a New On-demand Flexible Routing Protocol, In Proceedings of IEEE Networks 2002, August 26-29, 2002, pp. 610-621, Georgia, USA.
Utsumi, S., Zabir, S. M. S. and Shiratori, N., An Efficient Approach to Improve TCP Performance Over Wireless Networks, In Proceedings of EurAsia-ICT 2002, LNCS vol. 2510, pp. 916-925, Shiraz, Iran.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Suganuma, T. and Shiratori, N., QoS Assurance Through A Flexible On-demand Routing Protocol in MANET, In Proceedings of 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI 2002, July 14-18, 2002, Vol. X, pp. 192-197, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Zabir, S.M.S., Ashir, A., Kitagata, G. and Shiratori, N.,An Efficient On-Demand Routing Protocol for MANET, In Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA'02, June 24-27, 2002, Vol. IV, pp. 2123-2129, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Katoh, T., Go, K. and Shiratori, N., Rethinking DSDV: An Approached Toward Improved Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT2001, December 28-29, 2001, pp. 217-221, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A. and Shiratori, N., Providing Fair Service Over the Internet: An Approach Based on Packet Marking, In Proceedings of International Conference on Internet Computing, IC 2001, June 25-28, 2001, Vol II, pp. 609-615, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A., Go Kentaro and Shiratori, N., Providing Fair Service Among ECN Capable and Non ECN Capable TCP Connections Over the Internet, In Proceedings of 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI 2001, July 22-25, 2001, Orlando, Vol V, pp. 300-305, Florida, USA (Best Paper Award).
Ashir, A., Zabir, S. M. S., Suganuma, T. and Shiratori, N., An Evaluation of Performance Improvement of Different TCP Congestion Control Scheme using ECN, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking & Parallel/Distributed Computing, August 20-22, 2001, pp. 532-539, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A. and Shiratori, N., Estimation of network performance : an approach based on network experience, Proceedings of IEEE ICOIN-15, January 2001, Japan.
Ashir, A., Zabir, S. M. S., Mansfiled, G., and Shiratori, N., Estimation of Network Performance from Application Logs, Proceedings of IEEE ICECE, January 2001, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Zabir, S. M. S., Data integrity : construction of error control codes, In Abstracts for section-III, Nineteenth Annual Bangladesh Science Conference 1996 organized by Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Sciences (BAAS), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Inoue, M., Tangdumrongrat, P., Prabhavat, S., Utsumi, S., Zabir, S.M.S. and Shiratori, N., Mark-Reverse Explicit Congestion Notification for Satellite IP Networks: Simulation and Analysis Results, in proceedings of the International Symposium on Technology for Sustainability, ISTS 2012, November 2012.
Ito, T., Jacquin, H., Utsumi, S., S.M.S., and Shiratori, N., Wireless Friendly Congestion Control: Emulation Results, in proceedings of the International Symposium on Technology for Sustainability, ISTS 2012, November 2012.

内海哲史、Zabir, S.M.S., 白鳥規郎, Never Die Networks のための輻輳制御法の提案とその性能評価, DICOMO 2015.
内海哲史, 横山徹也, Zabir, S.M.S., TCP-Cherry: 宇宙通信のための新しい輻輳制御方式, DICOMO2011.
内海哲史, 冨樫洸, Zabir, S.M.S., TCP-Cherry+: 継続的なエラーが発生する衛星IPネットワークのためのTCP-Cherryの改良, DICOMO2011.
内海哲史, Zabir, S.M.S., 白鳥則,郎TCP-Cherryの実現へ向けて : 衛星IPネットワーク向け輻輳制御TCP-Peach+の実装と評価, 情報処理学会創立50周年記念全国大会、pp 3-119~3-120, 2010.
Utsumi, S., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., TCP-Cherry over Wireless Networks with Timestamp Retransmissions, DICOMO 2009.
Khan A., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., A Buffering Scheme at the Home Agent (HA) to Support Macro-mobility over Mobile IP, In Proceedings of IEICE Workshop on Information Network, September 18-19, 2003, pp. 11-15.
Chayabejara, A., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N.,Ensuring Better Channel Utilization with IEEE 802.11 for MANET, In Proceedings of IEICE Workshop on Information Network, September 18-19, 2003, pp. 33-38.
Khan, A., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., A Proactive Buffer Forwarding Scheme to Improve Macro Mobility over Mobile IP, IEEE Sendai Section, Student Session, 2003.
Chayabejara, A., Zabir, S.M.S., Shiratori, N., An approach for efficient channel utilization using IEEE 802.11 in MANET, IEEE Sendai Section, Student Session, 2003 (Best Paper Award).
Khan, A., Zabir, S.M.S., and Shiratori, N., A Buffering Scheme to Support Mobility on Mobile IP, In Proceedings of IEICE zenkoku taikai 2003.
Iwamoto, T., Zabir, S.M.S., and Shiratori, N., A Proposal for Improved TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm with Low Priority Packet, In Proceedings of IEICE zenkoku taikai 2003.
Chayabejara, A., Zabir, S.M.S., and Shiratori, N., An Enhancement of the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control, In Proceedings of IEICE zenkoku taikai 2003.
Satoshi, U., Zabir, S.M.S., and Shiratori, N., TCP Identification & Revivable Window: Improving TCP Performance over Wireless with Link Level Retransmissions, DICOMO, July 2002, pp. 317-320.
Chayabejara, A., Chakraborty, D., Zabir, S.M.S., Khan, A., Fujita, N., and Shiratori, N., A Destination Oriented Distributed Routing Method for Dynamic Multipoint Connection, In Proceedings of IEICE Workshop on Information Network, 2002.
Satoshi, U., Zabir, S.M.S., and Shiratori, N., A New Flow Control Scheme for TCP over Wireless Links, IEEE Sendai Section, Student Session, 2002, 2A11 pp. 25.
Zabir, S. M. S., Ashir, A. and Shiratori, N., Ensuring Fair Service to TCP Connections, In Proceedings of the IEICE Workshop on Information and Electrical Communication, September 13-14, 2001, Vol 101, No. 287, pp. 71-76, Tohoku University, Japan.
D.Chakraborty, G.Chakraborty, Zabir, S. M. S., N.Shiratori, "A Distributed Approach for Dynamic Multicasting", IPSJ Symposium, 2001, Vol.2001, No.13, Appi, Japan.

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