Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering develops failure mitigating tool via Big Data research at Management and Science University

Digital connectivity is a significant element of modern life, for which technology is very much depended on – for our smartphones, our computers, even our IoT doorbells and rice cookers. Countless devices work together on the Internet in a chain of data transmission. Such a chain facilitates the inter-device communication.

As the Internet becomes a massive digital presence in the modern world, so does the entire network infrastructure grow. With increasing aspects of life and living linking to the Internet, ensuring uninterrupted digital connectivity and survivability of such sheer networking presents no small challenge when disaster strikes. Survivable communication networks are integral to society’s disaster resilience. Management and Science University (MSU) introduces a failure-mitigating tool.

Useful for traffic engineering and during network crises or power outages, the tool enables the design and development of more sustainable, more disaster resistant networks. It does so by its capability for simulation of failure scenarios, visualization and dynamic manipulation of networks, and visual rendition of directed as well as undirected networks.

The Sustainable Computer Network Simulation and Visualization Tool by the Big Data Research Group of Management and Science University (MSU) earned a bronze at both the 2022 International Conference and Exposition on Inventions by Institutions of Higher Learning (PECIPTA’22) and the 33rd International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX’22) Malaysia. The project was led by Dr Rabab Alayham Abbas Helmi; formerly of the MSU Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE), currently of the MSU School of Graduate Studies (SGS), with team members Arshad Jamal and Safinaz Mustafa as well as Bachelor in Computer Science (Hons) student Manraj Singh Rajeshpal Singh.

Traditionally considered as scientific data, Big Data is the huge amount of information that modern technology generated and gathered. It has transformed human communication and interaction, with every smartphone a treasure trove of information. So much data is collected that its analysis is now the challenge.

For strengths in data visualization, statistics, and computer science, Management and Science University (MSU) is just the place for research on Big Data. Another reason is the University's Centre for Cyber Security and Big Data (CCSBD), an MSU Centre of Excellence (CoE) aiming to be the region’s top reference centre for digital connectivity and security.