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ISSN 1816-613X

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IPv6 on Optical NetworksNoor Zaman, Mansoor uz Zafar, Adnan Alam Khan

Parallel Processing on Pentium Machines: a Low cost Solution for High PerformanceComputing

Syed Misbahuddin, Fazal Noor, Saleh Zugail

Verification of Occurrence of Arabic Word in QuranUmm-e-Laila, Abdul Aziz, Fauzan Saeed, Farrukh Aziz

Health Hazards Linked to Using Mobile Cellular PhonesA. Raouf Khan, Noor Zaman, Saira Muzafar

Online Banking Transaction SystemAdnan Alam Khan, Noor Zaman, Mansoor uz Zafar Dawood

A Coding Approach to Reduce Peak-to-Average Power Ratio in Coded OFDMZafar Q. Taha

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Volume 2, Number 2

Fall 2008

A. Raouf Khan, Noor Zaman, Saira Muzafar– 101-108Health Hazards Linked to Using Mobile Cellular Phones

Verification of Occurrence of Arabic Word in QuranUmm-e-Laila, Abdul Aziz, Fauzan Saeed, Farrukh Aziz– 109-115

Zafar Q. Taha– 76-89A Coding Approach to Reduce Peak-to-Average Power Ratio in Coded OFDM

Adnan Alam Khan, Noor Zaman, Mansoor uz Zafar Dawood– 90-100Online Banking Transaction System

Syed Misbahuddin, Fazal Noor, Saleh Zugail–116-125Parallel Processing on Pentium Machines: a Low cost Solution for High Performance Computing

Noor Zaman, Mansoor uz Zafar, Adnan Alam Khan– 126-135IPv6 on Optical Networks

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This vast world has shrunk into a small village. The Global Village! All barriershave been broken down. Worldwide accessibility has become as simple as talkingto your neighbor. Doing business across the world is as simple as logging on yourcomputer. The Internet Technology is not just for games, chatting and occasionalresearch anymore, now it is an essential part of everyday life of every one. A businesscannot flourish without becoming a global enterprise and becoming active part ofthe Global Village. Information and Communication Technology is the vehicleproviding the access to the Global Village.

The technology is changing very rapidly because of the advanced featuresof ICT, Al, Telecommunication, e-commerce, IS, Robotics, Cyber Security, Data Mining,Network Storage Technologies, Software and Hardware Technologies. Now a daysthe technology becomes obsolete in 12 to 18 months, thus it is imperative for us tokeep ourselves updated on the latest developments in ICT or become obsolete andbe left out into oblivion. Today the user and the student of ICT must be willing tolearn constantly to keep abreast with the technology growth.

JICT is an international Journal of Information and Communication Technology,published by BIZTEK on bi-annual basis. We welcome the submission of articlesfrom researchers, academicians and practitioners in the area of ICT. For instructionto submission of manuscripts, please see the title flap. The papers should be ofmoderate length for the sake of greater diversity. Please note that submissionsshould be original contributions and will go through a rigorous evaluation process.

JICT does not charge any fee for submitting, reviewing and/or posting manuscriptsbefore of after acceptance of the article.

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For the sake of said purpose, the (JCIT) is considerably subsidized not only for Pakistanisubscribers but also for the nationals of LDCs (least developed countries). LDCs includeeconomies annually listed by the World Bank in World Development Indicators (WDI).

The Journal of Information & Communication Technology (JCIT) is published semiannualy (Spring and Autumn) under the aiges of Institute of Business and Technology(BIZTEK)_a non-profit academic institute, recognized by Higher EducationCommisions (Govt. of Pakistan) and legislated by Sindh assembly through Act-II of2004. It aims to propagate knowledge and brings forth culture of research.