Publications related to Broadband

DChannel: Accelerating Mobile ApplicationsWith Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels

Interactive mobile applications like web browsing and gaming are known to benefit significantly from low latency networking, as applications communicate with cloud servers and other users' devices. Emerging mobile channel standards have not met these needs ...

USENIX ASSOC2023

Using Gaming Footage as a Source of Internet Latency Information

Catalina Paz Alvarez Inostroza, Aikaterini Argyraki

Keeping track of Internet latency is a classic measurement problem. Open measurement platforms like RIPE Atlas are a great solution, but they also face challenges: preventing network overload that may result from uncontrolled active measurements, and maint ...

2023

Reduced material loss in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Zihan Li, Guanhao Huang, Di Zhu

Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next generation high-performance classical and quantum devices, however, requires much ...

AIP Publishing2022

Feature-based no-reference video quality assessment using Extra Trees

Arash Amini, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

With the emergence of social networks and improvements in the internet speed, the video data has become an ever-increasing portion of the global internet traffic. Besides the content, the quality of a video sequence is an important issue at the user end wh ...

WILEY2022

Electronic properties and ion migration of “in vacuo” lithiated nanoporous WO3:Mo thin films

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

Electrochromic (EC) glazing helps manage daylight and solar heat gains in building, thereby allowing a reduction in energy consumption caused by heating, cooling, and artificial lighting. This study relates the optical and electronic properties of nanoporo ...

2022

Optimization methods for collaborative learning

Sai Praneeth Reddy Karimireddy

A traditional machine learning pipeline involves collecting massive amounts of data centrally on a server and training models to fit the data. However, increasing concerns about the privacy and security of user's data, combined with the sheer growth in the ...

EPFL2021

Ultra-Broadband and Omnidirectional Perfect Absorber Based on Copper Nanowire/Carbon Nanotube Hierarchical Structure

Giulia Tagliabue, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Theodoros Tsoulos

Zero reflection and complete light absorption are required in a wide range of applications ranging from sensing devices to solar heaters and photoelectrodes. However, simultaneously satisfying the requirements of the broadband spectrum, omnidirectionality, ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Nanophotonic supercontinuum-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng, Wolfgang Hänsel

High resolution and fast detection of molecular vibrational absorption is important for organic synthesis, pharmaceutical processes, and environmental monitoring, and is enabled by mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser frequency combs via dual-comb spectroscopy. Her ...

2020

QUIC: Opportunities and threats in SATCOM

Ludovic Bernard Gérard Thomas, Emmanuel Qays Dubois

This article proposes a discussion on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to the deployment of QUIC end-to-end from a satellite-operator point-of-view. The deployment of QUIC is an opportunity for improving the quality of experienc ...

IEEE2020

MAMUT: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Real-Time Multi-User Video Transcoding

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Luis Maria Costero Valero

Real-time video transcoding has recently raised as a valid alternative to address the ever-increasing demand for video contents in servers' infrastructures in current multi-user environments. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) makes efficient online trans ...

IEEE2019

Adaptive Streaming in Interactive Multiview Video Systems

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni, Xue Zhang, Yao Zhao

Multiview applications endow final users with the possibility to freely navigate within 3D scenes with minimum-delay. A real feeling of scene navigation is enabled by transmitting multiple high-quality camera views, which can be used to synthesize addition ...

2019

Design and Implementation of a Neural Network Based Predistorter for Enhanced Mobile Broadband

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

Digital predistortion is the process of using digital signal processing to correct nonlinearities caused by the analog RF front-end of a wireless transmitter. These nonlinearities contribute to adjacent channel leakage, degrade the error vector magnitude o ...

IEEE2019

High Speed SAR ADC Architectures in 28nm FDSOI CMOS

Mustafa Kilic

The demand on high speed Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) has increased considerably the last years. From communications circuit to high speed oscilloscopes, Giga Samples per second (GS/s) ADCs are requested. With the scaling of the CMOS technology, des ...

EPFL2019

Wideband Cavity-Backed CubeSat Antenna in S band

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic

The Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) antennas are a crucial component of small satellites, as their in-orbit attitude is not always well-defined. The TT&C antenna design for a CubeSat is an even more challenging task, considering the volume restricti ...

The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2018

Ultra-Wide Band Diversity Antenna for Omnidirectional Coverage

Anja Skrivervik, Maxime Volery, Tatjana Asenov

In this paper, a 41 x 42.2 mm2 ultra-wide band (UWB) diversity antenna is designed to operate in the frequency band 5.45- 7.45 GHz with the isolation better than 15dB. To achieve omnidirectional coverage pattern diversity is applied. The proposed design is ...

The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2018

Broadband Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Hybrid Sensor-/Shunt-Based Impedance Control

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

This paper proposes a hybrid impedance control architecture for an electroacoustic absorber, that combines an improved microphone-based feedforward control with a currentdriven electrodynamic loudspeaker system. Feedforward control architecture enables sta ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Digital transformation and open innovation ecosystems in the tilm industry: the case of the Movieday platform

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

Digital technologies are transforming the film industry. Up until roughly a decade ago, the business model for film exhibition was based on theatrical release in combination with television sales and home cinema releases (video and DVD). Recently, many que ...

2017

An Approximate Zero IF FM-UWB Receiver for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A low-power frequency modulated-ultra-wideband (FM-UWB) receiver for short-range communications, capable of simultaneously demodulating multiple FM-UWB signals located at the same frequency, is presented in this paper. The proposed receiver utilizes an "ap ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

All-optical flip-flops based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

A method to generate an all-optical flip-flop is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on dynamic Brillouin gratings (DBGs) in polarization maintaining fibers. In a fiber with sufficiently uniform birefringence, this flip-flop can provide extremel ...

Optical Society of America2017

In-Network View Synthesis for Interactive Multiview Video Systems

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni

In multiview applications, camera views can be used as reference views to synthesize additional virtual viewpoints, allowing users to freely navigate within a 3D scene. However, bandwidth constraints may restrict the number of reference views sent to clien ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016