Publications related to Ethernet

Epidemic Learning: Boosting Decentralized Learning with Randomized Communication

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Rafael Pereira Pires, Rishi Sharma, Marinus Abraham de Vos

We present Epidemic Learning ( EL ), a simple yet powerful decentralized learning (DL) algorithm that leverages changing communication topologies to achieve faster model convergence compared to conventional DL approaches. At each round of EL, each node sen ...

2023

Reliable Microsecond-Scale Distributed Computing

Athanasios Xygkis

The landscape of computing is changing, thanks to the advent of modern networking equipment that allows machines to exchange information in as little as one microsecond. Such advancement has enabled microsecond-scale distributed computing, where entire dis ...

EPFL2023

End-to-end kernel learning via generative random Fourier features

Fanghui Liu, Jie Yang

Random Fourier features (RFFs) provide a promising way for kernel learning in a spectral case. Current RFFs-based kernel learning methods usually work in a two-stage way. In the first-stage process, learn-ing an optimal feature map is often formulated as a ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Breaking Silos to Guarantee Control Stability with Communication over Ethernet TSN

Amir Aminifar

Editor's notes: The cross-layer approach presented in this article involves co-designing a feedback controller's parameters together with the schedule of an Ethernet network used for communicating state information and control signals.-Samarjit Chakraborty ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

Orion Afisiadis

Wireless communications are currently faced with two main challenges. The first challenge stems from the enormous number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that transmit very small amounts of data. The second challenge is the need for ever-increasing data ...

EPFL2020

Security-aware Routing and Scheduling for Control Applications on Ethernet TSN Networks

Amir Aminifar

Today, it is common knowledge in the cyber-physical systems domain that the tight interaction between the cyber and physical elements provides the possibility of substantially improving the performance of these systems that is otherwise impossible. On the ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

On the Implementation Complexity of Digital Full-Duplex Self-Interference Cancellation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen

In-band full-duplex systems promise to further increase the throughput of wireless systems, by simultaneously transmitting and receiving on the same frequency band. However, concurrent transmission generates a strong self-interference signal at the receive ...

IEEE2020

Stability-Aware Integrated Routing and Scheduling for Control Applications in Ethernet Networks

Amir Aminifar

Real-time communication over Ethernet is becoming important in various application areas of cyber-physical systems such as industrial automation and control, avionics, and automotive networking. Since such applications are typically time critical, Ethernet ...

2018

Improving Throughput, Latency and Privacy with Hybrid Networks and Multipath Routing

Sébastien Christophe Henri

Over the last few years, residential and enterprise networking have faced several challenges due to the increasing demand of users for high-throughput connectivity. As a result, efforts are being made to improve coverage, throughput, and robustness. Severa ...

EPFL2018

Multiphase Optimal and Non-Singular Power Flow by Successive Linear Approximations

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Andrey Bernstein, Cong Wang

We propose an optimal power flow method for multiphase power systems. The method works for both radial and meshed networks, and is able to accommodate different types of load/source connections such as wye, delta, and combination thereof. Moreover, the met ...

IEEE2018

Single-FPGA complete 3D and 2D medical ultrasound imager

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Damien Doy, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

3D ultrasound (US) acquisition acquires volumetric images, thus alleviating a classical US imaging bottleneck that requires a highly-trained sonographer to operate the US probe. However, this opportunity has not been explored in practice, since 3D US machi ...

IEEE2017

How CSMA/CA With Deferral Affects Performance and Dynamics in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications (PLC) are becoming a key component in home networking, because they provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The dominant MAC protocol for high data-rate PLC, the IEEE 1901, employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to the backoff ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Throughput Analysis of Large Networks : Spatial Diversity, Beamforming Gain, and Transmission Modes

Serj Haddad

While wired infrastructure constitutes the backbone of most wireless networks, wireless systems appeal the most to the dynamic and rapidly evolving requirements of today's communication systems because of their ease of deployment and mobility, not to menti ...

EPFL2017

Experimental Characterization of the Response of an Electrical and Communication Raceway to IEMI

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra

This paper reports the results of two experimental campaigns aimed at studying the high-frequency response of a raceway containing low voltage power, telephone, and Ethernet cables, to external electromagnetic field illumination. The raceway was tested aga ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Baseband and RF hardware impairments in full-duplex wireless systems: experimental characterisation and suppression

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pavle Belanovic, Andrew Charles Mallory Austin

Hardware imperfections can significantly reduce the performance of full-duplex wireless systems by introducing non-idealities and random effects that make it challenging to fully suppress self-interference. Previous research has mostly focused on analysing ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2015

Reducing Energy Dissipation in ULP Systems: PLL-Free FBAR-Based Fast Startup Transmitters

Christian Enz, David Ruffieux, Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan

The energy dissipated by conventional phase-locked-loop-based transmitters (TXs) during the long startup phase is a major bottleneck that reduces the energy autonomy of duty-cycled ultra-low-power systems. In order to tackle this problem, this paper presen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

On the MAC for Power-Line Communications: Modeling Assumptions and Performance Tradeoffs

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are becoming a key component in home networking. The dominant MAC protocol for high data-rate power-line communications, IEEE 1901, employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to the backoff process of 802.11. Existing performance evaluat ...

2014

Design and Characterization of a Full-Duplex Multiantenna System for WiFi Networks

Vaneet Aggarwal

In this paper, we present an experiment-and simulation-based study to evaluate the use of full duplex (FD) as a potential mode in practical IEEE 802.11 networks. To enable the study, we designed a 20-MHz multiantenna orthogonal frequency-division-multiplex ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Maximum Throughput Gain of Compute-and-Forward for Multiple Unicast

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jasper Goseling

Compute-and-Forward (CF), also known as reliable physical layer network coding, is a technique that provides the possibility of exploiting the features of broadcast and superposition in wireless networks. It has been shown that the throughput for multiple ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

A Parallelized Layered QC-LDPC Decoder for IEEE 802.11ad

Andreas Peter Burg, Alessandro Cevrero, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Nicholas Alexander Preyss

We present a doubly parallelized layered quasi-cyclic low density parity-check decoder for the emerging IEEE 802.11ad multigigabit wireless standard. The decoding algorithm is equivalent to a nonparallelized layered decoder and, thus, retains its favorable ...

IEEE2013