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D-Cliques: Compensating for Data Heterogeneity with Topology in Decentralized Federated Learning

The convergence speed of machine learning models trained with Federated Learning is significantly affected by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data partitions, even more so in a fully decentralized setting without a central server. In ...

2022

Development of collapse-consistent loading protocols for experimental testing of steel columns

Dimitrios Lignos

In order to effectively utilize results from quasi-static cyclic testing on structural components for the earthquake-induced collapse risk quantification of structures, the need exists to establish collapse-consistent loading protocols representing the asy ...

2020

Private and Secure Distributed Learning

Georgios Damaskinos

The ever-growing number of edge devices (e.g., smartphones) and the exploding volume of sensitive data they produce, call for distributed machine learning techniques that are privacy-preserving. Given the increasing computing capabilities of modern edge de ...

EPFL2020

Maximizing Fiber Cable Capacity Under A Supply Power Constraint Using Deep Neural Networks

Erixhen Sula

We experimentally achieve a 19% capacity gain per Watt of electrical supply power in a 12-span link by eliminating gain flattening filters and optimizing launch powers using deep neural networks in a parallel fiber context. (C) 2020 The Authors ...

IEEE2020

Operating System and Network Co-Design for Latency-Critical Datacenter Applications

Evangelos Marios Kogias

Datacenters are the heart of our digital lives. Online applications, such as social-networking and e-commerce, run inside datacenters under strict Service Level Objectives for their tail latency. Tight latency SLOs are necessary for such services to remain ...

EPFL2020

Verifying Software Network Functions with No Verification Expertise

George Candea, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Aikaterini Argyraki, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa, Matteo Rizzo

We present the design and implementation of Vigor, a software stack and toolchain for building and running software network middleboxes that are guaranteed to be correct, while preserving competitive performance and developer productivity. Developers write ...

ACM2019

Open-Loop Power Sharing Characteristic of a Three-Port Resonant LLC Converter

Drazen Dujic, Yan-Kim Tran, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández

The Solid State Transformer (SST) is an attractive solution for highly flexible, cost-effective, compact and efficient power transfer among different grids. Furthermore, a three-port topology is proven as a suitable solution to integrate energy storage res ...

2019

Reliability Mechanisms for Controllers in Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems

Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are real-world processes that are controlled by computer algorithms. We consider CPSs where a centralized, software-based controller maintains the process in a desired state by exchanging measurements and setpoints with proces ...

EPFL2018

Spread of proliferative kidney disease in fish along stream networks: A spatial metacommunity framework

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Luca Carraro, Marino Gatto

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) is a high-mortality pathology that critically affects freshwater salmonid populations. Infection is caused by the endoparasitic myxozoan Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, which exploits freshwater bryozoans as primary hosts. ...

2018

Analysis and Enhancement of CSMA/CA With Deferral in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are employed in home networking to provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The IEEE 1901, the MAC protocol for power-line networks, employs a CSMA/CA protocol similar to that of 802.11, but is substantially more complex, wh ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Frugal Topology Construction for Stream Aggregation in the Cloud

Rachid Guerraoui, Rhicheek Patra, Bao Duy Tran

Aggregation of streamed data is key to the expansion of the Internet of Things. This paper addresses the problem of designing a topology for reliably aggregating data flows from many devices arriving at a datacenter. Reliability here means ensuring operati ...

Ieee2016

Experimental Validation of the Usability of Wi-Fi over Redundant Paths for Streaming Phasor Data

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Athanasios Giannakopoulos, Miroslav Popovic, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

Applications performing streaming of phasor- measurement data require low latency and losses from the communication network. Traditionally, such requirements are realized through wired infrastructure. Recently, wireless infras- tructure has gained attentio ...

Ieee2016

Reconstructing Curvilinear Networks using Path Classifiers and Integer Programming

Pascal Fua, Engin Türetken, Fethallah Benmansour, Przemyslaw Rafal Glowacki

We propose a novel Bayesian approach to automated delineation of curvilinear structures that form complex and potentially loopy networks. By representing the image data as a graph of potential paths, we first show how to weight these paths using discrimina ...

2016

Systematically testing OpenFlow controller applications

Dejan Kostic, Marco Canini, Peter Peresini, Maciej Leszek Kuzniar, Jennifer Rexford

The emergence of OpenFlow-capable switches enables exciting new network functionality, at the risk of programming errors that make communication less reliable. The centralized programming model, where a single controller program manages the network, seems ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

On the impact of link faults on Byzantine agreement

Martin Biely

Agreement problems and their solutions are essential to fault-tolerant distributed computing. Over the years, different assumptions on failures have been considered, but most of these assumptions were focusing on either processes or links. In contrast, we ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Analyzing and Boosting the Performance of Power-Line Communication Networks

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are employed in home networking to provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. IEEE 1901, the MAC protocol for power-line networks, employs a CSMA/CA protocol similar to that of 802.11, but is substantially more complex, which ...

2014

Understanding Collaborative Program Comprehension: Interlacing Gaze and Dialogues

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Kshitij Sharma, Marc-Antoine Nüssli

We study the interaction of the participants in a pair program comprehension task across different time scales in a dual eye-tracking setup. We identify four layers of interaction episodes at different time scales. Each layer spans across the whole interac ...

2013

A Network Coding Approach to Loss Tomography

Christina Fragouli

Network tomography aims at inferring internal network characteristics based on measurements at the edge of the network. In loss tomography, in particular, the characteristic of interest is the loss rate of individual links and multicast and/or unicast end- ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Reconstructing Loopy Curvilinear Structures Using Integer Programming

Pascal Fua, Engin Türetken, Fethallah Benmansour

We propose a novel approach to automated delineation of linear structures that form complex and potentially loopy networks. This is in contrast to earlier approaches that usually assume a tree topology for the networks. At the heart of our method is an Int ...

Ieee2013

On the Asymptotic Validity of the Decoupling Assumption for Analyzing 802.11 MAC Protocol

Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Performance evaluation of the 802.11 MAC protocol is classically based on the decoupling assumption, which hypothesizes that the backoff processes at different nodes are independent. This decoupling assumption results from mean field convergence and is gen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012