Publications related to Replicated state machines without replicated execution

Impact of beam-coupling impedance on the Schottky spectrum of bunched beam

Tatiana Pieloni, Nicolas Frank Mounet, Christophe Emmanuel R. Lannoy

The Schottky monitors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be used for non-invasive beam diagnostics to estimate various bunch characteristics, such as tune, chromaticity, bunch profile or synchrotron frequency distribution. However, collective effects, ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Planetary-Scale Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Matteo Monti

The scale and pervasiveness of the Internet make it a pillar of planetary communication, industry and economy, as well as a fundamental medium for public discourse and democratic engagement. In stark contrast with the Internet's decentralized infrastructur ...

EPFL2024

DIABLO: A Benchmark Suite for Blockchains

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Andrei Lebedev, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron

With the recent advent of blockchains, we have witnessed a plethora of blockchain proposals. These proposals range from using work to using time, storage or stake in order to select blocks to be appended to the chain. As a drawback it makes it difficult fo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

LHC Schottky Spectrum from Macro-Particle Simulations

Tatiana Pieloni, Nicolas Frank Mounet, Christophe Emmanuel R. Lannoy

We introduce a method for building Schottky spectra from macro-particle simulations performed with the PyHEADTAIL code, applied to LHC beam conditions. In this case, the use of a standard Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm to recover the spectral conte ...

JACoW Publishing2022

Natural competence of the pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii: an elusive phenomenon

Nina Vesel

Natural competence for transformation is an important driver of horizontal DNA exchange between different organisms. This can result in accumulation of dangerous genetic features, such as antibiotic resistance genes, in a single organism. One example of an ...

EPFL2022

An Inverse-Filter-Based Method to Locate Partial Discharge Sources in Power Transformers

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Hamidreza Karami

Partial discharge (PD) occurrence in power transformers can lead to irreparable damage to the power network. In this paper, the inverse filter (IF) method to localize PDs in power transformers is proposed. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the ...

2022

Revisiting Tendermint: Design Tradeoffs, Accountability, and Practical Use

Rachid Guerraoui, Zarko Milosevic, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Jovan Komatovic

Tendermint is a deterministic consensus protocol and is one of the most mature implementations of its kind. This implementation is used as the core for building State Machine Replication (SMR) platforms with Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) guarantees. A not ...

IEEE2022

Function Integration, Reconstruction And Approximation Using Rank-1 Lattices

Fabio Nobile, Giovanni Migliorati

We consider rank-1 lattices for integration and reconstruction of functions with series expansion supported on a finite index set. We explore the connection between the periodic Fourier space and the non-periodic cosine space and Chebyshev space, via tent ...

2021

Hyperbolic Fourier series

Maryna Viazovska

In this article we explain the essence of the interrelation described in [PNAS 118, 15 (2021)] on how to write explicit interpolation formula for solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation by using the recent Fourier pair interpolation formula of Viazovska and ...

arXiv2021

Cooperative energy management of a community of smart-buildings: A Blockchain approach

Maher Kayal, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

Demand Response (DR) is progressively moving from a centralized, unidirectional structure to a set of advanced decentralized mechanisms that better balance distributed supply and demand. This paper presents a decentralized cooperative DR framework to manag ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Thermal CFTs in momentum space

Andrea Manenti

We study some aspects of conformal field theories at finite temperature in momentum space. We provide a formula for the Fourier transform of a thermal conformal block and study its analytic properties. In particular we show that the Fourier transform vanis ...

Springer Nature2020

System Support for Efficient Replication in Distributed Systems

Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi

Current online applications, such as search engines, social networks, or file sharing services, execute across a distributed network of machines. They provide non-stop services to their users despite failures in the underlying network. To achieve such a hi ...

EPFL2019

Fourier interpolation on the real line

Maryna Viazovska

In this paper we construct an explicit interpolation formula for Schwartz functions on the real line. The formula expresses the value of a function at any given point in terms of the values of the function and its Fourier transform on the set {0,+/- 1,+/- ...

2019

Fourier could be a data scientist: From graph Fourier transform to signal processing on graphs

Pierre Vandergheynst, Benjamin Ricaud, Nicolas Tremblay

The legacy of Joseph Fourier in science is vast, especially thanks to the essential tool that the Fourier transform is. The flexibility of this analysis, its computational efficiency and the physical interpretation it offers makes it a cornerstone in many ...

ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER2019

Scaling Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Matej Pavlovic

Online services are becoming more and more ubiquitous and keep growing in scale. At the same time, they are required to be highly available, secure, energy-efficient, and to achieve high performance. To ensure these (and many other) properties, replication ...

EPFL2019

Unified Theory for Recovery of Sparse Signals in a General Transform Domain

Kyong Hwan Jin

Compressed sensing is provided a data-acquisition paradigm for sparse signals. Remarkably, it has been shown that the practical algorithms provide robust recovery from noisy linear measurements acquired at a near optimal sampling rate. In many real-world a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding digital images or video streams

Pascal Frossard, Ntorina Thanou, Giulia Fracastoro

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital images, wherein said encoding apparatus (1100) comprises processing means (1110) configured for determining weights of a graph related to an image by minimizing a cost ...

2018

Secure Contactless Payment

Serge Vaudenay, Handan Kilinç Alper

A contactless payment lets a card holder execute payment without any interaction (e.g., entering PIN or signing) between the terminal and the card holder. Even though the security is the first priority in a payment system, the formal security model of cont ...

2018

Gold Raspberry-Like Colloidosomes Prepared at the Water-Nitromethane Interface

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov

Here, we propose a simple shake-flask method to produce micron-size colloidosomes from a liquid-liquid interface functionalized with a gold nanoparticle film. A step-by-step extraction process of an organic phase partially miscible with water led to the fo ...

2018

Privacy Preserving and Cost Optimal Mobile Crowdsensing using Smart Contracts on Blockchain

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos

The popularity and applicability of mobile crowdsensing applications are continuously increasing due to the widespread of mobile devices and their sensing and processing capabilities. However, we need to offer appropriate incentives to the mobile users who ...

IEEE2018