Publications related to Increasing Cellular Network Energy Efficiency for Railway Corridors

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

Beam Selection and Tracking for Amplify-and-Forward Repeaters

Ruben Merz, Andreas Peter Burg, Adrian Schumacher

Mobile network operators constantly have to upgrade their cellular network to satisfy the public's hunger for increasing data capacity. However, regulatory limits regarding allowed electromagnetic field strength on existing cell sites often limit or preven ...

IEEE2022

Cellular Fronthauling for Data Capacity Increase in Underserved Spaces

Adrian Schumacher

The increase in wireless data traffic continues and is a product of several factors. First, new technologies and capabilities enable new use cases for which new products emerge. Then, with the growing user adoption over time, the data traffic is further in ...

EPFL2022

A Rapid Translational Immune Response Program in CD8 Memory T Lymphocytes

Linlin Cao

The activation of memory T cells is a very rapid and concerted cellular response that requires coordination between cellular processes in different compartments and on different time scales. In this study, we use ribosome profiling and deep RNA sequencing ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2022

Improving Railway Track Coverage with mmWave Bridges: A Measurement Campaign

Ruben Merz, Andreas Peter Burg, Adrian Schumacher

Bringing cellular capacity into modern trains is challenging because they act as Faraday cages. Building a radio frequency (RF) corridor along the railway tracks ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio and limits handovers. However, building such RF corridors ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Adding Indoor Capacity without Fiber Backhaul: An mmWave Bridge Prototype

Ruben Merz, Andreas Peter Burg, Adrian Schumacher

Today, a large portion of mobile data traffic is consumed behind the shielding walls of buildings or in the Faraday cage of trains. This renders cellular network coverage from outdoor cell sites difficult. Indoor small cells and distributed antennas along ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A portable picocell antenna for 5G

Danelys Rodríguez Avila

Deployable emergency communication systems are a backbone solution for replacing damaged network infrastructures and/or providing high-end services in case of an emergency event. It is important that such systems are up-to-date with the latest mobile netwo ...

EPFL2021

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Philipp Buluschek, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Bruno Pais

Background: Population aging is posing multiple social and economic challenges to society. One such challenge is the social and economic burden related to increased health care expenditure caused by early institutionalizations. The use of modern pervasive ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

Field-to-Transmission Line Coupling Models With Special Attention to the Cooray–Rubinstein Approximation

Marcos Rubinstein

There are three equivalent procedures to evaluate the voltages induced by lightning on power lines, namely, the Agrawal–Price–Gurbaxani model, the Taylor–Satterwhite–Harrison model, and the Rachidi model. The Cooray–Rubinstein approximation is a procedure ...

2021

Dual Connectivity-Based Mobility Management and Data Split Mechanism in 4G/5G Cellular Networks

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The emerging 5G mobile network technology is envisioned to provide an efficient platform to interconnect machines, objects, and devices in addition to interconnecting people. Equipped with peak data rates, low latency, and massive capacity, 5G technology w ...

2020

Network coded multipath and related techniques

Emre Telatar, Derya Malak, Arno Schneuwly

Techniques are disclosed for adaptive coding and scheduling of packets in wireless networks. The adaptive coding and scheduling can be achieved by utilizing a discrete water filling (DWF) scheme. In an example, a computer-implemented method to adaptively c ...

2020

On Existence of Equilibria, Voltage Balancing, and Current Sharing in Consensus-Based DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata

This work presents new secondary regulators for current sharing and voltage balancing in DC microgrids, composed of distributed generation units, dynamic RLC lines, and nonlinear ZIP (constant impedance, constant current, and constant power) loads. The pro ...

IEEE2020

A scalable, line-independent control design algorithm for voltage and frequency stabilization in AC islanded microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Michele Tucci

We propose a decentralized control synthesis procedure for stabilizing voltage and frequency in AC Islanded microGrids (ImGs) composed of Distributed Generation Units (DGUs) and loads interconnected through power lines. The presented approach enables Plug- ...

2020

Sleep-wake-driven and circadian contributions to daily rhythms in gene expression and chromatin accessibility in the murine cortex

Felix Naef, Maxime Jan, Jake Yeung, Ioannis Xenarios

The timing and duration of sleep results from the interaction between a homeostatic sleep-wake-driven process and a periodic circadian process, and involves changes in gene regulation and expression. Unraveling the contributions of both processes and their ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

Reliable and Robust Cyber-Physical Systems for Real-Time Control of Electric Grids

Wajeb Saab

Real-time control of electric grids is a novel approach to handling the increasing penetration of distributed and volatile energy generation brought about by renewables. Such control occurs in cyber-physical systems (CPSs), in which software agents maintai ...

EPFL2019

Tissue-specific circadian transcriptional regulation

Jake Yeung

Circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior evolved to resonate with daily cycles in the external environment. In mammals, organs orchestrate temporal physiology over the 24-hour day, which requires extensive gene expression rhythms targeted to the right ...

EPFL2019

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

Can Daytime Napping Assist the Process of Skills Acquisition After Stroke?

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Winifried Backhaus

Acquisition and reacquisition of skills is a main pillar of functional recovery after stroke. Nighttime sleep has a positive influence on motor learning in healthy individuals, whereas the effect of daytime sleep on neuro-rehabilitative training and relear ...

2018

Locating lightning strikes and flashovers along overhead power transmission lines using electromagnetic time reversal

Gianluca Antonini, Mario Paolone, Keyhan Sheshyekani, Reza Razzaghi, Marco Scatena

The paper presents a method to identify the location of direct lightning strikes to overhead transmission lines and potential subsequent flashover(s). The method is based on the electromagnetic time reversal theory and relies on the use of a single measure ...

Elsevier2018

Network utility maximization for delay-sensitive applications in unknown communication settings

Stefano D'Aronco

In the last decades the Internet traffic has greatly evolved. The advent of new Internet services and applications has, in fact, led to a significant growth of the amount of data transmitted, as well as to a transformation of the data type. As a matter of ...

EPFL2018