Publications related to High Throughput Total Order Broadcast for Cluster Environments

Reliable Microsecond-Scale Distributed Computing

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

Multi-agent reinforcement learning with graph convolutional neural networks for optimal bidding strategies of generation units in electricity markets

Olga Fink, Mina Montazeri

Finding optimal bidding strategies for generation units in electricity markets would result in higher profit. However, it is a challenging problem due to the system uncertainty which is due to the lack of knowledge of the strategies of other generation uni ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

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

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erick Lavoie

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

A Distributed Luenberger Observer for Linear State Feedback Systems With Quantized and Rate-Limited Communications

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti, Ye Pu, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

This article addresses the problem of simultaneous distributed state estimation, and control of linear systems with linear state feedback, subjected to process, and measurement noise, under the constraints of quantized, and rate-limited network data transm ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

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

Destination buffer analysis for packets rejection obliteration in multi-channel networks

Georgia Fragkouli

In this paper we study a multi-channel network, each station of which is equipped with a network interface that has a receiver buffer of multiple packets. In this way, each station is able to receive multiple packets per time instant. We adopt a synchronou ...

2019

Material and Electrical study of HfO2-Based Resistive Random Access Memories (ReRAMs)

Behnoush Attarimashalkoubeh

Resistive Random Access Memories (ReRAMs) have been researched intensively in the last past decades as a promising alternatives technology for the next-generation non-volatile memory (NVM) devices. ReRAMâ s excellent performance properties such as high sw ...

EPFL2019

Strategies for increasing the throughput of super-resolution microscopies

Suliana Manley, Dora Mahecic, Juliette Griffie

Fluorescence microscopy methods have been developed to circumvent the diffraction limit by exploiting nonlinearities in the interactions between light and fluorophores. Initially, these methods were up to orders of magnitude slower than standard microscopi ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Indole Alkaloids, Macrocycles and Heterocycles : Interplay between Methodological Development and Total Synthesis

Cyril Piemontesi

An enantioselective total synthesis of (-)-terengganensine A, a heptacyclic monoterpene indole alkaloid, was performed. A short sequence allowed to obtain the enantio-enriched target in good overall yield. The synthesis featured a key asymmetric transfer h ...

EPFL2018

Network-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing

Alexandros Daglis

The booming popularity of online services is rapidly raising the demands for modern datacenters. In order to cope with data deluge, growing user bases, and tight quality of service constraints, service providers deploy massive datacenters with tens to hund ...

EPFL2018

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

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

Neuronal morphologies: the shapes of thoughts

Lida Kanari

The mammalian brain, one of the most fascinating systems in nature, is a complex biological structure that has kept scientists busy for over a century. Many of the brain's mysteries have been unraveled due to the enormous efforts of the scientific communit ...

EPFL2018

On the Structure of Cortical Microcircuits Inferred from Small Sample Sizes

Rodrigo de Campos Perin

The structure in cortical microcircuits deviates from what would be expected in a purely random network, which has been seen as evidence of clustering. To address this issue, we sought to reproduce the nonrandom features of cortical circuits by considering ...

Soc Neuroscience2017

Measuring and Managing Switch Diversity in Software Defined Networks

Maciej Leszek Kuzniar

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a novel approach to building computer networks. Improved flexibility, simplified management and cost reduction promised by SDN makes many see it as the future of networking. The main insight of SDN is the separation of ...

EPFL2016

Distributed Modifier-Adaptation Schemes for the Real-Time Optimization of Interconnected Systems in the Presence of Structural Plant-Model Mismatch

Dominique Bonvin, Predrag Milosavljevic, René Uwe Schneider

The desire to operate chemical processes in a safe and economically optimal way has motivated the development of so-called real-time optimization (RTO) methods [1]. For continuous processes, these methods aim to compute safe and optimal steady-state set ...

2016

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

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

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

Systematically testing OpenFlow controller applications

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

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

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

Electri-Fi Your Data: Measuring and Combining Power-Line Communications with WiFi

Patrick Thiran, Christina Vlachou, Sébastien Christophe Henri

Power-line communication (PLC) is widely used as it offers high data-rates and forms a network over electrical wiring, an existing and ubiquitous infrastructure. PLC is increasingly being deployed in hybrid networks that combine multiple technologies, the ...

2015