Publications associées à SD-WISE: A Software-Defined WIreless SEnsor network

Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

Creating Trust by Abolishing Hierarchies

Adrien Ghosn, Edouard Bugnion, Evangelos Marios Kogias, Mathias Josef Payer, Charly Nicolas Lucien Castes, Yuchen Qian, Neelu Shivprakash Kalani

Software is going through a trust crisis. Privileged code is no longer trusted and processes insufficiently protect user code from unverified libraries. While usually treated separately, confidential computing and program compartmentalization are both symp ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Robust Collaborative Learning with Linear Gradient Overhead

Rachid Guerraoui, Le Nguyen Hoang, John Stephan, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Nirupam Gupta, Rafaël Benjamin Pinot

Collaborative learning algorithms, such as distributed SGD (or D-SGD), are prone to faulty machines that may deviate from their prescribed algorithm because of software or hardware bugs, poisoned data or malicious behaviors. While many solutions have been ...

PLMR2023

Self-powered transformer intelligent wireless temperature monitoring system based on an ultra-low acceleration piezoelectric vibration energy harvester

Xin Chen

The wireless sensor nodes used for monitoring the condition of grid equipment always be powered by disposable batteries. However, it introduces disadvantages, such as inconvenient replacement, short lifespan, and envi-ronmental pollution, significantly imp ...

Elsevier2023

Hardware and Software Support for RPC-Centric Server Architecture

Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Online services have become ubiquitous in technological society, the global demand for which has driven enterprises to construct gigantic datacenters that run their software. Such facilities have also recently become a substrate for third-party organizatio ...

EPFL2022

Automated Verification of Network Function Binaries

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli

Formally verifying the correctness of software network functions (NFs) is necessary for network reliability, yet existing techniques require full source code and mandate the use of specific data structures. We describe an automated technique to verify NF b ...

USENIX Association2022

Simulating time-varying strong lenses

Georgios Vernardos

We present a self-consistent and versatile forward modelling software package that can produce time series and pixel-level simulations of time-varying strongly lensed systems. The time dimension, which needs to take into account different physical mechanis ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

Hardware-Software Co-Design of an RPC Processor

Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi

The booming popularity of online services has led to a major evolution in the way these services are built and deployed. To cope with such online data-intensive services, service providers deploy several massive-scale datacenters, also referred to as wareh ...

EPFL2021

Federated Learning Over Wireless Networks: Convergence Analysis and Resource Allocation

Vincent Gramoli

There is an increasing interest in a fast-growing machine learning technique called Federated Learning (FL), in which the model training is distributed over mobile user equipment (UEs), exploiting UEs' local computation and training data. Despite its advan ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Chirok: a post-refinement tool to analyse absolute structure

Philip Pattison

Chirok is software for a post-refinement test of the absolute structure. The software allows a user to calculate a distribution of the measure of chirality based on intensity quotients and linked to the Flack parameter. The distribution is fitted by a set ...

2020

Evaluating the Effects of Introducing Three Gamification Elements in STEM Educational Software for Secondary Schools

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah

Gamification aims to enhance the educational experience by enabling students to have fun with technology. Although research in the field has previously looked into the effectiveness of gamification, reviews of existing studies show that in the context of e ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Speed detection of battery-free nodes based on RF Wireless Power Transfer

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly increasing in terms of relevance and pervasiveness thanks to their notable real-time monitoring performance across several fields, including industrial, domestic, military, bi ...

IEEE2020

Advanced Techniques for Powering Wireless Sensor Nodes through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

This paper presents three different techniques for efficiently powering an energy-autonomous wireless sensor (EAWS) through both energy harvesting (EH) and RF wireless power transfer (WPT). The aim of the paper is to provide effective strategies and techni ...

IEEE2020

Lenstool-HPC: A High Performance Computing based mass modelling tool for cluster-scale gravitational lenses

Christoph Ernst René Schäfer, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib

With the upcoming generation of telescopes, cluster scale strong gravitational lenses will act as an increasingly relevant probe of cosmology and dark matter. The better resolved data produced by current and future facilities requires faster and more effic ...

ELSEVIER2020

Advanced Monitoring Systems Based on Battery-Less Asset Tracking Modules Energized through RF Wireless Power Transfer

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Asset tracking involving accurate location and transportation data is highly suited to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) featuring battery-less nodes that can be deployed in virtually any environment and require little or no maintenance. In response to the g ...

2020

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

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

A hybrid framework for industrial data storage and exploitation

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Tourkogiorgis

In this paper a hybrid framework is illustrated, with a software and hardware integration strategy, for an industrial platform that exploits features from a Relational Database (RDB) and Triplestore using the blackboard architectural pattern, ensuring effi ...

Elsevier2019

The software and hardware architecture of the real-time protection of in-vessel components in JET-ILW

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

For the first time, the JET operation in deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasma, which is scheduled to take place on JET in 2020, will be performed in the ITER mix of plasma-facing component materials. In view of the preparation of the DT campaign (DTE2), several ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019