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Optimising Redundancy in Distributed Sensor Networks

Whether it be for environmental sensing or Internet of Things (IoT) applications, sensor networks are of growing use thanks to their large-scale sensing and distributed data storage abilities. However, when used in hazardous conditions and thus undergoing ...

2023

Validating functional redundancy with mixed generative adversarial networks

Thanh Trung Huynh, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Trung-Dung Hoang

Data redundancy has been one of the most important problems in data-intensive applications such as data mining and machine learning. Removing data redundancy brings many benefits in efficient data updating, effective data storage, and error-free query proc ...

ELSEVIER2023

Metamodel for Safety Risk Management of Medical Devices Based on ISO 14971

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, David Atienza Alonso

The integration of information technologies into medical systems has led to an increase in digitalization, which results in enormous possibilities, but also challenges in system development. The ever-growing complexity of modern medical devices (MD) requir ...

2023

Advanced methodologies for modeling and assessment of SFR safety functions

Janos Bodi

The present doctoral work was performed to contribute to the conceptual design development and safety assessment of a Generation IV Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) in the frame of the European Sodium Fast Reactor Safety Measures Assessment and Research Tools (ES ...

EPFL2022

Deep Learning Detection of GPS Spoofing

Mirjana Stojilovic, Olivia Jullian Parra

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely deployed in air navigation, where numerous applications use them for safety-of-life and positioning, navigation, and timing tasks. Consequently, GPS spoofing attacks are more and more frequent. The aim of this wor ...

Springer, Cham2022

A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, William John Stewart, Mir Alikhan Bin Mohammad Feroskhan

Delivery drones used by logistics companies today are equipped with unshielded propellers, which represent a major hurdle for in-hand parcel delivery. The exposed propeller blades are hazardous to unsuspecting bystanders, pets, and untrained users. One sol ...

2020

The Impact of RDMA on Agreement

Rachid Guerraoui, Mihail Igor Zablotchi, Naama Ben David

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is becoming widely available in data centers. This technology allows a process to directly read and write the memory of a remote host, with a mechanism to control access permissions. In this paper, we study the fundamenta ...

2019

Effect of building overtopping on induced loads during extreme hydrodynamic events

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Davide Wüthrich, Ioan Nistor

Tsunamis, impulse-waves and dam-break waves have affected humanity in recent decades and the construction of vertical shelters can provide safety to people. However, for non-critical infrastructures, typically residential houses of lower height, overtoppin ...

2019

Hardware/Software Co-Design and Reliability Analysis of Ultra-Low Power Biomedical Devices

Soumya Subhra Basu

Smart health monitoring devices, known as Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSN) are transforming today's health-care landscape, shifting it from traditional hospital-based methods toward more personalized approaches. Their demand is ever-increasing in the mode ...

EPFL2019

Lausanne checklist for safe stereotactic radiosurgery

Constantin Tuleasca

Introduction Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is increasingly used as a minimally invasive alternative in many neurosurgical conditions, including benign and malignant tumors, vascular malformations, and functional procedures. As for any surgical procedure, ...

2019

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