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Parallelization of adaptive MC integrators
2019
Abstract Monte Carlo (MC) methods for numerical integration seem to be embarrassingly parallel on first sight. When adaptive schemes are applied in order to enhance convergence however, the seemingly most natural way of replicating the whole job on each processor can potentially ruin the adaptive behaviour. Using the popular VEGAS-Algorithm as an example an economic method of semi-micro parallelization with variable grain-size is presented and contrasted with another straightforward approach of macro-... Title of program: pvegas.c Catalogue Id: ADGU_v1_0 Nature of problem Monte Carlo (MC) methods for numerical integration seem to be embarassingly parallel on first sight. When adaptive schem…
FlexibleSUSY—A spectrum generator generator for supersymmetric models
2019
This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018) Abstract We introduce FlexibleSUSY, a Mathematica and C++ package, which generates a fast, precise C++ spectrum generator for any SUSY model specified by the user. The generated code is designed with both speed and modularity in mind, making it easy to adapt and extend with new features. The model is specified by supplying the superpotential, gauge structure and particle content in a SARAH model file; specific boundary conditions e.g. at the GUT, weak or intermediate scales are defined in a separate F... Title of program: FlexibleSUSY Catalogue Id: AEVI_v1_0 Nature of problem Determini…
Use of wavelet for image processing in smart cameras with low hardware resources
2013
International audience; Images from embedded sensors need digital processing to recover high-quality images and to extract features of a scene. Depending on the properties of the sensor and on the application, the designer fits together different algorithms to process images. In the context of embedded devices, the hardware supporting those applications is very constrained in terms of power consumption and silicon area. Thus, the algorithms have to be compliant with the embedded specifications i.e. reduced computational complexity and low memory requirements. We investigate the opportunity to use the wavelet representation to perform good quality image processing algorithms at a lower compu…
Evaluation of Structural and Temporal Properties of Ego Networks for Data Availability in DOSNs
2017
The large diffusion of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has influenced the way people interact with each other. OSNs present several drawbacks, one of the most important is the problem of privacy disclosures. Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been proposed as a valid alternative solution to solve this problem. DOSNs are Online Social Networks implemented on a distributed platform, such as a P2P system or a mobile network. However, the decentralization of the control presents several challenges, one of the main ones is guaranteeing data availability without relying on a central server. To this aim, users’ data allocation strategies have to be defined and this requires the knowledg…
SDN@home: A Method for Controlling Future Wireless Home Networks
2016
Recent advances in wireless networking technologies are leading toward the proliferation of novel home network applications. However, the landscape of emerging scenarios is fragmented due to their varying technological requirements and the heterogeneity of current wireless technologies. We argue that the development of flexible software-defined wireless architectures, including such efforts as the wireless MAC processor, coupled with SDN concepts, will enable the support of both emerging and future home applications. In this article, we first identify problems with managing current home networks composed of separate network segments governed by different technologies. Second, we point out t…
A low power and high resolution data logger for submarine seismic monitoring
2010
The design, implementation and characterization of a digital waveform recorder for ocean bottom seismic monitoring is here reported. The system is capable of synchronously acquiring, and logging on a flash memory bank, four high resolution signals. Thanks to a very careful design of the system architecture and by using robust digital signal processing techniques, two main conflicting issues have been addressed: a high dynamic range, better than 120 dB, usually obtained with high energy demanding converters, and a power consumption as low as 250 mW, hence allowing to easily increase the time of a continuous submarine monitoring session up to 3 months.
An efficient hardware implementation of MQ decoder of the JPEG2000
2014
Abstract JPEG2000 is an international standard for still images intended to overcome the shortcomings of the existing JPEG standard. Compared to JPEG image compression techniques, JPEG2000 standard has not only better not only has better compression ratios, but it also offers some exciting features. As it’s hard to meet the real-time requirement of image compression systems by software, it is necessary to implement compression system by hardware. The MQ decoder of the JPEG2000 standard is an important bottleneck for real-time applications. In order to meet the real-time requirement we propose in this paper a novel architecture for a MQ decoder with high throughput which is comparable to tha…
Dual-model approach for safety-critical embedded systems
2020
Abstract The paper presents the design of digital controllers based on two models: the Petri net model, and the UML state machine. These two approaches differ in many aspects of design flow, such as conceptual modelling, and analysis and synthesis. Each of these approaches can be used individually to design an efficient logic controller, and such solutions are well-known, but their interoperability can contribute to a much better understanding of logic controller design and validation. This is especially important in the case of safety- or life-critical embedded systems, and apart from this, a dual-model controller design can make up redundant system increasing its reliability.
Efficient information gathering from large wireless sensor networks
2018
Abstract Considering large WSNs and comparing data aggregation approaches in terms of scalability, robustness, completeness, and time/energy effectiveness, recent research has asserted the superiority of serial structure-free approaches over serial structure-based ones, and over both parallel structure-free and parallel structure-based techniques. But, in spite of the fact that serial structure-free approaches excel in large and medium-scale networks, their underlying path-construction algorithms are not optimal and can be improved by reducing the involved communications and further shortening the visiting path. To respond to this need, this paper presents Geometric Serial Search (GSS); a n…
Restoration of Videos Degraded by Local Isoplanatism Effects in the Near-Infrared Domain
2008
When observing a scene horizontally at a long distance in the near-infrared domain, degradations due to atmospheric turbulence often occur. In our previous work, we presented two hybrid methods to restore videos degraded by such local perturbations. These restoration algorithms take advantages of a space-time Wiener filter and a space-time regularization by the Laplacian operator. Wiener and Laplacian regularization results are mixed differently depending on the distance between the current pixel and the nearest edge point. It was shown that a gradation between Wiener and Laplacian areas improves results quality, so that only the algorithm using a gradation will be used in this article. In …