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Identifying fall risk can prevent injuries in the elderly as well as reduce the related financial burden. A balance assessment, Timed Up and Go (TUG), has been widely applied to estimate fall risk. However, the standardized TUG usually excludes complex factors (e.g. slopes and obstacles) falling short of representing challenges in environments that many older adults navigate. Having information on...
In this paper, based on the dimethyl ether plant process and production process control system, the optimal design of DME control system is studied and the simulation system are established. First of all, the production equipment is regarded as the research object, and through the device operation requirements and device characteristics of structural analysis, and combined with the DCS control system...
Providing the optimal configuration for a software router poses a lot of technical challenges that do not present in the dedicated hardware router. One of them is how to characterize performance varying due to different configurations on commodity hardware. This paper addresses the problem of configuring a software router that provides the minimum of average packet latency. Since changing all combinations...
Pidgin communicator is a multiprotocol instant messenger client, developed by open source community. It was originally a third party client of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) protocol for Linux operating system founded in 1998. At present, its main goal is to provide common interface for every protocol it supports, so the user does not need care about protocol to use or peer's IM identifier, while he...
To address increasing problems caused by cyber attacks, we leverage Software Defined networks and Network Function Virtualisation governed by a SARNET-agent to enable autonomous response and attack mitigation. A Secure Autonomous Response Network (SARNET) uses a control loop to constantly assess the security state of the network by means of observables. Using a prototype we introduce the metrics impact...
In the SDN/NFV ecosystem, network services are provided as single Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or chains of them, each instantiated and executed on dedicated servers. So far, the chaining of those virtual functions, which is also known as the service chain composition problem, has been mostly performed by Telco Operators (TOs) for the great advantages they receive in terms of Capex and OpEX. However,...
This paper introduces a cost effective scheme for a Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) based on virtualization, which is a technology used to reduce Power Consumption (PC) in the Base Band Unit (BBU pool). The BBU's function is proposed to be as a software application running in a servers, which is called the virtual BBU (vBBU). To asses the proposal scheme, a power model of the BBU pool is proposed...
In this paper, the design, construction, and testing of a fully-functional virtualised mobile core network is outlined. Lessons learned and recommendations for future improvements are provided. The presented work uses open-source software for virtual network function infrastructure control (OpenStack), network flow programming (OpenDaylight), and network orchestration (OpenBaton) to virtualise a commercial...
Traditionally, network core devices are simple and the complexity is in the end-hosts. With the rise of Software- Defined Networking, this changes and complex functions are moved into the network core. This paper presents Transparent Transmission Segmentation (TTS), which is able to improve performance by executing parts of network functions at the core. An implementation for segmenting TCP connections...
This paper presents the cloud infrastructure of the AEGLE project, that targets to integrate cloud technologies together with heterogeneous reconfigurable computing in large scale healthcare systems for Big Bio-Data analytics. AEGLEs engineering concept brings together the hot big-data engines with emerging acceleration technologies, putting the basis for personalized and integrated health-care services,...
System landscapes within logistical scenarios is highly heterogenic. Adding specific mechanisms, e.g. to support planing, monitoring and analyses for fully electrical powered vehicles, could become a mess or at least a challenge. While our project Smart City Logistic (SCL) is trying to manage this extension for multiple logistic scenarios, other projects want to do comparable system extensions as...
The challenges posed by the Internet of Things (IoT) render existing security measures ineffective against emerging networks and devices. These challenges include heterogeneity, operation in open environments, and scalability. In this paper, we propose SST (Secure Swarm Toolkit), an open-source toolkit for construction and deployment of an authorization service infrastructure for the IoT. The infrastructure...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are specialized computing systems for the control and monitoring of distributed industrial devices. Aiming for a highly connected industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem, PLCopen OPC Unified Architecture (UA) specification has been released. This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of a PLCopen OPC-UA software component for industrial control...
With the growing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) services being applied in several aspects of real-life applications, performance has become an important requirement. Meanwhile, the techniques for reliability enhancement such as virtual machine migration and recovery also have significant impact on end-to-end performance. This paper proposes a predictive approach of reliability-aware performance...
This paper describes the software architecture and the implementation of a fully operational testbed that demonstrates the benefits of flexible, dynamic resource allocation with virtualized LTE-A nodes. The testbed embodies and specializes the general software architecture devised within the Flex5Gware EU project, and focuses on two intelligent programs: the first one is a Global Scheduler, that coordinates...
This paper deals with the reduction of the number of comatose servers. The characteristic of such a server is to consume electricity while not delivering useful information services. According to recent studies, up to 30% of the servers (including those in datacenters) are comatose. The existence of these servers lowers the interest in clouds for green computing. Our paper assumes a cloud provider...
In this article, we evaluate existing open source Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) and Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) software systems and benchmark their performance and reliability with various database systems. We also evaluate usability of the PDC systems and to list additional feature for the system. Among two open source PDC software, we found that OpenPDC out performs other PDC software in terms...
Named Data Networking (NDN) is one of the promising future internet architectures, which focuses on the data rather than its location (IP/host-based system). NDN has several characteristics which facilitate addressing and routing the data: fail-over, in-network caching and load balancing. This makes it useful in areas such as managing scientific data. The CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider...
This document presents a detailed description of the development and results obtained during the Proof of Concept about the Think! EHR platform, which is marketed by the Marand d.o.o (Marand) company.
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