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  • Assessing the time effectiveness of trust management in fully synchronised wireless sensor networks

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    - Year 2013

    The paper presents the results of the time effectiveness assessment of the distributed WSN Cooperative Trust Management Method - WCT2M in a fully synchronized Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). First we introduce some basic types of synchronization patterns in WSN based on the idea of sleep scheduling. Then we explain how WCT2M works in the network applying the fully synchronized sleep scheduling pattern. Such networks were subjected...

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  • Measurement of Coherence Bandwidth in UHF Radio Channels for Narrowband Networks

    This paper presents results of investigation on the coherence bandwidth of narrowband radio channels in 430MHz band. The coherence bandwidth values were estimated froma power delay profile obtained by recording CDMA2000 forward channel signals during real-fieldmeasurements in various environments:mediumcity, flat terrain, and hilly terrain in northern Poland.The results of measurements are compared with characteristic parameters...

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  • Estimation of time-frequency complex phase-based speech attributes using narrow band filter banks

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    - Year 2017

    In this paper, we present nonlinear estimators of nonstationary and multicomponent signal attributes (parameters, properties) which are instantaneous frequency, spectral (or group) delay, and chirp-rate (also known as instantaneous frequency slope). We estimate all of these distributions in the time-frequency domain using both finite and infinite impulse response (FIR and IIR) narrow band filers for speech analysis. Then, we present...

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  • Probe signal processing for channel estimation in underwater acoustic communication system

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    Underwater acoustic communication channels are characterized by a large variety of propagation conditions. Designing a reliable communication system requires knowledge of the transmission parameters of the channel, namely multipath delay spread, Doppler spread, coherence time, and coherence bandwidth. However, the possibilities of its estimation in a realtime underwater communication system are limited, mainly due to the computational...

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  • N-point estimators of the Instantaneous Complex Frequency

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    - Year 2011

    In this paper estimators of the instantaneous complex frequency (ICF) are presented and discussed. The differential approach for the estimation of the ICF is used, therefore the estimators are based on maximally flat N-point FIR filters: differential and delay. The investigation of the filter performance includes static characteristics of ICF estimation and the error of the ICF estimation in the discrete frequency domain.W pracy...

  • The Transmission Protocol of Sensor Ad Hoc Networks

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    - Year 2015

    This paper presents a secure protocol for a radio Ad Hoc sensor network. This network uses the TDMA multiple access method. The transmission rate on the radio channel is 57.6 kbps. The paper presents the construction of frames, types of packets and procedures for the authentication, assignment of time slots available to the node, releasing assigned slots and slots assignment conflict detection.

  • Deep neural networks for human pose estimation from a very low resolution depth image

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    The work presented in the paper is dedicated to determining and evaluating the most efficient neural network architecture applied as a multiple regression network localizing human body joints in 3D space based on a single low resolution depth image. The main challenge was to deal with a noisy and coarse representation of the human body, as observed by a depth sensor from a large distance, and to achieve high localization precision....

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  • Future research directions in design of reliable communication systems

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    • J. Rak
    • M. Pickavet
    • K. S. Trivedi
    • J. A. Lopez
    • A. M. C. A. Koster
    • J. P. Sterbenz
    • E. Çetinkaya
    • T. Gomes
    • M. Gunkel
    • K. Walkowiak
    • D. Staessens

    - TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Year 2015

    In this position paper on reliable networks, we discuss new trends in the design of reliable communication systems. We focus on a wide range of research directions including protection against software failures as well as failures of communication systems equipment. In particular, we outline future research trends in software failure mitigation, reliability of wireless communications, robust optimization and network design, multilevel...

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  • Identification of Shift in Sowing and Harvesting Dates of Rice Crop (L. Oryza sativa) through Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of Larkana District

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    - Sustainability - Year 2020

    The present study aimed to determine the impact of climate variability on rice crops in terms of sowing and harvesting dates and crop period. The identification of sowing and harvesting dates were spotted by mask identification, variations in land surface temperature (LST) on a temporal scale in the respective months, and a field-level social inquiry. The study was conducted during a time period (1994–2017), in which geo-referenced...

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  • Społeczno-gospodarcza aktywizacja małych miast w powiecie braniewskim = SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVATION OF TOWNS IN BRANIEWO DISTRICT

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    - Year 2014

    Streszczenie Okres ponad 20. lat działalności lokalnych samorządów w Polsce okazał się niewystarczający dla przeprowadzenia w małych miastach niezbędnych zmian społecznych, gospodarczych i przestrzennych. W tym czasie z trudem wzrastał poziom obywatelskiej świadomości, lokalnego partnerstwa i aktywności w życiu publicznym. Społeczności miały możliwość angażowania się w miejscowe działania i współdecydowania o sprawach rozwoju gospodarczego,...

  • Metaheuristic algorithms for optimization of resilient overlay computing systems

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    • K. Walkowiak
    • W. Charewicz
    • M. Donajski
    • J. Rak

    - Logic journal of the IGPL - Year 2014

    The idea of distributed computing systems has been gaining much interest in recent years owing to the growing amount of data to be processed for both industrial and academic purposes. However, similar to other systems, also distributed computing systems are vulnerable to failures. Due to strict QoS requirements, survivability guarantees are necessary for provisioning of uninterrupted service. In this article, we focus on reliability...

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  • eFRADIR: An Enhanced FRAmework for DIsaster Resilience

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    • A. Pasic
    • R. Girao-Silva
    • F. Mogyorosi
    • B. Vass
    • T. Gomes
    • P. Babarczi
    • P. Revisnyei
    • J. Tapolcai
    • J. Rak

    - IEEE Access - Year 2021

    This paper focuses on how to increase the availability of a backbone network with minimal cost. In particular, the new framework focuses on resilience against natural disasters and is an evolution of the FRADIR/FRADIR-II framework. It targets three different directions, namely: network planning, failure modeling, and survivable routing. The steady state network planning is tackled by upgrading a sub-network (a set of links termed...

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  • Neural Architecture Search for Skin Lesion Classification

    Deep neural networks have achieved great success in many domains. However, successful deployment of such systems is determined by proper manual selection of the neural architecture. This is a tedious and time-consuming process that requires expert knowledge. Different tasks need very different architectures to obtain satisfactory results. The group of methods called the neural architecture search (NAS) helps to find effective architecture...

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  • Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul Architectures for 5G and Future 6G Networks

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    - Year 2022

    Fifth-generation and Beyond (5GB) wireless networks have introduced new centralized architectures such as cloud radio access network (CRAN), which necessitate extremely high-capacity low latency Fronthaul (FH). CRAN has many advantageous features in terms of cost reduction, performance enhancement, ease of deployment, and centralization of network management. Nevertheless, designing and deploying a cost-efficient FH is still a...

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  • The Analysis and Solutions to the Problems of IPv6 Configuration Migration of Small Networks

    The paper analyzes the problems of IPv4 to IPv6 migration processes and indicates the areas in which migration can be done without expensive replacement of hardware, software and organizational changes. This paper presents the migration tools developed for the SOHO network administrators. The tools provide theoretical knowledge and practical advices on migrating to IPv6 and enable automation of the migration process. The article...

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  • In Situ Verification of Numerical Model of Water Hammer in Slurries

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    This paper presents a numerical model of transient flow in a pressure slurry pipeline network with verification based on in situ measurements. The model, primarily verified in laboratory conditions, has been extended and applied to the case of a large and complex slurry pipeline network in Poland. In the model, the equivalent density concept was applied. In situ experiments were performed for various unsteady flow episodes, caused by...

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  • Extending touch-less interaction with smart glasses by implementing EMG module

    In this paper we propose to use temporal muscle contraction to perform certain actions. Method: The set of muscle contractions corresponding to one of three actions including “single-click”, “double-click” “click-n-hold” and “non-action” were recorded. After recording certain amount of signals, the set of five parameters was calculated. These parameters served as an input matrix for the neural network. Two-layer feedforward neural...

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  • Analysis of Denoising Autoencoder Properties Through Misspelling Correction Task

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    The paper analyzes some properties of denoising autoencoders using the problem of misspellings correction as an exemplary task. We evaluate the capacity of the network in its classical feed-forward form. We also propose a modification to the output layer of the net, which we called multi-softmax. Experiments show that the model trained with this output layer outperforms traditional network both in learning time and accuracy. We...

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  • Fast Real-Time RDFT- and GDFT-Based Direct Fault Diagnosis of Induction Motor Drive

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    This paper presents the theoretical analysis and experimental verification of a direct fault harmonic identification approach in a converter-fed electric drive for automated diagnosis purposes. On the basis of the analytical model of the proposed real-time direct fault diagnosis, the fault-related harmonic component is calculated using recursive DFT (RDFT) and Goertzel DFT (GDFT), applied instead of the full spectrum calculations...

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  • Expression of a GDSL esterase from Pseudomonas sp. S9 in Pichiapastoris

    Cold active lipolytic enzymes are promising to replace the conventional enzymes processes of biotechnological industries. One of the most important feature of the cold-active lipases and esterases is that they offer economic benefits through energy saving. In general, they exhibit high activity at low temperatures and low thermostability at moderate temperatures. Lipolytic enzyme EstS9 was isolated from Pseudomonas sp. S9. A multiple...

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  • Improving voltage levels in low-voltage networks with distributed generation – case study

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    - Year 2018

    The use of distributed generation in low-voltage networks may cause the voltage variation in them, within the wide range. In unfavourable circumstances, the voltage may reach unacceptable values. The paper presents the effect of distributed generation on voltage levels in a selected low-voltage rural distribution network in Poland. An analysis of possible methods for improving voltage levels in this network is conducted. The most...

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  • Operation, Administration, Maintenance in Carrier Grade Ethernet

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    - Year 2010

    OAM (Operation, Administration and Maintenance) plays a crucial role in carrier networks. OAM functionality ensures that network operators and service providers can maintain the quality of the services they offer. One of its major tasks is the detection of anomalies in the network before they become a problem. This enables network operators and service providers to deliver services that come up to a predetermined level of quality...

  • Activity coordination of capacitor banks and power transformer controllers in order to reduce power losses in the MV grid

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    One of the main issues related to the optimization of the MV (middle voltage) network is to reduce losses of active and reactive power. Lower losses of active and reactive power give not only economic advantage, but also improvement of energy quality. The object of regulation that can be used for these purposes are transformer with On-Load Tap Changer and capacitor's banks. This paper presents results of analysis of the possibility...

  • Jacek Namieśnik prof. dr hab. inż.

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    Scientific discipline: chemistryRector in 2016-2019 He was born on 10 December, 1949 in Mogilno. He graduated in 1972 at the Faculty of Chemistry at Gdańsk University of Technology, obtaining a master's degree in chemical engineering. In 1972 he started working at Gdańsk University of Technology, where in 1978 he defended his doctoral thesis and in 1985 he completed his habilitation. He was appointed an associate professor in 1991...

  • Trust Management Method for Wireless Sensor Networks

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    - Year 2017

    A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, etc. and to cooperatively pass their data to the main location. The first wireless network that bore any real resemblance to a modern WSN is the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), developed by the United States Military in the 1950s to detect and track Soviet...

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  • A Test-Bed Analysis of Simultaneous PMIPv6 Handover in 802.11 WLANs Environment

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    - Year 2013

    Providing mobility in access networks is a challenge that we have to deal with. Due to networks’ convergence and migration to all-IP networks, mobility management at the network layer is required. However, there is a need for cooperation mechanisms between the network layer and lower layers to support multimedia services and make handover more efficient. This paper presents experimental research on simultaneous handover performance...

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  • The Large Customer Reactive Power Control Possibilities

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    n this paper the authors wish to draw attention to the rationale for, and the possibility of, the use of local reactive power sources by the Transmission Node Master Controller (TNMC). Large Customers (LC) are one of the possible reactive power sources. The paper presents the issues related to the need for coordination between the control systems installed in the LC network, and coordination between control systems of the LC as...

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  • The voltage on bus bars of the main switchboard of the car carrier electrical power system during sea trials

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    The dataset is part of the research results on the quality of supply voltage on bus bars of the main switchboard of the ship's electrical power system in different states of ship exploitation. The attached dataset contains the measurement results conducted onboard the car carrier during sea trials.

  • The voltage on bus bars of the main switchboard of the car carrier electrical power system at sea trials during maneuvering

    Open Research Data
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    The dataset is part of the research results on the quality of supply voltage on bus bars of the main switchboard of the ship's electrical power system in different states of ship exploitation. The attached dataset contains the measurement results conducted onboard the car carrier at sea trials during maneuvering.

  • Józef Judycki prof. dr hab. inż.

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  • Adaptive prediction of stock exchange indices by state space wavelet networks

    The paper considers the forecasting of the Warsaw Stock Exchange price index WIG20 by applying a state space wavelet network model of the index price. The approach can be applied to the development of tools for predicting changes of other economic indicators, especially stock exchange indices. The paper presents a general state space wavelet network model and the underlying principles. The model is applied to produce one session...

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  • Measurements of ASON/GMPLS connection control layer performance according to the ETSI methodology

    Measurements of performance have always been crucial for evaluation of telecommunication systems, especially for implementation of network control elements responsible for connection handling which regards to bandwidth reservation, modification and release. That problem also arises in Automatically Switched Optical Network/Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (ASON/GMLPS) architecture, which is considered as one of the components...

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  • Voltage and Current Unbalance Reduction in Power Networks with Distributed Generation and Electric Vehicles

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    The current development of prosumer microsources and the expected spread of electric vehicles may cause the appearance of significant current and voltage unbalance in low-voltage (LV) networks. This unbalance, which is an unfavorable phenomenon, may occur when using single-phase photovoltaic (PV) microsources and single-phase home chargers for electric vehicles. This paper presents a proposal for the symmetrization of the LV network...

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  • Effect of Nb and Al on in vitro dissolution behavior and structure of Na2O-MgO CaO-P2O5 glasses

    In vitro dissolution, structure, and thermal properties of the glass series Na2O-MgOsingle bondCaOsingle bondNb2O5 -Al2O3-P2O5 were studied. The dissolution behavior in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) confirmed the potential bioactive properties of tested glasses. The dissolution process was found to depend on the Al, Nb, and Mg contents. Al, respectively, suppresses the Nb and accelerates the Mg release process from the glasses....

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  • ADAPTIVE PREDICTIONS OF THE EURO/ZŁOTY CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE USING STATE SPACE WAVELET NETWORKS AND FORECAST COMBINATIONS

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    The paper considers the forecasting of the euro/Polish złoty (EUR/PLN) spot exchange rate by applying state space wavelet network and econometric forecast combination models. Both prediction methods are applied to produce one-trading-day- ahead forecasts of the EUR/PLN exchange rate. The paper presents the general state space wavelet network and forecast combination models as well as their underlying principles. The state space...

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  • Disciplines and measures of information resilience

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    • J. Rak
    • M. Jonsson
    • D. Hutchison
    • J. Sterbenz

    - Year 2017

    Communication networks have become a fundamental part of many critical infrastructures, playing an important role in information delivery in various failure scenarios triggered e.g., by forces of nature (including earthquakes, tornados, fires, etc.), technology-related disasters (for instance due to power blackout), or malicious human activities. A number of recovery schemes have been defined in the context of network resilience...

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  • Self-Supervised Learning to Increase the Performance of Skin Lesion Classification

    To successfully train a deep neural network, a large amount of human-labeled data is required. Unfortunately, in many areas, collecting and labeling data is a difficult and tedious task. Several ways have been developed to mitigate the problem associated with the shortage of data, the most common of which is transfer learning. However, in many cases, the use of transfer learning as the only remedy is insufficient. In this study,...

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  • Networkig activities of general judiciary - from theory to practice

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    - e-mentor - Year 2018

    Over the last three decades, networks - as a field of research - have acquired a significant place among management sciences. Unfortunately, in the judiciary they have become a subject of more careful analyses only recently, which resulted in a large discrepancy of knowledge - both in theory and in its practical adaptation for the needs of the courts. In order to fill this cognitive gap, an attempt was made to identify levels of...

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  • THE INFLUENCE OF WSR PARAMETER ON PET BOTTLE THICKNESS PROFILE IN SBM FROM PREFORM PROCESS

    From a mechanical point of view, the thickness profile of PET bottles manufactured by ISBM process is determined by mechanical and thermal response of blown preforms. From the microscopic point of view the biggest influence on the mechanical and thermal properties of PET bottles have orientation and crystallization processes. From a technological point of view, the thickness profile of PET bottles after manufacture by SBM process...

  • Using concentrated spectrogram for analysis of audio acoustic signals

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    The paper presents results of time-frequency analysis of audio acoustic signals using the method of Concentrated Spectrograph also known as ''Cross-spectral method'' or ''Reassignment method''. Presented algorithm involves signal's local group delay and channelized instantaneous frequency to relevantly redistribute all Short-time Fourier transform lines in time-frequency plain. The main intention of the paper is to compare various...

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  • Wykorzystanie fazy transformaty STFT do oceny jakości spektrogramu

    W niniejszej publikacji przedstawiono koncepcję oceny jakości spektrogramu, wykorzystując często marginalizowaną fazę transformaty STFT (ang. Short-term Fourier transform). Spektrograf traktowany jest jako bank filtrów demultipleksujących sygnał. Dla każdego w ten sposób odfiltrowanego sygnału składowego obliczana jest kanałowa pulsacja chwilowa (ang. channel instantaneous frequency) oraz lokalne opóźnienie grupowe (ang. local...

  • Topological, nonreciprocal, and multiresonant slow light beyond the time-bandwidth limit

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    - APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS - Year 2021

    Topologically protected transport has recently emerged as an effective means to address a recurring problem hampering the field of slow light for the past two decades: its keen sensitivity to disorders and structural imperfections. With it, there has been renewed interest in efforts to overcome the delay-time-bandwidth limitation usually characterizing slow-light devices, on occasion thought to be a fundamental limit. What exactly...

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  • Resilient Routing in Communication Networks

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    - Year 2015

    This important text/reference addresses the latest issues in end-to-end resilient routing in communication networks. The work highlights the main causes of failures of network nodes and links, and presents an overview of resilient routing mechanisms, covering issues related to the Future Internet (FI), wireless mesh networks (WMNs), and vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). For each of these network architectures, a selection of...

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  • MODEL FOR MEASUREMENT OF FLOW INSTALLATION TIME IN SDN SWITCH

    SDN is the approach in telecommunication networks that separates control plane from data forwarding plane by specifying a single network entity as a controller that defines rules (called flows) of traffic forwarding for the switches connected to it. The time that is required for installation of these rules might be a hindrance for the overall performance of SDN network. In the paper, a model for testing and evaluating the influence...

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  • How to meet when you forget: log-space rendezvous in arbitrary graphs

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    - DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING - Year 2011

    Two identical (anonymous) mobile agents start from arbitrary nodes in an a priori unknown graph and move synchronously from node to node with the goal of meeting. This rendezvous problem has been thoroughly studied, both for anonymous and for labeled agents, along with another basic task, that of exploring graphs by mobile agents. The rendezvous problem is known to be not easier than graph exploration. A well-known recent result...

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  • Dynamic GPU power capping with online performance tracing for energy efficient GPU computing using DEPO tool

    GPU accelerators have become essential to the recent advance in computational power of high- performance computing (HPC) systems. Current HPC systems’ reaching an approximately 20–30 mega-watt power demand has resulted in increasing CO2 emissions, energy costs and necessitate increasingly complex cooling systems. This is a very real challenge. To address this, new mechanisms of software power control could be employed. In this...

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  • Tagged images with LEGO bricks - Bricks Sloped

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    version 1.2 open access - series: LEGO - partial

    The set contains images of LEGO bricks (from Bricks Sloped category). The images were prepared for training neural network for recognition and labeling of LEGO bricks. The images contain one brick each. The images were taken from different sides by handheld camera hovering over the bricks lying on a white, non reflective surface.

  • Tagged images with LEGO bricks - Tiles

    Open Research Data
    version 1.1 open access - series: LEGO - partial

    The set contains images of LEGO bricks (from Tiles category). The images were prepared for training neural network for recognition and labeling of LEGO bricks. The images contain one brick each. The images were taken from different sides by handheld camera hovering over the bricks lying on a white, non reflective surface.

  • Tagged images with LEGO bricks - Windscreens and Fuselage

    Open Research Data
    version 1.2 open access - series: LEGO - partial

    The set contains images of LEGO bricks (from Windscreens and Fuselage category). The images were prepared for training neural network for recognition and labeling of LEGO bricks. The images contain one brick each. The images were taken from different sides by handheld camera hovering over the bricks lying on a white, non reflective surface.

  • Tagged images with LEGO bricks - Bricks Special

    Open Research Data
    version 1.2 open access - series: LEGO - partial

    The set contains images of LEGO bricks (from Bricks Special category). The images were prepared for training neural network for recognition and labeling of LEGO bricks. The images contain one brick each. The images were taken from different sides by handheld camera hovering over the bricks lying on a white, non reflective surface.