The current source converter (CSC)-based wind energy conversion system is a good candidate for next-generation wind systems. To ensure control objectives, a large dc-link current is used in existing CSC-based wind sys...
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The advent of virtualization and cloud computing has fundamentally changed how distributed applications and services are deployed and managed. With the proliferation of IoT and mobile devices, virtualized systems akin...
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The advent of virtualization and cloud computing has fundamentally changed how distributed applications and services are deployed and managed. With the proliferation of IoT and mobile devices, virtualized systems akin to those offered by cloud providers are increasingly needed geographically near the network's edge to perform processing tasks in proximity to the data sources and sinks. Latency-sensitive, bandwidth-intensive applications can be decomposed into workflows that leverage resources at the edge - a model referred to as fog computing. Not only is performance important, but a trustworthy network is fundamental to guaranteeing privacy and integrity at the network layer. This paper describes Bounded Flood, a novel technique that enables virtual private Ethernet networks that span edge and cloud resources - including those constrained by NAT and firewall middleboxes. Bounded Flood builds upon a scalable structured peer-to-peer overlay, and is novel in how it integrates overlay tunnels with SDN software switches to create a virtual network with dynamic membership - supporting unmodified Ethernet/IP stacks to facilitate the deployment of edge applications. Bounded Flood has been implemented as the core of the EdgeVPN open-source virtual private network software system for edge computing. Experiments with the software demonstrate its functionality and scalability - one of which includes Kubernetes with Flannel across Raspberry Pi 4 edge devices behind different NATs.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://***/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Microgrids have emerged as a key solution for enhancing the flexibility, reliability, and sustainability of power systems. As the penetration of renewable energy sources and distributed generation increases, effective...
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Efficiency is paramount in distributed robotic networks, where multiple autonomous robots collaborate to perform complex tasks. In this context, the identification of the most efficient path for robots, considering bo...
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This paper studies multi-stage systems with end-to-end bandit feedback. In such systems, each job needs to go through multiple stages, each managed by a different agent, before generating an outcome. Each agent can on...
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The use of forecasting models is becoming even more common in healthcare and administration applications because it can be a reliable decision support tool. Live birth rate is a health index that is directly linked wi...
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(纸本)9798350312249
The use of forecasting models is becoming even more common in healthcare and administration applications because it can be a reliable decision support tool. Live birth rate is a health index that is directly linked with maternal and newborn health and its prediction can assist health managers to anticipate resources destined for obstetric and pediatric services. Thus, the objective of this work is to forecast the number of live births in the state of Goi ' as (Brazil) for a 24-month horizon, providing useful information to support the planning and implementation of public policies. The model suggested is the Legendre Memory Unit (LMU) which is applied to data provided by the information system on live births of the information department of the single health system (SINASC-DATASUS). The dataset is composed of 252 monthly records of the number of live births for the 18 health regions of Goi ' as. The results were measured in prediction ability by Mean Absolute Percentual Error (MAPE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE). The average MAPE and MAE were 6.4614 and 19.9136, respectively.
The development of accurate methods for OCT image analysis is highly dependent on the availability of large annotated datasets. As such datasets are usually expensive and hard to obtain, novel approaches based on deep...
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(纸本)9798350312249
The development of accurate methods for OCT image analysis is highly dependent on the availability of large annotated datasets. As such datasets are usually expensive and hard to obtain, novel approaches based on deep generative models have been proposed for data augmentation. In this work, a flow-based network (SRFlow) and a generative adversarial network (ESRGAN) are used for synthesizing high-resolution OCT B-scans from low-resolution versions of real OCT images. The quality of the images generated by the two models is assessed using two standard fidelity-oriented metrics and a learned perceptual quality metric. The performance of two classification models trained on real and synthetic images is also evaluated. The obtained results show that the images generated by SRFlow preserve higher fidelity to the ground truth, while the outputs of ESRGAN present, on average, better perceptual quality. Independently of the architecture of the network chosen to classify the OCT B-scans, the model's performance always improves when images generated by SRFlow are included in the training set.
Smart wearable devices benefit from lightweight deep neural networks (DNNs) with small silicon footprints for efficient real-time processing. While compression techniques are often applied to heavier models, achieving...
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Deep neural networks (DNNs) exploit many layers and a large number of parameters to achieve excellent performance. The training process of DNN models generally handles large-scale input data with many sparse features,...
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Deep neural networks (DNNs) exploit many layers and a large number of parameters to achieve excellent performance. The training process of DNN models generally handles large-scale input data with many sparse features, which incurs high Input/Output (IO) cost, while some layers are computeintensive. The training process generally exploits distributed computing resources to reduce training time. While heterogeneous computing resources, e.g., CPUs, GPUs of multiple types, are available for the distributed training process, the scheduling of multiple layers to diverse computing resources remains critical for the training process. To efficiently train a DNN model using the heterogeneous computing resources, we propose a distributed framework, i.e., Heterogeneous Parameter Server (HeterPS), composed of a distributed architecture and a Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based scheduling method. The advantages of HeterPS are three-fold compared with existing frameworks. First, HeterPS enables efficient training process of diverse workloads with heterogeneous computing resources. Second, HeterPS exploits an RL-based method to efficiently schedule the workload of each layer to appropriate computing resources to minimize the cost while satisfying throughput constraints. Third, HeterPS manages data storage and data communication among distributed computing resources. We carry out extensive experiments to show that HeterPS significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of throughput (14.5 times higher) and monetary cost (312.3% smaller).& COPY;2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Critical Infrastructure (CI) refers to the essential areas made up of public, private, and business sectors for the security of a country's development, such as electricity, water, health, education, etc. where in...
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