Reconfiguration of Distributed Information Fusion System ? A case study

Information Fusion Systems are now widely used in different fusion contexts, like scientific processing, sensor networks, video and image processing. One of the current trends in this area is to cope with distributed systems. In this context, we have defined and implemented a Dynamic Distributed Information Fusion System runtime model. It allows us to cope with dynamic execution supports while trying to maintain the functionalities of a given Dynamic Distributed Information Fusion System. The paper presents our system, the reconfiguration problems we are faced with and our solutions.Comment: 6 pages - Preprint versio

CURRENT TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS – AN OVERVIEW

In this paper, innovations in the field of distributed control systems have been considered. Without any claim for completeness, a short summary on current trends in this area has been provided. A special attention is paid to application of blockchain technologies in distributed control systems, game theoretical approach for distributed control applications, and advantages of distributed control for power systems. Also, one of the main issues of modern distributed control systems – cybersecurity has been considered

Practical cryptographic strategies in the post-quantum era

We review new frontiers in information security technologies in communications and distributed storage technologies with the use of classical, quantum, hybrid classical-quantum, and post-quantum cryptography. We analyze the current state-of-the-art, critical characteristics, development trends, and limitations of these techniques for application in enterprise information protection systems. An approach concerning the selection of practical encryption technologies for enterprises with branched communication networks is introduced.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; review pape

Microbial solar cells: applying photosynthetic and electrochemically active organisms

Microbial solar cells (MSCs) are recently developed technologies utilizing solar energy to produce electricity or chemicals. MSCs use photoautotrophic microorganisms or higher plants to harvest solar energy, and use electrochemically active microorganisms in the bioelectrochemical system to generate electrical current. Here, we review the principles and performance of various MSCs, in an effort to identify the most promising systems as well as the bottlenecks and potential solutions towards „real life. MSC application. We give an outlook on future applications based on the intrinsic advantages of MSCs, showcasing specifically how these living energy systems can facilitate the development of an electricity-producing green roof.This is a "Post-Print" accepted manuscript, which has been published in "Trends in Biotechnology". This version is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Netherlands License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Please cite this publication as follows: 2011 Trends in Biotechnology Microbial solar cells: applying photosynthetic and electrochemically active organisms. David P.B.T.B. Strik, Ruud A. Timmers, Marjolein Helder, Kirsten J.J. Steinbusch, Hubertus V.M. Hamelers, , Cees J.N. Buisman. Trends in Biotechnology 29 (1), 41-49 You can download the published version at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2010.10.00

Neighbour replica affirmative adaptive failure detection and autonomous recovery

High availability is an important property for current distributed systems. The trends of current distributed systems such as grid computing and cloud computing are the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. Thus, current distributed systems rely more on the highly available systems. The potential to fail-stop failure in distributed computing systems is a significant disruptive factor for high availability distributed system. Hence, a new failure detection approach in a distributed system called Affirmative Adaptive Failure Detection (AAFD) is introduced. AAFD utilises heartbeat for node monitoring. Subsequently, Neighbour Replica Failure Recovery(NRFR) is proposed for autonomous recovery in distributed systems. AAFD can be classified as an adaptive failure detector, since it can adapt to the unpredictable network conditions and CPU loads. NRFR utilises the advantages of the neighbour replica distributed technique (NRDT) and combines with weighted priority selection in order to achieve high availability, since automatic failure recovery through continuous monitoring approach is essential in current high availability distributed system. The environment is continuously monitored by AAFD while auto-reconfiguring environment for automating failure recovery is managed by NRFR. The NRFR and AAFD are evaluated through virtualisation implementation. The results showed that the AAFD is 30% better than other detection techniques. While for recovery performance, the NRFR outperformed the others only with an exception to recovery in two distributed technique (TRDT). Subsequently, a realistic logical structure is modelled in complex and interdependent distributed environment for NRDT and TRDT. The model prediction showed that NRDT availability is 38.8% better than TRDT. Thus, the model proved that NRDT is the ideal replication environment for practical failure recovery in complex distributed systems. Hence, with the ability to minimise the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) significantly and maximise Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), this research has accomplished the goal to provide high availability self sustainable distributed system

Synthesizing Interrupts and Scheme with Optime

The exploration of erasure coding has explored consistent hashing, and current trends sug- gest that the exploration of 802.11 mesh net- works will soon emerge. In our research, we prove the refinement of information retrieval systems, demonstrates the essential importance of Bayesian distributed systems. We present a mobile tool for investigating I/O automata, which we call Optime