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Future of smart cardiovascular implants
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in Western society. Recent technological advances have opened the opportunity of developing new and innovative smart stent devices that have advanced electrical properties that can improve diagnosis and even treatment of previously intractable conditions, such as central line access failure, atherosclerosis and reporting on vascular grafts for renal dialysis. Here we review the latest advances in the field of cardiovascular medical implants, providing a broad overview of the application of their use in the context of cardiovascular disease rather than an in-depth analysis of the current state of the art. We cover their powering, communication and the challenges faced in their fabrication. We focus specifically on those devices required to maintain vascular access such as ones used to treat arterial disease, a major source of heart attacks and strokes. We look forward to advances in these technologies in the future and their implementation to improve the human condition
Research gaps and technology needs in development of PHM for passive AdvSMR components
Advanced small modular reactors (AdvSMRs), which are based on modularization of advanced reactor concepts, may provide a longer-term alternative to traditional light-water reactors and near-term small modular reactors (SMRs), which are based on integral pressurized water reactor (iPWR) concepts. SMRs are challenged economically because of losses in economy of scale; thus, there is increased motivation to reduce the controllable operations and maintenance costs through automation technologies including prognostics health management (PHM) systems. In this regard, PHM systems have the potential to play a vital role in supporting the deployment of AdvSMRs and face several unique challenges with respect to implementation for passive AdvSMR components. This paper presents a summary of a research gaps and technical needs assessment performed for implementation of PHM for passive AdvSMR components
Sleep Deprivation Attack Detection in Wireless Sensor Network
Deployment of sensor network in hostile environment makes it mainly
vulnerable to battery drainage attacks because it is impossible to recharge or
replace the battery power of sensor nodes. Among different types of security
threats, low power sensor nodes are immensely affected by the attacks which
cause random drainage of the energy level of sensors, leading to death of the
nodes. The most dangerous type of attack in this category is sleep deprivation,
where target of the intruder is to maximize the power consumption of sensor
nodes, so that their lifetime is minimized. Most of the existing works on sleep
deprivation attack detection involve a lot of overhead, leading to poor
throughput. The need of the day is to design a model for detecting intrusions
accurately in an energy efficient manner. This paper proposes a hierarchical
framework based on distributed collaborative mechanism for detecting sleep
deprivation torture in wireless sensor network efficiently. Proposed model uses
anomaly detection technique in two steps to reduce the probability of false
intrusion.Comment: 7 pages,4 figures, IJCA Journal February 201
Optimal Receivers Location for Passive Indoor Positioning based on BLE
Conference: IPIN 2021 WiP ProceedingsAt: November 29 – December 2, 2021, Lloret de Mar, SpainIndoor Positioning Systems are attracting many researchers, being Bluetooth Low Energy gaining some
attention recently. The recent need to track people, ensuring low density of people in some areas, made
the research community to provide unintrusive tracking. In contrast to traditional direct !ngerprinting,
where the user utilizes their mobile to estimate its location based on the BLE infrastructure, we propose
the other way around. The users wear a beacon which is sensed by the monitors deployed and inverse
!ngerprints are generated for a particular object of interest. We propose in this paper a simulation-based
approach to retrieve the most interesting monitor distribution, providing a real-world validation. The
results show “passive” positioning errors of 3 meters in an o"ce sensed with 5 monitors
Re-designing Dynamic Content Delivery in the Light of a Virtualized Infrastructure
We explore the opportunities and design options enabled by novel SDN and NFV
technologies, by re-designing a dynamic Content Delivery Network (CDN) service.
Our system, named MOSTO, provides performance levels comparable to that of a
regular CDN, but does not require the deployment of a large distributed
infrastructure. In the process of designing the system, we identify relevant
functions that could be integrated in the future Internet infrastructure. Such
functions greatly simplify the design and effectiveness of services such as
MOSTO. We demonstrate our system using a mixture of simulation, emulation,
testbed experiments and by realizing a proof-of-concept deployment in a
planet-wide commercial cloud system.Comment: Extended version of the paper accepted for publication in JSAC
special issue on Emerging Technologies in Software-Driven Communication -
November 201
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