Complexity challenges in ATM

After more than 4 years of activity, the ComplexWorld Network, together with the projects and PhDs covered under the SESAR long-term research umbrella, have developed sound research material contributing to progress beyond the state of the art in fields such as resilience, uncertainty, multi-agent systems, metrics and data science. The achievements made by the ComplexWorld stakeholders have also led to the identification of new challenges that need to be addressed in the future. In order to pave the way for complexity science research in Air Traffic Management (ATM) in the coming years, ComplexWorld requested external assessments on how the challenges have been covered and where there are existing gaps. For that purpose, ComplexWorld, with the support of EUROCONTROL, established an expert panel to review selected documentation developed by the network and provide their assessment on their topic of expertise

Next-generation big data analytics: state of the art, challenges, and future research topics

The term big data occurs more frequently now than ever before. A large number of fields and subjects, ranging from everyday life to traditional research fields (i.e., geography and transportation, biology and chemistry, medicine and rehabilitation), involve big data problems. The popularizing of various types of network has diversified types, issues, and solutions for big data more than ever before. In this paper, we review recent research in data types, storage models, privacy, data security, analysis methods, and applications related to network big data. Finally, we summarize the challenges and development of big data to predict current and future trends.This work was supported in part by the “Open3D: Collaborative Editing for 3D Virtual Worlds” [EPSRC (EP/M013685/1)], in part by the “Distributed Java Infrastructure for Real-Time Big-Data” (CAS14/00118), in part by eMadrid (S2013/ICE-2715), in part by the HERMES-SMARTDRIVER (TIN2013-46801-C4-2-R), and in part by the AUDACity (TIN2016-77158-C4-1-R). Paper no. TII-16-1

Diagnostic applications of next generation sequencing: working towards quality standards

Over the past 6 years, next generation sequencing (NGS) has been established as a valuable high-throughput method for research in molecular genetics and has successfully been employed in the identification of rare and common genetic variations. All major NGS technology companies providing commercially available instruments (Roche 454, Illumina, Life Technologies) have recently marketed bench top sequencing instruments with lower throughput and shorter run times, thereby broadening the applications of NGS and opening the technology to the potential use for clinical diagnostics. Although the high expectations regarding the discovery of new diagnostic targets and an overall reduction of cost have been achieved, technological challenges in instrument handling, robustness of the chemistry and data analysis need to be overcome. To facilitate the implementation of NGS as a routine method in molecular diagnostics, consistent quality standards need to be developed. Here the authors give an overview of the current standards in protocols and workflows and discuss possible approaches to define quality criteria for NGS in molecular genetic diagnostics

Net Neutrality

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Chris Marsden maneuvers through the hype articulated by Netwrok Neutrality advocates and opponents. He offers a clear-headed analysis of the high stakes in this debate about the Internet's future, and fearlessly refutes the misinformation and misconceptions that about' Professor Rob Freiden, Penn State University Net Neutrality is a very heated and contested policy principle regarding access for content providers to the Internet end-user, and potential discrimination in that access where the end-user's ISP (or another ISP) blocks that access in part or whole. The suggestion has been that the problem can be resolved by either introducing greater competition, or closely policing conditions for vertically integrated service, such as VOIP. However, that is not the whole story, and ISPs as a whole have incentives to discriminate between content for matters such as network management of spam, to secure and maintain customer experience at current levels, and for economic benefit from new Quality of Service standards. This includes offering a ‘priority lane' on the network for premium content types such as video and voice service. The author considers market developments and policy responses in Europe and the United States, draws conclusions and proposes regulatory recommendations

Selected topics in optical burst switched networks Performance analysis

Projecte final de carrera realitzat en col.laboració amb École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)English: This report is the result of the final year project carried out at the Laboratoire des telecommunications (TCOM), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) between March and October 2010 under the supervision of Dr. Christian Gaumier and the assistance of Sébastien Rumley. The work presented in this thesis is based on the JAVOBS simulator, which was presented for Oscar Pedrola in [31]. This OBS network simulator has been built on top of the JAVANCO framework developed for Sébastien Rumley and other collaborators in TCOM laboratory. The report starts presenting the basics of OBS paradigm in order to situate the lector in context and to present the operation possibilities of OBS networks and its problem of burst contention. It continues in chapter 2 with the explanation of network modeling and specifically for the particular model of JAVOBS. In the different sections in chapter 3, the selected topics are presented and treated in detail. Each section of chapter 3 is divided in a presentation of the topic and the reason why it is interesting to work on it, the necessary implementation to introduce it in the Javobs tool, some simulation tests to validate and check the correct functionality of the component developed and some results and conclusions by simulation comparison. Mainly, the selected topics are the following: ‐ The routing topic is treated with the purpose to define a proactive routing protocol based on load balanced-algorithm which operates as a contention resolution technique. ‐ The virtual topology design is treated in order to also alleviate and reduce the contention problem by the establishment of a particular set of dedicated lightpaths on the physical network. ‐ To provide new models of traffic for JAVOBS simulator, the traffic generation topic is raised. Traffic characteristics and self-similar properties are presented and a Markov-modulated traffic generator and a Self-Similar traffic generator are implemented and validated. Then, its impact in the network performance is evaluated and compared