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Deep Predictive Coding Neural Network for RF Anomaly Detection in Wireless Networks
Intrusion detection has become one of the most critical tasks in a wireless
network to prevent service outages that can take long to fix. The sheer variety
of anomalous events necessitates adopting cognitive anomaly detection methods
instead of the traditional signature-based detection techniques. This paper
proposes an anomaly detection methodology for wireless systems that is based on
monitoring and analyzing radio frequency (RF) spectrum activities. Our
detection technique leverages an existing solution for the video prediction
problem, and uses it on image sequences generated from monitoring the wireless
spectrum. The deep predictive coding network is trained with images
corresponding to the normal behavior of the system, and whenever there is an
anomaly, its detection is triggered by the deviation between the actual and
predicted behavior. For our analysis, we use the images generated from the
time-frequency spectrograms and spectral correlation functions of the received
RF signal. We test our technique on a dataset which contains anomalies such as
jamming, chirping of transmitters, spectrum hijacking, and node failure, and
evaluate its performance using standard classifier metrics: detection ratio,
and false alarm rate. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed
methodology effectively detects many unforeseen anomalous events in real time.
We discuss the applications, which encompass industrial IoT, autonomous vehicle
control and mission-critical communications services.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, Communications Workshop ICC'1
Numerical Relativity Injection Infrastructure
This document describes the new Numerical Relativity (NR) injection
infrastructure in the LIGO Algorithms Library (LAL), which henceforth allows
for the usage of NR waveforms as a discrete waveform approximant in LAL. With
this new interface, NR waveforms provided in the described format can directly
be used as simulated GW signals ("injections") for data analyses, which include
parameter estimation, searches, hardware injections etc. As opposed to the
previous infrastructure, this new interface natively handles sub-dominant modes
and waveforms from numerical simulations of precessing binary black holes,
making them directly accessible to LIGO analyses. To correctly handle
precessing simulations, the new NR injection infrastructure internally
transforms the NR data into the coordinate frame convention used in LAL.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures, technical repor
Graph Laplacian for Image Anomaly Detection
Reed-Xiaoli detector (RXD) is recognized as the benchmark algorithm for image
anomaly detection; however, it presents known limitations, namely the
dependence over the image following a multivariate Gaussian model, the
estimation and inversion of a high-dimensional covariance matrix, and the
inability to effectively include spatial awareness in its evaluation. In this
work, a novel graph-based solution to the image anomaly detection problem is
proposed; leveraging the graph Fourier transform, we are able to overcome some
of RXD's limitations while reducing computational cost at the same time. Tests
over both hyperspectral and medical images, using both synthetic and real
anomalies, prove the proposed technique is able to obtain significant gains
over performance by other algorithms in the state of the art.Comment: Published in Machine Vision and Applications (Springer
Prospect for Charge Current Neutrino Interactions Measurements at the CERN-PS
Tensions in several phenomenological models grew with experimental results on
neutrino/antineutrino oscillations at Short-Baseline (SBL) and with the recent,
carefully recomputed, antineutrino fluxes from nuclear reactors. At a
refurbished SBL CERN-PS facility an experiment aimed to address the open issues
has been proposed [1], based on the technology of imaging in ultra-pure
cryogenic Liquid Argon (LAr). Motivated by this scenario a detailed study of
the physics case was performed. We tackled specific physics models and we
optimized the neutrino beam through a full simulation. Experimental aspects not
fully covered by the LAr detection, i.e. the measurements of the lepton charge
on event-by-event basis and their energy over a wide range, were also
investigated. Indeed the muon leptons from Charged Current (CC) (anti-)neutrino
interactions play an important role in disentangling different phenomenological
scenarios provided their charge state is determined. Also, the study of muon
appearance/disappearance can benefit of the large statistics of CC muon events
from the primary neutrino beam. Results of our study are reported in detail in
this proposal. We aim to design, construct and install two Spectrometers at
"NEAR" and "FAR" sites of the SBL CERN-PS, compatible with the already proposed
LAr detectors. Profiting of the large mass of the two Spectrometers their
stand-alone performances have also been exploited.Comment: 70 pages, 38 figures. Proposal submitted to SPS-C, CER
Physics Results from RICH Detectors
RICH detectors have become extraordinarily useful. Results include
measurement of solar neutrino rates, evidence for neutrino oscillations,
measurement of TeV gamma-rays from gravitational sources, properties of QCD,
charm production and decay, and measurement of the CKM matrix elements Vcs, Vcb
and Vub. A new value |Vub/Vcb|=0.087+/-0.012 is determined.Comment: Invited talk at ``The 3rd International Workshop on Ring Imaging
Cherenkov Detectors," Ein-Gedi, Dead-Sea, Israel, Nov. 15-20, 1998, 21 pages,
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