Water, human development and economic growth: some international perspectives

Water resources developmentInvestmentWater storageEconomic aspectsSocial aspects

Hardware Accelerated Lattice Based Authentication

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing at a rapid pace and it is essential that the communication between these resource constrained IoT devices is secure and efficient. Traditional authentication schemes like RSA and ECDSA do not conform to the high throughput and time critical needs of these devices. In this research, we propose a hardware accelerated lattice based authentication scheme tailored specifically towards constrained IoT devices. We show that our scheme provides lower latency and higher throughput compared to traditional authentication schemes and its CPU only counter-parts

Reinforcement and transfer learning for distributed analytics in fragmented software defined coalitions

By extending the Software Defined Networking (SDN), the Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (DAIS ITA) https://dais-ita.org/pub has introduced a new architecture called Software Defined Coalitions (SDC) to share communication, computation, storage, database, sensor and other resources among coalition forces. Reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to be effective for managing SDC. Due to link failure or operational requirements, SDC may become fragmented and reconnected again over time. This paper shows how data and knowledge acquired in the disconnected SDC domains during fragmentation can be used via transfer learning (TL) to significantly enhance the RL after fragmentation ends. Thus, the combined RL-TL technique enables efficient management and control of SDC despite fragmentation. The technique also enhances the robustness of the SDC architecture for supporting distributed analytics services

Water, human development and economic growth: some international perspectives

In Kumar, M. Dinesh (Ed.). Managing water in the face of growing scarcity, inequity and declining returns: exploring fresh approaches. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Partners Meet, IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Program, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India, 2-4 April 2008. Vol.2. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Sub Regional Offic