The Application of RDMA over Converged Ethernet Data Transport for Radio-Astronomy Systems

The need to receive and process higher data rates in computer clusters is an ever-increasing trend. This also applies to radio-astronomic systems, which have become more distributed over the past decades, increasing data traffic between antennas and processing facilities. At the antenna, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) digitise the radio...

Haptic texture device: Design and manufacturing of a pin actuator enabling high quality texture reproduction based on finger mounted haptic pin array

Tactile Internet (TI) is the next step in the evolution of our digital communication. It will extend the conventional audiovisual interaction by enabling the users to convey the sense of touch over vast distances in real time. The potential to transfer haptic (touch) information will have a significant impact on many industries as well as on...

Monitoring the health of urban greenery with terrestrial low-cost, mobile sensors

Urban forests and vegetation are fundamental for developing resilient cities. Thus, the effective management and protection of urban trees and greenery are essential. Nowadays, urban trees are experiencing atypical amount of natural and human-induced stresses which affects their functionality, productivity and survival. The current methods for...

VPN Fingerprinting: Network protocol detection inside virtual private network tunnels

Virtual private networks are often used to secure communication between two hosts and preserve privacy by tunneling all traffic over a single encrypted channel. Previous work has already shown that metadata of different secured channels can be used to fingerprint various kinds of information. In this work, we will dive into the encrypted tunnels...

Designing Safe 2.5D Tangible Shape Displays

2.5D shape display is a recent idea in the market that emerged as a platform of interaction between a computer and human. 2.5D shape display is essentially a grid-like matrix consisting of actuators and pins moving up and down in vertical motion to create pseudo-3D images. Focused as a visual display in some applications and as a medium of input...

Development of an attention test using the VitalSky

Delirium occurs in upto 80% of the ICU patients and is one of the most common source of morbidity and mortality in the ICU. Inattention is one of the core features of delirium and affects 97% - 100% of the delirium patients. This indicates that attention can be a good parameter for detecting delirium. In literature, it has been found that the...

Indoor localization using thermal sensors

Locating people inside buildings is still an unsolved problem. There is a lot<br/>of research going on in this field and many different solutions using different<br/>techniques have been proposed. However, there is no widely accepted indoor<br/>localization solution like how GPS is for outdoor localization due to less accuracy, higher hardware...

A paint-based approach for optimal lighting design in real scenes

Lighting design is a computational expensive task, commonly done using Computer-aided design (CAD) software in a virtual scene. The designer places and tunes the virtual light sources and, yet the virtual environment is ideal for physically correct light tracing, the costly simulation might not provide the desired impression in the real scene....

Semantic enrichment and exploration process on domain specific digital libraries

With the growing number of scientific publications, the concept<br/>of navigating effectively and searching for domain specific information<br/>is rather significant and highly important for the scientific<br/>community [2]. For instance, to search by topics, research methods,<br/>used datasets, or scientific objectives. Such deep meta-data...