Integrated platform to assess seismic resilience at the community level

Due to the increasing frequency of disastrous events, the challenge of creating large-scale simulation models has become of major significance. Indeed, several simulation strategies and methodologies have been recently developed to explore the response of communities to natural disasters. Such models can support decision-makers during...

Multi-core architecture for anonymous Internet streaming

There are two key components for high throughput distributed anonymizing applications. The first key component is overhead due to message complexity of the utilized algorithms. The second key component is an nonscalable architecture to deal with this high throughput. These issues are compounded by the need for anonymization. Using a state of the...

An Extensible Toolkit For Real-Time High-Performance Wideband Spectrum Sensing

This document describes the design process of a software toolkit to perform high-performance wideband spectrum sensing. A prominent application of this is Cognitive Radio, a technique that aims to make more efficient use of the available radio spectrum. An extensive theoretical analysis will be performed. Various non-uniform sampling techniques...

CADISS: a multi-processor system for image compression/decompression on board scientific satellites

Project CADISS has produced an elegant breadboard of a system for compression (and -if required- decompression) of signals generated by imaging sensors on-board scientific satellites. The performance, specifications and physical characteristics of CADISS are the result of trade-offs on function (algorithms), technology, through-put speed and...