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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Development of New Wearable and Protective Equipment for Human Spaceflights
Exposure to microgravity poses challenges to the astronaut's musculoskeletal system, causing temporary issues that can be addressed through exercise routines. For long-duration space missions, wearable technol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Portable BLE-Controllable Micropump Driver for Lab-on-Chip Applications
Research in the deployment of compact systems for microfluidic analysis is gathering attention from the industrial and academic world. In this work, we propose a portable battery-powered driver for active micr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of the Divider Control Policy for a Fractional Low-Power Time Synchronization Algorithm
In the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) applications, time synchronization assumes a relevant role as in every distributed system. Various protocols and algorithms have been developed for this purpose. Recent...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Why Is the Video Analytics Accuracy Fluctuating, and What Can We Do About It?
It is a common practice to think of a video as a sequence of images (frames), and re-use deep neural network models that are trained only on images for similar analytics tasks on videos. In this paper, we show...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Wireless Sensor Networks Time Synchronization Algorithms and Protocols Message Complexity Comparison: The Small-Size Star-Topology Case
The paper analyzes the issues related to the time synchronization in a sensor network, evidencing the related problems and introducing a brief revision of the algorithmic approaches. Among the possible solutio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DataX: A System for Data eXchange and Transformation of Streams
The exponential growth in smart sensors and rapid progress in 5G networks is creating a world awash with data streams. However, a key barrier to building performant multi-sensor, distributed stream processing ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A General-Purpose Virtualization Service for HPC on Cloud Computing: An Application to GPUs
This paper describes the generic virtualization service GVirtuS (Generic Virtualization Service), a framework for development of split-drivers for cloud virtualization solutions. The main goal of GVirtuS is to...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A GPGPU Transparent Virtualization Component for High Performance Computing Clouds
The GPU Virtualization Service (gVirtuS) presented in this work tries to fill the gap between in-house hosted computing clusters, equipped with GPGPUs devices, and pay-for-use high performance virtual clusters...