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Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios
"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely...
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Polymorphic Wireless Receivers
We introduce PolymoRF, a deep learning-based polymorphic receiver able to reconfigure itself in real time based on the inferred waveform parameters.
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Technical Perspective: hXDP: Light and Efficient Packet Processing Offload
In "hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs," the authors offer an interesting solution to bridging the performance gap between the CPU and the...
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hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs
We present hXDP, a solution to run on FPGAs software packet processing tasks described with the eBPF technology and targeting the Linux's eXpress Data Path.
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Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection
In "FANG," the authors focus on a strategy of automatically detecting disinformation campaigns on online media with a new graph-based, contextual technique for...
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FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation
We propose Factual News Graph (FANG), a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection.
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Technical Perspective: An Elegant Model for Deriving Equations
"Deriving Equations from Sensor Data Using Dimensional Function Synthesis," by Vasileios Tsoutsouras, et al., addresses the key problem of discovering relationships...
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Deriving Equations from Sensor Data Using Dimensional Function Synthesis
We present a new method, which we call dimensional function synthesis, for deriving functions that model the relationship between multiple signals in a physical...
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Technical Perspective: Race Logic Presents a Novel Form of Encoding
"In-Sensor Classification With Boosted Race Trees," by Georgios Tzimpragos, et al., proposes a surprising, novel, and creative approach to post-Moore's Law computing...
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In-Sensor Classification With Boosted Race Trees
We demonstrate the potential of a novel form of encoding, race logic, in which information is represented as the delay in the arrival of a signal.
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Technical Perspective: A Chiplet Prototype System for Deep Learning Inference
"Simba," by Yakun Sophia Shao, et al., presents a scalable deep learning accelerator architecture that tackles issues ranging from chip integration technology to...
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Simba: Scaling Deep-Learning Inference with Chiplet-Based Architecture
This work investigates and quantifies the costs and benefits of using multi-chip-modules with fine-grained chiplets for deep learning inference, an application...
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Technical Perspective: Solving the Signal Reconstruction Problem at Scale
"Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications," by Abolfazl Asudeh, et al. shows that algorithmic insights about SRP, combined with database...
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Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications
Most of the common approaches for solving signal reconstruction problem do not scale to large problem sizes. We propose a novel and scalable algorithm for solving...
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Technical Perspective: SkyCore's Architecture Takes It to the 'Edge'
"SkyCore," by Mehrdad Moradi, et al., addresses an exciting use case for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in which UAVs can act as mobile base stations for the cellular...
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SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-Based LTE Networks
We argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge evolved packet core design, called SkyCore, that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core...
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Technical Perspective: The Future of Large-Scale Embedded Sensing
The system described in "SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials" works passively, energized essentially by static electricity generated as layers...
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SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials
We propose an Internet of Materials, where the very materials of objects and surfaces are augmented or manufactured to have computational capabilities.
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Technical Perspective: XNOR-Networks – Powerful but Tricky
How to produce a convolutional neural net that is small enough to run on a mobile device, and accurate enough to be worth using? The strategies in "Enabling AI...
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