The continuous increase in data volume has led to the adoption of shingled-magnetic recording (SMR) as the primary technology for modern storage drives. This technology offers high storage density and low unit cost but introduces significant performance ...

We introduce FnF-BFT, the first partially synchronous BFT protocol with performance guarantees under truly byzantine attacks during stable networking conditions. At its core, FnF-BFT parallelizes the execution of requests by allowing all replicas ...

Transport proteins (TPs) are vital to the growth and life of all living things, especially in fields of microbial pathogenesis and drug resistance of tumor cells. Accurately identifying potential TPs remains an important challenge for the ...

• Application of deep learning in transporters identification.
• Proposing an effective tool for predicting transporters.
• Interpreting the reasoning process of DeepTP.

MANET is a network of self-organized mobile nodes whose topology changes dynamically. There is no pre existing infrastructure is available for network setup. Nodes in MANET are mobile in nature which acts as a router as well as host. For transmitting the ...

Discontinuity extraction and interpretation of fractured masses is of high importance when analyzing rock slope stability. Regarding high-steep slopes, which are areas that are difficult to reach, traditional methods to obtain ...

• A complete practical solution is proposed for discontinuity interpretation and rockfall identification from filed investigation to indoor analysis.

Advances in blockchains have influenced the State-Machine-Replication (SMR) world and many state-of-the-art blockchain-SMR solutions are based on two pillars: Chaining and Leader-rotation. A predetermined round-robin mechanism used for Leader-...

We introduce Rabia, a simple and high performance framework for implementing state-machine replication (SMR) within a datacenter. The main innovation of Rabia is in using randomization to simplify the design. Rabia provides the following two features: (...

Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) is regarded as a promising technology for resolving the areal density limitation of conventional magnetic recording hard disk drives. Among different types of SMR drives, drive-managed SMR (DM-SMR) requires no changes ...

The dependability and security properties of a system could be impaired by a failure or by an opponent that exploits its vulnerabilities. State Machine Replication (SMR) is a technique widely used to implement fault-tolerant systems, mitigating these ...

Disk drives have seen a dramatic increase in storage density over the last five decades, but to continue the growth seems difficult because of physical limitations. One promising approach to overcome the impending limit is shingled magnetic recording (...

Modern Digital Signal Processing systems require the reconfigurable FIR filters with low complexity architectures. This paper presents a novel architecture for low power and low area implementation of reconfigurable Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter ...

Cost-effective mobility management for roaming mobile users is very important in providing seamless service on next-generation wireless networks (NGWNs). Various IPv6-based mobility management schemes have been developed which are directly involved with ...

We introduce Distal, a new framework that simplifies turning pseudocode of fault tolerant distributed algorithms into efficient executable code. Without proper tool support, even small amounts of pseudocode normally ends up in several thousands of non-...

The Ad-hoc networks are one of the most demanding networks now a day in every field of operation likes military operation, natural disaster management. But this network has some limitation like it does not have the fixe topology during the communication,...

Shingled write disk (SWD) is a magnetic hard disk drive that adopts the shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to overcome the areal density limit faced in conventional hard disk drives (HDDs). The SMR design enables SWDs to achieve two to three ...

This paper investigates linear systems with polynomial dependence on time-invariant uncertainties constrained in the simplex via homogeneous parameter-dependent quadratic Lyapunov functions (HPD-QLFs). It is shown that a sufficient condition for ...

This paper address design guidelines for improving the rejection of ladder bulk acoustic wave filters. An overview of the bulk acoustic wave filters technology enables to outcome the principal features of ladder filters. The lack of out-of-band ...