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Towards URLLC with Open-Source 5G Software

Haitham Al Hassanieh, Aoyu Gong, Dan Mihai Dumitriu, Arman Maghsoudnia, Raphael Cannatà

Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication is a key feature of 5G, yet achieving its strict one-way latency target remains challenging in real-world deployments. While previous work proposes latency reduction techniques, most are theoretical or simulation-ba ...

Association for Computing Machinery2025

Single-pass Detection of Jailbreaking Input in Large Language Models

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Yongtao Wu, Elias Abad Rocamora

Defending aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) against jailbreaking attacks is a challenging problem, with existing approaches requiring multiple requests or even queries to auxiliary LLMs, making them computationally heavy. Instead, we focus on detecting ...

2025

Experimental and numerical evaluation of a U-shaped thin lightly reinforced concrete wall tested under cyclic loading

Katrin Beyer

Reinforced concrete walls provide effective bracing against seismic lateral loading for buildings worldwide. In Latin America, seismic design provisions commonly adhere to the ACI 318 building code, which is predominantly based on United States constructio ...

2024

Reuse of concrete elements in architecture: characterisations and design methods for sustainable structures

Célia Marine Küpfer

Because of established demolition routines and low construction-material production costs that neglect negative externalities, discarded concrete today is crushed and landfilled or downcycled as infill material or recycled aggregates, wasting its embodied ...

EPFL2024

Practical Verification of System-Software Components Written in Standard C

Yonghao Zou, George Candea, Clément Pit-Claudel, Diyu Zhou, Can Cebeci

Systems code is challenging to verify, because it uses constructs (like raw pointers, pointer arithmetic, and bit twiddling) that are hard for tools to reason about. Existing approaches either sacrifice programmer friendliness, by demanding significant man ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Reuse of concrete components in new construction projects: Critical review of 77 circular precedents

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer

Extracting pieces of concrete from obsolete buildings and reusing them, as is, in new assemblies is today rarely considered a strategy for improving the sustainability of the construction sector. By delaying the crushing of concrete into aggregates and avo ...

2023

Uniaxial Cyclic and Tensile Tests on Structural Metallic Materials

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Selimcan Ozden

Experimental data is imperative to characterize the behavior of materials used in structural analysis models. The aim of this data paper is to establish a database of material-scale uniaxial experiments, primarily conducted at EPFL, to assist with simulati ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2023

Using machine learning to generate an open-access cropland map from satellite images time series in the Indian Himalayan region

Danya Li

Crop maps are crucial for agricultural monitoring and food management and can additionally support domain-specific applications, such as setting cold supply chain infrastructure in developing countries. Machine learning (ML) models, combined with freely-av ...

Elsevier2023

Multi-Level Monte Carlo Methods for Uncertainty Quantification and Risk-Averse Optimisation

Sundar Subramaniam Ganesh

This work aims to study the effects of wind uncertainties in civil engineering structural design. Optimising the design of a structure for safety or operability without factoring in these uncertainties can result in a design that is not robust to these per ...

EPFL2022

Re:Crete - A Footbridge made of Reused Concrete Blocks

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Célia Marine Küpfer, Julie Rachel Devènes

Today, concrete is the most widely used construction material worldwide. Strong, versatile, durable, and vector of economic development, this exceptional material is also the principal cause of greenhouse-gas emissions, material depletion and waste generat ...

Asociación Española de Ingeniería Estructura2022

System-level Design of Adaptive Wearable Sensors for Health and Wellness Monitoring

Elisabetta De Giovanni

In recent years, population aging and the consequent higher incidence of noncommunicable diseases, have increased the need for long-term health monitoring. Moreover, as healthcare cost is projected to grow substantially by 2030 in OECD countries, the deman ...

EPFL2021

Testing of a full-scale flat slab building for gravity and lateral loads

Aurelio Muttoni

Full-scale testing of a two-storey flat slab structure is reported, undertaken in the SlabSTRESS research project; the construction and testing were planned and carried out at the ELSA laboratory of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. The dime ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

A systems perspective for residential preferences and dwellings: housing functions and their role in Swiss residential mobility

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani

Worldwide, there is an urgent imperative to provide a housing supply that is environmentally sustainable as well as acceptable and desirable for its users. A holistic and integrative understanding of the relationship between households’ residential prefere ...

2021

Structure-Property Relationships in Complex Materials by Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning

Benjamin Aaron Helfrecht

The work presented in this thesis combines supervised and unsupervised machine learning to examine structure-property relationships in databases of materials. While either supervised learning or unsupervised learning alone can be a powerful tool for assess ...

EPFL2021

Benchmark for Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unseen Containers with Unknown Filling

Pascal Frossard, Aude Billard, Andrea Cavallaro, Apostolos Modas, Nuno Ricardo Ferreira Duarte, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis

The real-time estimation through vision of the physical properties of objects manipulated by humans is important to inform the control of robots for performing accurate and safe grasps of objects handed over by humans. However, estimating the 3D pose and d ...

2020

Data-Interpretation Methodologies for Practical Asset-Management

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Monitoring and interpreting structural response using structural-identification methodologies improves understanding of civil-infrastructure behavior. New sensing devices and inexpensive computation has made model-based data interpretation feasible in engi ...

2019

Measurement-supported performance assessment of earthquake-damaged concrete and masonry structures

Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

As demonstrated by recent events in Italy, New-Zealand, Haiti, and Nepal, earthquakes continue to pose threats to civil infrastructure, including buildings. For a long time seismic ultimate limit states have not been considered in design codes for regions ...

EPFL2017

A simulation-optimization approach to deploy Internet services in large-scale systems with user-provided resources

Julia Proskurnia

Cloud computing systems can benefit from the use of personal and non-dedicated computers, which are currently employed in volunteer computing systems. Being non-dedicated, these resources show random behavior regarding the times they are online (available) ...

Sage Publications Ltd2014

Integrated Microfluidic Power Generation and Cooling for Bright Silicon MPSoCs

David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly

The soaring demand for computing power in our digital information age has produced as collateral undesirable effect a surge in power consumption and heat density for computing servers. Accordingly, 30-40% of the energy consumed in state-of-the-art servers ...

IEEE/ACM Press2014

Lightweight Modular Staging and Embedded Compilers : Abstraction without Regret for High-Level High-Performance Programming

Tiark Rompf

Programs expressed in a high-level programming language need to be translated to a low-level machine dialect for execution. This translation is usually accomplished by a compiler, which is able to translate any legal program to equivalent low-level code. B ...

EPFL2012