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The Gm/ID approach has proven to be an efficient technique for the design of low-power analog circuits. Until now it was mostly demonstrated on older CMOS technology nodes. In this paper we will show that the Gm/ID methodology still holds for advanced tech ...

IEEE2023

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Current methods for Black-Box NLP interpretability, like LIME or SHAP, are based on altering the text to interpret by removing words and modeling the Black-Box response. In this paper, we outline limitations of this approach when using complex BERT-based c ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2023

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EPFL2021

Predicting Survey Response with Quotation-based Modeling: A Case Study on Favorability towards the United States

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The acquisition of survey responses is a crucial component in conducting research aimed at comprehending public opinion. However, survey data collection can be arduous, time-consuming, and expensive, with no assurance of an adequate response rate. In this ...

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IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

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IEEE2023

Key Negotiation Downgrade Attacks on Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy

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Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are pervasive wireless technologies specified in the Bluetooth standard. The standard includes key negotiation protocols used to generate long-term keys (during pairing) and session keys (during secure conn ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

A Research-Practice Partnership to Introduce Computer Science in Secondary School: Lessons from a Pilot Program

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Context: Introducing Computer Science (CS) into formal education can be challenging, notably when considering the numerous stakeholders involved which include the students, teachers, schools, and policy makers. We believe these perspectives should be con ...

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FirmFuzz: Automated IoT Firmware Introspection and Analysis

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While the number of IoT devices grows at an exhilarating pace their security remains stagnant. Imposing secure coding standards across all vendors is infeasible. Testing individual devices allows an analyst to evaluate their security post deployment. Any d ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Human Interaction Discovery in Smartphone Proximity Networks

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Since humans are fundamentally social beings and interact frequently with others in their daily life, understanding social context is of primary importance in building context-aware applications. In this paper, using smartphone Bluetooth as a proximity sen ...

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Effectiveness of Distance-Decreasing Attacks Against Impulse Radio Ranging

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Marcin Poturalski

We expose the vulnerability of an emerging wireless ranging technology, impulse radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB), to distance-decreasing attacks on the physical communication layer (PHY). These attacks violate the security of secure ranging protocols that al ...

2010

Optima Age Over Erasure Channels

Emre Telatar, Rajai Nasser, Elie Najm

Previous works on age of information and erasure channels have dealt with specific models and computed the average age or average peak age for certain settings. In this paper, given a source that produces a letter every T-s seconds and an erasure channel t ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

An Accelerated First-Order Method for Non-convex Optimization on Manifolds

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We describe the first gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds to achieve accelerated rates in the non-convex case. Under Lipschitz assumptions on the Riemannian gradient and Hessian of the cost function, these methods find approximate first-order critical ...

SPRINGER2022

On uncoordinated wireless ad-hoc networks : data dissemination over WIFI and cross-layer optimization for ultra wide band impulse radio

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Emerging pervasive wireless networks, pocket switched networks, Internet of things, vehicular networks and even sensor networks present very challenging communication circumstances. They might involve up to several hundreds of wireless devices with mobilit ...

EPFL2009

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Using intelligent virtual assistants for controlling employee population in workspaces is a research area that remains unexplored. This paper presents a novel application of virtual humans to enforce Covid-19 safety measures in a corporate workplace. For t ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Topology Optimization of Soft Magnetic Composites with Integer Programming

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IEEE2022

Mobility-centric design of collaborative transportation systems

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EPFL2009