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Ultra-Low Power Short-Range 60-GHz FMCW Radar Front-End

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is becoming very interesting over the past years because it provides the opportunity to operate using large bandwidths which are not available at lower frequencies. This enables new communication standards suppor ...

EPFL2023

HPCache: Memory-Efficient OLAP Through Proportional Caching

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson

Analytical engines rely on in-memory caching to avoid disk accesses and provide timely responses by keeping the most frequently accessed data in memory. Purely frequency- & time-based caching decisions, however, are a proxy of the expected query execution ...

ACM2022

Probing unconventional performance of fiber resonators: light storage, generation and manipulation

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This thesis aims at investigating the performance of figure-9 (figure-of-nine) optical fiber resonators as a practical solution for light storage, light generation and manipulation. The first part of the thesis focuses on a theoretical and experimental stu ...

EPFL2021

Resource Trade-Offs in Circuits and Systems: from Neurotechnology to Communications

Arda Uran

This thesis aims to explore and exploit trade-offs in integrated circuits and systems to overcome the fundamental bottlenecks faced by future data acquisition and communication systems. Specifically, we target the emerging implantable neurotechnology and t ...

EPFL2021

Software Support for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Programming

David Teksen Aksun

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is an emerging type of memory device that provides fast, byte-addressable, and high-capacity durable storage. NVM sits on the memory bus and allows durable data structures designs similar to the in-memory equivalent ones. Expensiv ...

EPFL2021

Design and Control of a KE (Kinetic Energy) - Compensated Gravitational Energy Storage System

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A gravitational energy storage device is described where the kinetic energy to recover while braking a vertically moving mass is compensated by an auxiliary storage device based on supercapacitors. The characteristic power surge occurring by a fast decreas ...

IEEE2020

An Architecture for Load Balance in Computer Cluster Applications

Laurent Bindschaedler

Amid a data revolution that is transforming industries around the globe, computing systems have undergone a paradigm shift where many applications are scaled out to run on multiple computers in a computing cluster. As the storage and processing capabilitie ...

EPFL2020

Hailstorm: Disaggregated Compute and Storage for Distributed LSM-based Databases

Willy Zwaenepoel, Laurent Bindschaedler, Ashvin Goel

Distributed LSM-based databases face throughput and latency issues due to load imbalance across instances and interference from background tasks such as flushing, compaction, and data migration. Hailstorm addresses these problems by deploying the database ...

ACM2020

Arbitrarily high time bandwidth performance in a nonreciprocal optical resonator with broken time invariance

Camille Sophie Brès, Hatice Altug, Davide Grassani, Simon Julien Fabbri, Ivan Cardea, Kosmas Tsakmakidis

Most present-day resonant systems, throughout physics and engineering, are characterized by a strict time-reversal symmetry between the rates of energy coupled in and out of the system, which leads to a trade-off between how long a wave can be stored in th ...

Nature Research2020

Efficient large-scale graph processing: optimisations for storage, performance and evolving graphs

Jasmina Malicevic

Graph processing systems are used in a wide variety of fields, ranging from biology to social networks. Algorithms to mine graphs incur many random accesses, and the sparse nature of the graphs of interest, exacerbates this. As DRAM sustains high bandwidt ...

EPFL2019

Caching and Distributed Storage : Models, Limits and Designs

Saeid Sahraei

A simple task of storing a database or transferring it to a different point via a communication channel turns far more complex as the size of the database grows large. Limited bandwidth available for transmission plays a central role in this predicament. I ...

EPFL2018

Model Predictive Control Strategies for Polygeneration systems and microgrids

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EPFL2017

TRIAD: creating synergies between memory, disk and log in log structured key-value stores

Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel, Oana Maria Balmau, Diego Didona

We present TRIAD, a new persistent key-value (KV) store based on Log-Structured Merge (LSM) trees. TRIAD improves LSM KV throughput by reducing the write amplification arising in the maintenance of the LSM tree structure. Although occurring in the backgrou ...

2017

All-optical flip-flop based on dynamic Brillouin gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

One of the most essential building blocks in modem electronics is the flip-flop. A flip-flop operates bi-stably between two states, remaining at a given output level (high or low level) until a specific input control signal changes. For many years, photoni ...

IEEE2017

Incremental Consistency Guarantees for Replicated Objects

Rachid Guerraoui, Matej Pavlovic, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi

Programming with replicated objects is difficult. Developers must face the fundamental trade-off between consistency and performance head on, while struggling with the complexity of distributed storage stacks. We introduce Correctables, a novel abstraction ...

2016

Hybrid NRZ/Multi-Tone Signaling for High-Speed Low-Power Wireline Transceivers

Kiarash Gharibdoust

Over the past few decades, incessant growth of Internet networking traffic and High-Performance Computing (HPC) has led to a tremendous demand for data bandwidth. Digital communication technologies combined with advanced integrated circuit scaling trends h ...

EPFL2016

Trustworthy Cloud Storage

Maxime Augier

The Cloud trend is an attempt to leverage economics of scale in the domain of computing resources. Unfortunately, this often means losing control of the lower levels of a computer system, and exposing users to new threat vectors. These threats may be signi ...

EPFL2016

Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data Files

Ioannis Alagiannis

Nowadays, business and scientific applications accumulate data at an increasing pace. This growth of information has already started to outgrow the capabilities of database management systems (DBMS). In a typical DBMS usage scenario, the user should define ...

EPFL2015

Flash-aware Database Transactions

Radu Ioan Stoica

Over the past 40 years, hard disks, the traditional building block of storage systems, have become increasingly slower when compared to the other system components such as the main memory and the CPU. Hard disks face mechanical constraints that cause their ...

EPFL2014

Re-writing scheme for solid-state storage devices

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi, Luoming Zhang, Yuval Cassuto

A multi-level cell flash memory storage device has cells wherein different charge levels represent different information. The storage device can read stored charge from one or more cells, store a rewrite generation value for a group of a plurality of cells ...

2014