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- Armgarth, Astrid, et al.
(författare)
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A digital nervous system aiming toward personalized IoT healthcare
- 2021
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : NATURE RESEARCH. - 2045-2322. ; 11:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Body area networks (BANs), cloud computing, and machine learning are platforms that can potentially enable advanced healthcare outside the hospital. By applying distributed sensors and drug delivery devices on/in our body and connecting to such communication and decision-making technology, a system for remote diagnostics and therapy is achieved with additional autoregulation capabilities. Challenges with such autarchic on-body healthcare schemes relate to integrity and safety, and interfacing and transduction of electronic signals into biochemical signals, and vice versa. Here, we report a BAN, comprising flexible on-body organic bioelectronic sensors and actuators utilizing two parallel pathways for communication and decision-making. Data, recorded from strain sensors detecting body motion, are both securely transferred to the cloud for machine learning and improved decision-making, and sent through the body using a secure body-coupled communication protocol to auto-actuate delivery of neurotransmitters, all within seconds. We conclude that both highly stable and accurate sensing-from multiple sensors-are needed to enable robust decision making and limit the frequency of retraining. The holistic platform resembles the self-regulatory properties of the nervous system, i.e., the ability to sense, communicate, decide, and react accordingly, thus operating as a digital nervous system.
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- Ismail, Mahmoud, et al.
(författare)
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HopsFS-S3 : Extending Object Stores with POSIX-like Semantics and more (industry track)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2020 21st international middleware conference industrial track (Middleware industry '20). - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ; , s. 23-30
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Object stores have become the de-facto platform for storage in the cloud due to their scalability, high availability, and low cost. However, they provide weaker metadata semantics and lower performance compared to distributed hierarchical file systems. In this paper, we introduce HopsFS-S3, a hybrid distributed hierarchical file system backed by an object store while preserving the file system's strong consistency semantics. We base our implementation on HopsFS, a next-generation distribution of HDFS with distributed metadata. We redesigned HopsFS' block storage layer to transparently use an object store to store the file's blocks without sacrificing the file system's semantics. We also introduced a new block caching service to leverage faster NVMe storage for hot blocks. In our experiments, we show that HopsFS-S3 outperforms EMRFS for IO-bound workloads, with up to 20% higher performance and delivers up to 3.4X the aggregated read throughput of EMRFS. Moreover, we demonstrate that metadata operations on HopsFS-S3 (such as directory rename) are up to two orders of magnitude faster than EMRFS. Finally, HopsFS-S3 opens up the currently closed metadata in object stores, enabling correctly-ordered change notifications with HopsFS' change data capture (CDC) API and customized extensions to metadata.
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- Ismail, Mahmoud, et al.
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Hopsworks : Improving User Experience and Development on Hadoop with Scalable, Strongly Consistent Metadata
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. - : IEEE COMPUTER SOC. - 9781538617915 ; , s. 2525-2528
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hadoop is a popular system for storing, managing,and processing large volumes of data, but it has bare-bonesinternal support for metadata, as metadata is a bottleneck andless means more scalability. The result is a scalable platform withrudimentary access control that is neither user-nor developer-friendly. Also, metadata services that are built on Hadoop, suchas SQL-on-Hadoop, access control, data provenance, and datagovernance are necessarily implemented as eventually consistentservices, resulting in increased development effort and morebrittle software. In this paper, we present a new project-based multi-tenancymodel for Hadoop, built on a new distribution of Hadoopthat provides a distributed database backend for the HadoopDistributed Filesystem's (HDFS) metadata layer. We extendHadoop's metadata model to introduce projects, datasets, andproject-users as new core concepts that enable a user-friendly, UI-driven Hadoop experience. As our metadata service is backed bya transactional database, developers can easily extend metadataby adding new tables and ensure the strong consistency ofextended metadata using both transactions and foreign keys.
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- Niazi, Salman, 1982-, et al.
(författare)
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Leader Election Using NewSQL Database Systems
- 2015
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Ingår i: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. - France : Springer. - 9783319191294 - 9783319191287 ; , s. 158-172
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Leader election protocols are a fundamental building blockfor replicated distributed services. They ease the design of leader-basedcoordination protocols that tolerate failures. In partially synchronoussystems, designing a leader election algorithm, that does not permit mul-tiple leaders while the system is unstable, is a complex task. As a resultmany production systems use third-party distributed coordination ser-vices, such as ZooKeeper and Chubby, to provide a reliable leader electionservice. However, adding a third-party service such as ZooKeeper to adistributed system incurs additional operational costs and complexity.ZooKeeper instances must be kept running on at least three machinesto ensure its high availability. In this paper, we present a novel leaderelection protocol using NewSQL databases for partially synchronous sys-tems, that ensures at most one leader at any given time. The leaderelection protocol uses the database as distributed shared memory. Ourwork enables distributed systems that already use NewSQL databasesto save the operational overhead of managing an additional third-partyservice for leader election. Our main contribution is the design, imple-mentation and validation of a practical leader election algorithm, basedon NewSQL databases, that has performance comparable to a leaderelection implementation using a state-of-the-art distributed coordinationservice, ZooKeeper
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