In layered networks, a single failure at the lower (physical) layer may cause multiple failures at the upper (logical) layer. As a result, traditional schemes that protect against single failures may not be effective in ...

Microfabricated transducers enable the label-free detection of biological molecules in nanoliter sized samples. Integrating microfluidic detection and sample-preparation can greatly leverage experimental efforts in systems ...

Modern computational tasks often involve large amounts of data, and efficiency is a very desirable feature of such algorithms. Local algorithms are especially attractive, since they can imply global properties by only ...

One solution to the timing closure problem is to perform infrequent operations in more than one clock cycle. Despite the apparent simplicity of the solution statement, it is not easily considered because it requires changes ...

In the late 1800's, Ernst Abbe, research director of the Carl Zeiss Optical Works, wrote down the rules for a lens to form a sharp image. Advances in communications theory, signal processing, and computers have allowed ...