A number of papers on side-channel attacks have been published where the side-channel information was not exploited in an optimal manner, which reduced their efficiency. A good understanding of the source and the true risk potential of an attack is necessary to rate the effectiveness of possible countermeasures. This paper explains a general approach to optimize the efficiency of side-channel a...

Power load management is the concept of controlling the loads at the demand side in order to run energy systems more efficiently. Energy systems are inherently highly distributed and contain large number of loads, up to some million. This implies that computationally and conceptually attractive methods are required for this application. In this paper we give two novel theorems for how to decomp...

Load balancing middleware is used extensively to improve scalability and overall system throughput in distributed systems. Many load balancing middleware services are simplistic, however, since they are geared only for specific usecases and environments. These limitations make it hard to use the same load balancing service for anything other than the distributed application it was designed for ...

This paper describes the testing of Profiled Steel Sheet Dry Board (PSSDB) load bearing wall system. Experimental tests were conducted on various PSSDB wall samples, with and without infill materials to study its effect on the PSSDB load bearing wall performance. A proprietary profiled steel sheet, Ajiya Cliplock (0.48 mm thick) attached to Cemboard (10 mm thick) on one side, and Cemplank (10 m...

usually both ends of a transformer winding are at the same side of the magnetic core. with this arrangement there are automaticaly the same number of the turns for each winding in both core windows next to the middle leg of a three phase three leg core type transformer. contrary to this arrangement it is possible to put the two ends of a winding at the different sides of the core. in this case ...

The objective of the presented research is to develop an efficient control system for highway load effects that involves the control of various parameters including: truck weight (axle weights and axle spacing), truck load distribution on bridge girders, dynamic load, strain, stress and deflection of bridge components, and verification procedure for the minimum load carrying capacity. This stud...

nowadays generation capacity in traditional grid depends on fossil fuels and contributes significantly to the increase of pollution emission. in deregulated grids in addition to using demand response programs (drps) to reducing the cost of electricity production, peak clipping and improve reliability use of green plants such as hydro plant, wind plant become widespread. in a smart grid, end use...

Demand-side management (DSM) plays an important role in demand response (DR) system which increases energy efficiency in smart grid. The traditional demand side management focus on slashing peak-load in peak hours, but it does not consider about user’s comfort. In this paper, authors propose an intelligent energy management system and implement with the Intel Quark-based Gateway. To consider ab...

We collected mobility traces of 84,208 avatars spanning 22 regions over two months in Second Life, a popular networked virtual environment. We analyzed the traces to characterize the dynamics of the avatars mobility and behavior, both temporally and spatially. We discuss the implications of the our findings to the design of peer-to-peer networked virtual environments, interest management, mobil...

For robots with joint elasticity, discrepancies exist between the motor side information and the load side (i.e., end-effector) information. Therefore, high tracking performance at the load side can hardly be achieved when the estimate of load side information is inaccurate. To minimize such inaccuracies, it is desired to calibrate the load side sensor (in particular, the exact sensor location)...