MacroBase: Analytic Monitoring for the Internet of Things

March 16, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

MacroBase: Analytic Monitoring for the Internet of Things - Bailis et al. 2016 It looks like Peter Alvaro is not the only one to be doing some industrial collaboration recently! MacroBase is the result of Peter Bailis' collaboration with Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), an IoT company. The topic at hand is analytic monitoring - detecting ... Continue Reading

Fast and Vulnerable: A Story of Telematic Failures

December 3, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

Fast and Vulnerable: A Story of Telematic Failures - Foster et al. 2015 Yesterday we saw just how much damage can be done by an adversary that is able to infiltrate the CAN bus of a car. Today's paper shows that it's possible to gain access to the bus remotely... Telematic control units (TCU) are ... Continue Reading

Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile

December 2, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile - Foster et al . 2010 Today's paper gives us a frightening insight into the (lack of) security of the distributed computing systems controlling modern cars. The results described were obtained from testing a 2009 model year car. Surely today's cars are better than this? In the UK, ... Continue Reading

Symmetry Reduction Enables Model Checking of More Complex Emerging Behaviours of Swarm Navigation Algorithms

October 30, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Symmetry Reduction Enables Model Checking of More Complex Emerging Behaviours of Swarm Navigation Algorithms - Antuñya et al. 2015 Don't let the title put you off - this paper is all about robot swarms! Previously we looked at some nature-inspired optimisation algorithms, including Particle Swarm Optimisation which draws inspiration from the behaviour of flocks of ... Continue Reading

Distributed Information Processing in Biological and Computational Systems

September 29, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

Distributed Information Processing in Biological and Computational Systems - Navlakah & Bar-Joseph 2015 With thanks to Mark Allen for pointing me at today's paper choice via twitter. This is the last of the posts in the 'nature-inspired' series for a while, and we're moving on from optimisation problems to look at the way we build ... Continue Reading

TAG: A Tiny Aggregation Service for ad-hoc Sensor Networks

February 18, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

TAG: A Tiny Aggregation Service for ad-hoc Sensor Networks - Madden et al. 2002 ** updated broken link above ** This is the third in a series of 5 'desert island paper' selections from Peter Alvaro. The topics discussed in this paper seem so highly relevant to the current hope and excitement for the Internet ... Continue Reading

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