This document provides an introduction to modelling communication systems using TIMS (Telecommunications Instructional Modelling System). It discusses key concepts like modulation, messages, bandwidths and spectra, measurement instruments, and modelling techniques. The document is an instruction manual for a system that allows students to build hardware models of communication system block diagrams and observe waveforms on an oscilloscope. It aims to support courses in telecommunications at various levels.
Details: https://electronicsembeddedworld.blogspot.com/2018/06/performance-management-mcq.html
FM demodulation involves changing the frequency variations in a signal into amplitude variations at baseband, e.g. audio. There are several techniques and circuits that can be used each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
In any radio that is designed to receive frequency modulated signals there is some form of FM demodulator or detector. This circuit takes in frequency modulated RF signals and takes the modulation from the signal to output only the modulation that had been applied at the transmitter.
There are several types of FM detector / demodulator that can be used. Some types were more popular in the days when radios were made from discrete devices, but nowadays the PLL based detector and quadrature / coincidence detectors are the most widely used as they lend themselves to being incorporated into integrated circuits very easily...
La modulación por ancho de pulsos (también conocida como PWM, siglas en inglés de pulse-width modulation) de una señal o fuente de energía es una técnica en la que se modifica el ciclo de trabajo de una señal periódica (una senoidal o una cuadrada, por ejemplo), ya sea para transmitir información a través de un canal de comunicaciones o para controlar la cantidad de energía que se envía a una carga.
A general overview of signal encoding
You will learn why to use digital encoding, how signal is transmitted and received and how analog signals are converted to digital
Some digital encoding methods
A presentation prepared by my friend's friend. I have done no editing at all, I'm just uploading the presentation as it is.
Designed a fully customized 128x10b SRAM by constructing schematic & virtuoso layout of memory cell array (6T cell), row & column decoder, pre-charge circuit, write circuit and sense amplifier using Cadence. Manually placed and routed all components, performed DRC & LVS debugging of constructed schematic and layout and ran PEX to generate the final Netlist, Hspice Spectre simulation of final design for verification of the correct functionality and analysis of best read, best write cycles & the worst case timing for read and write. Timing and power consumed is analyzed through STA-Primetime (Static timing Analysis)
Details: https://electronicsembeddedworld.blogspot.com/2018/06/performance-management-mcq.html
FM demodulation involves changing the frequency variations in a signal into amplitude variations at baseband, e.g. audio. There are several techniques and circuits that can be used each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
In any radio that is designed to receive frequency modulated signals there is some form of FM demodulator or detector. This circuit takes in frequency modulated RF signals and takes the modulation from the signal to output only the modulation that had been applied at the transmitter.
There are several types of FM detector / demodulator that can be used. Some types were more popular in the days when radios were made from discrete devices, but nowadays the PLL based detector and quadrature / coincidence detectors are the most widely used as they lend themselves to being incorporated into integrated circuits very easily...
La modulación por ancho de pulsos (también conocida como PWM, siglas en inglés de pulse-width modulation) de una señal o fuente de energía es una técnica en la que se modifica el ciclo de trabajo de una señal periódica (una senoidal o una cuadrada, por ejemplo), ya sea para transmitir información a través de un canal de comunicaciones o para controlar la cantidad de energía que se envía a una carga.
A general overview of signal encoding
You will learn why to use digital encoding, how signal is transmitted and received and how analog signals are converted to digital
Some digital encoding methods
A presentation prepared by my friend's friend. I have done no editing at all, I'm just uploading the presentation as it is.
Designed a fully customized 128x10b SRAM by constructing schematic & virtuoso layout of memory cell array (6T cell), row & column decoder, pre-charge circuit, write circuit and sense amplifier using Cadence. Manually placed and routed all components, performed DRC & LVS debugging of constructed schematic and layout and ran PEX to generate the final Netlist, Hspice Spectre simulation of final design for verification of the correct functionality and analysis of best read, best write cycles & the worst case timing for read and write. Timing and power consumed is analyzed through STA-Primetime (Static timing Analysis)
Master Thesis - A Distributed Algorithm for Stateless Load BalancingAndrea Tino
The algorithm object of this thesis deals with the problem of balancing data units
across different stations in the context of storing large amounts of information in
data stores or data centres. The approaches being used today are mainly based on
employing a central balancing node which often requires information from the different
stations about their load state.
The algorithm being proposed here follows the opposite strategy for which data is
balanced without the use of any centralized balancing unit, thus fulfilling the distributed
property, and without gathering any information from stations about their
current load state, thus the stateless property.
This document will go through the details of the algorithm by describing the idea
and the mathematical principles behind it. By means of an analytical proof, the equation
of balancing will be devised and introduced. Later on, tests and simulations,
carried on by means of different environments and technologies, will illustrate the
effectiveness of the approach. Results will be introduced and discussed in the second
part of this document together with final notes about current state of art, challenges
and deployment considerations in real scenarios.
An investigation into the building blocks for Neural Networks and modern day machine learning. This investigation touches on the evolution of the most basic of neural networks to more modern day concepts, particularly in methodologies that allow better training of these networks to produce more accurate real-life models.
Industrial Electronic Circuits Laboratory Manual (Synthesis Lectures on Elect...Lucky Gods
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About TrueTime, Spanner, Clock synchronization, CAP theorem, Two-phase lockin...Subhajit Sahu
TrueTime is a service that enables the use of globally synchronized clocks, with bounded error. It returns a time interval that is guaranteed to contain the clock’s actual time for some time during the call’s execution. If two intervals do not overlap, then we know calls were definitely ordered in real time. In general, synchronized clocks can be used to avoid communication in a distributed system.
The underlying source of time is a combination of GPS receivers and atomic clocks. As there are “time masters” in every datacenter (redundantly), it is likely that both sides of a partition would continue to enjoy accurate time. Individual nodes however need network connectivity to the masters, and without it their clocks will drift. Thus, during a partition their intervals slowly grow wider over time, based on bounds on the rate of local clock drift. Operations depending on TrueTime, such as Paxos leader election or transaction commits, thus have to wait a little longer, but the operation still completes (assuming the 2PC and quorum communication are working).
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Adjusting Bitset for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is commonly used for efficient graph computations. Unfortunately, using CSR for dynamic graphs is impractical since addition/deletion of a single edge can require on average (N+M)/2 memory accesses, in order to update source-offsets and destination-indices. A common approach is therefore to store edge-lists/destination-indices as an array of arrays, where each edge-list is an array belonging to a vertex. While this is good enough for small graphs, it quickly becomes a bottleneck for large graphs. What causes this bottleneck depends on whether the edge-lists are sorted or unsorted. If they are sorted, checking for an edge requires about log(E) memory accesses, but adding an edge on average requires E/2 accesses, where E is the number of edges of a given vertex. Note that both addition and deletion of edges in a dynamic graph require checking for an existing edge, before adding or deleting it. If edge lists are unsorted, checking for an edge requires around E/2 memory accesses, but adding an edge requires only 1 memory access.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Experiments with Primitive operations : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
This includes:
- Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
- Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
- Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
- Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
word2vec, node2vec, graph2vec, X2vec: Towards a Theory of Vector Embeddings o...Subhajit Sahu
Below are the important points I note from the 2020 paper by Martin Grohe:
- 1-WL distinguishes almost all graphs, in a probabilistic sense
- Classical WL is two dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman
- DeepWL is an unlimited version of WL graph that runs in polynomial time.
- Knowledge graphs are essentially graphs with vertex/edge attributes
ABSTRACT:
Vector representations of graphs and relational structures, whether handcrafted feature vectors or learned representations, enable us to apply standard data analysis and machine learning techniques to the structures. A wide range of methods for generating such embeddings have been studied in the machine learning and knowledge representation literature. However, vector embeddings have received relatively little attention from a theoretical point of view.
Starting with a survey of embedding techniques that have been used in practice, in this paper we propose two theoretical approaches that we see as central for understanding the foundations of vector embeddings. We draw connections between the various approaches and suggest directions for future research.
DyGraph: A Dynamic Graph Generator and Benchmark Suite : NOTESSubhajit Sahu
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/54c4a14d9ea547183c6c7b3518bf9cd1
There exist a number of dynamic graph generators. Barbasi-Albert model iteratively attach new vertices to pre-exsiting vertices in the graph using preferential attachment (edges to high degree vertices are more likely - rich get richer - Pareto principle). However, graph size increases monotonically, and density of graph keeps increasing (sparsity decreasing).
Gorke's model uses a defined clustering to uniformly add vertices and edges. Purohit's model uses motifs (eg. triangles) to mimick properties of existing dynamic graphs, such as growth rate, structure, and degree distribution. Kronecker graph generators are used to increase size of a given graph, with power-law distribution.
To generate dynamic graphs, we must choose a metric to compare two graphs. Common metrics include diameter, clustering coefficient (modularity?), triangle counting (triangle density?), and degree distribution.
In this paper, the authors propose Dygraph, a dynamic graph generator that uses degree distribution as the only metric. The authors observe that many real-world graphs differ from the power-law distribution at the tail end. To address this issue, they propose binning, where the vertices beyond a certain degree (minDeg = min(deg) s.t. |V(deg)| < H, where H~10 is the number of vertices with a given degree below which are binned) are grouped into bins of degree-width binWidth, max-degree localMax, and number of degrees in bin with at least one vertex binSize (to keep track of sparsity). This helps the authors to generate graphs with a more realistic degree distribution.
The process of generating a dynamic graph is as follows. First the difference between the desired and the current degree distribution is calculated. The authors then create an edge-addition set where each vertex is present as many times as the number of additional incident edges it must recieve. Edges are then created by connecting two vertices randomly from this set, and removing both from the set once connected. Currently, authors reject self-loops and duplicate edges. Removal of edges is done in a similar fashion.
Authors observe that adding edges with power-law properties dominates the execution time, and consider parallelizing DyGraph as part of future work.
My notes on shared memory parallelism.
Shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them or avoid redundant copies. Shared memory is an efficient means of passing data between programs. Using memory for communication inside a single program, e.g. among its multiple threads, is also referred to as shared memory [REF].
A Dynamic Algorithm for Local Community Detection in Graphs : NOTESSubhajit Sahu
**Community detection methods** can be *global* or *local*. **Global community detection methods** divide the entire graph into groups. Existing global algorithms include:
- Random walk methods
- Spectral partitioning
- Label propagation
- Greedy agglomerative and divisive algorithms
- Clique percolation
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/b4316609265b5b9f88027bbc491f80b6
There is a growing body of work in *detecting overlapping communities*. **Seed set expansion** is a **local community detection method** where a relevant *seed vertices* of interest are picked and *expanded to form communities* surrounding them. The quality of each community is measured using a *fitness function*.
**Modularity** is a *fitness function* which compares the number of intra-community edges to the expected number in a random-null model. **Conductance** is another popular fitness score that measures the community cut or inter-community edges. Many *overlapping community detection* methods **use a modified ratio** of intra-community edges to all edges with atleast one endpoint in the community.
Andersen et al. use a **Spectral PageRank-Nibble method** which minimizes conductance and is formed by adding vertices in order of decreasing PageRank values. Andersen and Lang develop a **random walk approach** in which some vertices in the seed set may not be placed in the final community. Clauset gives a **greedy method** that *starts from a single vertex* and then iteratively adds neighboring vertices *maximizing the local modularity score*. Riedy et al. **expand multiple vertices** via maximizing modularity.
Several algorithms for **detecting global, overlapping communities** use a *greedy*, *agglomerative approach* and run *multiple separate seed set expansions*. Lancichinetti et al. run **greedy seed set expansions**, each with a *single seed vertex*. Overlapping communities are produced by a sequentially running expansions from a node not yet in a community. Lee et al. use **maximal cliques as seed sets**. Havemann et al. **greedily expand cliques**.
The authors of this paper discuss a dynamic approach for **community detection using seed set expansion**. Simply marking the neighbours of changed vertices is a **naive approach**, and has *severe shortcomings*. This is because *communities can split apart*. The simple updating method *may fail even when it outputs a valid community* in the graph.
Scalable Static and Dynamic Community Detection Using Grappolo : NOTESSubhajit Sahu
A **community** (in a network) is a subset of nodes which are _strongly connected among themselves_, but _weakly connected to others_. Neither the number of output communities nor their size distribution is known a priori. Community detection methods can be divisive or agglomerative. **Divisive methods** use _betweeness centrality_ to **identify and remove bridges** between communities. **Agglomerative methods** greedily **merge two communities** that provide maximum gain in _modularity_. Newman and Girvan have introduced the **modularity metric**. The problem of community detection is then reduced to the problem of modularity maximization which is **NP-complete**. **Louvain method** is a variant of the _agglomerative strategy_, in that is a _multi-level heuristic_.
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/917a1a4a429e89a0f2a1911cea56314d
In this paper, the authors discuss **four heuristics** for Community detection using the _Louvain algorithm_ implemented upon recently developed **Grappolo**, which is a parallel variant of the Louvain algorithm. They are:
- Vertex following and Minimum label
- Data caching
- Graph coloring
- Threshold scaling
With the **Vertex following** heuristic, the _input is preprocessed_ and all single-degree vertices are merged with their corresponding neighbours. This helps reduce the number of vertices considered in each iteration, and also help initial seeds of communities to be formed. With the **Minimum label heuristic**, when a vertex is making the decision to move to a community and multiple communities provided the same modularity gain, the community with the smallest id is chosen. This helps _minimize or prevent community swaps_. With the **Data caching** heuristic, community information is stored in a vector instead of a map, and is reused in each iteration, but with some additional cost. With the **Vertex ordering via Graph coloring** heuristic, _distance-k coloring_ of graphs is performed in order to group vertices into colors. Then, each set of vertices (by color) is processed _concurrently_, and synchronization is performed after that. This enables us to mimic the behaviour of the serial algorithm. Finally, with the **Threshold scaling** heuristic, _successively smaller values of modularity threshold_ are used as the algorithm progresses. This allows the algorithm to converge faster, and it has been observed a good modularity score as well.
From the results, it appears that _graph coloring_ and _threshold scaling_ heuristics do not always provide a speedup and this depends upon the nature of the graph. It would be interesting to compare the heuristics against baseline approaches. Future work can include _distributed memory implementations_, and _community detection on streaming graphs_.
Application Areas of Community Detection: A Review : NOTESSubhajit Sahu
This is a short review of Community detection methods (on graphs), and their applications. A **community** is a subset of a network whose members are *highly connected*, but *loosely connected* to others outside their community. Different community detection methods *can return differing communities* these algorithms are **heuristic-based**. **Dynamic community detection** involves tracking the *evolution of community structure* over time.
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/09e64d6ba3ef080db5558feb2d32fdc0
Communities can be of the following **types**:
- Disjoint
- Overlapping
- Hierarchical
- Local.
The following **static** community detection **methods** exist:
- Spectral-based
- Statistical inference
- Optimization
- Dynamics-based
The following **dynamic** community detection **methods** exist:
- Independent community detection and matching
- Dependent community detection (evolutionary)
- Simultaneous community detection on all snapshots
- Dynamic community detection on temporal networks
**Applications** of community detection include:
- Criminal identification
- Fraud detection
- Criminal activities detection
- Bot detection
- Dynamics of epidemic spreading (dynamic)
- Cancer/tumor detection
- Tissue/organ detection
- Evolution of influence (dynamic)
- Astroturfing
- Customer segmentation
- Recommendation systems
- Social network analysis (both)
- Network summarization
- Privary, group segmentation
- Link prediction (both)
- Community evolution prediction (dynamic, hot field)
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## References
- [Application Areas of Community Detection: A Review : PAPER](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8625349)
This paper discusses a GPU implementation of the Louvain community detection algorithm. Louvain algorithm obtains hierachical communities as a dendrogram through modularity optimization. Given an undirected weighted graph, all vertices are first considered to be their own communities. In the first phase, each vertex greedily decides to move to the community of one of its neighbours which gives greatest increase in modularity. If moving to no neighbour's community leads to an increase in modularity, the vertex chooses to stay with its own community. This is done sequentially for all the vertices. If the total change in modularity is more than a certain threshold, this phase is repeated. Once this local moving phase is complete, all vertices have formed their first hierarchy of communities. The next phase is called the aggregation phase, where all the vertices belonging to a community are collapsed into a single super-vertex, such that edges between communities are represented as edges between respective super-vertices (edge weights are combined), and edges within each community are represented as self-loops in respective super-vertices (again, edge weights are combined). Together, the local moving and the aggregation phases constitute a stage. This super-vertex graph is then used as input fof the next stage. This process continues until the increase in modularity is below a certain threshold. As a result from each stage, we have a hierarchy of community memberships for each vertex as a dendrogram.
Approaches to perform the Louvain algorithm can be divided into coarse-grained and fine-grained. Coarse-grained approaches process a set of vertices in parallel, while fine-grained approaches process all vertices in parallel. A coarse-grained hybrid-GPU algorithm using multi GPUs has be implemented by Cheong et al. which grabbed my attention. In addition, their algorithm does not use hashing for the local moving phase, but instead sorts each neighbour list based on the community id of each vertex.
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/7e72c9b8c18c18ab908ae76262099329
Survey for extra-child-process package : NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Useful additions to inbuilt child_process module.
📦 Node.js, 📜 Files, 📰 Docs.
Please see attached PDF for literature survey.
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/d936da570d7bf73f95d1513d4368573e
Dynamic Batch Parallel Algorithms for Updating PageRank : POSTERSubhajit Sahu
For the PhD forum an abstract submission is required by 10th May, and poster by 15th May. The event is on 30th May.
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/692d263f463fd49be6eb5aa65dd4d0f9
Abstract for IPDPS 2022 PhD Forum on Dynamic Batch Parallel Algorithms for Up...Subhajit Sahu
For the PhD forum an abstract submission is required by 10th May, and poster by 15th May. The event is on 30th May.
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/1c1f730d20b51e0d2c6d477fd3713024
Fast Incremental Community Detection on Dynamic Graphs : NOTESSubhajit Sahu
In this paper, the authors describe two approaches for dynamic community detection using the CNM algorithm. CNM is a hierarchical, agglomerative algorithm that greedily maximizes modularity. They define two approaches: BasicDyn and FastDyn. BasicDyn backtracks merges of communities until each marked (changed) vertex is its own singleton community. FastDyn undoes a merge only if the quality of merge, as measured by the induced change in modularity, has significantly decreased compared to when the merge initially took place. FastDyn also allows more than two vertices to contract together if in the previous time step these vertices eventually ended up contracted in the same community. In the static case, merging several vertices together in one contraction phase could lead to deteriorating results. FastDyn is able to do this, however, because it uses information from the merges of the previous time step. Intuitively, merges that previously occurred are more likely to be acceptable later.
https://gist.github.com/wolfram77/1856b108334cc822cdddfdfa7334792a
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
7. WHAT IS TIMS ?
TIMS is a Telecommunications Instructional Modelling System. It models
telecommunication systems.
Text books on telecommunications abound with block diagrams. These
diagrams illustrate the subject being discussed by the author. Generally they
are small sub-systems of a larger system. Their behaviour is described by the
author with the help of mathematical equations, and with drawings or
photographs of the signal waveforms expected to be present.
TIMS brings alive the block diagram of the text book with a working model,
recreating the waveforms on an oscilloscope.
How can TIMS be expected to accommodate such a large number of
models ?
There may be hundreds of block diagrams in a text book, but only a relatively
few individual block types. These block diagrams achieve their individuality
because of the many ways a relatively few element types can be connected in
different combinations.
TIMS contains a collection of these block types, or modules, and there are
very few block diagrams which it cannot model.
PURPOSE OF TIMS
TIMS can support courses in Telecommunications at all levels - from
Technical Colleges through to graduate degree courses at Universities.
This text is directed towards using TIMS as support for a course given at
any level of teaching.
Most early experiments are concerned with illustrating a small part of a
larger system. Two or more of these sub-systems can be combined to build
up a larger system.
The list of possible experiments is limitless. Each instructor will have his or
her own favourite collection - some of them are sure to be found herein.
Naturally, for a full appreciation of the phenomena being investigated, there
is no limit to the depth of mathematical analysis that can be undertaken. But
most experiments can be performed successfully with little or no
mathematical support. It is up to the instructor to decide the level of
understanding that is required.
8.
9. EXPERIMENT AIMS
The experiments in this Volume are concerned with introductory analog
communications. Most of them require only the TIMS basic set of
modules.
The experiments have been written with the idea that each model
examined could eventually become part of a larger telecommunications
system, the aim of this large system being to transmit a message from
input to output. The origin of this message, for the analog experiments in
Volumes A1 and A2, would ultimately be speech. But for test and
measurement purposes a sine wave, or perhaps two sinewaves (as in the
two-tone test signal) are generally substituted. For the digital experiments
(Volumes D1, D2 and D3) the typical message is a pseudo random binary
sequence.
The experiments are designed to be completed in about two hours, with
say one hour of preparation prior to the laboratory session.
The five Volumes of Communication Systems Modelling with TIMS
are:
A1 - Fundamental Analog Experiments
A2 - Further & Advanced Analog Experiments
D1 - Fundamental Digital Experiments
D2 - Further & Advanced Digital Experiments
D3 – Advanced Digital Experiments
Also available as an optional extra is:
TCLM1 – Technical College Lab Manual
10.
11. Contents
Introduction to modelling with TIMS ..........................................A1-01
Modelling an equation.................................................................A1-02
DSBSC generation......................................................................A1-03
Amplitude modulation.................................................................A1-04
Envelopes ...................................................................................A1-05
Envelope recovery.......................................................................A1-06
SSB generation - the phasing method ..........................................A1-07
Product demodulation - synch. & asynchronous ..........................A1-08
SSB demodulation - the phasing method .....................................A1-09
The sampling theorem .................................................................A1-10
PAM & time division multiplex ...................................................A1-11
Power measurements...................................................................A1-12
Appendix A - Filter responses .....................................................A1
Appendix B - Some Useful Expansions........................................ B1