News & Events

We are proud to announce that the paper entitled "Chaos: versatile and efficient all-to-all data sharing and in-network processing at scale", presenting work developed by the Chalmers team in the scope of KARYON, has received the best paper award at the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '13). The paper was authored by Olaf Landsiedel, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling. Congratulations to our colleagues!    

We are proud to announce that the paper entitled "Validity-based Failure Algebra for Distributed Sensor Systems", presenting work developed by the OVGU team in the scope of KARYON, has received the best paper award at the 32nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2013). The paper, authored by Tino Brade, Sebastian Zug and Jörg Kaiser, was selected among the 22 papers presented at the conference, from a total of about 70 submitted papers. Congratulations to our colleagues!

Chalmers had carried out a KARYON dissemination activity during the science festival 2013 (Vetenskapsfestivalen). The audience included young scientists and engineering enthusiasts. The presentation discusses KARYON related problems and solutions.

4S srl had presented KARYON in the training course at Katech (the Korea Automotive Technology Institute) on Functional Safety according to ISO 26262 (November 2012). The audience had included 15 people with different expertise in the area of automotive.   The course covered not only the requirements of the standard, but also dealt with ongoing research regarding methods and tools to support automotive electronic designers. In particular an outline of Karyon project was presented. This subject was of particular interest, because the final part of the course was devoted to the discussion about future needs in the application of ISO 26262, and ADAS and cooperative driving were subjects addressed.  

Rolf Johansson from SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden gave a talk in a BeSafe seminar at Volvo on safe cooperative autonomous vehicles in an uncertain environment. The talk has considered both the avionic and in the automotive domains, with scenarios of cooperative autonomous vehicles in mind. He had reviewed the many similarities between the use cases of these branches, and the challenges for the E/E architecture solutions have much in common. The key question of the presentation was how to become able to argue for safety. Rolf showed how KARYON investigates these issues. The talk discussed KARYON’s system solutions for predictable and (functionally) safe coordination of smart vehicles that autonomously cooperate and interact in an open and inherently uncertain environment.

SAFER (Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre) is a joint research unit where 25 partners from the Swedish automotive industry, academia and authorities cooperate to make a centre of excellence within the field of vehicle and traffic safety. Chalmers and SP held a joint presentation in SAFER about the KARYON overview and the project outlook.

A new tool for the evaluation of inaccessibility periods in IEEE 802.15.4 beacon enabled wireless networks has been made publicly available by KARYON. The tool is implemented as a spreadsheet that allows the configuration of network parameters, producing tabular results and associated graphics.

Year 1 deliverables have now been made available on the project website. These deliverables provide initial results on issues ranging from the KARYON architecture definition, to the definition of safety constraints and safety predicates. They can be found in the Project Documents - Deliverables section of the website.

During the 14th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2012) in Toronto (Canada), the KARYON project was presented. The presentation was delivered in The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.   https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/sss2012/