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Analyzing the Effect of an Extreme Weather Event on Telecommunications and Information Technology: Insights from 30 Days of Flooding
Leandro M\'arcio Bertholdo, Renan Barreto Paredes, Gabriela de Lima Marin, Cesar A. H. Loureiro, Milton Kaoru Kashiwakura Pedro de Botelho Marcos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04219

Analyzing the Effect of an Extreme Weather Event on Telecommunications and Information Technology: Insights from 30 Days of Flooding
In May 2024, weeks of severe rainfall in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil caused widespread damage to infrastructure, impacting over 400 cities and 2.3 million people. This study presents the construction of comprehensive telecommunications datasets during this climatic event, encompassing Internet measurements, fiber cut reports, and Internet Exchange routing data. By correlating network disruptions with hydrological and operational factors, the dataset offers insights into the resilience of fiber ne…

A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing
Benedikt Pittl, Werner Mach, Erich Schikuta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02767 https://arxiv…

A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing
The cloud computing technology uses datacenters, which require energy. Recent trends show that the required energy for these datacenters will rise over time, or at least remain constant. Hence, the scientific community developed different algorithms, architectures, and approaches for improving the energy efficiency of cloud datacenters, which are summarized under the umbrella term Green Cloud computing. In this paper, we use an economic approach - taxes - for reducing the energy consumption of …

Digital quantum simulation of many-body systems: Making the most of intermediate-scale, noisy quantum computers
Alexander Miessen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21504 https://

Digital quantum simulation of many-body systems: Making the most of intermediate-scale, noisy quantum computers
Quantum mechanical problems are among the hardest to simulate and, in some cases, remain intractable even for the most powerful computers. Quantum computing has emerged as a new technological platform to address such challenges, with rapid advances in recent years. Yet, current quantum devices remain noisy and limited in scale. Hence, it is essential to identify classically hard problems of practical interest and tractable with existing quantum devices. Among potential applications, the real-ti…

Next-Generation Sustainable Wireless Systems: Energy Efficiency Meets Environmental Impact
Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Omar Hashash, Kimia Ehsani, Walid Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02395

Next-Generation Sustainable Wireless Systems: Energy Efficiency Meets Environmental Impact
Aligning with the global mandates pushing towards advanced technologies with reduced resource consumption and environmental impacts, the sustainability of wireless networks becomes a significant concern in 6G systems. To address this concern, a native integration of sustainability into the operations of next-generation networks through novel designs and metrics is necessary. Nevertheless, existing wireless sustainability efforts remain limited to energy-efficient network designs which fail to c…

China is racing ahead of the rest of the world in the adoption of robovans, despite limitations like slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robovans so far (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

China races ahead in robovans even as autonomous delivery challenges remain
Neolix says it has deployed 10,000 of the self-driving vehicles in industry milestone

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

From Evaluation to Optimization: Neural Speech Assessment for Downstream Applications
Yu Tsao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01889 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0…

From Evaluation to Optimization: Neural Speech Assessment for Downstream Applications
The evaluation of synthetic and processed speech has long been a cornerstone of audio engineering and speech science. Although subjective listening tests remain the gold standard for assessing perceptual quality and intelligibility, their high cost, time requirements, and limited scalability present significant challenges in the rapid development cycles of modern speech technologies. Traditional objective metrics, while computationally efficient, often exhibit weak correlation with human percep…

Dynamical Response of Deformable Microchannels under Pressure-Driven Flow of Aqueous Polymer Solutions
Sampad Laha, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Suman Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21343

Dynamical Response of Deformable Microchannels under Pressure-Driven Flow of Aqueous Polymer Solutions
Microfluidic channels are integral to biomedical technology and process engineering, offering versatility in handling fluids with complex properties, often a combination of viscous and elastic attributes. Despite significant advancements in understanding small-scale fluid-structure interactions, however, experimental insights on the flow of complex fluids in deformable microchannels remain limited. Here, we present controlled experiments using polymer solutions as model viscoelastic fluids to e…

Experimental measurement of quantum-first-passage-time distributions
Joseph M. Ryan, Simon Gorbaty, Thomas J. Kessler, Mitchell G. Peaks, Stephen W. Teitsworth, Crystal Noel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21790

Experimental measurement of quantum-first-passage-time distributions
Classical First-Passage-Time Distributions (FPTDs) have been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally. Their quantum counterparts, Quantum First-Passage-Time Distributions (QFPTDs), remain largely unexplored and have deep implications for both fundamental physics and the development of emerging quantum technologies. We measure the first QFPTDs using a motional mode of a single trapped ion. We develop a novel composite-phase laser pulse sequence to perform tunable stroboscopic p…

Sim2Field: End-to-End Development of AI RANs for 6G
Russell Ford, Hao Chen, Pranav Madadi, Mandar Kulkarni, Xiaochuan Ma, Daoud Burghal, Guanbo Chen, Yeqing Hu, Chance Tarver, Panagiotis Skrimponis, Vitali Loseu, Yu Zhang, Yan Xin, Yang Li, Jianzhong Zhang, Shubham Khunteta, Yeswanth Guddeti Reddy, Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva, Mahantesh Kothiwale, Davide Villa
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Sim2Field: End-to-End Development of AI RANs for 6G
Following state-of-the-art research results, which showed the potential for significant performance gains by applying AI/ML techniques in the cellular Radio Access Network (RAN), the wireless industry is now broadly pushing for the adoption of AI in 5G and future 6G technology. Despite this enthusiasm, AI-based wireless systems still remain largely untested in the field. Common simulation methods for generating datasets for AI model training suffer from "reality gap" and, as a result, the perfo…