The goal of this project was to identify which AAA server would be the best fit for the company to implement in its network environment. This has been done through an investigation of three AAA protocols RADIUS, TACACS+ and Diameter. The method for carrying out the project has been to produce a list of requirements with the company with goals and milestones during the course of the work. Information about the work has mostly been gathered from previous course literature and from publications of the Internet Engineering Task Force. With this knowledge, a comparison was created between these three mentioned AAA protocols and a topology of how login to network equipment changes. A test environment with the selected AAA protocol was set up to evaluate its functionality. The result of this is reported in the form of login attempts against three switches with different makes. A discussion of the project's results, the project method, ethical and environmental aspects, as well as economic aspects are discussed at the end of the report. / Målet med detta projekt var att identifiera vilken AAA-server som skulle passa bäst för företaget att implementera i sin nätverksmiljö. Detta har gjorts genom en undersökning av tre AAA-protokoll RADIUS, TACACS+ och Diameter. Metoden för att utföra projektet har varit att ta fram en kravlista med företaget med mål och milstolpar under arbetets gång. Information om arbetet har mestadels samlats in från tidigare kurslitteratur och från publikationer från Internet Engineering Task Force. Med denna kunskap skapades en jämförelse mellan dessa tre nämnda AAA-protokoll och en topologi över hur inloggning mot nätverksutrustning förändras. En testmiljö med det valda AAA-protokollet sattes upp för att utvärdera dess funktionalitet. Resultatet av detta redovisas i form av inloggningsförsök mot tre switchar med olika fabrikat. En diskussion om projektets resultat, projektmetoden, etiska- och miljöaspekter, samt ekonomiska aspekter diskuteras i slutet av rapporten.

Aneurismas são dilatações permanentes iguais ou superiores a 50% do diâmetro original de uma artéria ou do diâmetro proximal da mesma, de acordo com consenso publicado pela Sociedade de Cirurgia Vascular da América do Norte e Sociedade Internacional de Cirurgia Cardiovascular em 1991 (Vliet e Boll, 1997). Aneurisma de aorta é uma doença vascular que afeta mais de 5% da população masculina com mais de 55 anos de idade (How et al., 2005). Desde 1991 um novo método vem sendo utilizado como tratamento deste quadro clínico. Este novo método é considerado menos invasivo e com menor comorbidade, uma vez que se trata da instalação de uma endoprótese por meio de catéter através da artéria femoral. Neste trabalho, será verificado o escoamento através de três aneurismas de aorta abdominal (AAA) e das endopróteses indicadas para o tratamento de cada um dos aneurismas. Foram feitas simulações computacionais afim de se obter as pressões, as velocidades do escoamento sanguíneo e as tensões de cisalhamento na parede das geometrias, usando pulsos de pressão e velocidade fisiológico de um individuo adulto, normotenso, em repouso. No modelo de escoamento simulado, foi adotado o sangue como fluido Newtoniano, incompressível e homogêneo. Foi usado um modelo de turbulência K-, com interpolador upwind de 2ª ordem e tratamento de parede nas geometrias, para que se fosse possível obter resultados satisfatórios (das camadas próximas à parede, e de todos os vórtices). Os resultados obtidos no trabalho foram satisfatórios, uma vez que eles expressaram de forma realista o comportamento do escoamento sanguíneo pelos aneurismas e endopróteses. Foi possível justificar com esse trabalho a instalação de endopróteses em pacientes, quando necessário, com o objetivo de diminuir significativamente a degradação do vaso, causando a ruptura do aneurisma. / Aneurisms are permanently dilatation higher than 50% of the original diameter of an artery or of the proximal diameter of them, according to the published consensus of the Vascular Surgery Society of North America and International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery on 1991 (Vliet and Boll, 1997). Aortas Aneurism is a vascular disease that affects more than 5% of the male population, with more than 55 years old (How et al, 2005). Since 1991, a new method is used in the treatment of these diseases. This new method is less invasive and has less comorbidity. This method is provided by the installation of an endoprosthesis through the catheter through the femoral artery. In this work, the flow will be verified through three abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) and the endoprosthesis indicated for the treatment of each of the aneurysms. Computational simulations were made in order to obtain the pressures, velocities of the blood flow and the shear stresses on the wall of geometries, using a pulse pressure and velocity of an individual physiological adult normotensive at rest. For the fluid simulations, it was adopted the blood as Newtonian fluid, incompressible and homogeneous. In simulations, it was used a K- model of turbulence, with 2nd order upwind interpolator and wall geometry treatment in order to obtain satisfied results (on the layers near the walls, and all the vortices). The results obtained in this work were satisfied, once they expressed the realistic behavior of the blood flow through the aneurysm and the endoprosthesis. It was possible to justify with this work the installation of an endoprosthesis inside patients, when it is necessary, in order to decrease significantly the vessels degradation, causing the aneurysm rupture.

The aim of my thesis " Comparison of the Motivation and Professional Background of the Various Forms of Animal Assisted Activities" is to determine through literature, opinions of therapists and observation to determine what is the motivation, professional background and time demand to all forms of therapy. The first part focuses on the cross-section of views of the theoretical literature focusing on animal assisted activities. Here I describe the differences between different forms of animal assisted activities and I also deal with ethology of dogs. In the second part I find out through interviews and observations, I find actual evidence from animal assisted activities and I specifically discuss the use of animal assisted activities on the first grade of primary school. At the end of the thesis I summarize insights from observations, processed interviews and also from my own experience and I evaluate usage of animal assisted activities on the first grade of primary school.

Aneurismas são dilatações permanentes iguais ou superiores a 50% do diâmetro original de uma artéria ou do diâmetro proximal da mesma, de acordo com consenso publicado pela Sociedade de Cirurgia Vascular da América do Norte e Sociedade Internacional de Cirurgia Cardiovascular em 1991 (Vliet e Boll, 1997). Aneurisma de aorta é uma doença vascular que afeta mais de 5% da população masculina com mais de 55 anos de idade (How et al., 2005). Desde 1991 um novo método vem sendo utilizado como tratamento deste quadro clínico. Este novo método é considerado menos invasivo e com menor comorbidade, uma vez que se trata da instalação de uma endoprótese por meio de catéter através da artéria femoral. Neste trabalho, será verificado o escoamento através de três aneurismas de aorta abdominal (AAA) e das endopróteses indicadas para o tratamento de cada um dos aneurismas. Foram feitas simulações computacionais afim de se obter as pressões, as velocidades do escoamento sanguíneo e as tensões de cisalhamento na parede das geometrias, usando pulsos de pressão e velocidade fisiológico de um individuo adulto, normotenso, em repouso. No modelo de escoamento simulado, foi adotado o sangue como fluido Newtoniano, incompressível e homogêneo. Foi usado um modelo de turbulência K-, com interpolador upwind de 2ª ordem e tratamento de parede nas geometrias, para que se fosse possível obter resultados satisfatórios (das camadas próximas à parede, e de todos os vórtices). Os resultados obtidos no trabalho foram satisfatórios, uma vez que eles expressaram de forma realista o comportamento do escoamento sanguíneo pelos aneurismas e endopróteses. Foi possível justificar com esse trabalho a instalação de endopróteses em pacientes, quando necessário, com o objetivo de diminuir significativamente a degradação do vaso, causando a ruptura do aneurisma. / Aneurisms are permanently dilatation higher than 50% of the original diameter of an artery or of the proximal diameter of them, according to the published consensus of the Vascular Surgery Society of North America and International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery on 1991 (Vliet and Boll, 1997). Aortas Aneurism is a vascular disease that affects more than 5% of the male population, with more than 55 years old (How et al, 2005). Since 1991, a new method is used in the treatment of these diseases. This new method is less invasive and has less comorbidity. This method is provided by the installation of an endoprosthesis through the catheter through the femoral artery. In this work, the flow will be verified through three abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) and the endoprosthesis indicated for the treatment of each of the aneurysms. Computational simulations were made in order to obtain the pressures, velocities of the blood flow and the shear stresses on the wall of geometries, using a pulse pressure and velocity of an individual physiological adult normotensive at rest. For the fluid simulations, it was adopted the blood as Newtonian fluid, incompressible and homogeneous. In simulations, it was used a K- model of turbulence, with 2nd order upwind interpolator and wall geometry treatment in order to obtain satisfied results (on the layers near the walls, and all the vortices). The results obtained in this work were satisfied, once they expressed the realistic behavior of the blood flow through the aneurysm and the endoprosthesis. It was possible to justify with this work the installation of an endoprosthesis inside patients, when it is necessary, in order to decrease significantly the vessels degradation, causing the aneurysm rupture.

Les architectures multi-cœurs Intel Core (IvyBridge, Haswell,...) contiennent à la fois des cœurs CPU généralistes (4), mais aussi des cœurs dédiés GPU embarqués sur cette même puce (16 et 40 respectivement). Dans le cadre de l'activité de la société Kontron (qui participe à ce financement de nature CIFRE) un objectif important est de calculer efficacement sur cette architecture des tableaux et séquences de transformées de Fourier rapides (FFT), comme par exemple on en trouve dans des applications radar. Alors que des bibliothèques natives (mais propriétaires) existent chez Intel pour les CPU, rien de tel n'est actuellement disponible pour la partie GPU. L'objectif de la thèse était donc de définir le placement efficace de modules FFT, en étudiant au niveau théorique la forme optimale permettant de regrouper des étages de calcul d'une telle FFT en fonction de la localité des données sur un cœur de calcul unique. Ce choix a priori permet d'espérer une efficacité des traitements, en ajustant la taille de la mémoire disponible à celles des données nécessaires. Ensuite la multiplicité des cœurs reste exploitable pour disposer plusieurs FFT calculées en parallèle, sans interférence (sauf contention du bus entre CPU et GPU). Nous avons obtenu des résultats significatifs, tant au niveau de l'implantation d'une FFT (1024 points) sur un cœur CPU SIMD, exprimée en langage C, que pour l'implantation d'une FFT de même taille sur un cœur GPU SIMT, exprimée alors en OpenCL. De plus nos résultats permettent de définir des règles pour synthétiser automatiquement de telles solutions, en fonction uniquement de la taille de la FFT son nombre d'étages plus précisément), et de la taille de la mémoire locale pour un coeur de calcul donné. Les performances obtenues sont supérieures à celles de la bibliothèque native Intel pour CPU), et démontrent un gain important de consommation sur GPU. Tous ces points sont détaillés dans le document de thèse. Ces résultats devraient donner lieu à exploitation au sein de la société Kontron. / Multicore architectures Intel Core (IvyBridge, Haswell…) contain both general purpose CPU cores (4) and dedicated GPU cores embedded on the same chip (16 and 40 respectively). As part of the activity of Kontron (the company partially funding this CIFRE scholarship), an important objective is to efficiently compute arrays and sequences of fast Fourier transforms (FFT) such as one finds in radar applications, on this architecture. While native (but proprietary) libraries exist for Intel CPU, nothing is currently available for the GPU part.The aim of the thesis was to define the efficient placement of FFT modules, and to study theoretically the optimal form for grouping computing stages of such FFT according to data locality on a single computing core. This choice should allow processing efficiency, by adjusting the memory size available to the required application data size. Then the multiplicity of cores is exploitable to compute several FFT in parallel, without interference (except for possible bus contention between the CPU and the GPU). We have achieved significant results, both in the implementation of an FFT (1024 points) on a SIMD CPU core, expressed in C, and in the implementation of a FFT of the same size on a GPU SIMT core, then expressed in OpenCL. In addition, our results allow to define rules to automatically synthesize such solutions, based solely on the size of the FFT (more specifically its number of stages), and the size of the local memory for a given computing core. The performances obtained are better than the native Intel library for CPU, and demonstrate a significant gain in consumption on GPU. All these points are detailed in the thesis document.

This diploma thesis deals with authentication using RADIUS protocol and authentication methods in accordance with standard IEEE 802.1X. At the beginning there are shortly characteristics of chosen authentication methods, such as CHAP, PAP and some EAP types. Document includes summary of RADIUS protocols implementations, especially the FreeRADIUS server. Our goal is to implement a management tool to adminitrate FreeRADIUS server.

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

The main objective for this degree project was to analyze the Endpoint Security Solutions developed by Cisco, Microsoft and a third minor company solution represented by InfoExpress. The different solutions proposed are Cisco Network Admission Control, Microsoft Network Access Protection and InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper. An explanation of each solution functioning is proposed as well as an analysis of the differences between those solutions. This thesis work also proposes a tutorial for the installation of Cisco Network Admission Control for an easier implementation. The research was done by reading articles on the internet and by experimenting the Cisco Network Admission Control solution. My background knowledge about Cisco routing and ACL was also used. Based on the actual analysis done in this thesis, a conclusion was drawn that all existing solutions are not yet ready for large-scale use in corporate networks. Moreover all solutions are proprietary and incompatible. The future possible standard for Endpoint solution might be driven by Cisco and Microsoft and a rude competition begins between those two giants.

<p>Sammanfattning</p><p>I dagens samhälle ställs det stora krav på att ett företags IT-system skall vara tillgängligt för kommunikation. Kommunikationen kan ske inom och mellan företag. Då dessa kommunicerande aktörer kan ha olika system och arkitekturer som gör det komplicerat att kommunicera med varandra, krävs även någon applikation som hanterar detta problem. Dessa applikationer går under namnet integrationsplattformar. Då dessa plattformar fungerar som ett centralt nav i kommunikationen är det viktigt att säkerheten i dessa är av hög nivå.</p><p>Problemet är, vilka säkerhetsrisker kan tänkas dyka upp vid användandet av integrationsplattformar i ett informationssystem? Denna fråga ledde oss in på två forskningsfrågor som presenteras nedan:</p><p>• Kan denna teknik för applikationsintegration få konsekvenser för säkerheten och i så fall på vilket sätt?</p><p>• Hur ser den bakomliggande tekniken för säkerhet ut hos två viktiga integrationsplattformar på marknaden, är dessa likvärdiga så att de säkerhetsrisker som identifieras är giltiga för integrationsplattformar generellt?</p><p>Vi började med att definiera termen säkerhet utifrån tidigare kursböcker. När detta var klart kunde vi identifiera potentiella problem som företag kunde ställas inför vid implementation av integrationsplattformar. Därefter använde vi oss av Internet och olika typer av databaser och tidskrifter för att lokalisera fakta och information som behandlar integrationsplattformar för att få en bredare förståelse för hur dessa fungerar. Vi bestämde oss för att använda primärdata vid empiriinsamlingen och valde därför att genomföra intervjuer med leverantörer, tillverkare och kunder av integrationsplattformar för att kunna få olika perspektiv från hela kedjan.</p><p>En analys har gjorts av teorin och resultat av intervjun. Analysen ger ett svar på våra två forskningsfrågor utifrån våra emperiska resultat. Vi har dragit slutsatsen att det finns säkerhetsrisker med användandet av integrationsplattformar vid applikationsintegration. De säkerhetsrisker som kan dyka upp vid användandet av integrationsplattformar i ett IS är ett flertal och väldigt beroende av hur integrationsplattformens miljö är sammansatt. Vid införandet av en ny teknik finns det risk att man ärver säkerhetsproblem från den föregående tekniken.</p><p>i</p>

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is a complex disease that leads to a localized dilation of the infrarenal aorta that develops over years. Longitudinal information in humans has been difficult to obtain for this disease, therefore mouse models have become increasingly used to study the development of AAAs. The objective of this study was to determine any changes that occur in the biomechanical response and fiber microstructure in the apolipoprotein E difficient (ApoE-/-) angiotensin II (AngII) infused mouse model of aneurysm during disease progression, as well as determine some of the underlying changes in biochemistry, and demonstrate a novel method of reducing any pathogenic protease activity. Using a Microbiaxial Opto-Mechanical Device (MOD), ex vivo studies included adult aortas of ApoE-/- AngII infused mice excised and tested for mechanical response simultaneously imaged using two-photon microscopy to assess the microstructure at multiple time points. In vitro and ex vivo studies have shown changes in protease concentrations with the use of FRET based proteolytic beacons able to provide a non-destructive method to quantify protease activity measured against mechanical and microstructural changes. In vitro studies have demonstrated protease activity can be reduced using a molecule providing a positive feedback mechanism for protease inhibition and possibly provide a reduction in aneurysm progression.