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A Framework for Computing the Privacy Scores of Users in Online Social Networks
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A large body of work has been devoted to address corporate-scale privacy concerns related to social networks. The main focus was on how to share social networks owned by organizations without...
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Spatial Outsourcing for Location-Based Services
November 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
The embedding of positioning capabilities in mobile devices and the emergence of location-based applications have created novel opportunities for utilizing several types of multidimensional data...
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A Linear Type System for Multicore Programming
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
ATS is a recently developed functional programming language that supports both linear and dependent types. They formalize a type system capable of guaranteeing safe manipulation of resources on...
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Improving Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement
May 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The challenges facing the major agencies in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that regulate conditions in the workplace are daunting. Public policies on health and safety, discrimination, and...
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Markup Pricing Revisited
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper examines whether pre-bid target stock price runups lower bidder takeover gains and deter short-term toehold purchases in the runup period. A dollar increase in the runup raises the...
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Destruction Of Value: An Analysis Of Manager Selection Decisions By Institutional Plan Sponsors
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Prior research has examined the institutional asset management industry and documented the factors which influence plan sponsors' decisions to place assets with investment products or managers....
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Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Supercomputers and clouds both strive to make a large number of computing cores available for computation. More recently, similar objectives such as low-power, manageability at scale, and low cost...
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Have Consumers Made A Change?
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Kristen McCormack asks "Have consumers made a change?" Jeffery Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, discusses consumers' impact on sustainability, as well as the company's...
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How To Collaborate With Competitors On Social Change
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Jeffery Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, discusses how he engages with the competition as a business leader working towards climate change. He reviews the challenges, the high level of...
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Nation, Culture, Geography: Impact On Innovation
November 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this interview, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation Jeffrey Furman disscusses his work on how innovation is impacted (or not) by nation, culture and geography.
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Nano-Technology: Jumping The Valley Of Death
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Here, Stine Grodal, Boston University School of Management Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, discusses new innovations in the nano-tech field, the role that government and science...
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Ron Curhan On DeMoulas, Demand, And The Risk Of Breaking The Scale Barrier
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Upon the opening of New England's largest supermarket, the 135,000 sq.ft. DeMoulas Market Basket located in the working-class community of Chelsea, Boston University School of Management's Ron...
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WBZ TV Asks Bobbie Clarke, Is Abercrombie's Ad Campaign Sexy, Sleazy, Or Even Legal?
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Amid controversy over the store Abercrombie and Kent's latest ad campaign, WBZ TV interviews Boston University School of Management's Roberta (Bobbie) Clarke, Associate Professor of Marketing,...
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Smart Grid As A Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, And Systems Challenges In The Clean Energy Market
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Webcast from the event "Smart Grid as a Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, and Systems Challenges in the Clean Energy Market," hosted by Boston University School of Management at the Time...
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First Mover Advantage, Services' Impact On Firm Performance, And Dynamic Capabilities
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Fernando Suarez, Chair, Strategy and Innovation Department, discusses his research background and some of his recent projects: his work on "First mover advantage" in rapidly changing markets; the...
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Prof. N. Venkatraman On How "Competing In The Global Economy" Helps Firms Re-Think Operations
August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, N. Venkat Venkatraman, the David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in Management, and the 22nd most-cited management scholar across the globe, discusses the executive program "Competing...
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CB Bhattacharya On Stakeholder Reactions And ROI From CSR Activities
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast from the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, CB Bhattacharya discusses his latest research, which shows that...
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Shuba Srinivasan Combines Hard And Soft Marketing Metrics
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Shuba Srinivasan, in her talk at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, explains her latest research, which integrates the...
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Sucharita Chandran Counts Zero As A Special Price
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sucharita Chandran, in her presentation at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, discusses different strategies for marketing...
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Susan Fournier Talks Politics, Community, And Conflict In Marketing
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Susan Fournier, in her presentation at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, talks about the importance of recognizing the...
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Frederic Brunel On Visual Cues In Product And Package Design
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Frederic Brunel, in his talk at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, discusses the meanings we ascribe to different images and how...
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Lou Lataif Discusses Developing A Feel For The "Art" Of Business And Marketing
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Louis E. Lataif, in his talk at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, talks about the importance of developing a feel for the "Art"...
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Professor N Venkatraman On The History Of Globalization
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, from a talk at the Keane Institute about Boston University School of Management's new Institute for Global Work, Professor N Venkatraman, the David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in...
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Waiting For Stabilization
January 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Senior Associate Dean Mike Lawson and faculty colleagues Don Smith and Mark Williams from the Finance Department at the School of Management, and Con Hurley, Director of the Morin...
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Aligning Business And The Commons
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program Judith Samuelson provides an overview of the business education mission of her organization, suggesting that business...
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Social Responsibility In The Firearms Industry
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Professor of Marketing at University of North Florida Gregory Gundlach shares some of his insights on the firearms distribution system's efforts to shore up weaknesses that lead to illegal...
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Consumers And Their Values
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Associate Professor of Marketing at University of Texas at Austin Meme Drumwright discusses the importance of examining consumer values and behaviors to inform socially responsible marketing...
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Global Connectivity: The Risks, Opportunities, And Pitfalls Of Globalization
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
This webcast shows highlights from the Boston University School of Management event "Global Connectivity: The Future of Work in a Wired World," held at the Time & Life Conference Center in New...
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Global Connectivity: The Future Of Work In A Wired World
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
This webcast shows highlights from the Boston University School of Management event "Global Connectivity: The Future of Work in a Wired World," held at the Time & Life Conference Center in New...
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Hurricane On Wall Street: Managing Large-Scale Financial Crises
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Zvi Bodie, the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Finance and Economics, Boston University School of Management, proposes solutions to the financial sector for managing crisis. He explains why...
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Michael Lawson Discusses Apple's Release Of The iPhone
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Mike Lawson, Professor of Information Systems, discusses how iPhone continues to accelerate changes in the music industry while portending even greater transformations - and perhaps signifying the...
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N. Venkatraman Discusses Apple's Release Of The iPhone
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
N. Venkatraman, Professor of Information Systems, asserts that iPhone is not just another product launch: it's the "Prototypical example" of the shifts we'll see in 21st-century industries,...
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Jim Post Discusses Ethics And Corporate Governance In The 21st Century
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Jim Post, Boston University School of Management Professor of Strategy & Policy, is one of the most widely cited experts in ethics and corporate governance in the nation. Here, he discusses...
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Susan Fournier On Her Award-Winning Research Into Why Brands Matter
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Susan Fournier, Boston University School of Management Associate Professor of Marketing, discusses her award-winning research "Brands Matter: An Empirical Demonstration of the Creation of...
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F. Brunel Discusses How Companies Can Protect Their Reputations Amidst The Made-In-China Recalls
October 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Frederic Brunel, Associate Professor of Marketing at Boston University School of Management talks to NECN about consumer responses to the massive made-in-China recalls, and how companies affected...
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Olesya Shubov, Student In Math Finance, Discusses Stochastic Calculus
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Olesya Shubov discusses her favorite class in the Mathematical Finance Program, Stochastic Calculus, because it combines theoretical knowledge and the computational skills needed to program...
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90-Second Rxs For The Banking And Jobs Crises
May 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mark Williams, Executive-in-Residence, Finance and Economics provides his 90-second prescriptions for the banking and jobs crises to CNN: keep people in their homes and provide support for...
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Beth Goldstein Presents Eight Marketing Tips To Improve Your Bottom Line
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Beth Goldstein, Senior Associate for Distance Learning at the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC) and member of the Strategy and Innovation...
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Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant
January 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Senior Associate Dean Mike Lawson and faculty colleagues Don Smith and Mark Williams from the Finance Department at the School of Management, and Con Hurley, Director of the Morin...
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Healthcare Recruiter From Cigna On Finding Potential Leaders At BU
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cigna's Pete Ferris explains his company's role in the healthcare industry, why Cigna comes to Boston University School of Management to find potential leaders, and what his firm looks for in a...
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On Delay-Minimized Data Harvesting With Mobile Elements in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of routing and scheduling a set of mobile elements that act as mechanical carriers of data, harvesting them from sensor nodes and delivering them to a sink. The...
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Probabilistic Indoor Tracking of Mobile Wireless Nodes Relative to Landmarks
January 26, 2013, 12:00am PST
The profile-based approach is known to be advantageous when it comes to inferring positions of mobile wireless devices in complex indoor environments. The past decade has seen a significant body...
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Scheduling Mobile Nodes for Cooperative Data Transport in Sensor Networks
August 28, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Message Ferrying has been shown to be an effective approach to support routing in sparse ad hoc or sensor networks. Considering a generic network model where each node in the network wishes to...
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Spatio-Temporal Network Anomaly Detection by Assessing Deviations of Empirical Measures
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce an Internet traffic anomaly detection mechanism based on large deviations results for empirical measures. Using past traffic traces they characterize network traffic during...
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A Distributed Actor-Critic Algorithm and Applications to Mobile Sensor Network Coordination Problems
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce and establish the convergence of a distributed actor-critic method that orchestrates the coordination of multiple agents solving a general class of a Markov decision problem....
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Position and Movement Detection of Wireless Sensor Network Devices Relative to a Landmark Graph
September 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a novel probabilistic framework for reliable indoor positioning of mobile sensor network devices. Compared to existing approaches, ours adopts complex computations in exchange...
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A Least Squares Temporal Difference Actor-Critic Algorithm With Applications to Warehouse Management
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a new approximate dynamic programming algorithm for Markov decision problems and applies it to a vehicle dispatching problem arising in warehouse management. The algorithm is...
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Optimized Scheduled Multiple Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider wireless sensor networks with multiple sensor modalities that capture data to be transported over multiple frequency channels to potentially multiple gateways. They study a...
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Energy Optimized Topologies for Distributed Averaging in Wireless Sensor Networks
September 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the energy efficient implementation of averaging/consensus algorithms in wireless sensor networks. For static, time-invariant topologies they start from the recent result that a...
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Posit: A Lightweight Approach for IP Geolocation
June 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Location-specific Internet services are predicated on the ability to identify the geographic position of IP hosts accurately. Fundamental to current state-of-the-art geolocation techniques is...
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Efficient Network Tomography for Internet Topology Discovery
August 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Accurate and timely identification of the router-level topology of the Internet is one of the major unresolved problems in Internet research. Topology recovery via tomographic inference is...
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Extreme Value FEC for Reliable Broadcasting in Wireless Networks
December 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
The advent of practical rateless codes enables implementation of highly efficient packet-level Forward Error Correction (FEC) strategies for reliable data broadcasting in loss-prone wireless...
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A Comparative Analysis of Server Selection in Content Replication Networks
September 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Server selection plays an essential role in content replication networks, such as Peer-To-Peer (P2P) and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). In this paper, the authors perform an analytical...
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Path Switching and Grading Algorithms for Advance Channel Reservation Architectures
November 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
As a result of perceived limitations of TCP/IP in supporting high throughput applications, significant efforts have recently been devoted to develop alternative architectures based on the concept...
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Competitive Advance Reservation With Bounded Path Dispersion
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Advance channel reservation is emerging as an important feature of ultra high-speed networks requiring the transfer of large files. In this paper, the authors present two new delay-competitive...
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Spot Pricing of Secondary Spectrum Usage in Wireless Cellular Networks
January 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent deregulation initiatives enable cellular providers to sell excess spectrum for secondary usage. In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of optimal spot pricing of spectrum by a...
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Rateless Coding With Feedback
January 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
The erasure resilience of rateless codes, such as Luby-Transform (LT) codes, makes them particularly suitable to a wide variety of loss-prone wireless and sensor network applications, ranging from...
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Distributed Advance Network Reservation With Delay Guarantees
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
New architectures have recently been proposed and deployed to support end-to-end advance reservation of network resources. These architectures rely on the use a centralized scheduler, which may be...
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Scheduling Algorithms and Bounds for Rateless Data Dissemination in Dense Wireless Networks
February 14, 2012, 12:00am PST
Many applications in wireless cellular networks rely on the ability of the network to reliably and efficiently disseminate data to a large client audience. The stochastic nature of packet loss...
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Optimal Admission Control of Secondary Users in Preemptive Cognitive Radio Networks
April 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors study optimal admission control of Secondary Users (SUs) in Cognitive Radio (CR) networks in presence of preemption. In this model, when a Primary User (PU) arrives to the system and...
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Competition in Secondary Spectrum Markets: Price War or Market Sharing?
August 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Recent initiatives allow cellular providers to offer spot service of their licensed spectrum, paving the way to dynamic secondary spectrum markets. This paper characterizes market outcomes when...
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Prioritized Data Synchronization for Disruption Tolerant Networks
August 6, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of synchronizing prioritized data on two distinct hosts in Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTNs). To this effect, they propose and analyze a new interactive protocol...
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Jamming-Resistant Rate Control in Wi-Fi Networks
July 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Recent experimental studies reveal that several well-known and widely deployed Rate Adaptation Algorithms (RAAs) in 802.11 WLANs are vulnerable to selective jamming attacks. However, previous work...
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Dynamic Pricing of Preemptive Service for Elastic Demand
September 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a service provider that accommodates two classes of users: Primary Users (PUs) and Secondary Users (SUs). SU demand is elastic to price whereas PU demand is inelastic. When a...
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Profit-Robust Policies for Dynamic Sharing of Radio Spectrum
July 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate profitability from secondary spectrum provision under unknown relationships between price charged for spectrum use and demand drawn at the given price. They show that...
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Online Pricing of Secondary Spectrum Access With Unknown Demand Function
August 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a wireless provider who caters to two classes of customers, namely Primary Users (PUs) and Secondary Users (SUs). PUs has long term contracts while SUs are admitted and priced...
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Economic Viability of Private Commons: Framework and Guidelines for Profitability
July 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Ongoing regulatory reforms have led to several novel spectrum sharing models under the general umbrella of dynamic spectrum sharing. The private commons model introduced by FCC in 2004 allows...
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Optimal Admission Control in Two-Class Preemptive Loss Systems
August 23, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors study optimal admission control in a two-class preemptive loss system. A class-1 customer arrival aborts service of a class-2 customer if the system is full upon arrival. Each...
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A Two Phase Hybrid RSS/AoA Algorithm for Indoor Device Localization Using Visible Light
September 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A two phase hybrid algorithm for estimating the location of a mobile node, which has the capability of measuring signal strength, azimuth, and elevation, in a smart space environment over the...
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Verifying Search Results Over Web Collections
December 17, 2012, 12:00am PST
Web searching accounts for one of the most frequently performed computations over the Internet as well as one of the most important applications of outsourced computing, producing results that...
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Non-Adaptive Group Testing: Explicit Bounds and Novel Algorithms
February 2, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present computationally efficient and provably correct algorithms with near-optimal sample-complexity for noisy non-adaptive group testing. Group testing involves grouping arbitrary...
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A Video Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent advances in wireless communications technology and low-power, low-cost CMOS imaging sensors stimulate research on the analysis and design of ubiquitous video sensing and delivery in...
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Hybrid Vehicular Communications Based on V2V-V2I Protocol Switching
December 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a hybrid communication paradigm for vehicular networking is presented in which connectivity is provided by both existing network infrastructure (e.g., wireless network access...
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Lights-Off Visible Light Communications
September 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In order to implement Visible Light Communications (VLC) through indoor lighting, a set of challenges arise due to conflicting requirements from the two missions. In this paper, the authors...
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A Hybrid Radio Frequency and Broadcast Visible Light Communication System
September 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless network data consumption is experiencing drastic increases due to growing demands of mobile services and applications. Deployed networks using Radio Frequency (RF) communications are...
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Reliable Rateless Wireless Broadcasting With Near-Zero Feedback
February 20, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors examine the problem of minimizing feedback in reliable wireless broadcasting, by pairing rateless coding with extreme value theory. Their key observation is that, in a broadcast...
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Distributed Server Migration for Scalable Internet Service Deployment
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The effectiveness of service provisioning in large-scale networks is highly dependent on the number and location of service facilities deployed at various hosts. The classical, centralized...
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Connected Identifying Codes
March 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of generating a connected identifying code for an arbitrary graph. After a brief motivation, they show that the decision problem regarding the existence of such a...
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Universally Composable Security With Local Adversaries
April 3, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The traditional approach to formalizing ideal-model based definitions of security for multi-party protocols model adversaries (both real and ideal) as centralized entities that control all parties...
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A Unified Approach to Deterministic Encryption: New Constructions and a Connection to Computational Entropy
January 6, 2012, 12:00am PST
Public-key cryptosystems require randomness: indeed, if the encryption operation is deterministic, the adversary can simply use the public key to verify that the ciphertext c corresponds to its...
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