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A Geometric Routing Protocol in Disruption Tolerant Network
December 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors describe a novel Geometric Localized Routing (GLR) protocol in Disruption (Delay) Tolerant Network (DTN). Although DTNs do not guarantee the connectivity of the network all the time,...
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Communication in Random Geometric Radio Networks With Positively Correlated Random Faults
May 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the feasibility and time of communication in random geometric radio networks, where nodes fail randomly with positive correlation. They consider a set of radio stations with the...
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Tracking Mobile Users in Cellular Networks Using Timing Information
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of tracking a mobile user moving through a cellular network using node queries that provide information as to last time the user visited the node. Queries are...
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Online Routing in Quasi-Planar and Quasi-Polyhedral Graphs
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors address the problem of online route discovery for a class of graphs that can be embedded either in two or in three dimensional space. In two dimensions they propose the class of...
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Maintaining Connectivity in Sensor Networks Using Directional Antennae
May 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Connectivity in wireless sensor networks may be established using either omnidirectional or directional antennae. The former radiate power uniformly in all directions while the latter emit greater...
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WIMAX/802.16 Broadband Wireless Networks
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
WiMAX/802.16 is a kind of network providing IP-based broadband wireless access to infrastructure networks such as the Internet. The two main envisioned applications are Web access and voice over...
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Mitigation of Flooding Disruption Attacks in Hierarchical OLSR Networks
February 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Hierarchical Optimized Link State Routing (HOLSR) protocol was designed to improve scalability of heterogeneous Mobile Ad-Hoc NETworks (MANETs). HOLSR is derived from the OLSR protocol and...
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Prioritized Access for Emergency Stations in Next Generation Broadband Wireless Networks
December 31, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors focus on the interference between mobile stations as they attempt to gain access to an OFDMA-based WiMAX/IEEE 802.16 network. They propose a set of strategies that enable base stations...
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A Hop Count Based Greedy Face Greedy Routing Protocol on Localized Geometric Spanners
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors describe a Fast Delivery Guaranteed Face Routing (FDGF) in ad hoc wireless networks. Since it is expensive for wireless nodes to get the whole network topology information, geometric...
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On Minimizing the Maximum Sensor Movement for Barrier Coverage of a Line Segment
June 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider n mobile sensors located on a line containing a barrier represented by a finite line segment. Sensors form a wireless sensor network and are able to move within the line. An...
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Routing on Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks
June 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Delay (or disruption) tolerant sensor networks may be modeled as Markovian evolving graphs. The authors present experimental evidence showing that considering multiple (possibly not shortest)...
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Communication in Wireless Networks With Directional Antennae
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors study the problem of maintaining connectivity in a wireless network where the network nodes are equipped with directional antennae. Nodes correspond to points on the plane and each...
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Probabilistic Localization and Tracking of Malicious Insiders Using Hyperbolic Position Bounding in Vehicular Networks
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A malicious insider in a wireless network may carry out a number of devastating attacks without fear of retribution, since the messages it broadcasts are authenticated with valid credentials such...
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NetADHICT: A Tool for Understanding Network Traffic
October 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Computer and network administrators are often confused or uncertain about the behavior of their networks. Traditional analysis using IP ports, addresses, and protocols are insufficient to...
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Discovering Packet Structure Through Lightweight Hierarchical Clustering
February 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
The complexity of current Internet applications makes the understanding of network traffic a challenging task. By providing larger-scale aggregates for analysis, unsupervised clustering approaches...
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Addressing SMTP-Based Mass-Mailing Activity Within Enterprise Networks
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
Malicious mass-mailing activity on the Internet is a serious and continuing threat that includes mass-mailing worms, spam, and phishing. A mechanism commonly used to deliver such malicious mass...
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Self-Signed Executables: Restricting Replacement of Program Binaries by Malware
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose using digital signatures to protect binaries already on the system from modifications by malware. While applicable to any file which is not intended to be modified by an end...
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Lightweight Hierarchical Clustering of Network Packets Using (p,N)-Grams
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The complexity of current Internet applications makes understanding network traffic a challenging task. By providing larger-scale aggregates for analysis, unsupervised clustering approaches can...
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Towards Understanding Network Traffic Through Whole Packet Analysis
October 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors present ADHIC, an algorithm that hierarchically clusters network traffic without making assumptions about the structure of packets. Packets are judged similar using patterns of n-byte...
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Comparing Anomaly Detection Techniques for HTTP
June 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Much data access occurs via HTTP, which is becoming a universal transport protocol. Because of this, it has become a common exploit target and several HTTP specific IDSs have been proposed as a...
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Cross Layer Scheduling Algorithms for Different Rate Traffic in OFDM Broadband Wireless Systems
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cross layer optimization plays a key role in radio resource management of Broadband Wireless Systems (BWS). Maximal SNR (MaxSNR) and Round Robin (RR) are two conventional scheduling strategies...
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Securing Email Archives Through User Modeling
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Online email archives are an under-protected yet extremely sensitive information resource. Email archives can store years worth of personal and business email in an easy-to-access form, one that...
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Usability of Anonymous Web Browsing: An Examination of Tor Interfaces and Deployability
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Tor is a popular privacy tool designed to help achieve online anonymity by anonymising web traffic. Employing cognitive walkthrough as the primary method, this paper evaluates four competing...
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Improving Text Passwords Through Persuasion
July 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Password restriction policies and advice on creating secure passwords have limited effects on password strength. Influencing users to create more secure passwords remains an open problem. The...
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Wireless Hop-by-Hop Credit-Based Flow Control Extended to Source for Stable Best Effort Traffic
August 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Data traffic is expected to grow faster than capacity in future wireless networks. Therefore it will become unavoidable to deal with congestion. Bottlenecks are located on the wireless links...
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Aspect-Oriented Model Development at Different Levels of Abstraction
March 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The last decade has seen the development of diverse Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) approaches. This paper presents eight different AOM approaches that produce models at different level of...
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Low-Complexity Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in One-Dimensional Wireless Networks
April 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The Minimum-Energy Broadcasting problem in wireless networks focuses on finding a transmission range assignment for all the nodes in the network such that the total consumed energy for...
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Dynamic Packet Scheduler Optimization in Wireless Relay Networks
April 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the optimal dynamic packet scheduling policy in a Wireless Relay Network (WRN). They model this network by two sets of parallel queues that represent the...
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Insider Attack Attribution Using Signal Strength Based Hyperbolic Location Estimation
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A rogue insider, in a wireless network, is an authenticated member that exploits possession of a valid identity in order to launch an attack. A typical example is the transmission of a verifiable...
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Time-Varying Graphs and Social Network Analysis: Temporal Indicators and Metrics
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Most instruments - formalisms, concepts, and metrics - for social networks analysis fail to capture their dynamics. Typical systems exhibit different scales of dynamics, ranging from the...
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Alternative Data Gathering Schemes For Wireless Sensor Networks
May 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One fundamental task of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to collect useful information from the sensory field and answer users' queries. In order to make effective use of the gigantic amount of...
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A Literature Review of Code Clone Analysis to Improve Software Maintenance Process
May 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Software systems are getting more complex as the system grows where maintaining such system is a primary concern for the industry. Code clone is one of the factors making software maintenance more...
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Simulation Vs. Emulation: Evaluating Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In order for simulation studies to be useful, it is very important that the simulation results match as closely as possible with the testbed results. This paper compares emulated testbed results...
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Security Threats on EPC Based RFID Systems
July 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an evaluation of threats on the Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network architecture. The paper analyzes attacks on the...
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Rogue-Base Station Detection in WiMax/802.16 Wireless Access Networks
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses to problem of detecting a rogue Base Station (BS) in WiMax/802.16 wireless access networks. A rogue BS is a malicious station that impersonates a legitimate Access Point (AP)....
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Local Authentication in WiMAX
April 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The IEEE 802.16 standard Privacy and Key Management (PKM) protocol suffers from a number of performance and security concerns which make it unsuitable for use in a WiMAX network operating in Mesh...
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Localization and Tracking of Mobile Attackers Using Hyperbolic Position Bounding in Vehicular Networks
December 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
A malicious insider in a wireless network may carry out a number of devastating attacks without fear of retribution by authenticating its messages with untraceable credentials. Hyperbolic Position...
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Wireless Network-Based Relative Span Weighted Localization of Uncooperative Nodes
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Increasingly ubiquitous wireless technologies require novel localization techniques to pinpoint the position of an uncooperative node, whether the target be a malicious device engaging in a...
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Evaluating Security Products With Clinical Trials
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One of the largest challenges faced by purchasers of security products is evaluating their relative merits. While purchasers can get reliable information on characteristics such as runtime...
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Browser Interfaces and Extended Validation SSL Certificates: An Empirical Study
July 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There has been a loss of confidence in the security provided by SSL certificates and browser interfaces in the face of various attacks. As one response, basic SSL server certificates are being...
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Graphical Passwords: Learning From the First Generation
October 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Numerous graphical password schemes have recently been proposed as alternatives to traditional text password authentication. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of published research in...
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Centered Discretization With Application to Graphical Passwords
January 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
Discretization is used in click-based graphical passwords so that approximately correct entries can be accepted by the system. The authors show that the existing discretization scheme of Birget et...
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SOMA: Mutual Approval for Included Content in Web Pages
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Unrestricted information flows are a key security weakness of current web design. Cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, and other attacks typically require that information be sent or...
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Weighing Down "The Unbearable Lightness of PIN Cracking" (Extended Version)
April 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Responding to the PIN cracking attacks from Berkman and Ostrovsky (FC 2007), the authors outline a simple solution called salted-PIN. A randomly generated salt value of adequate length (e.g....
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Malicious Node Position Bounding in Mobile WiFi/802.11 Networks
August 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Hyperbolic Position Bounding (HPB) provides a mechanism to probabilistically delimit the location of a wireless network malicious insider to a candidate area. A large scale path loss model is used...
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Improving Security Visualization With Exposure Map Filtering
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Flow based analysis of network traffic is commonly used to analyze and understand security-related events. Graphical analysis helps analysts detect patterns or behaviors that would not be obvious...
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Digital Objects as Passwords
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Security proponents heavily emphasize the importance of choosing a strong password (one with high entropy). Unfortunately, by design, most humans are apparently incapable of generating such...
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User Interface Design Affects Security: Patterns in Click-Based Graphical Passwords
March 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
Design of the user interface influences users and may en-courage either secure or insecure behaviour. Using data from four different but closely related click-based graphical password studies, the...
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On Purely Automated Attacks and Click-Based Graphical Passwords
June 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present and evaluate various methods for purely automated attacks against click-based graphical passwords. The purely automated methods combine click-order heuristics with...
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CROO: A Universal Infrastructure and Protocol to Detect Identity Fraud (Extended Version)
July 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IDentity Fraud (IDF) may be defined as unauthorized exploitation of credential information through the use of false identity. The authors propose CROO, a universal (i.e. generic) infrastructure...
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Localization of Credential Information to Address Increasingly Inevitable Data Breaches
July 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Large-scale data breaches exposing sensitive personal information are becoming commonplace. For numerous reasons, conventional personal (identification) information leaks from databases that store...
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Multiple Password Interference in Text and Click-Based Graphical Passwords
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
People have difficulty remembering multiple passwords. This results in reduced security as users reuse the same password for different systems or reveal other passwords as they try to log in. It...
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Overlapped Chunked Network Coding
August 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Network coding is known to improve the throughput and the resilience to losses in most network scenarios. In a practical network scenario, however, the accurate modeling of the traffic is often...
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A Link Layer Solution to Location Identification of Emergency VoIP Callers
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Identifying the geographical location of a host on the Internet is a very challenging task. Due to a number of reasons, there is no direct mechanism that could enable this identification. Several...
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On a Family of Strong Geometric Spanners That Admit Local Routing Strategies
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce a family of directed geometric graphs, denoted G¦È¦Ë, that depend on two parameters ¦Ë and ¦È. For 0 ¡Ü ¦È < ¡Ç/2 and 1/2 < ¦Ë < 1, the G¦È¦Ë graph is a strong t-spanner,...
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Network Capacity Region of Multi-Queue Multi-Server Queueing System With Time Varying Connectivities
January 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
Network capacity region of multi-queue multi-server queueing system with random ON-OFF connectivities and stationary arrival processes is derived in this paper. Specifically, the necessary and...
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Content Provider Conflict on the Modern Web
May 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today many web pages include externally sourced content. Advertisements, video, blog "Trackbacks," search - these and other features of the modern web are provided by third party servers. Such...
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Privacy-Enhanced Sharing of Personal Content on the Web
April 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Publishing personal content on the web is gaining increased popularity with dramatic growth in social networking websites, and availability of cheap personal domain names and hosting services....
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No Web Site Left Behind: Are We Making Web Security Only for the Elite?
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The web is riddled with flaws that make it unsafe. Protection methods exist, but current web security solutions are often designed to be deployed by programmers and security experts....
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Born Global, Gradual Global, And Their Determinants Of Exit From Exporting
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Applying the duration analysis on 1,959 newly established small and medium-sized Canadian exporting manufacturers, this study compares the survivability of Born Global and Gradual Global firms in...
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Beyond-4G Cellular Networks: Advanced Radio Access Network (RAN) Architectures, Advanced Radio Resource Management (RRM) Techniques, and Other Enabling Technologies
October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
4G has been the driving force behind a number of global research initiatives in the last few years (such as the WINNER Project). However, at the preparation of this paper (October 2008) authors...
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Mobile Agents for Network Management
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the potential uses of mobile agents in Network Management. The paper defines software agents and a navigation model, which determines agent mobility. The paper list a number...
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Browser Interfaces and EV-SSL Certi Cates: Confusion, Inconsistencies and HCI Challenges
January 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
The introduction of Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates has caused web browser manufacturers to take a new look at how they design their interfaces for conveying certificate information. In...
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Reducing Threats From Flawed Security APIs: The Banking PIN Case
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Despite best efforts from security API designers, flaws are often found in widely deployed security APIs. Even APIs with a formal proof of security may not guarantee absolute security when used in...
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Security Threat Mitigation Trends in Low-Cost RFID Systems
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The design and implementation of security threat mitigation mechanisms in RFID systems, specially in low-cost RFID tags, are gaining great attention in both industry and academia. One main focus...
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Detection of Slow Malicious Worms Using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Detection of slow worms is particularly challenging due to the stealthy nature of their propagation techniques and their ability to blend with normal traffic patterns. This paper, proposes a...
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Local Authentication in WiMAX
April 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The IEEE 802.16 standard Privacy and Key Management (PKM) protocol suffers from a number of performance and security concerns which make it unsuitable for use in a WiMAX network operating in Mesh...
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WiMAX/802.16 Security in Mesh Mode
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
WiMAX/802.16 is a standard of Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMAN). This standard, which was originally designed for solving the last mile problem, has become popular in fixed and mobile...
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Rogue-Base Station Detection in WiMax/802.16 Wireless Access Networks
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses to problem of detecting a rogue Base Station (BS) in WiMax/802.16 wireless access networks. A rogue BS is a malicious station that impersonates a legitimate Access Point (AP)....
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Security Threats on EPC Based RFID Systems
July 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an evaluation of threats on the Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network architecture. The paper analyzes attacks on the...
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Simulation Vs. Emulation: Evaluating Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In order for simulation studies to be useful, it is very important that the simulation results match as closely as possible with the testbed results. This paper compares emulated testbed results...
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Securing Email Archives Through User Modeling
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Online email archives are an under-protected yet extremely sensitive information resource. Email archives can store years worth of personal and business email in an easy-to-access form, one that...
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