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SafeSlinger: An Easy-to-Use and Secure Approach for Human Trust Establishment
April 5, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Users regularly experience a crisis of confidence on the Internet. Is that email or instant message truly originating from the claimed individual? Such doubts are commonly resolved through a leap...
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Social Forwarding in Large Scale Networks: Insights Based on Real Trace Analysis
May 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Social forwarding, recently a hot topic in mobile opportunistic networking, faces extreme challenges from potentially large numbers of mobile nodes, vast areas, and limited communication...
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Anomalies in Optimal Rate-Control and Scheduling Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks
September 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Protocols in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) tune the radio and network parameters to utilize the unused frequency spectrum, and thus improve the application performance. Generalized Network...
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Measurement and Analysis of Link Quality in Wireless Networks: An Application Perspective
January 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
Estimating the quality of wireless link is vital to optimize several protocols and applications in wireless networks. In realistic wireless networks, link quality is generally predicted by...
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Cloud Terminal: Secure Access to Sensitive Applications From Untrusted Systems
May 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Current PC- and web-based applications provide insufficient security for the information they access, because vulnerabilities anywhere in a large client software stack can compromise...
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Clustered K-Center: Effective Replica Placement in Peer-to-Peer Systems
August 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems provide decentralization, self-organization, scalability and failure-resilience, but suffer from high worst-case latencies. Researchers have proposed various replication...
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Enhanced Prefix Inclusion Coding Filter-Encoding Algorithm for Packet Classification With Ternary Content Addressable Memory
September 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Filter encoding can effectively enhance the efficiency of Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM)-based packet classification. It can minimize the range expansion problem, reduce the TCAM space...
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Decentralized Mapping of Robot-Aided Sensor Networks
February 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
A key problem in the deployment of sensor networks is that of determining the location of each sensor such that subsequent data gathered can be registered. The authors would also like the network...
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Towards Trustworthy Kiosk Computing
August 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a system in which a user leverages a personal mobile device to establish trust on a public computing device, or kiosk, prior to revealing personal information to that kiosk....
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Care: Content Aware Redundancy Elimination for Disaster Communications on Damaged Networks
June 8, 2012, 12:00am PDT
During a disaster scenario, situational awareness information, such as location, physical status and images of the surrounding area, is essential for minimizing loss of life, injury, and property...
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A Proof-Carrying File System With Revocable and Use-Once Certificates
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the design and implementation of a file system which allows authorizations dependent on revocable and use-once policy certificates. Authorizations require explicit proof...
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New Modalities for Access Control Logics: Permission, Control and Ratification
May 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a new modal access control logic ACL+ to specify, reason about and enforce access control policies. The logic includes new modalities for permission, control, and ratification...
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Verification of Information Flow and Access Control Policies With Dependent Types
February 26, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present Relational Hoare Type Theory (RHTT), a novel language and verification system capable of expressing and verifying rich information flow and access control policies via...
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On Adversary Models and Compositional Security
December 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors present a representative development in the science of security that includes a generic model of computer systems, their security properties and adversaries who actively interfere with...
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A Logic of Secure Systems and Its Application to Trusted Computing
March 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a logic for reasoning about properties of secure systems. The logic is built around a concurrent programming language with constructs for modeling machines with shared memory,...
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Inductive Proofs of Computational Secrecy
July 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Secrecy properties of network protocols assert that no probabilistic polynomial-time distinguisher can win a suitable game presented by a challenger. Because such properties are not determined by...
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Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud
April 13, 2012, 12:00am PDT
While high-level data parallel frameworks, like MapReduce, simplify the design and implementation of large-scale data processing systems, they do not naturally or efficiently support many...
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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
December 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
The central organizing principle of the paper is that programming language features may be seen as manifestations of an underlying type structure that governs its syntax and semantics. The...
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On Teaching Programming Languages Using a Wiki
May 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports on an ongoing experiment with using a wiki as support material for CMU-CS 15-212, a sophomore-level course on advanced programming concepts and skills. It was found that the use...
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Got Predictability?: Experiences With Fault-Tolerant Middleware
December 18, 2007, 12:00am PST
Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, Fault-Tolerant (FT) middleware, is used...
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Maximizing Your Process Improvement ROI Through Harmonization
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This white paper by SEI is an executive overview of the business value in harmonizing process improvement efforts when multiple improvement technologies, models and standards are in use. It...
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An Open Source Tracking Testbed and Evaluation Web Site
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper has implemented a GUI-based tracking testbed system in C and Intel OpenCV, running within the Microsoft Windows environment. The motivation for the testbed is to run and log tracking...
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Program Evolution for Data Mining
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Around the world there are innumerable databases of information. The quantity of information available has created a high demand for automatic methods for searching these databases and extracting...
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You've Been Warned: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Web Browser Phishing Warnings
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many popular web browsers now include active phishing warnings since research has shown that passive warnings are often ignored. In this laboratory study the author examined the effectiveness of...
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SIFF: A Stateless Internet Flow Filter to Mitigate DDoS Flooding Attacks
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the fundamental limitations of the Internet is the inability of a packet flow recipient to halt disruptive flows before they consume the recipient's network link resources. Critical...
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A Hybrid Phish Detection Approach by Identity Discovery and Keywords Retrieval
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Phishing is a significant security threat to the Internet, which causes tremendous economic loss every year. This paper, proposes a novel hybrid phish detection method based on information...
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An Open Source Tracking Testbed and Evaluation Web Site
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper has implemented a GUI-based tracking testbed system in C and Intel OpenCV, running within the Microsoft Windows environment. The motivation for the testbed is to run and log tracking...
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Maximizing Your Process Improvement ROI Through Harmonization
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This white paper by SEI is an executive overview of the business value in harmonizing process improvement efforts when multiple improvement technologies, models and standards are in use. It...
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Got Predictability?: Experiences With Fault-Tolerant Middleware
December 18, 2007, 12:00am PST
Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, Fault-Tolerant (FT) middleware, is used...
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On Teaching Programming Languages Using a Wiki
May 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports on an ongoing experiment with using a wiki as support material for CMU-CS 15-212, a sophomore-level course on advanced programming concepts and skills. It was found that the use...
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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
December 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
The central organizing principle of the paper is that programming language features may be seen as manifestations of an underlying type structure that governs its syntax and semantics. The...
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Software Engineering for Systems Hackers
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper attempt to capture some of the techniques that experienced systems hackers use to make their lives easier, their development faster, and their programs better. In this journey, the...
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Integrating a Command Shell Into a Web Browser
November 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The transition from command-line interfaces to graphical interfaces has resulted in programs that are easier to learn and use, but harder to automate and reuse. Another transition is now underway,...
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Unix as an Application Program
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Off late the author has had running at CMU a computing environment in which the functions of a traditional Unix system are cleanly divided into two parts: facilities which manage the hardware...
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Traffic Aggregation for Malware Detection
May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Stealthy malware, such as botnets and spyware, are hard to detect because their activities are subtle and do not disrupt the network, in contrast to DoS attacks and aggressive worms. Stealthy...
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Analysis-Resistant Malware
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
Traditionally, techniques for computing on encrypted data have been proposed with privacy preserving applications in mind. Several current cryptosystems support a homomorphic operation, allowing...
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HookFinder: Identifying and Understanding Malware Hooking Behaviors
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
Installing various hooks into the victim system is an important attacking strategy employed by malware, including spyware, rootkits, stealth backdoors, and others. In order to defeat existing hook...
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CSAMP: A System for Network-Wide Flow Monitoring
February 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Critical network management applications increasingly demand fine-grained flow level measurements. However, current flow monitoring solutions are inadequate for many of these applications. This...
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Rethinking the Service Model: Scaling Ethernet to a Million Nodes
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Ethernet has been a cornerstone networking technology for over 30 years. During this time, Ethernet has been extended from a shared-channel broadcast network to include support for sophisticated...
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On Quality of Service Optimization With Discrete QoS Options
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Quality of Service (QoS) control is considered an important user demand and therefore receives wide attention, especially in the areas of computer networks and real-time multimedia systems. This...
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A Scalability Service for Dynamic Web Applications
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Providers of dynamic Web applications are currently unable to accommodate heavy usage without significant investment in infrastructure and in-house management capability. This goal is to develop...
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Modified Logistic Regression: An Approximation to SVM and Its Applications in Large-Scale Text Categorization
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Logistic Regression (LR) has been widely used in statistics for many years, and has received extensive study in machine learning community recently due to its close relations to Support Vector...
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Dynamic Revenue Management With Negotiated Prices
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors have considered the classical revenue management setting of a seller who owns a finite inventory of a single product that can be sold during a finite number of time periods. In each...
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Spreadsheet Errors and Decision Making: Evidence From Field Interviews
September 19, 2005, 12:00am PDT
When thinking about how spreadsheet errors contribute to bad decisions, it may be useful to think of that not primarily in terms of spreadsheets recommending the wrong course of action but rather...
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