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Processing of Medical Signals (ECG) in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Combination of embedded systems and wireless technology provides a lot of opportunities for acquisition, processing and transmission of data. It is useful to apply these technology approaches for...
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Nozzle: A Defense Against Heap-Spraying Code Injection Attacks
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Heap spraying is a new security attack that significantly increases the exploitability of existing memory corruption errors in type-unsafe applications. With heap spraying, attackers leverage...
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Towards a Cloud Computing Research Agenda
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The 2008 LADIS workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems brought together leaders from the commercial cloud computing community with researchers working on a variety of topics in distributed...
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The Determinants Of Informed Trading: Implications For Asset Pricing
November 30, 2006, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the linkage of microstructure, accounting and asset pricing. While distinct in many ways, the literature in each of these areas tries to understand the...
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The Data Acquisition System (DAQ) of the Flash Facility
January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Nowadays the photon science experiments and the machines providing these photon beams, produce enormous amounts of data. To capture the data from the photon science experiments and from the...
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Threat Rigidity Effects In Organizational Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis
April 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the case for a general threat-rigidity effect in individual, group, and organizational behavior. Evidence from multiple levels of analysis is summarized, showing a restriction...
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The Network Structure of Exploration and Exploitation
March 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Whether as team members brainstorming or cultures experimenting with new technologies, problem solvers communicate and share ideas. This paper examines how the structure of communication networks...
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Building Collaboration Applications That Mix Web Services Hosted Content With P2P Protocols
April 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The most commonly deployed web service applications employ client-server communication patterns, with clients running remotely and services hosted in data centers. This paper makes the case for...
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CU-PetHealth 1.0.5 (Mobile)
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
CU Pet Health is a handy application brought to you by the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University that allows you to manage information about your pets including biographic info,...
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Quality-of-Service Specific Information Retrieval for Densely Deployed Sensor Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A new MAC protocol is proposed for the reachback operation in large scale, densely deployed sensor networks. Referred to as Quality-of-service specific Information REtrieval (QUIRE), the proposed...
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Maximizing the Spread of Cascades Using Network Design
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a new optimization framework to maximize the expected spread of cascades in networks. The model allows a rich set of actions that directly manipulate cascade dynamics by...
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Fast Firewall Implementations for Software-Based Routers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Routers must perform packet classification at high speeds to efficiently implement functions such as firewalls. The classification can be based on an arbitrary number of prefix arid range fields...
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Does Public Transit Use Enhance The Economic Efficiency Of Urban Areas?
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A variety of arguments are made in favor of public investments in mass transit. Some relate to its environmental advantages over auto use, and these have some scientific evidence supporting them....
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Why Firms Smooth Dividends: Empirical Evidence
October 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While dividend smoothing is taken as an article of faith, little is known about the cross-sectional properties of smoothing policies. Why do some firms smooth more than others? The authors examine...
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The Dividend Policies Of Private Firms: Insights Into Smoothing, Agency Costs, And Information Asymmetry
May 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors compare the dividend policies of privately- and publicly-held firms in order to examine Lintner's (1956) model of dividends, as wells as more recent agency-based and information based...
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Dividend Smoothing, Agency Costs, And Information Asymmetry: Lessons From The Dividend Policies Of Private Firms
August 31, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors compare the dividend policies of publicly- and privately-held firms in order to examine Lintner's (1956) model of dividends, as wells as more recent agency and information-based...
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Improving Enterprise Decision-Making: The Benefits Of Metric Commonality
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The objective of this research is to identify a new approach in managing, and making internal program-level decisions from, externally tracked performance metrics. Industry observations indicate...
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Seawall: Performance Isolation for Cloud Datacenter Networks
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
While today's virtual datacenters have hypervisor based mechanisms to partition compute resources between the tenants co-located on an end host, they provide little control over how tenants share...
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A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model
March 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A "Cloud Computing" revolution is underway, supported by massive data centers that often contain thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of servers. In such systems, scalability is the mantra and...
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The Effect Of Advertising And Deceptive Advertising On Consumption: The Case Of Over-The-Counter Weight Loss Products
July 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. They study the market for over the-counter (OTC)...
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A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small Applications
January 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
As a growing number of websites open up their APIs to external application developers (e.g., Facebook, Yahoo! Widgets, Google Gadgets), these websites are facing an intriguing scalability problem:...
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Provisioning a Virtual Private Network: A Network Design Problem for Multicommodity Flow
July 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Consider a setting in which a group of nodes, situated in a large underlying network, wishes to reserve bandwidth on which to support communication. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are services...
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g-PRIME: A Free, Windows Based Data Acquisition and Event Analysis Software Package for Physiology in Classrooms and Research Labs
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper present g-PRIME, software based tool for physiology data acquisition, analysis, and stimulus generation in education and research. This software was developed in an undergraduate...
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XPaXS: Improved Data Acquisition and Real-Time Analysis at CHESS
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Scanning X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (SFXM) capability at CHESS draws users from diverse fields, including Environmental Science, Soil Science, Anthropology and Native American Studies,...
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A Data-Acquisition Model for Learning and Cognitive Development and Its Implications for Autism
September 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A data-driven model of learning is proposed, where a network of nodes and links is constructed that represents what has been heard and observed. Autism is viewed as the consequence of a disorder...
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Expressing Security Properties Using Selective Interleaving Functions
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
McLean's notion of Selective Interleaving Functions (SIFs) is perhaps the best known attempt to construct a framework for expressing various security properties. This paper examines the expressive...
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A Security Standard for AMI Smart Meters
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing interest in 'Smart Grid' technologies in both industry and academic circles. Few attempts have been made to develop a written specification consummated with standards agreed...
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Synthesizing Transformations for Locality Enhancement of Imperfectly-Nested Loop Nests
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors present an approach for synthesizing transformations to enhance locality in imperfectly-nested loops. The key idea is to embed the iteration space of every statement in a loop nest...
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Towards Sensor Database Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Sensor networks are being widely deployed for measurement, detection and surveillance applications. In these new applications, users issue long-running queries over a combination of stored data...
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Networking With Secrecy Constraints
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless Networks are susceptible to anonymous monitoring of transmissions by adversaries who can infer valuable information about data flows in the network. It is therefore necessary to design...
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WS-OBJECTS: Extending Service-Oriented Architecture With Hierarchical Composition of Client-Side Asynchronous Event-Processing Logic
April 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing need for a new type of WS/SOA standards that could facilitate hierarchical, object-oriented composition of client-side executable code. This is especially true for the sorts of...
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Executive Pay And Firm Performance: Methodological Considerations And Future Directions
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper is an investigation of the pay-for-performance link in executive compensation. In particular the authors document main issues in the pay-performance debate and explain practical issues...
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Employees' Choice Of Method Of Pay
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Who chooses what type of pay? The costs and benefits of "Flexible" and "Cafeteria-style" benefit plans have been discussed for some time. Additionally, many papers have considered the potential...
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The Human Resource Economics Of Vernon Briggs
June 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the conception of Human Resource Economics (HRE) that shaped the career of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. It probes the history of economic thought to describe the intellectual roots of...
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Social Unionism In Western New York: The Case Of The Economic Development Group
July 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The academic literature on union-community engagement - labor activity often called social unionism - has grown steadily since about 1980, an expansion paralleling a similar evolution in union...
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Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many countries have legislation which makes it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more...
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Complexity-Based Agile Enterprises: Putting Self- Organizing Emergence To Work
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Organizations competing in hypercompetitive marketplaces have two possible paths to potential success. They can attempt to transform traditional bureaucracies into more nimble, adaptable, and...
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Earnings Mobility In Times Of Growth And Decline: Argentina From 1996 To 2003
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe economic decline. In this paper, the authors use a series of one-year-long panels to study who...
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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role Of Expert Knowledge
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. The authors draw on a setting where there are well-defined...
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Changing An Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
High information recruitment practices (e.g., personal communication from a recruiter) from both single and multiple sources were more effective for changing unfavorable employment reputation...
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Securing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The vision of nomadic computing with its ubiquitous access has stimulated much interest in the Mobile Ad Hoc NETworking (MANET) technology. Those infrastructureless, self-organized networks that...
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Group-Decodable Space-Time Block Codes With Code Rate > 1
November 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
High-rate space-time block codes (STBC with code rate > 1) in Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems are able to provide both spatial multiplexing gain and diversity gain, but have high Maximum...
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Stability of Networks Under General File Size Distribution With Alpha Fair Rate Allocation
September 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Convex optimization has been widely used to model bandwidth allocation policies among TCP flows in the Internet. When the offered load is less than capacity, stochastic stability of networks using...
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Nearly Optimal Bounds for Distributed Wireless Scheduling in the SINR Model
April 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the wireless scheduling problem in the physically realistic SINR model. More specifically: they are given a set of n links, each a sender-receiver pair. They would like to...
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Wireless MIMO Switching
April 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In a generic switching problem, a switching pattern consists of a one-to-one mapping from a set of inputs to a set of outputs (i.e., a permutation). The authors propose and investigate a wireless...
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A Large Family of Multi-Path Dual Congestion Control Algorithms
April 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The goal of traffic management is efficiently utilizing network resources via adapting of source sending rates and routes selection. Traditionally, this problem is formulated into a utilization...
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Modeling Network Technology Deployment Rates With Different Network Models
April 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With a simple model for how new networking technologies get deployed throughout a network and applying it to different network models, the authors have seen how different network structures and...
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Biometric Authentication Using Nonparametric Methods
August 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The physiological and behavioral trait is employed to develop biometric authentication systems. The proposed work deals with the authentication of iris and signature based on minimum variance...
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Top-Down Paradigm in Engineering Software Integration
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The top-down approach of engineering software integration is considered in this paper. A set of advantages of this approach are presented, by examples. All examples are supplied by open source...
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Mathematical Principles in Software Quality Engineering
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Mathematics has many useful properties for developing of complex software systems. One is that it can exactly describe a physical situation of the object or outcome of an action. Mathematics...
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A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of Software Component Search Engines, Semantic Search Engines and Google Search Engine in the Context of COTS-Based Development
January 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
COTS-based development is a component reuse approach promising to reduce costs and risks, and ensure higher quality. The growing availability of COTS components on the Web has concretized the...
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Models of Quantum Computation and Quantum Programming Languages
December 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
The goal of this paper is to provide an introduction to the basic computational models used in quantum information theory. The authors review various models of quantum Turing machine, quantum...
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Managing Communication Latency-Hiding at Runtime for Parallel Programming Languages and Libraries
January 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces a runtime model for managing communication with support for latency-hiding. The model enables non-computer science researchers to exploit communication latency-hiding...
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MyProLang - My Programming Language
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Modern computer programming languages are governed by complex syntactic rules. They are unlike natural languages; they require extensive manual work and a significant amount of learning and...
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Convergence Analysis of Saddle Point Problems in Time Varying Wireless Systems - Control Theoretical Approach
September 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Saddle point problems arise from many wireless applications, and primal-dual iterative algorithms are widely applied to find the saddle points. In the existing literature, the convergence results...
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Wireless Capacity and Admission Control in Cognitive Radio
January 19, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors give algorithms with constant-factor performance guarantees for several capacity and throughput problems in the SINR model. The algorithms are all based on a novel LP formulation for...
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On the Impact of Energy Dissipation Model on Characteristic Distance in Wireless Networks
November 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the dependency of characteristic distance on energy dissipation model. Both the many-to-one and any-to-any communication paradigm have been presented for...
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Ricean Shadowed Statistical Characterization of Shallow Water Acoustic Channels for Wireless Communications
November 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the statistical behaviour of the shallow water acoustic channel for wireless communications is shown to be well characterized by the Ricean shadowed distribution, which has never...
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Stability of the Max-Weight Protocol in Adversarial Wireless Networks
January 15, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors consider the MAX-WEIGHT protocol for routing and scheduling in wireless networks under an adversarial model. This protocol has received a significant amount of attention...
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Timely Throughput of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Fundamental Limits and Algorithms
January 26, 2012, 12:00am PST
Consumer demand for data services over wireless networks has increased dramatically in recent years, fueled both by the success of online video streaming and popularity of video-friendly mobile...
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Design of Wireless Electronic Stethoscope Based on Zigbee
December 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
Heart sound stethoscope is primary stage to access diseases. In this paper design of an electronic stethoscope with the functions of wireless transmission is discussed. This electronic stethoscope...
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Worst-Case Additive Noise in Wireless Networks
February 13, 2012, 12:00am PST
An important classical result in Information Theory states that the Gaussian noise is the worst-case additive noise in point-to-point channels. In this paper, the authors significantly generalize...
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Algorithms for Wireless Capacity
March 2, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors address two basic questions in wireless communication: First, how long does it take to schedule an arbitrary set of communication requests? Second, given a set of...
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A Greedy Link Scheduler for Wireless Networks With Fading Channels
March 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of link scheduling for wireless networks with fading channels, where the link rates are varying with time. Due to the high computational complexity of the...
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A Fully Distributed Algorithm for Throughput Performance in Wireless Networks
March 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors study link scheduling in wireless networks under stochastic arrival processes of packets, and give an algorithm that achieves stability in the physical (SINR) interference model. The...
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Irida: A Real-Time Wireless Sensor Network Visualization Feedback Protocol
March 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors describe the implementation of a real time visualization and feedback system for Wireless Sensor Network algorithms. The system is based on a fixed hardware testbed,...
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Optimizing the Replay Protection at the Link Layer Security Framework in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Ensuring communications security in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is very vital because the security protocols therein, should be devised to work at the link layer. Theoretically, any link layer...
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A Novel Approach for Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
September 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of resource starved sensor nodes that are deployed to sense, process and communicate vital information to the base station. Due to the stringent...
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Data Gathering Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Single Mobile Element
March 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of gathering the data in wireless sensor network using a single Mobile Element. In particular they consider the case where the data are produced...
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LMEEC: Layered Multi-Hop Energy Efficient Cluster-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
April 10, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose LMEEC, a cluster-based routing protocol with low energy consumption for wireless sensor networks. Their protocol is based on a strategy which aims to provide a...
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An Efficient Method for Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks With Pulse Coupled Neural Network
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Multi cast communication is a key technology for wireless mesh networks. Multicast provides efficient data distribution among a group of nodes, Generally sensor networks and MANETs uses multicast...
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Grammatical Aspects for Language Descriptions
January 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
For the purposes of tool development, computer languages are usually described using context-free grammars with annotations such as semantic actions or pretty-printing instructions. These...
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Sharing Mobile Code Securely With Information Flow Control
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Mobile code is now a nearly inescapable component of modern computing, thanks to client-side code that runs within web browsers. The usual tension between security and functionality is...
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QKD Quantum Channel Authentication
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Several simple yet secure protocols to authenticate the quantum channel of various QKD schemes, by coupling the photon sender's knowledge of a shared secret and the QBER Bob observes, are...
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Trusted - HB: A Low-Cost Version of HB+ Secure Against Man-in-the Middle Attacks
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Since the introduction at Crypto'05 by Juels and Weis of the protocol HB+, a lightweight protocol secure against active attacks but only in a detection based-model, many works have tried to...
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Survey of Cognitive Radio Techniques in Wireless Network
April 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless access networks were originally developed for different communication scenarios. Wireless networks aim to provide ubiquitous, flexible communications mainly in community areas. In...
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Cornell Connections 1.5.7 (Mobile)
March 29, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The official Cornell Connections Alumni app. Securely network and connect with the Cornell community around the world. Includes a directory integrated with LinkedIn, maps, photos and more! Powered...
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Debunking Some Myths About Biometric Authentication
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Biometric authentication systems are presented as the best way to reach high security levels in controlling access to IT systems or sensitive infrastructures. But several issues are often not...
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A Semantic Framework for Declassification and Endorsement
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
Language-based information flow methods offer a principled way to enforce strong security properties, but enforcing noninterference is too inflexible for realistic applications. Security-typed...
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PadSteg: Introducing Inter-Protocol Steganography
April 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Hiding information in network traffic may lead to leakage of confidential information. In this paper, the authors introduce a new steganographic system: the PadSteg (Padding Steganography). To...
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