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A Differentiated Message Delivery Architecture to Control Spam
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Unsolicited bulk electronic mail (spam) is increasingly plaguing the Internet Email system and deteriorating its value as a convenient communication tools. This paper argues that the difficulties...
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10 Ways to Use Laptops in Teaching and Learning
August 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Various teaching and learning strategies can be used promote critical thinking and collaboration among students. Facilitate problem-based learning and team-based learning by having students...
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Solutions for Regulating Offshore Outsourcing in the Service Sector: Using the Law, Market, International Mechanisms, and Collective Organization as Building Blocks
June 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to technological advancements in telecommunications, transportation, and information processing, the typical work performed by service sector employees has dramatically changed. The...
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Centralized Channel Assignment and Routing Algorithms for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Despite significant advances in physical layer technologies, today's Wireless LAN still cannot offer the same level of sustained bandwidth as their wired brethren. The advertised 54 Mbps bandwidth...
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Reflective Pedagogy: Making Meaning in Experiential Based Online Courses
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The use of reflective pedagogies has long been considered critical to facilitating meaningful learning through experientially based curricula; however, the use of such methods has not been...
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Bandwidth Efficient All-to-All Broadcast on Switched Clusters
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper develops an all-to-all broadcast scheme that achieves maximum bandwidth efficiency for clusters with tree topologies. Using the scheme for clusters with cut-through switches, any tree...
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A Study of Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment With Imprecise Network State Information
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In large networks, maintaining precise global network state information is almost impossible. Many factors, such as non-negligible propagation delay, infrequent state updates due to overhead...
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Techniques for Pipelined Broadcast on Ethernet Switched Clusters
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
By splitting a large broadcast message into segments and broadcasting the segments in a pipelined fashion, pipelined broadcast can achieve high performance in many systems. This paper investigates...
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Empirical Probability Based QoS Routing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores Quality-of-Service (QoS) routing schemes that make routing decisions based on empirical resource availability probability information. This empirical probability based routing...
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A Comparative Study of QoS Routing Schemes That Tolerate Imprecise State Information
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In large networks, maintaining precise global network state information is almost impossible. Many factors, including no negligible propagation delay, infrequent link state update due to overhead...
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BEAT: Bio-Environmental Android Tracking
August 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The popularity of wireless devices has been pushing the envelope for medical applications. These devices, paired with a personal health monitoring framework can enable early detection and...
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Exploring Remote Object Coherence in XML Web Services
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Object-level coherence in distributed applications and systems has been studied extensively. Object coherence in platform-specific and tightly-coupled systems is achieved with binary serialization...
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Exploring RAID Configurations
August 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To address the limits of today's slow mechanical disks, this paper explored a number of data layouts to improve RAID performance. The authors found that by dedicating more disks to hosting popular...
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Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy In Florida
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Energy supply and production is of critical importance for Floridians. Florida, and the nation, in general, are concerned with the status of current energy reserves; based primarily on...
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Complementarities Between Product Design Modularity And IT Infrastructure Flexibility In IT-Enabled Supply Chains
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
As contemporary firms become reliant on networks of supply chain partners, their performance increasingly depends on their supply chains' ability to be responsive to changing markets. This...
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An MPI Prototype for Compiled Communication on Ethernet Switched Clusters
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Compiled communication has recently been proposed to improve communication performance for clusters of workstations. The idea of compiled communication is to apply more aggressive optimizations to...
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An Empirical Study of Reliable Multicast Protocols Over Ethernet-Connected Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recent advances in multicasting over the Internet present new opportunities for improving communication performance for clusters of workstations. Realizing collective communication over reliable...
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Communication Characteristics in the NAS Parallel Benchmarks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the communication characteristics of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementation of the NAS parallel benchmarks and study the effectiveness of compiled communication...
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A New Bound on the Performance of the Bandwidth Puzzle
February 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
A bandwidth puzzle was recently proposed to defend against colluding adversaries in peer-to-peer networks. The colluding adversaries do not do actual work but claim to have uploaded contents for...
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A Message Scheduling Scheme for All-to-All Personalized Communication on Ethernet Switched Clusters
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a message scheduling scheme for efficiently realizing All-to-All Personalized Communication (AAPC) on Ethernet switched clusters with one or more switches. To avoid network...
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Bandwidth Optimal All-Reduce Algorithms for Clusters of Workstations
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider an efficient realization of the all-reduce operation with large data sizes in cluster environments, under the assumption that the reduce operator is associative and...
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Load Balancing Mechanisms in Data Center Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider network traffic load balancing mechanisms in data center networks with scale-out topologies such as folded Clos or fat-tree networks. This paper investigates the flow-level...
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Traffic-Aware Inter-Domain Routing for Improved Internet Routing Stability
July 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops and studies a Traffic-aware Inter-Domain Routing (TIDR) protocol, which drastically improves the stability of the BGP-based inter-domain routing system. TIDR is designed based...
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An MPI Tool for Automatically Discovering the Switch Level Topologies of Ethernet Clusters
January 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents an MPI topology discovery tool for homogeneous Ethernet switched clusters. Unlike existing Ethernet topology discovery methods that rely on Simple Network Management Protocol...
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A Flexible Cluster Infrastructure for Systems Research and Software Development
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper reports the current status of the CRI project. This paper designed a flexible cluster infrastructure that can be configured to emulate various high-end clusters. This computing research...
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Lightweight RFID Authentication With Forward and Backward Security
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a lightweight RFID authentication protocol that supports forward and backward security. The only cryptographic mechanism that this protocol uses is a PseudoRandom Number...
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Secure EPC Gen2 Compliant Radio Frequency Identification
June 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The increased functionality of EPC Class1 Gen2 (EPCGen2) is making this standard a de facto specification for inexpensive tags in the RFID industry. Recently three EPCGen2 compliant protocols that...
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A Flyweight RFID Authentication Protocol
June 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper first discusses the security threats that have to be addressed when dealing with lightweight RFID protocols: in particular, privacy/integrity attacks that compromise the forward and...
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Provably Secure Grouping-Proofs for RFID Tags
February 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates an application of RFIDs referred to in the literature as group scanning, in which several tags are "Simultaneously" scanned by a reader device. The goal is to study the...
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RFID Security: Attacks, Countermeasures and Challenges
April 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Low-cost RFID tags are already being used for supply chain management and are a promising new technology that can be used to support the security of wireless ubiquitous applications. However...
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Persistent Security for RFID
July 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Low-cost RFID tags are being deployed to support smart environment and other ubiquitous applications, and in particular to provide security and integrity functions within this domain. While the...
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Secure and Privacy-Preserving, Timed Vehicular Communication
February 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors consider the problem of privacy and security in vehicular (V2V) communication, in particular securing routine safety messages. Traditional public key mechanisms are not...
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Secure Random Key Pre-Distribution Against Semi-Honest Adversaries
October 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recently, Eschenauer and Gligor [EG02] proposed a model (The EG-model) for random key pre-distribution in distributed sensor networks (DSN) that allows sensors to establish private shared keys. In...
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Towards Provable Security for Route Discovery Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are collections of wireless mobile devices with restricted broadcast range and resources, and no fixed infrastructure. Communication is achieved by relaying data...
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Adaptive Gossip Protocols: Managing Security and Redundancy in Dense Ad Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many ad hoc routing algorithms rely on broadcast flooding for location discovery or, more generally, for secure routing applications. Flooding is a robust algorithm but because of its extreme...
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Towards Provable Security for Route Discovery Protocols in MANETs
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are collections of wireless mobile devices with restricted broadcast range and resources, and no fixed infrastructure. Communication is achieved by relaying data...
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Forward-Secure RFID Authentication and Key Exchange
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Security and privacy in RFID systems is an important and active research area. A number of challenges arise due to the extremely limited computational, storage and communication abilities of a...
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A Linux Implementation Validation of Track-Aligned Extents and Track-Aligned RAIDs
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Through clean-slate implementations of track-aligned extents and track-aligned RAIDs, the authors have demonstrated important values of independent validations. First, the validation of research...
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A Behind-the-Scenes Story on Applying Cross-Layer Coordination to Disks and RAIDs
October 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Coordinating storage components across abstraction layers has demonstrated significant performance gains. However, when applied near the physical storage, this approach relies on exposing and...
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Evaluation of Mesh-Enhanced VANET Deployment Models
May 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
While wireless Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) are attracting greater commercial interest, current research has not adequately captured the real-world urban constraints in VANET deployment. In...
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Localization Privacy
April 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Location-aware technology and its applications are fundamental to ubiquitous computing. Essential to this technology is object localization and identification. RFID (Radio Frequency...
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Multi-Domain Trust Management in Variable-Threat Environments Using Rollback-Access
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Trust management systems are trust infrastructures that support authorization for security-critical actions in decentralized environments. In this paper, the authors describe an extension suitable...
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His Late Master's Voice: Barking for Location Privacy
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a promising new technology widely deployed for supply-chain and inventory management, retail operations and more generally, automatic identification. The...
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FSU Mobile 3.0 (Mobile)
June 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
FSU Mobile keeps you in touch with Florida State University wherever you are. From sports to contacts to maps of campus, FSU Mobile's suite of apps keeps you connected to campus. Features:...
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Hierarchical Object Parsing From Noisy Point Clouds
August 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Object parsing and segmentation from point clouds are challenging tasks because the relevant data is available only as thin structures along object boundaries or other object features and is...
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Post-IPO Firm Valuation And Corporate Governance Of Politically Connected Firms In Singapore
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between political connection and firm value of newly listed companies in Singapore from 1997-2002. Using Tobin's Q as a proxy for firm value,...
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Learning Real-Time MRF Inference for Image Denoising
March 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many computer vision problems can be formulated in a Bayesian framework with Markov Random Field (MRF) or Conditional Random Field (CRF) priors. Usually, the model assumes that a full Maximum A...
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Swarm Shopping - The Simulation of Herd Behavior
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper asks a new question: how people can intervene in the collective shopping behavior of self-organized group of customers in the supermarket. And then how they can measure it's influence...
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A Physics-Based Path-Loss Model for UWB Systems
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a computer simulation model for the study of the large-scale effects on UltraWideBand (UWB) transmission systems. The path loss is of particular interest. The...
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An Address-Free Clustering Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The objective of this paper is to remove the need to use address for passing data in a wireless sensor network. The proposed approach is to exploit the observable and measurable attributes of...
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Software Review and Security Analysis of the Diebold Voting Machine Software
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
On May 14th 2007, the FLorida Department of State (FLDoS) commissioned an independent expert review of Diebold Elections Systems touch screen (version 4.6.5) and optical scan voting system...
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Universally Composable and Forward Secure RFID Authentication and Key Exchange
December 5, 2006, 12:00am PST
Protocols proven secure in universally composable models remain secure under concurrent and modular composition, and may be easily plugged into more complex protocols without having their security...
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A Tree-Based Model of Unicast Stream Authentication
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
When proving the security of a message authentication scheme, the messages are considered to be atomic objects. Straightforward application of such schemes to some information resources may...
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Implementation Experiences in Transparently Harnessing Cluster-Wide Memory
June 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
There is a constant battle to break even between continuing improvements in DRAM capacities and the growing memory demands of large-memory high-performance applications. Performance of such...
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Optimization of Collective Communication in Intra-Cell MPI
May 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The Cell is a heterogeneous multi-core processor, which has eight co-processors, called SPEs. The SPEs can access a common shared main memory through DMA, and each SPE can directly operate on a...
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Throttling On-Disk Schedulers to Meet Soft-Real-Time Requirements
October 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To achieve better throughput, many hard drive manufacturers use internal queues and scheduling to take advantage of vendor-specific characteristics and knowledge. While this trend seems promising,...
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A Review of the Everyone Counts Vote Casting Applet
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Modern day voting systems have come under much scrutiny in recent years. Whether due to a malfunction in an election, or through analysis by outside parties, errors in these systems are...
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Project-entropy: A Metric to Understand Resource Allocation Dynamics across Software Projects
August 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Reliability of a software system, or the lack of it, is often reflected in user satisfaction. Software development organizations frequently need to reallocate resources amongst projects to help...
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On Nonblocking Folded-Clos Networks in the Computer Communication Environment
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Folded-Clos networks, also referred to as fat-trees, have been widely used as interconnects in large scale high performance computing clusters. The switching capability of such interconnects in...
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Employing Coded Relay in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
December 19, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study Coded relay (Crelay) in multi-hop wireless networks. Crelay exploits both partial packets and overhearing capabilities of the wireless nodes, and uses Forward...
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Tuning the WCET of Embedded Applications
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
It is advantageous to not only calculate the WCET of an application, but to also perform transformations to reduce the WCET since an application with a lower WCET will be less likely to violate...
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Urban Mobility Models for VANETs
November 2, 2006, 12:00am PST
Mobility models, or the movement patterns of nodes communicating wirelessly, play a vital role in the simulation-based evaluation of Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks (VANETs). Although recent research...
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Tracing Faults in MANETs Using Symmetric Authentication Chains
June 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Before Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs) become a mainstay in computing applications, many security issues need to be addressed. One such issue is the insider threat. How does one find and...
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A Unified Analysis of Global EDF and Fixed-Task-Priority Schedulability of Sporadic Task Systems on Multiprocessors
December 13, 2006, 12:00am PST
Fixed-Task-Priority (FTP) scheduling and Earliest-Deadline-First (EDF) scheduling policies are alike in fixing the priority of each job of a task at the time the job is released. This common...
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Schedulability Analysis of Multiprocessor Sporadic Task Systems
March 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors consider the scheduling of systems of independent sporadic tasks to meet hard deadlines upon platforms comprised of several identical processors. Although this field is...
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Controlling IP Spoofing Based DDoS Attacks Through Inter-Domain Packet Filters
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack is a serious threat to the legitimate use of the Internet. Prevention mechanisms are thwarted by the ability of attackers to forge, or spoof, the...
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Can Ad Hoc Routing Protocols Be Shown Provably Secure?
June 14, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Formal security analysis of ad hoc routing protocols has historically been lacking, normally following non-formal inspection to identify flaws and attacks. This leads to a cycle of published...
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Brute-Force Determination of Multiprocessor Schedulability for Sets of Sporadic Hard-Deadline Tasks
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes a necessary and sufficient test for the schedulability of a set of sporadic hard-deadline tasks on a multiprocessor platform, using any of a variety of scheduling policies...
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A Synchronous Mode MPI Implementation on the Cell BE Architecture
December 15, 2006, 12:00am PST
The Cell Broadband Engine is a new heterogeneous multi-core processor from IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. It contains eight co-processors, called SPEs, which operate directly on distinct 256 KB local...
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Quantifying Temporal and Spatial Localities in Storage Workloads and Transformations by Data Path Components
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
To increase performance, modern storage consists of many data path components, from the front-end file system cache and disk layout management to the back-end disk controller cache and on-disk...
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Predictux: A Framework for Predicting Linux Kernel Incremental Release Times
August 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Reliable software systems typically have a version release mechanism that is well organized and documented. This can be drawn upon to predict release timelines, which is helpful in gauging the...
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The One-Sender-Multiple-Receiver Technique and Downlink Packet Scheduling in Wireless LANs
February 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study the One-Sender-Multiple-Receiver (OSMR) transmission technique, which allows a sender to send to multiple receivers on the same frequency simultaneously by...
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Defects of the POSIX Sporadic Server and How to Correct Them
October 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The specification of the sporadic server real-time scheduling policy in the IEEE POSIX standard is defective, and needs to be corrected. Via experiments using a POSIX sporadic server...
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What to Make of Multicore Processors for Reliable Real-Time Systems?
April 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Now that multicore microprocessors have become a commodity, it is natural to think about employing them in all kinds of computing, including high-reliability embedded real-time systems. Appealing...
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Efficient Processing of Top-K Queries in Uncertain Databases
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This work introduces novel polynomial-time algorithms for processing top-k queries in uncertain databases, under the generally adopted model of x-relations. An x-relation consists of a number of...
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Behavioral Characteristics of Spammers and Their Network Reachability Properties
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The majority of earlier studies on the email spam have focused on the contents of email messages so as to distinguish spam messages from legitimate ones. However, there is a growing realization in...
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Understanding Forgery Properties of Spam Delivery Paths
June 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that spammers can forge the header of an email, in particular, the trace information carried in the Received: fields, as an attempt to hide the true origin of the email. Despite...
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Reverse Furthest Neighbors in Spatial Databases
November 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
Spatial databases have offered a large number of applications in last decade that shape the horizon of computing services from people's daily life to scientific research. For example, people rely...
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Accurate Localization of RFID Tags Using Phase Difference
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Due to their light weight, low power, and practically unlimited identification capacity, Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags and associated devices offer distinctive advantages and are...
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A Table-Driven Streaming XML Parsing Methodology for High-Performance Web Services
June 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a table-driven streaming XML parsing methodology, called TDX. TDX expedites XML parsing by pre-recording the states of an XML parser in tabular form and by utilizing an...
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