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Economics of Malware: Epidemic Risks Model, Network Externalities and Incentives
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Malicious softwares or malwares for short have become a major security threat. While originating in criminal behavior, their impact is also influenced by the decisions of legitimate end users....
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
SecSip: A Stateful Firewall for SIP-Based Networks
July 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
SIP-based networks are becoming the de-facto standard for voice, video and instant messaging services. Being exposed to many threats while playing an major role in the operation of essential...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cloud Computing Versus Desktop Grids
February 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cloud Computing has taken commercial computing by storm. However, adoption of cloud computing platforms and services by the scientific community is in its infancy as the performance and monetary...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Neighborhood Selection in Mobile P2P Networks
February 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
A MANET is a set of mobile wireless devices that communicate directly with each other via multi-hop wireless links. They dynamically and arbitrary form a transient network without requiring any...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
IP Links in Multihop Ad Hoc Wireless Networks?
July 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A number of efforts currently aim at scalable and efficient mobile ad hoc routing, an essential piece concerning the integration of such networks in the Internet. However, there is another...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Multi-Hop Wireless Networking With OSPF: MPR-Based Routing Extensions for MANETs
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Incorporating multi-hop wireless networks in the IP infrastructure is an effort to which a growing community participates. One instance of such activity is the extension of the routing protocol...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Analysis of a Fountain Codes Based Transport in an 802.11 WLAN Cell
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Fountain Codes based Transport (FCT) protocol relies on an alternate paradigm to that of the ubiquitous TCP. It abolishes the need for a reverse feedback mechanism usually essential to provide...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Safe and Efficient Strategies for Updating Firewall Policies
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to the large size and complex structure of modern networks, firewall policies can contain several thousand rules. The size and complexity of these policies require automated tools providing a...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Distributed Storage Management of Evolving Files in Delay Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks
January 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This work focuses on a class of distributed storage systems whose content may evolve over time. Each component or node of the storage system is mobile and the set of all nodes forms a Delay...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Context and Knowledge Management
June 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Context can be defined as information of all types related to a service and/or the user of the service, and knowledge can be defined as more general information, of which context is a specific...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Abusing SIP Authentication
January 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
The first tool is a text editor that is critical for writing and debugging JavaScript. A number of freeware and shareware text editors are available. The right web browser is a prerequisite for...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Polychronous Analysis of Timing Constraints in UML MARTE
March 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The UML Profile for Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded systems (MARTE) defines a broadly expressive Time Model to provide a generic timed interpretation for UML models. As a part of...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Optimizing Peer-to-Peer Backup Using Lifetime Estimations
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the viability of a peer-to-peer backup system on nowadays internet connections. In particular, the paper shows that peer lifetime estimation can be used to reduce the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Combining Model-Driven Engineering and Cloud Computing
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Service-orientation and model-driven engineering are two of the most dominant software engineering paradigms nowadays. This position paper explores the synergies between them and shows how they...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Flexible Probabilistic QoS Management of Transaction Based Web Services Orchestrations
April 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper authors extend the previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of "Response time", to general QoS parameters. The study covers...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Zero-Knowledge-Like Proof of Cryptanalysis of Bluetooth Encryption
December 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a protocol aiming at proving that an encryption system contains structural weaknesses without disclosing any information on those weaknesses. A verifier can check in a...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Multicast Routing Simulator Over MPLS Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Multicast and MPLS are two complementary technologies. Merging these two technologies where multicast trees are constructed over MPLS networks will enhance performance and present an efficient...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Multi-Bid Auctions for Bandwidth Allocation in Communication Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper designs a bandwidth pricing mechanism that solves congestion problems in communication networks. The scheme is based on second-price auctions, which are known to be incentive compatible...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Pastis: A Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces Pastis, a completely decentralized multi-user read-write peer-to-peer file system. In Pastis every file is described by a modifiable inode-like structure which contains the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Implementing Probes for J2EE Cluster Monitoring
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Clusters have become the de facto platform for large J2EE application servers. In production environments, it is necessary to constantly monitor the state of the system to detect failures or...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Constructing and Querying Peer-to-Peer Warehouses of XML Resources
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents KADOP, a distributed infrastructure for warehousing XML resources in a peer-to-peer framework. KADOP allows users to build a shared, distributed repository of resources such as...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a new model for representing probabilistic information in a semi-structured (XML) database, based on the use of probabilistic event variables. This work is motivated by the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Declarative Specification of Web Applications Exploiting Web Services and Workflows
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This demo presents an extension of a declarative language for specifying data-intensive Web applications. The paper demonstrates a scenario extracted from a real-life application, the Web portal...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Constant-Memory Validation of Streaming XML Documents Against DTDs
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the problem of validating, with constant memory, streaming XML documents with respect to a DTD. Such constant memory validations can only be performed for some but not all...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Fault Tolerance Management for a Hierarchical GridRPC Middleware
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
GridRPC middleware are usually managing failures by using TCP or other link network layer provided failure detector, automatic checkpoints of sequential jobs and a centralized stable agent to...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
A New Approach to Construct Multicast Trees in MPLS Networks
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a new approach to construct multicast trees in MPLS networks. This approach utilizes MPLS LSPs between multicast tree branching node routers in order to reduce forwarding...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
An IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Module for the NS-3 Simulator
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
ns-3 is a recently released next generation simulator intended as a replacement of the popular ns-2. It enables a highly rich set of features and is expected to become the first choice of the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Zero-Knowledge-Like Proof of Cryptanalysis of Bluetooth Encryption
December 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a protocol aiming at proving that an encryption system contains structural weaknesses without disclosing any information on those weaknesses. A verifier can check in a...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Flexible Probabilistic QoS Management of Transaction Based Web Services Orchestrations
April 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper authors extend the previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of "Response time", to general QoS parameters. The study covers...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Combining Model-Driven Engineering and Cloud Computing
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Service-orientation and model-driven engineering are two of the most dominant software engineering paradigms nowadays. This position paper explores the synergies between them and shows how they...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Optimizing Peer-to-Peer Backup Using Lifetime Estimations
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the viability of a peer-to-peer backup system on nowadays internet connections. In particular, the paper shows that peer lifetime estimation can be used to reduce the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Polychronous Analysis of Timing Constraints in UML MARTE
March 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The UML Profile for Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded systems (MARTE) defines a broadly expressive Time Model to provide a generic timed interpretation for UML models. As a part of...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Abusing SIP Authentication
January 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
The first tool is a text editor that is critical for writing and debugging JavaScript. A number of freeware and shareware text editors are available. The right web browser is a prerequisite for...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Context and Knowledge Management
June 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Context can be defined as information of all types related to a service and/or the user of the service, and knowledge can be defined as more general information, of which context is a specific...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Distributed Storage Management of Evolving Files in Delay Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks
January 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This work focuses on a class of distributed storage systems whose content may evolve over time. Each component or node of the storage system is mobile and the set of all nodes forms a Delay...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Safe and Efficient Strategies for Updating Firewall Policies
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to the large size and complex structure of modern networks, firewall policies can contain several thousand rules. The size and complexity of these policies require automated tools providing a...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Analysis of a Fountain Codes Based Transport in an 802.11 WLAN Cell
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Fountain Codes based Transport (FCT) protocol relies on an alternate paradigm to that of the ubiquitous TCP. It abolishes the need for a reverse feedback mechanism usually essential to provide...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Multi-Hop Wireless Networking With OSPF: MPR-Based Routing Extensions for MANETs
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Incorporating multi-hop wireless networks in the IP infrastructure is an effort to which a growing community participates. One instance of such activity is the extension of the routing protocol...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
IP Links in Multihop Ad Hoc Wireless Networks?
July 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A number of efforts currently aim at scalable and efficient mobile ad hoc routing, an essential piece concerning the integration of such networks in the Internet. However, there is another...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Neighborhood Selection in Mobile P2P Networks
February 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
A MANET is a set of mobile wireless devices that communicate directly with each other via multi-hop wireless links. They dynamically and arbitrary form a transient network without requiring any...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cloud Computing Versus Desktop Grids
February 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cloud Computing has taken commercial computing by storm. However, adoption of cloud computing platforms and services by the scientific community is in its infancy as the performance and monetary...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
SecSip: A Stateful Firewall for SIP-Based Networks
July 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
SIP-based networks are becoming the de-facto standard for voice, video and instant messaging services. Being exposed to many threats while playing an major role in the operation of essential...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Economics of Malware: Epidemic Risks Model, Network Externalities and Incentives
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Malicious softwares or malwares for short have become a major security threat. While originating in criminal behavior, their impact is also influenced by the decisions of legitimate end users....
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
An IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Module for the NS-3 Simulator
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
ns-3 is a recently released next generation simulator intended as a replacement of the popular ns-2. It enables a highly rich set of features and is expected to become the first choice of the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
A New Approach to Construct Multicast Trees in MPLS Networks
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a new approach to construct multicast trees in MPLS networks. This approach utilizes MPLS LSPs between multicast tree branching node routers in order to reduce forwarding...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Fault Tolerance Management for a Hierarchical GridRPC Middleware
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
GridRPC middleware are usually managing failures by using TCP or other link network layer provided failure detector, automatic checkpoints of sequential jobs and a centralized stable agent to...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Constant-Memory Validation of Streaming XML Documents Against DTDs
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the problem of validating, with constant memory, streaming XML documents with respect to a DTD. Such constant memory validations can only be performed for some but not all...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Declarative Specification of Web Applications Exploiting Web Services and Workflows
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This demo presents an extension of a declarative language for specifying data-intensive Web applications. The paper demonstrates a scenario extracted from a real-life application, the Web portal...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a new model for representing probabilistic information in a semi-structured (XML) database, based on the use of probabilistic event variables. This work is motivated by the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Constructing and Querying Peer-to-Peer Warehouses of XML Resources
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents KADOP, a distributed infrastructure for warehousing XML resources in a peer-to-peer framework. KADOP allows users to build a shared, distributed repository of resources such as...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Implementing Probes for J2EE Cluster Monitoring
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Clusters have become the de facto platform for large J2EE application servers. In production environments, it is necessary to constantly monitor the state of the system to detect failures or...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Pastis: A Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces Pastis, a completely decentralized multi-user read-write peer-to-peer file system. In Pastis every file is described by a modifiable inode-like structure which contains the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Multi-Bid Auctions for Bandwidth Allocation in Communication Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper designs a bandwidth pricing mechanism that solves congestion problems in communication networks. The scheme is based on second-price auctions, which are known to be incentive compatible...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Multicast Routing Simulator Over MPLS Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Multicast and MPLS are two complementary technologies. Merging these two technologies where multicast trees are constructed over MPLS networks will enhance performance and present an efficient...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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