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Experimentation-Oriented Platform for Development and Evaluation of MANET Cross-Layer Protocols
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce a platform that simplifies the Development, performance Evaluation, and Comparison (DEC) of cross-layer protocols for Multi-hop Ad hoc NETworks (MANET). To the best of their...
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Localized Message Passing Structure for High Speed Ethernet Packet Switching
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces two different physical structures and topologies to realize an ethernet layer-2 switch. To evaluate these two structures and produce throughput projections the paper has...
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Dynamic Input Buffer Allocation (DIBA) for Fault Tolerant Ethernet Packet Switching
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes a new fault-tolerant architecture to realize an Ethernet layer-2 switch. This architecture includes a memory buffer scheduler to assign memory buffers dynamically to the input...
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Fingerprint Core Point Detection Based on SVM and Complex Filter
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Core point is an essential feature of a fingerprint. Fingerprint core point detection is an important step for fingerprint matching and classification. This paper presents a two stages algorithm...
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Typing the Numeric Tower
November 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
In the past, the creators of numerical programs had to choose between simple expression of mathematical formulas and static type checking. While the Lisp family and its dynamically typed relatives...
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The Design and Implementation of Typed Scheme: From Scripts to Programs
June 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
When scripts in untyped languages grow into large programs, maintaining them becomes difficult. A lack of explicit type annotations in typical scripting language forces programmers to must (re)...
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Novel Blind CFO Estimator for Uplink Interleaved OFDMA Systems
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems, closely spaced and overlapped sub-carriers are divided into groups and assigned to multiple users for simultaneous transmission....
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Distributed Lifetime Maximization Routing With Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of low-power and energy-constrained sensor nodes, and a fundamental challenge in the design of WSNs is to maximize the network lifetime. In WSNs, data...
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HARD-DNS: Highly-Available Redundantly-Distributed DNS
October 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The DNS or Domain Name System is a critical piece of the Internet infrastructure. In recent times there have been numerous attacks on DNS, the Kaminsky attack being one of the more insidious ones....
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Active Flash: Out-of-Core Data Analytics on Flash Storage
March 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Next generation science will increasingly come to rely on the ability to perform efficient, on-the-fly analytics of data generated by High-Performance Computing (HPC) simulations, modeling complex...
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Active Flash: Performance-Energy Tradeoffs for Out-of-Core Processing on Non-Volatile Memory Devices
December 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study the performance and energy tradeoffs involved in migrating data analysis into the flash device, a process they refer to as Active Flash. The Active Flash paradigm...
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On the Capacity of Rate-Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links Under Jamming
April 10, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Over the last decades, wireless communication proved to be an enabling technology to an increasingly large number of applications. The convenience of wireless and its support of mobility has...
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A Separation Logic for Refining Concurrent Objects
July 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Fine-grained concurrent data structures are crucial for gaining performance from multiprocessing, but their design is a subtle art. Recent literature has made large strides in verifying these data...
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Superficially Substructural Types
March 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Many sub-structural type systems have been proposed for controlling access to shared state in higher-order languages. Central to these systems is the notion of a resource, which may be split into...
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All-Termination(T)
January 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce the All-Termination(T) problem: given a termination solver T and a collection of functions F, find every sub-set of the formal parameters to F whose consideration is...
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Preventing Input Validation Vulnerabilities in Web Applications Through Automated Type Analysis
April 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Web applications have become an integral part of the daily lives of millions of users. Unfortunately, web applications are also frequently targeted by attackers, and critical vulnerabilities such...
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Insights Into User Behavior in Dealing With Internet Attacks
November 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Internet is a lucrative medium for criminals targeting Internet users. Most common Internet attacks require some form of user interaction such as clicking on an exploit link. Hence, the...
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Quantized Feedback Control for Networked Control Systems Under Communication Constraints
December 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the feedback stabilization problem for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) with unbound process noise, where sensors and controllers are connected via noiseless digital...
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A New Waveband Switching Routing Algorithm in WDM Optical Networks
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the technique of waveband switching and considers the problem of reducing the number of ports in optical cross-connects in WDM optical networks. Based on previous studies,...
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Characterizing the SPEC JVM98 Benchmarks on the Java Virtual Machine
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the results of a characterization analysis performed on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) using the SPEC JVM98 benchmarks. An instrument is developed that runs inside the JVM that...
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NEUStore (Version 1.4): A Simple Java Package for the Construction of Disk-Based, Paginated, and Buffered Indices
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes NEUStore, a Java package that aims to support the development of disk-based, paginated, and buffered index structures. It starts with an overview figure with 16 classes. Three...
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Impact of Mobile Transmitter Sources on Radio Frequency Wireless Energy Harvesting
September 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Wireless energy harvesting sensor networks constitute a new paradigm, where the motes deployed in the field are no longer constrained by the limited battery resource, but are able to re-charge...
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Constructing Optimal IP Routing Tables
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) populates Internet backbone routers with routes or prefixes. The authors present an algorithm to locally compute (without any modification to BGP) equivalent...
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Prototyping a Hybrid Main Memory Using a Virtual Machine Monitor
August 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a novel virtualization-based approach for computer architecture performance analysis. They present a case study analyzing a hypothetical hybrid main memory, which consists of a...
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Scheduler Vulnerabilities and Coordinated Attacks in Cloud Computing
November 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
In hardware virtualization a hypervisor provides multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) on a single physical system, each executing a separate operating system instance. The hypervisor schedules...
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A Low Power CMOS CORDIC Processor Design for Wireless Telecommunication
May 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A CORDIC processor for wire telecommunication is integrated in a 0.5ìm CMOS technology. The CORDIC (Coordinate Rotation DIgital Computer) processor reduces the circuit complexity by performing a...
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A Multi-QoS Constraint Routing Protocol for Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks
March 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Image and video sensing data in the Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks make many requirements in the resource of bandwidth and energy. For the purpose of real-time transmission of multimedia...
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Brand Strategy Of Medium And Small Enterprises In China
May 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
With the increase of the opening degree of market and the acceleration of the marketing course, good opportunities for development will be given to Chinese enterprises. Meanwhile, the enterprises...
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Six Sigma And Organizational Culture
August 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Six Sigma is a high-performance, data-driven approach to analyzing and solving the root causes of business problems. It ties the outputs of a business directly to marketplace requirements. At the...
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QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Many real-time applications, such as video conferencing, require the transmission of messages from a sender to multiple receivers subject to Quality-of-Service (QoS) delivery constraints (e.g....
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Transport Layer - Congestion Control and QoS
October 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The resources being shared in the network include the bandwidth of the links, and the buffers on the routers or switches where packets are queued waiting to be transmitted over these links....
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Adapting the USRP as an Underwater Acoustic Modem
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes how the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) coupled with GNU Radio can be adapted for use as a configurable UnderWater Acoustic (UWA) modem. The USRP contains an Altera...
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Quantifying Load Imbalance on Virtualized Enterprise Servers
January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
Virtualization has been shown to be an attractive path to increase overall system resource utilization. The use of live Virtual Machine (VM) migration has enabled more effective sharing of system...
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Energy-Efficient Data Management for Sensor Networks: A Work-in-Progress Report
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper gives a status update of the Cougar Project, in which the authors' investigate a database approach to sensor networks: Clients "Program" the sensors through queries in a high-level...
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Best Practices of Spyware and Virus Removal
May 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This is the most streamlined document I can recommend to anyone who wants to improve their skills in cleaning an infected machine of spyware and viruses. I wrote it for junior technicians working...
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Performance Evaluation of Virtual Appliances
April 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization technology has become standard in many computing environments. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are now using virtual machines to deliver multiple software appliances. However,...
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Efficient RFID Data Imputation by Analyzing the Correlations of Monitored Objects
January 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
As a promising technology for tracing the product and human flows, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received much attention within database community. However, the problem of missing...
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The Ff - Family of Protocols for RFID-Privacy and Authentication
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ff is a family of lightweight and privacy-preserving authentication protocols for RFID-systems. Contrary to related work, Ff offers user-adjustable authentication and privacy without requiring a...
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Preprocessing DNS Log Data for Effective Data Mining
February 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Domain Name Service (DNS) provides a critical function in directing Internet traffic. Defending DNS servers from bandwidth attacks is assisted by the ability to effectively mine DNS log data...
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NEUStore (Version 1.4): A Simple Java Package for the Construction of Disk-Based, Paginated, and Buffered Indices
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes NEUStore, a Java package that aims to support the development of disk-based, paginated, and buffered index structures. It starts with an overview figure with 16 classes. Three...
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Characterizing the SPEC JVM98 Benchmarks on the Java Virtual Machine
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the results of a characterization analysis performed on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) using the SPEC JVM98 benchmarks. An instrument is developed that runs inside the JVM that...
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Dynamic Input Buffer Allocation (DIBA) for Fault Tolerant Ethernet Packet Switching
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes a new fault-tolerant architecture to realize an Ethernet layer-2 switch. This architecture includes a memory buffer scheduler to assign memory buffers dynamically to the input...
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Localized Message Passing Structure for High Speed Ethernet Packet Switching
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces two different physical structures and topologies to realize an ethernet layer-2 switch. To evaluate these two structures and produce throughput projections the paper has...
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Information Systems Risk Factors, Risk Assessments, and Audit Planning Decisions
December 3, 2002, 12:00am PST
This paper examines systems risk factors identified by external auditors for a sample of their actual audit clients. Specifically, the paper studies two important areas of information systems...
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