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Optimization Models and Methods for Planning Wireless Mesh Networks
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper novel optimization models are proposed for planning Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), where the objective is to minimize the network installation cost while providing full coverage to...
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Radio Over Telephone Lines in Femtocell Systems
March 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless over Cable (WoC) paradigm is a new technique to enable distributed antennas systems. WoC is based on the relay of radio frequency wireless signals over a cable infrastructure through a...
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A Game Theoretic Analysis of Network Design With Socially-Aware Users
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In many scenarios network design is not enforced by a central authority, but arises from the interactions of several self-interested agents. This is the case of the Internet, where connectivity is...
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Shellzer: A Tool for the Dynamic Analysis of Malicious Shellcode
September 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Shellcode is malicious binary code whose execution is triggered after the exploitation of a vulnerability. The automated analysis of malicious shellcode is a challenging task, since encryption and...
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Mashlight: A Lightweight Mashup Framework for Everyone
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recently, Web 2.0 has brought a storm on web application development. In particular, mashups have greatly enhanced user creativity across the web, allowing end-users to rapidly combine information...
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Using Compositionality to Formally Model and Analyze Systems Built of a High Number of Components
January 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
When dependability of systems with a large number of components is a concern, being able to model and analyze their properties, especially non-functional ones, in a formal and automated way...
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A Tile-Based Approach for Self-Assembling Service Compositions
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a novel approach to the design of self-adaptive service-oriented applications based on a new model called service tiles. The approach allows designers to develop a...
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Integrated Modeling and Verification of Real-Time Systems Through Multiple Paradigms
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a technique to model different aspects of the same system with different formalisms, while keeping the various models tightly integrated with one another. In a...
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Practical Automated Partial Verification of Multi-Paradigm Real-Time Models
July 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a fully automated verification technique that permits to analyze real-time systems described using a continuous notion of time and a mixture of operational (i.e.,...
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MTL With Bounded Variability: Decidability and Complexity
June 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the properties of Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) over models in which time is dense but phenomena are constrained to have bounded variability. Contrary to the case of generic...
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Loupe: Verifying Publish-Subscribe Architectures With a Magnifying Lens
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Publish-Subscribe (P/S) communication paradigm fosters high decoupling among distributed components. This facilitates the design of dynamic applications, but also impacts negatively on their...
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Drop the Phone and Talk to the Physical World: Programming the Internet of Things With Erlang
March 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors present ELIOT, an Erlang-based development framework expressly conceived for heterogeneous and massively decentralized sensing/actuation systems: a vision commonly regarded as the...
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DSOL: A Declarative Approach to Self-Adaptive Service Orchestrations
March 4, 2012, 12:00am PST
Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has brought a simplification in the way distributed applications can be built. Mainstream approaches, however, failed to support dynamic, self-managed compositions...
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Low Latency Complex Event Processing on Parallel Hardware
December 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
Most complex information systems are event-driven: each part of the system reacts to the events happening in the other parts, potentially generating new events. Complex Event Processing (CEP)...
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SLIM: Service Location and Invocation Middleware for Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
April 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the main obstacles to the adoption of Wire-less Sensor Networks (WSNs) outside the research community is the lack of high level mechanisms to easily program them. This problem affects...
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Computational REST Meets Erlang
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
Today's applications are developed in a world where the execution context changes continuously. They have to adapt to these changes at run-time if they want to offer their services without...
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MultiCaR: Remote Invocation for Large Scale, Context-Aware Applications
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Remote Method Invocation (RMI) provides a powerful programming abstraction, well integrated with the object-oriented paradigm. Like conventional method calls, RMI interaction is point-to-point and...
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A Predictive Opportunistic Scheduler for 4G Wireless Systems
September 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Channel aware schedulers play a crucial role in the performance enhancement of wireless systems by taking advantage of channel fluctuations for leveraging the gain that results in user selections...
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A Predictive Scheduler for FDD Systems Based on the Windowed Empirical CDF
September 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Channel aware schedulers represent a convenient solution for the resource allocation problem in wireless systems by leveraging on fast channel fluctuations to achieve a convenient trade-off...
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MobiMESH: A Complete Solution for Wireless Mesh Networking
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have raised great interest in both academy and industry thanks to their flexibility, low cost and easy deployment characteristics. MobiMESH is a WMN implementation...
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A Cooperative Approach for Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The choice of the transmission power levels adopted in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is critical to determine the performance of the network itself in terms of energy efficiency, connectivity...
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A Framework for QoS-Aware Execution of Workflows Over the Cloud
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Cloud Computing paradigm is providing system architects with a new powerful tool for building scalable applications. Clouds allow allocation of resources on a "Pay-as-you-go" model, so that...
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Cognitive Relaying and Opportunistic Spectrum Sensing in Unlicensed Multiple Access Channels
June 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, a cognitive multiple access channel with one primary node and M secondary nodes is considered, and the impact of the following techniques on the stability region of the system is...
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Dynamic Framed-ALOHA for Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks With Energy Harvesting
July 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Dynamic Framed-ALOHA (DFA) protocol is studied for wireless sensor networks with energy limitations and energy-harvesting capability. The performance of DFA in this scenario is evaluated in...
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On Spectrum Selection Games in Cognitive Radio Networks
July 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio networks aim at enhancing spectrum utilization by allowing cognitive devices to opportunistically access vast portions of the spectrum. To reach such ambitious goal, cognitive...
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An Auction Framework for Spectrum Allocation With Interference Constraint in Cognitive Radio Networks
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Extensive research in recent years has shown the benefits of cognitive radio technologies to improve the flexibility and efficiency of spectrum utilization. This new communication paradigm,...
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Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks With Energy-Hungry Sensors
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, the number of wireless sensor network deployments for real life applications has rapidly increased. Still, the energy problem remains one of the major barrier somehow preventing...
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An Adaptive Sampling Algorithm for Effective Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks With Energy-Hungry Sensors
March 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Energy conservation techniques for wireless sensor networks generally assume that data acquisition and processing have energy consumption significantly lower than that of communication....
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Optimal Design of Service Overlay Networks
November 15, 2007, 12:00am PST
Service Overlay Networks (SONs) are currently one of the most promising architectures envisioned to provide end-to-end quality of service guarantees in the Internet, without requiring significant...
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Joint Routing and Scheduling Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks With Directional Antennas
September 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have recently emerged as a technology for next-generation wireless networking. WMNs partially replace wired backbone networks, and it is therefore reasonable to plan...
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A Game Theoretic Framework for Joint Routing and Pricing in Networks With Elastic Demands
October 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the economic interactions between network users and providers. Each user must ship his traffic from a source to a destination node, splitting it over multiple...
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A Context and Content-Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Sensor Networks
December 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
The need of monitoring people, animals, and things in general, brings to consider mobile WSNs besides traditional, fixed ones. Moreover, several advanced scenarios, like those including actuators,...
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Low Voltage Fault Attacks to AES and RSA on General Purpose Processors
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Fault injection attacks have proven in recent times a powerful tool to exploit implementative weaknesses of robust cryptographic algorithms. A number of different techniques aimed at disturbing...
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Shared Protection Network Design: Valid Inequalities and a Decomposition Approach
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Shared Protection is a technique that can reduce the cost of backup resources in survivable networks, if it is suitably considered at the design level. This paper presents a model and two families...
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A Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System for Hazardous Material Transport
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper concerns the problem of routing and scheduling hazardous material (hazmat) in urban and suburban road networks. This problem involves conflicting objectives among interested parties: the...
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Quality-And Energy-Aware Data Compression by Aggregation in WSN Data Streams
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sensor networks consist of autonomous devices that cooperatively monitor an environment. Sensors are equipped with capabilities to store information in memory, process information and communicate...
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Masibty: An Anomaly Based Intrusion Prevention System for Web Applications
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper briefly describes Masibty, a novel anomaly-based web application firewall it devised. It has a modular and extensible structure. It give an overview of the anomaly detection models it...
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AD-PLL for WiMAX With Digital Bang-Bang TDC and Glitch Correction Logic
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the design of an All-Digital Phase Locked Loop (ADPLL) for wireless applications in the WiMAX 3.3-3.8 bandwidth. The Time/Digital Converter (TDC) sets the in-band noise and it...
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