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Bringing P2P to the Web: Security and Privacy in the Firecoral Network
March 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Peer-to-peer systems have been a disruptive technology for enabling large-scale Internet content distribution. Yet web browsers, today's dominant application platform, seem inherently based on the...
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A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions
October 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the Internet's de facto interdomain routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the glue that holds the disparate parts of the Internet together. A major limitation of BGP is its...
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Protecting DNS From Routing Attacks: A Comparison of Two Alternative Anycast Implementations
January 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
DNS is a critical piece of the Internet supporting the majority of Internet applications. Because it is organized in a hierarchy, its correct operation is dependent on the availability of a small...
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Can DREs Provide Long-Lasting Security?: The Case of Return-Oriented Programming and the AVC Advantage
June 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A secure voting machine design must withstand new attacks devised throughout its multi-decade service lifetime. This paper gives a case study of the long-term security of a voting machine, the...
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Comparing the Security Performance of Network-Layer and Application-Layer Anycast
April 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It provides a theoretical analysis of the security performance of two any cast techniques that could be used as a countermeasure against DNS attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in the inter domain...
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Hardware-Assisted Application-Level Access Control
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Applications typically rely on the operating system to en-force access control policies such as MAC, DAC, or other policies. How-ever, in the face of a compromised operating system, such...
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Network Security Management With High-Level Security Policies
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A key issue in network security management is how to define a formal security policy. A good policy specification should be easy to get right and relatively stable, even in a dynamically changing...
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HashCache: Cache Storage for the Next Billion
February 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents HashCache, a configurable cache storage engine designed to meet the needs of cache storage in the developing world. With the advent of cheap commodity laptops geared for mass...
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Building BugTolerant Routers With Virtualization
May 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Implementation bugs are a highly critical problem in wide area networks. The software running on core routers is subject to vulnerabilities, coding mistakes, and misconfiguration. Unfortunately,...
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Virtualization-assisted Framework for Prevention of Software Vulnerability Based Security Attacks
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
Virtualization is a useful technology for addressing security concerns since it allows for the creation of isolated software execution environments, e.g., for separation of the sensitive parts of...
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Minding the Gap: R&D in the Linux Kernel
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Linux kernel, since its inception in 1991, has captured the interest of many thousands of developers and millions of users. It recently celebrated its 16th anniversary, includes many millions...
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Understanding and Addressing Blocking-Induced Network Server Latency
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigate the origin and components of network server latency under various loads and find that filesystem-related kernel queues exhibit head-of-line blocking, which leads to bursty...
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Wide-Area Network Acceleration for the Developing World
May 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wide-Area Network (WAN) accelerators operate by compressing redundant network traffic from point-to-point communications, enabling higher effective bandwidth. Unfortunately, while network...
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The C-LINK System for Collaborative Web Usage: A Real-World Deployment in Rural Nicaragua
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information exchange is one of the most crucial elements of education and business in the modern world. Therefore, equipping developing regions with access to the internet is becoming increasingly...
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Distributed Algorithm and Reversible Network
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
The future Internet will be subjected to extremely stringent demand in terms of bandwidth by data-mongering, delay-sensitive next-generation applications. This necessitates the use of optical...
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Botz4Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Recent denial of service attacks are mounted by professionals using Botnets of tens of thousands of compromised machines. To circumvent detection, attackers are increasingly moving away from...
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NoHype: Virtualized Cloud Infrastructure Without the Virtualization
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is a disruptive trending that is changing the way the one use computers. The key underlying technology in cloud infrastructures is virtualization - so much so that many consider...
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Automated and Scalable QoS Control for Network Convergence
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Network convergence is becoming increasingly important for cost reduction and management simplification. However, this convergence requires strict performance isolation while keeping fine-grained...
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Travel Time Derivative, Dynamic Road Toll on QoS-Market Analysis and Pricing Issues
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, travel time derivative is introduced as a new form of dynamic road toll to change user behavior, a new funding tool for the traffic projects, a new hedging tool against...
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Extensible Security Architectures for Java
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the problem of securely supporting mobile code on real-world systems. Unlike traditional operating systems, Web browsers must rely on software mechanisms for basic memory...
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Distributed MIMO in Multi-Cell Wireless Systems Via Finite-Capacity Links
January 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Infrastructure networks, such as cellular systems, are expected to benefit from both multicell processing (cooperation at the base station level) and relaying (cooperation at the user level). This...
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Trellis: A Platform for Building Flexible, Fast Virtual Networks on Commodity Hardware
September 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors describe Trellis, a platform for hosting virtual networks on shared commodity hardware. Trellis allows each virtual network to define its own topology, control protocols, and...
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The "Platform as a Service" Model for Networking
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Decoupling infrastructure management from service management can lead to innovation, new business models, and a reduction in the complexity of running services. It is happening in the world of...
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SPORC: Group Collaboration Using Untrusted Cloud Resources
October 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud-based services are an attractive deployment model for user-facing applications like word processing and calendaring. Unlike desktop applications, cloud services allow multiple users to edit...
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Transit Portal: Bringing Connectivity to the Cloud
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Computing in the cloud is becoming more common as companies migrate their applications into cloud computing platforms to reduce maintenance costs and increase availability. Cloud hosting...
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Making Cloud Intermediate Data Fault-Tolerant
March 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Parallel dataflow programs generate enormous amounts of distributed data that are short-lived, yet are critical for completion of the job and for good run-time performance. The authors call this...
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DFS: A File System for Virtualized Flash Storage
January 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Direct File System (DFS) for virtualized flash storage. Instead of using traditional layers of abstraction, the layers of...
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Goal-Setting, Social Comparison, And Self-Control
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the role of self-set, non-binding goals as a source of internal motivation to attenuate the self-control problem of a hyperbolic discounter. Agents have linear...
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Fast Cryptographic Primitives and Circular-Secure Encryption Based on Hard Learning Problems
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The well-studied task of learning a linear function with errors is a seemingly hard problem and the basis for several cryptographic schemes. Here the authors demonstrate additional applications...
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A Blueprint for Introducing Disruptive Technology Into the Internet
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper argues that a new class of geographically distributed network services is emerging, and that the most effective way to design, evaluate, and deploy these services is by using an overlay...
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Virtual Ring Routing Trends
July 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Virtual Ring Routing (VRR) schemes were introduced in the context of wireless ad hoc networks and Internet anycast overlays. They build a network-routing layer using ideas from distributed hash...
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Object Storage on CRAQ: High-Throughput Chain Replication for Read-Mostly Workloads
April 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Massive storage systems typically replicate and partition data over many potentially-faulty components to provide both reliability and scalability. Yet many commercially deployed systems,...
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NetReview: Detecting When Interdomain Routing Goes Wrong
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Despite many attempts to fix it, the Internet's interdomain routing system remains vulnerable to configuration errors, buggy software, flaky equipment, protocol oscillation, and intentional...
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Lightweight, High-Resolution Monitoring for Troubleshooting Production Systems
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Production systems are commonly plagued by intermittent problems that are difficult to diagnose. This paper describes a new diagnostic tool, called Chopstix, that continuously collects profiles of...
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LOCALE: Collaborative Localization Estimation for Sparse Mobile Sensor Networks
February 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
As the field of sensor networks matures, research in this area is focusing not only on fixed networks, but also on mobile sensor networks. For many reasons, both technical and logistical, such...
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Location-Based Trust for Mobile User-Generated Content: Applications, Challenges and Implementations
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The recent explosion in shared media content and sensed data produced by mobile end-users is challenging well-established principles and assumptions in data trust models. A fundamental issue the...
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Rethinking Virtual Network Embedding: Substrate Support for Path Splitting and Migration
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Network virtualization is a powerful way to run multiple architectures or experiments simultaneously on a shared infrastructure. However, making efficient use of the underlying resources requires...
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Power Control in Wireless Cellular Networks
November 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
Transmit power in wireless cellular networks is a key degree of freedom in the management of interference, energy, and connectivity. Power control in both uplink and downlink of a cellular network...
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Don't Optimize Existing Protocols, Design Optimizable Protocols
May 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As networks grow in size and complexity, network management has become an increasingly challenging task. Many protocols have tunable parameters, and optimization is the process of setting these...
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Connection Conditioning: Architecture-Independent Support for Simple, Robust Servers
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
For many network server applications, extracting the maximum performance or scalability from the hardware may no longer be much of a concern, given today's pricing a $300 system can easily handle...
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Time-Dependent Broadband Pricing: Feasibility and Benefits
March 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Charging different prices for Internet access at different times induces users to spread out their bandwidth consumption across times of the day. Potential impact on ISP revenue, congestion...
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Multi-Resource Allocation: Fairness-Efficiency Tradeoffs in a Unifying Framework
December 30, 2011, 12:00am PST
Quantifying the notion of fairness is under-explored when users request different ratios of multiple distinct resource types. A typical example is datacenters processing jobs with heterogeneous...
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An Analytical Approach to the Adoption of Asymmetric Bidirectional Firewalls: Need for Regulation?
March 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
Recent incidents of cyber-security violations have revealed the importance of having firewalls and other intrusion detection systems to monitor traffic entering and leaving access networks. But...
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Ergodic Two-User Interference Channels: Is Separability Optimal?
September 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The optimality of separable encoding and decoding over parallel channels (fading states) for ergodic fading two-user InterFerence Channels (IFCs) is studied using a one-sided IFC as a model. For...
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Lossless Compression With Security Constraints
June 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Secure distributed data compression in the presence of an eavesdropper is explored. Two correlated sources that need to be reliably transmitted to a legitimate receiver are available at separate...
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Lossy Source Transmission Over the Relay Channel
June 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Lossy transmission over a relay channel in which the relay has access to correlated side information is considered. First, a joint source-channel decode-and-forward scheme is proposed for general...
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Sum-Capacity of Ergodic Fading Interference and Compound Multiaccess Channels
April 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The problem of resource allocation is studied for two-sender two-receiver fading Gaussian InterFerence Channels (IFCs) and Compound Multi-Access Channels (C-MACs). The senders in an IFC...
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Rateless Coding for MIMO Block Fading Channels
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the performance limits and design principles of rateless codes over fading channels are studied. The Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff (DMT) is used to analyze the system performance...
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Resource Allocation for Cooperative Relaying
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
The delay-limited capacity of the half-duplex relay channel is analyzed for several cooperative protocols under a long-term average total transmit power constraint. It is assumed that the source...
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Dynamic Resource Allocation for the Broadband Relay Channel
November 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a half-duplex broadband relay channel which is composed of L parallel, independent Rayleigh fading relay channels. Partial channel state information in the form of channel...
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ARIADNE: Agnostic Reconfiguration in a Disconnected Network Environment
August 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Extreme transistor technology scaling is causing increasing concerns in device reliability: the expected lifetime of individual transistors in complex chips is quickly decreasing, and the problem...
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Distributed Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks Via Variational Message Passing
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a variational message passing framework is proposed for Markov random fields. Analogous to the traditional belief propagation algorithm, variational message passing is performed by...
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Authentication Over Noisy Channels
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An authentication counterpart of Wyner's study of the wiretap channel is developed in this paper. More specifically, message authentication over noisy channels is studied while impersonation and...
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Interference Alignment for Secrecy
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the frequency/time selective K-user Gaussian interference channel with secrecy constraints. Two distinct models, namely the interference channel with confidential messages and...
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A Distributed Sorting Framework for Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are distributed, self-organizing, pervasive systems, which perform collaborative computations to provide useful information about the underlying stochastic...
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ILC: A Foundation for Automated Reasoning About Pointer Programs
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper shows how to use Girard's intuitionistic linear logic extended with a classical sublogic to reason about pointer programs. More specifically, first, the paper defines the proof theory...
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Commensal Cuckoo: Secure Group Partitioning for Large-Scale Services
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present commensal cuckoo, a secure group partitioning scheme for large-scale systems that maintains the correctness of many small groups, despite a Byzantine adversary that controls a...
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Serval: An End-Host Stack for Service-Centric Networking
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Internet services run on multiple servers in different locations, serving clients that are often mobile and multi-homed. This does not match well with today's network stack, designed for...
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A List-Machine Benchmark for Mechanized Metatheory
April 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a benchmark to compare theorem-proving systems on their ability to express proofs of compiler correctness. In contrast to the first POPL-mark, they emphasize the connection of...
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Separation Logic for Small-Step Cminor
June 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cminor is a mid-level imperative programming language; there are proved-correct optimizing compilers from C to Cminor and from Cminor to machine language. The authors have redesigned Cminor so...
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Network Formation Games Among Relay Stations in Next Generation Wireless Networks
February 2, 2012, 12:00am PST
The introduction of Relay Station (RS) nodes is a key feature in next generation wireless networks such as 3GPP's Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-Advanced), or the forthcoming IEEE 802.16j WiMAX...
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LearnPADS++ Incremental Inference of Ad Hoc Data Formats
November 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
An ad hoc data source is any semi-structured, non-standard data source. The format of such data sources is often evolving and frequently lacking documentation. Consequently, off-the-shelf tools...
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Secrecy Throughput of MANETs With Malicious Nodes
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
MANETs represent one of the most innovative emerging networking technologies, with broad potential applications in personal area networks, emergency and rescue operations, military battlefield...
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Experiences With CoralCDN: A Five-Year Operational View
March 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
CoralCDN is a self-organizing web content distribution network (CDN). Publishing through CoralCDN is as simple as making a small change to a URL's hostname; a decentralized DNS layer transparently...
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Coercing Clients Into Facilitating Failover for Object Delivery
June 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Application-level protocols used for object delivery, such as HTTP, are built atop TCP/IP and inherit its host-to-host abstraction. Given that these services are replicated for scalability, this...
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Commensal Cuckoo: Secure Group Partitioning for LargeScale Services
August 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present commensal cuckoo, a secure group partitioning scheme for large-scale systems that maintains the correctness of many small groups, despite a Byzantine adversary that controls a...
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Toward a Lightweight Model of BGP Safety
August 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
For the past ten years, researchers have used the Stable Paths Problem (SPP) to analyze the stability properties of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Analysis of SPP has revealed several...
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P2P Streaming Capacity: Survey and Recent Results
November 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems provide a scalable way to stream content to multiple receivers over the Internet and has become a major type of application traffic. The maximum rate achievable by all...
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P2P Streaming Capacity Under Node Degree Bound
March 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Two of the fundamental problems in Peer-To-Peer (P2P) streaming are as follows: what is the maximum streaming rate that can be sustained for all receivers, and what peering algorithms can achieve...
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Some Consequences of Paper Fingerprinting for Elections
June 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent research has demonstrated that individual pieces of paper can be fingerprinted and re-identified later at low cost, using commodity scanners. The authors consider the consequences of this...
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Language Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks
December 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
For the past 30 years, networks have been built the same way: out of special-purpose devices running distributed algorithms that provide functionality such as topology discovery, routing, traffic...
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Partial Information Capacity for Interference Channels
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
In distributed wireless networks, nodes often do not know the complete channel gain information of the network. Thus, they have to compute their transmission and reception parameters in a...
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Pricing by Timing: Innovating Broadband Data Plans
October 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Internet data usage is doubling every year. Users are consuming more of high-bandwidth data applications, with usage concentrated on several peak hours in a day. The authors review many...
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Implementing Utility-Optimal CSMA
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Hundreds of papers over the last two decades have studied the theory of distributed scheduling in wireless networks, including a number of them on stability or utility maximizing random access....
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Implementation of Provably Stable MaxNet
June 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
MaxNet TCP is a congestion control protocol that uses explicit multi-bit signalling from routers to achieve desirable properties such as high throughput and low latency. In this paper, the authors...
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Scheduling and Resource Allocation for SVC Streaming Over OFDM Downlink Systems
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of scheduling and resource allocation for multi-user video streaming over downlink OFDM channels. The video streams are precoded using the SVC scheme which offers...
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Cognitive Medium Access: Exploration, Exploitation and Competition
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper establishes the equivalence between cognitive medium access and the competitive multi-armed bandit problem. First, the scenario in which a single cognitive user wishes to...
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Wireless Scheduling Algorithms With O(1) Overhead for M-Hop Interference Model
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a family of distributed wireless scheduling algorithms that requires only O(1) complexity for M-hop interference model, for any finite M: the recent technology advances and...
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Optimality Certificate of Dynamic Spectrum Management in Multi-Carrier Interference Channels
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The multi-carrier interference channel where interference is treated as additive white Gaussian noise, is a very active topic of research, particularly important in the area of Dynamic Spectrum...
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Throughput and Delay of DSL Dynamic Spectrum Management With Dynamic Arrivals
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In modern DSL networks, crosstalk among different lines (i.e., users) is the major source of performance degradation. Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) refers to a set of techniques to mitigate...
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