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Structural Estimation Of The Model Of Firm Experimentation
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the structural estimation of the model of firm experimentation of Akhmetova (2010). They make the following empirical interpretation of the model. They assume that a firm can...
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International Reserves Accumulation And Endogenous Growth
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the interaction between capital flows and economic development in a dual-economy growth model. In the presence of a market failure in the allocation of resources between a...
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Endogenous Ranking And Equilibrium Lorenz Curve Across (Ex-Ante) Identical Countries
July 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a model of the world economy with a finite number of ex-ante identical countries and a continuum of tradeable goods. Productivity differences across countries arise...
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A Macroeconomic Model With A Financial Sector
February 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the full equilibrium dynamics of an economy with financial frictions. Due to highly non-linear amplification effects, the economy is prone to instability and occasionally enters...
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Cooperative Relaying in Sensor Networks
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Reliable transmission of a discrete memoryless source over a multiple-relay network is considered. Motivated by sensor network applications, it is assumed that the relays and the destination all...
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What Does Finance Want? From Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution On The Road To War
September 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Bankers dread war. More precisely, financial communities within states favor cautious national security strategies and are acutely averse to war and to policies that risk war. This general rule...
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Financial Crises, Bank Risk Exposure And Government Financial Policy
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a macroeconomic model with financial intermediation that allows the intermediaries (banks) to issue outside equity as well as short term debt. This makes bank risk exposure an...
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An Investment Model Via Regime-Switching Economic Indicators
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Internet bubble and 2008-2009 economic crash exposed severe limitations of traditional portfolio models, especially the dependence on a static framework e.g. a constant covariance matrix. This...
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Financial Intermediation And Credit Policy In Business Cycle Analysis
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a canonical framework to think about credit market frictions and aggregate economic activity in the context of the current crisis. They use the framework to address two issues...
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Red And Blue Investing: Values And Finance
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Do political values influence investing? The authors answer this question using data on the political contributions and stock holdings of US investment managers. They find that mutual fund...
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The Squam Lake Report: Fifteen Economists In Search Of Financial Reform
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Squam Lake Report is a volume by economists for economists. It offers the fruits of the labors of 15 top economists who met at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, to discuss financial reform. While...
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Investing In Schooling In Chile: The Role Of Information About Financial Aid For Higher Education
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recent economic research shows that imperfect information about Mincer returns to education (in developing countries) or about financial aid (in the US) may undermine investments in schooling and...
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Hiding Amongst the Clouds: A Proposal for Cloud-Based Onion Routing
July 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Internet censorship and surveillance have made anonymity tools increasingly critical for free and open Internet access. Tor, and its associated ecosystem of volunteer traffic relays, provides one...
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The Multi-Way Relay Channel
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The multiuser communication channel, in which multiple users exchange information with the help of a relay terminal, termed the multi-way Relay Channel (mRC), is introduced. In this model,...
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Real-Time Mesh Simplification Using the GPU
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent advances in real-time rendering have allowed the GPU implementation of traditionally CPU-restricted algorithms, often with performance increases of an order of magnitude or greater. Such...
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Compound Relay Channel With Informed Relay and Destination
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
A two-state compound relay channel is considered where the relay and the destination are informed about the channel state while the source is not. Achievable rates and upper bounds are derived for...
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Multirelay Channel With Non-Ergodic Link Failures
April 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A multi-relay network is considered in which communication from source to relays takes place over a (discrete or Gaussian) broadcast channel, while the relays are connected to the receiver via...
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A Broadcast Approach to Robust Communications Over Unreliable Multi-Relay Networks
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
A multi-relay network is studied in which communication from source to relays takes place over a Gaussian broadcast channel, while the relays are connected to the receiver via orthogonal...
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Three-User Gaussian Multiple Access Channel With Partially Cooperating Encoders
November 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
A three-user Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with encoders partially cooperating over a ring of finite-capacity uni-directional links is studied. The model is a simple extension of the...
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Enhancing Uplink Throughput Via Local Base Station Cooperation
November 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Joint decoding at the base stations of a cellular wireless network enables inter-cell interference mitigation, thus enhancing the system throughput. However, deployment of joint multicell decoding...
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Distributed MIMO Systems With Oblivious Antennas
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A scenario in which a single source communicates with a single destination via a distributed MIMO transceiver is considered. The source operates each of the transmit antennas via finite-capacity...
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Cellular Systems With Full-Duplex Compress-and-Forward Relaying and Cooperative Base Stations
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the advantages provided by multicell processing of signals transmitted by Mobile Terminals (MTs) which are received via dedicated Relay Terminals (RTs) are studied. It is assumed...
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On the Spectrum of Large Random Hermitian Finite-Band Matrices
January 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
The open problem of calculating the limiting spectrum (or its Shannon transform) of increasingly large random Hermitian finite-band matrices is described. In general, these matrices include a...
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Cellular Systems With Multicell Processing and Conferencing Links Between Mobile Stations
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, multi-cell processing for the uplink of a cellular system is studied in the presence of orthogonal channels of fixed capacity between mobile stations in adjacent cells...
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Information-Theoretic Implications of Constrained Cooperation in Simple Cellular Models
June 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent information theoretic results on cooperation in cellular systems are reviewed, addressing both multicell processing (cooperation among base stations) and relaying (cooperation at the user...
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Uplink Macro Diversity of Limited Backhaul Cellular Network
May 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper new achievable rates are derived, for the uplink channel of a cellular network with joint multicell processing, where unlike previous results, the ideal backhaul network has finite...
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CloneCloud: Boosting Mobile Device Applications Through Cloud Clone Execution
September 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Mobile applications are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and provide ever richer functionality on mobile devices. At the same time, such devices often enjoy strong connectivity with more powerful...
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The Diversity-Multiplexing-Delay Tradeoff in MIMO Multihop Networks With ARQ
August 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the tradeoff between reliability, data rate, and delay for half-duplex MIMO multi-hop networks that utilize the Automatic-Retransmission-reQuest (ARQ) protocol both in the...
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Link-Diversity Routing: A Robust Routing Paradigm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors present link-diversity routing, a routing paradigm that achieves high path resilience in mobile ad hoc networks. Link-diversity routing chooses each hop of a packet's route, so that...
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Decentralized Two-Hop Opportunistic Relaying With Limited Channel State Information
April 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A network consisting of n source-destination pairs and m relays with no direct link between source and destination nodes, is considered. Focusing on the large system limit (large n), the...
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UFO: A Resilient Layered Routing Architecture
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Conventional wisdom has held that routing protocols cannot achieve both scalability and high availability. Despite scaling rather well, today's Internet routing system does not react quickly to...
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Uplink Sum-Rate Analysis of a Multicell System With Feedback
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The capacity region of a Multiple Access Channel can be increased by feedback to the sources, since feedback enables cooperative transmission. Focusing on a linear cellular system (as for a...
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Maximizing Sum Rate and Minimizing MSE on Multiuser Downlink: Optimality, Fast Algorithms and Equivalence Via Max-Min SIR
July 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Maximizing the minimum weighted SIR, minimizing the weighted sum MSE and maximizing the weighted sum rate in a multiuser downlink system are three important performance objectives in joint...
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Fair Greening of Broadband Access: Spectrum Management for Energy-Efficient DSL Networks
August 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) is recognized as a promising technology to reduce power consumption in DSL access networks. However, the correct formulation of power-aware DSM problem statements...
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Fair Greening for DSL Broadband Access
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Given that broadband access networks are an integral part of the ICT infrastructure and that DSL is the most widely deployed broadband access technology, greening DSL has become important. The...
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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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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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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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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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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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Revisiting Route Caching: The World Should Be Flat
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
Internet routers' ForwardIng taBles (FIBs), which must be stored in expensive fast memory for high-speed packet forwarding, are growing quickly in size due to increased multihoming, finer-grained...
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Practical Network-Wide Compression of IP Routing Tables
August 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The memory Internet routers use to store paths to destinations is expensive, and must be continually upgraded in the face of steadily increasing routing table size. Unfortunately, routing...
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Quantifying the Extent of IPv6 Deployment
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
The understanding of IPv6 deployment is surprisingly limited. In fact, it is not even clear how the authors should quantify IPv6 deployment. This paper collects and analyzes a variety of data to...
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Dynamic Route Computation Considered Harmful
April 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper advocates a different approach to reduce routing convergence - side-stepping the problem by avoiding it in the first place! Rather than recomputing paths after temporary topology...
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Simple Failure Resilient Load Balancing
August 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To enable reliable data delivery and balance load in the presence of failures, the authors propose a new mechanism that combines path protection and traffic engineering. The key benefit of the...
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How Bad Is Suboptimal Rate Allocation?
January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
A rate allocation that is suboptimal with respect to a utility maximization formulation still maintains the maximum flow-level stability when the utility gap is sufficiently small, and provides a...
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Protecting the Access Network: Efficient Algorithms for Survivable Topology
February 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
It is important to prevent access network from bottlenecking the end-to-end survivability, especially as voice, video, and data traffic are all delivered through the same access network. With...
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Solving Nonconvex Power Control Problems in Wireless Networks: Low SIR Regime and Distributed Algorithms
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In wireless cellular networks that are interference-limited, a variety of power control problems can be formulated as nonlinear optimization with a system-wide objective, e.g., maximizing total...
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Dynamic Spectrum Management for Fast and Fair Green DSL
May 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) has been recognized as a key technology for tackling multi-user crosstalk interference in DSL broadband access networks. The major objective of DSM so far has...
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Semantic Foundations for Typed Assembly Languages
June 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Typed Assembly Languages (TALs) are used to validate the safety of machine-language programs. The Foundational Proof-Carrying Code project seeks to verify the soundness of TALs using the smallest...
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Route Optimization in IP Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The performance and reliability of the Internet depend, in large part, on the operation of the underlying routing protocols. Today's IP routing protocols compute paths based on the network...
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Design for Configurability: Rethinking Interdomain Routing Policies From the Ground Up
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Giving ISPs more fine-grain control over interdomain routing policies would help them better manage their networks and offer value-added services to their customers. Unfortunately, the current BGP...
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Routing as a Service
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
In Internet routing, there is a fundamental tussle between the end users who want control over the end-to-end paths and the Autonomous Systems (ASes) who want control over the flow of traffic...
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Incrementally-Deployable Security for Interdomain Routing
December 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Internet's interdomain-routing system is extremely vulnerable to accidental failure, configuration errors, and malicious attack. Any successful approach to improving interdomain-routing...
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Seamless BGP Migration With Router Grafting
April 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Network operators are under tremendous pressure to make their networks highly reliable to avoid service disruptions. Yet, operators often need to change the network to upgrade faulty equipment,...
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A Survey of Virtual LAN Usage in Campus Networks
February 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
VLANs are widely used in today's enterprise networks to improve Ethernet scalability and support network policies. However, manuals and textbooks offer very little information about how VLANs are...
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Online Measurement of Large Traffic Aggregates on Commodity Switches
December 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
Traffic measurement plays an important role in many network-management tasks, such as anomaly detection and traffic engineering. However, existing solutions either rely on custom hardware designed...
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OpenFlow-Based Server Load Balancing Gone Wild
December 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Today's data centers host online services on multiple servers, with a front-end load balancer directing each client request to a particular replica. Dedicated load balancers are expensive and...
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Proxy-P2P Streaming Under the Microscope: Fine-Grain Measurement of a Configurable Platform
April 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Although Peer-To-Peer (P2P) streaming can efficiently deliver live video content to large user populations, existing applications often suffer from limited video quality, periodic hiccups, and...
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1Mbps P2P Streaming: A Global Measurement Study
May 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
High definition video is defining a new age of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) video streaming over the public Internet. Simultaneously achieving a resolution-scale upgrade, e.g., providing 1Mbps streaming to...
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Multi-Path Key Establishment Against REM Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Secure communications in wireless ad hoc networks require setting up end-to-end secret keys for communicating node pairs. Due to physical limitations and scalability requirements, full...
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Minimizing Streaming Delay in Homogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Two questions on the theory of content distribution capacity are addressed in this paper: What is the worst user delay performance bound in a chunk-based P2P streaming systems under peer fan-out...
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Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting
August 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Podcasting has become popular for dissemination of streaming contents over the Internet. It is based on software clients that query servers for updates of subscribed content feeds. Podcasting may...
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Systemic Risk And Liquidity In Payment Systems
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors study liquidity and systemic risk in high-value payment systems. Flows in high-value systems are characterized by high velocity, meaning that the total amount paid and received is high...
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Challenging the Supremacy of Traffic Matrices in Anomaly Detection
August 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Multiple network-wide anomaly detection techniques proposed in the literature define an anomaly as a statistical outlier in aggregated network traffic. The most popular way to aggregate the...
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Minimum Energy Per Bit for Wideband Wireless Multicasting: Performance of Decode-and-Forward
December 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors study the minimum energy per bit required for communicating a message to all the destination nodes in a wireless network. The physical layer is modeled as an additive white Gaussian...
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Markups And Exporting Behavior
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Estimating markups has a long tradition in industrial organization and international trade. Economists and policy makers are interested in measuring the effect of various competition and trade...
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A Transport Layer Approach for Improving End-to-End Performance and Robustness Using Redundant Paths
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Recent work on Internet measurement and overlay networks has shown that redundant paths are common between pairs of hosts and that one can often achieve better end-to-end performance by adaptively...
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PlanetSeer: Internet Path Failure Monitoring and Characterization in Wide-Area Services
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Detecting network path anomalies generally requires examining large volumes of traffic data to find misbehavior. The authors observe that wide-area services, such as peer-to-peer systems and...
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Europe And The Management Of Globalization: Responding To Globalization Pressures
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Globalization defined here as the increased flows of goods, services, capital, people, and information across borders - has been the source of many worries in Europe over the past decade, way...
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Parallel Generation of l Sequences
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The generation of pseudo-random sequences at a high rate is an important issue in modern communication schemes. The representation of a sequence can be scaled by decimation to obtain parallelism...
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Financial Regulation In A System Context
September 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The global financial crisis raises questions about the proper objectives of financial regulation and how best to meet them. Traditionally, capital requirements have been the cornerstone of bank...
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CoMon: A Mostly-Scalable Monitoring System for PlanetLab
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
CoMon is an evolving, mostly-scalable monitoring system for PlanetLab that has the goal of presenting environment tailored information for both the administrators and users of the PlanetLab global...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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