- Subscribe to this page:
- RSS
- Email Alert
Purdue University
(378 results)-
White Papers
Implementing Educational Technology in Higher Education: A Strategic Approach
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although the move toward implementing technology in higher education is driven by an increasing number of competitors as well as student demand, there is still considerable resistance to embracing...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
High Fidelity Denial of Service (DoS) Experimentation
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Experimentation with security attacks introduces additional requirements compared to traditional networking and distributed system experiments. High capacity attack flows can push systems beyond...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes a network-based denial of service attack for IP (Internet Protocol) based networks. It is popularly called SYN flooding. It works by an attacker sending many TCP (Transmission...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Hashing Techniques for Mobile Device Forensics
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Previous research conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has shown that mobile device internal memory hash values are variable when performing back-to-back acquisitions....
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Towards Optimizing Hadoop Provisioning in the Cloud
May 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data analytics is becoming increasingly prominent in a variety of application areas ranging from extracting business intelligence to processing data from scientific studies. MapReduce programming...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Analyzing and Comparing the Protection Quality of Security Enhanced Operating Systems
January 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Host compromise is a serious computer security problem today. To better protect hosts, several Mandatory Access Control systems, such as Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and AppArmor, have been...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Supporting Real-World Activities in Database Management Systems
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The cycle of processing the data in many application domains is complex and may involve real-world activities that are external to the database, e.g., wet-lab experiments, instrument readings, and...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
TraXplorer: Multi-Focus Interaction in Time-Series Data Visualization
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information visualization shows tremendous potential for helping both expert and casual users alike make sense of temporal data, but current time series visualization tools provide poor support...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Real-Time Data Delivery and Remote Visualization Through Multi-Layer Interfaces
December 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The high resolution NEXRAD Level II data provides critical information for researchers and the broader community to understand, monitor, and predict weather in a timely manner. There are several...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Strategic Planning White Paper: Student Access and Success Working Group in College of Agriculture
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Purdue Agriculture has an excellent national and international reputation for providing a great education for its students. Many of the programs are among the top tier in the country and the...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Stochastic TCP: A Statistical Approach to Congestion Avoidance
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
High speed wide area networks offer a challenging environment for transmission protocols seeking an optimal balance between efficiency and fairness. Poor TCP performance in these environments is...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
Case Studies
Emulation Versus Simulation: A Case Study of TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This case study speaks about the application of simulation and emulation in the attack experimentation of Denial of Service (DoS). For this purpose, a low-rate TCP-targeted DoS attack has been...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Work in Progress - Using Graphical Programming Languages in the Introductory Programming Course
July 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
First year engineering students are noted to have either a strong dislike for programming or an inability to write effective programs. This poses a problem, since many engineering departments...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Alchemist: A Transparent Dependence Distance Profiling Infrastructure
December 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes event-based software that provide new opportunities for automatic refactoring such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), web applications, and network protocols. Techniques...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Characteristics Of Politically Connected Firms
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Evidence from firms in 47 countries shows that companies connected with officials have higher leverage and higher market shares, but they underperform nonconnected companies on an accounting...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Determinants Of Export Growth In Transition Economy Firms: Institutions, Aspirations, Incentives, And Inertia
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exports are an important source of revenue, especially in transitional economies. To better understand export growth, the paper examines the influence of institutional development, managerial...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Some Evidence On The Nature And Growth Of Input Trade
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors examine the determinants of input trade. They employ an extension of a widely used model of intermediate input trade in which inputs and final goods are considered...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
A Symmetry Hypothesis And Measurement Biases In The Factor Content Of Trade
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Laura Puzzello revisits Reimer (2006), and Trefler and Zhu (2005, 2006) (RTZ) tests of the Vanek proposition in the presence of international differences in production techniques and global...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Hedging Price Volatility Using Fast Transport
February 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
Purchasing goods from distant locations introduces a significant lag between when a product is shipped and when it arrives. These transit lags are trade barriers for firms facing volatile demand,...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Organizational Imprinting: Informing Firm Behavior In Domestic And International Contexts
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors argue that organizational imprinting theory provides an important causal mechanism and originating source for numerous behaviors which are applicable to several research literatures....
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Social Construction Of The Responsible Corporate Citizen: Sustainability Reports Of The Global Automotive Firms
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The constitutive meanings of responsible corporate environmental citizenship are to be found in global discourses. The author uses Gubrium and Holstein's framework on interpretive practice to...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Economic Performance And Enterprise Culture
June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impact of economic performance on national culture and specifically, whether higher levels of economic performance contribute to the formation of an "Enterprise" culture...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Large Shareholder Diversification And Corporate Risk-Taking
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, the paper reconstructs the equity portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. This...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Efficiency Cost Of Child Tax Benefits
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Families with children receive preferential treatment in the U.S. federal income tax. Over the past 15 years, the real value of child tax benefits approximately doubled reaching nearly $1,900 per...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Does Web Disclosure Matter?
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper to examine the way in which corporate website disclosures complement or substitute for firm-specific information provided by other sources- and how they affect the stock...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Do Information Security Disclosures Reflect Future Incidents?
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how the nature of security related disclosures in financial reports is associated with breach announcements in the subsequent period. First build a decision tree to...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Does The Exchange Rate Belong In Monetary Policy Rules? New Answers From a DSGE Model With Endogenous Tradability And Trade Frictions
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a 2-region DSGE model that integrates the theory of comparative advantage or endogenous tradability into a monetary model with nominal and real rigidities. The author fined...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Role Of External Accountants In Start-Up Firms
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Examining survey responses compiled from individuals in the process of starting a business, this study investigates factors influencing an entrepreneur's choice to hire an accountant to prepare...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Dynamics Of Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
In the current knowledge driven business environment, sustainable competitive advantage is enabled through efficient management of intellectual resources (Ashworth et al. 2004; Kogut and Zander...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Commodity Terms Of Trade, Unit Roots, And Nonlinear Alternatives: A Smooth Transition Approach
March 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper extends the recent literature on the Prebisch - Singer hypothesis of a long-run decline in the relative prices of primary commodities. The main innovation is testing for and estimating...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
An Interface-Driven Analysis Of User Behavior Of An Electronic Health Records System
March 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the user behavior of an electronic health records (EHR) system by discovering sequential usage patterns in clinicians' day-to-day interaction with the system's software user...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Product Personalization And Customer Service Cost: An Empirical Analysis
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper conduct a field study to examine how personalizing a product affects a firm's cost to serve the customers through its call center. In this setting, the product is a health insurance...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Effect Of Regulator Oversight On Firms' Information Environment
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the content and determinants of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comment letters and then examines whether the resolution of the letter affects both the firm's...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Participation Equality: Measurement Within Collaborative Electronic Environments- A Three Country Study
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
While the engendering of participation equality is generally viewed as a desirable group process attribute, findings from prior empirical research are both inconsistent and inconclusive regarding...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Participation Input And Participation Equality Within Cross-Cultural Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) Environments
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The current study measured the influence of national culture, anonymity levels, and technological support (CMC and non-CMC) upon participation input and participation equality within and between...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Coalitional Colonel Blotto Games With Application To The Economics Of Alliances
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines a multi-player and multi-front Colonel Blotto game in which one player, A, simultaneously competes in two disjoint Colonel Blotto games, against two separate opponents, 1 and...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
Whitepapers
Realizing the Full Potential of PSM Using Proxying
January 15, 2012, 12:00am PST
The Wi-Fi radio in Smartphones consumes a significant portion of energy when active. To reduce the energy consumption, the Power Saving Mode was standardized in IEEE 802.11 and two major...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
On Wireless Network Scheduling With Intersession Network Coding
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
Cross-layer optimization including congestion control, routing, and scheduling has shown dramatic throughput improvement over layered designs for wireless networks. In parallel, the...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Experimental Analysis of RSSI-Based Location Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
November 21, 2007, 12:00am PST
With a widespread increase in the number of mobile wireless systems and applications, the need for location aware services has risen at a very high pace in the last few years. Much research has...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Fast Rendezvous for Multiple Clients for Cognitive Radios Using Coordinated Channel Hopping
July 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A primary challenge in exploiting Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), known as the rendezvous problem, is for the users to find each other in the dynamic open spectrum. The authors study blind...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
DIMSUM: Discovering Semantic Data of Interest From Un-Mappable Memory With Confidence
November 29, 2011, 12:00am PST
Uncovering semantic data of interest in memory pages without memory mapping information is an important capability in computer forensics. Existing memory mapping-guided techniques do not work in...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Energy-Efficient, On-Demand Reprogramming of Large-Scale Sensor Networks
May 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As sensor networks operate over long periods of deployment in difficult to reach places, their requirements may change or new code may need to be uploaded to them. The current state of the art...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Stateful Detection in High Throughput Distributed Systems
July 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
With the increasing speed of computers and the complexity of applications, many of today's distributed systems exchange data at a high rate. Significant work has been done in error detection...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Optimizing AES for Embedded Devices and Wireless Sensor Networks
February 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
The increased need for security in embedded applications in recent years has prompted efforts to develop encryption/decryption algorithms capable of running on resource-constrained systems. The...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Single Versus Multi-Hop Wireless Reprogramming in Sensor Networks
January 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
Wireless reprogramming of the sensor network is useful for uploading new code or for changing the functionality of the existing code. In recent years, the research focus has shifted from single...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Determining Placement of Intrusion Detectors for a Distributed Application Through Bayesian Network Modeling
June 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To secure today's computer systems, it is critical to have different intrusion detection sensors embedded in them. The complexity of distributed computer systems makes it difficult to determine...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
SeNDORComm: An Energy-Efficient Priority-Driven Communication Layer for Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks
May 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In many reliable Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, messages have different priorities depending on urgency or importance. For example, a message reporting the failure of all nodes in a...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
The Search for Efficiency in Automated Intrusion Response for Distributed Applications
July 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Distributed systems comprising multiple services interacting among themselves to provide end-user functions are becoming an increasingly important platform. Many of the platforms, such as...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Zephyr: Efficient Incremental Reprogramming of Sensor Nodes Using Function Call Indirections and Difference Computation
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Wireless reprogramming of sensor nodes is an essential requirement for long-lived networks since the software functionality changes over time. The amount of information that needs to be wirelessly...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
How to Keep Your Head Above Water While Detecting Errors
April 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Today's distributed systems need runtime error detection to catch errors arising from software bugs, hardware errors, or unexpected operating conditions. A prominent class of error detection...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Statistical Fault Detection for Parallel Applications With AutomaDeD
March 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Today's largest systems have over 100,000 cores, with million-core systems expected over the next few years. The large component count means that these systems fail frequently and often in very...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
RDAS: Reputation-Based Resilient Data Aggregation in Sensor Network
April 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Data aggregation in wireless sensor networks is vulnerable to security attacks and natural failures. A few nodes can drastically alter the result of the aggregation by reporting erroneous data. In...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Dependence-Based Multi-Level Tracing and Replay for Wireless Sensor Networks Debugging
October 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Due to resource constraints and unreliable communication, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) programming and debugging remain to be challenging tasks. Deterministic replay is an error diagnosis method...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Dangers and Joys of Stock Trading on The Web: Failure Characterization of a Three-Tier Web Service
July 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Characterizing latent software faults is crucial to address dependability issues of current three-tier systems. A client should not have a misconception that a transaction succeeded, when in...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
V-CAPS: A Con Dentiality and Anonymity Preserving Routing Protocol for Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Networks
July 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Content-Based Publish-Subscribe (CBPS) is a widely used communication paradigm where publishers "Publish" messages and a set of subscribers receive these messages based on their interests through...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Secure Configuration of Intrusion Detection Sensors for Changing Enterprise Systems
July 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Current attacks to distributed systems involve multiple steps, due to attackers usually taking multiple actions to achieve their goals. Such attacks are called multi-stage attacks and have the...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
An Empirical Study of the Robustness of Inter-Component Communication in Android
April 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Over the last three years, Android has established itself as the largest-selling operating system for smartphones. It boasts of a Linux-based robust kernel, a modular framework with multiple...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Automatic Fault Characterization Via Abnormality-Enhanced Classification
December 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
Enterprise and high-performance computing systems are growing extremely large and complex, employing many processors and diverse software/hardware stacks. As these machines grow in scale, faults...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
A Study of Soft Error Consequences in Hard Disk Drives
March 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Hard disk drives have multiple layers of fault tolerance mechanisms that protect against data loss. However, a few failures occasionally breach the entire set of mechanisms. To prevent such...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
PRIVATUS: Wallet-Friendly Privacy Protection for Smart Meters
June 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In smart power grids, a smart meter placed at a consumer-end point reports fine-grained usage information to utility providers. Based on this information, the providers can perform demand...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Multi-Armed Bandit Congestion Control in Multi-Hop Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks
June 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Congestion control in multi-hop infrastructure wireless mesh networks is both an important and a unique problem. It is unique because it has two prominent causes of failed transmissions which are...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Downscaling Network Scenarios With Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
A major challenge that researchers face in studying Denial of Service (DoS) attacks is the size of the network to be investigated. A typical DoS attack usually takes place over a large portion of...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Energy-Efficient Provenance Transmission in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
May 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Large-scale sensor-based decision support systems are being widely deployed. Assessing the trustworthiness of sensor data and the owners of this data is critical for quality assurance of decision...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
Content Retrieval Using Cloud-Based DNS
January 26, 2012, 12:00am PST
Cloud-computing systems are rapidly gaining momentum, providing flexible alternatives to many services. The authors study the Domain Name System (DNS) service, used to convert host names to IP...
Provided by Purdue University
-
Whitepapers
An Energy-Efficient Approach for Provenance Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Assessing the trustworthiness of sensor data and transmitters of this data is critical for quality assurance. Trust evaluation frameworks utilize data provenance along with the sensed data values...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Virtual MAN: A VLAN Management System for Enterprise Networks
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present Virtual MAN, a system which addresses plethora of unique challenges network operators face in managing Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) in enterprise...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Extracting Network-Wide Correlated Changes From Longitudinal Configuration Data
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
IP network operators face the challenge of making and managing router configuration changes to serve rapidly evolving user and organizational needs. Changes are expressed in low-level languages,...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
A Systematic Approach for Evolving VLAN Designs
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
Enterprise networks are large and complex, and their designs must be frequently altered to adapt to changing organizational needs. The process of redesigning and reconfiguring enterprise networks...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Bouncer: Policy-Based Fine Grained Access Control in Large Databases
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Current access control solutions in databases are based on tables and views. While view access control approach is flexible, it does not scale when the number of users (and therefore necessary...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Pacifier: HighThroughput, Reliable Multicast Without "Crying Babies" in Wireless Mesh Networks
January 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
In contrast to unicast routing, high-throughput reliable multicast routing in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has received little attention. There are two primary challenges to supporting...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Exhaustive Search for Small Fully Absorbing Sets and the Corresponding Low Error-Floor Decoder
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an exhaustive search algorithm for Finding small Fully Absorbing Sets (FASs) of arbitrary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. In particular, given any LDPC code, the problem...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
On the Capacity of Immediately-Decodable Coding Schemes for Wireless Stored-Video Broadcast With Hard Deadline Constraints
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Multimedia streaming applications have stringent Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. Typically, each packet is associated with a packet delivery deadline. This work models and considers...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Provable Partial Key Escrow
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors first propose two new concepts concerning the notion of key escrow schemes: provable partiality and independence. Roughly speaking, a scheme has provable partiality if...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Immunizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Against Collaborative Attacks Using Cooperative Immune Model
December 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a security problem of cooperative immunization against collaborative attacks such as blackhole attacks and wormhole attacks, in the mobile ad hoc networks such as the Worldwide...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
A Novel Robust Routing Scheme Against Rushing Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Standard on-demand routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks were not originally designed to deal with security threats. Because of that, malicious users have been finding ways to attack...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Real-time Mobile-Cloud Computing for Context-Aware Blind Navigation
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Context-awareness is a critical aspect of safe navigation, especially for the blind and visually impaired in unfamiliar environments. Existing mobile devices for context-aware navigation fall...
Provided by Purdue University
Keep Up with TechRepublic
Submit a Paper
Get your content listed in our directory!
Our directory is the largest library of vendor-supplied technical content on the Web. It’s also the first place IT decision makers turn to when researching technology solutions. Our members are already finding your competitors’ papers here - shouldn’t they find yours, too? It's FREE so click here and submit your white paper, case study, data sheet, research report, or other document today!
