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Service Differentiation in Sensor Networks
November 6, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent technological advances have made it possible to have large wireless ad-hoc networks of small devices. The prime purpose of such sensor networks is to disseminate information about the...
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Service Continuations: An Operating System Mechanism for Dynamic Migration of Internet Service Sessions
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors propose Service Continuations (SC), an OS mechanism that supports seamless dynamic migration of Internet service sessions between cooperating multi-process servers. Service...
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Evaluating Cluster-Based Network Servers
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper author use analytic modeling and simulation to evaluate network servers implemented on clusters of workstations. More specifically, authors model the potential benefits of...
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Optimal SIR-Based Power Updates in Wireless CDMA Communication Systems
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors present two new control algorithms that potentially can be used as efficient techniques for power updates in wireless CDMA communication networks. The algorithms are...
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Joint Scheduling and Congestion Control in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors study the problem of jointly performing scheduling and congestion control in mobile ad-hoc networks so that network queues remain bounded and the resulting flow rates...
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Wireless Networks: Local and Ad Hoc Networks
September 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The main difference between wired and wireless networks is that there are no wires (The Air Link) and mobility is thus conferred by the lack of a wired tether. This leads to both the tremendous...
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SplitAP: Leveraging Wireless Network Virtualization for Flexible Sharing of WLANs
July 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Providing air-time guarantees across a group of clients forms a fundamental building block in sharing an Access Point (AP) across different virtual network providers. Though this problem has a...
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Is Cloud Computing Useful? Not if You're Referring to an Ash Cloud
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Which communication and social media to use, and in what context, are all factors the authors study in ecommerce and information systems? Among the newer choices for businesses and individuals are...
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A Spectral Algorithm for Learning Hidden Markov Models
August 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are one of the most fundamental and widely used statistical tools for modeling discrete time series. In general, learning HMMs from data is computationally hard (Under...
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Trade Credit And International Trade During The Global Financial Crisis
July 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the role of the credit crunch at the height of the global financial crisis in the severe contraction of trade and economic activity using firm-level data from a number of...
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Rootkits on Smart Phones: Attacks, Implications and Opportunities
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
Smart phones are increasingly being equipped with operating systems that compare in complexity with those on desktop computers. This trend makes smart phone operating systems vulnerable to many of...
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Power and Energy Management for Server Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Power and energy consumption are key concerns for Internet data centers. These centers house hundreds, sometimes thousands, of servers and supporting cooling infrastructures. Research on power and...
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P2P-ISP Cooperation: Risks and Mitigation in Multiple-ISP Networks
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Several proposals on P2P-ISP cooperation have recently been developed using information sharing for locality based peering. Their benefits in terms of P2P efficiency, ISP cost, and traffic...
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Cost-And Energy-Aware Load Distribution Across Data Centers
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Today, many large organizations operate multiple data centers. The reasons for this include natural business distribution, the need for high availability and disaster tolerance, the sheer size of...
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Enabling Better Medical Image Classification Through Secure Collaboration
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Privacy is of growing concern in today's day and age. Protecting the privacy of health data is of paramount importance. With the rapid advancement in imaging technology, analysis of medical images...
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Power Infrastructure Security: Fundamental Insights of Potential Cyber Attacks and Their Impacts on the Power Grid
July 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The information infrastructure for the power networks was often viewed as a collection of individual communication channels, separate databases, multiple systems, and different protocols....
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Cyber-Related Risk Assessment and Critical Asset Identification Within the Power Grid
July 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a new way to detect and improve the vulnerability of bulk power systems against the intrusion and malicious acts of cyber hackers. For this aim, detecting the most vulnerable...
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An Ad Hoc Trust Inference Model for Flexible and Controlled Information Sharing
May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Pervasive computing allows data to be collected using sensors and mobile devices. Recent studies, however, show that in emergency and crisis situations conventional access control mechanisms are...
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Applications and Security of Next-Generation, User-Centric Wireless Systems
July 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Pervasive wireless systems have significantly improved end-users' quality of life. As manufacturing costs decrease, communications bandwidth increases, and contextual information is made more...
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Privacy-Aware Verification of Aggregate Queries on Outsourced Databases With Applications to Historic Data Integrity
February 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
It is often desirable to be able to guarantee the integrity of historical data, ensuring that any subsequent modifications to the data can be detected. It would be especially convenient to extend...
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Privacy-Preserving Computation and Verification of Aggregate Queries on Outsourced Databases
May 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Outsourced databases provide a solution for data owners who want to delegate the task of answering database queries to third-party service providers. However, distrustful users may desire a means...
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Poster: CompareView - A Provenance Verification Framework for Detecting Rootkit-Based Malware
April 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using rootkit mechanisms to hide malware presence is pervasive in today's computer attacks. This paper proposes the CompareView framework, a host-based solution to detect stealthy outbound traffic...
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User-Assisted Host-Based Detection of Outbound Malware Traffic
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Conventional network security solutions are performed on network layer packets using statistical measures. These types of traffic analysis may not catch stealthy attacks carried out by today's...
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Securing Location Aware Services Over VANET Using Geographical Secure Path Routing
July 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose to secure location aware services over VANET with the geographical secure path routing protocol (GSPR). GSPR is an infrastructure free geographic routing protocol which is...
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Detection and Prevention of Insider Threats in Database DrivenWeb Services
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors take the first step to address the gap between the security needs in outsourced hosting services and the protection provided in the current practice. They consider both...
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OMOS: A Framework for Secure Communication in Mashup Applications
September 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mashups are new Web 2.0 applications that seamlessly combine contents from multiple heterogeneous data sources into one integrated browser environment. The hallmark of these applications is to...
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SelectAudit: A Secure and Efficient Audit Framework for Networked Virtual Environments
October 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Networked Virtual Environments (NVE) refer to the category of distributed applications that allow a large number of distributed users to interact with one or more central servers in a virtual...
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Intelligent Placement of Datacenters for Internet Services
March 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
Popular Internet services are hosted by multiple geographically distributed datacenters. The location of the datacenters has a direct impact on the services' response times, capital and...
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Capping the Brown Energy Consumption of Internet Services at Low Cost
July 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The large amount of energy consumed by Internet services represents significant and fast-growing financial and environmental costs. Increasingly, services are exploring dynamic methods to minimize...
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Cost-Aware Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing Systems
January 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cloud service providers operate multiple geographically distributed data centers. These data centers consume huge amounts of energy, which translate into high operating costs. Interestingly, the...
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Ad-Hoc Voice-Based Group Communication
January 31, 2010, 12:00am PST
People waste many hours driving each day. Although unavoidable, this time can be very boring to motorists. Similar to people taking mass transit who often pass the time socializing with those...
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Safe Transient Use of Local Storage for VM-Based Mobility
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the transient use of free local storage for improving performance in VM-based mobile computing systems. Many such systems boot from a portable storage device to create a...
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Target Container: A Target-Centric Parallel Programming Abstraction for Video-Based Surveillance
January 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
Surveillance systems are some of the most computationally intensive applications. Despite technological advances, low-cost of sensors, and continuous improvement of computer vision algorithms,...
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Communication-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Clustering
March 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The ability to store vast quantities of data and the emergence of high speed networking have led to intense interest in distributed data mining. However, privacy concerns, as well as regulations,...
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Detecting Identity Spoofs in 802.11e Wireless Networks
August 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless networks are vulnerable to identity spoofing attacks, where an attacker can forge the MAC address of his wireless device to assume the identity of another victim device on the network....
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Analyzing Information Flow in JavaScript-Based Browser Extensions
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
JavaScript-based browser Extensions (JSEs) enhance the core functionality of web browsers by improving their look and feel, and are widely available for commodity browsers. To enable a rich set of...
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Improving NFA-Based Signature Matching Using Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) make extensive use of regular expressions as attack signatures. Internally, NIDS represent and operate these signatures using finite automata. Existing...
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Securing Geographical Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
July 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present geographical secure path routing, an infrastructure-free geographic routing protocol, that is resilient to disruptions caused by malicious or faulty nodes. Geographic locations...
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Some Important Aspects of Source Location Protection in Globally Attacked Sensor Networks
December 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the problem of location anonymity of the events exposed to a global eavesdropper, the authors highlight and analyze some aspects that are missing in the prior work, which is especially relevant...
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The Quality of Source Location Protection in Globally Attacked Sensor Networks
December 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose an efficient scheme for generating fake network traffic to disguise the real event notification in the presence of a global eavesdropper, which is especially relevant for the...
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Service Continuations: An Operating System Mechanism for Dynamic Migration of Internet Service Sessions
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors propose Service Continuations (SC), an OS mechanism that supports seamless dynamic migration of Internet service sessions between cooperating multi-process servers. Service...
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Service Differentiation in Sensor Networks
November 6, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent technological advances have made it possible to have large wireless ad-hoc networks of small devices. The prime purpose of such sensor networks is to disseminate information about the...
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Modeling Temporal Channel Variations in Indoor Wireless Environments
September 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The temporal variations of an indoor wireless channel can have a significant impact on the performance of the underlying wireless system. Therefore, there is a need to understand and model the...
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Characterizing Indoor Wireless Channels Via Ray Tracing, and Validation Via Measurements
August 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the reliability of radio channel simulators in capturing the important properties of radio channels throughout a well-specified environment. Indoor environments for which...
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Uncertainty-Aware Localization Solution for Under-Ice Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
April 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Localization underwater has been known to be challenging due to the limited accessibility of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to obtain absolute positions. This becomes more severe in the...
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Enhancing Privacy and Accuracy in Probe Vehicle Based Traffic Monitoring Via Virtual Trip Lines
March 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Traffic monitoring using probe vehicles with GPS receivers promises significant improvements in cost, coverage, and accuracy over dedicated infrastructure systems. Current approaches, however,...
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Improving Robustness of Key Extraction From Wireless Channels With Differential Techniques
December 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
Secure wireless communications typically rely on secret keys, which are difficult to establish in an ad hoc network without a key management infrastructure. Theoretically, the channel reciprocity...
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Real-Time Status: How Often Should One Update?
January 16, 2012, 12:00am PST
Increasingly ubiquitous communication networks and connectivity via portable devices have engendered a host of applications in which sources, for example people and environmental sensors, send...
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Network Cooperation for Client-AP Association Optimization
April 11, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In a WiFi deployment with multiple access points, optimizing the way each client selects an AP from amongst the available choices, has a significant impact on the realized performance. When two or...
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Applying and Evaluating AOM for Platform Independent Behavioral UML Models
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Several approaches for Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) have been developed to modularize crosscutting concerns properly in UML models. In this paper, the authors present a combination of AOM...
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Effectively Automate and Enforce Process Rules and Tasks When Delivering Changes
November 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
Most software systems are built by a team of collaborating developers changing the system's code base in parallel. New development environments make rules and patterns the team is following...
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Tool Support for Change-Centric Test Development: How Do Developers Know They Have Done a Good Job?
April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Developers use unit testing to improve the quality of software systems. Current development tools for unit testing help to automate test execution, to report results, and to generate test stubs....
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Efficient Program Power Behavior Characterization
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Fine-grained program power behavior is useful in both evaluating power optimizations and observing power optimization opportunities. Detailed power simulation is time-consuming and often...
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Generating Quantifiers and Negation to Explain Homework Testing
April 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors describe Prograder, a software package for automatic checking of requirements for programming homework assignments. Prograder lets instructors specify requirements in natural language...
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Lifted Inference: Normalizing Loops by Evaluation
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many loops in probabilistic inference map almost every individual in their domain to the same result. Running such loops symbolically takes time sub-linear in the domain size. Using normalization...
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Monolingual Probabilistic Programming Using Generalized Coroutines
May 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Probabilistic programming languages and modeling toolkits are two modular ways to build and reuse stochastic models and inference procedures. Combining strengths of both, the authors express...
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Embedded Probabilistic Programming
March 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Two general techniques for implementing a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) with less overhead are the finally-tagless embedding of object programs and the direct-style representation of side...
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Delimited Continuations in Operating Systems
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Delimited continuations are the meanings of delimited evaluation contexts in programming languages. The authors show they offer a uniform view of many scenarios that arise in systems programming,...
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Finally Tagless, Partially Evaluated Tagless Staged Interpreters for Simpler Typed Languages
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors have built the first family of tagless interpretations for a higher-order typed object language in a typed Meta-Language (Haskell or ML) that require no dependent types, generalized...
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LAP: Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Popular anonymous communication systems often require sending packets through a sequence of relays on dilated paths for strong anonymity protection. As a result, increased end-to-end latency...
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SIR-Based Power Control Algorithms for Wireless CDMA Networks: An Overview
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper summarizes and explains the main results on Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR) based power control algorithms, which are used to increase capacity and improve quality of service in...
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Newton Iteration Acceleration of the Nash Game Algorithm for Power Control in 3G Wireless CDMA Networks
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In wireless communication systems, each user's signal contributes to the interference seen by the other users. Given limited available battery power, this creates a need for effective and...
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Evaluating Attack Amplification in Online Social Networks
April 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many online social networking websites allow arbitrary Web users to easily add popular users, such as famous celebrities and musicians, into their circle of friends. Such popular users, or "Hubs,"...
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Power Optimization for Connectivity Problems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Given a graph with costs on the edges, the power of a node is the maximum cost of an edge leaving it, and the power of the graph is the sum of the powers of the nodes of this graph. Motivated by...
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Approximating Some Network Design Problems With Node Costs
June 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Network design problems require finding a minimum cost (sub-)network that satisfies prescribed properties, often connectivity requirements. The most fundamental problems are the ones with 0, 1...
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On Some Network Design Problems With Degree Constraints
October 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In network design problems one seeks a cheap subgraph H of a given graph G that satisfies some given properties. In the b-Matching problem H should satisfy prescribed degree constraints, while in...
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VNTS: A Virtual Network Traffic Shaper for Air Time Fairness in 802.16e Systems
February 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
The 802.16e standard for broadband wireless access mandates the presence of QoS classes, but does not specify guidelines for the scheduler implementation or mechanisms to ensure air time fairness....
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On Piggybacking in Vehicular Networks
July 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper is motivated by network applications that require nodes to disseminate their state to others. In particular, vehicular nodes will host applications that periodically disseminate...
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DOMA: Deploy Once Multi Application Sensor Network Framework
August 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Collaborating semantic wireless sensor actor network systems coupled with context driven semantic web services promise to support multiple flexible applications that were not specified before...
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Empirical Evaluation of the Limits on Localization Using Signal Strength
November 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the lower bounds of wireless localization accuracy using signal strength on commodity hardware. Their work relies on trace-driven analysis using an extensive indoor...
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Mobile Experiments Made Easy With OMF/Orbit
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Experimental facilities (or testbeds) are instrumental in the development and evaluation of new Internet technologies. Evaluations based on simulation and emulation does provide valuable, yet...
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Towards Maximizing Wireless Testbed Utilization Using Spectrum Slicing
February 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
As experimentation becomes one of the de-facto approaches for benchmarking, researchers are turning to testbeds to test, review and verify their work. As a result, several research laboratories...
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Achieving Temporal Fairness in Multi-Rate 802.11 WLANs With Capture Effect
May 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes new MAC layer Transmission OPportunity (TXOP) adaptation algorithms for achieving temporal fairness in multi-rate 802.11 WLANs, which take underlying capture effect into...
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Minimizing Age of Information in Vehicular Networks
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Emerging applications rely on wireless broadcast to disseminate time-critical information. For example, vehicular networks may exchange vehicle position and velocity information to enable safety...
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Rate Adaptation in Visual MIMO
May 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a rate adaptation scheme for visual MIMO camera-based communications, wherein parallel data transmissions from light emitting arrays are received by multiple receive elements...
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Joint Power Control and Scheduling Algorithm for Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc Networks
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Power control is a widely used technique in improving the throughput and the quality of services in wireless communications. In this paper, a power control method based on a utility maximization...
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On Predicting and Compressing Vehicular GPS Traces
February 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Many vehicular safety applications rely on vehicles periodically broadcasting their position information and location trace. In very dense networks, such safety messaging can lead to offered...
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Random Channel Hopping Schemes for Key Agreement in Wireless Networks
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Secure wireless communications typically rely on secret keys, which are hard to establish in a mobile setting without a key management infrastructure. In this paper, the authors propose a channel...
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Detecting Identity Spoofs in IEEE 802.11e Wireless Networks
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless networks are vulnerable to identity spoofing attacks, where an attacker can forge the MAC address of his wireless device to assume the identity of another victim device on the network....
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Optimized Content Caching and Request Capture in CNF Networks
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In order to meet the overwhelming demands of content retrieval for mobile end users, a novel architecture for the next-generation Internet called Cache-and-Forward (CNF) has been proposed to...
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