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Multi-Label Prediction Via Compressed Sensing
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider multi-label prediction problems with large output spaces under the assumption of output sparsity - that the target (label) vectors have small support. They develop a general...
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Fading Broadcast Channels With State Information at the Receivers
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Despite considerable progress on the information-theoretic broadcast channel, the capacity region of fading broadcast channels with channel state known at the receivers but unknown at the...
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Reducing Spam Via Trustworthy Self Regulation by Email Senders
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces an email sending technique, called Trustworthy Self Regulation (TSR), which enables the receiver of an email message to recognize the sending protocol that generated it. The...
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Decentralized Governance of Networked Systems: From Access Control to Interaction Control
March 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces an abstract model for mechanisms for the governance of large, heterogeneous, and open networked systems. This, so called Interaction Control (IC), model goes well beyond...
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Poster: Privacy-Aware Publishing of Netflix Data
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To seek better prediction techniques, data owners of recommender systems such as Netflix sometimes make their customers' reviews available to the public, which raises serious privacy concerns....
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Compiler-Directed Remote Task Execution for Power Management
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the potential benefits of application-specific power management through remote task execution. Power management is of particular importance for mobile devices that have to...
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Fingerprints in the Ether: Using the Physical Layer for Wireless Authentication
July 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper the authors propose ways to exploit the fact...
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Accurate and Energy-Efficient Congestion Level Measurement in Ad Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Congestion in ad hoc networks not only degrades throughput, but also wastes the scarce energy due to a large number of retransmissions and packet drops. For efficient congestion control, an...
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TARA: Topology-Aware Resource Adaptation to Alleviate Congestion in Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Network congestion can be alleviated either by reducing demand (traffic control) or by increasing capacity (resource control). Unlike in traditional wired or other wireless counterparts, sensor...
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End-to-End Channel Capacity Measurement for Congestion Control in Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Congestion control in sensor networks is important not only to improve the overall throughput but also to enlengthen the network lifetime by saving the scarce energy wasted during congestion....
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Temporal Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks
July 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Although the content of sensor messages describing "Events of interest" may be encrypted to provide confidentiality, the context surrounding these events may also be sensitive and therefore should...
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An Optimal Resource Control Scheme Under Fidelity and Energy Constraints in Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
To control congestion, either the traffic from sources should be "Reduced" (traffic controlling) or the available resources should be "Increased" (resource controlling). Compared to the wired and...
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A Comparative Study of AODV and OLSR on the Orbit Testbed
May 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Though ad hoc network routing protocols, such as AODV and OLSR, have been extensively studied through simulations, there have been fewer evaluations of their software protocol implementations on...
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An Adaptive Semantic Filter for Blue Gene/L Failure Log Analysis
August 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Frequent failure occurrences are becoming a serious concern to the community of high-end computing, especially when the applications and the underlying systems rapidly grow in size and complexity....
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Managing the Mobility of a Mobile Sensor Network Using Network Dynamics
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
It's been widely discussed in the literature that the mobility of a mobile sensor network can be used to improve the network's sensing coverage. How to efficiently manage the mobility towards a...
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R-Sentry: Providing Continuous Sensor Services Against Random Node Failures
July 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The success of sensor-driven applications is reliant on whether a steady stream of data can be provided by the underlying system. This need, however, poses great challenges to sensor systems,...
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Prediction Promotes Privacy in Dynamic Social Networks
May 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent work on anonymizing Online Social Networks (OSNs) has looked at privacy preserving techniques for publishing a single instance of the network. However, OSNs evolve and a single instance is...
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GreenSlot: Scheduling Energy Consumption in Green Datacenters
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose GreenSlot, a parallel batch job scheduler for a datacenter powered by a photovoltaic solar array and the electrical grid (as a backup). GreenSlot predicts the...
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Unifying Access and Resource Usage Control Over Standard Client-Server Interactions
August 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a novel framework for integrated access and resource usage control over standard client-server interactions. Historically, access control has been developed without considering...
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Position Paper: The Case for JavaScript Transactions
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Modern Web applications combine and use JavaScript-based content from multiple untrusted sources. Without proper isolation, such content can compromise the security and privacy of these Web...
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Improving Bicycle Safety Through Automated Real-Time Vehicle Detection
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The manner in which people use bicycles has changed very little since their invention in 1817. In that time, though, roadways have become congested with a dramatically less environmentally...
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Unified Structure and Content Search for Personal Information Management Systems
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
The amount of data that users are storing and accessing in personal information systems is growing massively. At the same time, the organization of this data is becoming more heterogeneous, with...
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Evaluating the Security Risks of Freedom on Social Networking Websites
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many Web 2.0-based social networking sites permit their users to post comments containing a variety of HTML tags on other users' profiles. In this paper, the authors show that allowing arbitrary...
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Safe-Commit Analysis to Facilitate Team Software Development
November 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
Software development teams exchange source code in shared repositories. These repositories are kept consistent by having developers follow a commit policy, such as "Program edits can be committed...
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Working Set-Based Access Control for Network File Systems
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Securing access to files is an important and growing concern in corporate environments. Employees are increasingly accessing files from untrusted devices, including personal home computers and...
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Fast and Accurate Semi-Supervised Protein Homology Detection With Large Uncurated Sequence Databases
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Establishing structural and functional relationship between sequences in the presence of only the primary sequence information is a key task in biological sequence analysis. This ability is...
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Enforcing Authorization Policies Using Transactional Memory Introspection
April 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Correct enforcement of authorization policies is a difficult task, especially for multi-threaded software. Even in carefully-reviewed code, unauthorized access may be possible in subtle corner...
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Efficient Multi-Dimensional Query Processing in Personal Information Management Systems
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The relentless growth in capacity and dropping price of storage are driving an explosion in the amount of information users are collecting and storing in personal information management systems....
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Detecting and Localizing Wireless Spoofing Attacks
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless networks are vulnerable to spoofing attacks, which allows for many other forms of attacks on the networks. Although the identity of a node can be verified through cryptographic...
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Attack Detection in Wireless Localization
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Accurately positioning nodes in wireless and sensor networks is important because the location of sensors is a critical input to many higher-level networking tasks. However, the localization...
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The Impact of Using Multiple Antennas on Wireless Localization
September 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors show that signal strength variability can be reduced by employing multiple low-cost antennas at fixed locations. They further explore the impact of this reduction on wireless...
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The Effect Of Supply Disruptions On Supply Chain Design Decisions
July 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study an integrated supply chain design problem that determines the locations of retailers and the assignments of customers to retailers in order to minimize the expected costs of...
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A Study Of Autocorrelations And Lead-Lag Effects Using Game-Theoretic Efficient-Market Hypotheses
October 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies predictions concerning autocorrelations and other lead-lag effects that can be derived from Game-theoretic Efficient Market Hypotheses (GEMHs). A GEMH posits that a simple...
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Beyond the Stars: Improving Rating Predictions Using Review Text Content
June 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Online reviews are an important asset for users deciding to buy a product, see a movie, or go to a restaurant, as well as for businesses tracking user feedback. However, most reviews are written...
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JUnitMX - A Change-Aware Unit Testing Tool
February 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
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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Engineering And Engineering Skills: What's Really Needed For Global Competitiveness
November 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the midst of a protracted economic crisis, coupled with persistent and outsized trade deficits, there has been a growing sense of insecurity about the ability of the United States to compete in...
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The 'New' Globalization Of Engineering: How The Offshoring Of Advanced Engineering Affects Competitiveness And Development
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Changes in the strategies of multinationals and in the global distribution and movement of technologists have accelerated a "New" globalization of engineering. Field studies with their colleagues...
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LHP: An End-to-End Reliable Transport Protocol Over Wireless Data Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The next generation wireless networks are posited to support large scale data applications. Implementing end-to-end TCP in such networks faces two problems. First, it is well known that TCP cannot...
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Implication of MAC Frame Aggregation on Empirical Wireless Experimentation
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless network emulator testbeds have become increasingly important for realistic, at-scale experimental evaluation of new network architectures and protocols. Typically, wireless network...
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Exploring the Performance Fluctuations of HPC Workloads on Clouds
October 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Clouds enable novel execution modes often supported by advanced capabilities such as autonomic schedulers. These capabilities are predicated upon an accurate estimation and calculation of runtimes...
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DEDI: A Framework for Analyzing Rank Evolution of Random Network Coding in a Wireless Network
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a framework called DEDI based on Differential Equations (DE) and Differential Inclusions (DI) to describe the rank evolution of Random Network Coding (RNC). The DEDI serves as...
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Sensing Wireless Microphone With ESPRIT From Noise and Adjacent Channel Interference
March 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
FCC requires that any white space device be able to sense Wireless Microphone (WM) signals at -114dBm typically corresponding to a SNR of -20dB, an extremely challenging task. This paper presents...
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Analyzing Multiple Flows in a Wireless Network With Differential Equations and Differential Inclusions
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A framework based on Differential Equations and Differential Inclusions (DEDI) for analyzing the throughput of random network coding in a wireless network has been proposed. In this paper, the...
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Resource Allocation for Multicast in an OFDMA Network With Random Network Coding
July 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider multicast with Random Network Coding (RNC) over a wireless network using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). Specifically, they propose a...
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Bandwidth Exchange for Enabling Forwarding in Wireless Access Networks
July 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative forwarding in wireless networks has shown to yield benefits of rate and diversity gains, but it needs to be incentivized due to the energy and delay costs incurred by individual nodes...
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Distributed Coordination Schemes for Multi-Radio Co-Existence in Dense Spectrum Environments: An Experimental Study on the ORBIT Testbed
August 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an experimental study on the spectrum coexistence problems between multi-radio platforms in dense-radio physical world environments. Computing and communication devices such as...
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Opportunistic Information Dissemination in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: The Profit of Global Synchrony
August 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (aka MANET) is a set of mobile nodes which communicate over a multi-hop radio network, without relying on a stable infrastructure. In these networks, nodes are usually...
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Unbounded Contention Resolution in Multiple-Access Channels
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A frequent problem in settings where a unique resource must be shared among users is how to resolve the contention that arises when all of them must use it, but the resource allows only for one...
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Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities of In-Car Wireless Networks: A Tire Pressure Monitoring System Case Study
August 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless networks are being integrated into the modern automobile. The security and privacy implications of such in-car networks, however, are not well understood as their transmissions propagate...
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Association Management for Data Dissemination Over Wireless Mesh Networks
June 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To enable multimedia broadcasting services in mesh networks, it is critical to optimize the broadcast traffic load. Traditionally, users associate with Access Points (APs) with the strongest...
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Crowds Replace Experts: Building Better Location-Based Services Using Mobile Social Network Interactions
November 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Location-based services are growing in popularity due to the ubiquity of smartphone users. The relevance of location-based query results is very important, especially for mobile phones with...
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Adaptive MAC Scheduling Using Channel State Diversity for Wireless Networks
September 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Head-of-line blocking problem compromises the throughput of multi-hop wireless networks. FIFO scheduling in the current IEEE802.11 MAC causes this problem when the network is highly loaded. One...
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Network Coding Via Opportunistic Forwarding in Wireless Mesh Networks
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Network coding has been used to increase transportation capabilities in wireless mesh networks. In mesh networks, the coding opportunities depend on the co-location of multiple traffic flows. With...
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Patient Vital Signs Monitoring Using Wireless Body Area Networks
February 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Today hospitals are equipped with many electronic transmitting devices, which results in electromagnetic interference that may impair wireless transmissions between medical devices. On the other...
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Bio-Inspired Communications for Coordination Among Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
March 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
To take measurements in space and time from the undersampled vast ocean, it is necessary to employ multiple autonomous underwater vehicles, such as gliders, that communicate and coordinate with...
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A Testbed for Performance Evaluation of Underwater Vehicle Team Formation and Steering Algorithms
June 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Underwater testbeds are key tools for performance evaluation of underwater communication and coordination algorithms to enable swarming of autonomous vehicles. The authors describe a demonstration...
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Trajectory-Aware Communication Solution for Underwater Gliders Using WHOI Micro-Modems
April 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The predictable trajectory of underwater gliders can be used in geographic routing protocols. Factors such as drifting and localization errors cause uncertainty when estimating a glider's...
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Energy-Aware Application-Centric VM Allocation for HPC Workloads
February 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
Virtualized datacenters and clouds are being increasingly considered for traditional High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads that have typically targeted Grids and conventional HPC platforms....
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On the Impact of Neighborhood Discovery on Geographical Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), sensing nodes operate in dynamic environments resulting in neighboring nodes being discovered or lost at any moment causing the network topology to change...
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Exploring the Performance Fluctuations of HPC Workloads on Clouds
October 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Clouds enable novel execution modes often supported by advanced capabilities such as autonomic schedulers. These capabilities are predicated upon an accurate estimation and calculation of runtimes...
Provided by Rutgers University
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Implication of MAC Frame Aggregation on Empirical Wireless Experimentation
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless network emulator testbeds have become increasingly important for realistic, at-scale experimental evaluation of new network architectures and protocols. Typically, wireless network...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
LHP: An End-to-End Reliable Transport Protocol Over Wireless Data Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The next generation wireless networks are posited to support large scale data applications. Implementing end-to-end TCP in such networks faces two problems. First, it is well known that TCP cannot...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
The 'New' Globalization Of Engineering: How The Offshoring Of Advanced Engineering Affects Competitiveness And Development
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Changes in the strategies of multinationals and in the global distribution and movement of technologists have accelerated a "New" globalization of engineering. Field studies with their colleagues...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Engineering And Engineering Skills: What's Really Needed For Global Competitiveness
November 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the midst of a protracted economic crisis, coupled with persistent and outsized trade deficits, there has been a growing sense of insecurity about the ability of the United States to compete in...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
JUnitMX - A Change-Aware Unit Testing Tool
February 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
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....
Provided by Rutgers University
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Beyond the Stars: Improving Rating Predictions Using Review Text Content
June 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Online reviews are an important asset for users deciding to buy a product, see a movie, or go to a restaurant, as well as for businesses tracking user feedback. However, most reviews are written...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
A Study Of Autocorrelations And Lead-Lag Effects Using Game-Theoretic Efficient-Market Hypotheses
October 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies predictions concerning autocorrelations and other lead-lag effects that can be derived from Game-theoretic Efficient Market Hypotheses (GEMHs). A GEMH posits that a simple...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
The Effect Of Supply Disruptions On Supply Chain Design Decisions
July 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study an integrated supply chain design problem that determines the locations of retailers and the assignments of customers to retailers in order to minimize the expected costs of...
Provided by Rutgers University
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The Impact of Using Multiple Antennas on Wireless Localization
September 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors show that signal strength variability can be reduced by employing multiple low-cost antennas at fixed locations. They further explore the impact of this reduction on wireless...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Attack Detection in Wireless Localization
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Accurately positioning nodes in wireless and sensor networks is important because the location of sensors is a critical input to many higher-level networking tasks. However, the localization...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Detecting and Localizing Wireless Spoofing Attacks
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless networks are vulnerable to spoofing attacks, which allows for many other forms of attacks on the networks. Although the identity of a node can be verified through cryptographic...
Provided by Rutgers University
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Efficient Multi-Dimensional Query Processing in Personal Information Management Systems
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The relentless growth in capacity and dropping price of storage are driving an explosion in the amount of information users are collecting and storing in personal information management systems....
Provided by Rutgers University
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Enforcing Authorization Policies Using Transactional Memory Introspection
April 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Correct enforcement of authorization policies is a difficult task, especially for multi-threaded software. Even in carefully-reviewed code, unauthorized access may be possible in subtle corner...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Fast and Accurate Semi-Supervised Protein Homology Detection With Large Uncurated Sequence Databases
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Establishing structural and functional relationship between sequences in the presence of only the primary sequence information is a key task in biological sequence analysis. This ability is...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Working Set-Based Access Control for Network File Systems
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Securing access to files is an important and growing concern in corporate environments. Employees are increasingly accessing files from untrusted devices, including personal home computers and...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Safe-Commit Analysis to Facilitate Team Software Development
November 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
Software development teams exchange source code in shared repositories. These repositories are kept consistent by having developers follow a commit policy, such as "Program edits can be committed...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Evaluating the Security Risks of Freedom on Social Networking Websites
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many Web 2.0-based social networking sites permit their users to post comments containing a variety of HTML tags on other users' profiles. In this paper, the authors show that allowing arbitrary...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Unified Structure and Content Search for Personal Information Management Systems
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
The amount of data that users are storing and accessing in personal information systems is growing massively. At the same time, the organization of this data is becoming more heterogeneous, with...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Improving Bicycle Safety Through Automated Real-Time Vehicle Detection
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The manner in which people use bicycles has changed very little since their invention in 1817. In that time, though, roadways have become congested with a dramatically less environmentally...
Provided by Rutgers University
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Position Paper: The Case for JavaScript Transactions
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Modern Web applications combine and use JavaScript-based content from multiple untrusted sources. Without proper isolation, such content can compromise the security and privacy of these Web...
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