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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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RollCall : The Design for a Low-Cost and Power Efficient Active RFID Asset Tracking System
May 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One of the most compelling and immediate applications of pervasive computing would be to use RF technology to support low-cost, long-lived and continual tracking of assets. Unfortunately, initial...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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