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Image Management in a Virtualized Data Center
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Industrial research firms such as Gartner and IDC are predicting an explosion in the number of online services in the coming years. Virtualization technologies could play an important role in such...
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Benchmarking Modern Web Browsers
August 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the introduction of the first graphical web browser Mosaic in 1993, the World Wide Web (WWW) was made accessible to the world and since then web browsers are increasingly being challenged to...
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Improved Port Knocking With Strong Authentication
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Sometimes, it becomes necessary to let only the authorized external users access the open ports whereas closed ports may be accessible to all. The paper seeks to investigate various methods of...
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A Case for Context-Aware TCP/IP
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the design and evaluation of CATNIP, a Context-Aware Transport/Network Internet Protocol for the Web. This integrated protocol uses application-layer knowledge (i.e.,Web...
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From Desktop to Tabletop: Migrating the User Interface of AgilePlanner
July 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Digital tabletops are emerging interactive systems that support group collaborations. To utilize digital tabletops for agile planning meetings, authors migrated a desktop based planning tool -...
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Exploring the Characteristics, Attributes, and Perceptions of Online Graduate Students in Canadian Higher Education, and the Leadership Implications
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Higher education in North America is experiencing change impacted by globalization, evolving economies, emerging technologies, growing populations, and shifting student demographics. This is...
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Wireless Data Traffic: A Decade of Change
January 28, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents an overview of the most significant changes in wireless data traffic and its main driving forces throughout the past decade (1998-2008). The main axes of change are discussed:...
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Optimization Models for Streaming in Multihop Wireless Networks
June 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless spectrum is a scare resource, while media streaming usually requires high end-to-end bandwidth. Media streaming in wireless ad hoc networks is therefore a particularly challenging...
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A Design for an Anti-Spear-Phishing System
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Phishing is a widespread and effective computer-mediated social attack. Phishers have proven highly adaptable in terms of exploiting new communications channels witness 'Vishing' and 'SMiShing'...
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Cuckoo: Scaling Microblogging Services With Divergent Traffic Demands
August 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Today's microblogging services such as Twitter have long outgrown their initial designs as SMS-based social networks. Instead, a massive and steadily-growing user population of more than 100...
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Key Exchange Protocol Over Insecure Channel
June 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Key management represents a major and the most sensitive part of cryptographic systems. It includes key generation, key distribution, key storage, and key deletion. It is also considered the...
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On Optimal Secure Message Transmission by Public Discussion
November 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
In a Secure Message Transmission (SMT) scenario a sender wants to send a message in a private and reliable way to a receiver. Sender and receiver are connected by n vertex disjoint paths, referred...
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On the Word Problem for ÓÐ-Categories, and the Properties of Two-Way Communication
April 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The word problem for categories with free products and co-products (sums), ÓÐ-categories, is directly related to the problem of determining the equivalence of certain processes. Indeed, the maps...
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Construction of Universal Designated-Verifier Signatures and Identity-Based Signatures From Standard Signatures
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors give a generic construction for universal designated-verifier signature schemes from a large class, C, of signature schemes. The resulting schemes are efficient and have two important...
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The Cost Advantage of Network Coding in Uniform Combinatorial Networks
March 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The coding advantage refers to the potential for network coding to improve end-to-end throughput or reduce routing cost. How large can the coding advantage be? The authors investigate this...
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Clustering Posts in Online Discussion Forum Threads
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Online discussion forums are considered a challenging repository for data mining tasks. Forums usually contain hundreds of threads which in turn consist of hundreds, or even thousands, of posts....
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What Makes APIs Difficult to Use?
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the '70s and '80s if a programmer wanted to create software, he or she had to write pretty much everything from the scratch. But with the progress of technology and software engineering...
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Offline/Realtime Traffic Classification Using Semi-Supervised Learning
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Identifying and categorizing network traffic by application type is challenging because of the continued evolution of applications, especially of those with a desire to be undetectable. The...
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Secure Email With Fingerprint Recognition
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Public key cryptographic techniques have been used to protect email messages via encryption and digital signatures for more than 26 years. Such techniques, however, failed to adopt secure email...
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Outsourcing Multi-Party Computation
May 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors initiate the study of secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) in a server-aided setting, where the parties have access to a single server that does not have any input to the computation;...
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A Privacy Preservation Model for Facebook-Style Social Network Systems
June 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent years have seen unprecedented growth in the popularity of social network systems, with Facebook being an archetypical example. The access control paradigm behind the privacy preservation...
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Tool Support for Software Development Based on Formal Specifications in RTPA
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The benefits of formal specification methodologies in software development have been identified and well researched. Their use in mainstream software development, however, continues to face a...
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Improving Bug Tracking Systems
December 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
It is important that information provided in bug reports is relevant and complete in order to help resolve bugs quickly. However, often such information trickles to developers after several...
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Improving Quality, One Process Change at a Time
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors report on one organization's experience making process changes in a suite of projects. The changes were motivated by clients' requests for better time estimates, better quality, better...
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A Review of Cloud Computing Security: Virtualization, Side-Channel Attacks, and Management
March 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In recent years cloud computing has become a growing interest for organizations looking to reduce their IT costs by offloading infrastructure and software costs onto 3rd party organizations who...
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Localization With Witnesses
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Localization protocols enable an entity (called the verifier) to determine the physical location of another entity (called the prover), even if the prover maliciously advertises a false location...
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On Constant-Round Concurrent Zero-Knowledge From a Knowledge Assumption
October 13, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider the long-standing open question of constructing constant-round concurrent zero-knowledge protocols in the plain model. Resolving this question is known to...
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Understanding the Physical and Economic Consequences of Attacks on Control Systems
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes an approach for developing threat models for attacks on control systems. These models are useful for analyzing the actions taken by an attacker who gains access to control...
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ACORN: An Auto-Configuration Framework for 802.11n WLANs
September 6, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The wide channels feature combines two adjacent channels to form a new, wider channel to facilitate high data rate transmissions in MIMO-based 802.11n networks. Using a wider channel can...
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Realizing the Benefits of Wireless Network Coding in Multi-Rate Settings
August 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Network coding has been proposed as a technique that can potentially increase the transport capacity of a wireless network via mixing data packets at intermediate routers. However, most previous...
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Distributed Throughput Optimization Over P2P Mesh Networks Using Diffusion Adaptation
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This work develops a decentralized adaptive strategy for throughput maximization over Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks. The adaptive strategy can cope with changing network topologies, is robust to...
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Combination Weights for Diffusion Strategies With Imperfect Information Exchange
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Adaptive networks rely on in-network and collaborative processing among distributed agents to deliver enhanced performance in estimation and inference tasks. Information is exchanged among the...
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Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple Beamforming With Perfect Coding
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
When Channel State Information (CSI) is available at both the transmitter and the receiver, beamforming techniques exploiting Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) are applied in a Multiple-Input...
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Outage Performance for Amplify-and-Forward Channels With an Unauthenticated Relay
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate a relay network where the source can potentially utilize an unauthenticated Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay to augment its direct transmission of a confidential message to...
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Coded Path Protection: Efficient Conversion of Sharing to Coding
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Link failures in wide area networks are common and cause significant data losses. Mesh-based protection schemes offer high capacity efficiency but they are slow and require complex signaling....
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Protograph-Based Raptor-Like LDPC Codes With Low Thresholds
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new construction of Punctured-Node Protograph-Based Raptor-Like (PN-PBRL) codes that is suitable for long-blocklength applications. As with the Raptor codes, additional...
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Cyclostationarity-Based Low Complexity Wideband Spectrum Sensing Using Compressive Sampling
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Detecting the presence of licensed users and avoiding interference to them is vital to the proper operation of a Cognitive Radio (CR) network. Operating in a wideband channel requires high Nyquist...
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Global Motion Compensation and Spectral Entropy Bit Allocation for Low Complexity Video Coding
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Most standard video compression schemes such as H.264/AVC involve a high complexity encoder with block Motion Estimation (ME) engine. However, applications such as video reconnaissance and...
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Wireless Network Aware Cloud Scheduler for Scalable Cloud Mobile Gaming
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud Mobile Gaming (CMG) has been proposed as an approach to enable rich Internet games on mobile devices, where the rendering of the games is performed on cloud servers, as opposed to on mobile...
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Analysis of a MIMO OFDMA Heterogeneous Feedback System Employing Joint Scheduling and Spatial Diversity in Nakagami Fading Channels
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a unified analytical framework to jointly examine spatial, spectral, and multiuser diversity in a general multiuser MIMO OFDMA system. Spectral diversity originates from...
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Longitudinal Study of BGP Monitor Session Failures
January 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
BGP routing data collected by RouteViews and RIPE RIS have become an essential asset to both the network research and operation communities. However, it has long been speculated that the BGP...
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A Comparative Study of Architectural Impact on BGP Next-Hop Diversity
January 26, 2012, 12:00am PST
Large ISPs have been growing rapidly in both the size and global connectivity. To scale with the sheer number of routers, many providers have replaced the flat full-mesh iBGP connectivity with a...
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Explaining BGP Slow Table Transfers
May 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Although there have been a plethora of studies on TCP performance in supporting of various applications, relatively little is known about the interaction between TCP and BGP, which is a specific...
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NDN.JS: A JavaScript Client Library for Named Data Networking
January 26, 2013, 12:00am PST
NDN.JS is the first JavaScript implementation of a client library for Named Data Networking (NDN). It facilitates NDN experimentation and usage by enabling end nodes to interact with an NDN...
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Interest Flooding Attack and Countermeasures in Named Data Networking
March 25, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are an ongoing problem in today's Internet, where packets from a large number of compromised hosts thwart the paths to the victim site and/or overload...
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A New Worst-Case Throughput Bound for Oblivious Routing in Odd Radix Mesh Network
June 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Networks-on-Chip (NoC) has been proposed as a new intra-chip communication infrastructure. Regular topologies, especially the mesh topology, have been widely deployed. The choice of oblivious...
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Space-Constrained Gram-Based Indexing for Efficient Approximate String Search
February 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Answering approximate queries on string collections is important in applications such as data cleaning, query relaxation, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and errors exist in user queries...
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Securing Instrumented Environments over Content-Centric Networking: the Case of Lighting Control and NDN
December 19, 2012, 12:00am PST
Instrumented environments, such as modern Building Automation Systems (BAS), are becoming commonplace and are increasingly interconnected with (and sometimes by) enterprise networks and the...
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Path Consolidation for Dynamic Right-Sizing of Data Center Networks
February 22, 2013, 12:00am PST
Data center topologies typically consist of multi-rooted trees with many equal-cost paths between a given pair of hosts. Existing power optimization techniques do not utilize this property of data...
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A Robust Trust Model for Named-Data Networks
May 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Any future Internet architecture must offer improved protection and resilience over today's network, which is subject to pervasive and persistent attacks. A recently emerging architecture,...
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Local Privacy and Minimax Bounds: Sharp Rates for Probability Estimation
May 26, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide a detailed study of the estimation of probability distributions - discrete and continuous - in a stringent setting in which data is kept private even from the statistician....
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Disaster-Resilient Virtual-Network Mapping and Adaptation in Optical Networks
February 19, 2013, 12:00am PST
Today's Internet applications include grid- and cloud-computing services which can be implemented by mapping Virtual Networks (VNs) over physical infrastructure such as an optical network. VN...
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Decentralizing Network Inference Problems with Multiple-Description Fusion Estimation (MDFE)
May 22, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Two forms of network inference (or tomography) problems have been studied rigorously: traffic matrix estimation or completion based on link-level traffic measurements, and link-level loss or delay...
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Incentive Design for Heterogeneous User-Generated Content Networks
March 10, 2013, 12:00am PST
In User-Generated Content (UGC) networks, users produce content and share it with other users with which they are connected over an (exogenously-determined) underlying topology. Such networks...
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Toward Region-And Action-Aware Second Life Clients: A Parameterized Second Life Traffic Model
December 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Virtual worlds, such as Second Life, are computer-simulated spaces divided into multiple regions, in which each user controls an avatar to perform actions (such as run and fly) in order to...
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Inference-Driven Dynamic Access Scheme for Interference Management in Heterogeneous Networks
March 7, 2013, 12:00am PST
Recent statistics have shown that more than 50% of voice calls and more than 70% of data traffic originate from indoor cellular subscribers. Yet, historically, substantial activities in wireless...
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Mobility-Assisted Energy-Aware User Contact Detection in Mobile Social Networks
March 24, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Many practical problems in mobile social networks such as routing, community detection, and social behavior analysis, rely on accurate user contact detection. The frequently used method for...
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Compressive Link Acquisition in Multiuser Communications
January 29, 2013, 12:00am PST
An important receiver operation is to detect the presence specific preamble signals with unknown delays in the presence of scattering, Doppler effects and carrier offsets. This task, referred to...
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Constraint Refinement for Online Verifiable Cross-Layer System Adaptation
December 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Adaptive resource management is critical to ensuring the quality of real-time distributed applications, particularly for energy-constrained mobile handheld devices. In this context, an...
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Exploiting an Elastic 2-Tiered Cloud Architecture for Rich Mobile Applications
October 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This dissertation exploits 2-Tier cloud architecture for rich mobile applications. It is based on the observation that using local resources in close proximity to the user, i.e. local clouds or...
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Smart Communications Via a Tree-Based Overlay Over Multiple and Heterogeneous (TOMH) Spontaneous Networks
April 15, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The current networking scenario is characterized by widespread availability of ubiquitous devices with significant processing capabilities, e.g., Smartphones, tablets, and laptops. In addition,...
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Improving Sensor Data Delivery During Disaster Scenarios With Resilient Overlay Networks
January 26, 2013, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors consider many-to-one communication, in particular Internet-connected sensors and their relation to disaster response. They explore the application of resilient overlay...
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CrowdMAC: A Crowdsourcing System for Mobile Access
August 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Staggering growth levels in the number of mobile devices and amount of mobile Internet usage has caused network providers to move away from unlimited data plans to less flexible charging models....
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Tie-Set Based Fault Tolerance for Autonomous Recovery of Double-Link Failures
January 10, 2013, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a mechanism for coping with double-link failures in an autonomous and distributed manner. They call it Tie-set Based Fault Tolerance (TBFT) because it utilizes...
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Cross-Layer Virtual Observers for Embedded Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC)
November 14, 2012, 12:00am PST
There is a growing concern about the increasing vulnerability of future computing systems to errors in the underlying hardware due to manufacturing process variability, exponentially increasing...
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Data Naming in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
January 27, 2012, 12:00am PST
Vehicular networking is becoming reality. Today vehicles use TCP/IP to communicate with centralized servers through cellular networks. However many vehicular applications, such as information...
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DMND: Collecting Data from Mobiles Using Named Data
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
Technology advances in computations and wireless communications have made it economically feasible for manufacturers to collect data from vehicles on the road in order to monitor their operations...
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Effects of Channel Estimation Error and Nonlinear HPA on the Performance of OFDM in Rayleigh Channels with Application to 802.11n WLAN
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present the performance analysis of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system which is subject to nonlinear distortion and channel estimation error in...
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On the Accuracy of Sampling Schemes for Wireless Network Characterization
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless network characterization is an important task in next generation wireless networks. In order to achieve efficient wireless network characterization, accurate sampling strategies are...
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A Theoretical Treatment of PA Power Optimization in Clipped MIMO-OFDM Systems
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a theoretical framework for determining the optimal clipping level for a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)...
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Optimum Power Allocation Against Information Leakage in Wireless Network
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the problem of eavesdropping control in wireless communications networks. When a confidential message is transmitted through a wireless network, there is a potential...
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A Framework to Eliminate Backdoors From Response-Computable Authentication
August 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Response-Computable Authentication (RCA) is a two-party authentication model widely adopted by authentication systems, where an authentication system independently computes the expected user...
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SoK: Eternal War in Memory
March 4, 2013, 12:00am PST
Memory corruption bugs in software written in low-level languages like C or C++ are one of the oldest problems in computer security. The lack of safety in these languages allows attackers to alter...
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Neighbor Discovery for Ultraviolet Ad Hoc Networks
August 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The solar blind UltraViolet (UV) scattering channel makes non-line-of-sight UV communications very attractive for military applications, particularly for communication on-the-move with low...
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Experimental Characterization of Interference in OFDMA Femtocell Networks
March 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The increase in mobile data usage is pushing broadband operators towards deploying smaller cells (femtocells) and sophisticated access technologies such as OFDMA. The expected high density of...
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A Distributed Algorithm for Random Convex Programming
November 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors study a distributed approach for solving Random Convex Programs (RCP) for the case in which problem constraints are distributed among nodes in a processor network. They devise a...
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Beamforming in Wireless Relay-Interference Networks with Quantized Feedback
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors are on quantized beamforming in wireless amplify-and-forward relay interference networks with multiple transmitter-receiver pairs. They design the quantizer of the...
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Nonuniform Array Design for Robust Millimeter-Wave MIMO Links
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Spatial multiplexing for millimeter (mm) wave Line Of Sight (LOS) links potentially enables data rates of the order of 10-100 Gbps. Most prior work in this area has focused on uniform transmit and...
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A Convex Optimization Approach to Blind Channel Shortening in Multicarrier Modulations
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the problem of channel shortening in multicarrier modulation systems without training. They reformulate two existing methods, the sum-squared and the Sum-Absolute Autocorrelation...
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ICostale: Adaptive Cost Optimization for Storage Clouds
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The unprecedented volume of data generated by contemporary business users and consumers has created enormous data storage and management challenges. In order to control data storage cost, many...
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