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Understanding Victims: Six Principles for Systems Security
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The success of many attacks on computer systems can be traced back to the security engineers not understanding the psychology of the system users they meant to protect. It examined a variety of...
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Cooperative Attack and Defense in Distributed Networks
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Computer networks are becoming increasingly decentralized. No single entity controls the entire system; therefore, no entity can compel compliance. Peer-to-peer file sharing systems connect users...
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The Snooping Dragon: Social-Malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper says about a case of malware-based electronic surveillance of a political organisation by the agents of a nation state. While malware attacks are not new, two aspects of this case make...
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Stopping Spam by Extrusion Detection
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
End users are often unaware that their systems have been compromised and are being used to send bulk unsolicited email (spam). This paper shows how automated processing of the email logs recorded...
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Security Economics and European Policy
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As Europe moves online, information security is becoming increasingly important: first, because the direct and indirect losses are now economically significant; and second, because growing public...
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Traffic Analysis of the HTTP Protocol Over TLS
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The paper analyzes attacks that take advantage of the data length information leaked by HTTP transactions over the TLS protocol, in order to link clients with particular resources they might...
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Practical Experiences With Wireless Integration Using Mobile IPv6
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
World over, mobile Internet access has shown strong growth, fuelled by the increasing popularity of WiFi (802.11b-based WLANs), and the world-wide deployment of wide-area wireless networks such as...
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Securing Peer-to-Peer Content Sharing Service From Poisoning Attacks
June 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Poisoning attacks in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) content sharing service have become a serious security problem on the global Internet due to the features of P2P systems such as self-organization,...
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TDMA for Long Distance Wireless Networks
September 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Off late the UC Berkeley TIER Project studied the need to deploy network infrastructure to emerging regions. Their goal was to "Address the challenges in bringing the Information Technology...
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Understanding Scam Victims: Seven Principles for Systems Security
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The success of many attacks on computer systems can be traced back to the security engineers not understanding the psychology of the system users they meant to protect. The paper examines a...
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Resource Provisioning for Virtualized Server Applications
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data centre virtualization creates an agile environment for application deployment. Applications run within one or more virtual machines and are hosted on various servers throughout the data...
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An Analysis of Hard Drive Energy Consumption
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The increasing storage capacity and necessary redundancy of data centers and other large-scale IT facilities has drawn attention to the issue of reducing the power consumption of hard drives. This...
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Jones Optimality and Hardware Virtualization: A Report on Work in Progress
December 2, 2007, 12:00am PST
The growing popularity of hardware virtualization (VMware and Xen being two prominent implementations) lead to examine the common ground between this yet-again vibrant technology and partial...
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Live Migration of Virtual Machines
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the design options for migrating OSes running services with liveness constraints, focusing on data center and cluster environments are considered. The paper introduces and analyzes...
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Learning the Switching Rate by Discretising Bernoulli Sources Online Phishing Pages
April 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The expert tracking algorithm Fixed-Share depends on a parameter, called the switching rate. The switching rate can be learned online with regret 1 2 log T + O(1) bits. The current fastest method...
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The Marketability Of Bank Assets And Managerial Rents: Implications For Financial Stability
February 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Financial innovation and greater information availability have increased the tradability of bank assets and reduced banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the...
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Internet Routing Policies and Round-Trip-Times
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Round Trip Times (RTTs) play an important role in Internet measurements. In this paper, authors explore some of the ways in which routing policies impact RTTs. In particular, they investigate how...
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Modelling Airline Network Routing and Scheduling Under Airport Capacity Constraints
July 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A flight routing and scheduling model is under development that predicts airline routing and scheduling under airport capacity constraints. It consists of several components describing different...
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VOIP on Wireless LAN: A Comprehensive Review
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
VoIP requires timely servicing of the voice traffic, which is a challenging task in WLANs, even when using QoS enforcement. The use of Wireless LANs (WLANs) is more and more at present. Voice over...
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A Better X86 Memory Model: X86-TSO
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Real multiprocessors do not provide the sequentially consistent memory that is assumed by most work on semantics and verification. Instead, they have relaxed memory models, typically described in...
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X86-TSO: A Rigorous and Usable Programmer's Model for X86 Multiprocessors
May 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Exploiting the multiprocessors that have recently become ubiquitous requires high-performance and reliable concurrent systems code, for concurrent data structures, operating system kernels,...
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The Semantics of X86 Multiprocessor Machine Code Supplementary Examples
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This note contains supplementary details for the paper The Semantics of x86 Multiprocessor Machine Code [SSZN+09], with an informal-mathematics paper of the axiomatic memory model, and...
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The Semantics of X86-CC Multiprocessor Machine Code
November 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Multiprocessors are now dominant, but real multiprocessors do not provide the sequentially consistent memory that is assumed by most work on semantics and verification. Instead, they have subtle...
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Steganographic Message Broadcasting Using Web Protocols
September 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The project involved creating a pair of programs that allow arbitrary files to be hidden in cover HTTP network traffic. The server and client are implemented as plugins to a web server and a web...
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Toward Natural Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring Facial Expression Synthesis on an Android Robot
July 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Robots are entering domestic environments in increasing number. However, the present means for interacting with them is quite limited and difficult for people who are not technically inclined or...
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Xen 3.0 and the Art of Virtualization
December 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Xen Virtual Machine Monitor will soon be undergoing its third major release, and is maturing into a stable, secure, and full-featured virtualization solution for Linux and other operating...
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Enforcing End-to-End Application Security in the Cloud
October 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Security engineering must be integrated with all stages of application specification and development to be effective. Doing this properly is increasingly critical as organisations rush to offload...
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Scripting the Cloud With Skywriting
May 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent distributed computing frameworks - such as MapReduce, Hadoop and Dryad - have made it simple to exploit multiple machines in a compute cloud. However, these frameworks use coordination...
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Turning Down the LAMP: Software Specialisation for the Cloud
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The wide availability of cloud computing offers an unprecedented opportunity to rethink how the authors construct applications. The cloud is currently mostly used to package up existing software...
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Reconstructing I/O
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a next-generation architecture that addresses problems of dependability, maintainability, and manageability of I/O devices and their software drivers on the PC platform. The...
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An ECN Probe-Based Connection Acceptance Control
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
Connection acceptance control is a mechanism which can be used to moderate the load placed on a network by turning away connection requests during times of overload. Traditionally these mechanisms...
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Safe Hardware Access With the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Xen virtual machine monitor allows multiple operating systems to execute concurrently on commodity x86 hardware, providing a solution for server consolidation and utility computing. In the...
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Reheating Cold Topics(in Networking)
March 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It has been proposed that research in certain areas is to be avoided when those areas have gone cold. While previous work concentrated on detecting the temperature of a research topic, this work...
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Low Interest Rates And Housing Booms: The Role Of Capital Inflows, Monetary Policy And Financial Innovation
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A number of OECD countries experienced an environment of low interest rates and a rapid increase in housing market activity during the last decade. Previous work suggests three potential...
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The Past, Present And Future Of Industrial Policy In India: Adapting To The Changing Domestic And International Environment
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper takes a wide view of industrial policy, emphasising the government's continuing coordinating role in various spheres. It regards the institution of the Planning Commission as a major...
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Do The English Legal Origin Countries Have More Dispersed Share Ownership And More Developed Financial Systems?
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The essence of the legal origin hypothesis is that a country with an English legal origin provides better investor and creditor protection and experiences greater financial development; financial...
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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright? Industrial Policy Lessons From Ireland And East Asia For Small African Economies
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
African countries can learn fro other so-called 'Tiger' economies including Ireland and the East and South Asian countries. The Irish model is relevant not least because of its emphasis on...
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Revisiting The Party Paradox Of Finance Capitalism: Evidence From Switzerland, Sweden And The Netherlands
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The 'Party paradox' paper claims that centre-left parties have a genuine interest in pro-shareholder corporate governance reforms, while centre-right parties oppose such reforms. Based on case...
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Assessing The Long-Run Economic Impact Of Labour Law Systems: A Theoretical Reappraisal And Analysis Of New Time Series Data
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Standard economic theory sees labor law as an exogenous interference with market relations and predicts mostly negative impacts on employment and productivity. The authors argue for a more nuanced...
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The Influence Of Stock Market Listing On Human Resource Management: Evidence For France And Britain
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors use data from REPONSE 2004 and WERS 2004 to analyze whether approaches to HRM differ according to whether an establishment is part of a company with a stock exchange listing. In both...
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CHERI: A Research Platform Deconflating Hardware Virtualization and Protection
February 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
Contemporary CPU architectures conflate virtualization and protection, imposing virtualization-related performance, programmability, and debuggability penalties on software requiring fine-grained...
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Free Lunch: Exploiting Renewable Energy for Computing
May 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper argues for "Free Lunch", a computation architecture that exploits otherwise wasted renewable energy by co-locating data-centres with these remote energy sources, connecting them over a...
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Crowd-Sourcing World Models With OpenRoomMap
January 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
The construction of world models typically requires laborious survey and cataloguing of a building's contents. OpenRoomMap attempts to crowd-source this information by allowing all building...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research
May 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Research into distributed parallelism on "The cloud" has surged lately. As the research agenda and methodology in this area are being established, the authors observe a tendency towards certain...
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Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime
June 8, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present what they believe to be the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. It was prepared in response to a request from the UK Ministry of Defence following...
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On a Construction of Short Digests for Authenticating Ad Hoc Networks
July 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In pervasive ad-hoc networks, there is a need for devices to be able to communicate securely, despite the lack of apriori shared security associations and the absence of an infrastructure such as...
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STOP: Socio-Temporal Opportunistic Patching of Short Range Mobile Malware
March 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Mobile phones are integral to everyday life with emails, social networking, online banking and other applications; however, the wealth of private information accessible increases economic...
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Measuring User Activity on an Online Location-Based Social Network
March 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
While in recent years online social networks have been largely shaping user experience on the Web, only in the last year there has been a soaring increase of novel location-based social...
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Error and Attack Vulnerability of Temporal Networks
June 6, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The study of real-world communication systems via complex network models has greatly expanded the people understanding on how information flows, even in completely decentralized architectures such...
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Sensor Network Based Vehicle Classification and License Plate Identification System
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Typically, for energy efficiency and scalability purposes, sensor networks have been used in the context of environmental and traffic monitoring applications in which operations at the sensor...
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Dynamic SLA-Based QoS Control for Third Generation Wireless Networks: The CADENUS Extension
November 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
With the evolution of QoS-capable third generation wireless networks, the wireless network community has been increasingly looking for a framework that can provide an effective, network...
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Distributed Multicast Grouping for Publish/Subscribe Over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Event broker grids that deploy the publish/subscribe communication paradigm extend the capabilities of seamless messaging in heterogeneous network environments. In order to support such mixed...
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Empirical Evaluation of Hybrid Opportunistic Networks
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study the utility of opportunistic communication systems with the co-existence of network infrastructure using three real experimental deployments. They study how some...
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Identifying Social Communities in Complex Communications for Network Efficiency
December 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Complex communication networks, more particular Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANET) and Pocket Switched Networks (PSN), rely on short range radio and device mobility to transfer data across the...
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On the Security of Internet Banking in South Korea
March 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
South Korean Internet banking systems have a unique way of enforcing security controls. Users are obliged to install proprietary security software - typically an ActiveX plugin that implements a...
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Physical Layer Impact Upon Packet Errors
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors postulate a future for optical networks where data is more susceptible to errors than has been the case to date. This paper builds upon a previous study that highlighted...
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Efficient Application Identification and the Temporal and Spatial Stability of Classification Schema
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Motivated by the importance of accurate identification for a range of applications, this paper compares and contrasts the effective and efficient classification of network-based applications using...
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Techniques for Flow Inversion on Sampled Data
March 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The distribution of flow sizes is a quantity of interest fundamental to traffic engineering and network modelling and only likely to become more important in the future. The recovery of the...
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Revisiting the Issues on Netflow Sample and Export Performance
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The high volume of packets and packet rates of traffic on some router links makes it exceedingly difficult for routers to examine every packet in order to keep detailed statistics about the...
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GTVS: Boosting the Collection of Application Traffic Ground Truth
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Interesting research in the areas of traffic classification, network monitoring, and application-oriented analysis can not proceed without real traffic traces, labeled with actual application...
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Tracking Elephant Flows in Internet Backbone Traffic with an FPGA-Based Cache
June 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an FPGA-friendly approach to tracking elephant flows in network traffic. The authors' approach, Single Step Segmented Least Recently Used (S3-LRU) policy, is a network...
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A Marriage of Rely/Guarantee and Separation Logic
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the quest for tractable methods for reasoning about concurrent algorithms both rely/guarantee logic and separation logic have made great advances. They both seek to tame, or control, the...
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Workload Characterization of the Specjms2007 Benchmark
July 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) is at the core of a vast number of financial services and telco applications, and is gaining increasing traction in other industries, such as manufacturing,...
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Nomadic Pict: Programming Languages, Communication Infrastructure Overlays, and Semantics for Mobile Computation
February 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
Mobile computation, in which executing computations can move from one physical computing device to another, is a recurring theme: from OS process migration, to language-level mobility, to virtual...
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Network Clustering Via Spectral Projections
May 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a novel non-parametric technique for clustering networks based on their structure. Many topological measures have been introduced in the literature to characterize topological...
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On Next-Generation Telco-Managed P2P TV Architectures
January 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
In recent years, Telcos worldwide have deployed IPTV networks to offer cable TV-like services over the IP backbones. Such walled garden IPTV networks are provisioned to guarantee the quality of...
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Possibility, Impossibility and Cheat-Sensitivity of Quantum Bit String Commitment
November 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
Unconditionally secure non-relativistic bit commitment is known to be impossible in both the classical and the quantum worlds. But when committing to a string of n bits at once, how far can they...
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Using Dust Clouds to Enhance Anonymous Communication
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon EC2, enable customers to lease several Virtual Machines (VMs) on a per-hour basis. The customer can now obtain a dynamic and diverse collection of...
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Volatile FPGA Design Security - A Survey
April 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Volatile FPGAs, the dominant type of programmable logic devices, are used in space, military, automotive, and consumer electronics applications which require them to operate in a wide range of...
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A Location Prediction Algorithm for Directional Communication
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Directional antennas concentrate the transmitted power into a specified direction and form a directional beam pointing to a receiver. Directional communication can bring benefits in terms of power...
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Security Across Disparate Management Domains in MANETs
July 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Creating a division between inter-domain and intra-domain routing is expected to assist in meeting the challenges of future MANET deployments in terms of heterogeneity and administrative...
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A Metalanguage for Structural Operational Semantics
August 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces MLSOS, a functional meta-language for declaring and animating definitions of structural operational semantics. The authors claim that MLSOS allows animation of operational...
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Verifying Generics and Delegates
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recently, object-oriented languages, such as C#, have been extended with language features prevalent in most functional languages: parametric polymorphism and higher-order functions. In the OO...
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Dynamically Checking Ownership Policies in Concurrent C/C++ Programs
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Concurrent programming errors arise when threads share data incorrectly. Programmers often avoid these errors by using synchronization to enforce a simple ownership policy: data is either owned...
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Autonomic QoS Control in Enterprise Grid Environments Using Online Simulation
July 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As Grid Computing increasingly enters the commercial domain, performance and Quality of Service (QoS) issues are becoming a major concern. The inherent complexity, heterogeneity and dynamics of...
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Policy Generation Framework for Large-Scale Storage Infrastructures
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is gaining acceptance among mainstream technology users. Storage cloud providers often employ Storage Area Networks (SANs) to provide elasticity, rapid adaptability to changing...
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Distributed Middleware Enforcement of Event Flow Security Policy
October 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Distributed, event-driven applications that process sensitive user data and involve multiple organisational domains must comply with complex security requirements. Ideally, developers want to...
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Fast Exclusion of Errant Devices From Vehicular Networks
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Vehicular networks, in which cars communicate wirelessly to exchange information on traffic conditions, offer a promising way to improve road safety. Yet ensuring the correct functioning of such a...
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Finding a Data Blackhole in Bluetooth Scanning
June 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Bluetooth scanning has now been widely used in different scenarios to study users' mobility and their underlying social network. However, scanning for Bluetooth enabled devices does not always...
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On the Effectiveness of an Opportunistic Traffic Management System for Vehicular Networks
June 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Road congestion results in a huge waste of time and productivity for millions of people. A possible way to deal with this problem is to have transportation authorities distribute traffic...
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