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High-Speed Prefix-Preserving IP Address Anonymization for Passive Measurement Systems
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Passive network measurement and packet header trace collection are vital tools for network operation and research. To protect a user's privacy, it is necessary to anonymize header fields,...
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VNMBench: A Benchmark for Virtual Network Mapping Algorithms
May 10, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The network architecture of the current Internet cannot accommodate the deployment of novel network-layer protocols. To address this fundamental problem, network virtualization has been proposed,...
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Automated Sensor Verification Using Outlier Detection in the Internet of Things
April 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cyber-physical systems uses sensors, actuators, and computation to solve problems that cross the physical world and computational world. Traditionally, the systems have been designed to be...
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Saving Energy and Improving TCP Throughput With Rate Adaptation in Ethernet
February 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
Reducing the power consumption of network inter-faces contributes to lowering the overall power needs of the compute and communication infrastructure. Most modern Ethernet interfaces can operate...
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Packet Forwarding Misbehavior Detection in Next-Generation Networks
February 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
The next-generation Internet promises to provide a fundamental shift in the underlying architecture to support dynamic deployment of network protocols. With the introduction of programmability and...
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Virtual Network Mapping With Traffic Matrices
February 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
Network virtualization is a core technology in next-generation networks to overcome the ossification problem that is observed in the current Internet. The key idea of network virtualization is to...
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Efficient Conflict Detection in Flow-Based Virtualized Networks
July 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In the current Internet, traffic is routed at the level of destination prefixes. The next-generation Internet requires control of traffic at the level of flows or flow aggregates. To accommodate...
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Security Issues in Network Virtualization for the Future Internet
May 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network virtualization is a key technology that is necessary to support diverse protocol suites in the future Internet. A virtualized network uses a single physical infrastructure to support...
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Encrypted Packet Forwarding in Virtualized Networks
August 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtualized networks provide a shared infrastructure platform for hosting multiple independent networks with different protocol stacks. The infrastructure and the virtual networks are operated by...
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Attacks on Network Infrastructure
May 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the first practical example of an entirely new class of network attacks - attacks that target the network infrastructure. Modern routers in computer networks use...
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High-Performance Implementation of In-Network Traffic Pacing
July 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Optical packet switching networks promise to provide high-speed data communication and serve as the foundation of the future Internet. A key technological problem is the very small size of packet...
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A Study of the Impact of Network Traffic Pacing From Network and End-User Perspectives
May 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As the demand on the Internet bandwidth keeps increasing, all-optical network architectures emerge as a promising solution to high-speed telecommunication networks. However, the performance of...
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Automated Service Composition and Routing in Networks With Data-Path Services
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Advanced packet processing in the data path of networks is common in the current Internet and is expanding to next-generation networks. Dynamic composition of such "Network services" allows...
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A Taxonomy and Comparative Evaluation of Algorithms for Parallel Anomaly Detection
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Anomaly detection in network traffic is an important technique for identifying operation and security problems in networks. Numerous anomaly detection algorithms have been proposed and deployed in...
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Enforcement of Data-Plane Policies in Next-Generation Networks
May 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Modern networks not only forward traffic, but also perform a variety of processing operations on packets (e.g., content inspection, transcoding, QoS scheduling). Such dataplane operations cannot...
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Implementation of a Simplified Network Processor
April 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Programmable packet processors have replaced traditional fixed-function custom logic in the data path of routers. Programmability of these systems allows the introduction of new packet processing...
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Data Path Management in Mesh-Based Programmable Routers
February 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
With dozens to hundreds of processing cores deployed in next generation packet processor, regular topologies such as mesh are widely adopted in Network-on-Chip design to provide scalable...
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Convergence of Communication and Processing in Next-Generation Networks
February 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors argue that applications can benefit from the offloading of processing tasks into the data path of next-generation networks, where custom packet processing functions can be implemented....
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A Practical On-Line Pacing Scheme at Edges of Small Buffer Networks
December 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
For the optical packet-switching routers to be widely deployed in the Internet, the size of packet buffers on routers has to be significantly small. Such small-buffer networks rely on traffic with...
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Evaluation of Path Recording Techniques in Secure MANET
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Secure operation of mobile ad-hoc networks requires the ability to track the flow of traffic through the network. Knowledge of the path of a packet allows inference of correct operation or...
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Techniques for Policy Enforcement on Encrypted Network Traffic
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most large-scale data communication net-works are built from multiple autonomous sub-networks, which are managed by different administrative entities. In many practical environments, information...
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Design of a Secure Router System for Next-Generation Networks
July 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Computer networks are vulnerable to attacks, where the network infrastructure itself is targeted. Emerging router designs, which use software-programmable embedded processors, increase the...
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AnomBench: A Benchmark for Volume-Based Internet Anomaly Detection
August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Developing algorithms to detect anomalies in network traffic is an important goal to achieve secure and efficient operation of the Internet. To evaluate different algorithms, it is crucial to have...
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Burstiness as Traffic Metric in Next-Generation Optical Core Networks
March 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Next-generation all-optical packet-switched core networks use very small packet buffers. The authors argue that it is essential to focus on burstiness rather than bandwidth when conditioning...
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Runtime Resource Allocation in Multi-Core Packet Processing Systems
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Packet forwarding operations in network systems are often performed in software so that routers can be updated as new protocols and service features are developed. To meet the processing demands...
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A High-Performance Capabilities-Based Network Protocol
August 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Capabilities-based networks present a fundamental shift in the security design of network architectures. Instead of permitting the transmission of packets from any source to any destination,...
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Automated Service Composition in Next-Generation Networks
March 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic composition of protocol features allows applications to establish connections with custom communication characteristics. Automatically computing possible compositions and checking given...
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Support for Dynamic Adaptation in Next Generation Packet Processing Systems
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Designs of next-generation Internet architectures propose a diverse and changing set of features in the data path of routers. These routers require high-performance programmable packet processing...
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Evaluating Algorithms for Composable Service Placement in Computer Networks
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Novel network architectures with distributed service components on both routers and end-systems have been proposed to provide the necessary flexibility in the next-generation Internet. Such...
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Practical Packet Pacing in Small-Buffer Networks
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
The demand for more bandwidth has lead to proposals for an all-optical network core. Due to inherent constraints of optical technology, only routers with small packet buffers are feasible to be...
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Design of a System to Track Student Progress in Virtual Laboratories
March 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Laboratories are an important part of technical and scientific education. To amortize the cost of setup and maintenance, some laboratory facilities can be shared and via remote network access....
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Workload Generation and Instrumentation for Reproducible Networking Experiments
April 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose the design of a benchmarking and instrumentation component for the GENI experimental networking test-bed. Their design uses a workload generation system to create reproducible...
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A Framework for Network State Management in the Next-Generation Internet Architecture
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the next-generation Internet architecture, more functionality will be placed in the data path of routers in the form of "Services" and other packet processing features. This trend will increase...
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A Scalable Distributed Routing Protocol for Networks With Data-Path Services
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Advanced packet processing functions in the data path of routers are commonly used in the current Internet and are likely to expand in next-generation networks. One of the key challenges related...
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A Distributed Routing Algorithm for Networks With Data-Path Services
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many next-generation Internet architectures propose advanced packet processing functions in the data path of the network. Such "Services" are typically performed on some nodes along the path of a...
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A Credential-Based Data Path Architecture for Assurable Global Networking
August 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The main limitation for achieving information assurance in current data networks lies in absence of security considerations in the original Internet architecture. This shortcoming leads to the...
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Dynamic Workload Profiling and Task Allocation in Packet Processing Systems
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Computer networks require increasingly complex packet processing services on routers to adapt to new functionality, security, and performance requirements. Embedded multicore packet processing...
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Massively Parallel Anomaly Detection in Online Network Measurement
May 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Detecting anomalies during the operation of a network is an important aspect of network management and security. Recent development of high-performance embedded processing systems allow traffic...
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Benchmarking BGP Routers
July 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Determining which routes to use when forwarding traffic is one of the major processing tasks in the control plane of computer networks. The authors present a novel benchmark that evaluates the...
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DIBS: Efficient Distributed Information Brokerage in Large-Scale Sensor Networks
August 7, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper is focused on the problem of designing a distributed information brokerage infrastructure for sensor networks. The authors propose a solution, called DIBS, which is suitable for...
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Spectrum Prediction in Cognitive Radio Networks
January 24, 2013, 12:00am PST
Spectrum sensing, spectrum decision, spectrum sharing, and spectrum mobility are four major functions of Cognitive Radio (CR) systems. Spectrum sensing is utilized to identify primary users'...
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Topological Constraints on Identifying Additive Link Metrics Via End-to-End Paths Measurements
July 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the problem of identifying individual link metrics in a communication network through measuring accumulated end-to-end metrics over selected paths, under the assumption...
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Efficient Identification of Additive Link Metrics Via Network Tomography
March 26, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the problem of identifying individual link metrics in a communication network from accumulated end-to-end metrics over selected measurement paths, under the assumption that...
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An Immunologically-Inspired Adaptation Mechanism for Evolvable Network Applications
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Large-scale network applications are expected to be more autonomous and adaptive to dynamic changes in the network to improve user experience, expand applications' operational longevity and reduce...
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An Adaptive, Scalable and Self-Healing Sensor Network Architecture for Autonomous Coastal Environmental Monitoring
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are key technology enablers for the current and near future security and surveillance systems. In order to build real-time, multi-modal, high resolution monitoring...
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A SpaceTime Oriented Macroprogramming Paradigm for Push-Pull Hybrid Sensor Networking
May 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a spatio-temporal macro-programming paradigm for push-pull hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The proposed paradigm, called SpaceTime Oriented Programming (STOP), is...
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Modeling and Executing Adaptive Sensor Network Applications With the Matilda Uml Virtual Machine
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a Model-Driven Development (MDD) framework to manage the complexity of application development for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The proposed framework consists of a Unified...
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Macroprogramming Spatio-Temporal Event Detection and Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Implementation and Evaluation Study
September 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes and evaluates a spatio-temporal macroprogramming paradigm for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The proposed paradigm, called SpaceTime Oriented Programming (STOP), is designed...
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MONSOON: A Coevolutionary Multiobjective Adaptation Framework for DynamicWireless Sensor Networks
September 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Network applications (WSNs) are often required to simultaneously satisfy conflicting operational objectives (e.g., latency and power consumption). Based on an observation that...
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Exploring Self-Star Properties in Cognitive Sensor Networking
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) possess inherent tradeoffs among conflicting operational objectives such as data yield, data fidelity and power consumption. In order to address this challenge,...
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Middleware Support for Pluggable Non-Functional Properties in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) imposes stringent constraints on efficiency, memory footprint and power consumption. Since the need to satisfy these constraints often results in tightly coupled...
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Toward Interoperable Publish/Subscribe Communication Between Wireless Sensor Networks and Access Networks
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Traditional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) often do not consider interoperability between WSNs and access networks. To address the issue, this paper investigates interoperable publish/subscribe...
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Extensible and Precise Modeling for Wireless Sensor Networks
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Developing applications for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is a complicated process because of the wide variety of WSN applications and low-level implementation details. Model-Driven Engineering...
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Self-Configurable Publish/Subscribe Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) communication scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), there exist inherent tradeoffs among conflicting objectives in event publication. To address this issue,...
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Queuing Theoretic and Evolutionary Deployment Optimization With Probabilistic SLas for Service Oriented Clouds
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper envisions service-oriented applications in cloud computing environments. A service-oriented application consists of a set of services and a workflow. Each service encapsulates the...
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INet-EGT: An Evolutionarily Stable Adaptation Framework for Network Applications
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies a bio-inspired framework, iNet-EGT, to build autonomous adaptive network applications. In iNet-EGT, each application is designed as a set of agents, each of which provides a...
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An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Adaptive and Stable Application Deployment in Clouds
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies an evolutionary game theoretic mechanism for adaptive and stable application deployment in cloud computing environments. The proposed mechanism, called Nuage, allows...
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An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Framework for Adaptive, Cooperative and Stable Network Applications
August 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates a bio-inspired framework, iNet-EGT/C, to build adaptive, cooperative and stable network applications. In this framework, each application is designed as a decentralized set...
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Self-Stabilizable Symbiosis for Cloud Data Center Applications: A Game Theoretic Perspective
September 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes and evaluates a self-stabilizable adaptation framework for data center applications. The design of the proposed architecture, SymbioticSphere, is inspired by key biological...
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Speaker Independent Single Channel Source Separation Using Sinusoidal Features
September 10, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Model-based approaches to achieve Single Channel Source Separation (SCSS) have been reasonably successful at separating two sources. However, most of the currently used model-based approaches...
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Dash: A Novel Search Engine for Database-Generated Dynamic Web Pages
April 13, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In the ever-growing World Wide Web (or the web, for brevity, hereafter), search engines are indispensable facilities enabling individuals to find web pages of interest efficiently. However, as...
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Low Spreading Loss in Underwater Acoustic Networks Reduces RTS/CTS Effectiveness
November 13, 2011, 12:00am PST
The relatively low spreading losses in underwater acoustic channels allows increased interference from distant interferers, which reduces the effectiveness of collision-avoidance MAC protocols....
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Optimal Error of Query Sets Under the Differentially-Private Matrix Mechanism
December 17, 2012, 12:00am PST
A common goal of privacy research is to release synthetic data that satisfies a formal privacy guarantee and can be used by an analyst in place of the original data. To achieve reasonable...
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Analysis of an Investment Social Network
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Much research has been done in the last several years on social network dynamics as online social networks have become ubiquitous. While networks like Facebook and LinkedIn have given the research...
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An Energy Transmission and Distribution Network Using Electric Vehicles
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Vehicle-to-grid provides a viable approach that feeds the battery energy stored in Electric Vehicles (EVs) back to the power grid. Meanwhile, since EVs are mobile, the energy in EVs can be easily...
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A Random Projection Approach to Subscription Covering Detection in Publish/Subscribe Systems
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Subscription covering detection is useful to improving the performance of any publish/subscribe system. However, an exact solution to querying coverings among a large set of subscriptions in high...
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Cost-Effective Multidimensional Publish/Subscribe Services in Sensor Networks
July 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Publish/subscribe services are natural applications of sensor networks as sensors are designed mainly to detect and notify upon events of interest. To enable these services, the brokerage...
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Hop-Count Based Techniques for Passive Target Localization in Sensor Networks
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Target tracking techniques usually assume that the target is within the detection range of one or more sensor nodes at known locations, so that the target's location can be determined based on...
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PUB-2-SUB: A Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Framework for Cooperative P2P Networks
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper is focused on the content-based publish/subscribe service and the authors' problem is to devise an efficient mechanism that enables this service in any given P2P network of cooperative...
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A Parsimonious Statistical Protocol for Generating Power-Law Networks
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a new mechanism for generating networks with a wide variety of degree distributions. The idea is a modification of the well-studied preferential attachment scheme in which the...
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CRES: A Content-Based Routing Substrate for Large-Scale Data-Centric Sensor Networks
June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose CRES as a substrate structure to enable content-based routing in large-scale sensor networks without location information. With CRES, traffic is routed based on its content...
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An Analysis of Activities in Facebook
September 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Human dynamics in real-world social networks has been a long lasting topic of research. Recently, the rapid growing of online social networks with their data made accessible has given researchers...
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DIBS: Efficient Distributed Information Brokerage in Large-Scale Sensor Networks
August 7, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper is focused on the problem of designing a distributed information brokerage infrastructure for sensor networks. The authors propose a solution, called DIBS, which is suitable for...
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Benchmarking BGP Routers
July 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Determining which routes to use when forwarding traffic is one of the major processing tasks in the control plane of computer networks. The authors present a novel benchmark that evaluates the...
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Massively Parallel Anomaly Detection in Online Network Measurement
May 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Detecting anomalies during the operation of a network is an important aspect of network management and security. Recent development of high-performance embedded processing systems allow traffic...
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Dynamic Workload Profiling and Task Allocation in Packet Processing Systems
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Computer networks require increasingly complex packet processing services on routers to adapt to new functionality, security, and performance requirements. Embedded multicore packet processing...
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A Credential-Based Data Path Architecture for Assurable Global Networking
August 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The main limitation for achieving information assurance in current data networks lies in absence of security considerations in the original Internet architecture. This shortcoming leads to the...
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A Distributed Routing Algorithm for Networks With Data-Path Services
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many next-generation Internet architectures propose advanced packet processing functions in the data path of the network. Such "Services" are typically performed on some nodes along the path of a...
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A Scalable Distributed Routing Protocol for Networks With Data-Path Services
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Advanced packet processing functions in the data path of routers are commonly used in the current Internet and are likely to expand in next-generation networks. One of the key challenges related...
Provided by University of Maryland University College
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A Framework for Network State Management in the Next-Generation Internet Architecture
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the next-generation Internet architecture, more functionality will be placed in the data path of routers in the form of "Services" and other packet processing features. This trend will increase...
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