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University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Personalized Production
June 20, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The Internet has facilitated the development of e-businesses using web-based services leveraging back-end database systems, inventory systems and payment processing systems. Online retail...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Toward Software-Defined Cellular Networks
September 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Existing cellular networks suffer from inflexible and expensive equipment, complex control-plane protocols, and vendor-specific configuration interfaces. In this position paper, the authors argue...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Performance Differentiation for Multi-Port Arrays: A Control-Theoretic Approach
April 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Large multi-port disk arrays typically store data for multiple applications with diverse performance requirements. Each application has a different priority, representing the relative importance...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Memory Overbooking and Dynamic Control of Xen Virtual Machines in Consolidated Environments
January 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The newly emergent cloud computing environments host hundreds to thousands of services on a shared resource pool. The sharing is enhanced by virtualization technologies allowing multiple services...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
What Does Control Theory Bring to Systems Research?
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Feedback mechanisms can help today's increasingly complex computer systems adapt to changes in workloads or operating conditions. Control theory offers a principled way for designing feedback...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Optimal Multivariate Control for Differentiated Services on a Shared Hosting Platform
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Today's shared hosting platforms often employ virtualization to allow multiple enterprise applications with time-varying resource demands to share a common infrastructure in order to improve...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Exploiting Interference Locality in Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission Systems
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission is emerging as a concept that can substantially suppress interference, thus improving the capacity of multi-cell wireless networks. However, existing...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Average Delay SLAs in Cloud Computing
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors conduct feasibility studies on the average delay space for Cloud computing, and they propose a heuristic method to control the vector of average delays, subject to...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
An Interpretation of the Cover and Leung Capacity Region for the MAC With Feedback Through Stochastic Control
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of communication over a Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with noiseless feedback. A single-letter characterization of the capacity of this channel is not currently...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
On the Optimal Number of Hops in Relay Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the bandwidth (throughput) and energy efficiency considering both the physical layer and the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in multi-hop relay wireless...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
X-ray: Automating Root-Cause Diagnosis of Performance Anomalies in Production Software
September 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Troubleshooting the performance of production software is challenging. Most existing tools, such as profiling, tracing, and logging systems, reveal what events occurred during performance...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Bobtail: Avoiding Long Tails in the Cloud
February 28, 2013, 12:00am PST
Highly modular data center applications such as Bing, Facebook, and Amazon's retail platform are known to be susceptible to long tails in response times. Services such as Amazon's EC2 have proven...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Characterization of Blacklists and Tainted Network Traffic
December 13, 2012, 12:00am PST
Threats to the security and availability of the network have contributed to the use of Real-time Black hole Lists (RBLs) as an attractive method for implementing dynamic filtering and blocking....
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Clear and Present Data: Opaque Traffic and Its Security Implications for the Future
December 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
Opaque traffic, i.e., traffic that is compressed or encrypted, incurs particularly high overhead for deep packet inspection engines and often yields little or no useful information. The authors'...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Learning From Early Attempts to Measure Information Security Performance
July 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The rapid evolution of threat ecosystems and the shifting focus of adversarial actions complicate efforts to assure security of an organization's computer networks. Efforts to build a rigorous...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Safeguarding Academic Accounts and Resources With the University Credential Abuse Auditing System
September 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Whether it happens through malware or through phishing, loss of one's online identity is a real and present danger. While many attackers seek credentials to realize financial gain, an analysis of...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Censorship and Co-Option of the Internet Infrastructure
July 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Over a few short years, the Internet has grown to play an integral part of daily economic, social, and political life in most countries. From the Egyptian "Velvet Revolution" to the last US...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
CANVuS: Context-Aware Network Vulnerability Scanning
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise networks face a variety of threats including worms, viruses, and DDoS attacks. Development of effective defenses against these threats requires accurate inventories of network devices...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Improving Spam Blacklisting Through Dynamic Thresholding and Speculative Aggregation
January 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) or spam constitutes a significant fraction of all e-mail connection attempts and routinely frustrates users, consumes resources, and serves as an infection vector for...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
A Framework for Understanding and Applying Ethical Principles in Network and Security Research
December 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Current information and communications technology poses a variety of ethical challenges for researchers. In this paper, the authors present an intellectual framework for understanding and applying...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Challenges and New Directions for Inferring the Impact of Software Patches
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Software patches are designed to have a positive effect on the operation of software systems. However, these patches may cause incompatibilities, regressions, and other unintended negative impact...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
PolyPack: An Automated Online Packing Service for Optimal Antivirus Evasion
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Packers have long been a valuable tool in the toolbox of offensive users for evading the detection capabilities of signature-based antivirus engines. However, selecting the packer that results in...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
One Size Does Not Fit All: 10 Years of Applying Context-Aware Security
March 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Defenders of today's critical cyber-infrastructure (e.g., the Internet) are equipped with a wide array of security techniques including network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), host-based...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Shades of Grey: On the Effectiveness of Reputation-Based "Blacklists"
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Malicious code, or malware, executed on compromised hosts provides a platform for a wide variety of attacks against the availability of the network and the privacy and confidentiality of its...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
CogWnet: A Resource Management Architecture for Cognitive Wireless Networks
March 3, 2013, 12:00am PST
With the increasing adoption of wireless communication technologies, there is a need to improve management of existing radio resources. Cognitive radio is a promising technology to improve the...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
CogWnet: A Resource Management Architecture for Cognitive Wireless Networks
March 3, 2013, 12:00am PST
With the increasing adoption of wireless communication technologies, there is a need to improve management of existing radio resources. Cognitive radio is a promising technology to improve the...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Shades of Grey: On the Effectiveness of Reputation-Based "Blacklists"
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Malicious code, or malware, executed on compromised hosts provides a platform for a wide variety of attacks against the availability of the network and the privacy and confidentiality of its...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
One Size Does Not Fit All: 10 Years of Applying Context-Aware Security
March 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Defenders of today's critical cyber-infrastructure (e.g., the Internet) are equipped with a wide array of security techniques including network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), host-based...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
PolyPack: An Automated Online Packing Service for Optimal Antivirus Evasion
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Packers have long been a valuable tool in the toolbox of offensive users for evading the detection capabilities of signature-based antivirus engines. However, selecting the packer that results in...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Challenges and New Directions for Inferring the Impact of Software Patches
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Software patches are designed to have a positive effect on the operation of software systems. However, these patches may cause incompatibilities, regressions, and other unintended negative impact...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
A Framework for Understanding and Applying Ethical Principles in Network and Security Research
December 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Current information and communications technology poses a variety of ethical challenges for researchers. In this paper, the authors present an intellectual framework for understanding and applying...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Improving Spam Blacklisting Through Dynamic Thresholding and Speculative Aggregation
January 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) or spam constitutes a significant fraction of all e-mail connection attempts and routinely frustrates users, consumes resources, and serves as an infection vector for...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
CANVuS: Context-Aware Network Vulnerability Scanning
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise networks face a variety of threats including worms, viruses, and DDoS attacks. Development of effective defenses against these threats requires accurate inventories of network devices...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Censorship and Co-Option of the Internet Infrastructure
July 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Over a few short years, the Internet has grown to play an integral part of daily economic, social, and political life in most countries. From the Egyptian "Velvet Revolution" to the last US...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Safeguarding Academic Accounts and Resources With the University Credential Abuse Auditing System
September 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Whether it happens through malware or through phishing, loss of one's online identity is a real and present danger. While many attackers seek credentials to realize financial gain, an analysis of...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Learning From Early Attempts to Measure Information Security Performance
July 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The rapid evolution of threat ecosystems and the shifting focus of adversarial actions complicate efforts to assure security of an organization's computer networks. Efforts to build a rigorous...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Clear and Present Data: Opaque Traffic and Its Security Implications for the Future
December 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
Opaque traffic, i.e., traffic that is compressed or encrypted, incurs particularly high overhead for deep packet inspection engines and often yields little or no useful information. The authors'...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Characterization of Blacklists and Tainted Network Traffic
December 13, 2012, 12:00am PST
Threats to the security and availability of the network have contributed to the use of Real-time Black hole Lists (RBLs) as an attractive method for implementing dynamic filtering and blocking....
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Bobtail: Avoiding Long Tails in the Cloud
February 28, 2013, 12:00am PST
Highly modular data center applications such as Bing, Facebook, and Amazon's retail platform are known to be susceptible to long tails in response times. Services such as Amazon's EC2 have proven...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
X-ray: Automating Root-Cause Diagnosis of Performance Anomalies in Production Software
September 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Troubleshooting the performance of production software is challenging. Most existing tools, such as profiling, tracing, and logging systems, reveal what events occurred during performance...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
On the Optimal Number of Hops in Relay Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the bandwidth (throughput) and energy efficiency considering both the physical layer and the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in multi-hop relay wireless...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
An Interpretation of the Cover and Leung Capacity Region for the MAC With Feedback Through Stochastic Control
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of communication over a Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with noiseless feedback. A single-letter characterization of the capacity of this channel is not currently...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Average Delay SLAs in Cloud Computing
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors conduct feasibility studies on the average delay space for Cloud computing, and they propose a heuristic method to control the vector of average delays, subject to...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Exploiting Interference Locality in Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission Systems
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission is emerging as a concept that can substantially suppress interference, thus improving the capacity of multi-cell wireless networks. However, existing...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Optimal Multivariate Control for Differentiated Services on a Shared Hosting Platform
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Today's shared hosting platforms often employ virtualization to allow multiple enterprise applications with time-varying resource demands to share a common infrastructure in order to improve...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
What Does Control Theory Bring to Systems Research?
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Feedback mechanisms can help today's increasingly complex computer systems adapt to changes in workloads or operating conditions. Control theory offers a principled way for designing feedback...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Memory Overbooking and Dynamic Control of Xen Virtual Machines in Consolidated Environments
January 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The newly emergent cloud computing environments host hundreds to thousands of services on a shared resource pool. The sharing is enhanced by virtualization technologies allowing multiple services...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Performance Differentiation for Multi-Port Arrays: A Control-Theoretic Approach
April 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Large multi-port disk arrays typically store data for multiple applications with diverse performance requirements. Each application has a different priority, representing the relative importance...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Toward Software-Defined Cellular Networks
September 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Existing cellular networks suffer from inflexible and expensive equipment, complex control-plane protocols, and vendor-specific configuration interfaces. In this position paper, the authors argue...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
-
Whitepapers
Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Personalized Production
June 20, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The Internet has facilitated the development of e-businesses using web-based services leveraging back-end database systems, inventory systems and payment processing systems. Online retail...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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