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The Security Architecture of the Chromium Browser
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most current web browsers employ a monolithic architecture that combines "The User" and "The Web" into a single protection domain. An attacker who exploits arbitrary code execution vulnerability...
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Data Analysis and Reduction Using Stationary Solutions of the NLS Equation
August 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper demonstrates that the stationary solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLS) can be used as an orthonormal basis for the square integrable functions with periodic boundary...
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Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses
March 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The study analyzes the security and privacy properties of an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD). Introduced to the U.S. market in 2003, this model of ICD includes pacemaker technology...
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Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy With Self-Destructing Data
June 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents Vanish, a system that meets this challenge through a novel integration of cryptographic techniques with global-scale, P2P, Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). The paper implemented...
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New Directions in Peer-to-Peer Malware
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Intruders are constantly changing, improving, and extending the capabilities of their malicious software (malware). Not only have their tools evolved from single-purpose programs run manually to...
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Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-Based Semantic Filters
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
NLP systems for tasks such as question answering and information extraction typically rely on statistical parsers. But the efficacy of such parsers can be surprisingly low, particularly for...
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A Conference Control Protocol for Highly Interactive Video-conferencing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Video-conferencing is an efficient means for distributed collaboration especially for people separated by substantial distance. One can identify various paradigms of distributed multimedia...
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Bottom-Up Learning of Markov Network Structure
June 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The structure of a Markov network is typically learned using top-down search. At each step, the search specializes a feature by conjoining it to the variable or feature that most improves the...
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Scale-Free Network Structure Explains the City-Size Distribution
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Zipf's law is one of the most well-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution and explaining it has long been the Holy Grail of urban economics. There is extensive research on the...
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Learning Source Descriptions for Data Integration
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
To build a data-integration system, the application designer must specify a mediated schema and supply the descriptions of data sources. A source description contains a source schema that...
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ETTM: A Scalable Network Operating System
May 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, authors design, implement, and evaluate a new scalable and fault tolerant network operating system, called ETTM, for securely and efficiently managing network resources at a packet...
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Data Centers and Mission Critical Facilities Operations Procedures
April 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In order to provide reliable, safe and secure data centers and mission critical facilities, certain practices must be instituted and enforced. This paper establishes standards and procedures for...
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Execution Characteristics of Desktop Applications On Windows NT
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the performance of desktop applications running on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system on Intel x86 processors, and contrasts these applications to the programs in the...
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Mobile Marketing Derailed: How Curbing Cellphone Spam in Satterfield V. Simon & Schuster May Have Banned Text-Message Advertising
June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The risk of receiving cell-phone spam - in the form of unsolicited text messages - grows as advertisers increasingly target cell-phone users. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA)...
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Identifying Game Players With Mouse Biometrics
December 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent work in mouse movement analysis has determined that, with sufficient data, users can be uniquely identified solely by their mouse movements. This paper considers the domain of video games...
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JavaML: A Markup Language for Java Source Code
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The classical plain-text representation of source code is convenient for programmers but requires parsing to uncover the deep structure of the program. While sophisticated software tools parse...
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Simultaneous Multithreading: A Platform for Next-Generation Processors
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the dizzying pace of semiconductor technology development, CPU designers are squeezing previously unimaginable amounts of hardware onto a single chip. Over the next 15 years the authors can...
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Energy and Bandwidth-Efficient Key Distribution in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: A Cross-Layer Approach
August 18, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the problem of resource-efficient access control for group communications in wireless ad-hoc networks. Restricting the access to group data can be reduced to the problem of...
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Challenges to Physicians' Use of a Wireless Alert Pager
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Pagers, Personal Data Assistants (PDAs) and other devices that have wireless connectivity are becoming a popular method for delivering patient related information to medical decision makers....
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Secure Wireless Collection and Distribution of Commercial Airplane Health Data
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The introduction of wireless communication capabilities supporting transfer of sensor data and information on board commercial airplanes as well as between airplanes and supporting ground systems...
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Secure Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Range-Independent Methods
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are envisioned to be integrated into the everyday lives, enabling a wealth of commercial applications such as environmental and habitat monitoring, disaster relief...
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CloudViews: Communal Data Sharing in Public Clouds
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web services are undergoing an exciting transition from in-house data centers to public clouds. Attracted by automatic scalability and extremely low compute, storage, and management costs, Web...
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Fully Accessible Touch Screens for the Blind and Visually Impaired
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the usability of touch screens for sighted users and prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are still...
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Demystifying 802.11n Power Consumption
September 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper report what the authors believe to be the first measurements of the power consumption of an 802.11n NIC across a broad set of operating states (Channel width; transmit power, rates,...
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Client + Cloud: Evaluating Seamless Architectures for Visual Data Analytics in the Ocean Sciences
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Science is becoming data-intensive, requiring new software architectures that can exploit resources at all scales: local GPUs for interactive visualization, server-side multi-core machines with...
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White Paper On Interoperability Between Acquisitions Modules Of Integrated Library Systems And Electronic Resource Management Systems
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The white paper investigates interoperability between the acquisitions modules of integrated library systems (ILS) and electronic resource management systems (ERMS). The paper concludes with a...
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Privacy Versus Scalability in Radio Frequency Identification Systems
August 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Embedding a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag into individual items enables the unique identification of such items over the wireless medium, without the need for a line-of-sight path. One...
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Large-Scale Deduplication With Constraints Using Dedupalog
November 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors present a declarative framework for collective deduplication of entity references in the presence of constraints. Constraints occur naturally in many data cleaning domains and can...
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Privacy-Preserving Location Tracking of Lost or Stolen Devices: Cryptographic Techniques and Replacing Trusted Third Parties With DHTs
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors tackle the problem of building privacy-preserving device-tracking systems - or private methods to assist in the recovery of lost or stolen Internet-connected mobile devices. The main...
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Modular Verification of Software Components in C
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a new methodology for automatic verification of C programs against finite state machine specifications. The approach is compositional, naturally enabling one to decompose the...
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A Complete and Efficient Algebraic Compiler for XQuery
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As XQuery nears standardization, more sophisticated XQuery applications are emerging, which often exploit the entire language and are applied to non-trivial XML sources. The authors propose an...
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Advanced Travel Information System in Heterogeneous Networks
November 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
In order to achieve better road utilization and traffic efficiency, there is an urgent need for a travel information delivery mechanism to assist the drivers in making better decisions in the...
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Containment and Equivalence for an XPath Fragment
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
XPath is a simple language for navigating an XML document and selecting a set of element nodes. XPath expressions are used to query XML data, describe key constraints, express transformations, and...
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Denali: A Scalable Isolation Kernel
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Denali project provides system support for running several mutually distrusting Internet services on the same physical infrastructure. For example, this would enable a developer to push...
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Tradeoffs Between Jamming Resilience and Communication Efficiency in Key Establishment
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors address the problem of allowing authorized users, who do not preshare a common key, to effectively exchange key establishment messages over an insecure channel in the presence of...
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CSMA Self-Adaptation Based on Interference Differentiation
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the design challenge of interference mitigation in the emerging High Density (HD) wireless LAN. It is proposed to differentiate interference according to the energy and timing...
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Exploiting Mobility for Energy Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze an architecture based on mobility to address the problem of energy efficient data collection in a sensor network. The approach exploits mobile nodes present in the sensor field...
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Securing Low-Cost RFID Systems: An Unconditionally Secure Approach
December 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors explore a new direction towards solving the identity authentication problem in RFID systems. They break the RFID authentication process into two main problems: message authentication...
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Securing Network Services for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
January 15, 2007, 12:00am PST
Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks are envisioned to be self-organized, self-healing and autonomous networks, deployed when no fixed infrastructure is either feasible or cost-effective. However,...
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Vulnerability of Network Traffic Under Node Capture Attacks Using Circuit Theoretic Analysis
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the impact of node capture attacks on the confidentiality and integrity of network traffic. They map the compromise of network traffic to the flow of current through an...
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Secure Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Support for various multimedia applications in wireless networks demands additional bandwidth in the radio frequency spectrum. Efficient spectrum management algorithms are necessary to achieve...
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Dewdrop: An Energy-Aware Runtime for Computational RFID
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Computational RFID (CRFID) tags embed sensing and computation into the physical world. The operation of the tags is limited by the RF energy that can be harvested from a nearby power source. The...
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A Software Radio-Based UHF RFID Reader for PHY/MAC Experimentation
March 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the design and evaluation of a flexible UHF RFID reader that enables new PHY/MAC designs to be prototyped and evaluated. Their reader is built using the USRP software radio...
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On Feature Based Automatic Classification of Single and Multitone Signals
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of feature based automatic classification of single and multitone signals. Their objective is to extend existing blind demodulation techniques to multitone...
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Symbol by Symbol Doppler Rate Estimation for Highly Mobile Underwater OFDM
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose an OFDM-receiver capable of estimating and correcting, on a symbol-by-symbol basis, the subcarrier dependent Doppler shifting due to the movement of source and receiver in an...
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New Directions for Self-Destructing Data Systems
August 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to advance the state of the art in practical self-destructing data systems that secure sensitive data from disclosure in the highly mobile, social-networked, cloud-computing...
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Automatically Recommending Triage Decisions for Pragmatic Reuse Tasks
September 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect to their task, and...
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DeSEO: Combating Search-Result Poisoning
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors perform an in-depth study of SEO attacks that spread malware by poisoning search results for popular queries. Such attacks, although recent, appear to be both widespread and effective....
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Model-Based Testing Without a Model: Assessing Portability in the Seattle Testbed
August 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite widespread OS, network, and hardware heterogeneity, there has been a lack of research into quantifying and improving portability of a programming environment. The authors have constructed...
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Rhizoma: A Runtime for Self-Deploying, Self-Managing Overlays
August 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing resource availability,...
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User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems
March 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
Modern client platforms, such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and web browsers, run each application in an isolated environment with limited privileges. A pressing open problem in such...
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An Artificial Neural Network Method for Length-Based Vehicle Classification Using Single-Loop Outputs
September 17, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Classified vehicle volumes are important inputs for traffic operation, pavement design, and transportation planning. However, such data are not available from single-loop detectors, the most...
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User Centered Design and Evaluation of an Eye Movement-Based Biometric Authentication System
August 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Biometric authentication systems offer advantages over knowledge-based and token-based systems because the authors do not require users to remember anything or carry a physical object. However,...
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Type-Directed Completion of Partial Expressions
January 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
Modern programming frameworks provide enormous libraries arranged in complex structures, so much so that a large part of modern programming is searching for APIs that "Surely exist" somewhere in...
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DuctileScala: Combined Static and Dynamic Feedback for Scala
December 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Programmers receive feedback about program correctness in several ways. The most common static feedback is type-checking: if a program type-checks successfully, then all program executions are...
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Tunable Universe Type Inference
March 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Object ownership is useful for many applications such as program verification, thread synchronization, and memory management. However, even lightweight ownership type systems impose considerable...
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Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe Types
May 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Object ownership is useful for many applications, including program verification, thread synchronization, and memory management. However, the annotation overhead of ownership type systems hampers...
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Automatic Inference of Structural Changes for Matching Across Program Versions
February 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
Mapping code elements in one version of a program to corresponding code elements in another version is a fundamental building block for many software engineering tools. Existing tools that match...
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Programming Idioms for Transactional Events
February 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Transactional Events (TE) are an extension of Concurrent ML (CML), a programming model for synchronous message-passing. Prior work has focused on TE's formal semantics and its implementation. This...
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Ready-for-Use: 3 Weeks of Parallelism and Concurrency in a Required Second-Year Data-Structures Course
September 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There is a big difference between believing an undergraduate curriculum ought to expose students to concurrency early and actually doing it - and doing it in a way that non-experts can teach and...
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ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
September 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically executes speculative...
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Crunching Large Graphs With Commodity Processors
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Crunching large graphs is the basis of many emerging applications, such as social network analysis and bio-informatics. Graph analytics algorithms exhibit little locality and therefore present...
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Region-Based Dynamic Separation for STM Haskell
May 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the first design and implementation of dynamic separation in STM Haskell. Dynamic separation is a recent approach to Software Transactional Memory (STM) that achieves...
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Linear Programming Models for Jamming Attacks on Network Trafffic Flows
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a new class of network attacks, referred to as flow-jamming attacks, in which an adversary with multiple jammers throughout the network jams packets to reduce traffic flow....
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Modeling Node Capture Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors formalize a model for node capture attacks in which an adversary collects information about the network via eavesdropping on the wireless medium and captures nodes based on the learned...
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A Game-Theoretic Framework for Jamming Attacks and Mitigation in Commercial Aircraft Wireless Networks
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As wireless Personal Electronic Devices (PEDs) become increasingly ubiquitous, the demand for wireless network services on commercial aircraft is likely to increase. Introduction of services to an...
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Jamming-Aware Traffic Allocation for Multiple-Path Routing Using Portfolio Selection
July 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multiple-path source routing protocols allow a data source node to distribute the total traffic among available paths. In this paper, the authors consider the problem of jamming-aware source...
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Optimal Jamming Attacks and Network Defense Policies in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a scenario where a sophisticated jammer jams an area in a single-channel wireless sensor network. The jammer controls the probability of jamming and transmission range to...
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Security of Wireless Sensor Network Enabled Health Monitoring for Future Airplanes
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless technologies are potential drivers for future e-enabled Airplane Health Management (AHM) which is envisioned to be real-time, continuous and proactive. This paper considers the beneficial...
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Seattle's Mobile City Project
June 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The City of Seattle's pioneering Mobile City Government Project has received wide attention, since it promises greatly improved fieldwork operations in local government. Three years into operation...
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Analysis of Dynamic Spectrum Access With Heterogeneous Networks: Benefits of Channel Packing Scheme
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) has the potential to vastly improve spectrum utilizations among heterogeneous networks. The authors present a Continuous-Time Markov Chain (CT-MC) model to analyze...
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Joint Optimization of Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks
March 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio networks require fast and reliable spectrum sensing to achieve high network utilization by secondary users. Current optimization approaches to spectrum sensing to-date have focused...
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Network Tomography Via Compressed Sensing
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In network tomography, the authors seek to infer link status parameters (such as delay) inside a network through end-to-end probe sending between (external) boundary nodes. The main challenge here...
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Revisiting RFID Link Budgets for Technology Scaling: Range Maximization of RFID Tags
July 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Passive RFID tags are traditionally assumed to be downlink limited since typical tag sensitivity is considerably poorer than reader sensitivity, due to stringent power limitations. On the other...
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Efficient Inter-Vehicle Data Dissemination
May 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Data services for in-vehicle consumption are expected to become a primary driver in the development of future vehicular networks. Due to download rate limitations of present wide-area cellular...
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Modeling and Analysis of Detection Time Trade-Offs for Channel Searching in Cognitive Radio Networks
December 30, 2010, 12:00am PST
A successful Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) needs a fast and reliable spectrum sensing scheme to enable secondary users to utilize available channels. In this paper, the authors first revisit...
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Interference Cancellation: Better Receivers for a New Wireless MAC
October 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors argue that carrier sense in 802.11 and other wireless protocols leads to scheduling decisions that are overly pessimistic and hence waste capacity. As an alternative, they propose...
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Design of Routers for Diversified Networks
August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing recognition in the networking research community, that the protocols and services at the heart of the Internet have become so rigid and difficult to change, that they represent...
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Agilla: A Mobile Agent Middleware for Sensor Networks
August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Agilla is a mobile agent middleware for sensor networks. Mobile agents are special processes that can migrate across sensors. They increase network flexibility by enabling active in-network...
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Discovering Functional Modules by Clustering Gene Co-Expression Networks
August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Identification of groups of functionally related genes from high throughput gene expression data is an important step towards elucidating gene functions at a global scale. Most existing approaches...
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