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PAM
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
Home Network or Access Link? Locating Last-Mile Downstream Throughput Bottlenecks
As home networks see increasingly faster downstream throughput speeds, a natural question is whether users are benefiting from these faster speeds or simply facing performance bot...
Srikanth Sundaresan, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeir...
PAM
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
Is the Web HTTP/2 Yet?
Version 2 of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/2) was finalized
Matteo Varvello, Kyle Schomp, David Naylor, Jeremy...
PAM
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
Dissecting the Largest National Ecosystem of Public Internet eXchange Points in Brazil
Many efforts are devoted to increase the understanding of the complex and evolving Internet ecosystem. Internet eXchange Points (IXP) are shared infrastructures where Autonomous S...
Samuel Henrique Bucke Brito, Mateus A. S. Santos, ...
PAM
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
Like a Pack of Wolves: Community Structure of Web Trackers
Web trackers are services that monitor user behavior on the web. The information they collect is ostensibly used for customization and targeted advertising. Due to rising privacy c...
Vasiliki Kalavri, Jeremy Blackburn, Matteo Varvell...
PAM
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
An Empirical Study of Android Alarm Usage for Application Scheduling
Abstract. Android applications often rely on alarms to schedule background tasks. Since Android KitKat, applications can opt-in for deferrable alarms, which allows the OS to perfor...
Mário Almeida, Muhammad Bilal, Jeremy Black...
PAM
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
A First Analysis of Multipath TCP on Smartphones
Abstract. Multipath TCP is a recent TCP extension that enables multihomed hosts like smartphones to send and receive data over multiple interfaces. Despite the growing interest in ...
Quentin De Coninck, Matthieu Baerts, Benjamin Hesm...
PADL
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
From Monads to Effects and Back
The combination of monads and effects leads to a clean and easy to reason about programming paradigm. Monadic programming is easy to reason about, but can be cumbersome, as it requ...
Niki Vazou, Daan Leijen
PADL
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
Computing with Catalan Families, Generically
We describe arithmetic algorithms on a canonical number representation based on the Catalan family of combinatorial objects specified as a Haskell type class. Our algorithms work ...
Paul Tarau
PADL
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
Simplifying Probabilistic Programs Using Computer Algebra
We transform probabilistic programs to run more efficiently and read more easily, by composing three semantics-preserving transformations: (1) apply the denotational semantics; (2)...
Jacques Carette, Chung-chieh Shan
PADL
2016
Springer
10 years 24 days ago
The Picat-SAT Compiler
SAT has become the backbone of many software systems. In order to make full use of the power of SAT solvers, a SAT compiler must encode domain variables and constraints into an e...
Neng-Fa Zhou, Håkan Kjellerstrand