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MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Inferring and mitigating a link's hindering transmissions in managed 802.11 wireless networks
In 802.11 managed wireless networks, the manager can address under-served links by rate-limiting the conflicting nodes. In order to determine to what extent each conflicting node ...
Eugenio Magistretti, Omer Gurewitz, Edward W. Knig...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less
In this work we present a characterization of spam on Twitter. We find that 8% of 25 million URLs posted to the site point to phishing, malware, and scams listed on popular blackl...
Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Michael Zha...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Unbiased sampling in directed social graph
Microblogging services, such as Twitter, are among the most important online social networks(OSNs). Different from OSNs such as Facebook, the topology of microblogging service is ...
Tianyi Wang, Yang Chen, Zengbin Zhang, Peng Sun, B...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
I4E: interactive investigation of iterative information extraction
Information extraction systems are increasingly being used to mine structured information from unstructured text documents. A commonly used unsupervised technique is to build iter...
Anish Das Sarma, Alpa Jain, Divesh Srivastava
SOUPS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Improving users' security choices on home wireless networks
Home networks are common but notoriously difficult to setup and maintain. The difficulty users experience in setting up and maintaining their home network is problematic because o...
Justin T. Ho, David Dearman, Khai N. Truong