Wi-Fi clients can obtain much better performance at some commercial hotspots than at others. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for users to determine which hotspot access p...
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Michael Kaminsky, Da...
As Cloud Computing becomes prevalent, sensitive information are being increasingly centralized into the cloud. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data has to be encrypte...
This paper addresses two important challenges for current P2P systems, namely churn and selfishness. First, we report on a system [19] whose desirable properties (small peer degre...
Stefan Schmid, Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Rog...
In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...