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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mimic: Raw Activity Shipping for File Synchronization in Mobile File Systems
In this paper, we consider the problem of file synchronization when a mobile host shares files with a backbone file server in a network file system. Several diff schemes have been...
Tae-Young Chang, Aravind Velayutham, Raghupathy Si...
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tracking Moving Devices with the Cricket Location System
We study the problem of tracking a moving device under two indoor location architectures: an active mobile architecture and a passive mobile architecture. In the former, the infra...
Adam Smith, Hari Balakrishnan, Michel Goraczko, Ni...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Database replication policies for dynamic content applications
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, Ashvin Goel