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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
SMS-based contextual web search
SMS-based web search is different from traditional web search in that the final response to a search query is limited to a very small number of bytes (typically 1-2 SMS messages...
Jay Chen, Brendan Linn, Lakshminarayanan Subramani...
SSD
2007
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
MobiHide: A Mobilea Peer-to-Peer System for Anonymous Location-Based Queries
Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Composite Abortable Locks
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Moir, Nir Shavit
ICDCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Flexible Consistency for Wide Area Peer Replication
The lack of a flexible consistency management solution hinders P2P implementation of applications involving updates, such as read-write file sharing, directory services, online ...
Sai Susarla, John B. Carter
CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Fast dictionary attacks on passwords using time-space tradeoff
Human-memorable passwords are a mainstay of computer security. To decrease vulnerability of passwords to bruteforce dictionary attacks, many organizations enforce complicated pass...
Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov