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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
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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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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
15 years 10 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
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ICDCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 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
15 years 9 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