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NETWORKING
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Toward Efficient On-Demand Streaming with BitTorrent
This paper considers the problem of adapting the BitTorrent protocol for on-demand streaming. BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that efficiently accommodat...
Youmna Borghol, Sebastien Ardon, Niklas Carlsson, ...
NETWORKING
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Efficient Recovery from False State in Distributed Routing Algorithms
Abstract--Malicious and misconfigured nodes can inject incorrect state into a distributed system, which can then be propagated system-wide as a result of normal network operation. ...
Daniel Gyllstrom, Sudarshan Vasudevan, Jim Kurose,...
NETWORKING
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Server Guaranteed Cap: An Incentive Mechanism for Maximizing Streaming Quality in Heterogeneous Overlays
We address the problem of maximizing the social welfare in a peer-to-peer streaming overlay given a fixed amount of server upload capacity. We show that peers' selfish behavio...
Ilias Chatzidrossos, György Dán, Vikt&...
NETWORKING
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Stateless RD Network Services
Rate-Delay (RD) Network Services constitute a promising differentiated-services architecture for multi-provider networks, by offering users a choice between high throughput or low ...
Maxim Podlesny, Sergey Gorinsky
DIMVA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Learning and Classification of Malware Behavior
Malicious software in form of Internet worms, computer viruses, and Trojan horses poses a major threat to the security of networked systems. The diversity and amount of its variant...
Konrad Rieck, Thorsten Holz, Carsten Willems, Patr...
DIMVA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
VeriKey: A Dynamic Certificate Verification System for Public Key Exchanges
Abstract. This paper presents a novel framework to substantiate selfsigned certificates in the absence of a trusted certificate authority. In particular, we aim to address the prob...
Brett Stone-Gross, David Sigal, Rob Cohn, John Mor...
DIMVA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
On Race Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Abstract A web programmer often conceives its application as a sequential entity, thus neglecting the parallel nature of the underlying execution environment. In this environment, ...
Roberto Paleari, Davide Marrone, Danilo Bruschi, M...
DIMVA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Embedded Malware Detection Using Markov n-Grams
Embedded malware is a recently discovered security threat that allows malcode to be hidden inside a benign file. It has been shown that embedded malware is not detected by commerci...
M. Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Faroo...
DIMVA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
XSS-GUARD: Precise Dynamic Prevention of Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
Abstract. This paper focuses on defense mechanisms for cross-site scripting attacks, the top threat on web applications today. It is believed that input validation (or filtering) c...
Prithvi Bisht, V. N. Venkatakrishnan
DIMVA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Expanding Malware Defense by Securing Software Installations
Software installation provides an attractive entry vector for malware: since installations are performed with administrator privileges, malware can easily get the enhanced level of...
Weiqing Sun, R. Sekar, Zhenkai Liang, V. N. Venkat...