Anonymity is one of the main virtues of the Internet, as it protects privacy and enables users to express opinions more freely. However, anonymity hinders the assessment of the ve...
Michael Sirivianos, Kyungbaek Kim, Jian Wei Gan, X...
Abstract—We present RODEO, a RObust and rapidly DEplOyable wireless mesh network designed for applications such as disaster management. Natural disasters often destroy existing c...
Aniesh Chawla, Vinay Yadav, Vasu Dev Sharma, Jitin...
Abstract—Detecting and localizing performance faults is crucial for operating large enterprise data centers. This problem is relatively straightforward to solve if each entity (a...
Vaishali P. Sadaphal, Maitreya Natu, Harrick M. Vi...
Abstract—This paper describes Steptacular, an online interactive incentive system for encouraging people to walk more. A trial offering Steptacular to the employees of Accenture-...
—In this paper, we investigate the problem of maximizing the throughput, i.e., achieving capacity, of Byzantine consensus in point-to-point networks, in which each link has a cap...
—Recently, there has been significant research interest in leveraging social networks to defend against Sybil attacks. While much of this work may appear similar at first glanc...
Bimal Viswanath, Mainack Mondal, Allen Clement, Pe...
—Researchers choosing to share wireless-network traces with colleagues must first anonymize sensitive information, trading off the removal of information in the interest of iden...
—Popular online services such as social networks, e-commerce and bidding are routinely hosted in large-scale data centers. Group communication systems (e.g., multicast) and distr...
Karthik Nagaraj, Hitesh Khandelwal, Charles Edwin ...
—Virtualized cloud-based services can take advantage of statistical multiplexing across applications to yield significant cost savings to the operator. However, achieving simila...
—Patterns of human encounters, which are difficult to observe directly, are fundamental to the propagation of mobile malware aimed at infecting devices in spatial proximity. We ...
James Mitchell, Eamonn O'Neill, Gjergji Zyba, Geof...