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ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
PAS: A Wireless-Enabled, Cell-Phone-Incorporated Personal Assistant System for Independent and Assisted Living
Advances in networking, sensors, medical devices and smart phones have made it feasible to monitor and provide medical and other assistance to people either in their homes or outs...
Zheng Zeng, S. Yu, Wook Shin, Jennifer C. Hou
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Fast Path Session Creation on Network Processors
The security gateways today are required not only to block unauthorized accesses by authenticating packet headers, but also by inspecting connection states to defend against malic...
Bo Xu, Yaxuan Qi, Fei He, Zongwei Zhou, Yibo Xue, ...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Controlled Information Sharing in Collaborative Distributed Query Processing
We present a simple, yet powerful, approach for the specification and enforcement of authorizations regulating data release among data holders collaborating in a distributed comp...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On Cooperative Caching in Wireless P2P Networks
Some recent studies have shown that cooperative cache can improve the system performance in wireless P2P networks such as ad hoc networks and mesh networks. However, all these stu...
Jing Zhao, Ping Zhang, Guohong Cao
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Securing Wireless Data Networks against Eavesdropping using Smart Antennas
In this paper, we focus on securing communication over wireless data networks from malicious eavesdroppers, using smart antennas. While conventional cryptography based approaches ...
Sriram Lakshmanan, Cheng-Lin Tsao, Raghupathy Siva...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-Site Retrieval of Declustered Data
Declustering techniques reduce query response times through parallel I/O by distributing data among multiple devices. Recently, replication based approaches were proposed to furth...
Ali Saman Tosun
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Can We Really Recover Data if Storage Subsystem Fails?
This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study on the limitations of copy-on-write snapshots and incremental backups in terms of data recoverability. We provide mathemat...
Weijun Xiao, Qing Yang
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Mobility-Assisted Spatiotemporal Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) deployed for missioncritical applications face the fundamental challenge of meeting stringent spatiotemporal performance requirements using nodes w...
Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Ke Shen, Qingfeng Hu...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Quality of Trilateration: Confidence Based Iterative Localization
—The proliferation of wireless and mobile devices has fostered the demand for context-aware applications, in which location is one of the most significant contexts. Multilaterati...
Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Nonblocking Approach for Reaching an Agreement on Request Total Orders
In distributed systems that use active replication to achieve robustness, it is important to efficiently enforce consistency among replicas. The nonblocking mode helps to speed u...
Yun Wang, Jie Wu