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USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search
As the scope of personal data grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to find what we need when we need it. Desktop search tools provide a potential answer, but most existing too...
Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, B...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Online Games
Gary McGraw
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Virtually Shared Displays and User Input Devices
This paper proposes making displays and input devices as first-class citizens in a networked system environment for collaborative applications. The paper describes a virtually sha...
Grant Wallace, Kai Li
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparison of Structured and Unstructured P2P Approaches to Heterogeneous Random Peer Selection
Random peer selection is used by numerous P2P applications; examples include application-level multicast, unstructured file sharing, and network location mapping. In most of thes...
Vivek Vishnumurthy, Paul Francis
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Wresting Control from BGP: Scalable Fine-Grained Route Control
Today’s Internet users and applications are placing increased demands on Internet service providers (ISPs) to deliver fine-grained, flexible route control. To assist network o...
Patrick Verkaik, Dan Pei, Tom Scholl, Aman Shaikh,...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Passwords for Everyone: Secure Mnemonic-based Accessible Authentication
In many environments, a computer system is severely constrained to the extent that the practical input mechanisms are merely binary switches. Requiring the user to remember a long...
Umut Topkara, Mercan Topkara, Mikhail J. Atallah
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Storage Without Encryption
Users are storing ever-increasing amounts of information digitally, driven by many factors including government regulations and the public’s desire to digitally record their per...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller,...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Energy Management for Hypervisor-Based Virtual Machines
Current approaches to power management are based on operating systems with full knowledge of and full control over the underlying hardware; the distributed nature of multi-layered...
Jan Stoess, Christian Lang, Frank Bellosa
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Dandelion: Cooperative Content Distribution with Robust Incentives
Online content distribution has increasingly gained popularity among the entertainment industry and the consumers alike. A key challenge in online content distribution is a cost-e...
Michael Sirivianos, Jong Han Park, Xiaowei Yang, S...