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Rethinking Mobile Telephony with the IMP (with M. DeYoung, N. Henke, and G. Wai), Technical Reports (CIS) (2011)

The recent widespread deployment of wireless LAN technology raises the question of how a mobile...

 

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Moving Targets: Geographically Routed Human Movement Networks (with Adam J. Aviv, Micah Sherr, and Matt Blaze), Technical Reports (CIS) (2010)

We introduce a new communication paradigm, Human-to-human Mobile Ad hoc Networking (HuManet), that exploits smartphone...

 

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Disinformation: A Taxonomy (with James M. Alexander), Technical Reports (CIS) (2010)

This article outlines steps towards a disinformation theory, a simplified and generalized notion of communication...

 

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XenITH: Xen In The Hand (with Kyle Super), Technical Reports (CIS) (2010)

Usability and portability have been key commercial drivers for increasingly capable handheld devices, which have...

 

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Network Infrastructure Configuration (with P Anderson, C A. Gunter, C R. Kalmenek, S Narain, R Talpade, G G. Xie, and M Steenstrup), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2009)

The nine papers in this special issue focus on network infrastructure configuration and some of...

 

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QuanTM: A Quantitative Trust Management System (with Andrew G. West, Adam J. Aviv, Jian Chang, Vinayak S. Prabhu, Matthew A. Blaze, Sampath Kannan, Insup Lee, and Oleg Sokolsky), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2009)

Quantitative Trust Management (QTM) provides a dynamic interpretation of authorization policies for access control decisions...

 

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Dynamic Trust Management (with Matt Blaze, Sampath Kannan, Insup Lee, Oleg Sokolsky, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Wenke Lee), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2009)

Trust management forms the basis for communicating policy among system elements and demands credential checking...

 

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RF-mobility gain: Concept, measurement campaign, and exploitation (with Marc Olivieri, Alex Lackpour, and Nicholas Hinnerschitz), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2009)

Self-directed movement of radio devices can enable large amounts of power gain since the sources...

 

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MOSAIC: Unified Platform for Dynamic Overlay Selection and Composition (with Yun Mao, Boon Thau Loo, and Zachary G. Ives), Technical Reports (CIS) (2008)

MOSAIC constructs new overlay networks with desired characteristics by composing existing overlays with subsets of...

 

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MOSAIC: Multiple Overlay Selection and Intelligent Composition (with Yun Mao, Boon Thau Loo, and Zachary G. Ives), Technical Reports (CIS) (2007)

Today, the most effective mechanism for remedying shortcomings of the Internet, or augmenting it with...

 

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Requirements for Scalable Access Control and Security Management Architectures (with Angelos D. Keromytis), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2007)

Maximizing local autonomy by delegating functionality to end nodes when possible (the "end to end"...

 

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Flexible Network Monitoring with FLAME (with Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Michael B. Greenwald, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Dekai Li), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2006)

Increases in scale, complexity, dependency and security for networks have motivated increased automation of activities...

 

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Decentralized Access Control in Networked File Systems (with Stefan Miltchev, Vassilis Prevelakis, Angelos Keromytis, and Sotiris Ioannidis), Technical Reports (CIS) (2006)

The Internet enables global sharing of data across organizational boundaries. Traditional access control mechanisms are...

 

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DHARMA: Distributed Home Agent for Robust Mobile Access (with Yun Mao, Björn Knutsson, and Honghui Lu), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2005)

Mobile wireless devices have intermittent connectivity, sometimes intentional. This is a problem for conventional Mobile...

 

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Active networking : one view of the past, present, and future (with Scott M. Nettles), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2004)

All distributed computing systems face the architectural question of the location (and nature) of programmability...

 

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A Secure PLAN (with Michael Hicks and Angelos D. Keromytis), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2003)

Active networks, being programmable, promise greater flexibility than current networks. Programmability, however, may introduce safety...

 

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Design and Implementation of Virtual Private Services (with Sotiris Ioannidis, Steven M. Bellovin, John Ioannidis, and Angelos D. Keromytis), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2003)

Large scale distributed applications such as electronic commerce and online marketplaces combine network access with...

 

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The STRONGMAN Architecture (with Angelos D. Keromytis, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Michael B. Greenwald), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2003)

The design principle of restricting local autonomy only where necessary for global robustness has led...

 

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Engineering Privacy in Public: Confounding Face Recognition (with James Alexander), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2003)

The objective of DARPA’s Human ID at a Distance (HID) program "is to develop automated...

 

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Application-Private Networks, Departmental Papers (CIS) (2003)

The design space for network architectures can be conveniently described as a 3-tuple of <Application...

 

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Reflections on Active Networking, Technical Reports (CIS) (2003)

Interactions among telecommunications networks, computers, and other peripheral devices have been of interest since the...

 

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The Influence of ATM on Operating Systems, Departmental Papers (CIS) (2002)

The features of ATM offered many attractions to the application community, such as fine-grained multiplexing...

 

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Sub-Operating Systems: A New Approach to Application Security (with Sotiris Ioannidis and Steven M. Bellovin), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2002)

Users regularly exchange apparently innocuous data files using email and ftp. While the users view...

 

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A Secure PLAN (Extended Version) (with Michael Hicks and Angelos D. Keromytis), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2002)

Active Networks promise greater flexibility than current networks, but threaten safety and security by virtue...

 

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Efficient Packet Monitoring for Network Management (with Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Stefan Miltchev, Michael B. Greenwald, and John Ioannidis), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2002)

Network monitoring is a vital part of modern network infrastructure management. Existing techniques either present...

 

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On-line payment method for small amount transactions using hierarchical prepaid cards (with Toru Egashira), Technical Reports (CIS) (2002)

Traditional payment methods such as credit cards are not suitable for small amount payment because...

 

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Safety and Performance in an Open Packet Monitoring Architecture (with Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Stefan Miltchev, John Ioannidis, and Michael B. Greenwald), Technical Reports (CIS) (2002)

Packet monitoring arguably needs the flexibility of open architectures and active networking. A significant challenge...

 

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GNOSIS: Global Network Operations Status Information System (with Jessica Kornblum), Technical Reports (CIS) (2001)

Monitoring the global state of a network is a continuing challenge for network operators and...

 

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Scalable Security Mechanisms for the Internet (with Angelos D. Keromytis, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Michael B. Greenwald), Technical Reports (CIS) (2001)

The design principle of restricting local autonomy only where necessary for global robustness has led...

 

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Secure and Flexible Global File Sharing (with Stefan Miltchev, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Angelos D. Keromytis), Technical Reports (CIS) (2001)

Sharing of files is a major application of computer networks, with examples ranging from LAN-based...

 

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A Study of Cache-based IP Flow Switching (with Osman Ertugay), Technical Reports (CIS) (2000)

Meeting the service demands from QoS-based network applications is a very challenging task performed in...

 

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Agents in Network Management (with Osman Ertugay, Michael Hicks, and Jessica Kornblum), Technical Reports (CIS) (2000)

The ubiquity and complexity of modern networks require automated management and control. With increases in...

 

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FPGA Viruses (with Ilija Hadžić and Sanjay Udani), Technical Reports (CIS) (1999)

Programmable logic is widely used, for applications ranging from field-upgradeable subsystems to advanced uses such...

 

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Policy and Mechanism in Adaptive Protocols (with Ilija Hadžić and William S. Marcus), Technical Reports (CIS) (1999)

Adaptive protocols are protocols which automatically adjust their behavior to runtime phenomena such as traffic...

 

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The Price of Safety in an Active Network (with D. Scott Alexander, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, William A Arbaugh, and Angelos D. Keromytis), Technical Reports (CIS) (1999)

Lack of security is a major threat to "Active Networking," as programmability creates numerous opportunities...

 

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VENUS: A Virtual Environment Network Using Satellites (with Sanjay Udani, Jord Sonneveld, and David Farber), Technical Reports (CIS) (1999)

Virtual environment (VE) designs have evolved from text-based to immersive graphical systems. The next logical...

 

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On-the-fly Programmable Hardware for Networks (with Ilija Hadžić), Technical Reports (CIS) (1998)

Ongoing research in adaptive protocols and active networks has presumed that flexibility is offered exclusively...

 

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Automated Recovery in a Secure Bootstrap Process (with William A. Arbaugh, Angelos D. Keromytis, and David J. Farber), Technical Reports (CIS) (1997)

Integrity is rarely a valid presupposition in much systems architecture, yet it is necessary to...

 

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A Secure Active Network Environment Architecture (with D. Scott Alexander, William A. Arbaugh, and Angelos D. Keromytis), Technical Reports (CIS) (1997)

Active Networks are a network infrastructure which is programmable on a per-user or even per-packet...

 

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Active Bridging (with D. Scott Alexander, Marianne Shaw, and Scott M. Nettles), Technical Reports (CIS) (1997)

Active networks accelerate network evolution by permitting the network infrastructure to be programmable, on a...

 

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A Secure and Reliable Bootstrap Architecture (with William A. Arbaugh and David J. Farber), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

In a computer system, the integrity of lower layers is treated as axiomatic by higher...

 

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Power Management in Mobile Computing (A Survey) (with Sanjay Udani ), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

Rapid advances in technology have resulted in laptop (mobile) computers with performance and features comparable...

 

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Creating efficient fail-stop cryptographic protocols (with Angelos D. Keromytis), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

Fail-stop cryptographic protocols are characterized by the property that they terminate when an active attack...

 

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Consistency Management in the EROS Kernel (with Jonathan Shapiro and David J. Farber), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

EROS is a persistent operating system targeted towards managing resources with great longevity. The system...

 

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A New Look at Bandwidth Latency Tradeoffs (with John H. Shaffer), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

Concerns about propagation delay have dominated the discussion of latency, bandwidth and their effect on...

 

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Event Signaling within Higher Performance Network Systems (with Jeffrey D. Chung and C. Brendan S. Traw), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

The afterburner ATM link Adapter has allowed us to evaluate three event-signaling schemes: polling, traditional...

 

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Gigabit Networks, Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

This chapter summarizes what we have learned in the past decade of research into extremely...

 

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Operating System Support for Protocol Boosters (with A. Mallet and J. D. Chung), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

"Protocol Boosters" are modules inserted into Protocol graphs. They allow the protocol's behavior to adapt...

 

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SwitchWare: Accelerating Network Evolution (White Paper) (with David J. Farber, Carl A. Gunter, Scott M. Nettles, D. C. Feldmeier, and W. David Sincoskie), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

We propose the development of a set of software technologies ("SwitchWare") which will enable rapid...

 

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The Power Broker: Intelligent Power Management for Mobile Computers (with Sanjay Udani), Technical Reports (CIS) (1996)

Technology has improved processor speed and memory densities at exponential rates. Rapid advances in portable...

 

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Architecture and Performance of the Mether Network Shared Memory (with John H. Shaffer and Ronald G. Minnich), Technical Reports (CIS) (1995)

Mether is a Network Shared Memory (NSM). It allows applications on autonomous computers connected by...

 

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Design, Implementation and Experiences of the OMEGA End-Point Architecture (with Klara Nahrstedt), Technical Reports (CIS) (1995)

New cell-switched network technologies and multimedia peripherals enable distributed applications with strict real-time requirements such...

 

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End-Point Resource Admission Control for Remote Control Multimedia Applications (with Klara Nahrstedt), Technical Reports (CIS) (1995)

One goal in certain classes of networked multimedia applications, such as full-feedback remote control, is...

 

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Experimental Study of Issues in End-to End QoS (with Klara Nahrstedt), Technical Reports (CIS) (1994)

Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for 'delay sensitive' networked applications must be end-to-end. This paper...

 

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The QoS Broker (with Klara Nahrstedt), Technical Reports (CIS) (1994)

Many networked multimedia applications are delay-sensitive, and hence desire services with guarantees of resouce availability...

 

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Operating Systems Support for End-to-End Gbps Networking (with C. Brendan S. Traw), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

This paper argues that workstation host interfaces and operating systems are a crucial element in...

 

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Revision of QoS Guarantees at the Application/Network Interface (with Klara Nahrstedt), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

Connection management based on Quality of Service (QoS) offers opportunities for better resource allocation in...

 

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The Integrated Media Approach To Networked Multimedia Systems (with Klara Nahrstedt), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

Applications which require real-time multimedia services[13] face a number of difficult problems in the transmission...

 

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An Overview of the AURORA Gigabit Testbed (with David D. Clark, Bruce S. Davie, David J. Farber, Inder S. Gopal, Bharath K. Kadaba, W. David Sincoskie, and David L. Tennenhouse), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

AURORA is one of five U.S. testbeds charged with exploring applications of, and technologies necessary...

 

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Experimental Evaluation of an ATM Host Interface (with C. Brendan S. Traw), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

We have previously reported a design for a host interface board intended to connect workstations...

 

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Exploiting Parallelism in Hardware Implementation of the DES (with Albert G. Broscious), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

The Data Encryption Standard algorithm has features which may be used to advantage in parallelizing...

 

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Hardware/Software Organization of A High Performance ATM Host Interface (with C. Brendan S. Traw), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

Concurrent increases in network bandwidths and processor speeds have created a performance bottleneck at the...

 

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Implementation and Performance of An ATM Host Interface for Workstations (with C. Brendan S. Traw), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

This brief paper outlines our strategies for providing a hardware and software solution to interfacing...

 

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The AURORA Gigabit Testbed (with David D. Clark, Bruce S. Davie, David J. Farber, Inder S. Gopal, Bharath K. Kadaba, W. David Sincoskie, and David L. Tennenhouse), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

AURORA is one of five U.S. networking testbeds charged with exploring applications of, and technologies...

 

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The Software Design Laboratory, Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

Software Design Laboratory is an undergraduate practicum in software design, which focuses on principles and...

 

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Traffic Characteristics of a Distributed Memory System (with David J. Farber), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

We believe that many distributed computing systems of the future will use distributed shared memory...

 

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Gigabit Telerobotics: Applying Advanced Information Infrastructure (with Ruzena Bajcsy, David J. Farber, and Richard P. Paul), Technical Reports (CIS) (1993)

Advanced manufacturing concepts such as "Virtual Factories" use an information infrastructure to tie together changing...

 

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Cryptographic Support in a Gigabit Network (with C. Brendan S. Traw and David J. Farber), Technical Reports (CIS) (1992)

Many applications envisioned for ultra-high-speed networks require cryptographic transformations for data in transit. Security has...