CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2009
ACM
Today's online social networking (OSN) sites do little to protect the privacy of their users' social networking information. Given the highly sensitive nature of the inf...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
BitTorrent, the immensely popular file swarming system, suffers a fundamental problem: content unavailability. Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for popular c...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider the problem of providing ubiquitous yet affordable Internet connectivity to devices at home, at work, and on the move. In this context, we take advantage of two signif...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We investigate the feasibility of content distribution between devices mounted in moving vehicles using commodity WiFi. We assume that each device stores content in a set of files...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Recent analytical and experimental work demonstrate that IEEE 802.11-based wireless mesh networks are prone to turbulence. Manifestations of such turbulence take the form of large...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Software bugs in routers lead to network outages, security vulnerabilities, and other unexpected behavior. Rather than simply crashing the router, bugs can violate protocol semant...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We present NANO, a system that detects when ISPs apply policies that discriminate against specific classes of applications, users, or destinations. Existing systems for detecting ...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
: We study mobile P2P content dissemination schemes which leverage the local dedicated caches provided by hand-held devices (e.g., smart-phones, PDAs) and opportunistic contacts be...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
The accuracy and speed of path capacity measurement could be seriously affected by the presence of cross traffic on the path. In this paper, we propose a new cross-traffic filteri...