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2012
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Varanus: More-with-less fault localization in data centers
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...
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2012
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Steptacular: An incentive mechanism for promoting wellness
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-...
Naini Gomes, Deepak Merugu, Gearoid O'Brien, Chinm...
COMSNETS
2012
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Capacity of Byzantine consensus in capacity limited point-to-point networks
—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...
Guanfeng Liang, Nitin H. Vaidya
COMSNETS
2012
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Exploring the design space of social network-based Sybil defenses
—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...
COMSNETS
2012
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Effects of network trace sampling methods on privacy and utility metrics
—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...
Phil Fazio, Keren Tan, David Kotz