Large highly distributed data sets are poorly supported by current query technologies. Applications such as endsystembased network management are characterized by data stored on l...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Richard Mort...
Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
Human-memorable passwords are a mainstay of computer security. To decrease vulnerability of passwords to bruteforce dictionary attacks, many organizations enforce complicated pass...
Helper locks allow programs with large parallel critical sections, called parallel regions, to execute more efficiently by enlisting processors that might otherwise be waiting on ...
Peer-to-peer systems have seen a tremendous growth in the last few years and peer-to-peer traffic makes a major fraction of the total traffic seen in the Internet. The dominating ...
Moritz Steiner, Taoufik En-Najjary, Ernst W. Biers...