— In this paper we provide a survey of three classes of combinatorial optimization problems that arise in communication network analysis. These problems, referred to as QoS (Qual...
Based on five design principles extracted from a survey of location systems, we present the Location Stack, a layered software engineering model for location in ubiquitous comput...
Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, Gaetano Borriell...
— The emphasis of emerging mobile and Web 2.0 applications on collaboration and communication increases threats to user privacy. A serious, yet under-researched privacy risk resu...
Sara Motahari, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Mor Naaman, Mo...
Cloud computing data centers are becoming increasingly popular for the provisioning of computing resources. The cost and operating expenses of data centers have skyrocketed with th...
An important security issue in DHT-based structured overlay networks is to provide anonymity to the storage nodes. Compromised routing tables in those DHTs leak information about ...