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Energy Harvesting in Internet of Things
Powering billions of connected devices has been recognized as one of the biggest hurdles in the development of Internet of Things (IoT). With such a volume of tiny and ubiquitous smart physical objects in this...
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Article
A performance study of incentive schemes in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems
Incentive schemes are designed to promote cooperation in distributed systems, in which peers are free to decide how much to contribute. A variety of incentive schemes have been proposed in peer-to-peer file-sh...
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Chapter
Cloud Resource Pricing Under Tenant Rationality
With the recent emergence of the cloud market, cloud resource pricing fundamentally determines cloud revenue, cloud resource allocation and tenant demand dynamics. However, strategic interactions between cloud...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Game Theoretic Packet Scheduling in a Non-cooperative Wireless Environment
In many practical scenarios, wireless devices are autonomous and thus, may exhibit non-cooperative behaviors due to self-interests. For instance, a wireless cellular device may be programmed to report bogus ch...
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Chapter
Autonomic Peer-to-Peer Systems: Incentive and Security Issues
With voluntary users participating in an autonomic manner, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been proliferating in an unprecedented pace. Indeed, it is widely known that P2P traffic now constitutes over 60% of t...
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Chapter
Energy-Efficient Resource Management Techniques in Wireless SensorNetworks
Devices in a wireless sensor network are typically powered by limited and sometimes unchargeable batteries, which are supposed to sustain for months or even years. To enhance the lifetime of a sensor network, ...
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Article
On scheduling and clustering in hierarchical TH-PPM UWB wireless ad hoc networks
Ultra wideband (UWB) systems are considered as the key wireless infrastructure platforms for efficient short-range communications. In particular, the UWB based mobile computing systems are envisioned to be att...
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Article
Downlink TCP performance under cross layer rate and power allocation in infrastructure TH-PPM UWB networks
Ultra wideband (UWB) systems are currently an important wireless infrastructure for efficient short-range communications and mobile applications. To improve the system efficiency while guaranteeing the radio ...
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High performance power control and opportunistic fair scheduling in TH-PPM UWB ad-hoc multimedia networks
Ultra wideband (UWB) systems are currently an important wireless infrastructure for high performance short-range communications and mobile applications. Indeed, forming ad-hoc networks among various UWB enabled ...
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Practical algorithms for scheduling video data in a local area network environment
Simultaneous transmission of multiple high quality video streams from a server to the clients is becoming an increasingly important class of traffic in a network of workstations or cluster environment. With a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Evaluation of Parallel String Matching Algorithms for Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Network security is very important for Internet-connected hosts because of the widespread of worms, viruses, DoS attacks, etc. As a result, a network intrusion detection system (NIDS) is typically needed to de...
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Article
High Data Rate Video Transmission Using Parallel TCP Connections: Approaches and Performance Evaluation
In our study, we investigate a packet-level protocol parallelization approach, which works by parallel multithreading the protocol execution such that packets within and among connections are processed in para...
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Article
Trusted Grid Computing with Security Binding and Trust Integration
Trusted Grid computing demands robust resource allocation with security assurance at all resource sites. Large-scale Grid applications are being hindered by lack of security assurance from remote resource site...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Energy Conservation by Peer-to-Peer Relaying in Quasi-Ad Hoc Networks
Thanks to the highly popular dual channel capabilities (e.g., GSM plus Bluetooth) in modern handheld personal communication devices, an integrated cellular and ad hoc peer-to-peer network (i.e., a quasi-ad hoc wi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
HAWK: Halting Anomalies with Weighted Choking to Rescue Well-Behaved TCP Sessions from Shrew DDoS Attacks
High availability in network services is crucial for effective large-scale distributed computing. While distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks through massive packet flooding have baffled researchers for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Efficient and Practical Greedy Algorithm for Server-Peer Selection in Wireless Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks
Toward a new era of “Ubiquitous Networking” where people are interconnected in anywhere and at anytime via the wired and wireless Internet, we have witnessed an increasing level of impromptu interactions among...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
GridSec: Trusted Grid Computing with Security Binding and Self-defense Against Network Worms and DDoS Attacks
The USC GridSec project develops distributed security infrastructure and self-defense capabilities to secure wide-area networked resource sites participating in a Grid application. We report new developments i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Energy Efficient Wireless Data Access: Caching or Not?
We consider a typical wireless data access scenario: a number of mobile clients are interested in a set of data items kept at a common server. A client sends a request to inform the server of its desired data ...
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Chapter
Time-Domain, Frequency-Domain, and Network Level Resource Management Schemes in Bluetooth Networks
Bluetooth is becoming a ubiquitous short-range wireless technologies in that many low cost commercial devices are already very popular. However, there are still many outstanding issues not defined in the speci...
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Article
Efficient Packet Scheduling Using Channel Adaptive Fair Queueing in Distributed Mobile Computing Systems
In a distributed mobile computing system, an efficient packet scheduling policy is a crucial component to achieve a high utilization of the precious bandwidth resources while satisfying users' QoS (quality of ...
