Today’s Internet is open and anonymous. While it permits free traffic from any host, attackers that generate malicious traffic cannot typically be held accountable. In this pa...
—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Abstract—Proportional Fair (PF) is a frequently used channelaware scheduling algorithm in 3G wireless networks. However, recent work by us and others has shown that, in practice,...
This paper details a fully automated face authentication system using low-cost near infrared imaging. The image normalization step consists of eye center localization, scale corre...
—Searching for objects is a fundamental problem for popular peer-to-peer file-sharing networks that contribute to much of the traffic on today’s Internet. While existing prot...