Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Differentially-Private Network Trace Analysis
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Seawall
Seawall provides new ways to share the network in datacenters. SideCar While investigating how we could get explicit feedback from the network middle to the ends for Seawall, we struck upon a way to provide…
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Measurement-based models of wireless networks
Based on detailed measurements of wireless behavior in the wild, we build practical models that aid in understanding and predicting network performance. Our goal is to have a level of predictability that is similar to…
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NetMedic: Detailed and Understandable Network Diagnosis
NetMedic helps operators perform detailed diagnosis in computer networks. It diagnoses not only generic faults (e.g., performance-related) but also application specfic faults (e.g., error codes). It identifies culprits at a fine granularity such as a…
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BlueMonarch: A System for Evaluating Bluetooth Applications in the Wild
BlueMonarch is a system for evaluating Bluetooth applications in the wild. BlueMonarch emulates a Bluetooth transfer to any device responding to Bluetooth Service Discovery requests; because many cell-phones, laptops, and PDAs in the wild respond…
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Bunker: A Privacy-Oriented Platform for Network Tracing
Bunker is a network tracing system that offers strong privacy while simplifying the development of network tracing software. With Bunker, network operators can perform network tracing based on the following two-step usage model: Pre-load Bunker…
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Lockr: Better Privacy for Social Networks
Today’s online social networking (OSN) sites do little to protect the privacy of their users’ social networking information. Given the highly sensitive nature of the information these sites store, it is understandable that many users…
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