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<endeca_term>Building Block</endeca_term> Fun! 1.0

Building Block Fun! 1.0

Building Block Fun is a delightful app that offers countless hours of creativity... Read more

19 March, 2012
Interference Alignment: A <endeca_term>Building Block</endeca_term> of Coordinated Beamforming Transceiver Designs

Interference Alignment: A Building Block of Coordinated Beamforming Transceiver Designs

Interference Alignment (IA) has recently been used for the transceiver design of the K-user constant MIMO interference... Read more

1 August, 2011
On The Nonlinearity of Maximum-Length NFSR Feedbacks

On The Nonlinearity of Maximum-Length NFSR Feedbacks

Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) are the main building block of many classical stream ciphers; however due to their inherent linearity... Read more

8 February, 2012
System-Level Implications of Disaggregated Memory

System-Level Implications of Disaggregated Memory

Recent research on memory disaggregation introduces a new architectural building block - the memory blade - as a cost-effective approach for memory capacity... Read more

13 January, 2012
The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework

The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework

Cryptographic transformations are a fundamental building block in many security applications and protocols. To improve performance, several vendors... Read more

1 January, 2012
Provable Security of BLAKE With Non-Ideal Compression Function

Provable Security of BLAKE With Non-Ideal Compression Function

Hash functions are a main building block for numerous cryptographic applications. Due to a series of attacks on... Read more

17 November, 2011
Language and IDE Modularization, Extension and Composition With MPS

Language and IDE Modularization, Extension and Composition With MPS

Language modularization, extension and composition is an important building block for working efficiently with DSLs. Historically, this has been a challenge... Read more

5 July, 2011
PEARL: A Programmable Virtual Router Platform

PEARL: A Programmable Virtual Router Platform

Programmable routers supporting virtualization are a key building block for bridging the gap between new Internet protocols and their deployment... Read more

1 July, 2011
A Comparison of Vehicular Trajectory Encoding Techniques

A Comparison of Vehicular Trajectory Encoding Techniques

The transmission of vehicular trajectory information is one basic building block of car-to-car communication. Frequently, this information is transmitted as... Read more

7 June, 2011
Secure Set Intersection With Untrusted Hardware Tokens

Secure Set Intersection With Untrusted Hardware Tokens

Secure set intersection protocols are the core building block for a manifold of privacy-preserving applications. In their basic form... Read more

26 January, 2011
Converging Quickly to Independent Uniform Random Topologies

Converging Quickly to Independent Uniform Random Topologies

The peer sampling service is a core building block for gossip protocols in peer-to-peer networks. Ideally, a peer... Read more

17 December, 2010
Practical 3D Geographic Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Practical 3D Geographic Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

...for sensor networks because a point-to-point primitive is an important building block for data-centric applications. While there is a significant body of... Read more

5 November, 2010
Comparing DNS Resolvers in the Wild

Comparing DNS Resolvers in the Wild

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental building block of the Internet. Today, the performance of more and more applications... Read more

3 November, 2010
SnowFlock: Virtual Machine Cloning as a First Class Cloud Primitive

SnowFlock: Virtual Machine Cloning as a First Class Cloud Primitive

A basic building block of cloud computing is virtualization. Virtual Machines (VMs) encapsulate a user... Read more

27 October, 2010
dFault: Fault Localization in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

dFault: Fault Localization in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is... Read more

6 September, 2010

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